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Germany bans public grieving and solidarity with Palestine
Germany’s criminalization of solidarity with Palestine has taken on entirely new dimensions since October 7.
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The Israeli victim narrative about October 7 is based on western double-standards
For all those condemning the Gazans for rising up, they first must look at themselves in the mirror and ask what they did when the people were being forced into using violence as the obvious last option available to them.
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Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
Disinformation over the blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
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The European Left and the Global South: An existential take
When looking at the current geopolitical moment, it is a rather painful exercise to figure out what role Europe—and the remnants of its progressive force—can play. Can Europe become a somewhat progressive force for the good of the world, or is the entire continent destined to be consummated by the NATO-led appetite for war?
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Big Ag is draining the Colorado River dry
The American West is facing a water crisis, compounded by climate change, a history of bad policy, and government refusal to address Big Ag head-on.
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Mass rallies in support of Gaza continue with momentum
The world stands up for Palestine in the face of Israeli atrocities and massacres without fear of oppression despite all efforts by many governments to suppress any anti-“Israel” public expression.
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Let them eat cement
Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war—starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
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Israel’s unfolding crime of genocide of the Palestinian people & U.S. complicity in genocide (Emergency Legal Briefing Paper)
As President Biden visited Israel, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 3,300, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights released a legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity. The emergency briefing paper came on the heels of the U.S. veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning both Hamas’s attack on Israel and all violence against civilians and calling for humanitarian access to Gaza.
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‘The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England’ – book review
Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.
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Two-thirds of American voters want U.S. to back cease-fire in Gaza
“It’s past time for our political leaders to listen to their constituents and put a stop to this violence,” said a Jewish-American advocacy group.
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U.S. sponsoring military intervention in Haiti to stop revolution: Interview with Kim Ives
The U.S. is organizing and funding a military intervention into Haiti, organized under the auspices of the UN, in order to halt Haiti’s revolutionary process, journalist Kim Ives told Orinoco Tribune in a recent interview.
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Biden gives booster dose to the faltering Ukraine war
The prognosis of “war fatigue” on the part of the United States and its allies in the proxy war in Ukraine was greatly exaggerated. On the contrary, the war is acquiring a new swagger.
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Australia’s constitutional referendum, the Israel-Palestine War and British imperialism
Critical reflections on the Australian 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum and the Israel-Palestine War in the context of British settler colonialism and imperialism.
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Common sense solutions for collapse
Humanity faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions–a double-edged sword threatening both our planet and its people.
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In Palestine, 50,000 women are due to give birth within next 14 days
According to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, 50,000 Gazan women are set to give to birth in Gaza within the next 14 days.
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Israeli attacks on journalists stifle reporting on Gaza horrors
While the primary focus of this conflict is Gaza, journalists have wondered if a second northern front would open between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, creating a multifaceted regional war.
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The Palestinian people are already free: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2023)
This week, from 14–18 October, the Dilemmas of Humanity conference brought together political leaders, activists, and organic intellectuals from around the world to discuss the central problems facing humanity today and strengthen proposals to address them.
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Major news networks sideline Palestinian analysts
Leading Palestinian commentators describe canceled appearances and segments pulled from CBS and CNN shows.
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Israel-Palestine war: These are the hospitals Israel is threatening to bomb in Gaza
The al-Ahli hospital, where an Israeli strike caused mass deaths, was among many medical facilities Israel warned to clear out or face air strikes.
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500 arrested at Capitol as Jewish activists demand Gaza ceasefire
“If we don’t get back to our shared humanity, I don’t think we will ever come back from this,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib told protesters. “And to our President: I want him to know, as a Palestinian-American and someone of Muslim faith, I’m not going to forget this. And I think a lot of people are not going to forget this.”