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Guatemalan Women Fought for Democracy. Now They Have to Make It Work for Them.
Outside the window, a storm gathers over Lake Atitlan. Inside, more than 50 women activists, including Guatemalan indigenous land defenders, international feminist leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize...
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Imprisoned for 50 Years: Amnesty Calls for Leonard Peltier’s Freedom as He...
Supporters of Leonard Peltier are calling on President Biden to grant clemency to the Indigenous leader and activist, who marked his 80th birthday behind bars on Thursday after nearly a half-century in...
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No, Mexico’s Judicial Reform Isn’t a Risk to Democracy
Exceeding the two-thirds required supermajority, Mexico’s Senate has narrowly passed a constitutional reform package championed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). It promises to overhaul...
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Bring on the Climate Doomers! We Need More of Them
I recently complained that public narratives about climate—those promoted on so called mainstream platforms, and featured in cryptic one-liners from Democratic Party hopefuls—boil down to evasive...
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We Charge Genocide – Again! Cry of the Earth’s Peoples Against the...
STATEMENT THE GLOBAL CONSULTATION ON EMPIREAND GENOCIDES: WHERE LIES JUSTICE AND HOPE OF RECOVERY? 20-24 August 2024, Windhoek, NAMIBIA. Gathered under the auspices of the Council of Churches of...
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Harris or Trump: No Difference for Palestinians?
Does it make any difference to the Palestinian people whether it is Harris or Trump who wins? I think it does, big time. I get it on why many Palestinians, Arab Americans and strong progressives in the...
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The Legacy of Hate
Today, it has been 61 years since a white supremacist’s bomb went off at 10:22 a.m. at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were getting ready for church...
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Israel: ‘The Majority Want Hostage Deal that Ends the War’
Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks, with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to...
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‘Two-State Solution’ – A Fig Leaf for Western Leaders
At the time of the Fatima Payman affair, Prime Minister Albanese told the ABC on July 1: “Labor supports a Palestinian state existing alongside an Israeli state. We don’t support a one-state solution.”...
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The Growing Case for Medicare for All
In her debate with Donald Trump, Vice-President Kamala Harris declared, “access to healthcare should be a right, not a privilege for those who can afford it.” Her stance is laudable, and the reforms...
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Trump-Vance Are Doing to Haitians What the Israeli Right Has Done to...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vile and disgusting tactic of J.D. Vance and Don Trump of spreading false, racist charges against Haitians of eating the pets of suburbanites is nothing unexpected....
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Reunification – A Roadmap to Eco-Social Transformation On the Island of Ireland
For a commentary reflecting on the barriers partition places in front of a radical eco-social programme on the island of Ireland, it is possibly hackneyed to frame a set of arguments on partitionist...
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A Radical Way to Change the UN Security Council, Including Its Name
What conditions might compel the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to relinquish their veto power? In exchange, what conditions might the other member states agree on to make it...
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How Does Israel Justify Genocide? It Starts in the Schools.
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans often revealed by their words and actions that they...
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We’re Getting Sick of Noise Pollution
The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And...
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Kamala’s Capitalist Class
A nice point of entry into this analysis is a recent article from CNBC, which recounts an open letter signed by “88 high-profile business figures” endorsing Harris for president. The letter assures...
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Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy – So, Who Speaks on Behalf of the Palestinian...
In April 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree postponing parliamentary and presidential elections, which were scheduled to take place in May and July respectively. The...
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Israelis Must Ask Themselves if They’re Willing to Live in a Country That...
Israel is turning, with alarming speed, into a country that lives on blood. The daily crimes of the occupation are already less relevant. Over the past year, a new reality of mass killing and crimes of...
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Under New Chair State GOP Releases Mailers Citing Hate Groups
Although the Michigan Republican Party experienced a severe cash shortage under ex-chair Kristina Kramo, that appears to have been solved for the time being. Karamo was removed as chair this year due...
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Growing Passion for the Power of Ecosystem Restoration in Matera, Italy
Ecosystem Restoration Communities are committed to monitoring and improving ecosystems by measuring the effects that restoration approaches and interventions have on soil quality, biodiversity, and...
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