Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Tag: war

What’s in a name?

If there is any hope of salvaging this country’s (not to speak of this planet’s) future, then this history has to be faced, and we must recover—or perhaps discover—our moral bearings.

America the irrelevant

In war and peace, Trump is pushing the United States to the margins.

NYT buries news that experts on genocide say Israel is committing...

The New York Times buried the news in the 31st paragraph of a story headlined “Israel’s Push for a Permanent Gaza Deal May Mean a Longer War, Experts Say.”

How the UN can act decisively to end genocide in Gaza

Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly can take decisive action to end the genocide in Gaza, by authorizing a UN-backed arms embargo, economic boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, or even a military protection force for Gaza.

From Guernica to Gaza

“Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.”

More Americans now sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

For the first time, the percentage of Americans who say they sympathize with Palestinians exceeds the percentage who sympathize with Israelis.
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‘The West Bank is the prize’: Israel approves new settlements to...

The “E-1” settlement would see the construction of about 3,400 new housing units and would sever one of the last remaining territorial links between major Palestinian cities like Ramallah in the northern West Bank and southern cities including Bethlehem, as well as cut off East Jerusalem.

When the term ‘genocide’ falls short

It is not enough for national governments to "recognize" a Palestinian state. It is time to compel Israel, via sanctions, diplomacy, and UN enforcement, to stop the killing and any talk of forced relocation.

For once in our lives

Are we right again?

What do we forget when we remember Hiroshima?

It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.

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Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

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