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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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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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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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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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+ 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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You may have heard that, in New York State, there has been an unauthorized strike of prison guards in 40 of the state’s 42 prisons, and that a settlement has been proposed by the governor. Ostensibly, the guards have been protesting understaffing and unsafe conditions; but more importantly, they have used their strike to distract […]
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Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. Photograph: Antipode Films Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. Photograph: Antipode Films Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. Photograph: Antipode Films Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. Photograph: Antipode Films Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No […]
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+ The Netanyahu government has circulated a plan for Gaza that places the Strip under tighter Israeli control than before the war, shattering any notion that Israel is preparing to end its occupation. Under the plan, which Israel sent to the UN and humanitarian aid groups, aid would be distributed inside “humanitarian bubbles” under the […]
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Ahmed Samra (17), Ahmed Elawdan (16), and Seifalla Elbeltagy (15) weren’t just dead. Between December 27 and 29 they were left to die, made to die in subzero temperatures and bitter winds in a remote, rugged forest of southeastern Bulgaria, murdered by the Bulgarian authorities who knew they were there, and exactly where. The activist […]
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+ Like the Biblical Job (Ayyūb in Arabic, where he is revered as a prophet), every possible misfortune has been visited upon the Palestinians of Gaza. I use the word “visited” in the sense of something being inflicted from outside by outsiders. Something wicked in this case. Unimaginable and unremitting violence has been done to […]
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+ Sherman burnt Atlanta to the ground, but its residents weren’t evicted to Curaçao. Ypres was obliterated twice in WW I, but its citizens weren’t shipped to Corsica. Dresden was firebombed to ashes, but its residents weren’t rounded up and sent to Antigua. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, but their irradiated populations weren’t deported to […]
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When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see pdf, page 301). The attackers had targeted the farm, with its thriving olive, pomegranate, and citrus orchards, for total destruction, because it lay in […]
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+ Your neighbor burns down the house that your family has lived in since the previous family home, a hundred miles to the north, was demolished 75 years ago by your neighbor’s grandfather. The fire kills your wife, two of your five children, and your mother. The claims adjuster, who is also the principle investor […]
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For those of you scoring at home, you may have noticed the Biden administration’s lackluster performance in the arena of public lands and wildlife conservation. Using baseball as a metaphor, the Biden team had a few brilliant moments in an otherwise forgettable four years that, in its confused approach, reminds us of Abbott and Costello’s famous […]
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On the night of June 21, 1976, summer solstice, I flew from New York to Stockholm. I sat at a north-side window and watched in wonder as the sun went down, down, down, but not under, and rose again. We arrived in Stockholm at 3:30 a.m., and it was broad daylight. It’s an odd thing […]
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