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‘Buffer Zone’ Is Media’s Euphemism for Israeli Occupation

Gregory Shupak FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
US corporate media consistently muddy Israeli expansionism in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon through a combination of abstruse language and linguistic balms like “buffer zone” and “security zone.”

Amazon Is Bleeding the Post Office Dry

Rachael Herring Jacobin
The US Postal Service promises to deliver mail to rural areas where private carriers won’t extend service because it isn’t profitable. Now Amazon is taking advantage of that publicly built infrastructure for its own gain — at rural mail carriers’ exp

Paul Robeson Defended Jewish Anti-Fascists From Stalinism

Alexey Markin, Maria Markina, Inge Mandos, Leonid Kharlamov, Ziad Nehme, Kirill Medvedev Jacobin
In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand against any form of racism.