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Violence is Everywhere. So Are the People Trying to Stop It.
I’m tired of the violence. Aren’t you? Some days, it seems relentless. A mass shooting at a school. Another youth killed by gun violence. A family on the street after fleeing an abusive partner. A...
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DRCongo Quagmire Poses an Existential Question to Southern Africa’s Leaders
I write on behalf of all the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We women who are bearing the brunt of a war we did not start; a war we do not want; a war in which our children’s futures...
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Give Us Our Land Back
Since October 7, social media accounts have circulated “viral” images of the genocide in Gaza that are actually from Syria. For example, social media users have posted an image of Palestinian children...
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Crisis of Mastery | Bayo Akomolafe
How do we come home to our bodies? Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher writer, activist, professor of psychology and executive director of the emergence network. He’s the author of ‘We Will Tell Our Own...
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Partners in Genocide: Israel is Slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms
While many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an...
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Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime – Retaliatory July Strike on...
(Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians that could have a...
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Does Any Other Country Besides Israel Have the Right to Defend Itself?
Despite the countless atrocities, assassinations and violations of humanitarian and international law, American politicians and the corporate media recite ad infinitum the accepted talking point that...
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Beyond Refuge: Empowering Rohingya to Lead Their Own Future
“The vast majority of my people are in refugee camps or in apartheid villages, struggling every day just to make a living… They deserve to have a biography, not someone like me, living in Canada with a...
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Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy
An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is acutely relevant to how President Biden talked about Gaza...
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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates...
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Former IDF Soldier, Former Hamas Member and Active Duty U.S. Military C.O.s...
A group of former fighters from Palestine and Israel plus active duty U.S. G.I.s announced last week why they decided to stop participating in war and urged U.S. military members to tell Congress to...
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Kenya Protests: A Wake-Up Call to a Failing International Financial Architecture
Protests ignited by recent IMF-backed reforms in Kenya show no signs of abating. Demonstrations began in June when Kenyan president William Ruto proposed taxes on essential goods including food, health...
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US Calls for Ceasefire: Sudan’s Peace Process at a Crossroads
The recent initiative led by the United States (US), Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland to mediate a cease fire in Sudan represents a crucial effort to address the conflict that has erupted since April...
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Glencore’s Israeli-bound Coal Becomes the Next Test of South Africa’s...
Israel’s fossil-energy supply is among the most damaging components contributing to the genocide underway in Gaza – and to its longer-term maintenance of apartheid, including land-grab settlements in...
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The Politics of Water Under Occupation
The International Court of Justice released its historic advisory opinion in July 2024 just as I was finishing my essay on Israel’s theft and abuse of the water resources of Palestine. The 80-page...
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Beyond Realism: How the Global South Can Shape a More Moral Internationalism
Henry Kissinger, the icon of “realism,” passed away in late 2023. Kissinger had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1970s for helping to negotiate a ceasefire in Vietnam, a war he both helped...
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Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh Warrant...
Two former leaders of major South Asian countries have reportedly accused the United States of covert regime change operations to topple their governments. One of the leaders, former Pakistan Prime...
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Broken Promises: Western Hypocrisy in the Global Minerals Scramble
Western governments have finally realized that the energy transition is happening—and that the resources needed are mostly in Chinese hands. Transition minerals, by some dubbed the “new oil,” are the...
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Harrowing Phone Calls Expose Global Campaign of Repression
The story and video we’re sharing today is probably unlike anything you’ve seen before, yet it reflects a growing and worrisome phenomenon that goes by the fairly clinical term of “transnational...
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The Democratic Party Exists To Make Sure Good People Do Nothing
The reason I criticize the Democrats so much can be explained in the aphorism “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The Democratic Party exists to ensure...
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