‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of...
Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the...
View ArticleMAGA’s Fascist Attacks on Gender
1. Why Is JD Vance Afraid of Childless Cat Ladies? During a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance made a now-famous quip that the country is run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are...
View ArticleNo Matter the Cost – Things the Israeli Genocide in Gaza Taught Us about...
The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely viewed in terms of their horrific humanitarian outcomes: the unequaled killing of...
View ArticleIf Only Some Lives Matter, No Lives Matter
Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East to Western Europe to the United States to India and God knows where else. And it can be profitable...
View ArticleThe Electorate Restores Kashmiri Identity But Will the ‘Nationalists’ Take Heed?
In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the Partition agreement — namely, demography and contiguity — and...
View ArticleWhat Ideas From the Paleolithic Are Still With Us in the Modern World?
Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy...
View Article‘Reckless Conduct’ of Big Oil Caused Milton—And Now They Should Pay
As Hurricane Milton’s 145 mile-per-hour winds began closing in on Southwest Florida on Wednesday and people crowded into makeshift shelters across the state, climate advocates and other observers said...
View ArticleThe Dark Doldrums: Has Germany’s Energy Transition Reached a Dead End?
In recent years, the term dunkelflaute (“dark doldrums”) has entered the political discourse in Germany. It refers to a period of consecutive days or weeks during which renewable energy sources...
View ArticleThis Little-Known Program Protects Immigrant Workers from Retaliation
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to organizing, for workers everywhere, is fear of retaliation. This is an even greater factor when the workers are undocumented immigrants. Not only do you fear being...
View ArticleMideast and Election Confusion
Like many others I am at a loss to explain much less affect certain current events. I feel confused, like I did last week, but now a week later, a week darker. I think many others feel similarly....
View Article25 Islamic Clerics Urge Muslims Across US to Defeat Trump
Balancing grave concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s yearlong assault on Gaza against the dire prospects of a potential second administration of former Republican...
View ArticleBad Climate Socialism
Few things are as easily predictable as the path that America is walking down towards its awful, inevitable national political war over the costs of climate change. Each catastrophe will propel us to...
View ArticleGetting Renters Organized
Workers have been in crisis for decades. Stagnant wages have meant a declining standard of living, leading to social catastrophe. Declining life expectancy, rising alienation and estrangement,...
View ArticleThe Labor Movement in Myanmar Is Facing Brutal Retaliation
Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the military has tried to force us into subordination with killings, torture, bombing, countless arrests, and displacement. Since then, over three...
View ArticleI Gave Birth During Genocide, Into a World I No Longer Know
“We are waiting for you to arrive tomorrow!” my sister told me in our call on Saturday, October 6, 2023. It was midnight, the perfect ending to a beautiful and calm day. “We will spend such an...
View ArticleThe Cash Will Soon Flow
Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a nearly five-kilometer strip of land creates a natural harbor. Its white sand...
View ArticleGeorgia is Ground Zero for a Rigged Election — Here’s How to Defend Democracy
With the polls extremely close, Donald Trump and his allies are once again refusing to commit to accept the results of the election. Many fear that they will go a step further and intervene to overrule...
View ArticleIDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
An Irish-Israeli diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force from firing positions metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers. Irish...
View ArticleWar on Gaza: Israel Wants To Finish The Job Washington Started After 9/11
Nearly a decade ago, a leading Israeli human rights activist divulged to me a private conversation he’d had a short time earlier with one of Europe’s ambassadors to Israel. He had clearly been shaken...
View ArticleDemonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon
Corporate media’s handling of the US-supported Israeli assault on Lebanon has, like all war propaganda, entailed a campaign to demonize the purported bad guys—Hezbollah, in this case. The coverage of...
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