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West sabotaged Ukraine peace deal with Russia, admit Zelensky official and Germany’s ex leader
Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.
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Doctors in Italy strike against proposed pension cuts
Some 85 percent of staff of the National Health Service and private medical facilities stayed away from work.
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Why Israel can torture detained Palestinian children with impunity
Israel remains the only country in the world to automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts. Yet world leaders say nothing.
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This is a war on children, and “Safe Zones” are death traps: UNICEF
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.
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Half of Americans under 35 see Hamas attack as ‘justified by Palestinian grievances’
Democrats are terrified because they are losing their grip on the young. A new poll says half of Americans under 35 see Hamas’s October 7 attack as justified by Palestinian grievances. Young Americans are seeing the enormity of genocide.
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Tel Aviv’s man in Washington
In a city awash in foreign interests, dual citizens, and intersecting and at times conflicting loyalties, sometimes the most egregious examples are hiding in plain sight.
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How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
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‘Hell on Earth’ returns to Gaza as Israel extends bombing to the south
Over 100 solidarity actions planned in Britain on Saturday.
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Despicable derailment of UN Climate negotiations
Capitalism is taking humanity to disaster with a tiny minority doing most of the damage.
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Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason
Call them pests or pushers–or simply as Rottweilers–the Israeli diplomats have gained notoriety over time as a unique breed in the international circuit who have no time or patience for niceties or propriety when Tel Aviv instructs them to go for the jugular veins of the host country where they are assigned.
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Milei is ‘really as extreme as you get in Right-Wing Libertarian ideas’
CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei.
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Padua burns for Giulia
Fifteen thousand people marched through the streets after a young woman’s murder. ‘Femicide is not a crime of passion, it is a crime of power. It is a state murder, because the state does not defend us and does not protect us.’
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Cause and Effect: Chicago City Hall’s pro-Israel resolution and the murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume
The Chicago City Council’s demonization of Palestinians set the stage for the murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. We refuse to accept the grief of elected officials who would rather stand with our corpses than support our freedom.
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The Right’s persecution of Palestine supporters looks a lot like a new Red Scare
Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.
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Historic march demands an end to Canada’s complicity in Israel’s crimes in Palestine
100,000 people marched in the Canadian capital on November 25 to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the complicity of the Canadian government in Israel’s ongoing violence and colonization of Palestine.
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Gender, Labor, Democracy, and Americanism: U.S. History in the (Un)Making
In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive rights was taken down. The marker was formally approved and erected by the State, following years of community effort on behalf of this locally-born female hero. It stood […]
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A look at Assange from inside the CIA, State Department & U.S. Military
You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and U.S. military.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.
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Israel-Palestine war: Jewish students say they won’t be silenced by Brown University
In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel.
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Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine
Genet was one of the most original and combative writers of the 20th century.