Nancy Pelosi’s been in office for 37 years. She’s an ardent supporter of capitalism and imperialism, telling a college student who asked her in 2017 that “I have to say, we’re capitalist - and that’s just the way it is” at a time when 51% of 18-29 year olds said they didn’t support capitalism. She was part of the push on Obama to bomb Syria in 2013, she’s a hawk on Iran and she’s said that U.S. support for Israel is “ironclad.” ...
Responses to the current violence in, and from, Gaza vary as follows:
Israeli leaders, much of the Israeli public, and Zionists in the West, thirsting for vengeance, call for genocidal mass murder and/or wholesale ethnic-cleansing operations against the people of Gaza.
Israel and its Western imperial allies (U.S., et al.) evade...
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian...
On October 9, Israel and Hamas announced the adoption of a cease-fire agreement involving the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Israel, in exchange, agreed to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid, to release Palestinian prisoners, and to withdraw its forces to a so-called “yellow line” from which...
A massive military and intelligence failure, or something else?
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other militant forces crossed from Gaza into southern Israel, attacking military sites, roads, kibbutzim, and the Nova music festival. Roughly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers or visitors were killed during the attacks, and 251 were...
In a promising move, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan decided to file for an application to serve arrest warrants to Israeli and Hamas leaders. As published in Al Jazeera, Khan was quoted as saying that there are “reasonable grounds” to serve warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
The Israeli government, with the full backing of the White House, has completely thrown out the January ceasefire and negotiations and resumed the genocidal bombing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which may be followed up by a full-scale ground invasion...
When in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves for 29 years, I thought I had seen some pretty stupid things that politicians told the military to do. It always begins with politicians deciding the easiest, most sensible solution to a problem would have too much political baggage and cost them...
Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces.
OR Books has put out a collection of his writings, If I Must...
November 4th has been declared an International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. Over 100 demonstrations will take place that day around the world in solidarity with Palestine, from Johannesburg to São Paulo, Berlin to Kuala Lampur, Athens to Algiers...
