GAZA Is On the Ballot in Austria
Ever since October 7, thousands of Austrian activists and citizens have taken to the streets, protesting every weekend, determined to continue their resistance, fuelled by what can rightfully be called...
View ArticleSBTi’s Controversial Shift Has Given a New Lifeline to the Carbon Offset Ruse
“Carbon offsets” – paying for someone else’s climate action, while counting it as your own― have been increasingly challenged over the past few years. Yet just as they were sputtering on the deathbed...
View ArticleDetainees Face Inhumane Treatment
Israeli forces have been publishing degrading photographs and videos of detained Palestinians, including children, a form of inhumane treatment and an outrage on their personal dignity that amount to...
View ArticleTeamsters Über Alles?
Teamster General President Sean O’Brien’s speech before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was a public relation’s fiasco. His fawning praise for former President Donald Trump (“one tough...
View ArticleLetter Carriers Convention Shapes Up to Be Open Bargaining Showdown
City letter carriers have been working without a contract for more than 400 days, and leaders of the Letter Carriers (NALC) still refuse to provide any substantive updates from bargaining. As...
View ArticleWill Leonard Peltier Die In Prison?
Leonard Peltier, one of America’s longest-serving political prisoners, could have been a free man today. He could have gone home to the little plot of land waiting for him in North Dakota that...
View ArticleRight to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy
The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because of it) it is being contested by...
View ArticleFascism At the Gates
Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored...
View ArticleIDF Just Destroyed Key Rafah Water Facility Rachel Corrie Spent Her Last...
On Friday, I discovered a video posted on Instagram by an Israeli soldier from the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, showing the calculated demolition of a chief water facility in Rafah. The video,...
View ArticleDoes Israel Really Believe It Can Win a War Against Hezbollah?
On Monday, flights at Beirut’s airport were canceled as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to carry out a “harsh” military attack on Lebanon, following Saturday’s deadly strike on a...
View Article‘Vance Profits, We Pay The Price’: Sunrise Movement Protests J.D. Vance Over...
Activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on Sen. J.D. Vance’s Washington office on Monday, occupying the hallway and chanting “Vance is a liar, our planet is on fire,” while holding...
View ArticleReform Caucus Wins Amazon Labor Union Officer Elections
Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, New York, voted to elect reform officers in the first-ever leadership election. “We are extremely excited to announce that every...
View ArticleThe Olympics Banned Russia For Occupying Ukraine, But Not Israel, Which...
Nagham Abu Samrah was 24 years old Palestinian karate champion from Gaza. She had the potential to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic games. Unfortunately, an Israeli attack on her home killed her...
View ArticleBanning Sadako Won’t Keep Kids Safe From Nuclear War
Every child has that book. The one that breaks your heart wide open. Bridge To Terabithia. The Velveteen Rabbit. Charlotte’s Web. The Hate U Give. For me, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes....
View ArticleThe Venezuelan People Stay With the Bolivarian Revolution
On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian Constitution was ratified in 1999. In January...
View ArticleThe Official Death Toll In Gaza Is A Lie. The Casualty Numbers Are Far, Far...
The death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this – all the more so when Israel’s apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest...
View Article‘No Children In The Village’: Tribes’ Losses To Indian Boarding Schools
More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of...
View ArticleThe Labour Party Is Promising More Misguided Austerity
Britain is broke. This is the message that Rachel Reeves has just delivered to the nation as she announced forthcoming cuts to public spending and investment. Reeves claims that the Tories left the...
View ArticleStarvation in Sudan
For months, we’ve all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that’s gotten so little coverage you could be excused for not knowing...
View ArticleThe Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Will Only Embolden Resistance
At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in an apparent Israeli strike. It is not yet known what precise weapons were used, but Iran’s...
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