with Colonialism By Nciko wa Nciko and Samrawit Gateneh The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and…
By Thomas Fazi The EU loves talking about freedom. Just look at one of its recent press releases, launching something called the European Democracy Shield, which promises to protect everything from “free people” to “free…
Then Came Backlash By Marianne Dhenin Chandra Hassan, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, spent three weeks in Gaza in January 2024, treating patients who had…
Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza By Craig Mokhiber More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting…
The technology of ethnic cleansing Commentary by Cara Marianna Settler violence continues to intensify throughout the West Bank. Let us continue to bear witness to the suffering of our Palestinian brothers and sisters and to…
Palestinian Agency Commentary by Ramzy Baroud For decades, the prevailing notion was that the ‘solution’ to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue can achieve peace” has been the…
By Matt Sledge Three major labor unions sued the federal government on Thursday to stop a sweeping social media surveillance program designed to revoke the visas and green cards of immigrants who hold “hostile attitudes”…
Campaign to stop warrantless use of license plate cameras By Dan King In August, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced the launch of a nationwide campaign to push back against the arbitrary and unrestrained use…
Commentary by Matt Stoller “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis Brandeis The creation of a new political slush fund by titans in Silicon Valley could…
The privatization of public safety (and spy cameras) is a costly threat to all of us By Ian Firstenberg California’s constitution opens with a broad, likely familiar, proclamation added on Nov. 5, 1974. “All people…