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“Every allegation of anti-Semitism was found to be false”
A climate of fear is stifling free speech, academic research and student activism about Palestine at British universities.
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Objective conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s defensive strategy and contradictions among the people
Venezuelan history and politics professor Steve Ellner examines Maduro’s economic policies and the contradictions that have arisen among the left.
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Cuban President pays tribute to Malcolm X
The Cuban President is in New York this week to attend the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly.
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‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’
Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.
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Sierra Club workers challenge leadership’s greenwashing ‘apartheid tours’
In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel.
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The twisted Israeli logic of murdering Palestinian children, and what can we do to stop it?
The problem for Palestinians is not just that of Israel’s violence, but also the lack of international will to hold Israel accountable.
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Bernie Sanders champions ’32-hour work week with no loss in pay’
“Needless to say, changes that benefit the working class of our country are not going to be easily handed over by the corporate elite. They have to be fought for—and won.”
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Georgia Attorney General brings RICO indictments against 61 activists
The Georgia Attorney General’s Office filed RICO (racketeering-influenced and corrupt organizations) indictments against 61 individuals alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement.
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The Kit Carson obelisk: Santa Fe’s cult like worship of a genocidal human trafficker and murderer
Historical analysis and context of the Kit Carson obelisk that was once again toppled in so-called Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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“Making Monsters”: How media encourage hatred of immigrants
“Yahtzee!! We’re full,” wrote Florida state operative Perla Huerta, once she had tricked enough desperate migrants to fill two Martha’s Vineyard–bound planes.
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Potential accountability for British intelligence’s involvement in CIA torture
Recent developments suggest that British intelligence agents might finally face legal consequences for their lesser-known involvement in the CIA’s global torture program.
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Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism
Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid is based on the extermination of the indigenous population and the elimination of their hope of living freely. Palestinian children represent that hope.
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Firearms remain leading cause of death among U.S. children
In 2021, among U.S. children who died by firearms, 82.6 percent were aged 15 to 19 years.
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2023 is already the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in occupied West Bank, says UN envoy
The UN’s Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, said over 200 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank this year. He blamed “unilateral acts” by Israel, including increased settlement expansion, demolition of Palestinian homes and other structures, and settler violence
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Alpha dog of extractivism pushes status quo
Ottawa has long undermined efforts by impoverished countries to draw greater benefits from their natural resources.
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The crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Biblical prophets — Elijah, Amos, Jeremiah, Isaiah — believed that anything worth living for was worth dying for. Their enemy was not only suffering, calumny, poverty, injustice, but a life devoid of meaning.
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“That lady from New England who shamed us all”
The mass media is reluctant to recognize civic heroes unless they display physical bravery such as rushing into a burning building to save a child. The media also lavishes vast coverage on sports heroes and entertainers.
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NYT reveals that a Tech mogul likes China—and that McCarthyism is alive and well
“A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul,” the New York Times (8/5/23) announced on its front page. “The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide,” read the subhead.
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Former Israeli general accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’ reminiscent of Nazi Germany in West Bank
Former Israeli army general Amiram Levin said what is happening in the West Bank is ‘total apartheid’ and ‘dragging us all into war crimes’.
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What we lose through the ghettoisation of urban India
The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.