For three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate advocate…
Media Angst Some of the media are preoccupied with a baffling question; Why are Americans not celebrating the economic accomplishments of the…
It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European…
On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already killed 6,500 people…
“Y’all don’t live in our f—kin’ skin,” said Texas Democrat Armando Walle in an angry outburst at state Republicans in late October…
“Gaza is a tiny coastal enclave adjoining Israel. … The story of how people got there requires us to go back some…
The Rolling Stones have a new album. The NBA season is underway. Cable flows on. Barbie busts records. It’s binge heaven out…
Georgia State Trooper Stanley Kent claimed under oath that it was just a routine traffic violation.1 That Erick Hendricks was following too…
“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated…
On October 12, Veterans For Peace issued this statement about the conflict between Hamas and Israel, in which we condemned the horrific violence on…
A single mother, determined to provide the best for her family, poured her heart and soul into her job at the Cooper…
Dolphins are known for their playful nature and remarkable intelligence. Most people think of them as inhabitants of the vast oceans, leaping…
For almost all my life, even since childhood more than six decades ago, I have been an avid football fan. I grew…
Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.” A single standard of language…
Often what is vile hides itself. Denies itself. Alibis itself. Rationalizes itself. It even fades from awareness due to its being so…
In two recent state elections – Bavaria and Hessen – voters took a strong turn toward the radical right. Voters in the…
How many years are we away from a new world war? 1932 was not a year of peace. On the contrary, there…
Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the…
Israel had the perfect plan for Gaza – in fact, for all Palestinians, when it decided to redeploy its forces around the Occupied Gaza…
(This piece was revised and updated from its original text on October 30th to include more recent developments.) I want to share…
It’s long past time that you spoke up for genuine diplomacy to bring an end to the horrible war and human suffering…
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For many years there have been various “Palestinian Gandhis” leading nonviolent struggles to gain rights while under Israeli occupation. Ayed Morrar led his Budrus…
Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while…
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1…
At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media…
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more…
Civilians, including children, were massacred on one side of the border between Israel and Gaza. Now terror and death crash through Gaza,…
In Sinjar, a small town in Northern Iraq, the consequences of genocide and war linger heavy. Nearly a decade ago, in August…
The crumbling, pothole-filled highways and roads across Guatemala have been shut down, blocked, and barricaded by protesters for more than a week . These…
There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War. According to one narrative, Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like aggressor.…
Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto,…
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their…
Before the right-wing mobs stormed the US Capitol, the radical right thugs had to be moved from, what sociologists call, a willingness…
The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and…
Looking at Israeli and Western media coverage 1 of Hamas resistance against Israel epitomises Orwell’s problem; “[that] is to explain why we know and…
Climate activists from across the Balkans and beyond came together at the end of August for the 2nd annual Adriatic Climate Camp,…
Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military…
We are each and all ignorant of a great many things. How could it be otherwise. We are people with limited time,…
While the bluster about cluster bombs covers the subject of murder with liberal prattle about how it’s committed, one of humanity’s oldest…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats…
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test. A…
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s…
Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern…
The first part of this two part essay, inspired by the multi authored Twenty Theses for Liberation, urged the need for flexible, continually…
Leticia Ortega de Ceballos sleeps in her car during weekdays, enabling her to work two housekeeping jobs, one at the Loews Hollywood…
American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation. Children…
On 3 October, the Indian state launched the biggest crackdown on the press since independence. 46 journalists and their families were woken…
Washington, D.C. – A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the…
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not…
