Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized for violating international law by dealing with the illegal colonists. Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and has introduced Apartheid rule there, keeping the Palestinians stateless. […]
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Some Countries will have to Face 6 Climate Catastrophes at Once
(TeleSur) – The future risk of dealing with multiple climate impacts at once depends on geography and whether humanity succeeds in rapidly drawing down greenhouse gas emissions. By century’s end, many parts of the world may have to cope with up to six climate catastrophes at once, ranging from heat waves and wildfires to diluvian […]
Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party
After the election I received a provocative letter from my friend and mentor Bill Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins and author of Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism. Bill has had a long and distinguished career in academia—and in activism. As a graduate student at Michigan he helped […]
Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution against Sexual Harassment
The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)
Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists
Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement? John Lewis Joins
Veteran Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) has joined the Green New Deal proposed by the Sunrise Movement and endorsed by newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Here is a video of his remarks, among them that the people “have a right to know what we are breathing.” Here’s the video of civil […]
Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco
Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron
For First Time, Afghan President admits 30,000 Troops killed since 2015
More than 17 years since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the conflict grinds on
After Israeli Attack on Journalists Protest, Int’l Fed. of Journalists demands Response
“The IFJ’s global leadership and a number of Palestinian journalists walked peacefully.”
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