2024

25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are “Life-Changing;” Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli bombardments killed 38 people in Gaza. Based on past experience, we can expect a majority of those killed to have been women and children — at least 21 and maybe more. Photographs and video coming out of Gaza show dead children being carried in burial shrouds. For […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s anti-Abortion Drive will Take Lives: Lessons from Ireland on why ‘Reasons-based’ access to Abortion doesn’t Work

The Conversation

By Seána Glennon, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa< | -

Israel/ Palestine

Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote […]

Featured

Trump-Vance are doing to Haitians what the Israeli Right has done to Palestinians — Demonize a Whole People

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vile and disgusting tactic of J.D. Vance and Don Trump of spreading false, racist charges against Haitians of eating the pets of suburbanites is nothing unexpected. The MAGA wing of the Republican Party thrives on finding poor, weak victims and demonizing them. First they manufacture an imaginary threat, then […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Netanyahu corrupted Britain’s oldest Jewish Newspaper with self-serving Propaganda

Middle East Monitor

by Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks ( Middle East Monitor ) – How did Britain’s oldest Jewish newspaper end up publishing a story that Israel’s security forces have raised serious doubts about? That’s the question many are asking with the Jewish Chronicle facing intense criticism over what is seen as a glaring example of journalistic malpractice. The […]

Green Energy

Green Energy is Quiet Energy: Let’s stop getting Sick from Noise Pollution

Stan Cox

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And with many of the ways we use that energy, we’re also producing another less widely discussed pollutant: industrial noise. Like greenhouse-gas […]

Featured

International Pressure on Israel averted Widespread Gaza Famine this Summer, but the Danger is Back: RI

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Refugees International has issued a new report about hunger in Gaza. The authors say, “Contrary to the official Israeli pushback, research and analysis by Refugees International has corroborated evidence of a severe hunger crisis in Gaza and found consistent indications that famine-like conditions occurred in northern areas during the first […]

Israel/ Palestine

Time to End Business as Usual in Unlawful West Bank Settlements

Human Rights Watch

By Bill Van Esveld Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – The United Nations’ core human rights agency is mandated to produce a database, updated annually, of businesses involved in Israel’s unlawful policy of establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. So far, this has been […]

Immigration

Springfield Native: Vance’s Nazi Lie about Haitians Summoned Nazis to March in our Streets

Ohio Capital Journal

By David DeWitt | – (Ohio Capital Journal ) – Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home, and you end up watching a national conversation play out largely divorced from reality or the actual experiences of communities intimately connected to your own life. That’s what happened to […]

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