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USA & Israel Defy World in Vote To Make Palestine Full UN Member
The vast majority of countries on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to endorse full membership for Palestine. On May 10, 143 of the UN’s 193 member states supported a resolution that...
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Biden’s War On Gaza Is Now A War On Truth And The Right To Protest
As mass student protests quickly spread to campuses across the United States last week, and others took hold in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the western media gave centre stage to one man to...
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Queers for Palestine
The ethnic cleansing in Gaza, or at least what is left of it, continues. Tens of thousands have already been killed, many more mutilated, dispossessed and orphaned. While minor concerns over the...
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Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local...
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Spanish Universities To Break Ties With Israeli Institutions ‘Not Committed...
The confederation of Spanish universities (CRUE) announced on Thursday that it will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers “that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and...
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Student Encampments Have The Power To Change Minds — If They Control The...
Gaza solidarity protests on college campuses have gripped the U.S., particularly as encampments are being violently shut down by police with the approval of university administrators. At a time when...
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said. Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures...
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Libertarianism and the Far Right
Much digital ink has been spilled since the hard-right Mises Caucus took over the Libertarian National Committee, the governing body of the United States’ third-largest political party. The Caucus...
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Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food security. Berg...
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Political Strikes in Germany
In recent weeks, there has been talks of a return of trade unions in Germany and this is not just because of May Day – the 1st of May – but also because it has been seventy years that the right to...
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The Demise of US Power, De-Dollarisation & the BRICS
As I write, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is preparing a ground offensive on Rafah, Palestine . PM Netanyahu has warned for months that such an offensive was imminent. The consensus view was that US...
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Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence. Casualty figures are not coming in, as the attacks are so bad that bodies cannot be recovered, medics cannot travel and...
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Calculating the ‘White Bonus’
The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to white people shapes systemic injustice, has been hotly contested since the term was popularized by women’s...
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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza
On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold...
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Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making requests. Protests rely on persuasion. Their persuasion...
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Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how best to extract profits from people. What Americans eat, how they diet and exercise,...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended
In 1948, at Israel’s founding, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed and destroyed over 530 Palestinian villages and towns, killing more than ten thousand Palestinians in a series of civilian massacres....
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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