Tax Day and War Resistance, Philip Berrigan Style
Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is dreaded. No one likes surrendering their hard-earned cash. But rather than a...
View ArticleInside Yemen’s Capture of Israel’s Galaxy Leader Ship
In November, Yemen’s Ansar Allah captured the Galaxy Leader, a cargo ship owned by Abraham Ungar, an Israeli billionaire with links to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. Images of the daring raid went...
View ArticleINVESTIGATION: The Palestinian Struggle for Labor Rights in Israel
Hatem Abu Ziadeh’s face beams with pride as he recounts how several years ago his Israeli employer in one of Israel’s illegal settlements was forced to give him his job back after he was fired for...
View ArticleWorld Court Ordered Israel to Allow Aid Into Gaza But Failed to Order Ceasefire
On March 25, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2728, which “demands” an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. That same day, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
View Article“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza...
We speak with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about Israel’s ongoing attacks against aid workers in the Gaza Strip. Israel has admitted it killed seven volunteers with...
View ArticleU.S. Smear Campaign Against AMLO Backfires: Hated by Media, Loved in Polls
As Mexico prepares for its next presidential election in June, the U.S. corporate-owned media is working overtime to smear the outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his popular...
View ArticleThe Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
View ArticleThe Many Ways Canada Could Send A Message To Israel
In a first, Parliament spent a full day debating a motion on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The March 18 opposition day motion presented by the social democratic NDP called for Canada to recognize...
View ArticleThese Stunning Images Show Palestinian Life Before the Nakba
Review of Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro; foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket, 2024) The photograph almost...
View ArticleZionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World
Born in Israel, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a filmmaker, curator, and academic, rejects the identity of Israeli. Before becoming an Israeli at age nineteen, her mother was simply a Palestinian Jew. For much...
View ArticleMore than a Domestic Conflict
When war broke out on 15 April 2023 between Sudan’s military, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary unit of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by...
View ArticleModelling Injustice: South Experts Call for Climate Model Paradigm Shift
A growing body of scientists and experts in the Global South are calling for what they see as “blinkered” and “neo-colonialist” assumptions in climate change mitigation models to be addressed. They...
View ArticleWhat Ecuador’s Lawless Assault on Mexico Means
The U.S. puppet in Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa, is on quite a roll. First Mexico severs diplomatic relations with Ecuador, after cops storm the Mexican embassy on April 5 to arrest former vice...
View ArticleColonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic Republic...
View Article5 Reasons Why What Congress Just Did Does Not Help Ukraine
You may have heard that the U.S. Congress is finally doing the decent, moral, liberal, democratic, Democratic thing and aiding Ukraine. You may believe, as pretty much everyone I ask tells me, that...
View ArticleDebt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way
Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the...
View ArticleEurope’s Indifference to Rwanda’s Atrocities is Costing Congolese Lives
In April 2012, a group of largely Tutsi Congolese military officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mutinied and crossed the border into Rwanda, where they announced the creation of a new...
View ArticlePortugal’s Carnation Revolution, Fifty Years Later
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy back to Portugal after 48 years of dictatorship. The analysis of...
View ArticleElites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
View Article‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A...
BT’s Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is a threat to humanity.
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