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Israel failed in Gaza because the population of Gaza proved unbreakable. Such notions are often neglected in mainstream political discussions,...
Donald Trump is carrying through his campaign pledge in threatening every country in the world with big taxes on the goods we import (tariffs) from...
Life in the United States has never been better — if your personal fortune stretches well into the thousands of millions. Our new year has dawned...
Six cities and a county have initiated social housing programs to provide permanently affordable, publicly owned, and controlled housing for lower...
Palestine Through the Lens: A Visual Chronicle of a Vibrant Society (1898-1946) This is a review of an exceptional photobook, Images of Palestine (...
The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January. Meanwhile, Israel has...
The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat generated by burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Climate change caused by greenhouse gas...
Wiles is not only unable or unwilling to tell the president “No,” but there are too many influential voices around Trump who appear successful...
It was predicted and warned about, as the Zionist movement grew, that the effect of creating a Jewish nation-state would be Jews being seen in the...
Let’s be clear. The Trump Administration’s action last night to suspend all federal grants and loans will have a devastating impact on the health...
It’s time to declare war on the rich. We need to build an organized, unified movement of working people to systematically take on the rich who...
A lawless madman, with cunning political skills, is at large in our White House. After less than five days in office, he has set a record for...
“Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the climate...
Trump’s proposals to radically transform much of US economic and social policy are being rapidly rolled out during the first week of his...
One of the first Executive Orders from the Trump Whitehouse is to reverse environmental protections for federal lands in Alaska and hasten, expand,...
Emilia Perez, a genre-defying film directed by Frenchman Jacques Audiard, has been generating a lot of buzz especially after nabbing a whopping 13...
Trump has threatened Mexico in two ways. First of all is his immigration program of exporting illegal immigrants and permitting short-term work...
Over more than a thousand years, Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling...
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military...
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It’s just another day in the life of an IDF soldier a sunny, beautiful day He got up early as usual and had his favorite breakfast lovingly...
After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: At least 47,161...
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Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. Mainstream media strives to coat this nonsense in a veneer of rationality by citing Greenland’s rare earth...
There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 American Carnage diatribe...
The homeless are a class apart, out American untouchables. It goes without saying that in America the homeless have no right to shelter. They also...
Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the...
We’ve entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. “They’re eating cats, they’re eating dogs,” Trump had exclaimed frantically, echoing...
Climate change deniers are experiencing a renaissance, especially on social media. In concert with this upswing in denialism, home insurance...
Our concern with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump underplays the central question of his presidency: Is Donald Trump...
On January 12, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, speaking to 350,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza, outlined her...
A wise man once told me that when the pendulum gets to the bottom it can only go up. “But how will I know it has gotten to the bottom?” I...
A golem is a figure from Jewish folklore. An entity fashioned from dirt and mud, endowed with a life force by some sinister mystic or magician and...
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