Bob’s List: May 25, 2025
Gaza continues to get hit, Chinese students worry for their future and more on Bob's List today.
The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years
By Greg Grandin / TomDispatch Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub…
Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A genetic history study of Spain by Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia et al. in Genome Biology eloquently confirms the story of…
Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on ‘Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time’
Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté, introduced by award-winning journalist Aaron Maté, discuss the "moral issue of our time," Gaza.
Norman Finkelstein Reacts To Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting | Useful Idiots
By Katie Halper and Aaron Maté / Useful Idiots
Bob’s List: May 24, 2025
Gaza continues to get hit, Chinese students worry for their future and more on Bob's List today.
How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.
Lina Khan Calls Republican FTC’s Decision to Drop PepsiCo Suit ‘Disturbing Behavior’
"This meritless dismissal is a win for monopolists and billionaires," said the senior legal counsel for the American Economic Liberties Project.
Elias Rodriguez’s Murderous Gift to Israel
The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder…
Staging for a Strike? US Quietly Moves Bombers as Israel Prepares to Hit Iran
US forces are being positioned, red lines drawn, and the targets selected. As Israel threatens Iran, Washington may already be backing the play.
Republican Calls for Gaza to Be ‘Nuked’ Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rep. Randy Fine said “the Palestinian cause” is “evil” in stunning remarks on Fox News.
Bob’s List: May 23, 2025
Trump bars students from enrolling at Harvard, more suffering in Gaza and more on Bob's List today.
Students Demand Action: TU Berlin Must Cut Ties With Genocide-Enabling Institutions
The Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that…
Six Ways Trump’s Budget Will Hurt Rural America
Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich — at the cost of jobs, health care, and food in rural America.
Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Shot Dead in Washington
The shooter, Elias Rodriguez, chanted 'Free Palestine' as he was detained by police shortly after the killings.