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President Biden should certify the Equal Rights Amendment
The ERA will help restore abortion access, protect women from violence, and help build a gender-equitable future. Biden should certify it while he still has the power to do so.
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“Massacre of journalists”: Four Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in just five days
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Four Palestinian journalists were killed in separate Israeli attacks within five days amid the ongoing assault in Gaza, with media freedom organizations accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” against journalists there.
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Chávez, spirituality and revolution: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part I)
A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.
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Make White People accountable again
(As if they ever were.)
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Who is Mufid Abdulqader of The Holy Land Foundation – Profile
This case has been widely highlighted as one of the consequences of the intense Islamophobia whipped up, largely in order to justify the U.S.’ ‘War on Terror’.
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UN Global Plastics Treaty talks fail
A fast track effort underway since 2022 aiming to forge a global Treaty to control plastic pollution by regulating all aspects of the life cycle failed at the fifth, and hoped for last, UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Meeting (INC-5) held in Busan, South Korea, on 25 November – 1 December 2024 under the aegis of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP).
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Was South Korea’s coup an attempt to restart the Korean War?
Opposition lawmakers are alleging the full scope of President Yoon’s coup involved a months-long plot to trigger a “limited war” with North Korea.
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A new Pan-Africanism for a new Century
Following the Eurocentric pathways to identity and development are a fallacy that is holding Africa back, ROGER McKENZIE argues.
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Reaction to ICC indictment reveals bipartisan contempt for international law
The international community wants to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Why is the United States standing in the way?
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Plastics treaty failure shows need to curtail oil industry
Oil companies have long lied about the impacts of burning their fuels. They also lie about the plastic they produce. The treaty talks were no exception.
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Mali’s government issues arrest warrant for Canadian mining company CEO
On December 2, 2024, Mali’s popular anti-imperialist government issued an arrest warrant for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold’s CEO, Mark Bristow, a South African national who fought for the apartheid army in the 1970s.
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The Tectonic Shift: The Gaza genocide and the limits of Israeli Hasbara
Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical accountability of the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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Tony McKenna: “Has Political Correctness Gone Mad? The Anatomy of a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory” – Book Review
We are all familiar with the charge that some policy or decision is a case of ‘political correctness gone mad’, part of the rhetoric of the ‘culture wars’, but we may not have thought a great deal more about it.
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Old contradictions and new possibilities in Marxist and Indigenous praxis
At the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC , Dr. Lydia Jennings wore a T-shirt that read, “Strong Resilient Indigenous,” and held a sign saying, “Traditional Ecological Knowledge Is Science Too!”
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A cancelled Yahya Sinwar vigil, and the Canadian mayor with a backbone
On October 17, 2024, then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered by Israel in Gaza.
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Universities are continuing to retaliate against staff for participating in Gaza campus protests
Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country.
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Lawfare in Argentina: Cristina Kirchner convicted
“What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court,” announced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
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An open letter to American-Jewish intellectuals
In an unpublished 1989 letter, Palestinian American scholar Edward Said calls on his Jewish counterparts to take a stance against Israel’s abuses of Palestinians.
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“Nothing like before” — China is out-competing the West on EVs
The West is accusing China of “overcapacity” to blame it for its own industrial demise.
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U.S. officials discussed merits of removing $10m bounty on HTS leader
Meanwhile, Jordan’s King emphasised importance of covert US support for the Syrian Free Army during his Washington DC visit, source says.