Stan Cox
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Here, Justin Podur says stop using empty gestures as thin cover for not ending Israel's genocide.
He says, "Begin negotiating the future of the region directly with the people that Israel wants to kill"
And that means to "Recognize Hamas"
Amen!
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He says, "Begin negotiating the future of the region directly with the people that Israel wants to kill"
And that means to "Recognize Hamas"
Amen!
justinpodur.substack.com/p/recognize-...
Recognize Hamas
Today's symbolic actions make no difference, but there are symbolic actions that could.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Here, Justin Podur says stop using empty gestures as thin cover for not ending Israel's genocide.
He says, "Begin negotiating the future of the region directly with the people that Israel wants to kill"
And that means to "Recognize Hamas"
Amen!
justinpodur.substack.com/p/recognize-...
He says, "Begin negotiating the future of the region directly with the people that Israel wants to kill"
And that means to "Recognize Hamas"
Amen!
justinpodur.substack.com/p/recognize-...
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Needed: a multinational armed force to converge on Gaza by air, sea, and land & join the resistance fighters, protecting the population and putting an end to the genocide. The UN General Assembly can do that with a resolution this session countercurrents.org/2025/09/stop... @countercurrents
Stopping the Genocide Requires Armed Intervention | Countercurrents
Image: Priti Gulati Cox. See more such bookmarks at her resistance embroidery initiative, which supports The Sameer Project in Gaza. The Palestinian armed resistance has defended Gaza for almost two…
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September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Needed: a multinational armed force to converge on Gaza by air, sea, and land & join the resistance fighters, protecting the population and putting an end to the genocide. The UN General Assembly can do that with a resolution this session countercurrents.org/2025/09/stop... @countercurrents
"@CraigMokhiber concluded that civil society around the world must demand that the UN establish and deploy an armed protection force for Gaza. 'If we ask for it and they don’t do it,' he said, 'it’s their sin. If we don’t ask for it, it’s *our* sin'.”
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Stopping the Genocide Requires Armed Intervention | Countercurrents
Image: Priti Gulati Cox. See more such bookmarks at her resistance embroidery initiative, which supports The Sameer Project in Gaza. The Palestinian armed resistance has defended Gaza for almost two…
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September 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"@CraigMokhiber concluded that civil society around the world must demand that the UN establish and deploy an armed protection force for Gaza. 'If we ask for it and they don’t do it,' he said, 'it’s their sin. If we don’t ask for it, it’s *our* sin'.”
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Stopping the Genocide Requires an Armed Protective Force counterpunch.org/2025/09/17/s... @NatCounterPunch
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September 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
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Tells the facts, names the names.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
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Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
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Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
Unprecedented numbers of heat records have been broken in locations throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and even more records will fall in coming years. Meanwhile, Israel’s mass slaughter ...
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August 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change
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ignore the neighbor's yard art
August 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
ignore the neighbor's yard art
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"This is no time for phony 'balance.'"
"If an occupying power is going all-out to obliterate the population whose land it is trying to steal, and a news outlet takes care not to take sides, then they are, in fact, taking a side, and it's the wrong one."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"If an occupying power is going all-out to obliterate the population whose land it is trying to steal, and a news outlet takes care not to take sides, then they are, in fact, taking a side, and it's the wrong one."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better
Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against humanity that Israel was committing in Gaza.…
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August 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"This is no time for phony 'balance.'"
"If an occupying power is going all-out to obliterate the population whose land it is trying to steal, and a news outlet takes care not to take sides, then they are, in fact, taking a side, and it's the wrong one."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"If an occupying power is going all-out to obliterate the population whose land it is trying to steal, and a news outlet takes care not to take sides, then they are, in fact, taking a side, and it's the wrong one."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
3 cheers for @r-degrowth.bsky.social's Palestine statement!
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"We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples"
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"We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples"
Palestine Statement – degrowth.org
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August 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
3 cheers for @r-degrowth.bsky.social's Palestine statement!
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"We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples"
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"We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples"
Palestine's Valor in the Face of Israel's Inhumanity
With @DonyaInGaza
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With @DonyaInGaza
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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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July 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Palestine's Valor in the Face of Israel's Inhumanity
With @DonyaInGaza
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With @DonyaInGaza
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I have risked my life to get food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centers in Gaza, where Israel opens fire on aid seekers from every direction. I have an impossible choice: slow death from hunger, or gambling my life for a chance of survival.
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#Palestine #Israel
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#Palestine #Israel
Every time I go to a U.S.-run ‘aid’ center in Gaza, I know I might not come back
I have risked my life to get food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centers in Gaza, where Israel opens fire on aid seekers from every direction. I have an impossible choice: slow death from hunger,...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I have risked my life to get food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centers in Gaza, where Israel opens fire on aid seekers from every direction. I have an impossible choice: slow death from hunger, or gambling my life for a chance of survival.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/ever...
#Palestine #Israel
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#Palestine #Israel
Faced with possible extinction, Gaza’s universities have declared, “We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.” Meanwhile . . . 1/4 www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/08/t...
Their Campuses Bombed to Rubble, Gaza’s Universities Are Standing Tall
The contrast could not be starker. Even with their campuses destroyed by US-supplied aircraft dropping US-supplied bombs, Gaza’s universities are
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June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Faced with possible extinction, Gaza’s universities have declared, “We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.” Meanwhile . . . 1/4 www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/08/t...
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I have been complaining about the so-called abundance agenda for a while, calling instead for a sufficiency agenda. Where Klein and Thompson call for more of everything, I call for less. lloydalter.substack.com/p/abundance-...
Abundance or Sufficiency?
Here's a summary of a lecture where I am critical of so-called abundance agenda.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I have been complaining about the so-called abundance agenda for a while, calling instead for a sufficiency agenda. Where Klein and Thompson call for more of everything, I call for less. lloydalter.substack.com/p/abundance-...
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Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"
May 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"
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When self proclaimed environmentalists refer to taxis as public transportation, you know they are missing something fundamental. Hint: it's about the scarcity of space in cities in the need to use that space efficiently.
When passengers arrive at the airport in Costa Rica's capital, they may be greeted by an electric taxi.
UNEP, @thegef.bsky.social and partners created the pilot project to weave electric vehicles into the public transportation network: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
UNEP, @thegef.bsky.social and partners created the pilot project to weave electric vehicles into the public transportation network: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
May 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When self proclaimed environmentalists refer to taxis as public transportation, you know they are missing something fundamental. Hint: it's about the scarcity of space in cities in the need to use that space efficiently.
A lot of Democrats seem to believe that electoral victories in 2026 and 2028 could begin fulfilling the dream of a government that serves the needs of all 330 million Americans. Oh really? 1/10
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When Your Government Shatters the Lives of Two Million People in Gaza, Don’t Expect It to Make Life Better for You
The Trump regime’s approval numbers are sinking. Americans are in the streets protesting the regime’s cruel abuses of power. And Democratic voters are
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May 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A lot of Democrats seem to believe that electoral victories in 2026 and 2028 could begin fulfilling the dream of a government that serves the needs of all 330 million Americans. Oh really? 1/10
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On this #420day, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of performers “Gail & Dale” singing the hit, “One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.
Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”
Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”
April 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
On this #420day, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of performers “Gail & Dale” singing the hit, “One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.
Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”
Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”
In the middle of Sherman St., a couple of blocks from our house:
A Glove's Final Message for Humanity
A Glove's Final Message for Humanity
April 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In the middle of Sherman St., a couple of blocks from our house:
A Glove's Final Message for Humanity
A Glove's Final Message for Humanity
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This is like getting punched in the face by Mr. Rogers
March 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is like getting punched in the face by Mr. Rogers
Today at Counterpunch +
Boycotts, Divestment, and People’s Arms Embargoes
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Boycotts, Divestment, and People’s Arms Embargoes
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Boycotts, Divestment, and People's Arms Embargoes
Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has provoked the largest, most energetic international campaign of boycotts, divestment, and sanctions
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March 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Those are made-in-USA bombs dropping on Gaza from USA aircraft. Here's ColdType's great magazine layout:
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first published by @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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February 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Those are made-in-USA bombs dropping on Gaza from USA aircraft. Here's ColdType's great magazine layout:
www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF...
first published by @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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first published by @tomdispatch.bsky.social
Pasting in a post by @pritigcox at that other site:
"I have created a page on my blog: 'Resistance Embroidery Fundraiser for Palestine,' which includes some pieces of my embroidery for sale. Here's the link for more info on this initiative:
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Check it out!
"I have created a page on my blog: 'Resistance Embroidery Fundraiser for Palestine,' which includes some pieces of my embroidery for sale. Here's the link for more info on this initiative:
pritigcox.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/r... "
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February 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pasting in a post by @pritigcox at that other site:
"I have created a page on my blog: 'Resistance Embroidery Fundraiser for Palestine,' which includes some pieces of my embroidery for sale. Here's the link for more info on this initiative:
pritigcox.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/r... "
Check it out!
"I have created a page on my blog: 'Resistance Embroidery Fundraiser for Palestine,' which includes some pieces of my embroidery for sale. Here's the link for more info on this initiative:
pritigcox.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/r... "
Check it out!
Biden didn't force a lasting end to the genocide by cutting of arms to IDF. With an arms cutoff, Trump could make this ceasefire permanent, but of course he won't. This mass death, past and future, didn't have to happen. @thenation.com via @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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Under Trump, Taxpayers Will Continue to Foot the Bill for Israel’s War Crimes
Were it just about any other country than Israel committing such a genocide, Washington would have cut off arms shipments months ago.
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January 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Biden didn't force a lasting end to the genocide by cutting of arms to IDF. With an arms cutoff, Trump could make this ceasefire permanent, but of course he won't. This mass death, past and future, didn't have to happen. @thenation.com via @tomdispatch.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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