Archives for يوليو 2021

الكفاح لإنقاذ لفتا ، آخر قرية فلسطينية متبقية

لفتا ، المدينة الوحيدة التي لم تهدمها إسرائيل بعد النكبة ، تقف كرمز لحق الفلسطينيين في العودة ، لكن خطة "التنمية" للحكومة الإسرائيلية قد تغير ذلك قريبًا.

بواسطة Jessica Buxbaum
LIfta Feature photo

LIFTA, JERUSALEM — Yacoub Odeh is 81 years old but he can still remember his childhood in the Palestinian village of Lifta as if it were yesterday. Children playing together in the gardens, swimming in the pools and laying in the grass. Today, Lifta remains as a frozen time capsule. While the residents were expelled during Israel’s 1948 ethnic

What’s Behind The Assassination Of Haitian President Moïses?

Journalist Kim Ives joins Behind The Headlines Correspondent Dan Cohen to discuss the aftermath of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïses and the revolution brewing in Haiti.

بواسطة Dan Cohen
Jovenel Moise Feature photo

 The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse sent shockwaves through the tiny Caribbean island nation and beyond. While little is known about what happened overnight Wednesday, it appears that a group of foreign mercenaries with inside knowledge of Moïse’s home were responsible for carrying out the operation that killed him. Moïse

Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power

When the ‘boy mayor’ of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region’s elites deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.

بواسطة Chris Hedges
Dennis Kucinich Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — “The Division of Light and Power,” by Dennis Kucinich, like Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York,” is a gripping, moving and lucidly written account of the hidden mechanisms of corporate power in the United States and what happens when these corporate interests are

Carlos Lazo: The Cuban American Leading the Charge to Transform US-Cuba Policy

While right-wing Cubans in Miami call him “comunista,” Carlos Lazo has no time for ideology. He is neither for or against the Cuban government; he is for the Cuban people, the Cuban families. And he is disgusted by the cruelty of the U.S. blockade

بواسطة Medea Benjamin
Carlos Lazo Feature photo

Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer heat and occasional death threats (including a trucker who tried to run them off the road), the marchers persist. Lazo’s group is called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, and

Lee Camp: America’s Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People

Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let’s look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our not-so-distant past

بواسطة Lee Camp
Biohazard suits hang in a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) — The Biden Administration, the mainstream media and pretty much all the politicians in our country continue to throw fuel on the Sinophobia fire initially stoked by former President and current Mar-a-lago “fungineer” Donald Trump. (Word to the wise, “Sinophobia” means anti-China hatred, not anti-cinema hatred as

Saagar Enjeti: The Pseudo-Populist Mainlining Neocon Ideas into Progressive Politics

While he is undeniably a charismatic and confident host, Saagar Enjeti’s schtick is remarkably similar to that of his former employer Tucker Carlson, who also rails against elites while being one of them.  

بواسطة Alan Macleod
Saagar Enjeti Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball are the new king and queen of alternative media. After having just quit The Hill to go fully independent, their new show “Breaking Points” immediately debuted at number one in the global politics podcast charts, comfortably overtaking well-established brands like “Pod Save America” and “The Ben Shapiro