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Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence

“This is the worst I witnessed in my life. No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal.”

A statement signed by 124 groups says the current conflagration is part of a “broader context of Israel’s ongoing policy to forcibly remove Palestinians from their homes through eviction, home demolition, and displacement.”

Open letter from the director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program

Working people need and deserve, instead, a foreign policy based on diplomacy, peace, and international solidarity

It is up to the international media, governments, human rights and grassroots organizations, and communities all over the world to make this story different this time

Israel’s latest assault on Gaza is turning life in the besieged territory into “sheer hell,” aided by U.S. military and diplomatic support

Over more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Mr. Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism

The Biden administration has finally backed a patent waiver for Covid vaccines, but it’s already too late for Argentina and countless countries across the Global South

Close to four hundred districts in India now have a positivity rate of twenty percent or more

The power and wealth of the biggest banks and financial institutions is one of the most under-reported issues in society

The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates

People power is changing the story

Here’s What You Need to Know

From Alaska to Israel, lone rebels are sitting in the streets. They are facing not only arrest but oncoming traffic, baffled onlookers, and potentially aggressive drivers

The longest active picket line in the US is in Worcester, Massachusetts, where over 700 union nurses are entering their third month on strike. Their chief demand: safe staffing for patients

George Floyd’s death penetrated the American imagination. Now Palestinians fight for the right to be human. Will the world see them?

Wisconsin’s legislature is largely dominated by Republican minded bodies, who blatantly disregard Black, Brown and Indigenous communities

All over the country nurses are fighting to make sure hospital staff get needed personal protective equipment and safe staffing

Another comrade appeared in court today on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder

“You can’t be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you’re going to really fight for working families.”

The United States won’t achieve herd immunity because a significant portion of the herd is suffering from mad cow disease

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact

The facts are too scarce, and the stakes are too high, to jump to conclusions. We cannot flourish as a society if a single accusation out of the blue upends an election overnight and ruins a 30-year career in politics

Hunger can’t be eradicated by devotion. Only social action can eradicate hunger and hopelessness

How the Media Has Misreported COVID’s Toll in Poorer Nations

The U.S. prison system is a crime against humanity. Here are just some of the reasons why.

Interview on how the U.S. is a proudly and shamelessly corrupt oligarchy, reforming impeachment and how people can experience something bordering on democracy by engaging with their local governments

The will of a colonized people for liberation and self-determination cannot be crushed by military force, by siege, or any new technology from Israel’s innovative labs of oppression

Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Zionist fears of Democratic dissent have turned stale for years. The latest House speeches show that’s changing

What could result is a new type of Palestinian mobilization, one that belies the idea of a fragmented people and unites all Palestinian people in a joint struggle

The New York Democrat criticized Biden for failing to acknowledge “what precipitated this cycle of violence—namely, the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al-Aqsa.”

Dabney Friedrich’s 6,900-square-foot house boasts cathedral ceilings and two kitchens

The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police have unfairly “tarred” Krasner for his reforms

To understand the roots of the current escalation, one must examine the U.S.-backed, foundational Israeli government policy of using strategies of “terror and expulsion” in an effort to expand its territory by killing and displacing Palestinians

“The violence in Israel and Gaza must end,” said U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “Congress and President Biden must act immediately. No one wins with war.”

Israel’s war cabinet approved plans to broaden the bombing campaign, which has killed dozens of Palestinians so far, including children

Netanyahu is determined to prevent a different regime from emerging in this country, regardless of how many Israelis he puts at risk, or how many Palestinians are killed

In a desperate attempt to cling to power, Netanyahu is dragging us into war, into killing and suffering and pain for both people

The big surprise of the past week in Israel has been the outbreak of protests and solidarity with the Palestinian cause on the part of the Palestinian-Israelis in the country’s mixed cities such as Lod, Ramla and Acre

From the repression in Sheikh Jarrah to the bombing of Gaza, the Israeli government has opted to escalate its brutality toward Palestinians

For too long, Americans—and many heads of state across the Arab world—have looked away from the racist and violent environment that Palestinians have to endure every day

Republicans, conservatives, and business interests are using the fact of recent rising prices to attack legislative proposals to increase government spending

It is time to raise and expand the fight for housing as a human right

The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcomegeo

PBS Series “Philly D.A.” Follows Larry Krasner’s Efforts

Is the growing cooperation between the Labor Party and the GreenLeft in the Netherlands a model that the European left can follow?

“Untitled (drone)” is meant to animate questions “about the use of drones, surveillance, and targeted killings in places far and near”

As long as there are income disparities and class disparities in Colombia, and the pandemic continues to put people in financial jeopardy, the unrest will likely continue