The grotesque madness of history’s first live-streamed genocide persists as Israel daily commits acts once unimaginable. They are bombing hospitals, shooting doctors,…
Harrowingly, confoundingly, Gaza’s horrors grow. Israel kills 250 people a day, attacks hospitals, bombs survivors in tents, blocks over 75% of humanitarian…
Behold, in Gaza, there is no new year, just old afflictions – life in tents without water or blankets, point-blank death for…
Given the unholy dissonance, Bethlehem’s usual celebration of the birth of a Palestinian Prince of Peace was cancelled this year as Gaza…
Hoo boy. Hopefully you missed the GOP “trash fire,” “play date,” “darkest saddest game of MadLibs ever” and “rancid buffet of bigotry”…
To be clear, we welcome the modest mercies in Gaza: the “pause” in slaughter, release of hostages, freeing of Palestinian prisoners, most…
Words still fail, horrors still unfurl. Last night, Israeli airstrikes killed over 400 Palestinians. The dead now total over 5,000, likely many…
Amidst the horrors in Gaza, progressive Israelis find themselves harrowingly caught between sorrow and the abiding, hard-won conviction their country “cannot fight…
Drumming and chanting, hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied in D.C. Tuesday to mark the 79th birthday of Native American activist…
Zealously following the GOP dictate to inflict mindless, bloody cruelty on vulnerable people, Texas’ Greg Abbott has created a hellhole state that…
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