'Syria: Only Now Can We Speak Out'

Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.

A Complete Unknown | Movie

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown

The Peasantry

Weijia Pan Motherlands
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

Kate Aronoff The New Republic
In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy. The elderly are not too old to govern; but they may, be too attached to a failed way of doing things.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.

Edo Konrad and Alaa Salama +972 Magazine
The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…

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Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Trump Does Not Have Mandate; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing-- Virtual Training; more....