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Tag: Social issues

  • A Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

    According to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organization that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 percent of the world’s population lives with less freedom of expression today than did ten years ago. The eradication of basic freedoms and rights is partly due to the pervasive normalization of censorship. Across media platforms, […]

  • What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way

    What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way

    I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so long. — Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet […]

  • When Nicaragua Took Germany to Court, Media Put Nicaragua in the Dock

    When Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month, readers of corporate media might have seriously wondered whether Nicaragua’s case had any legitimacy. The case targeted Germany as the second biggest supplier of arms to Israel, because the US, Israel’s biggest supplier, does […]

  • Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

    Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students Take the case of […]

  • Veterans For Peace Memorial Day Statement May 2024

    Memorial Day is a day for remembering the victims of war. Members of Veterans For Peace remember America’s war dead not just once a year, but every day of our lives, with the solemnity they deserve, not the crass commercialism Memorial Day has become. We remember the war dead and the far greater number of […]

  • From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech

    From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech

    The police state does not want citizens who know their rights. Nor does the police state want citizens prepared to exercise those rights. This year’s graduates are a prime example of this master class in compliance. Their time in college has been set against a backdrop of crackdowns, lockdowns and permacrises ranging from the government’s […]

  • Inside one Israeli death and torture camp

    Palestinians participate in a sit-in protest at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, on 5 May. They denounced the assassination of Dr. Adnan Al-Barash in an Israeli prison.  (Ali Hamad APA images) Torture, amputations and the fetid smell of untreated wounds hang heavy in the air at the Sde Teiman facility. An army base situated […]

  • Don’t Get Me Started

    Don’t Get Me Started

    Where must we start? Every day, we start today A disagreement or a criticism, before it turns into a fight, or a fight which might be reduced to a mere disagreement or criticism: Where we start or end is the frontier between phrases and fists. It really is that simple. The only way to prove […]

  • When Safety is a Fiction: Passing the UK’s Rwanda Bill

    What a stinking story of inhumanity.  A country intent on sending asylum seekers to one whose residents have actually applied for asylum and sanctuary in other states.  But the UK-Rwanda deal, having stalled and stuttered before various courts and found wanting for reasons of human rights, has become law with the passage of the Safety […]

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