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Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around

Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Kim Stafford: How to make money

Sell munitions to nations at war. Sell relief supplies 
for distribution at war. Fly diplomats around to talk 
about war. Pay speech-writers to equivocate about war.

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

IMAN MOHAMED: Global Protests for a Free Palestine | Photo Essay

Voices are echoing worldwide as tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand an immediate cease-fire and an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.

March 14, 2024 · 3 Comments

Rose Mary Boehm: Sunsets on Mars are Blue

We’ll soon be sending settlers to Mars.
They’ll be sitting on their porches contemplating
the Martian sunsets.

March 13, 2024 · 6 Comments

Brett Wilkins: Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children

“Five months of violence, displacement, starvation, and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza,” said Save the Children. 

March 13, 2024 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: Biden=Genocide

It is a cruel irony to drop food when at the same time the U.S. is funding the dropping of bombs.

March 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

Olivia Rosane: What a Leaked US Cable Says About Israel’s Looming Assault on Rafah

An invasion would have “catastrophic humanitarian consequences, including mass civilian casualties, extensive population displacement, and the collapse of the existing humanitarian response,” the cable warned. . An Israeli invasion of … Continue reading

March 7, 2024 · Leave a comment

Richard Krawiec: Looking at Gaza

In the Israeli siege of Gaza there are so many photos and videos of horror it’s difficult to keep track of them. Every day we see more and more atrocities on social media. We are overloaded with evidence of innocents being killed, maimed; neighborhoods left in rubble.

March 5, 2024 · 11 Comments

Pascale Petit: The Lammergeier Daughter

That night, I opened your wardrobe and found
a trophy of vultures, their necks pierced
by hanger hooks. I saw at once
that you hunted everything I loved

March 4, 2024 · 11 Comments

Chard deNiord: Grief is the River with a Foreign Name

Grief is the river with a foreign name
that floods your heart, pulling you in
with a musical force you can’t resist

March 3, 2024 · 13 Comments

Brett Wilkins: Children Dying of Starvation, Dehydration in Gaza Hospitals

The international community is facing a moral and humanitarian test to stop the genocide in Gaza,” said a Gaza Health Ministry official.

March 3, 2024 · 4 Comments

Rusty Long: Survivalist Architecture

Whether the apocalypse du jour involves the arrival of peak oil, a Mayan prophecy predicting planetary disaster, or a run of the mill zombie apocalypse, there are some key design features that every architect can focus on to ensure their clients are better prepared for any end times scenario.

March 2, 2024 · 6 Comments

Ann Wright: Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others

In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.

March 1, 2024 · 5 Comments

Philip Terman: Meeting the Swami

“Throw your karma in my basket,” it said.

February 29, 2024 · 1 Comment

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