Farmworkers Sue over Trump’s Low Wages
for Guest Workers By Tim Henderson A California union and a group of farmworkers from around the country are suing to stop new, lower-wage federal guidelines that save money for farmers but cut pay for…
A Fight for Workers’ Lives
From fields to kitchens, the fight against extreme heat Commentary by Chris Ramsaroop As temperatures shattered records across North America this summer, Jeremiah, a greenhouse worker in Ontario’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker program, stepped inside a…
What Typhoon Halong Did to Western Alaska
This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one. Commentary by Samuel Johns There comes a point when we have to put our pride aside and be honest about where we are….
True Climate Justice Demands a Reckoning
with Colonialism By Nciko wa Nciko and Samrawit Gateneh The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and…
The EU’s New Censorship Machine
By Thomas Fazi The EU loves talking about freedom. Just look at one of its recent press releases, launching something called the European Democracy Shield, which promises to protect everything from “free people” to “free…
Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza
Then Came Backlash By Marianne Dhenin Chandra Hassan, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, spent three weeks in Gaza in January 2024, treating patients who had…
The UN Embraces Colonialism
Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza By Craig Mokhiber More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting…
Stick, Stones, Matches, Gasoline
The technology of ethnic cleansing Commentary by Cara Marianna Settler violence continues to intensify throughout the West Bank. Let us continue to bear witness to the suffering of our Palestinian brothers and sisters and to…
The Defeat of Israel and the Rebirth of
Palestinian Agency Commentary by Ramzy Baroud For decades, the prevailing notion was that the ‘solution’ to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue can achieve peace” has been the…
Unions Sue to Stop AI Surveillance Powering Deportations
By Matt Sledge Three major labor unions sued the federal government on Thursday to stop a sweeping social media surveillance program designed to revoke the visas and green cards of immigrants who hold “hostile attitudes”…