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Those who have primary responsibility for the multiple crises that imperil us today are hard at work, relentlessly, to ensure that the system they created, and from which they have greatly benefited, will endure
More than 1,000 former and current members of J Street U are calling on the group’s leadership to get behind a legislative effort to condition funding of the state of Israel if it goes forward with illegally annexing Palestinian territory
It is abundantly clear that, for this president, the health and survival of the people also come a distant second to his electioneering
A Review of Mike Avery’s “The Cooperating Witness”
The letter is a turning point in US-Israeli relations since 1967, during which the American public and political elite has been happy to support Israeli colonization of the Palestinians
To fully grasp the rise of the new authoritarians, we must engage with psychoanalysis as well as economics
Supporting Israel and Zionism is totally incompatible with any quest for justice. All the slick spin and PR campaigns cannot hide this simple truth: You can’t be an anti-racist racist.
This debate has been lurking for years as anti-establishment fervor and political realignment emerge — not just in the U.S. but across the democratic world
Poor fig is just a lowly fruit, But fig leaves earn reward; They hid our shame in Paradise, And now they hide our fraud. Fig leaves from colonial laws Help put away Civil society terrorists Intent to have their say. Fig leaves from man-made homilies Keep women-folk in trim; Thus, order is sustained Read more…
“I can’t forget his look. His eyes. The way he was looking at everybody, like he was disgusted and hated everybody.” It seemed that no matter what you do, Blue said, “they’re going to treat you like an enemy.”
Co-chairs of California’s huge delegation, Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee, have an opportunity to directly challenge the Democratic Party’s default embrace of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism”
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. Sunday, thanks to the dogged work of his laywer, he was freed.
You don’t need to lionize Bolton, a far-right hawk, to understand what makes his observations about Trump valuable
The world needs a New Deal to counter levels of unemployment and inequality last seen in the Great Depression
Moving money from militarism to other investments can be economically beneficial, and certainly all necessary steps to assist people in the transition would cost a small fraction of the money involved.
The best prospect for today is that we move from outrage at police violence and racist and social deprivation to positive demands for changes that improve the lot of the suffering but that also pave the way for still greater changes
Interview on the “absolutely unprecedented scope and scale” of the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and why Trump’s refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him “the worst criminal in human history.”
Inerview on the vital role of Black women leaders in the success of Black political movements in modern US history
Their relentless rush to hit the pay jackpot is fueling the calamities that confront us
Of all the streets that could be renamed, one stands out as a reminder that the consolidation of finance capital is built upon America’s ethnic cleansing
If the private sector is not spending enough to fully employ the workforce, then the public sector has to fill the gap. In this case, we don’t need to have make-work jobs, we have enormous unmet needs
It is no exaggeration to call Teddy Roosevelt’s racial views Hitlerian. And while it’s extremely unpopular to say so, Nazism was not just rhetorically similar to European colonialism, it was an outgrowth and logical culmination of it