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Richard Eskow

Richard Eskow

Los Angeles Times

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Netanyahu’s Visit Is Kamala’s First Challenge; It’s Also an Opportunity

22.07.2024 3

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Requiem for a President

It’s time for someone to write the final scene and tell us how this story ends.

21.07.2024 8

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

The US Must Declare Independence From Political Idolatry

The electorate’s widespread disillusionment with democracy is an indictment of our current system, but it’s also an opportunity to speak to...

05.07.2024 20

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Grieving the Family Cat in a Painfully Violent World

I’ve been a little reluctant to admit how much I’ve grieved. Who am I to mourn so much for one small creature?

18.06.2024 6

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Why the Senate Must Reject the Dangerous Antisemitism Awareness Act

The bill could be used to crush legitimate debate about Israel, its policies, and American policies toward it—policies that have given rise to one...

13.06.2024 6

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Western Leaders Are Exploiting Yesterday’s Genocide to Commit Another Today

U.S. political and media elites are—shrewdly, if cruelly—re-traumatizing Jews for the most cynical reason imaginable: to help them aid and abet...

07.06.2024 9

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

These University Presidents Aren’t Leaders—They’re Lackeys

11.05.2024 60

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Richard Eskow

Antisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters

The people who make, report, and teach history should take note: it has never been kind to those who spread Big Lies. This time will be no different.

02.05.2024 10

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

We Owe Student Protesters Our Gratitude

These students are on the front line in a conflict between global forces, a conflict that most of us have yet to fully grasp.

28.04.2024 10

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

A Message to AIPAC: Only Gangs Kill Witnesses

If the Israeli government was really the victim of widespread lying, it wouldn’t be killing and arresting the brave journalists who are there to...

01.04.2024 10

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Baltimore Drive-By: The Bridge, the City, and Infrastructural Racism

As we remember those who lost their lives in the bridge disaster, let's not forget the people who are killed by structural violence every day in...

31.03.2024 7

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

The Democrats’ ‘Aid Package’ Will Accelerate Gaza Genocide

Although Democrats coyly describe its Israeli aid as “security assistance,” its real purpose is to reload a massive killing machine

16.03.2024 6

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Theatre of Cruelty—And Its Double: From Aaron Bushnell to Biden's Gaza Airdrop

The real purpose of this spectacle was to deliver votes for the president, not meals for the starving.

04.03.2024 50

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

What Ants Can Teach Us About Empathy

The lie of natural selection overlooks the truth of survival through cooperation.

26.02.2024 8

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

'History Is Watching'? You Bet It Is, Mr. President.

10 reasons why House progressives must vote no on this anti-humanitarian bill that will cost countless lives and boundless harm in Gaza and beyond.

16.02.2024 10

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Social Security: Nikki Don’t Lose That Number

Fewer than 10% of anybody polled in the last four decades agreed with Nikki Haley that we spend too much on Social Security.

06.02.2024 9

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Why We Also Need a Ceasefire in Ukraine

It's 2024. It's time for less empty cheerleading and more compassionate realism. It's time to call for a ceasefire, end the bloodshed, and...

01.02.2024 20

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

MLK’s Words Strike to the Heart of Crises Unfolding Now

On Dr. King’s birthday, it’s good to honor him, but it’s more important to hear him.

15.01.2024 5

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Ukraine Needs a Cease-Fire, Not Biden’s $50 Billion Escalation

There is a growing gap between the goals of Washington D.C.’s war lobby and the realities on the ground in Ukraine.

30.12.2023 40

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Jesus of Palestine. Jesus of the Gaza Strip

We know how the Christmas story ends. This child becomes a leader, a prophet, the epitome of marginalized humanity: despised, hunted, convicted, and...

24.12.2023 4

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Böll Would Despise What's Been Done to Masha Gessen

Gessen’s real sin was the recognition that the exterminating impulse is not unique to one set of villains and victims.

21.12.2023 10

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow

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