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They call it a double-tap: bomb a place with lots of people, say a school filled with kids and their parents, then when the ambulances, medical...
Trump and Rubio would have deported Tom Paine for writing seditious pamphlets as a "citizen of the world" and not the US. As it was, Paine died a...
Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights....
If the Trump team was going to "accidentally" include any reporter in their Yemen war planning–Goldberg, the former IDF prison guard–would be the...
Here is Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard (Net worth: $808 million) Lutnick’s message to seniors (whose ranks I have now reluctantly joined) on...
Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer...
On January 29, ICE pulled over Bernandino Randa Marinas on his way to work in Chicago. After handing his ID to an ICE agent, Bernandino was ordered to...
On the night of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife Noor Abdalla were walking back to their apartment on the campus of Columbia University, after...
Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State...
Netanyahu never wanted a ceasefire in Gaza. It was forced upon him. Not by Biden or Trump, but his own Israeli population, desperate to see the...
Trump has been gifted more power than he has taken. But now that he has accumulated so much authority through the weakness and political negligence of...
The Netanyahu government has circulated a plan for Gaza that places the Strip under tighter Israeli control than before the war, shattering any notion...
Last week our co-rulers made separate appearances at CPAC, a kind of Dionysian festival for the Cult of MAGA, where both of them were far from laconic...
On the Oregon Coast, awaiting the hurricane-force winds that are supposed to smack Astoria sometime today, I was awakened at 4 am from a dream of...
Like the Biblical Job (Ayyūb in Arabic, where he is revered as a prophet), every possible misfortune has been visited upon the Palestinians of Gaza....
While contemplating the incipient collapse of our Republic from an inside job, I dipped back into the six-volume edition of Edward Gibbon's The...
Sherman burnt Atlanta to the ground, but its residents weren’t evicted to Curacao. Yrpes was obliterated twice in WW I, but its citizens weren’t...
On Wednesday in the Oval Office, Trump was allegedly told by X Æ A-Xii, one of Elon Musk’s 12 (known) kids, to “Shut up” and “You’re not...
Your neighbor burns down the house that your family has lived in since the previous family home, a hundred miles to the north, was demolished 75 years...
We've reached that terminal point of imperial decay when the highest ambition of most members of Congress is to be a sycophant (though few of them...
“Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their...
Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a weakness, even amid...
After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: At least 47,161...
There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 American Carnage diatribe...
When you ask me what was sound like growing up, I’ll say my tongue was as red as all good tombs. She, too, wanted to be a bird. So ask why the...
I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory...
To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a target of the Israelis. To be a Palestinian journalist is to be a target of the Israelis and the international...
There’s nothing so terrifying as a nightmare come to life. The Santa Ana winds have haunted the dreams of southern Angelinos for decades. Like the...
Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five...
So why do I reprise the moldering life of John Lilburne now, during the time of a genocide that his country and my own have armed, funded, and run...
NEW RELEASES 1) Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion (ECM) 2) Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) 3) Wadada Leo Smith & Amina...
The Bibi Files Dir. Alexis Bloom Dahomey Dir. Mati Diop Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Dir. Raoul Peck Eno Dir. Gary Hustwi The Goldman Case Dir....
Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its...
For nearly two days, the NYPD covered up the fact that one of their officers had fired a gun inside Hind Hall, while they were arresting students....
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso)...
On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen...
2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s the year the US set new oil and gas production records,...
Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community...
Lame duck senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee, Lauren McFarren, ensuring that the Democrats...
With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not...
Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously...
It appears that the killer of Brian Thompson left his manifesto etched on the spent casings of the bullets used to gun down the CEO of...
It appears that the killer of Brian Thompson left his manifesto etched on the spent casings of the bullets used to gun down the CEO of...
On Tuesday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah that was brokered by the U.S.- and France. The ceasefire began at 4 a.m....
Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of Seattle erupted into the kind of militant protest rarely seen in the US. Over the course of five...
Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of Seattle erupted into the kind of militant protest rarely seen in the US. Over the course of five...
The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against...
The hysteria over Trump’s election must be tempered by just how awful Biden has been after the entirely predictable, if sinister, decision of the...
On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a joint letter demanding that Israel take...
It’s been a hallucinatory week, which I hope explains my momentary lapse of reason in believing that an unshackled and restored Trump just might...