Even Palestinian hunger strikers held illegally in Israeli jails receive more coverage from the Israeli press than Palestine Action’s political prisoners are getting in Britain.
Jonathan Cook: UK Hunger Strike Is Not Being Televised
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
Hedges Report: Erasing Palestine
Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
Imperial Washington: Ozymandias on the Potomac
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
What the US Founders Feared Most
Trump’s constitutional breaches are enough to rouse James Madison from his grave, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. On top of all that comes “The Kavanaugh Stop.”
Escalating the Escalation
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings.
Chris Hedges: The Banana Republic of the United States
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.
NYC Election: Socialism or Barbarism
With an eye on Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral vote on Tuesday, Eric Ross says reviving U.S. socialism also requires recovering its history from the Red Scare and Cold War.
Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
Ilan Pappé discusses his new book and the dynamics causing him to expect that, under a disintegrated and religious extremist Israel, the “Zionist project will collapse in front of our eyes.”