Commentary by Jonathan Cook The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades. In a popular British comedy sketch set during…
Commentary by Stefan Moore As a secular Jew raised in a fiercely anti-Zionist family, I grew up viewing the State of Israel as an unfortunate fait accompli and accepting that the two-state solution was probably…
By Sharon Zhang CNN has for years maintained a policy of running all of its coverage on Israel and Palestine, including its recent Gaza coverage, past its bureau in Jerusalem, where it is subject to…
Biden Official Resigns Over Gaza Assault By Jake Johnson An Education Department official who volunteered for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign announced his resignation in early January over the administration’s support for Israel’s “indiscriminate violence”…
Commentary by Rowan Williams One significant anniversary in 2023 passed almost without mention. In May 1923, the Welsh women’s peace petition was initiated—a plea from the women of Wales to the women of the US,…
By Rebecca Gordon Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I’m not sure who “us all” actually was,…
By Refaat Alareer If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…
Nonprofit provides health care regardless of ability to pay By Tiney Ricciardi When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit…
By Lisa Sorg It took nearly two hours for dozens of opponents of a proposed liquified natural gas plant in Person County to explain how the project—aspects of which have been crafted in secret—would harm…
Commentary by Clayton Dalton Earlier this year, I stood outside the hospital in New Mexico where I worked as an emergency physician. I was, for the first time, picketing. The next day I would be…