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The Demise of US Power, De-Dollarisation & the BRICS
As I write, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is preparing a ground offensive on Rafah, Palestine . PM Netanyahu has warned for months that such an offensive was imminent. The consensus view was that US...
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Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence. Casualty figures are not coming in, as the attacks are so bad that bodies cannot be recovered, medics cannot travel and...
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Calculating the ‘White Bonus’
The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to white people shapes systemic injustice, has been hotly contested since the term was popularized by women’s...
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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza
On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold...
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Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making requests. Protests rely on persuasion. Their persuasion...
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Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how best to extract profits from people. What Americans eat, how they diet and exercise,...
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“Displacement Has Been Weaponized”: Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli...
Over 450,000 Palestinians, many already internally displaced, have fled Rafah in the past week alone since Israel launched an offensive on the city. Another 100,000 have been forced to flee homes in...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended
In 1948, at Israel’s founding, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed and destroyed over 530 Palestinian villages and towns, killing more than ten thousand Palestinians in a series of civilian massacres....
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s...
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological...
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Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth. Even if the decision to name Gaza’s journalists as...
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Twitter Files Brazil: Elon Musk’s Newest Propaganda Campaign
Since Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election, important elements of the US ruling class have been concerned about the spread on the US internet of disinformation (sometimes called...
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Rania Khalek Claps Back When Piers Morgan Tries to Distract from Genocide
Video clip of Rania Khalek being interviewed by Piers Morgan in which Rania responds to Morgan’s attempt to deflect from the genocide being inflicted by Israel by asking her to condemn the 7 October...
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Scientific Literacy, Feminism, Pediatric Nutrition and Public Health
Perhaps one of the most disconcerting aspects of the Covid pandemic, in addition to the mass morbidity, mortality, and public health failures of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation–is the...
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The Revitalization of German Trade Unions
German trade unions are on an upward trajectory. This year’s May Day celebrations showed as much as they were well-attended throughout Germany. German unionists also acknowledged seventy years of...
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Israel’s Invasion of Rafah Will Not Eliminate Hamas or End the War. So, What...
The Gaza war has now entered its eighth month and a resolution to the conflict still seems far off. Israel claims to have killed 13,000 Hamas militants so far. If that figure is correct, one can assume...
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Ireland Is Full… Of Berts
What is a bert? I have no clue. But recently I saw it written on a wall in Derry City where I live. To be exact, this is what was on the wall: IRELAND IS FULL OF BERTS!” It was obvious that this...
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