​Everyone Is Allowed To Protest

Tied up with the apparently very longstanding tradition of claiming that all opponents of atrocities are purely engaged in what has recently been called “virtue signaling” is the idea that only certain types of people are qualified to protest certain things — or to ever say or do anything decent at all.

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, February 13, 2026

Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was for that reason read more

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Homeward Bound? (Not in Donald Trump’s America)

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Sometimes, in this strange world of ours, I wonder where I would be today if Donald J. Trump had been president when, as my Aunt Hilda wrote me so many years ago, “Your great-grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888.” He took that “Moore” as his first name later in life but it was probably “Moishe” on arrival. “It read more

Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.

What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? Wars, bombings, threats of wars, kidnappings of foreign presidents, arming of distant genocides, attempts to take over or control various countries, hatred, resentment, terrorism, read more

Tomgram: William Astore, America’s Teflon Pentagon

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At the moment I began writing this introduction, ICE agents had just shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old White man — an intensive care unit nurse, in fact — in Minneapolis. He was carrying in his hand — no, not a gun, but a phone. In a sense, Minneapolis is, for ICE, if not the U.S. military, the Afghanistan of this moment. In the Trump era, there’s no need to go thousands read more

Speaking Truth to Empire

Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Gloria La Riva, a socialist activist who has run for political offices multiple times on the platforms of the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Peace and Freedom Party.
They discuss Trump’s attack on Venezuela and its aftermath; the Cuban and Bolivarian Revolutions.

On the Road to Nuclear War

On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation.

This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it.

The New Start Treaty, the last of the major nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia, read more