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"Gaza and the West Bank are the homeland of the Palestinian people, not a bargaining chip" - China
Wang Yi at the UN, February 18 -- image via video screenshot On Tuesday, February 18, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi clearly...
Michael Laxer
Feb 192 min read
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The War on Science in the US is a War on the Public
The Trump administration is defunding and censoring science to serve corrupt corporate interests. Aftermath of some of the Palisades Fire...
Michael Laxer
Feb 193 min read
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"Stop the war and start the peace": British Communists
Keir Starmer & Volodymyr Zelenskyy, January 2025 -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Via the Communist Party of Britain: "A...
Michael Laxer
Feb 192 min read
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Israel Plans 1,000 New Settlement Homes as West Bank Raids Intensify
"The Netanyahu government is operating on steroids to establish facts on the ground that will destroy the chance for peace and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 183 min read
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Trump Ally Milei Threatened With Impeachment Over Crypto Stunt
"Look where you brought us with your madness! You turned Argentina into a casino where the croupier is the president himself," one...
Michael Laxer
Feb 174 min read
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Understanding and countering Trump's politics of bullying with a politics of international solidarity
Musk and Trump clown show at the White House - public domain image By Simon Božič-Dougherty Trump is the US Empire unmasked. Few, if any,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1710 min read
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Why Education Reformers Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration
Trump’s inclination to mix policymaking with business deals and profiteering is an ideal situation for education reformers like his...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1612 min read
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Thousands March to US Embassy in London With Message for Trump: 'Hands Off Gaza'
An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor called the U.S. president's plan to permanently force Palestinians out of Gaza "completely immoral and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 162 min read
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Trump International Hotel and Tower, Gaza
Public domain image of Trump at the Super Bowl, February 9, 2025 By Vijay Prashad Donald Trump spoke to reporters for over three hours...
Michael Laxer
Feb 145 min read
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Develop the struggle for peace and internationalist solidarity against aggressive imperialism: Portuguese Communist Party
Public domain image of Donald Trump on February 9, 2025 The Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), met on February 8...
Michael Laxer
Feb 125 min read
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Black History is every day, with or without the White House
From local school boards to the White House, the right is doubling down on its efforts to erase Black history. They’ll fail. Public...
Michael Laxer
Feb 93 min read
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The Right to Remain in the Face of Genocide
Trump’s latest comments confirm that Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at permanently removing its Palestinian population....
Michael Laxer
Feb 95 min read
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Why US politicians keep blaming DEI for disasters, even when it's laughably untrue
At best, these false claims help politicians cover for corporate misdeeds. At worst, they foster division for its own sake. Neither makes...
Michael Laxer
Feb 73 min read
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The Real Estate of Empire: How Colonial Gentrification Fuels Trump's Gaza Plan
Trump, in positioning himself as both a political leader and a real estate mogul, offers a disturbing vision of the future in which state...
Michael Laxer
Feb 77 min read
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India's Communists condemn "inhumane and undignified" treatment of 104 people deported from the US
Video screenshot of the military plane used in the deportation -- image via X 104 Indian citizens were deported from the United States on...
Michael Laxer
Feb 62 min read
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Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza Is a Brutal Form of Colonial Capitalism
The U.S. president’s real estate vision for Gaza—despicable and unlawful—epitomizes the modern Western colonial project. Video screenshot...
Michael Laxer
Feb 55 min read
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'We Will Not Leave': Palestinians Respond With Defiance to Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan
"This is our homeland," said one Gaza City resident. "Neither I, my children, nor my grandchildren will ever leave it." Trump and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 54 min read
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Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 55 min read
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In the Attack on Pro-Palestinian Campus Speech, More Than Jobs Are at Stake
Students and professors across the country are being witch-hunted for their position on Palestine, in a serious threat to democracy,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 316 min read
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Cuba denounces Trump's Guantanamo plan
Public domain image The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement denouncing Donald Trump's grotesque plan to imprison...
Michael Laxer
Jan 312 min read
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