By Meghna Sridhar Tripp Zanetis | Jacobin | May 18, 2017 Mass incarceration is a central pillar of Israeli occupation. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are waging a hunger strike to fight it. On April 17, on the anniversary of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, over 1,500 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons launched a mass hunger strike. A […]
By Lucas Koerner | Venezuelanalysis | May 19, 2017 Venezuela is once again dominating international headlines as violent opposition protests bent on toppling the elected Maduro government enter their seventh week. The demonstrations have claimed to date at least 54 lives since April 4, surpassing the previous wave of violent anti-government protests in 2014, known as “the […]
By Alison Weir | If Americans Knew | May 15, 2017 I’ve just learned devastating news: Irish investigative journalist Maidhc Ó Cathail is dead. I met Maidhc (prounounced “Mike”) for the first and only time in 2014. He had traveled from Japan, where he was then living, to Washington, D.C. for our National Summit on […]
Sami Abu Zuhri, File Photo Palestine Information Center – May 1, 2017 GAZA – Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised on Sunday the statements of the North Korean Foreign Ministry against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people until the attainment of freedom. In a statement […]
By Stephen Lendman | April 29, 2017 Ahead of the May 7 French presidential runoff, Marine Le Pen chose defeated Debout la France (Arise France) presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan as her prime minister if elected. He’s ideologically right-wing like herself. With him at a Saturday news conference, she said “(w)e will form a government of […]
By Adam Garrie | The Duran | April 28, 2017 Roger Waters, the primary composer and lyricist of Pink Floyd during their most prominent years has for decades, used his music to convey a message of peace and humanity. He has typically got it right and occasionally gets it wrong. One issue he has got […]
By Adam Garrie | The Duran | April 25, 2017 In a further sign that the political climate of South Korea has turned increasingly anti-American/anti-militaristic since the impeachment and arrest of President Park in March of this year, South Koreans took to the streets to protest the arrival of the US THAAD Missile System in […]
By Stanley L. Cohen | CounterPunch | April 25, 2017 This coming Sunday, April 30th, at 5PM, there will be a panel discussion entitled “The Post Political Condition… Trump, Brexit, and The Middle East… What Next? at Theatre 80 located at 80 St. Marks Place on the Lower East Side (LES) of New York City. […]
By Jack Dresser | CounterPunch | April 24, 2017 US-instigated and propelled wars have continued to rage for 15 years in fulfillment of influential neoconservative ideologue Michael Ledeen’s envisioned “creative destruction” through “total war.” General Wesley Clark related the Bush administration’s intention, reported by a Pentagon friend, to “take out” seven countries: Iran plus six […]
Photo via Badee Dwaik Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – April 15, 2017 Palestinian organizer Badee Dwaik, co-founder of the Human Rights Defenders group that has been coordinating actions and popular organizing to confront settlements and occupation in al-Khalil, was recently seized by Israeli occupation forces with three of his colleagues in the #DismantleTheGhetto movement, […]
