Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”
Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” on the second night of...
View ArticleFrance: University Sciences Po Calls in Police to Break Up Pro-Palestinian...
France’s Sciences Po, one of the country’s top universities, called in police to break up an unauthorised pro-Palestinian encampment on Wednesday, as Israel‘s siege and bombardment of Gaza sparks a...
View ArticleWill the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might...
View ArticleHundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus...
Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests, which have been characterized as...
View ArticleOregon’s Measure 110, A Brief Victory for Drug Decriminalization
Morgan Godvin is an internationally recognized expert on the topic of drugs and justice. She was a leading activist behind Oregon’s drug decriminalization law – Measure 110 – that passed in 2021, as a...
View ArticleModi Could Squander an Unprecedented Chance at Normalizing India-Pakistan Ties
Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalization and trade with India—but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is failing to seize the chance When Narendra Modi...
View ArticleShould Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal:...
View ArticleLust for Unbridled, Uninterrupted Power is Making Modi Plumb the Depths
India must be the only republic where an 80% majority is constantly persuaded that it has everything to fear from a beleaguered 14% minority. Much of the time not at a loss for words, this once I am....
View ArticleThe EU’s Migration And Asylum Pact Is Another Lost Opportunity
Anyone who believes the European Union’s new Migration and Asylum Pact will increase solidarity between member states, or with people escaping conflict or hunger, does not know the meaning of the word....
View ArticleWorse Than You Can Imagine
Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that consider policy decisions, weigh them up, involve the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Labor Candidates
In late October, 2018, East Bay DSA members and other progressives organized a pre-election rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A wildly-cheering crowd of several thousand came to hear Senator...
View ArticleThe Ideological Coup: How Disciples of Kahane Became the New Face of Israel
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political...
View ArticlePolice Attack Palestine Labor Activists In Front Of Chicago Labor Notes...
Labor For Palestine held a rally on April 19, 2024 in front of the 2024 Chicago Labor Notes Conference in Chicago. It spilled into the street and police attacked and arrested labor Palestine activists....
View ArticleThe Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors
Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture’. For around...
View ArticleTrump, Genocide, and Profit Seeking Suicide – The Devil Is No Longer In Disguise
What to do. What to do. Consider our times. Do you feel, like I feel, massive confusion at what is happening out there. Even if I confine myself to considering perhaps the three largest current...
View ArticleStatement by Student Organizers of SAGE @ MIT
“We are over 6 months into the genocide in Gaza.” We have let life go on, let business go on as usual, while a genocide has been broadcast to us for months. Meanwhile, MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION...
View ArticleFeeding War, Killing Peace: Why the US Vetoed ‘Palestine’?
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a...
View ArticleIndia’s Billionaire Wealth Is on Display as Nation Votes
There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving record-high temperatures to cast ballots....
View ArticleHow an ‘Antisemitism Hoax’ Drowned Out The Discovery of Mass Graves in Gaza
Agruesome discovery was made in Gaza at the weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies – of men, women and children – were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in...
View ArticleHow Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding agribusiness and logging...
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