Glenn Greenwald, Youtube screenshot.
I remember a few years ago, in a very different world, being impressed by an email exchange between the journalist Glenn Greenwald and Sam Harris, the infamous “New Atheist” who had been repeatedly accused of Islamophobia and racism. Harris—who began the back-and-forth with a complaint about a tweet—accused Greenwald of maligning him and fellow New Read more
Still from the Ask Project interviews with Israeli women about Gaza.
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Social justice activist Mizue Aizeki worked for years at the Immigrant Defense Project in New York City. There, she challenged the criminalization of city residents in what came to be known as the “police-to-deportation pipeline.” After the 9/11 attacks, these New Yorkers were increasingly targeted by the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Agents […]
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Although any country that challenges domination by United States corporate or military power will inevitably be the target of a sustained demonization campaign, the lies consistently issued in a torrent against Venezuela are beyond the usual level of invective. Venezuela is the most lied-about country in the corporate press of the Global North, especially in U.S. corporate media outlets. That Venezuela has sought to align its economy to benefit its own people, instituting an impressive array of social services, health programs and political structures to facilitate grassroots participation, has drawn the consistent ire of U.S. authorities. An unrelenting cascade of lies is necessary to generate public support for the unrelenting campaign targeting the Bolivarian Revolution.
Bodies of patients, civilians and four doctors killed in the Israeli raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital. Photo: Screengrab from video on X.
Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously detailed and thoroughly damning report titled, You Feel Like You are Subhuman, released on Thursday, Amnesty’s researchers compiled extensive witness interviews, satellite imagery and digital evidence, and “dehumanizing and genocidal statements” by […]
As students worldwide head back to school this fall, in Gaza, there are no schools left. The U.N. considers the systemic obliteration of the education system by the Israeli military to be a “scholasticide” — all universities, over 80% of schools, the Central Archives of Gaza, and at least 13 libraries have been destroyed, as of April 2024, in Israel’s relentless bombing campaign. Almost 10,000 students are dead and 16,000 wounded, many killed in attacks on schools being used as sites of refuge.
Academics and university administrators in Gaza released an open letter asking for solidarity and resistance from the rest of the world: “We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”
As a graduate student, an aspiring professor, and the child of a Jewish academic, I take this call for solidarity seriously. Where and how do we learn ideologies of resistance, radicalism, and revolution? Once we have inherited a radical idea, what do we do with it? And how do we choose what ideas not to inherit? More
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This quotation usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” is a watchword that investigative reporter Greg Palast lives by. Since the contested 2000 presidential election, Palast’s voting vigil has probed America’s electoral system and abuses of it. The journalistic detective chronicled purported purging of mostly Black citizens from Florida’s voter rolls in his landmark 2002 book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and a 2016 documentary version updated for the Trump era with the same title. Now this steadfast watchdog of voters’ rights is back with a new nonfiction cinematic inquiry wherein the reportorial gumshoe is vigilant about Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, and Georgia is on Palast’s mind.
Last week, the Department of Energy, which oversees the aging nuclear site in Hanford, Washington, reported that a tank containing high-level radioactive waste was leaking. This is currently the third tank we know of that’s releasing deadly nuclear waste into the soil above the groundwater that feeds the nearby Columbia River. This is not a new problem for Hanford, which has 177 of these huge underground tanks that contain 55 million gallons of radioactive leftovers from the US’s nuclear weapons operation. These waste tanks were only supposed to hold up twenty-thirty years, and we’re now going on six decades. Below is an excerpt from my book Atomic Days, which details the site’s sordid history and its extremely problematic future. Sadly, leaks at Hanford are nothing new, nor are the lies surrounding them. It’s a looming nuclear danger that’s bubbling in our own backyard, and I’m scared. You should be too. More
Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza. Photo: UNRWA.
Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful weapon through which the success of any enterprise can be guaranteed … [T]he art of oratory in ancient China tends to be identified with the art of war and of strategic intelligence. – Albert Galvany Half a millennium before […]
In October 1947, 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged subversion in the motion picture industry. Eleven of those subpoenaed testified, including the so-called “Hollywood Ten,” and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the “Hollywood Nineteen” were not called then […]
The aftermath of the December 12 Israeli airstrike on Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza, which claimed the lives of 28 civilians and left over 50 others injured, mostly women and children. Still from footage taken by Talal Muhammad.
Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management, based on interviews with more than 500 Palestinian children, parents and caregivers from 500 children, parents and caregivers from families where at least one […]
