Subjects Archives: Human Rights

The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.

Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister has admitted, the Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley reports.

The attempt to remove Palestinians from Gaza is nothing new.

Google’s changes also removed Women’s History Month, National Native American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, and Holocaust Remembrance Day.

February 4, 2025 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the attempted seizure of power by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.

While deportation of non-citizens found to be in violation of U.S. Immigration Law is a routine procedure, this time it was different and brazen.

With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.

Following the ceasefire, Toufic Haddad reflects on the complicity & failures of global powers & institutions. We must keep mobilising against Israel’s crimes.

Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.

The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.

Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.

Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal also confronted Blinken, asking if he was ‘compromised by Israel’

In this series, we (BAR Book Forum) ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.