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Facebook, social media giants admit to silencing Palestinian voices online
Social media companies including Facebook have admitted to MintPress that pro-Palestinian posts were removed, blaming “technical bugs” and “spam filters.”
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Economics of the new cold war and U.S. ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton interview world-renowned economist Michael Hudson on his concept of American “super imperialism” and the economics of the new cold war on China and Russia.
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Progressive forces win majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Convention
Independent and progressive candidates won more than a two-thirds majority in the Constitutional Convention, a body responsible for writing Chile’s new constitution.
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Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today
This two-part long read is an extract from a chapter in a forthcoming book Fanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth (edited by Nigel Gibson, Daraja Press 2021).
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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift.
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How Canada should respond to Israel’s escalating violence
We can protect Palestinians from Israeli aggression by applying our own Canadian law.
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Biden budget would send $1.3 billion more to Israeli military than to Global climate programs: Analysis
A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden’s spending priorities indicate that he thinks “preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change.”
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This isn’t a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
We are not seeing a “civil war” inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized “citizens,” and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
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Soviet Jews “stand with Israel forever”
This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them—a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren’t religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them.
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One more “flashpoint” in the Los Angeles homelessness crisis
On the morning of March 24, local activists and unhoused residents gathered at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles to oppose city councilmember Mitch O’Farrell’s looming eviction of the homeless people living around the lake.
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From Palestine to Colombia: The end of the White world colonial/capitalist project?
Despite the quickening decline of the “West,” the U.S. and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence.
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Israel’s illusion of normality collapses: May 2021
May 2021 has shattered Israeli illusions that they are immune from the volcano the country has created through its history of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
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Sacred Bones: Caste and COVID-19 in Delhi’s crematoriums
With an unprecedented volume of dead bodies, Brahmins and workers from other castes are working side by side in the crematoriums of Delhi. But caste defines every choice made among the pyres.
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Will the United States finally decolonize Puerto Rico?
On April 14, 2021 the House Committee on Natural Resources held hearings on two competing bills to end Puerto Rico’s colonial status. H.R.1522, the Puerto Rican State Admission Act and H.R.2070, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act.
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Center-periphery relationships of pharmaceutical value chains
The internationalization of the pharmaceutical industry only rose after the internationalization of patent protection in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) (Haakonsson, 2009).
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ACURA Viewpoint: Sanctions and Forever Wars by Krishen Mehta
The U.S. has sanctions against over 30 countries, close to one-third of the world’s population. When the pandemic startedin early 2020, our Government tried to prevent Iran from buying respirator masks from overseas, and also thermal imaging equipment that could detect the virus in the lungs.
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Dan Ellsberg blows the whistle again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to commemorate his legacy
Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.
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Sweden’s hands-off coronavirus model has failed
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell explained—in a now removed article in Dagens Industri, a Stockholm-based financial newspaper—that the country’s strategy to contain the virus would not “compromise our social functioning in a way that is more detrimental to any profits”.
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Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism
Crisis continues to deepen with over 8,000 new cases and 53 deaths. Many from Oli’s orbit and over two dozen lawmakers test positive ahead of May 10 House session.
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Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis
Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.