What united the Paris Commune with rebellions across France and others around the world was the claim that silk workers and cutlery workers, bakers and weavers, could govern society without the bourgeoisie.
Danny Sjursen says it is no accident that some 60 percent of the coups in Africa over the last half century occurred in former French colonies.
Historically, the country ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Brooks Marmon looks into what happened.
Human environmental impacts are associated with the time after the Industrial Revolution, but paleo-scientists have a deeper perspective.
William Hartung says the bombing of Gaza this month by the U.S.-financed and supplied Israeli military is just the latest example of the devastating toll exacted by American weapons transfers.
Amid growing opposition to the violation of Palestinian human rights, Marjorie Cohn notes that 31 U.S. states have legislation against boycott of and divestment.
The U.S. and Israel tried to erase the Palestinian problem from the face of the earth, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
“We stay up all night looking for water to fill plastic buckets,” said one mother in northern Gaza.
Israel uses Jews collectively as a political shield, exploiting sensitivities about the historical suffering of Jews at the hands of non-Jews to immunize itself from international opprobrium, writes Jonathan Cook.
Caitlin Johnstone says they’re both member states of the same undeclared empire ruled by uncrowned kings who use governments as weapons to kill and steal.