Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Israeli destruction of south Lebanon, with Bint Jbeil having been apparently wiped off the face of the earth, and some of Nabatieh in ruins as Israeli troops besiege it, is only the latest way in which the outside world has shaped this region, as Karim Eid-Sabbagh argued in a fine paper on “A…
Talia Jane for Prism More than 300 people detained inside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center are on a work and hunger strike, demanding that Gov. Mikie Sherrill visit the facility and meet with them. For months, immigrants detained inside the facility have drawn attention to Delaney’s inhumane conditions. They officially launched their strike six days ago…
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder. The living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force in the struggle for sovereignty and genuine freedom. On 11–12 May, at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, French President Emmanuel Macron stood in…
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