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Eric Margolis Palestinians: 70 Years of Suffering The Trump administration is now an extension of Israel’s hard right Likud Party. Read more |
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Fred Wertheimer, Norman Eisen Trump Has Given Us the Ultimate Chinese Import: American Princelings Princelings Donald Jr. and Eric run President Trump’s worldwide business enterprises, although the president still owns and profits from his businesses Read more |
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Laura Flanders After Brexit, Blexit: Putting Your Money Where Your Life Is In the heart of the world’s financial capital, the Public Bank NYC coalition is pushing for a municipal public city bank—one owned and operated in the public interest Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Peace in Korea Is Still Possible — Just Without America If some or all of these nations even make hesitant moves toward such a thing, it will demonstrate how Trump's flailing, herky-jerky incompetence is dissolving America's entire post-WWII foreign policy framework. Read more |
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Mehreen Kasana Finance Giant BlackRock Faces Activist Heat for Investing in the War Machine Divest from the war machine, protesters tell the private equity giant Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Pompeo’s Iran Speech a Prelude to War? Pompeo made his demands knowing they would be rejected. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Israel’s Mass Shootings You can always depend on the American public to scapegoat Israel’s war crimes, blame them on anything and everyone but Israel's bigoted death machine Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Amazon Battles Seattle—and Loses In the game of chicken between democracy and corporatism, Seattle demonstrated that people power can prevail. Read more |
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Justin Anderson Focus on Pruitt’s Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump Most of the administration’s actions no doubt come as a result of the cozy relationship between the fossil fuel industry and the Trump cabinet. Read more |
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Satoko Oka Norimatsu Inter-Korea Summit: How One Japanese Views The Japanese Mainstream Attitudes toward the North-South Detente on the Peninsula The core of the Korean nuclear threat undoubtedly lies with the United States, who first brought nuclear weapons to the Peninsula in 1958. Read more |
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Faiza Patel, Rachel Levinson-Waldman Facebook and Free Speech Facebook should adopt a policy of extreme transparency. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Trump Has Plenty of Accomplices in His Reckless Energy Policies The nation’s entrenched fossil-nuclear corporate elites are more focused on propping up the industries of the past than embracing the technologies of the future. Read more |
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Brett Fleishman HSBC Divests From New Coal Projects Everywhere... Except Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam Yet another example of t he fossil fuel industry's long history of exploiting poverty as a cover for destructive development. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats? Seeing an NC governor, of any party, standing with organized teachers during a strike action is unprecedented. Read more |
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Faiza Patel Does TSA Really Need a Watch List for “Unruly” Travelers? The Transportation Security Administration's new "secret watch list" is purportedly meant to protect airport security screeners. But it could easily turn into an "enemies list" of people the TSA will target at airports. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Civil Society To Justin Trudeau: “The Time For Investment in New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Is Over” “The Trudeau federal government has made itself a pathetic hostage to a Texas-based pipeline company known for its cheapness and debt.” Read more |
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Hugh Handeyside We’re Demanding The Government Come Clean on Surveillance of Social Media Our government should be fostering, not undermining, our ability to maintain obscurity in our online personas for multiple reasons, including individual privacy, security, and consumer protection. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Trump Drones On How unpiloted aircraft expand the war on terror. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Audit The Outlaw Military Budget Draining America’s Necessities The Pentagon has been in violation of that Congressional directive since 1992 but keeps promising that an audit is coming. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Empowering Kids Instead Of Arming Them The more guns out there, the more dangerous the world is. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher The Afghanistan War and the California Senate Race Kevin DeLeon is asserting that the Afghanistan War is a bad idea today – when there’s virtually no one else talking about it. Read more |
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Razan Azzarkani America’s Treatment of Palestinians Has Grown Horrendously Cruel No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Big Pay Gaps Are Bad for Business Would you do your best work for a CEO who pulls in 5,000 times your own salary? Read more |
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Saurav Sarkar Hundreds of Poor People's Campaign Activists Got Themselves Arrested for Racial Justice While some white people were calling the cops on people of color, others joined them — and members of every other community — in a huge sweep of actions in state capitals. Read more |
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Michael Winship Point The Trigger Finger at Everyone Else No matter what the gun rights advocates say, all these deaths are about a country with far too many guns, plain and simple, full stop. Read more |
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Anna Bailey Trump Policies Threaten Housing-Health Integration for People With Mental Health Conditions The stress of housing instability and homelessness can worsen health problems like mental illness and make it harder for people to get treatment. Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy While Few Notice, The Supreme Court Is Making Corporate Human Rights Abuses Easier Though it largely flew under the radar, the SCOTUS decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank is a large step backwards in the fight for human rights. Read more |
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Matt Cagle, Nicole Ozer Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology Amazon’s Rekognition raises profound civil liberties and civil rights concerns. Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy Golden Shower Diplomacy and the Hidden Meaning of American Decline Preserving the positive legacy of an empire in decline Read more |
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Andrea Dutton, Michael Mann Water’s Rising Because It’s Getting Warmer That research shows that sea levels are rising and human-caused climate change is the cause. Don’t just take our word for it; help yourself to the mountain of scientific literature showing as much. Read more |
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Patty Lovera A Food Revolution: The Climate Case for a Factory Farm Ban We need to take bold action over the next decade in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This includes tackling the greenhouse gas emissions created by food production, including meat and other animal products. Read more |
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Adele M. Stan Trump’s Authoritarian Grip Tightens Changes implemented by the administration on every front add up to a frightening pattern. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Scourging Yemen “There is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians." Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica Rationalizing Genocide It’s long past time for the United States to end its complicity with Israeli war crimes. Read more |
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Robert Dodge At The Brink of Nuclear War, Who Will Lead? The American people when provided with the facts about nuclear weapons overwhelmingly oppose their use and want to see them eliminated. Read more |
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Andy Rowell “We Are Going to Not Allow Kinder Morgan to Finish This Pipeline” Not only is the growing resistance from the local community, indigenous rights groups and local and US-based environmental groups to the pipeline, but even the financial community thinks the economics and changing energy market is stacked against it. Read more |
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Juan Cole How Pompeo’s “Severest Sanctions” on Iran Will Backfire Pompeo, a Kansas oil man backed by the Koch brothers, knows little about the world and is among the worst prepared secretaries of state in American history. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Real Corruption: Mick “Pay and We’ll Talk” Mulvaney When it comes to this kind of deep corruption, which perverts government’s role for the benefit of the privileged few, Mick Mulvaney is a master of the art. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence When a venture that’s supposedly meant to curb "foreign influence" is bankrolled by a number of foreign countries—including the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Norway, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea—one would think that would be worth noting. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Life or Death for the FCC Let's face it, the FCC's mission to regulate communications media in the public interest, has been beaten to a pulp by politicians of both parties over the last two decades Read more |
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Michael Sainato The False Narratives Used to Try to Derail Bernie's Army The most damning criticisms of Our Revolution in a new Politico piece are unquoted and unsourced Read more |
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Bill Blum Trump, the NRA, Mass Shootings and the American Culture of Death We are awash in an ocean of firearms and killers armed to the teeth. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit A Vile Act of Inhumanity: Splitting Up Families like the Slave Traders Did More than 90 percent of deportation attempts in the first two months of the Trump administration were against people who had committed no crime other than to be living in the country without required documents. Read more |
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Mike Males The Shooting Statistics Are Clear: It’s Not Schools That Are Dangerous Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students’ gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school. Read more |
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John Feffer Playing Trump for Peace How the Korean peninsula could become a bright spot in a world gone mad. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Coming Collapse It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness? "Whiteness itself as a term of racial and class privilege and exclusion has been constructed and has a storied history. Its meaning has changed radically over time." Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Mind-Boggling Corruption of Trump Inc. "It turns out that when you stop enforcing the law against rich people, a seething plasma of corruption tends to engulf the national political system." Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Stephen Smith on the Corporate Domination of West Virginia "For generations, corporations, often with the help of the federal government, have done a really good job of systematically robbing our people and our communities of our economic wealth...It's a pattern of abuse." Read more |
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Robert Reich How to End Partisan Gerrymandering "Unlike racial gerrymandering, partisan gerrymandering would seem to violate the First Amendment because it punishes some voters for their political views." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Innocent Infants "Since October 2016, more than 700 children have been taken from those illegally entering the United States...Of the children taken, more than 100 children were less than 4 years of age." Read more |
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Gary Olson More Thoughts on the Poor People’s Campaign "The primary reason I joined the Poor People’s Campaign and have encouraged others to do so is its potential for realizing basic structural change." Read more |
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Libby Schaaf No, Mr. President, I Am Not Obstructing Justice "As mayor, it’s my duty to protect my residents—especially when our most vulnerable are unjustly attacked." Read more |
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Ernesto Falcon The Path to Victory on Net Neutrality in the House of Representatives While many will think that the uphill battle in the House makes net neutrality a lost cause, that is simply not true. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas The Surprising Popularity of ‘Far Left’ Policies Supposedly radical ideals are actually embraced by large swaths of the American public Read more |
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George Capaccio Bloody Monday Every F-ing Day of the Week The blood of our dead and dying brothers and sisters in Palestine covers the tiny hands of Donald Trump and his bloody-minded pal Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more |
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Bob Burnett All the President’s Men: John Bolton Trump's foreign policy is "personal" while Bolton's is deeply ideological. Read more |
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Brian Wakamo The Post Office as an Alternative to Shady Private Banks A Senate bill would fill a void in many rural and low-income communities by reintroducing low-cost lending at neighborhood post offices. Read more |
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Bernard Goldstein Why the EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Proposal Alarms Public Health Experts Pruitt is moving to rid the EPA of the science needed for effective regulation. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Blaming the Victims of Israel’s Gaza Massacre To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads. Read more |
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Kanya Bennett Congress Wants More Protections for Cops While Ignoring Police Reform Giving hate crimes protections to police is “profoundly inappropriate” as “hate crimes laws are intended to extend protection to historically persecuted groups.” Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump: Making America Dread Again “Let the buyer beware.” Read more |
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Miles Kampf-Lassin Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment On Tuesday, insurgent challengers beat out their opponents in races across the country by running on bold left platforms. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trump Just Named a Consumer Watchdog Who Will Play Dead The best people, volume infinity. Read more |
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Samah Jabr Palestine: Our History Haunts Our Future When Palestinians fight for their national rights, we are called “terrorists.” When we demonstrate in non-violent ways and are killed by the occupying forces, we are called “suicidal”. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan 50 Years Later, the Spirit of the Catonsville Nine Lives On It was nine people stepping out of comfort and into commission and conscience. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Catonsville Nine, 50 Years Later A reporter asked, “What are your future plans?” Smiling, in handcuffs, Berrigan flashed a peace sign and shouted, “Resistance!” Read more |
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Karen Greenberg Dismantling Democracy, One Word at a Time Down the memory hole. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Sorry, Uneducated Central Americans, John Kelly Says This Country is Closed The ignorant racism that permeates national decision-making. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Real Corruption: The Scott Pruitt Story The real reason Scott Pruitt should be removed from office is because he is causing lasting harm to current and future generations. Read more |
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Juan Cole When Trump Calls Latinos “Animals,” Should We Hear Echoes of the SS’s Undermen? Denigrating people as less than human is a step toward permitting their elimination. Read more |
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John Atcheson You Would Think It Would Be Impossible to Lose Ground to Trump and the GOP—But You'd Be Wrong For several weeks Democrats have been slipping in polls, and now they are virtually dead even with Republicans. Even Trump is getting more popular. Read more |
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Dina Radtke Trump-Obsessed Media Outlets Again Ignore Critical Net Neutrality News As Democratic senators made a last-ditch effort to salvage net neutrality rules — which passed in the Senate — coverage by many media outlets is still nowhere to be found. Read more |
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Katharine Trendacosta The Senate Voted to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Now Tell the House to Do the Same Despite the fact that millions of Americans of all stripes want to keep net neutrality, the number of House members supporting the Congressional Review Act (CRA) there languishes below the 218 number needed to pass. Read more |
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Omar Barghouti Boycott is Best Response to Illegal Israeli Killings Ireland and EU Complicit in enabling Israel’s violations of Palestinian’s rights. Read more |
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Kate Yoder We’re Ignoring the Biggest Pruitt Scandal: He’s Making Pollution Worse Since Pruitt’s LinkedIn profile calls him the “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” I guess he’s just doing his job. Read more |
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John Feffer The Bolton Administration Has Already Begun The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks. Read more |
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Norah Vawter Pipeline Outrage Is a Human Issue, Not a Political Issue The fight against pipelines can unite progressives and libertarians, city folk and country folk. Read more |
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Adam Johnson NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict Israel’s support from the US Congress borders on sycophantic. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre The Moral Revolution America Needs Poor people of all races are shifting the national conversation on poverty and race from "right vs. left" to "right vs. wrong." Read more |
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Renee Parsons Trump - Israel Collusion on Syria “I thank our great friend the United States, which has invested $6.5 billion to defend the skies of the State of Israel.” Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Rep. Keith Ellison Takes a Hard Look at New CEO Pay Ratio Data The Minnesota lawmaker has been a champion of efforts to defend the disclosure reform from Republican attack. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook West’s Failure to Act Will Be Cause of the Next Gaza Massacre There are no calls for embargos on sales of arms, no demands for war crimes investigations, no threats of trade sanctions. Read more |
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Gabe Murphy U.S. War Footing in Korea Remains Major Roadblock to Peace Many have rightly voiced fears that the Trump administration’s plan may be to come to the table with North Korea with unrealistic, maximalist demands so that it can claim that it tried diplomacy and diplomacy failed, making it easier to build a case for war. Read more |
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Brian Tashman The Government Has Information on Gina Haspel’s Torture Record. The Senate Can’t See It. Every American should be wary of what Sen. Wyden has described as an “A to Z cover-up” of Haspel’s torture record. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell Read more |
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Richard Silverstein Jerusalem: This Alliance of Israeli and American Extremism Will Spark Cycle of Revenge Israel has lit a powder keg of provocation and deliberately so. Read more |
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Yara Hawari Seventy Years of Palestinian Resistance Since the Establishment of the State of Israel The brutal cost that Palestinians in Gaza are paying is because of their resistance to Israel- a resistance that began over seven decades ago. Read more |
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Yumna Patel, Akram Al-Wa'ra ‘America Crossed Every Red Line’: Palestinians in Jerusalem Protest New US Embassy “Their celebration today shows how brutal and monstrous they are, and the racism that they practice in this land.” Read more |
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Juan Cole Can Palestinians Be Killed? Can Israelis Kill Them? Or Do They Only “Die”? That is why Palestinians in Gaza are rallying at the fence and insisting that the world will not be allowed to forget two million stateless persons trapped and under blockade in an Israeli concentration camp. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud My Home is Beit Daras: Our Lingering Nakba The tragic way that Beit Daras was conquered by invading Zionist forces has left behind blood stains and emotional scars that have never healed. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition? All of us who have participated in one or another aspect of what has come to be known as the Trump Resistance should think about how we should be connecting with the new Poor People’s Campaign—and with each other. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Kindly 87-Year-Old Man Who Took All the Schoolkids' Lunch Money There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it. Read more |
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James Cogan Ecuador Hints It May Hand Over Assange Julian Assange has remained incommunicado for more than six weeks and as his health deteriorates many of his former supporters have remained silent too. Read more |
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Kamel Hawwash US Embassy Move is a Day of Mourning and a Warning As Trump celebrates the relocation of his country’s embassy to Jerusalem, Israel should recognise that the next generation of Palestinians will never stop fighting back. Read more |
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Kitty Block Horrible Hundred Report Highlights Problem Puppy Mills in the U.S. We have seen other troubling moves from the USDA in recent months, including a potentially disastrous proposal to allow third party groups to inspect puppy mills and other types of animal dealers. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Israel Repurposes Nakba Myths to Justify Today’s Massacre in Gaza The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered and their children to be starved. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Killing Gaza Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen’s powerful new film, “Killing Gaza,” offers an unflinching and moving portrait of a people largely abandoned by the outside world, struggling to endure. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War The road to hell in the Middle East. Read more |
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Walter Shaub, Adav Noti Out of Loopholes, Trump Must Disclose Stormy Daniels Debt in Next Financial Report Trump is out of loopholes. After failing to disclose his Stormy Daniels debt to Michael Cohen, he needs to come clean in his next financial report on that debt and any others he may have left out. Read more |