Israel’s Bloodbath in Lebanon
On Monday, Israel engaged in its most deadly attacks in Lebanon since its 2006 invasion of the country, striking heavily populated areas throughout southern Lebanon—including hitting medical centers...
View ArticleThe World Says That Israel’s Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Must End
On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution that demanded that Israel immediately withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) of East Jerusalem,...
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Lebanon After Blowing Up Pagers in “Act of Mass Mutilation.” Is...
Israel attacked more than 300 sites in Lebanon Monday, killing at least 182 people and injuring more than 700 others as fears grow of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. The Israeli military...
View ArticleA New Permanent Affordable Housing Proposal
In its most recent year-end letter, the private equity firm Blackstone gave its stockholders a seemingly counterintuitive assurance: the lack of new housing stock was reason for optimism. Why does a...
View ArticleCalifornia Sues Exxon for Plastics Deception
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers, over its decades-long fraud to convince...
View ArticleThe New Labor Organizing Model of EWOC
Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one.[1] This unfortunate state of affairs is normally blamed on external obstacles such as our...
View ArticleWithout Debt Relief, Africa is Fighting Climate Change With Its Hands Tied
Earlier this month, environment ministers from across Africa gathered in Côte d’Ivoire to discuss the continent’s environmental governance and find unified positions to bring into international climate...
View ArticleNetanyahu Plays Chicken
Netanyahu is desperate to keep war simmering along and to draw the USA closer and closer to him. At the same time he cannot send ground forces into South Lebanon where they will take massive...
View ArticleMilitarism Abuse Disorder
My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I’m introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse...
View ArticleStrike Threat Wins Boarding and Retro Pay at American Airlines
Flight attendants at American Airlines were celebrating September 12 after approving a new five-year agreement by 87 percent, with 95 percent turnout. They won a big retroactive pay package and an...
View ArticleAssange to Testify at Council of Europe
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was released from prison in June, will address the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France on Oct. 1 after he was granted Status as a Political Prisoner by a...
View Article‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims
On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were...
View ArticleNorman Solomon on U.S. Foreign Policy
Norman Solomon talked about U.S. foreign policy. His book includes a new section on Gaza.
View ArticleNYC Climate Week: Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo on the Need for a Fossil Fuel...
As New York City’s Climate Week begins, we speak to environmental justice activist Kumi Naidoo, the former head of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International and now the president of the Fossil...
View ArticleBeirut Suburbs or “Hezbollah Stronghold”? U.S. Media Parrots Israeli...
Last Friday, Israel attacked a meeting of Hezbollah leaders in the southern Beirut neighborhood of al-Qaem. It was an assassination operation following the detonation, days before, of thousands of...
View ArticleTo Secure Worker Rights, We Must Fix Our Democracy
New waves of workers are standing up and demanding fair treatment on the job — from the fast food workers of the Fight for $15 to the workers at companies like Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and Volkswagen...
View ArticleIsrael’s Tally of War Crimes in Lebanon Increases in Wake of Exploding Pagers
Israel escalated attacks against Lebanon on September 23, marking the deadliest day of Israeli bombings in that country since 2006. Israel’s strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as the...
View ArticleTechno-Fascism, Techno-Terrorism, And Global War
The world is moving inexorably towards war. Any imaginary poll of the world’s population would show that nobody wants war. But war will probably break out before the end of the decade. Most countries...
View ArticleBiden Can Halt Wider War: Stop Sending Arms
Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict....
View ArticleGlobal Seminar To Support Jailed Russian Socialist Boris Kagarlitsky
Academics and activists from Russia and around the world will address an online conference on October 8 in support of jailed Marxist sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. This comes four months after the...
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