Project Esther is more than just a desperate attempt to salvage a crumbling Zionist narrative — it is part of a broader authoritarian shift in U.S. politics, says Tariq Kenney-Shawa.
Silencing the Shifting Opinion About Israel
Month: April 2025
Caitlin Johnstone: ‘Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself’ Is Just a Slogan for Genocide
Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as genocide apologia.
A New International Order?
Progressives’ support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a “new international order,” writes Asoka Bandarage.
US Taxpayers Appalled at Funding Genocide Turn to UN
With no recourse in U.S. courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Marjorie Cohn reports.
American Rendition: Journey to a Louisiana Cell
The arrest and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a child development researcher who has not been charged with a crime, reveals what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the ground. Hanna Allam reports.
US Adds to Long Hospital-Bombing History
This brief rundown of the past five decades shows that last month’s attacks on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Yemen are far from an aberration, writes Alan MacLeod.
Palestinian Resistance in an Orwellian World
In Palestine, Israel has been the executioner and the United States has been the executor of ethnic cleansing and genocide, though it is those who uphold international law that are blamed, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Craig Murray: Trump, Tariffs & Trade
There is no danger of the U.S. being unable to finance trillion-dollar trade deficits in the next few years. But for how long?
Chris Hedges: Israel is About to Empty Gaza
As Israel prepares to ethnically cleanse the whole of Gaza, it is also setting the stage for a regional crisis.
Downplaying Ukraine Connection in Latest Trump Plot
The early evidence indicates that the latest plot to kill Donald Trump was directed by one or more persons in Ukraine. But you wouldn’t know that from the mainstream media, reports Joe Lauria.