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Chris Hedges Substack In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges, who has extensive experience as a former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief, describes the information published by the Israeli State as lies: “If there is one indisputable fact, it is that Israel lies like it breathes.” The task of professional journalists and media outlets is to review evidence and verify the information they are reporting, but when it comes to Israel, Western establishment media…
Five years after the fall of Kabul, this Wall Street Journal opinion documentary investigates the day-to-day process of America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, told by the people who lived it. Read more from WSJ: The Path to Zero: How the War in Afghanistan EndedIt recounts a chain of strategic and political decisions in August 2021 that culminated in the shocking scenes the world witnessed at Kabul Airport and the bombing of Abbey Gate, where 13 U.S. troops and hundreds of Afghan civilians died as the final American planes left the country and the Taliban retook the capital. President Biden ordered…
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout “[I]t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said. In a first, Starbucks Workers United and its 12,000 members are calling for a boycott of the coffee chain, after spending nearly 5 years pressuring the company to negotiate a first contract since the first location unionized in 2021. “At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,”…
The White House said Thursday that it is not currently negotiating with Iran to end the war, even as mediators travel to Tehran to revive the diplomatic process. “No negotiations are happening right now, and this will continue until the president feels that maybe they come to the table in a meaningful way,” the outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Thursday morning. She touted the prospects of “Operation Economic Outcast,” the set of sanctions Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday. Leavitt’s statement echoes comments President Donald Trump made in a Wednesday interview with Al Jazeera. “I…
Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. Naudline Pierre, Haiti, This, I Know to Be True, 2023. (Via Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research There is a certain comfort in the stories that empires tell about themselves. In these stories, capitalism appears as the natural flowering of European ingenuity — the product of reason, scientific discovery, technological innovation and the thrift of industrious individuals. Colonialism and slavery, when they appear at all, are treated as regrettable episodes alongside an otherwise triumphant…
We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. Source link
By Lauren Rankin This article was originally published by Truthout The ruling sets the stage for further free speech protections for those who help abortion seekers who cross state lines. The national legal landscape has become just a little bit brighter for those who have been working tirelessly to help abortion seekers in Republican-controlled areas cross state lines to access abortion care. Reproductive rights advocates nationwide are hopeful that last week’s decision about an Indiana law by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals could potentially have wide-reaching implications for nationwide efforts to protect patients’ right to access abortion information…
As America enters its 250th year, the question Publius posed in the first Federalist Paper remains just as pressing. Source link
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist If the Democratic Party prevails in the midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But his decision to meet with Jared Kushner was a textbook case of how politics really operate and shows why a victory will once again bring disappointment to voters. Democratic Party leadership work on behalf of the ruling class and against the interests of the people. According to the New York Times, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held an undisclosed, i.e. secret, meeting with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law. “The rare engagement…
There is a lot of legitimate concern over the net effects of students using AI to do their school work. If you let AI do your writing, then you will not learn how to write, for example. Or worse – if you let AI think for you, then you will not learn how to think. I have spoken with many teachers at many levels about this and they range from those who take diligent steps to minimize AI “cheating”, to the other end where some throw up their arms and essentially say, “if students us AI to cheat, they are…