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We are duped into blaming our problems on everyone except our rulers
What poses a threat to you is the political status quo which robs your country of riches and resources to inflict military violence on innocent people overseas while strangling your civil rights and poisoning your planet.
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At my Texas prison, solitary confinement all but guarantees sexual exploitation by guards
Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”
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Momentum builds behind calls for release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention
Federal judge orders that the recent Columbia graduate not be deported while the court considered a challenge brought by Khalil’s lawyers.
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Universalism the panacea for Palestine
In total contrast to the ideals of universalism, the Trump-Vance swagger to defend and increase only U.S. interests is apparent in their MAGA doctrine and was revealed in their gangsterish Oval Office thuggery towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Trump’s censorship Czar orders NPR and PBS investigation
“In a healthy democracy, we would be investing enough in our public-media system that it wouldn’t need to seek any corporate underwriting,” says Craig Aaron
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Columbia complicit in Trump arrest of student leader Mahmoud Khalil
A federal judge in New York issued a ruling on Monday afternoon that the government cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil “unless and until the Court orders otherwise.”
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Revolt of the rich: Wealthy elites have waged a fifty year class war—and won
The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.
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The Eurocentric U.S. “Left” carries water for neoliberal Right, again: Response to the Ukraine Solidarity Network
The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.
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ICC urged to investigate Biden’s personal role in Gaza genocide
The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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The real French Connection was CIA approved
While the French Connection imported opium from Turkey, later in the 1960s the center of heroin production shifted to Southeast Asia against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The CIA’s Air America transported the junk.
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If you want to fight the machine, don’t move to the right
People in politics and media who oppose the status quo often drift rightward, especially in the U.S. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are some clear recent examples, but you see it happen all the time.
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The fabricated panic over antisemitism in the U.S. medical community conceals an attack on Palestinians
False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.
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Impossible for a president of the imperialist U.S. to be a peacemaker
ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.
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The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.
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Confiscation, reparations and reconstruction’s solution to the “Elon Musk problem”
In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.
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Europe, Ukraine and the United States. The rearmament of Europe
This conflict has exposed all of us to the serious risk of a European or even global nuclear war and has caused enormous ecological devastation.
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PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders delivers livestreamed response’ to President Trump’s Congressional Address
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today delivered remarks following President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Over 91,000 viewers watched in real time on his social media platforms.
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Venezuela: U.S. shrinks Chevron wind-down period to 30 days following ‘crazy Cubans’ pressure
Ramped-up economic sanctions will immediately affect the country’s oil output and potentially trigger inflation.
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Understanding the life and work of James Baldwin: In conversation with Colm Tóibín
The Irish author talks about his new book on James Baldwin, his influences, and his enduring legacy.
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CIA documents prove the agency was lying to public about germ warfare in Korea for decades
For years, academic historians had dismissed the allegation that the U.S. had engaged in germ warfare in Korea as communist propaganda.