Tag: Palestine
US press horrified by Trump’s “shoot migrants in the legs” but...
The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media managed to report without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy.
Foreign aid that costs an arm and a leg – literally
The U.S.-funded Israeli military is shooting so many unarmed Palestinians that the UN is warning of an amputation crisis in Gaza.
The Palestine marathon
The right to freedom of movement should be inalienable and inextricably linked to the right to be safe in one’s own home, the right to farm one’s own land, the right to fish in the sea.
Elections don’t make Israel a democracy
Let’s not forget that the right to vote is only granted to 60% of the total population and only one third of Palestinians who live under Israeli rule.
Gaza is already unlivable: A response to Israel’s deadly airstrikes targeting...
Israel launched its heaviest airstrikes on the region since 2014, targeting scores of buildings, including the TV station Al-Aqsa TV. Israeli airstrikes also reportedly hit dozens of homes.
Do bullies always win?
Trump's bullying worked with Canada, has half-worked with Iran and North Korea, but has had nothing but malign impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old West Bank activist jailed for 8 months...
Known to some as the Rosa Parks of Palestine, Tamimi became a hero to Palestinians and people around the world last year.
The great return march and the women of Gaza
“Women will always be in the front lines of our national struggle.”
After latest Gaza slaughter: Open an investigation, end the occupation
The occupation must end, and those responsible for the slaughter must be held accountable.
Killing Gaza
Terrified Palestinian families huddled inside their homes as Israel dropped more than 100 one-ton bombs and fired thousands of high-explosive artillery shells into Shuja’iyya.
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Comparing poverty in India and America
But how does this compare to the worst forms of poverty in other countries?
Bernie groups break free of Dems: New party rising?
The beauty of the foregoing strategy is that it seeks a viable new party through a graduated series of accomplishable, grassroots-based electoral successes.
‘History will not judge this kindly’: DNC Platform Committee votes down Medicare for All...
"The fact that our nation is the only advanced industrial country without universal healthcare cannot be blamed on Republican obstruction alone. It was also caused by Democratic leaders who've spent decades catering to corporate interests."
Disease-denying propaganda spews a pandemic of pandemonium!
We'll judge Trump Medieval Madness as we do other historic low points, like McCarthyism, interning the Japanese or 250 years of slavery plus a century of Jim Crow brutality.
House passes $740 billion defense bill amid the major struggles of the pandemic
“In the midst of a pandemic—as people across the country struggle to make rent, to pay their bills, to survive a deadly disease—it should be unthinkable.”