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With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the…
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…
Like many others I am at a loss to explain much less affect certain current events. I feel confused, like I did…
The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely…
War is a daily fixture of American life—the US military occupies at least 750 overseas bases, and it has executed military operations…
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and…
A few days ago a Marist Poll came out which reported an important finding as far as the Presidential race. It said: “80% of…
About a month ago I was watering plants in our family garden when a dragonfly landed on a plant just a few…
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in…
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
As the U.S. election nears, there is considerable controversy, confusion, consternation, and sometimes recrimination on the left. But most of all, there…
My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications…
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration,…
The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected…
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a…
Globalization has been the hallmark of the economic world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Since the Great Recession of…
If one is to visit the Mahal website, a pop-up reminder, reading ‘Apply online’, keeps appearing. It is as if the repeated…
Norman Solomon talked about U.S. foreign policy. His book includes a new section on Gaza.
Fears of an all-out Middle East war mounted Sunday as Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into Israel, whose military continued bombing targets…
As Israel followed up its remote bombings of communications devices in Lebanon with airstrikes on Beirut, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency…
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are…
Sometimes we must explicitly state what ought to be utterly obvious. Or would we rather make what is disgusting normal? Rather make…
I have known Cornel West since 1972 when we met during my first year at Harvard. I have followed him over the…
Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future,…
At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of walking through this street that is exclusively dedicated…
Never in its history of war and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future…
Eye on Western Sahara is the monthly newsletter of the US-based Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation of Western Sahara (freewesternsahara.org). The…
On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its…
In April 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree postponing parliamentary and presidential elections, which were scheduled to take place in May…
Does it make any difference to the Palestinian people whether it is Harris or Trump who wins? I think it does, big…
The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic…
As the U.S. elections come closer, there is growing pressure on many progressives in the Global South to make our voices heard…
Deception, lies and secrecy — including lies to cover secrecy — characterize authoritarian regimes. However, the politics of lying and official secrecy…
When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the…
A new international coalition is disrupting airports to make one demand: the adoption of a treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030.…
Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home…
One of the most bewildering reactions on the part of certain segments of the U.S. left (whatever that means these days) is…
My aim in what follows is to suggest some possible linkages that point toward some possible ways to understand some possible trends…
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the…
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Ben-Gvir, as…
The Israeli war on Gaza has become a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on October 7 as it is today. On August 17,…
Norway’s $1.76 trillion sovereign wealth fund—the world’s largest—could soon be forced to divest from companies including linchpins of the U.S. military-industrial complex…
People against destroying our planetary home often favor “No Growth”—“steady as she goes”—or even the rhetorically catchier “DeGrowth”—“shrink baby shrink.” Their pro-growth…
With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s explicit critique of Jill Stein and the Green Party several days ago have motivated me to write about my 17…
In which Senator Malcolm King, Celia Lopez, Lydia Luxemburg, and Bert Dellinger discuss electoral participation and purpose and RPS’s major victory. Elections:…
The Israeli war on Gaza is a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on 7 October as it is today. On 17…
Research has long established strong links between neoliberal policies and increasing rates of inequality. Susan George, for instance, argued quite convincingly that increasing…
For the last 21 years, the primary issue I have focused on is the climate crisis. It’s a no-brainer for me: it…
At the moment of writing this article it is still unclear if Israeli politican and war criminal Tzipi Livni will arive on…
