WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance? asks Joe Lauria.
Everyone wants change, but no one wants to change. The deus ex machina plot resolution is a fantasy and maintaining hope in fantasy is the first obstacle preventing change.
The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can’t understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don’t understand the past.
Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago.
After a month of Israeli drones buzzing overhead, the author had grown rather blasé about them. But his companions were concerned about one moving along with them as they drove.
John Wight on the grim context of the latest escalatory development in the blood-soaked proxy conflict between Russia and the West.
A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.
The comment by the sitting U.S. president in Friday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race, writes Joe Lauria.
Sadism by the powerful is the curse of the human condition. It was as prevalent in ancient Rome as it is in Gaza.