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Welcome to our collection of articles dedicated to green politics. As our world grapples with pressing environmental and societal challenges, the green political movement emerges as a beacon of change.

These articles explore core areas of green politics such as: degrowth, demilitarization, union and worker rights, and anti-capitalism.

Discover the nuances of degrowth as we examine strategies to reshape economies, moving away from military and capitalist growth models toward a more balanced, regenerative approach. Explore the imperative of demilitarization, unraveling the environmental and social impacts of excessive military expenditures, and delving into proposals for redirecting resources towards constructive, peace-building endeavors. Anti-capitalism is a key theme, challenging the prevailing economic systems that prioritizes profit over people and the environment. Union and worker rights in politics is another key area. Our articles dissect the green political stance on restructuring economies to prioritize social justice, environmental sustainability, and community well-being.

This thought-provoking content analyzes the intersectionality of these principles, offering insights into how green politics seeks to create a world where ecological responsibility, demilitarization, and anti-capitalist values converge for the betterment of society and the planet.

We hope you enjoy these explorations of the progressive ideals of green politics, providing you with valuable perspectives, informed analyses, and potential solutions to the challenges we face. Stay engaged, informed, and inspired, and let’s pave the way toward a future guided by the principles of degrowth, demilitarization, and anti-capitalism.

Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas

Jeremy Scahill

Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

Thomas Ultican

Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian.

ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy

Noah Lanard

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

Challenging Marxism as Well as Identity Politics: Polyconflictualism and a Processural-based Paradigm that Explains Social Change from Below-Part 2 of 2

Kim Scipes

This article discusses how we create social change from below.

The Trump–Netanyahu Gaza Peace Deal Promises Indefinite Occupation

Jonah Valdez

“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means.”

Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably.

Liza Gross

Eating fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. exposes consumers to classes of pesticides associated with serious health problems. New research helps show just how much.

The Cold War and Anti-Zionism

Greg Godels

Most if not all of the contradictions that are maturing today emerge from long ago events shaped by the US’s national religions of anti-Communism and racial supremacy. The Cold War and its deeply embedded assumptions account for a great share of the waste, irrationality, brutality, and chaos that we are living through today.

Challenging Marxism as Well as Identity Politics: Polyconflictualism and a Processural-based Paradigm that Explains Social Change from Below

Kim Scipes

Dissatisfied with either Marxism or Identity Politics to provide a satisfactory explanation of social behavior, this article provides what the author believes is a better explanation of social behavior. Part 1, herein, shows that when examined completely, the inadequacy of currently established social theory becomes obvious. In Part 2–to be published in a week–he will suggest a better way to understand wide-scale social change from below.

Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course

Ann Garrison

On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control of Emperor Haile Selassie and then under the Derg regime’s Mengistu Haile Mariam. Eritrea was the first of five African nations now refusing to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. It has also refused to saddle itself with IMF or World Bank debt, but the African Development Bank has praised its progress and provided funding for one of its renewable energy projects and for its education initiatives.

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