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COINTELPRO political prisoner Edward Poindexter dies in Nebraska prison after 53 years serving life sentence following unfair trial
Edward Poindexter, 79, died on December 7, 2023 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary serving a life sentence for the murder of Omaha police officer Larry Minard.
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The attack against the freedom to read and what to do about it
During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality.
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How Israel undermined the prisoner exchange by widening the definition of ‘security prisoners’
Israel undermined the prisoner exchange with Hamas by widening the definition of “security prisoners” to include those held for little more than social media posts.
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Guterres invokes ‘most powerful tool’ Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire
Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on the Security Council to “press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and unite in a call for a full humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants.
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Israeli politician calls for captured Palestinians to be ‘buried alive’
Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as ‘subhuman’ and invokes biblical reference.
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Pitfalls of export-led growth
THE wisdom of pursuing a strategy of export-led growth has been discussed among development economists for at least half a century, ever since the so-called East Asian “miracle” started to be contrasted with the comparatively sluggish growth experience of countries like India that were pursuing, in the World Bank’s language, an “inward looking” development strategy.
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Your enemies destroyed one Palestine; my wounds populated many Palestines: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.
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COP28: Where fossil fuel industries go to gloat
Call it a drugs summit for narcotics distributors promoting clean-living; a convention for casino moguls promising to aid problem gamblers. The list of wicked analogies is endless.
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How Israel uses AI genocide programme to obliterate Gaza
According to whistleblowers, Israel is using an AI system to generate targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs.
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Carbon capture’s publicly funded failure
Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCS or CCUS) has a 50-year history of failure.
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Anti-Palestinian racist secures anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism resolution
Republican Congressman Max Miller, who recently made a genocidal call to turn Gaza into a “parking lot,” has joined with Republican Congressman David Kustoff to push through a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”
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The nuclear geopolitics of anthropogenic clouds
Among the various types of anthropogenic clouds, mushroom clouds that form in the sky after atomic bomb explosions are arguably the most spectacular.
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Relying on carbon capture and storage could Unleash ‘carbon bomb’
“We need to cut through the smoke and mirrors of ‘abated’ fossil and keep our eyes fixed on the goal of 1.5°C,” said a co-author of a new analysis.
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West sabotaged Ukraine peace deal with Russia, admit Zelensky official and Germany’s ex leader
Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.
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Doctors in Italy strike against proposed pension cuts
Some 85 percent of staff of the National Health Service and private medical facilities stayed away from work.
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Why Israel can torture detained Palestinian children with impunity
Israel remains the only country in the world to automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts. Yet world leaders say nothing.
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How Israel got an endless supply of U.S.-made smart bombs
Nearly three years ago, Congress gave Israel a pass to stockpile precision-guided bombs “without regard to annual limits.” An inside source confirms that even more have been transferred since October 7.
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Propaganda war: Pro-Israel trolls are mobbing X’s (Twitter’s) community note
Almost as important as its military campaign for Israel is its battle to control its public image.
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‘From the river to the sea’: Palestine’s historic struggle to share the land v. Israeli rejectionism
And a comparison with issues raised in Australia’s recent referendum.
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This is a war on children, and “Safe Zones” are death traps: UNICEF
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.