While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society.
Vijay Prashad: Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
Category: History
WATCH: TWTW — ‘Avoiding Nuclear Extinction’
On the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing today, we ask how we can avoid nuclear holocaust. Plus overreaction to U.S. socialism and Trump’s trap in Iran. Scott Ritter, Rick Wolff, 8 p.m. EDT Tonite.
HIROSHIMA 81: WATCH — Apocalyptic Blindness
At the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Patrick Baab warns how Germany is marching with apocalyptic blindness towards nuclear armageddon.
HIROSHIMA 81: An Appeal to Pope Leo on Nuclear War
U.S. veterans, professors, clergy, writers and peace activists ask Catholic Archbishop John Wester to forward their appeal for emergency diplomacy to stop nuclear war to Pope Leo XIV at Hiroshima 81.
HIROSHIMA 81: The Looming Risk of Nuclear Disaster
Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.
WATCH: Abby Martin on Standing Up to Monsters
The director of the documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. empire, militarism and environmental destruction, says we aren’t angry enough.
WATCH: TWTW — How Close Are We to Nuclear War?
Some NATO and Russian advisers think nuclear war is viable. Would a desperate Israel nuke Iran? Peter Kuznick, Rick Wolff, Ray McGovern. Watch the replay.
Caitlin Johnstone: COINTELPRO 2.0
It seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. They know they’re losing their grip. They know that they are vastly outnumbered. They are afraid.
WATCH: TWTW — Israel Gets Its Way — Again
It had appeared the U.S. was defying Israel by ending the war with Iran. But now full scale conflict is back and Israel is happy. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter. Watch the replay.
An Indoctrination Plan for US Schools
Alan MacLeod on the billionaire-funded media machine led by a former Israeli spy that is targeting U.S. children with racist, neoconservative, pro-war, pro-business and pro-Israel messaging.