People are being asked to endure austerity cuts while suffering a cost-of-living crisis, write Isabel Ortiz and Sara Burke.
More Austerity Means More Protests in 2023
Category: Civil Rights
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: The Iranian Govt.’s Loss of Legitimacy
No regime has an unlimited supply of political legitimacy. Any government, democratic or non-democratic, needs to constantly read public opinion and to try to respond to people’s minimum expectations and demands.
West’s Hypocrisy About Netanyahu Government
It is only a matter of time before this extremist Israeli government is also whitewashed, writes Ramzy Baroud.
A History of Dissent
The Western establishment doesn’t appear to understand how Western journalists could exercise their own agency and judgment to critique U.S. foreign policy without them being agents of a foreign power, writes Joe Lauria.
Everybody In, Nobody Out
Liz Theoharis imagines building a pro-democracy movement attuned to the needs and dreams of everyday people.
ICC Criticized for Neglecting Probe of Israeli War Crimes
Rights groups are criticizing inaction by the ICC prosecutor in a year when more than 200 Palestinians, including many children, were killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Chris Hedges: Israel & the Rise of a New Fascism
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.
Caitlin Johnstone: Normalizing Police Robot Murder
It makes sense that the U.S., where the police force is more heavily funded than almost any other nation’s entire military, is leading this charge.
Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces in Intl Criminal Court
The news network said the killing of Palestinian-America journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May was part of a wider attack on journalists in Palestine.
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.