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Genocide

On 'Conflict', 'Peace' and 'Genocide': Time for New Language on Palestine and Israel

Without proper, accurate and courageous understanding and depiction of Israeli settler colonialism and Palestinian resistance to it, Israel will continue to oppress Palestinians while presenting itself as the victim.
Ramzy Baroud ·
Gaza
Hundreds of people are gathered in front of the general consulate of Israel to demonstrate in support of Palestinians in San Francisco, California, United States on May 18, 2021. Protests are taking place worldwide against Israelâs recent escalated actions towards the Palestinian people. (Photo: Burak Arik/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is This the Beginning of the End of Israeli Apartheid?

Richard Falk ·

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image depicts death) Relatives mourn next to the bodies who were killed in Israeli attack carried out to home of Palestinian Abu Khatab Family living in Al-Shati Camp in Gaza Strip, at the morgue of Shifa Hospital on May 15, 2021, in Gaza City, Gaza. 7 people, including 5 children, 2 women killed in Israeli attack on Gaza Strip. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel Is Wiping Out Entire Palestinian Families on Purpose

Amira Hass ·

A protester holds a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on February 8, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma

Ramzy Baroud ·

Anishinaabe activist Winona LaDuke (center) stands with other water protectors against construction of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota on Jan. 9. (Photo: KEREM YUCEK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Indigenous Water Protectors Fight to Stop Construction of the "Pandemic Pipeline"

Clara Liang ·

Indonesian Defense Minister and former Kopassus general Prabowo Subianto during a visit to Natuna air base on February 5, 2020. (Photo: Muhammad Fahmi Dolli/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

Critics Call Upcoming Pentagon Visit by Indonesian Defense Minister—Accused of Horrific Atrocities—a 'Human Rights Catastrophe'

Prabowo Subianto—who led a notorious commando unit implicated in genocidal violence—was invited to Washington by Defense Secretary Mark Esper. 

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas was no discovery at all. (Photo: Victoria Pickering/flickr/cc)

It's Past Time to Abolish Columbus Day and Establish Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States

The holiday is a monument to white supremacy, and it’s time we abolished it.

Edgar Villanueva ·

The one thing he definitely appears to have noticed is that this virus most easily kills elderly Social Security voters and Black and Brown people. (Photo: Getty)

Trump "Never Noticed" a Modern-Day American Genocide

It appears Trump is trying to spread the virus as far and wide as possible.

Thom Hartmann ·

Lawmakers Demand Probe into 'Horrifying' Allegations of Neglect, Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center

"These allegations are part of a larger pattern of reproductive injustices conducted by ICE officials."

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer ·

'Forced Sterilization Is Genocide': Rights Groups Condemn ICE Amid Whistleblower's Allegations of Unwarranted Hysterectomies

The complaint alleges numerous health and safety violations in regards to Covid-19 in addition a disturbing number of procedures performed on detained women.

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer ·

President Donald Trump holds a press conference announcing Vice President Mike Pence will lead the effort combating the spread of the coronavirus in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 2020. (Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is Trump a Murderer?

The Woodward tapes provide the evidence: the president committed political genocide.

Mike Lofgren ·

Yeah, yeah, global warming, but what’s that compared to profit? (Photo: @MoBetter_B/Twitter)

We’re So Certain of Our Colonialist Selves That We’re Destroying Our Own Planet

The global movement to end racism must turn its attention to the world’s most vulnerable cultures—the indigenous people of Planet Earth—who are still enduring the forces of colonial genocide.

Robert C. Koehler ·

The military is an institution of American society, and as such its origins and development have been centrally influenced by the political economy of U.S. capitalism. (Photo: Shutterstock)

The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War

The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars.

Walden Bello ·

In the American Southwest, where the Navajo Nation and its 350,000 people sprawl across several states, the number of known COVID-19 cases—closing in on 4,000—and a death toll of 119 people has become one of the country’s worst hot spots, and the caseload is continuing to rise. (Photo by: Bernard Friel/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Native Americans Wage War Against New Virus and a 400-year Disease of Bias, Ignorance

"We’re helping other nations with billions in aid, and the Navajo are still waiting on aid."

Will Bunch ·

Many mistakenly believe the U.N. already possesses such a force — the “U.N. Blue Helmets.” (Photo: Flickr)

An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity

A UNRDF would give individual citizens all around the world the ability to volunteer to do more than just “serve their countries.” It would give them the opportunity to serve humanity.

Tad Daley ·