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[ad_1] Palestine Action Lawyer Faces Renewed Contempt Proceedings Dania Akkad Declassified UK A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time. The original proceedings brought against Rajiv Menon KC were thrown out last month for procedural reasons. But on June 22, Justice Jeremy Johnson ruled that Menon’s case met the necessary “threshold conditions” to proceed and that it was in the public interest to do so. He said the case should be referred to a judge who can “deal with the matter expeditiously.” “I stress…

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[ad_1] Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute or Social Research. Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought. Narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task. Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements. We had in mind people such as the Egyptian economist Samir Amin (1931–2018), Brazilian economists Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997) and Vânia Bambirra (1940–2015), Pakistani political scientist Eqbal…

[ad_1] Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as something immigrants endanger and citizens defend. It is worth asking what the phrase means, because the moment you press it, the entire architecture of the cultural-threat argument inverts, and the people cast as the danger turn out to be the ones with no power to do harm, while the damage that has actually been done to the country was done by the people doing the casting. Begin with…

[ad_1] In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson “No bigger than half a piece of soap” was how history remembered the diminutive James Madison, who weighed barely a hundred pounds. At 5 feet, 4 inches tall, he would later become the shortest American president ever. Yet firearms are the great equalizer, and in June 1775, two months after the American Revolution had begun, Madison had no doubt that he and his fellow Virginians could take out the British redcoats. In a letter to Rhode…

[ad_1] Hossam Shaker for Middle East Monitor  People can be consciously aware of atrocities without experiencing the moral outrage those horrors warrant. This emotional detachment is particularly pronounced when atrocities target “those who are different,” occur in seemingly “remote” lands, or repeat so frequently that they dissolve into a familiar, predictable monotony. Psychological frameworks explain this affective insularity through cognitive biases like the “just-world fallacy,” which blocks empathy in otherwise deserving cases to protect one’s own psychological comfort. Alternatively, it manifests as victim-blaming to rationalize aligning with the oppressor, or as compliance with propaganda narratives designed to dehumanize victims…

[ad_1] With the details of the signed Memorandum of Understanding still unclear, it does appear, for all intents and purposes, that the United States has lost the war with Iran. That means Pete Hegseth, the first Secretary of War, has lost a war. As if the US couldn’t look more foolish, the MoU gives the US nothing it wanted when it comes to the military objectives it was pursuing in Iran. The only big “accomplishment” is that Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but not “toll-free” as US President Donald Trump claimed. But the vital waterway was open before…

[ad_1] Olivia Riggio FAIR Euronews (6/26/26) shows how easy it is to link extreme weather to climate change, and climate change to fossil fuels. Severe weather has gripped the globe this week, with record-shattering, deadly heat in Western Europe. In the US, heat, wind and drought conditions fueled wildfires in the Southwest, while heavy thunderstorms, wind and floods caused destruction in eastern and central states. Scientists attribute these extremes to fossil fuel–driven climate change. Europe’s heatwave would have been “virtually impossible to occur at this time of year” 50 years ago, scientists from the World Weather Attribution group reported. The project’s Theodore…

[ad_1] Plastered onto the side of the glassed-in immigration office at the dock in Necoclí – the northwestern Colombian city just across the Gulf of Urabá from the Darién Gap – is a poster warning of the hazards of northbound migration. Over recent years, more than 1.2 million people from a mind-boggling array of countries have […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. [ad_2]…

[ad_1] What can ten humanitarian activists tell us about today’s (and yesterday’s) geopolitics? In politics, and especially genocidal politics, the micro can say much more about the macro than the macro about the micro. Reduced to macro arguments among pundits and politicians about whether the enormity of genocide is or is not “genocide”, the real meaning, […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. [ad_2]…