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Double Standards, Imperial Hypocrisy 25 Years After 9/11 – What Has Changed?

Val Moghadam

Posted September 14, 2026

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS have passed since the September 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon, by a group of Arab men who had commandeered commercial planes. It is worth asking what has changed in inter-state relations within a capitalist world-system dominated by a hegemon.

The first question that has come to my mind recently: What explains….

The Iraq War Shattered the Promise of a New World Order

Posted September 11, 2026

Jannis Hagmann interviews Gilbert Achcar on the impact of 9/11

THE ATTACKS OF 11 September 2001 fundamentally altered US foreign policy and triggered a series of wars that have reshaped the Middle East. 25 years on, Gilbert Achcar reflects on the US response to 9/11 and its enduring impact on the region. He was interviewed by Jannis Hagmann, editor in chief of Qantara.

Qantara: There is this cliché about 9/11: that people remember exactly….

Has the firewall become obsolete?

Folko Mueller

Posted September 9, 2026

State election in Sachsen-Anhalt

Germany is holding four state elections this September, but none has been more anticipated and talked about than the one in Sachsen-Anhalt, which just took place on Sunday, September 6. The reason being that it has been known for some time that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a real chance of winning outright, with exit polls showing the party at around 40%. While the AfD has been at times tolerated by democratic parties as well as ruled outright at…

Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today?

Steve Early

Posted September 1, 2026

INDUSTRIAL UNION BUILDING in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left.

If organized labor in the United States could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private sector workers, maybe that great leap forward could be repeated again, sometime in the future?

Other than the public sector worker upsurge of the late 1960s and 1970s — which has propped up (with less success over time) overall unionization…

German Trial of Pro-Palestinian Activists

Martin Oppenheimer

Posted August 25, 2026

In the July-August Against the Current, Annette Ohme-Reinicke discussed the case of the Ulm Five as part of her story on repression in Germany. Here is an update on the trial of the Ulm Five.

THE ACCUSED ARE brought in one by one in handcuffs accompanied by….

Rampage of the Surveillance State: What’s Behind the Minneapolis Indictments?

Randy Furst

Posted August 19, 2026

FOR TWO MONTHS last winter, 4000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unleashed an assault on the Twin Cities with a violent roundup of immigrants, prompting a mass, nonviolent grassroots resistance movement that eventually involved hundreds of thousands of protesters. The Trump administration was forced to retreat….

The Looming Election

The Editors

Posted August 18, 2026

MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November….

Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

Malik Miah

Posted August 11, 2026

TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.

On August 6 all legal work permits were terminated, Mass layoffs will occur leading to Haitians losing their homes. Overnight thousands of legal residents will become “illegal.”

Haitians waiting for hearings will be forced to wear iron monitors, a reminder of slavery.

Haitians, even children, are seen…

A Movement’s Inspiration and Legacy

Fran Shor

Posted August 8, 2026

Here Where We Live is Our Country:
The Story of the Jewish Bund
By Molly Crabapple
One World: New York, 2026. 433 pages, $32 hardcover.

MOLLY CRABAPPLE’S HISTORY of the Jewish Bund traces its rise and fate, from its inception in 1897 through the Russian Revolution into the interwar years and ending with the Holocaust Era.

In reconstructing this vibrant social movement among Eastern European Jews, she unveils for contemporary readers a world inhabited by leftwing, anti-Zionist…

How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today

Nada Elia and Noura Erakat

Posted July 29, 2026

IN DECEMBER 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service, he learned of the rape of a 13-year old boy by Israeli officers while in captivity. In response to U.S. inquiries, the Israeli Government designated the Defense for Children International, the Palestinian organization that documented the abuse, a terrorist organization.