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The End Of The World
A sobering article published in The Guardian yesterday has gotten me thinking, not for the first time, about why, despite difficult odds and repeated disappointments, I and many others keep plugging...
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For Displaced Gazans, Leaving Rafah Is Moving From One Hell to Another
According to Palestinian reports, 22 Palestinians, among them eight children including babies, were killed by Israeli bombs and shells in eastern Rafah overnight into Monday. On its website, the Wafa...
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Build a Majority for Palestine
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around...
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Campus Protests Are Fighting Militarism and Corporatization at Home and Abroad
Student protesters know the fight for Palestinian freedom requires resisting militarization and fascism at home. The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking...
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Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I’ll Help You Wreck the Planet
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club last month,...
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War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage —...
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Civilizational Unity, Not Clash: How Gaza Challenged Samuel Huntington’s...
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and revision. For hundreds of years, the map of the...
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Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and...
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors. Shameful fact: the plight of U.S. retirees is a global exception. In their pursuit of lower taxes,...
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Left or Not Left?
Consider everybody in society. Some eat meat, others don’t. Some live in Spain, others in Japan. Some are rural, others urban. Countless differences separate people into “we and they groups” for one...
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‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December and began...
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Will Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?
In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be...
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How the UAW Could Change the South
The UAW is on a roll. After winning stupendous contracts at the Big Three automakers this past year, the union then organized Volkswagen in Tennessee April 20. What’s eye-popping about this is that the...
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Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered herself of some ahistorical and distorted remarks about Palestine on Morning Joe, maintaining that the young people protesting the Gaza atrocities do...
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Against Global Indifference to Atrocities in Darfur
As the deadly war in Sudan enters its second year, it is nearly impossible to overstate the global indifference and inaction in the face of ongoing devastating mass atrocities in Sudan. The...
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UN Report: Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year
Extreme climate shocks, intensified by global warming, killed hundreds of people and devastated livelihoods and ecosystems across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, scientists with the World...
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Great Expectations – Germany’s Petite Bourgeoisie
For the past few years, Germany’s petty bourgeoisie or middle class has been losing confidence in society, politics, and capitalism. They are increasingly at odds with the democratic parties they have...
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12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity...
The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the...
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Weaponizing Antisemitism
All of us—and we are legion across the worldmust keep our eyes on the genocide in Gaza, as well as on the vicious pogroms underway in the West Bank. A recent statement by James Elder of UNICEF reports...
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The US Continues To Provide Cover For Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains set in his plans to invade Rafah, with or without US assistance. Responding to US President Joe Biden’s warning earlier this week that arms supplies...
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University Leaders Are in the Wrong. Students and Faculty Won’t Back Down.
The student encampment movement is expanding as faculty find new ways to intensify participation and solidarity. Teachers across the country are providing an example of how the wider community...
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