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Nexus X HumectressI would agree with this only in the sense that the occupied territories are less like the former South African apartheid and more like the Warsaw Ghetto. By Giles Fraser, The Unherd Arnold Schwarzenegger meant well, but there was nonetheless something ill-judged about his borrowing the term Kristallnacht to […]
Krystal Ball reacts to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a building in Gaza containing major media outlets.
“Go back to sleep, Joe” said Bibi. Israel will only change its ways if it experiences intense pressure from the USA (“No change, zero aid”), and that will only happen if there is intense domestic and global pressure on the USA. We need a BDS on steroids, crystal […]
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By Peter T. Quinones “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair How many people do you think actually serve humanity on their jobs? Do you think the grocery store worker realizes the service […]
By Jesse Walker, Reason When Eldridge Cleaver ascended the Marriott Center stage on June 28, 1981, the Black Panther Party wasn’t quite dead. The organization’s last remnants were running an alternative school in Oakland, California, and that final Panther project didn’t peter out until 1982. But Cleaver, who […]
By Philip Giraldi But Biden gives Israel more weapons even while Gaza is bleeding May 18, 2021 An interesting recent article by international lawyer John Whitbeck suggests that the billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel annually is not technically “foreign aid” as the Jewish […]
I’m not a fan of this guy but this is an interesting and, I think, accurate analysis of what is going on with the Republicans. It seems as though the neocons and their allies (neo-Reaganites, superhawks, Never Trumpers, etc.) are pursuing a three-front strategy: colonizing the Democratic Party […]
Israel is bombing Gaza, while extremists ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Ali Abunimah and Rania Khalek join Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, and Anya Parampil to discuss the colonial violence – and indigenous resistance.
By Kim Iversen “Israel has been targeting the press in Gaza in an attempt to cover up their obvious war crimes. They just blew up the building housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. They gave the press an hour to evacuate. Yesterday they blew up a building […]
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Baltimore Jewish Life, Staff Report IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflects criticism of the bombing of media office building in the Gaza Strip. IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflected criticism of the military’s actions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday […]
By Lubna Masarwa, Frank Andrews, Middle East Eye Far-right Israeli groups are planning to mount further attacks against Palestinians in Israel on Thursday night, according to group chat messages seen by MEE, after a night of mob attacks, crackdowns by Israeli security forces and deaths across Israel, the […]
By Joseph Pearce, Imaginative Conservative In one of the great ironies of history, we find socialists and anarchists on the side of the new generation of slave-holders. The workers and wage-slaves of the world are being delivered into the hands of the overlords of the globalist future. These […]
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a major abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade at the majority conservative court.
Whether one agrees with the political views expressed in this article or not, this is an excellent representation of how “the system” is losing legitimacy due to cultural fragmentation. People are increasingly unwilling to accept the outcome of not only elections but also court cases if “their side” […]
By Dan Hitchens, The American Conservative In October 1994, a husband-and-wife startup in Washington state hired its first employee, a computer programmer called Shel Kaphan. Kaphan wasn’t sure about the startup’s business model—selling books on the “worldwide web”—or its name, Cadabra, which sounded a bit too much like […]
The social science evidence is overwhelming that ideologies, political and economic interest groups, subcultures, personality types, and psychological frameworks are replacing traditional categories (race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, etc) as the basis of conflict in the US. The traditional categories still exist, and they are still an […]
By MARIA CARRASCO, Politico The House on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its killing of the U.S.-based dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The bill, H.R. 1392, would bar sales, authorizations and transfer of arms and other defense services from the president to […]
What he says about Saudi Arabia is interesting. Professor at Georgetown University, Trita Parsi, breaks down Iran’s statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses how Western media has failed in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Are the tides turning? It would appear so. Look for the US-Israel relationship to become increasingly contentious in domestic US politics in the future. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim break down the latest updates in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Roger Fisk’s comments in this are pretty funny. Team Rising discusses the latest allegations against Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Saagar Enjeti discusses corporations use of private spies to intimidate journalists and manipulate the public.
So apparently the destiny of the GOP really is to become the American Le Penists, i.e. a permanent opposition party with a faux right-wing populist outlook, and controlled by a single family, that can never quite achieve state power. Michael Lind argues that historically the US has had […]
The therapeutic state and “public health” cult are fundamental building blocks of totalitarian humanism. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to Rachel Maddow’s comments on the CDC’s new mask policy.
Thursdays the 13th, origins of Friday the 13th, significance of the number 12 in astrotheology, the biblical character Judas, Derek Chauvin and his co-defendants are indicted on federal civil rights charges, legal meaning of double jeopardy, the Rodney King case from 1991/92, LA riots in 1992, the attack […]
Kind of like some other folks who have been in the news lately. By Robert Barnett, Foreign Policy Since 2015, a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings, and military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in Bhutan. READ MORE
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am a transwoman of no color. I am an agoraphobic welfare queen. I am a genderqueer millennial who has been diagnosed with virtually every mental illness in the DSM. I am intersectional but my existence is not […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a speech on the House floor in support of Palestinian rights.
In our interview with John Pilger first broadcast in 2018, John Pilger discusses UK arms sales to Israel which have been used against the occupied population of Palestine calls Israel the watchdog of the US and UK which keeps arms markets well-nourished and the Middle East in constant […]
By Máirtín Ó Catháin After the visit of John McAra (1870–1915), an anarchist propagandist from Scotland to Belfast in 1908, it was remarked by the press that there was clearly no hope for anarchism in Ulster. He was labelled a ‘crank’(a definition famously embraced by FrancisSheehy–Skeffingtonas ‘a small […]
By Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research One of our most popular articles, first published on March 1st, 2013 *** Today, May 13, 2021, we commemorate The Nakba. 73 years ago on May 13, 1948. The Palestinian Catastrophe prevails. In a 2018 report, the United Nations stated that Gaza had […]
“Just because I wanted Trump to win,” he allegedly said, per a transcript of the conversation included in the affidavit. “I just thought, give him another vote.” “I figured all these other guys are cheating,” he allegedly said, adding that his wife “was going to vote for Trump […]
VICE embeds with the London branch of the Neturei Karta, a group of controversial Ultra Orthodox Jews who campaign against Zionism and for the immediate dismantling of the state of Israel. Because of their unusual views, and support of people like ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad and groups like the […]
Yep. By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Successive Israeli governments have been trying for years to push Palestinians out of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the latest round of Israeli attacks fall in line with that goal. But to understand the roots of the current escalation — and the […]
I don’t know many Internet debates I’ve had with “pro-Israel” types who will always assume “But da rocket attacks…” is an ace in the hole. To which I always casually respond that I am pro-rocket attacks.
Since the national strike began in #Colombia on April 28, 39 protestors have been killed by police. In #Israel, 139 people including children have been murdered. BOTH bankrolled by the U.S.
It’s interesting how this article conveniently forgets to mention corporate and bank welfare. But it is the Wall Street Journal. By Christopher DeMuth, Wall Street Journal Biden has fully embraced the mad goal of giving 98% of the population lavish benefits at no cost. Has anyone noticed that […]
By Alex Kane, The Intercept On May 6, right-wing Israeli officials descended on Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, to show their support for the settler movement’s push to displace Palestinian residents and take their homes. One of the officials was Aryeh King, a deputy mayor […]
Update on the evening of Day 4 of #Gaza escalation:— 950 injured and 126 killed (including 31 children and 20 women) since Israel’s ‘Operation Guardian of the Walls’ started in Gaza Israel intensifies attacks, — ‘worse than 2014 war’ —, continuing aerial bombardment using ‘insane force,’ flattening buildings. […]
By Bernie Sanders, New York Times “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza. Let’s be clear. No one is arguing […]
Democracy Now As the death toll in Gaza reaches at least 119 amid Israel’s escalation of its aerial assault, Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first Palestinian American woman elected to Congress, delivered a powerful speech on the House floor Thursday to denounce the violence and attempted erasure […]
This is quite good.
This is what parliamentary politics looks like in many Third World countries. We’re getting there.
By James Michael Yeoman The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was one of the most significant moments in the history of anarchism. The outbreak of the conflict sparked a revolution, in which women and men inspired by anarchist ideas took control of the streets of Barcelona and the […]
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Oh, the horrors. Team Rising discusses the CEO of WeWork telling the WallStreet Journal “there is an easy way for companies to spot their most engaged employees.”
Wisconsin Congressman, Mike Gallagher, discusses the independent investigation that has been launched into the origins of the coronavirus.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the incentives being offered to Americans who get the Coronavirus vaccine.
During times of economic decline and class polarization, the popularity of statism typically increases. That’s generally a worldwide phenomenon. Team Rising discusses polling by Pew Research that finds Americans are bothered “a lot” by the feeling that some corporations and wealthy people do not pay their fair share […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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