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  • How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left and Right

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  • What is Guerrilla Journalism

    Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) was launched in the waning hours of October 7, 2023, when growing numbers of journalists, artists, academicians, and poets around the world saw that Israel was escalating what had been a quieter, more contained genocide into the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. WAWOG charges that this enhanced […]

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  • Europe Continues to Import Israeli Gas Amid Genocide in Gaza

    On December 17, a Dutch nonprofit organization dedicated to corporate accountability, SOMO, published a study of Israel’s energy sector amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, including 17,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera. The true toll of the genocide — obscured by continued Israeli attacks, blockade and propaganda — may top 330,000 deaths by the end of the year, per estimates published in The Guardian.

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  • “Who Gives a Shit?”

    Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five times in the last year, taking only what you could carry, which wasn’t much because you had to hold an infant in a sling. You don’t know what became of […]

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  • It’s the End of the World and I Don’t Feel Fine

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  • Poetry From Today’s Frontlines

    Someone said recently that AI might know more about the history of the First World War than all human historians put together but that he knew more than AI because he had read the poetry of Wilfred Owen. Here therefore is a look at today’s main conflicts through the prism of these conflicts’ poetry. For […]

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  • What’s Left to Say?

    Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal  Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its staff and patients and setting parts of the bomb-battered building on fire. The raid followed airstrikes on buildings adjacent to the hospital that killed at least 50 people, including five medical workers. […]

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  • A Nation of Immigrants?

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  • Mexico’s Dirty War, 50 Years Later

    “We’ve shown that this struggle is not in vain. We are here, the relatives and survivors of the Dirty War, and thanks to our relatives who had to participate in an armed struggle against a tyranny that was called democracy. They are the important ones,” Judith Galarza said. “We will thank all the recognitions, but it’s for them, our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives, their safety and their children to struggle for all the children of Mexico, for a just society so our children will have food, education, culture, sports, like what is happening now.”

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  • “We Just Do What the Israelis Want Us to Do”

    + On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen Palestinians on site and severely injuring many more who were taken to the emergency room at Nasser Hospital. At least 18 Palestinians injured in the blast died in […]

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  • The Wrongs of the Rights

    Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful weapon through which the success of any enterprise can be guaranteed … [T]he art of oratory in ancient China tends to be identified with the art of war and of strategic intelligence. – Albert Galvany Half a millennium before […]

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  • Get Rid of the Commies: A Blacklisted Boyhood

    In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged subversion in the motion picture industry. Eleven of those subpoenaed testified, including the so-called “Hollywood Ten,” and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the “Hollywood Nineteen” were not called then […]

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  • Children of the Grave

    Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management, based on interviews with more than 500 Palestinian children, parents and caregivers from 500 children, parents and caregivers from families where at least one […]

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  • Of Critical Minerals and Atomic Bombs: The Conquest of the Congo

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  • What to Take Underground

    Assuming you’d wanted things to get better, the year 2024 has got to be a major disappointment. We, who’ve spent years — especially the last one — trying to defend the right of Palestinians to exist on their own land are now asked to accept the fact that Biden’s homicidal aid to Israel was just […]

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  • The Gravest of International Crimes

    Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously detailed and thoroughly damning report titled, You Feel Like You are Subhuman, released on Thursday, Amnesty’s researchers compiled extensive witness interviews, satellite imagery and digital evidence, and “dehumanizing and genocidal statements” by […]

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  • Canterbury Tales

    Voltaire once said of religion: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was until recently leader of the Church of England as well as ceremonial head of the vast global Anglican Communion. His resignation will take effect shortly but news of his fall from […]

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  • Israel’s “Red Cross” Contributes to Apartheid in the West Bank

    Image by Ash Hayes. Although Magen David Adom is often presented as a neutral humanitarian organization, it is in fact complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. From 2022 to ‘23, the total revenue of the American Friends of Magen David Adom — the US-based fundraiser for MDA, Israel’s branch of the International Federation of […]

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  • If Lebanon, Why Not Gaza?

    + On Tuesday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah that was brokered by the U.S.- and France. The ceasefire began at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday, but Israel continued to fire on Hezbollah positions throughout much of the day. According to the terms of the deal, Israel won’t remove its military […]

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  • Amnesia in Trump Country

    Twice, when Donald Trump has won the presidency, Democratic politicians, liberal media, and ‘progressive’ academics have rediscovered – momentarily and rhetorically – ‘the working class’, and especially the ‘white working class’. Senator Bernie Sanders recently said that Democrats lost the ‘white working class’ in 2016, and important parts of ‘the Black and Latino working class’ […]

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  • Grappling With Genocide at the United Nations

    Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and widening war against Lebanon provided a particularly violent and lawless back drop to this year’s five-week session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. The First Committee, which deliberates about and adopts resolutions on a range of weapon issues from small arms to nuclear bombs, […]

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  • Wanted!

    The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include not only specific atrocities in Gaza but also the more encompassing and systematic allegation of committing “crimes against humanity.” The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber found enough evidence to […]

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  • Biden as Lame Duck

    Right now, it’s still up to Joe “All War, All the Time” Biden to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has the power to do so, and to pretend that he doesn’t is arrant nonsense. But, but, you object, what about Bibi Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin? Well, they won’t. The former without an […]

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  • The Fight for Palestine and the Fight for Socialism is The Same

    Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to serve on a major presidential ticket as part of the Progressive party, stated in 1952, “We fought to destroy Hitlerism—but its germs took root right here.”[1] Now, Bass wasn’t entirely correct in her timeline of fascism rearing its head on the domestic scene, considering how at the […]

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  • When the Red Line is a Green Light

    + On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a joint letter demanding that Israel take concrete steps within 30 days to improve the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This would avoid potential policy and legal repercussions triggered by Section 620i of the Foreign Assistance Act, which requires […]

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  • The Cost of Corporate Profit in U.S. Health Care Reaches $2 Trillion

    Image by Alexander Mils. As has long been the case, the U.S. health care system is by far the world’s most expensive while providing the worst results among the world’s advanced capitalist countries. And that expense continues to get larger and more unaffordable. Just how large is the cost of private profit in health care? […]

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  • American Journalism on the Brink

    Still from Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink. The Commodification of Newspapers In the Bill of Rights, there is only one private industry singled out for protection by the federal government: The press. Yet, despite being enshrined in the First Amendment and being “a vibrant part of American life since the beginning of […]

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  • A Dystopian Horror

    “A year of the most intense bombardment of a civilian population since World War II and the severe restriction on humanitarian aid have transformed Gaza into a dystopian horror.” – Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA + The Netanyahu regime announced this week that the Israeli army is close to completely displacing the Palestinian population of North Gaza […]

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  • America’s Death Squad

    For the past 13 months, the world has witnessed a campaign of carnage waged by the State of Israel against the people of Gaza on a scale unprecedented in this century.  Not even the bombings against Nazi Germany at the end of World War II match the destruction and killing inflicted by the Jewish State […]

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  • Storm Diary

    Boys don’t cry. The first time I swam in the Gulf of Mexico off the Central Florida coast was also the last. It was deep summer, early 1980s. I was visiting the parents of my boyfriend at the time in Fort Myers. The father had had a brilliant career in military intelligence until, it was […]

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