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  • On Genocide and Gazan Resilience

    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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  • When Your Government Shatters the Lives of Two Million People in Gaza, Don’t Expect It to Make Life Better for You

    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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  • A Silence That Kills

    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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  • Precarious Workers are Employees Without Stability, Not “Entrepreneurs”

    Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike Erskine. Image by Mike […]

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  • Who Does the Royal Mail Really Belong To?

    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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  • Throwing Chaos at the Wall: The American Dictator’s Playbook

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  • What We Lost

    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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  • The Crowning of Executive Power

    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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  • Massacre at Al-Hashashin

      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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  • Trump’s Dangerous Drone Strike Threat 

    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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  • Manifestations of Israeli Impunity

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  • Palestinian First Responders and the Unbearable Sadness of Genocide

    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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  • To Honor Women’s History Month, Let Us Now Praise Famous Female Antiwar Activists

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  • I Am Bombed, Therefore I Am

    “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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  • Understanding Israel’s Impunity

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  • Double-Tapping 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 northern Gaza. Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in […]

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  • Trump’s Anti-Imperial Imperialism

    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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  • Columbia’s Profile in Cowardice is Nothing New

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  • Yemen in Flames: From Depraved Spectacle to SignalGate

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  • Bombing the Bombed, Displacing the Displaced, Starving the Starved

    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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  • Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison

    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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  • In Fox’s Wonderland, the Economy is Just Fine

    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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  • A Forgotten Casualty of the Iraq Invasion

    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

    + 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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  • Operaçao Jakarta: Sixty Years After the US-backed Indonesian Genocide

    For the past fifteen years, I have had a poster hanging on the door of the room where I sleep, which shows a stylized representation of the Indonesian island of Bali. The shape of the island is composed of watercolor images of scenes from the paroxysm of violence that swept across the Indonesian archipelago during the years of 1965-1966 as part of a campaign of mass murder against the country’s left. The poster describes and illustrates in horrific detail elements of the progress of the violence, as well as its aftermath: an island where so many people had been killed and where so much land was left untenanted that the perpetrators were able to build an industrial tourism economy in the bleeding void that the genocide had left behind. I look at it every morning before I emerge to face the day. I use it to remind myself of how the world works and what my role as an artist is in confronting it. 

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  • A North-South Divide in England’s Unions

    The idea of a North-South divide in Trade Union membership and activity here in the UK has long persisted, often rooted in outdated stereotypes of men in cloth caps, cigarettes dangling from mouths, waiting for shipyard work. But the reality is more complex than that. Yes, while historical factors have shaped Union membership across the […]

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  • The Rendition of Mahmoud Khalil

    On the night of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife Noor Abdalla were walking back to their apartment on the campus of Columbia University, after eating their Iftar meal, when they were approached by ICE agents, who had followed the couple into their. The lead agent, Elvin Hernandez, asked Mahmoud if he was, “Mahmoud […]

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  • Boycotts, Divestment, and People’s Arms Embargoes

    Three cops arrive at the blockade of Maersk. Photo: @unwisemonkeys on Instagram Three cops arrive at the blockade of Maersk. Photo: @unwisemonkeys on Instagram Three cops arrive at the blockade of Maersk. Photo: @unwisemonkeys on Instagram Three cops arrive at the blockade of Maersk. Photo: @unwisemonkeys on Instagram Three cops arrive at the blockade of […]

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  • Why the Corporate Party Won’t Last Forever

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  • “A Complete Horrorshow”

    + Netanyahu never wanted a ceasefire in Gaza. It was forced upon him. Not by Biden or Trump, but his own Israeli population, desperate to see the hostages returned, whose lives and health were being threatened by the same brutal policies his regime was inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thus it was not at […]

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