NORMAN SOLOMON – More than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind.
Category: July 2026
Diplomacy Should Try to Halt a War, not Manage It
SOPHIA GONZALEZ – Real diplomacy should reduce the role of force, not normalize it. A serious negotiating strategy would begin with a durable ceasefire, clear limits on military operations, congressional authorization for any continued hostilities and sustained mediation through credible third parties. Those are not gifts to an adversary. They are safeguards against turning perpetual war into standard procedure.
Democratizing training for nonviolent resistance
JAMILA RAQIB and ALIA BRALEY – No platform, website or training program can replace the creativity, courage and local knowledge of the people organizing for change. But we hope that the People-Powered Training Platform becomes part of the infrastructure that helps movements learn from one another, think more strategically, and act more effectively together. Because while the challenges facing our societies are immense, so too is the capacity of ordinary people to meet them.
Chinese scientists set world record with new solar cell exceeding 28% efficiency
GLOBAL TIMES – Further development and deployment of the technology described and explained here could enable solar energy to power not only life and production on Earth but also future deep-space exploration missions.
How the state uses conspiracy charges to crush social movements
ADI SALEEM – One lesson that we can learn from the historical continuity between each of these episodes is that movements for economic and racial justice, movements against wars and imperialism, and anti-fascism as a concept (through the targeting of “antifa”) have all been described, in different moments, as threats to public order. In each case, the state and its prosecutors have been able to portray individuals participating in these movements as public enemies.
Our government must face the moral consequences of its wars
ROBERT C. KOEHLER – When is the last time the U.S. government, or a fragment thereof, has truly been held accountable – not merely legally or politically, but morally accountable – for an act of violence, for its addiction to violence?
Nonviolent Tactics Were Most of the Actual American Revolution
TOM HASTINGS – In 1815, John Adams noted, “The Revolution was in the Minds and Hearts of the People, and in the Union of the Colonies, both of which were Substantially effected before Hostilities commenced.”
What Will It Take to Move Beyond National Independence to Global Interdependence
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER – Independence helped dismantle empires, but no nation can solve nuclear war, climate collapse, pandemics, or technological threats alone. As Americans and people of other former colonies recognize, there’s a great deal to be said for national independence. But, at times, we might also wonder: is it sufficient?
The US at 250: What Should We Be Paying Attention To?
RIVERA SUN – The United States at 250 – A Fourth of July Special.
There IS a Way to Reform the United Nations
JUSTIN HANEER – Thunderous applause echoed through the San Francisco Opera House on June 26th, 1945, as diplomats signed the United Nations Charter. It was hailed as a victory over war itself. Eighty-one years later, the UN has many accomplishments to celebrate. But the Charter’s opening pledge to save “succeeding generations from the scourge of war” remains painfully unfulfilled.
Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday
SARAH VAN GELDER – Our history has been one of atrocities — and extraordinary courage. An honest accounting of our nation’s founding injustices gives us the opportunity to make them right. When we do, we won’t need the swagger anymore, because we’ll have something sturdier: the real thing. We can be unified in pride for this country, and unstoppable in coming together to build what could truly be a more perfect union.
Unchecked billionaire oligarchs, not “godless communists,” are undermining American democracy
JARED O. BELL – The real threat to American democracy was never a democratic socialist winning a city primary. It is a system in which a handful of billionaires can reshape public institutions overnight, enrich themselves through the levers of government, and leave the rest of us to argue about labels while we live with the damage.