A Diaspora at a Crossroads

Ankur Singh The Progressive
At two events in the suburbs of Chicago this spring, members of the Indian diaspora responded to the rise of ethnonationalism in very different ways.

Nuclear Options

Tariq Ali Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Netanyahu’s boast that he will bring about regime change has produced the opposite effect. Hijabless women have been demonstrating in the streets, chanting ‘Get an atom bomb’. The country that urgently needs regime change is Israel. 

Jerusalem

William Blake
An oldy but a goldy. Poet, philosopher, artist and mystic, William Blake offers us a vision of the struggle to build a peaceful and just society, an early skirmisher in the fight against capitalism. Check out those 'dark Satanic Mills.'

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Movie

Sundance award-winning documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons

Trump Morphs into Bush 2.0

Seth takes a closer look at Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson grilling each other in a very heated discussion about the merits of U.S. military intervention in Iran.

Sly & The Family Stone | Everyday People

In his 1968 hit song Everyday People, recorded  with his band Sly and The Family Stone, Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) confronted a world beset by chaos, war and hatred with a message of profound brotherhood and compassion

Why American Presidents Dance to Bibi’s Tune

Eric Alterman The New Republic
Trump is the most pliable. But Netanyahu plays them all like cheap violins, despite being wrong about every important matter of the last 25 years.