If This is 1968 Over Again, More Popular Upheaval Is On The Way
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year...
View ArticleBeing Jewish In a Time of Mass Hysteria
Hi, my name is Dan. My pronouns are he and him. I went to Hebrew school for a year when I was 10 and was bored out of my mind. I am REALLY outraged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and want to see the hostages...
View Article20 Years After Abu Ghraib, Its Victims Take Their Torturers to Court
“My life before and after [Abu Ghraib] were very different,” Salah Hasan Nusaif Al-Ejaili testified in a Virginia courtroom on Monday, April 15, the beginning of the trial in the case of Al-Shimari v....
View ArticleA Water Crisis in Mississippi Turns Into a Fight Against Privatization
In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves...
View ArticleStrategic Perspectives of the Green New Deal from Below
The Green New Deal from Below represents a unique formation which therefore requires – and has developed — a unique strategy. It is not the same as an electoral campaign, a civil disobedience struggle,...
View ArticleUS Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly growing increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for him and other top government...
View ArticleCollege Administrators are Falling Into a Tried and True Trap Laid by the Tight
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and...
View ArticleMay Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But It’s Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
View ArticleCelebrating Links Across Species
He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he’s quite the...
View ArticleCan You Hear, Do You See?
Mr. or Ms. President of any and every college. The facts over there, in Gaza, are on display to see. The facts over there are bellowing visibly and even bragging openly their intent lest anyone meant...
View ArticleWhy Does the US Government Support And Fund Israel?
Environmentalists have learned the investigative rule to “follow the money”. At the core of important environmental issues, it is NOT good vs bad guys, nor cultural wokeness vs anti-wokeness, nor smart...
View ArticleThe Israel-US Game Plan For Gaza is Staring Us in The Face
One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this: 1. In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah...
View ArticleIn Relay Race to Organize the South, Volkswagen Workers Pass the Baton to...
Michael Göbel, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, stepped down from his post yesterday, according to a video message that workers were shown. Göbel had groused in an April...
View Article“We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students &...
Nearly 300 peaceful protesters were arrested over the weekend as student-led Gaza solidarity encampments across U.S. university and college campuses face an intensifying crackdown. Democracy Now! spoke...
View ArticleAmerican Intifada for Gaza: What Should We Expect?
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting,...
View Article“People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel...
We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and...
View Article‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”
In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of...
View ArticleAntisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against US college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism’ Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns...
View ArticleWar, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the...
View ArticleTrump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case
Apanel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the...
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