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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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Life as inventive sequence has a particular character, a certain quality of brilliance that beggars comparison with our busy busy world of responsibility and performance. –Roy Wagner It’s strange how things sometimes come together. Looking for something else, I found an article I wrote with the South Sudanese poet Taban lo Liyong, in Catalan 21 […]
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Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has been hard at work rounding up innocent people for deportation, citing bogus, pretextual reasons related to alleged ties to drug cartels and terrorist organizations. Naturally, Trump does not want these claims tested in the courts—his Department of Justice has brushed off federal judges’ orders and fired lawyers […]
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At 3:52 AM on March 23, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society received word of casualties from an Israeli attack in the Al-Hashashin area outside of Rafah and dispatched an ambulance to the scene. Five minutes later, the dispatch office lost contact with the crew. At 4:39, another ambulance was sent to search for the […]
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Unmanned aerial vehicles – “drones” –are widely known for their controversial role in overseas military conflicts, most recently in Ukraine, and against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Their expanding role in mapping farms, inspecting public power grids and oil and gas refineries and aiding public safety organizations and emergency responders is also increasingly acknowledged. But there’s […]
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On the morning of March 23, IDF forces executed 15 humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. There were eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, six first responders with Palestinian Civil Defense and one UNRAW employees on a mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside of Rafah in southern Gaza. After setting out on […]
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“Nobody should have to livestream the deaths of their loved ones to prove that they deserve to live.” –Mohammad Safa + First, the Israelis said it didn’t happen; the Palestinians were lying. Then, after the bodies were recovered, the Israelis said the people they killed were driving “suspicious vehicles” and shielding Hamas fighters. When the […]
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Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza. Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza. Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in […]
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Solid-State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) at Clear Air Force Station. Photo: US Air Force. Solid-State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) at Clear Air Force Station. Photo: US Air Force. Solid-State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) at Clear Air Force Station. Photo: US Air Force. Solid-State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) at Clear Air Force […]
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Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian […]
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Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility last December—staged a wildcat strike. The strike left thousands of prisoners locked for weeks inside cold cells, cut off from food, showers, medicine, visits. The strike is over now; the […]
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The consensus in the economic research community and the business press is that the US economy is in serious trouble thanks to President Donald Trump’s wildly shifting tariff policies, plundering of the federal government and other factors. Unemployment has been slowly rising for the last year (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3/7/25). Tariffs are hurting American […]
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David Kelly’s lifeless body lay on Harrowdown Hill, Oxfordshire, England. The dead doctor was a microbiologist working for the British Ministry of Defence. Kelly was said by the Tony Blair government to have taken his own life four months after Britain and America invaded Iraq in March 2003. The illegal occupation of the oil-rich Middle […]
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+ The ceasefire that never was is now a bloodbath that never stops. + Israel never abided by the ceasefire in Gaza it agreed to. It never stopped killing Palestinians in Gaza. It didn’t withdraw its troops from Gaza. It continued to restrict the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and limit where Palestinians could […]
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