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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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  • CounterPunch.org 2024-11-02 18:36:31

    North Gaza In the past three weeks, more than 71,000 people have been displaced from North Gaza governorate to Gaza City and about 100,000 people remain in North Gaza, Office of Secretary-General of UN: The plight of Palestinian civilians trapped in North Gaza is unbearable. Just in the past few weeks, hundreds of people have […]

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  • Helter Shelter

    Every atrocity Israel has accused Hamas of committing, Israel has perpetrated itself on a far grander scale: mass rapes, killing and decapitating babies, looting, using civilians as human shields, indiscriminate and intentionally killing civilians, desecrating religious sites, kidnapping, torture, stealing aid, conducting military operations while disguised as civilians,  violating ceasefire agreements, denying medical care to […]

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  • There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?

    Why don’t we have a maximum wage? Asking that question is another way of asking why some people can rake in millions while others struggle to earn enough to eat. A maximum wage might be one way to tamp down some of the massive inequality that exists around the world. The political conditions for a […]

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  • Europeans Must Learn from Asians Instead of Lecturing Them

    He possesses a captivating intellect, and spending even a few minutes with him feels like an extraordinary privilege. He, who identified as an accidental diplomat, served as the Singapore Ambassador to the UN and then served as the President of the United Nations Security Council. Kishore Mahbubani, an esteemed scholar, diplomat, and author, is well-known […]

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  • Strange Invaders

    + Let’s allow Volker Türk, the UN’s human rights chief, to set the scene for one of the bloodiest weeks yet in Israel’s pitiless extermination campaign in North Gaza: “Today, one of the darkest moments of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip. As we speak, the Israeli military is subjecting […]

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  • Keir Starmer in Power

    Are you troubled or insane, broken down and filled with pain? Don’t be a jerk; get to work! Can you no longer walk? Cannot see? Can’t hear or talk? Don’t be a jerk; get to work! You all must work, you see, For work will make you free; you’ve got to bust a gut to […]

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  • Happy Talk

    As polls remain alarmingly deadlocked, Kamala Harris’ campaign is doubling down on its commitment to good vibes. In the recent vice-presidential debate, Tim Walz declared that Harris has unified a coalition consisting of Bernie Sanders, Dick Cheney, and “a whole bunch of folks in between,” saying, “They don’t all agree on everything, but they are truly optimistic people. They believe in a positive future for this country, and one where our politics can be better than it is.” After this startling characterization of the glowering, undeniably malevolent architect of Bush fils’ rampages in Iraq and Afghanistan as a “truly optimistic” visionary, Walz went on to assert that “Franklin Roosevelt was right. All we have to fear is fear itself. Kamala Harris is bringing us a new way forward. She’s bringing us a politics of joy.”

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  • Sinwar’s Dead; the Genocide Continues

    More than 100,000 dead Palestinians later, Israel finally killed Yahya Sinwar. He wasn’t wearing a dress. He wasn’t hiding in a tunnel with Israeli hostages. He wasn’t shielded behind women and children. Bodyguards didn’t surround him. AI didn’t track him down. Another Palestinian didn’t rat him out.  He hadn’t strapped explosives to his body.

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  • Animals and Animals

    We belong to nature, we are one flesh and one blood with nature, we are one brain with nature. – Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature, 1883. A year ago, the Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant probably said more than he meant to: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly … We are imposing […]

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  • Swing State Politics

    It’s the final countdown for America’s Presidential race. Trump’s failed summer debate debacle is a dimmed memory, as is the sugar high of Harris’ Age of Aquarius “joy” convention. Post Chicago (and also Milwaukee where she announced her Presidency), Harris’ campaign settled into the worst parts of Obama and Clinton’s campaigns (of course the facsimile […]

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  • War on the United Nations

    This was the week that Israel, with the backing of the Biden administration, went to war against…the United Nations by attacking UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) in Lebanon and seizing the UN HQ in East Jerusalem. This brazen assault comes after a year of attacks on UN aid workers in Gaza, killing more than 300. After it has bombed UN food and supply convoys, UN health clinics, UN schools and refugee camps. After it has banned UN investigators from entering Gaza and threatened UN courts and prosecutors. All with the shameful acquiescence of Biden, Blinken and Harris.

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  • Matching Words With Deeds at the United Nations and Beyond

    With the world at war, the feeling that the international system has failed humanity is increasing. The challenges posed to international law and the United Nations are structural—a minority of violent, militarized governments dictate the terms and play by their own rules. But can the will of the majority result in real change? Every year, […]

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  • WRITERS! Win More Prizes Than Pankaj Mishra!

    Congrats to renowned author and novelist Pankaj Mishra, who recently won Canada’s prestigious Weston International Award! As winner of this impressive honor, Pankaj was asked to deliver a lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum, excerpts of which were to be published in Canada’s paper of record, the Globe and Mail. For his lecture, Pankaj chose […]

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  • The Making of a Wider War

    + This week, Israel bombed Beirut and southern Lebanon. Iran bombed Israeli military bases and intelligence sites. The US and Israel launched interceptor missiles at Iranian rockets. Israel invaded Lebonan with ground troops. The Houthis launched drone attacks on Israel. Israel bombed Yemen. The US bombed Syria. Israel bombed Gaza and the West Bank. The […]

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  • Jewish National Fund Canada Funnels Charity to Israeli Military, Settlers

    Flag of the Jewish National Fund.

    In 1967, in the course of the Israeli invasion of the West Bank, the Israeli military razed three Palestinian villages which stood along a corridor connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. In keeping with longstanding practice, the Israeli government turned the land over to the Jewish National Fund, which sought to permanently displace the Palestinian villagers through “afforestation,” or redevelopment of the area as a public park, where the former residents would be considered squatters if they tried to return to their homes. To fund the displacement-as-conservation, JNF solicited the Jewish community in Canada, whose contributions also lent the park its name: Canada Park.

    Now, more than half a century later, as the Israeli occupation of the West Bank persists amid its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, JNF’s activities have come under new scrutiny. Most significantly, the Jewish National Fund of Canada has lost its charitable status due to even more outright support for Israeli violence: financing projects for the Israeli military in violation of regulations prohibiting charities from supporting foreign armed forces and activities contrary to public policy, such as illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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