In the eastern reaches of the Mediterranean Sea lie vast reserves of natural gas. For more than a decade, Israel has generated billions of dollars in revenue for state coffers by plundering the depths of the Tamar gas field; in 2019, fossil fuel companies also began producing gas at the larger, nearby Leviathan field. But it is a United States-based company that operates the bulk of Israel’s…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in July to implement tighter price caps on phone and video call services in prisons and jails. The $1.4 billion industry of prison communications will now attempt to continue to squeeze a profit under these restrictions. The FCC decision was the result of 2022 legislation signed by President Joe Biden, entitled the Martha Wright-Reed Just and…
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The last time the Democratic Party released a platform, mass death and illness were haunting the political landscape. By mid-August 2020, more than 160,000 United States citizens had died from COVID-19, and the daily mortality rate had just climbed above 1,000. Vaccines were still months away from being available, and nationwide cases exceeded 5.4 million. Inundated with corpses…
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In the weeks after October 7, abolitionist and civil rights activist Angela Davis offered some pointed advice to people on the left during an Al Jazeera interview: “If we are not prepared to think critically about what’s happening in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem … we will not only be unprepared to understand and address the issues emanating from the current crisis; we won’t be able to…
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Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.” “Leave or die” are the horrid words threatening largely unprotected Palestinian civilians in Gaza as dismayed populations around the world demand moral…
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Vance’s recently resurfaced “childless cat ladies” comments, in which he disparaged people with no children and disregarded people with unconventional families, should come as no surprise. Vance, now former President Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, is notoriously conservative and flippant with his words. Speaking on Fox News in 2021, the Hillbilly Elegy author and Ohio senator…
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On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of that town’s structures. There was, after all, coal under the town and the mine’s owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation…
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I was wiping the counter in my new apartment when my emotions hit me along with the scent of Lysol. I couldn’t quite be the person I wanted to be: My kitchen was not spotless nor had I magically dropped 100 pounds in the few months since I was released. I looked around seeing all the stuff that was now mine from donations. It had not sunk in that it was really mine to keep. I was in disbelief that…
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Cybercrime — the malicious hacking of computer networks, systems, and data — threatens people’s rights and livelihoods, and governments need to work together to do more to address it. But the cybercrime treaty sitting before the United Nations for adoption, presumably by August 9, could instead facilitate government repression. By expanding government surveillance to investigate crimes…
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The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing. This January…
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WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has finally put an end to his 14-year-long judicial persecution by the United States and the United Kingdom, thanks to the prowess of his legal team and the tenacity of his family members, but also thanks to an assist from the British High Court and the support of millions of activists around the world. Fifty-thousand people, for example…
In the United States, presidential elections can be mesmerizing. Even people whose political work does not center electoral politics often become spectators at the electoral circus. Keeping up with the news about a presidential race can quickly morph into a hyper-focus on every meme, sound byte, and mud-slinging “debate” that the electoral circus has to offer. We live in an era of reality TV…
Massacre after massacre is occurring in Palestine, with immense human suffering and destruction, all enabled by the U.S. government. Even with the International Court of Justice declaring Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories as unlawful, President Joe Biden has shown that there is, in fact, no “red line” for the United States military support for Israel. What more evidence do we…
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I first encountered Ivan Kilgore in the spring of 2020. He was fighting a prison transfer, and the organization I was working for at the time, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), was assisting in his legal case. As a content strategist, I put out a call for members of the organization’s grassroots branch, All of Us or None, to write letters to the warden and governor demanding…
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Israel has been trading strikes with Hezbollah, the Lebanese political party and armed group, ever since October. So far, the strikes have killed at least 542 people in Lebanon, including 114 civilians and at least 22 soldiers and 25 civilians in northern Israel and Israeli-occupied territory. But one recent back-and-forth has heightened the tension at the border between the two countries…
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What would you do with 900 million dollars? People incarcerated at two maximum-security prisons in Illinois are brimming with ideas about how to spend that sum: Ending poverty via a guaranteed minimum income. Offering free public post-secondary education nationwide. Providing accessible, free and affirming mental health care for all. Creating programs to work with boys and men to end gender…
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In the weeks since Joe Biden announced the end of his presidential campaign, a troubling phenomenon has taken hold of my TikTok “For You” page: Everybody is acting like they just fell out of a coconut tree. Forgive my memespeak. What I mean is that, quite suddenly, large swaths of people have seemingly begun to embrace a revisionist history of Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor — one that…
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For months, we’ve all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that’s gotten so little coverage you could be excused for not knowing anything about it. What we have in mind is the seemingly never-ending, utterly devastating war in Sudan. Think of it as the missing war. And if we don’t start paying a lot more attention to it soon…
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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling holding that it’s not cruel and unusual to fine or arrest people for experiencing homelessness, cities, counties and states are rushing to step up enforcement of anti-homeless laws and enact new ones. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom released an executive order pressuring cities to “sweep” all of their encampments; in Minnesota…
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Score a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession. The powerful Jewish National Fund of Canada has reportedly had its charitable status revoked. Under pressure from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and others the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) instigated an audit of the JNF in 2018. JNF Canada was eventually forced to…
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In the turbulent final weeks of Joe Biden’s doomed reelection bid, as Democratic Party leaders coalesced in a full-throttle push to end the president’s campaign, several leading progressives made the surprising choice to go against the grain. “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wrote in a New York Times guest op-ed…
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President Joe Biden’s reelection bid came to an abrupt conclusion on Sunday as the president posted on social media, “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” Despite speculation from some Democratic officials that Biden’s withdrawal would lead to a “mini-primary” in…
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Congressional leadership’s invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress on July 24 was an act of political violence. Since October of last year, the war criminal Netanyahu has ordered the mass murder of at least 39,000 Palestinian people in Gaza, including more than 15,000 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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The Biden campaign drove the Democratic Party into a ditch and speculation is rampant about grim prospects for the election. But little scrutiny has gone into examining how such a dire situation developed in the first place. Joe Biden was on a collision course with reality long before his abysmal debate performance led to his withdrawal from the race. “Several current and former officials and…
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Listen to a J.D. Vance speech long enough, and you’ll hear him mention drugs. From his personal story of his mother’s addiction to his conspiracy theory about Joe Biden aiming to “kill a bunch of MAGA voters” by allowing fentanyl into the U.S., the Republican vice presidential candidate has made opioid-related issues central to his policy platforms and public persona. His tales about the overdose…
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