‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”
In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of...
View ArticleAntisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against US college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism’ Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns...
View ArticleSetting Our Sights On A Third Reconstruction
“The white riot of January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol Building is impossible to understand without reference to earlier, yet strikingly similar, efforts during the First Reconstruction period. In both...
View ArticleWar, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the...
View ArticleTrump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case
Apanel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the...
View ArticleA War Against Humanity Itself
Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s “voracious death machine,” its leaders now openly vow “total and utter destruction” by what they...
View ArticleThe Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled
For want of a mattress, a man is dead. That’s the story, in sum, of a quadriplegic man who chose to end his life in January through medically assisted death. Normand Meunier’s story, as reported by the...
View ArticleThe Uncommitted Campaign in New Jersey: The Fight To End Genocide Continues
A sense of urgency loomed over Fatima Mughal, one of the leading organizers behind the uncommitted campaign in New Jersey. Some emotional containment was necessary in the midst of an ongoing genocide....
View ArticleHouse Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led...
View ArticleHow Labor Can Aid the Student Movement for Palestine
Since April 18, over one thousand students, faculty members, and community supporters have been arrested at college campus protests across the country. Despite fierce repression from university...
View ArticleDocuments Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles
Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives reveal that for years, Washington, DC, police have used online surveillance...
View ArticleNYC Mayor Smeared A Grandmother As An “Outside Agitator” To Justify NYPD...
Nahla Aa-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many...
View ArticleStudent Demands for Divestment Are Not New
The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from Israel central to its demands. It’s what the “D” in BDS...
View ArticleThe Fiction of the “Outside Agitator”
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on US college campuses for peacefully protesting Israel’s war on the people of Palestine. For the “crime” of forming tent cities, or “encampments” on campus,...
View ArticleMissouri Organizers Submit Signatures For Ballot Measure To Legalize Abortion
A coalition of abortion rights advocates in Missouri moved one step closer to putting abortion rights on the ballot despite legal challenges, delays and a grassroots “decline to sign” campaign waged by...
View ArticleThe Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being
Just what exactly happens when a society becomes substantially more unequal, when a few become fabulously richer than the many? Defenders of our deepest pockets have a ready answer. What happens when...
View ArticleUnrest in Georgia Over The “Foreign Influence Transparency Law”: “Whichever...
There is a massive problem at the heart of Georgia’s peculiar political economy. It goes back a quarter of a century, predating the 2003 Rose Revolution. The late president Edvard Shevardnadze had...
View ArticleThe Pro-Palestine Protests Must Continue Off Campus
In 1968, Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall was occupied by student activists protesting both Columbia’s complicity in the Vietnam War and the university’s plan for a de facto segregated building. It...
View ArticleInside The ‘Student Intifada’: A Roundtable With Campus Organizers
Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role...
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