Jurors in West Palm Beach, Florida, found the banana giant responsible for funding a right-wing paramilitary group in the 1990s and 2000s and awarded $38.3 million in damages to eight families.
Chiquita Liable for Banana Worker Murders
Category: Civil Rights
Academia Only as Free as Powerful Donors Allow
Jonathan Cook comments on The Intercept‘s coverage of two prestigious law reviews’ censorship of a Palestinian scholar.
Harvard’s Punitive ‘Palestine Exception’
Members of the university’s medical faculty call out the Harvard Corporation’s disproportionate punishment of 13 seniors for participating in the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment.
The Homeland Security Campus
Repress U., Class of 2024: Michael Gould-Wartofsky provides an overview of the wide-reaching crackdown on U.S. campus protest.
Funding Attacks on the Pro-Palestine Student Movement
Natalia Marques rounds up the links between the violent crackdown on Gaza solidarity student encampments and billionaire activists.
Caitlin Johnstone: Knowing How Unfree You Are
If Americans were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But when it comes to matters of such importance, they never get a vote.
Vijay Prashad: Three Evils
There is no ambiguity about Israel causing Gaza to suffer occupation, apartheid and genocide. To counter Israeli denialism, here is a short primer on why these terms are accurate.
US Pursues Australian Citizen With Extradition Threat
Mary Kostakidis says Dan Duggan, a pilot who will be in a court hearing on Friday, is a victim of the changed relationship between Washington and Beijing.
A Brutal Suppression of Speech
The increasingly common resort to diktats by U.S. authorities is a notable feature of contemporary American society — in all spheres, writes Michael Brenner.
Chris Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.