Archive | Portside

September 28, 2019

U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture

Joseph Margulies Boston Review

They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—the Saudi Arabian citizen detained in the wake of September 11, still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.

September 28, 2019

Palestinian Women to March Against Gender-based Violence

Zoe PC People's Dispatch

Women across Palestine and the diaspora marched on September 26 to assert that the struggle of women is intrinsic to the broader struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

September 28, 2019

Morales Scathing Attack on Capitalism at UN General Assembly

Morning Star

"The underlying problem is in the model of production and consumerism, in the ownership of natural resources and in the unequal distribution of wealth." Today, 26 people in the world have the same wealth as 3.8 billion people.

September 28, 2019

Climate Change: Still Time to Staunch the Blood-Dimmed Tide

Emily Atkin The New Republic

This dystopian vision of a new era of climate-driven global conflict and ideological regression has shifted into the foreground of global politics. But, there is still time to drown out the fossil fuel industry’s chorus of denial and change course.

September 27, 2019