Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
In her autobiography, Shakur wrote: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We…
Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database
What we’re seeing at Alligator Alcatraz is basically a new model of immigration detention, where a state-run facility is operating as an extrajudicial black site, completely outside of the previous…
No Secret Police Act: CA Gov. Signs Law Against Masked ICE Agents; Feds Say They Won’t Comply
“What this law is trying to do is to take us back from the era of routine masking based on completely foundationless officer claims of fear."
Trump Expands ‘Authoritarian’ Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media ‘Illegal’: Jameel Jaffer
“The president really is using every lever at his disposal to silence, suppress and even imprison his political enemies.”
‘I’m Not Going to Give Up’: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home
“The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.”
‘The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk’: Journalist Chris Hedges on the Weaponization of Kirk’s Killing
“We’ve already seen an assault on civil liberties, on institutions, universities, the media, that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will now be accelerated.”
Nepal’s ‘Gen Z Protests’ Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality
“We really are counting on the new generation, the Gen Z, who led the protests, to take us forward.”
‘America Is Bankrolling This’: Jeremy Scahill on Israel’s Bombing of Hamas in Qatar
“The very Palestinians who are trying to negotiate some form of a truce with Israel, Israel then targets them and kills them,” says Scahill.
ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean
“It is disturbing to see hundreds of people arrested, shackled at their waist and ankles, and loaded into buses and taken to an abusive detention center.”
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the hospital.
Will Russia-Ukraine War End with Diplomacy or on Battlefield? John Mearsheimer vs. Denys Pilash
Mearsheimer says “the sides remain so far apart” when it comes to the possibility of a ceasefire during peace negotiations that “the best outcome would be to settle this war…
Prof. Rashid Khalidi Slams ‘Crushing Repression’ at Columbia, Cancels Course over Trump Settlement
Columbia has accepted values that “are dear to people who want to protect Israel from criticism at all costs while it slaughters people by the hundreds daily,” says Khalidi.
‘Designed as Death Traps’: Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes
“What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland."
‘You Feel Like Your Life Is Over’: HRW Report Exposes Abuses in Trump’s Immigration Jails in Florida
One man said, “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs.”
‘Precisely Designed Mass Starvation’: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find
“I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely…