Progressive Group Urges Jon Stewart to Enter Democratic Presidential Primaries
by RootsAction.org
on December 07, 2023
The progressive activist organization RootsAction on Wednesday urged comedian and activist Jon Stewart to challenge President Biden in the Democratic primaries as a way of “opening up the process” at a time when “the activist base of the Democratic Party is widely alienated from the president.”
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For Media Elites, War Criminal Henry Kissinger Was a Great Man
by Norman Solomon
on November 30, 2023
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their love for him. The media establishment kept swooning over one of the worst war criminals in modern history.
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Second Democrat says he was offered $20M to run against Tlaib
by Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News
on November 29, 2023
A second U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan has come forward saying he was offered $20 million by the pro-Israel lobby to switch races and instead mount a primary challenge against Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit.
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UAE Corruption Beyond Description Means COP28 Is Likely Over Before It Starts
by Bill Mckibben, Common Dreams
on November 29, 2023
We’re still a day or two away from the official start of COP 28 in Dubai, but in some ways it seems over before it began:
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Backing Biden for 2024, Conformist Democrats Have Been in Denial. Now They’re in a Panic.
by Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen
on November 27, 2023
Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Biden’s dwindling prospects for re-election.
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Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race?
by Norman Solomon, The Nation
on November 21, 2023
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the US-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both governments, and how activists should approach it all.
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Rep. Omar Introduces Resolution to Block Weapons Sale Used to Fund War Crimes in Gaza
by Rep. Ilhan Omar
on November 16, 2023
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced a joint resolution of disapproval today for the proposed export license for $320 million in Spice Family Guided Bomb Assemblies to Israel.
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Open Letter from a Ukrainian Facing Prison for Speaking for Peace
by Yurii Sheliazhenko
on November 16, 2023
Greetings from Kyiv. Yesterday my city was disturbed again by air raid sirens, so I ran from Vernadsky scientific library to hide in the closest shelter, a subway station.
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Denunciation to the International Criminal Court for genocide and other crimes (art. 15.1)
by Riccardo Petrella, Pressenza
on November 16, 2023
On 9 November [2023] at 11 am in The Hague, a denunciation for genocide and other crimes (art.15.1) concerning Palestine in particular will be presented to the International Criminal Court.
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The Carnage in Gaza Cries Out for Repudiation and Opposition. Maybe Poetry Can Help.
by Norman Solomon
on November 16, 2023
Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
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