The Ultimate Twosome: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing…
$8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why ‘We Need a Billionaire Income Tax’
"While most Americans predominantly live off the income they earn from a job—income that is taxed all year, every year—the very richest households live lavishly off capital gains that may…
70 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education, Public Schools Still Deeply Segregated
By Erica Frankenberg / The Conversation Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. At…
Amid Fears of Wider War, US Reportedly Drafting Plans to Bomb Yemen
"Biden's support for Israel's Gaza war ties the U.S. to Israel's escalatory cycle that may result in American soldiers dying in yet another Middle East war," warned one analyst.
Ray McGovern: The Imprisonment of the Palestinian People Was Not an Act of God
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube Israel’s current war on Gaza and the Palestinians draws pessimism and hopelessness, reminding two veterans of its…
John Mearsheimer: Genocide in Gaza
By John Mearsheimer / Substack I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.…
The “Transfer” of Palestinians Out of Gaza Is Not a “Voluntary Migration”
A retired IDF leader said Israel’s goal is a humanitarian crisis to make Gaza “a place where no human being can exist.”
Biden Must Not Trade Away the Right to Seek Asylum
What risks being lost in this high-stakes game is a recognition that fundamental human rights are not negotiable.
From Within the US-occupied Nation of Puerto Rico, Solidarity With Palestine Grows
The people of Puerto Rico have been taking to the streets and drawing connections between their struggle against occupation and that of Palestine.
20 Years Too Many, Free Simon Trinidad Now!
By Fight Back! News On January 2, 2004, under the orders of the U.S. government and the CIA, Ecuadorian and Colombian forces kidnapped and arrested Colombian revolutionary Simon Trinidad. 20…
US Drone Strike Kills Iraqi Militia Leader in Baghdad
The Iraqi government condemned the strike as a violation of sovereignty and as 'no different from a terrorist act'
Jewish-Led Protest Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Shuts Down California Capitol
"I will not be a bystander as the Israeli military wages a genocide in Gaza that is fully funded by my own government," said one organizer.
New Jersey’s Failures to Provide for Mentally Ill People in Prison
"No one seems to care about the incarcerated men with mental health issues who bang and scream above my head."
Ohio State University Suspends Student Group for Supporting Palestine
Ohio State University joins a growing list of universities who are clamping down on the movement for Palestine. Yet the movement in Ohio is fighting back.
‘I Cannot Be Quietly Complicit’: Biden Official Resigns Over Gaza Assault
"I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives," wrote Tariq Habash, who worked in the Education Department.