Jerusalem’s Old City: How Palestine’s past is being slowly erased
The Middle East Eye Israel has controlled East Jerusalem and the walled Old City since the 1967 war in which it also occupied the adjacent West Bank. It has effectively treated them as annexed territory ever since. To consolidate its grip on the Old City, it has demolished homes and expelled Palestinian residents, empowered Jewish […]
Trump Administration Incoherence Could Lead to War
The Nation Among members of the nation-security elite, it’s become de rigueur to bemoan Donald Trump’s “neo-isolationism” and its alleged threat to the liberal international order. That line finds its popular counterpoint among Resistance liberals, who echo Hillary Clinton’s famous complaint that Trump is Putin’s “puppet.” It’s hard to reconcile either accusation with the fact […]
From criminal injustice to the Democratic primary
The story of the Central Park Five is not one everyone is familiar with, but for those who are, it demonstrates yet another example of law enforcement and prosecutors miscarriage of justice against a group of black teens. Recounting the tale due in part because of the recent Netflix documentary but more so because of […]
How to Win When the Party’s Got It In For You: Stan Goff on the Sanders Campaign
The Ghion Journal Boni: So if we look at one of your recent pieces, Bernie, Fox and Transition, you talked about a potential Bernie Sanders presidency being an achievable electoral next step that could provide some breathing room for a potential transformation away from capitalism. And the thing that occurred to me was that, despite his […]
Why Hondurans set fire to the US embassy
The Grayzone The streets of Honduras were filled with protesters and clouds of tear gas as the month of June began. The national police fanned out through the country to crush the protests with heavy-handed tactics at the direction of President Juan Orlando Hernández, the US-supported neoliberal leader who won power in elections marred by documented fraud. […]
Israeli Authorities Confiscate and then Attempt to Sell Palestinian Classrooms
The Real News Network Ali Abunimah discusses the complicity of the EU, which donated pre-fabricated classrooms to Palestinian schoolchildren, but did not ensure that they would be used for the purpose of education, rather than as a way for the Israeli occupation forces to pillage Palestinian property for their own profit. Thanks to media outrage […]
The Twin Dangers of Exceptionalism and Mindless Bi-Partisanship
Counter Punch The United States is the most powerful nation on earth. There is no nation nor even a group of nations that can match the combined political, economic, and military power of the United States. Nevertheless, the United States faces an international arena that has become increasingly resistant and opposed to U.S. initiatives. The […]
Despite Police Crackdown, Historic Hong Kong Protests Against New Extradition Law Continue
Democracy Now! Authorities in Hong Kong have shut down government offices and postponed debate in the Legislative Council, one day after riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray at tens of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets to protest a bill that would allow the extradition of Hong Kong residents […]
Mauled by American Meritocracy
Truthdig The news that Amy Chua, the semi-notorious author of the dual memoir and parenting self-help book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” secured her daughter a Supreme Court clerkship under the tutelage of Justice Brett Kavanaugh is many things, but it is not surprising. America’s meritocratic rulers have grown increasingly brazen in recent years, and using your celebrity […]
According to NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ in Midwest Just Happens
FAIR The New York Times’ 2,400+ word report (6/3/19) by Julie Bosman, Julie Turkewitz and Timothy Williams on the historic flooding in the Midwest—amidst the wettest 12 months ever since recording began 124 years ago—is an illustrative example of how not to do disaster coverage. Recalling the Great Flood of 1993 and focusing on the four inundated towns […]