-
Jewish Council calls for universities to immediately halt actions against anti-war students
Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.
-
Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence.
-
Chicanery versus humanity
The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.
-
The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous nations struggle for sovereignty
Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.
-
For the defense of the Alliance of Sahel States
To the African masses at home and abroad, oppressed and tormented by the imperialists for centuries and yet steadfast in your struggle. We, the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa, urge you to stand strongly behind the Alliance of Sahel States which, at this moment in our history, represents the model for Pan-Africanism and therefore the path towards the total liberation and unification of Africa.
-
Schools should protect trans youth, not ‘out’ them
Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.
-
‘Are you going to end the genocide, President Biden? That’s the central question’
CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.
-
Report sounds alarm over growing role of Big Tech in U.S. military-industrial complex
The paper’s author found that the five largest military contracts to major tech firms between 2018 and 2022 “had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.”
-
U.S.: Political repression backfires as pro-Palestinian campus protests grow
Police arrested more than 2,300 protesters in at least 58 crackdowns at 44 colleges or universities between April 18 and May 3 as pro-Palestinian encampments spread like wildfire across the U.S. It can reasonably be argued that university administrators themselves provoked students into taking action, and it can certainly be proven that they fanned the flames of defiance after the protests began—by forcibly repressing the protests.
-
Harry Glasbeek on how the law keeps workers’ aspirations firmly in check
The very laws designed to safeguard rights and freedoms often act as invisible shackles.
-
“I make $3500 worth of lattes each day. I take home $144.”
Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year.
-
Practicing science as class struggle
Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.
-
The West believes antisemitism is a more egregious problem than genocide
The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a generation.
-
Letters of protest: Colleges suppress dissent while closing their eyes to genocide, extended version
As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.
-
Gaza ceasefire proposal–Full Text
Below is the full proposal for Gaza ceasefire and prisoners exchange, which was accepted by Hamas on Monday.
-
From PropOrNot to New Lines: How Washington is weaponizing media
If you read the Wikipedia entries for many alternative media outlets, they are written off as fringe conspiracy websites pushing debunked foreign propaganda. MintPress News, for example, is described as a “far-left news website” which “publishes disinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories.”
-
Venezuela’s Maduro criticizes U.S. hypocrisy after crackdown on students
The Venezuelan government also condemned Israel’s latest assault on Gaza following Monday’s invasion of Rafah.
-
Rescue teams discover third mass grave in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Seven hospital mass graves have been discovered so far across three Gazan hospitals.
-
TikTok law is an attempt to censor, not a warning to Big Tech
As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.
-
Congress urged to tax Big Oil for price fixing and ‘issue every American a refund
The Groundwork Collaborative’s leader also said that “the Department of Justice should criminally prosecute Scott Sheffield,” the former Pioneer CEO whom the FTC blocked from joining ExxonMobil’s board.