In an era of runaway climate change, ecological collapse, global fascism, and heightened economic insecurity, it is only natural that readers to the left of Mussolini would be looking for a reassuring book which presents an easy route to a better world. A new bestseller, Abundance, by Ezra Klein of The New York Times and […]
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For 21 months, Israel has obsessively attacked Gaza’s health-care infrastructure and personnel, using weaponry and munitions provided by the US Congress. Over the same span of time, Israel has created a far greater need for health care by targeting Gaza’s civilian population with bombing, gunfire, and blockade-induced starvation—also with Washington’s wholehearted support. When it comes […]
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The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument. Image by Ray Acheson. The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument. Image by Ray Acheson. The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National […]
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His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the family’s ice cream parlor in Tampa. He liked cars, hiphop, soccer and the beach. He was an American kid with Palestinian roots. A few weeks before his 21st birthday […]
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In 1990, it was revealed that the Pentagon planned to build an over-the-horizon radar at RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. PARC was born: Pembrokeshire Against the Radar. With sponsored walks in the nature threatened by the proposed radar, together with events such as Rock Against the Radar, the activist group single-handedly drew public and Parliamentary attention to the proposed radar. Alan Clark, the Minister of Defence Procurement, attempted to ease locals’ concerns by appearing in person at the St. Davids City Hall. Clark was met by hundreds of residents wielding No Radar placards. By then, a dozen other campaign groups from across the UK had joined the action.
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+ What would you wear to the feting of a man wanted for war crimes, who is currently supervising a genocide? Jackie Rosen wore pink. Amy Klobochar chose navy blue, while Maria Cantal went with a discrete off-white. Cory Booker cowardly hid his attire and face behind Dave McCormick. The Democrats who attended a Senate […]
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Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social media, as the ship tried to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. After attending Berlin’s largest Palestine protest ever last weekend, with over 60,000 protesters hitting the streets, she recounts her experience during the […]
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Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia […]
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There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number for how many Palestinians have been killed trying to keep from starving to death at food distribution sites, many of them by Israeli gun or mortar fire: 549, with 5 […]
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The Pentecost Sunday service had just concluded. We were on the red stone porch outside the entrance to St. David’s Cathedral in the city of that name in South Wales. The clergy greeted us. The canon of the cathedral asked me if I had all my worldly belongings on my back. The sun was shining […]
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June 1 to June 6 Here’s a U.S. senator urging Israel to sink a boat bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza and kill activist Greta Thunberg. This is no idle threat, either. In 2014, Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, killing nine people on board the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, including an American citizen, 18-year-old Furkan […]
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In February 1972, Republican Senator Strom Thurmond—or, as Lennon once called him, “Senator Thurmbold, or somebody…”—wrote to Attorney General John N. Mitchell, falsely alleging that Lennon was planning to disrupt the Republican National Convention scheduled for August that year. Thurmond’s allegations made it into an IEC report, available in the CIA archives. Mitchell’s office passed the letter to Commissioner Raymond Farrell of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Shortly thereafter, Lennon’s visa was revoked and the INS initiated deportation proceedings.
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The Biggest Domestic Terror Threat DATELINE, OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, Undemocratic States of Amerikkka: Spike Lee said, “Violence is as American as apple pie”, and violent political acts are becoming increasingly commonplace and widespread across the USA. In the last year alone, high profile incendiary incidents include apparently targeted acts of violence, including: Two 2024 attempts […]
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The contrast could not be starker. Even with their campuses destroyed by US-supplied aircraft dropping US-supplied bombs, Gaza’s universities are persevering and supporting their students as best they can, under the banner “Education Is Resistance.” Meanwhile, big US universities that have come under a barrage of legal and financial threats for not cracking down hard […]
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Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. […]
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+ Two days in Gaza: On Saturday, Israel targeted the home of two International Committee of the Red Cross workers in Khan Younis, killing Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal. Ahmad worked as a Security Guard at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah, while Ibrahim was a Weapon Contamination Officer for the ICRC. On […]
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A person escapes slave labor, torture, rape, and murder, and illegally crosses a border to a land where such crimes are outlawed, to a land where people have the right to work for wages and are protected by the law. Anyone in this “Free Land” who harbors or aides such an escapee is subject to […]
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WOO-HOO! There’s a new bookstore in Washington Heights – three blocks from where we live! I must qualify my WOO-HOO, however, with the fact that this bookstore is “progressive” in an NPR-ish sort of way, while NPR might define me and my partner more as “communist hardliners.” Laura and I are members of WAWOG — […]
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In this exclusive interview, renowned international law scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falkengages with educator and journalist Daniel Falcone to examine the moral, political, and historical dimensions of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. The conversation is anchored by a viral social media post from Tam Zandman, a young Israeli who denounced what he […]
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The Trump regime’s approval numbers are sinking. Americans are in the streets protesting the regime’s cruel abuses of power. And Democratic voters are yelling at their party’s leaders to show some backbone. Party operatives are counting on this nationwide backlash to gain them House and Senate majorities in next year’s congressional elections. Many liberals and […]
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The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror. Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to […]
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The quiet streets of Newton Mearns, on the southern edge of Glasgow in Scotland, aren’t often the scene of industrial tension. But on a damp Tuesday morning in late March, a group of Royal Mail workers gathered behind the local delivery office—low voices, folded arms, and a shared sense that something almost sacred to them […]
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