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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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What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has...
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Failure To Safeguard Free Speech Is Always a Problem
Campuses throughout the United States and Canada are witnessing a surge of free expression and assembly that is being met with repressive crackdowns. Largely driven by calls for justice in Gaza, for a...
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USA & Israel Defy World in Vote To Make Palestine Full UN Member
The vast majority of countries on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to endorse full membership for Palestine. On May 10, 143 of the UN’s 193 member states supported a resolution that...
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Biden’s War On Gaza Is Now A War On Truth And The Right To Protest
As mass student protests quickly spread to campuses across the United States last week, and others took hold in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the western media gave centre stage to one man to...
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Libertarianism and the Far Right
Much digital ink has been spilled since the hard-right Mises Caucus took over the Libertarian National Committee, the governing body of the United States’ third-largest political party. The Caucus...
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Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence. Casualty figures are not coming in, as the attacks are so bad that bodies cannot be recovered, medics cannot travel and...
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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza
On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold...
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s...
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological...
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Donald Trump and O.J. Simpson
It was the jokes about Trump’s rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don’t think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I’ve lived with teenagers and...
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Zach Shrewsbury Says His Senate Campaign in West Virginia Is About the Class...
When Barn Raiser first reached Zach Shrewsbury to interview the former Marine about his U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia, he was trying to navigate the mountain roads of his home state amid a...
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Shooting Alone
An acquaintance who hails from the same New Jersey town as I do spends his free weekends crawling through the woods on his stomach as part of a firearms training course, green camouflage paint on his...
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Unions Support Student Protestors Against Campus Administrators and Police
As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved. More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the...
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11,000% Return: Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall...
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to...
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A Whistleblower’s Return To The World
I had a palpable sense of nerves approaching the day I was to travel to Perugia for the International Journalism Festival. I was invited by Kathleen McClellan and Jesselyn Radack of WHISPeR who were...
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What It’s Like Voting Union Inside Alabama Mercedes Plant
In the election on whether to join the United Auto Workers, being held over five days this week at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, the union negotiated rules to try to minimize management...
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