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This tragedy is different from past atrocities in one disturbing respect: the suffering, the use of starvation as a weapon, the unrelenting bombardment, the mass murder, they are laid bare for all to see. The violence is not concealed, it is flaunted.
The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide
In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination. Omer Bartov, a distinguished scholar of Holocaust and Genocide studies, reports in The New York...
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The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.
Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the sec...
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The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.
Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the sec...
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The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest.
Britain Quits the ‘Free World’
Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition
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El Salvador is in a constitutional crisis, so much so that one can get into serious legal trouble even for being a lawyer—at least the kind who upholds the law, rather than kowtowing to Bukele.
Does Bukele the Strongman Show Weakness When Imprisoning Critics?
Despite President Nayib Bukele’s persistent hype, it’s a dangerous time in El Salvador. The significant democratic spaces carved out by the Chapultepec
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"It is so very dangerous to go to that place because it is part of a zone completely controlled by the Israeli Army. Every day when people go there to get food, the Israelis are targeting and killing them... My mother has asked all of us not to go to that place."
Valor in the Face of Inhumanity
Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta and her family were first displaced just four days into the war, on October 11, 2023. She told me, “They bombed our neighborhood in Khan Younis, so we evacuated to a nearby schoo...
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Overall consumption has grown at 1.4 percent annual rate since October. That is not a great story for the economy. If consumption is growing at a 1.4 percent rate, it is hard to see the economy growing much faster.
May Consumption Data Looks Pretty Bad
Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May which
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One of the most stunning examples of federal impunity is the whitewashing of the Bush administration torture scandal. President George W. Bush unleashed a worldwide torture regime that left victims dead and maimed around the globe.
The Good Intentions Road to Tyranny
“He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a ri...
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“[Countries] have an obligation not to aid, not to assist, not to trade with Israel, not to send weapons, not to buy weapons, not to provide military technology... This is not an act of charity that I’m asking you. This is your obligation”
Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza: Talking with Francesca Albanese
Israel’s siege on the Palestinians is leaving the population starving, and Albanese lambasts other nations for not stepping up and completing their obligations under international law. “ have an oblig...
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The U.S. spends over $3 billion annually on the world’s largest immigration detention system, which is primarily operated by for-profit prison contractors like GEO Group.

These facilities are notorious for poor medical treatment, overcrowding, due process violations, and preventable deaths.
A Nation of Immigrants Under Attack
There’s mounting evidence of ICE using racial profiling. “We have U.S. citizens who are being asked for their documents and not believed when they attest to the fact that they are U.S. citizens,” said...
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