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  • On Board the Madleen, Trying to Break the Seige of Gaza

    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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  • The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

    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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  • When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

    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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  • Wars of Necessity, Wars of Choice

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  • Tongues of Flame on the Welsh Coast

    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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  • Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief

    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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  • How White Supremacist Fearmongering Broke Apart Black Lives Matter

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  • US Intelligence Still Afraid of John Lennon

    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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  • Threats Both Foreign and Domestic: The Militia

    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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  • Their Campuses Bombed to Rubble, Gaza’s Universities Are Standing Tall

    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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  • Liberal Illusions in an Age of Violence

    Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick Fancher. Image by Nick […]

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  • Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Neoliberal: The Invisible Men

    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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  • Burning All Illusions

    + 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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  • How Will We Respond Today?

    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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  • How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue

    Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio Bartlett. Image by Gio […]

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  • War Crimes in the Hood

    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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  • 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

    Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle Ding. Image by Michelle […]

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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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