Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to some who say, “There is no evidence that Nazism has substantial influence in Ukraine.” Joe Lauria reports.
Neo-Nazism’s rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political and military elites who prefer to turn a blind eye because they rely on the far-right for their military potential, Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko tells Natylie Baldwin.
On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.
Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
“Industrial violence, which is decimating the Palestinians, will become ubiquitous” — from the author’s recent address at the Sanctuary for Independent Media.
Three years ago on Monday Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s intervention in Ukraine to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” the country after 30 years of the West pushing Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria on Feb. 24, 2022.
The U.S. has staged operations with extremists from Ukraine to undermine Russia for nearly 8 decades. It’s led us to the doorstep of nuclear annihilation.
States with Israel’s apartheid status — one hopes — have no long-term future in the modern world, says Lawrence Davidson.