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Writing about a joy that invades Jenin: The Fifth Newsletter (2023)
Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality.
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Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade
On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor pay, unfair working conditions, pensions and precarity.
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Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support for Palestinians, rejection of the occupation
The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine.
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In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi
A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students’ organizations in various parts of the country.
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Radio silence concerning United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s repudiation of debts
During your education, did you learn that during the 1930s the government of the USA unceremoniously repudiated a central provision of debt contracts that represented phenomenal sums?
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U.S. public opinion shifting sides about Ukraine
The U.S./NATO war on Russia via its proxy Ukraine has awakened significant opposition here in the U.S.
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Southern Girls: Theater Review
Would Florida’s Fascistic Governor Ban This Play and Burn the Script?
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Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange
The shared desire of the security services and the corporate media is to disappear Assange in the hope that his revolutionary model of journalism is abandoned or forgotten for good.
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NLG statement in solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders
On Wednesday, January 18, Georgia State Patrol murdered Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, who was camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest and stop the construction of Cop City.
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Losing 1st Amendment reverses War of Independence
Daniel Ellsberg says using the Espionage Act against journalist Julian Assange in blatant violation of the First Amendment means the First Amendment is essentially gone.
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U.S. Lawfare and the destabilization of Latin America
Brazil-based reporter and author Brian Mier outlines the strategy of lawfare and how it has been used in Latin America, particularly in the Lava Jato investigation.
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Honoring Dr. King’s legacy: Speak out against racism, poverty and World War III
A standing-room-only crowd packed St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, for a “speak out to stop racism, poverty and World War III.” The event honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the weekend of the King Day holiday.
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Short video on the U.S. military and climate disaster
Ireland has to stop collaborating with the U.S. military/industrial complex by allowing U.S. troops and in Shannon Airport (3 million and rising so far).
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Who will speak up for my child, the drag queen?
And the Non-Binary and Transgender Folks Among Us, Too.
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Cop City kills before it opens
What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.
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Book Review: ‘No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett’
David Gespass has been on the editorial board of the National Lawyers Guild Review for over twenty-years including several years as Editor in Chief. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. David is doing his best to retire from the active practice of law with only moderate success.
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Over 100 countries condemn Israel’s punitive measures against Palestinians following UNGA vote
Following the UNGA resolution, Israel announced withholding of USD 39 million of Palestinian money, which is likely to cause further suffering and impact basic services delivery in the occupied territories.
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Shocking inequality: Richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 700,000,000 Indians
Under the Modi government, India’s ruling classes have joined the ruling classes of the rest of the world in intensifying exploitation and earning super profits.
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NYT worries Big Brother is not watching you
You might think, Wow, I didn’t think the Times had it in it to take on Google, Meta and Amazon so directly. Well… you’d be right.
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The Ukrainian Solidarity Network: The highest stage of White Western social imperialism
The Ukraine conflict was caused by the U.S. backed right wing coup in 2014 and the duplicity of Europeans who claimed to be working for peace. Anyone who supports these actions but claims leftist credentials must be challenged.