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Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism. Which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war. Several commentators have addressed the problem with the metaphor of the “two blades of a scissors,” which is the central element of the anti-Iranian propaganda letter (AIPL) released a few days ago in the Guardian newspaper. We are not going to repeat the critiques here but will offer a People(s)-Centered Human Rights/anti-imperialist perspective that…

DoD Loses a Battle In Its Unnecessary War With Anthropic Source link

By Nour Abo Aisha This article was originally published by Truthout The vile fumes saturate our food with their smell. Our daily inhalation of toxic burned plastics is slowly killing us. Before the ceasefire last year, Israel subjected Gaza to a comprehensive and enforced siege which prevented countless necessities from entering the Strip, including cooking gas. However, after the Witkoff Agreement was signed in October 2025, which contained a humanitarian clause allowing 600 trucks to enter daily, including 50 trucks designated for fuel and cooking gas, we Gazans believed that we would finally be able to use healthy and…

Busting the ABA's Accreditation Monopoly Source link

Dan Steinbock Informed Comment Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement. With the collusion of the Israeli military and police, the Israeli-occupied territories are effectively ruled by the Messianic far-right settlers who see their mob-like racist pogroms of Palestinians as a divine step to Final Redemption. The ongoing year has accelerated the process from settlement expansion toward territorial consolidation and displacement. The scale is stark. Displacement becomes systematic By August 10, the UN reported 76 Palestinians killed in the West Bank, including 18 children; about 3,800…

Syracuse Can't Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills Source link

The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room Jonathan Cook Substack The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and peace activist, to get him locked up for as much as 14 years – supposedly for “inviting support for Hamas”. Fearful that the judge would punish his barrister for delivering a closing speech that properly defended him, Greenstein instead spoke directly to the jury. For half an hour, he picked apart sham charges…

Most if not all large-scale organizations resist reform. Colleges’ and universities’ institutional structure enables them to resist better than most. At most if not all large-scale organizations, management and labor incline to maintain established practices. Ingrained habits, stable and predictable procedures, and the accumulation of experience equip those working in and out of the C-suite to accomplish the organization’s official goals. Yet valuable habits, procedures, and experience can also function to deflect fresh ideas, suppress new methods, and undercut innovative arrangements – particularly those that threaten to redistribute power, downgrade roles, and take jobs. In commercial enterprises the discipline imposed…

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Detained For 300-Plus Days. In December, a United States judge dismissed the case against detained journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, ruling that the U.S. government had deprived Parias of access to counsel prior to his trial. There was no other “remedy.” Parias is a father of two children in southern Los Angeles. He is known for documenting ICE operations and goes by Richard LA on TikTok. As the order to dismiss the case recounted, on October 21, 2025, ICE agents “used their vehicles to box in” Parias’s car. While attempting to break the car’s windows, the “wheels spun and…

Has anyone died of measles in the state this year? We don’t know yet. What we do know: Health bureaucrats and the media are DESPERATE to attribute deaths to measles, whatever the facts. Source link