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As Gaza body toll mounts, NBC executives crack down on criticism of Israel with increasingly draconian measures

We are faced with decisions that defy rationality. We are presented with conclusions that benefit bankers, businesses, and a small financial elite

Noam Chomsky responds to Yousef Munayyer, MJ Rosenberg, Nadia Ben-Youssef, Ran Greenstein and the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel

Israel is a part of the West. Its economy and politics are fully integrated with the West. It simply cannot do this without support from the US, Canada, and Europe

Beware the self-pity of the governing classes

As the world watches in horror the massacre of Palestinians, Israel’s propaganda war is being challenged not only on social media but by some establishment journalists as well

The US Senate votes unanimously to defend Israel including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont

There can be no hope of a peaceful solution ever gaining traction – or these bouts of blood-letting in Gaza coming to end – unless Washington is finally unmasked as Israel’s abettor-in-chief

The geopolitics of Iraq has definitely changed after the US occupation in 2003

Cruelly obliterating their image kills the child a second time

While the massacres continue in Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps and more than 153,000 people have fled their homes in Gaza, popular anger is exploding in the Strip but Gazans are wondering why the uprising in the West Bank, which sparked the escalation in this last round, has died down

The resistance movement in Gaza is often misrepresented intentionally at times, and at other times innocuously. In the heat of the information battle that has ensued since Israel unleashed its latest war many facts and essential context have gone missing

In the last decade alone, record high temperatures across the United States have outnumbered record low temperatures two to one, and the trend is both continuing and escalating

If military victory and strength are measured in the number of civilians, especially children, that an army can deliberately target and slaughter with sophisticated machines, then there is no doubt that Israel is winning in Gaza, and has always been the winner in Palestine

The Israeli government, followed suit by Western media and governments, was quick to put the blame on Hamas

. The killing of women and children is horrific—but in the reiteration of these disturbing facts there is something missing: the public mourning of Palestinian men killed by Israel’s war machine

What accounts for what some are already calling an “unprecedented breach” in the very close relations after 1945 between the United States and the German Federal Republic?

Latest strike on hospital and ambulances wreaks havoc on an already stretched medical infrastructure

Those who continue to waver in ambiguous aloofness and false neutrality in the face of these historic injustices will end up being remembered for it

Thousands of hackers, privacy activists and anti-spying advocates from across the country and the world assembled at the Hotel Pennsylvania across from Penn Station in New York City this weekend to co-conspire and hear from whistleblowers

Rather than being a vehicle for uncritically implementing decisions made by an unelected leadership, a party like the one envisaged by Chavez would be a powerful instrument through which people could defend their class interests

The people of the United States no longer support war and the people of the world are rebelling against US rule

The new El Salvador government faces the challenge of deepening the pro-majority changes that have occurred, while updating the historic experiences of a fighting and conscious people seeking social transformation

Tech attendees probably have no idea of many speakers’ repugnant pasts

The slaughters in Ukraine and Gaza have one thing in common. Both result from governments authorising violence which is overwhelmingly motivated by domestic politics and appears almost gratuitous from a strategic point of view

One year ago today, a group that would come to be known as the Dream 9 crossed from Mexico into the United States at a port of entry in Nogales, Ariz

According to Israel, Hamas is cowardly and cynical

To those American Jews who, like my friend, still support Israeli actions, have they lost the ability to feel the pain of others, if those others are Muslim, and not Jews or Christians?

Young women turning away from feminism has become a media meme

Peace deserves more than empty platitudes compatible with the preservation of war as our largest public project

It’s impossible to understand the roots of the current Ukraine crisis over the downed airliner without understanding the past, but the past is remembered as cliché on all sides

If current trends “prevail,” all developed nations will show by 2060 “the same level of inequality as currently experienced by the United States”

Venezuela participated in the gathering of the BRICS emerging powers and Latin American regional blocs in Brazil this week

For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq

Hobart & William Smith Colleges does a Steubenville

France becomes first country in world to ban pro-Palestine demonstrations

Up to 100,000 people streamed through the streets of London today, Saturday, in one of the biggest anti-war demonstrations in years

As the heat builds up over the summer months, the Greek resistance may yet save the country’s immense natural and cultural wealth from the rapacious claws of an elite gone mad

Back on the American radar

Every night I seem to think it’s the worst night, until I go through the next one

This is part five of a six part interview. It deals mainly with the IOPS experience

Turning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph

Medical charity official likens job to ‘patching up torture victims in an open-air prison’

Ever since this latest Israeli major military operation against Gaza started on July 8, there have been frequent suggestions that Israel is guilty of war crimes, and that Palestine should do its best to activate the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its behalf

Over the weekend, the New York Times sent out a clear signal: the mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable when the Israeli military is doing the killing

Escalation by Kyiv governmentt after the tragic crash of Malaysia Airlines flight

The idea that Israel is defending itself from unprovoked attacks is absurd. Occupied people have the right to resist

Right off the bat they were all lined up – the invariably hysterical reams of ‘experts’ of the ‘US intelligence community’ literally foaming at their palatial mouths at ‘evil’ Russia and ‘evil’ Putin

Interview on a variety of topics

How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world?