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  • "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." - Pope Francis

    “Love your neighbor” Pope-Vance controversy

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on March 31, 2025 by Ted Glick (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2025)

    You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.

  • The origin of life: The conditions that sparked life on Earth

    Advancing the boundaries of science: From Oparin, Haldane, Bernal to today

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 30, 2025 by S Krishnaswamy (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2025)

    One of the arguments in favour of a divine power–or god–is that life could not have arisen naturally and needed a touch of the divine to come into being.

  • Columbia

    ‘The Encampments’

    Originally published: Watermelon Pictures on March 2025 by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker (more by Watermelon Pictures)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.

  • Robert W. McChesney (1952-2025), left, with his longtime friend and co-author John Nichols. (Photo: Courtesy of Free Press)

    In defense of media and democracy: The inspiring work and life of my friend Robert W. McChesney

    Originally published: Common Dreams on March 28, 2025 by John Nichols (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    Just like Tom Paine, and until the very end, Bob saw hope in the people who were rising up and demanding a future defined by their humanity, as opposed to corporate power.

  • Two Palestinian children amidst the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza. January 2025. Source: still from the film “Kids Under Fire” (Mohammed Ibaida)

    “The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children

    Originally published: Drop Site News on March 27, 2025 by Amel Guettatfi (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

  • Hutomo. CC4.0

    Halt Indonesia’s slide into military dictatorship

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on March 26, 2025 by The Left Berlin Staff (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    Repeal the authoritarian TNI law before it’s too late!

  • Robert McChesney, a towering figure in the world of media scholarship, passed away on March 25, 2025 at the age of 72. (Photo: Robert McChesney)

    Progressive Movement mourns loss of beloved media scholar Robert McChesney

    Originally published: Common Dreams on March 27, 2025 by Brett Wilkins (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2025)

    “The world of media scholarship, journalists far and wide, and anyone who cares about a free press, a functioning democracy, and a better world has suffered a tremendous loss,” said Common Dreams’ managing editor.

  • Code Pink activist Tighe Barry speaks out at U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25. [Source: codepink.org]

    Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 26, 2025 by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2025)

    On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.

  • The Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, with MK Ofer Cassif, after his release from detention, Susya, occupied West Bank, March 26, 2025 (footage: Zo Haderekh)

    It took an Oscar winner’s ordeal for the World to see the truth of Settler violence

    Originally published: The Communist Party of Israel on March 28, 2025 by Ofer Cassif (more by The Communist Party of Israel) (Posted Mar 29, 2025)

    Imagine a group of a dozen armed men storming your village at nightfall. They assault you and your neighbours, throw stones at your house, beat you. If you try to defend yourself, or document the violence, they attack you. When the military arrives, they detain you. Some of them join in with the violence. This harrowing scene is not a story from Tsarist Russia or Jim Crow America. Last Monday, this was exactly what occurred in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank.

  • The Spanish-American War Part 4: Aftermath

    What is Esencia and what will happen to Puerto Rico if this is constructed?

    Originally published: Diaspora Pa'lante Collective on March 22, 2025 by BB (more by Diaspora Pa'lante Collective) (Posted Mar 29, 2025)

    Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028.

  • A History of Military Conscription in Europe

    European militarism on steroids is not good, either

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 13, 2025 by Almut Rochowanski (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2025)

    Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks.

  • Israeli space launch vehicle Shavit sends a military intelligence satellite into space in March 2023. The same Shavit rocket can launch ballistic missiles, including the nuclear-capable, three-stage Jericho III intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Jericho III reportedly has a range exceeding 4,000 kilometers, enough to reach all of Iran, Pakistan, Europe, and western Russia. Israel has not acknowledged the existence of its nuclear weapon arsenal despite being widely known. (Credit: Israel Defense Ministry)

    The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 21, 2025 by Victor Gilinsky and Leonard Weiss (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2025)

    An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.

  • Hossam Shabat (Al Jazeera, 3/24/25)

    Israel kills Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat as U.S. media look away

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 26, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 28, 2025)

    The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.

  • President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders, Monday, February 10, 2025, in the Oval Office. (White House)

    Trump threatens 25% tariff on Countries buying Venezuelan oil as U.S. continues migrant crackdown

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on march 24, 2025 by José Luis Granados Ceja (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2025)

    The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.

  • Trump (Photo: wallpaperflare.com)

    Trump’s Star Wars revival: The Golden Dome antimissile fantasy

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on March 25, 2025 by Binoy Kampmark (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2025)

    Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better.

  • Columbia

    In complying with Trump’s demands to crack down on free speech, Columbia confesses that money, not education, is its goal

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 26, 2025 by Jon Jeter (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2025)

    Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom.

  • Military exercises in Hawai’i as part of RIMPAC 2022.

    From Hawai’i: To the U.S., we’re a giant military station

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 24, 2025 by Teuila Fuatai (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2025)

    Increasing militarization of the Pacific continues to cause tension inside and outside the region. In Hawai‘i, where the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet is stationed, Indigenous rights advocates have fought for decades against expansive military occupation and use of their lands and surrounding ocean.

  • From left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham pose with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for 'No Other Land' at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on 2 March 2025 (Daniel Cole/Reuters)

    Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 24, 2025 by Yasmine El-Sabawi (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2025)

    Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago.

  • Protests agains U.S. plans in Greenland. X/ @TrendingAm67276

    U.S. officials’ planned visit to Greenland is inappropriate: Denmark

    Originally published: teleSUR English (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2025)

    If they don’t clearly condemn the U.S. treatment of Greenland, the situation will escalate every day, President Egede warned.

  • ecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with top Pentagon contractor, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, at the Pentagon, March 21. Musk, who appears to be in charge of the meeting, is wearing a blue space jacket he received on a 2022 visit to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Photo by Senior Airman Spencer Perkins was posed and sanitized by the Department of Defense.

    Pentagon downplays Elon Musk visit for secret China war plans

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 23, 2025 by Gary WIlson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    In a rare public denial from the highest levels of government, the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and President Donald Trump all swiftly responded to reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was scheduled to receive a classified briefing on U.S. war plans for China. 

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