Developing Countries Demand Unconditional Withdrawal of Sanctions by US and...
In the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held in Geneva on Friday, September 13, China and several other developing countries from across the world denounced all forms of illegal...
View ArticleChicago Teachers Want to Transform Their City into a ‘System of Care’—Will...
There was an ironic moment in former President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago when he brought up the passing of his wife Michelle’s mother Marian...
View ArticleSanders Leads New Senate Effort to Stop Flow of US Arms to Israel
“There is extensive evidence that these systems are being used in violation of U.S. and international law,” said the senator. Demanding that the Biden administration follow the lead of several close...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots Between Climate Destruction and Its Financial Backers
Standing on a mobile stage in a suburban Philadelphia park on July 3, Ugandan human rights activist Hillary Taylor poured a cup of dirt into a clay vase. “This soil represents all my communities in...
View ArticleTen Ways Project 2025 Could Undermine Workers’ Rights
In late August, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance told a crowd of union firefighters that he and his running mate, Donald Trump, are “the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history.”...
View ArticleSocial Housing Goes to Washington
Every first of the month, half the country’s renters hand more than 30 percent of their wages to their landlord. A quarter of them pay a majority in rent — a tremendous cash transfer from bosses to...
View ArticleWater, War and Women in Gaza
In late 2020, a report titled Saving Gaza Begins with its Water stated: The water crisis in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the more than 2 million inhabitants of...
View ArticleReclaiming Food Sovereignty: How Feed Black Futures is Challenging Structural...
Don’t call it a food desert. “Food apartheid” is closer to the truth. Describing a place as a food desert, says food sovereignty activist Sophi Wilmore, “implies that this is a natural phenomenon—that...
View ArticlePower at the US Empire’s (Not OK) Corral
Today, Americans are getting an education in reality that generally cannot be bought, although it might not quite seem that way. We are seeing Israel committing genocide as it is happening, in real...
View ArticleFree Speech Threatened As Journalists Treated Like Terrorists
The co-founder of a pro-Palestine campaign group will appear at Westminster magistrates court today charged with terrorist offences. Richard Barnard of Palestine Action is a leading critic of Israel’s...
View ArticleA New Left Wing Party in the UK?
Keir Starmer has left about 70% of the landscape of historic western political and economic thought vacant to his left. It is unsurprising that a new party will arrive to claim the unoccupied ground. A...
View ArticleAs A Former Hostage Of The Palestinian Resistance, I Refuse To Support Genocide
I was a hostage in 1970 at age 13, caught in global events that were beyond my capacity to comprehend. I was held, together with my younger sister, for a week under difficult conditions. It began when...
View ArticleA Circular Economy
Between 1942 and 1964, migrant Mexican farm and railroad workers labored for low and often delayed pay under the U.S. Government’s Bracero Program. According to the 2023 paper “The Bracero Program and...
View ArticleJewish Chronicle Scandal: Why Was There No Uproar Over Past Pro-Israel...
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of pro-Israel lobby groups. It...
View ArticleTake Cuba Off The List
Take Cuba off the list. That’s the call from nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries today as they sign a joint letter, coordinated and published by the Progressive International, condemning...
View ArticleWhy Education?
Education. Just the term itself – for those of us not in dire poverty, being sanctioned, bombed or in climate ravaged areas who had the privilege of at least having the choice to attend a school – will...
View ArticleUncommitted Declines to Endorse Harris as Campaign Continues to Back Genocide
The Uncommitted Movement announced on Thursday that it is declining to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris after the Democratic Party has repeatedly refused to address the pro-Palestine caucus’s...
View ArticleBuilding Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives
The United States is losing hundreds of thousands of unregulated, unsubsidized “naturally occurring” affordable homes each year to speculative buying, rent hikes, and evictions. Additionally, some...
View ArticleThe Mess in Argentina
At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of walking through this street that is exclusively dedicated to pedestrians was anything but lovely though, since in the one...
View ArticleIsrael’s New Campaign of “Terrorism Warfare” Across Lebanon
For the second day in a row, electronic devices across Lebanon, including walkie talkies, exploded on Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring over 450, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The...
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