Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting Of The Chagossians
The British government will return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents were brutally displaced between 1965‒73, to Mauritius. In an October 3 joint statement between London and Port...
View ArticleBiden (Finally) Threatens to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Carnage
After a year of outrage over U.S. support for Israel’s devastating assault on the Gaza Strip, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that the Biden administration threatened to cut off U.S. weapons if...
View ArticleAs IDF Points Tanks At Irish Peacekeepers, Weapons Continue To Illegally Fly...
Reported in partnership with the US’s Drop Site. At least two illegal flights bringing weapons to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) travelled through Irish territory after the Israeli army pointed a tank...
View ArticleWeaponizing Words: The GOP’s Plot to Undermine Democrats & Democracy
Have you noticed how elected Republicans and hate-radio and -TV hosts are so committed to mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’ name? Or how incapable they are of saying “Democratic Party”?...
View ArticleIsrael’s War on the World
Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel. In Gaza, Israel...
View ArticleIsrael’s War Machine Can Be Stopped. Here’s How
Israel’s largest arms firm Elbit Systems is finally losing money at its drone engine factory near Birmingham, England. This follows years of campaigning by Palestine Action, a group I co-founded in...
View Article‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in...
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a text...
View ArticleThe Decline of Union Hall Politics
Everybody knows most white working people no longer vote for Democrats, but there’s no agreement why. Leftists blame neoliberals for enacting policies that deregulated business instead of...
View ArticleThe Challenge and Reality of the Green Energy Transition: A Reply to Peter...
This is a reply to the recent polemic against renewable energy by Peter Gelderloos. We agree with a number of the points Gelderloos makes. But we disagree with his claims about renewable energy and we...
View ArticleClickbait, AI and Global Boiling
This may seem like a big step away from the day’s main topics, the U.S. Israeli genocidal warism, the rising tide of demented fascism, and the election to end all elections, but it isn’t. It may even...
View ArticleThe ‘Margin of Effort’ With an Internationalist Throughline
Preventing the US presidency from being captured by a racist authoritarian whose inner circle includes outright fascists depends on the “margin of effort” in the next 20 days. Gaining the strength to...
View ArticleThe UK’s Draconian Repression of Journalism Continues as Police Raid Home and...
British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley. Approximately 10 officers...
View ArticlePepe Mujica: Reflections on Global Conflict, Latin American Unity, and the...
A friend who knows tells me it’s impossible to organise an interview with José ‘Pepe’ Mujica in advance. It’s not how he operates. The best thing to do, she says, is to turn up at his farm on the...
View ArticleRadical Transformation or Change? — A Critical Assessment of Mexico’s First...
The term transform originates from the Latin transformare, meaning to modify or reshape something. Change, on the other hand, comes from cambiare, which signifies the replacement of one thing with...
View ArticleAfrican Contradictions in the World of Science
June 30 marked the celebration of Africa Scientific Renaissance Day (ASRD). This date was established in 1987 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now known as the...
View ArticleU.S. and China — Why Not a Deal?
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who...
View ArticleTenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing
Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. On September 25–28, housing justice organizations held...
View ArticleWho Are the Terrorists?
I have a confession to make. When a journalist writes this it generally means they will proceed to reveal something they hope will actually show them in a good light or justified in some way. But I...
View ArticleThe Israeli Spies Writing America’s News
One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These...
View ArticleJewish Students Mark Sukkot Holiday With Calls to End Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Several Jewish-led student groups are marking the holiday of Sukkot on campuses across the country by constructing small, temporary structures called sukkahs and adorning them with messages of...
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