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Today, as in the Past, Germany Claims the Authority to Define who is a Jew
Reawakening ghosts from a dark past, Germany once again claims to have the authority to define who is a Jew. Those who say this are Jews living in Germany who find themselves the target of processes of...
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How Trump Has Shaped Federal Courts And What We Can Expect Next
Donald Trump’s first term as president marked a conservative shift for the federal judiciary that will continue to shape policy for years to come. In just four years, 234 of Trump’s judicial nominees...
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Brazilian Judiciary Orders Investigation of Israeli Soldier-Tourist for War...
According to Junio Silva at the Brazilian newspaper Metrópoles , on December 31, Federal Judge Raquel Soares Charelli directed the Federal Police to open an immediate investigation into Israeli soldier...
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Biden Approves Another $8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel as Genocide Continues
The administration of US President Joe Biden announced on Saturday an arms sale to Israel valued at $8 billion, just ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Biden has...
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Migrant Deaths Off Spain’s Coast Are Worse Than Ever
2024 is over, but not before hitting a historic high for the number of people dying at Spain’s borders. According to data from the NGO Caminando Fronteras, at least 10,457 people died or disappeared...
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Trump Has Stuffed His Cabinet With Oligarchs Poised to Govern for Their Profit
In the narrative of mainstream U.S. media, oligarchs — super-rich, politically connected individuals with influence over the state — exist only in post-communist countries and post-colonial societies...
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‘Modern plunderers’: Lobito Corridor plans bring fear, hesitation in DRC
From the Port of Lobito in Angola, along Africa’s Atlantic coast, runs a 1,300km (800-mile) stretch of railway that passes through neighbouring Zambia and resource-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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The Military to Prison Pipeline
Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service...
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AI and Us—Wake Up and Smell the Guillotine
AI is already very nearly everywhere. So far, it is no big deal, right? It assembles data, controls this or that machine, writes and/or edits lots of messages and even articles, and who knows, maybe...
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Electoral Opposition
Part 5 of this series contains the following chapter: 6. Electoral Opposition Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability,...
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History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to begin enacting the anti-immigrant agenda at the center of his campaign the moment he takes office: mass deportations, a crackdown on people “pouring up through...
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Non-Electoral Opposition & The Social Strike
Part 6 of this series contains the following chapters: 7. Non-Electoral Opposition8. The Social Strike Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network...
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Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’
Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the messages often conveyed a sense of urgency and panic but, at times,...
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Gutting the Right to Know
I usually refrain from criticizing opinions issued by the Montana Supreme Court (the Court). I cannot stand silent, however in the face of the Court’s recent evisceration of Montana’s fundamental...
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Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump...
Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk’s latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped...
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US System of Prison Injustice
I wrote in October that Joe Biden, in his four years as president, did literally nothing to improve the situation in prisons and jails across the country, either through the federal Bureau of Prisons...
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The Presidential Transition Travesty
As we mark the fourth anniversary of January 6, Joe Biden keeps departing and Donald Trump keeps arriving. The soon-to-be former president and the still-future president are like comic-tragic...
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Environmental and Climate Debt: Who is Responsible?
The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major...
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Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities...
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Los Angeles’ Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Hanging On By a Thread. A New Law...
After 30 years of single-handedly running an Asian boutique store located inside an indoor plaza in Los Angeles called The Shop in LA’s Chinatown, Mai Tu received an eviction notice at the start of...
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