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Understanding Project Esther
This Purim, as Jews around the world tell the story of Queen Esther, we must also tell the story that Project Esther plans on carrying out. This Christian Nationalist plan intends to squash the Palestine solidarity movement, crack down on free speech and academic freedom, and deport those who speak out against Israeli apartheid.
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The Oval Room, Kyiv and the Kremlin: Berlin Bulletin No. 232, March 14, 2025
Some world events can look different to those of us onthis side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war—and is closer over here. I’m […]
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Columbia University expels student protesters, fires union president amid ICE raids
Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” U.S. and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
The U.S. and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and the internationally unrecognized breakaway Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.
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Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
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Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
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UN investigation accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza through targeted destruction of health facilities
A United Nations investigation released on Thursday has concluded that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip by systematically targeting and destroying reproductive health care facilities.
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Seven silent measures against Cuba
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.
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The scramble for Greenland
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.
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Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report—the latest move to withdraw the U.S. from global climate action and research.
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U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.
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More than 7000 massacred in Syria
7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March.
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Feminism and revolution: A conversation with Alejandra Laprea
Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.
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Momentum builds behind calls for release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention
Federal judge orders that the recent Columbia graduate not be deported while the court considered a challenge brought by Khalil’s lawyers.
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Universalism the panacea for Palestine
In total contrast to the ideals of universalism, the Trump-Vance swagger to defend and increase only U.S. interests is apparent in their MAGA doctrine and was revealed in their gangsterish Oval Office thuggery towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Trump’s censorship Czar orders NPR and PBS investigation
“In a healthy democracy, we would be investing enough in our public-media system that it wouldn’t need to seek any corporate underwriting,” says Craig Aaron
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Romania, a captured state: How democracy was stolen before our eyes
This is not just another episode in a dirty electoral game.
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UNRWA chief says Israel is clearly weaponizing aid into Gaza
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has condemned Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, as well as its decision to cut off electricity to the Palestinian enclave.
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The Eurocentric U.S. “Left” carries water for neoliberal Right, again: Response to the Ukraine Solidarity Network
The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.
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The Global North has nine times more voting power at the IMF than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)
In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.