Category: Thinking Politically

The civilized World is shocked each day by reports of Jewish Israeli mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the images of the immense suffering of children and adults in a devastated city largely reduced to rubble. Numbers matter and shocking quantitative comparisons between the Gaza deaths and (a) WW2 Nazi and Japanese atrocities and…

Over the course of the first quarter of this century, the American presidency has accumulated ever more power, rendering the office increasingly less constrained by either Congress or the courts. With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs and…

Discusses the coup attempt in South Korea in early December 2024, and the people’s uprising against it, which ultimately prevailed, and the martial law order was rescinded.

Detailing Israel’s “crime of extermination,” the report makes it clear bombing hospitals is no accident. Six days after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel  on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. In fact, 1.1 million people were ordered to evacuate the entire north of the enclave within 24 hours. But…

The Venezuelan question is a black and white issue: either you support Lula and Biden’s regime change efforts in Venezuela, each moving forward in their own way, but coordinated, or you support Maduro and Putin’s defense of Venezuela’s independence and sovereignty. Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party (PT, by its acronym in Portuguese) has presented itself since…

Author’s contemporaneous report of his experiences in Seattle during the WTO Protests in late 1999, plus some reflections/comments 25 years later.

Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not been spared in this wave of Zionist repression.  The U.S. climate community and the entire nonprofit ecosystem must understand, and quickly, that a chilling effect on free speech is bad news…

The West’s dominant media tell us little about Hamas’ history or ideology, relying instead on “terrorist” clichés. This new book cuts through them to explain. What do we know about Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement, commonly known as Hamas? I read independent media every day, but even so, a year after Al-Aqsa Flood and the onset…

The state’s attorney is prosecuting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students over last April’s encampments. Pre-trial hearings for students who participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment in central Illinois last spring are being held on November 20 and December 4, 2024. The outcome of the four students’ trials will determine whether they will risk up to…

Cuba’s immediate condemnation of Israel’s aggression against Palestine was no surprise, given its historic position of standing on the side of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and and with the struggle for liberation. After breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973, Cuba defended the re-establishment of the pre-1967 borders. In the last year, top…