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Saying No to the Empire Is Not Enough

Max Elbaum Convergence
We won’t stop US wars, effectively tackle climate change, stave off US-style fascism, or halt the march to a nakedly might-makes-right world order without a vision for a transformed role for the US in today’s interconnected world.

International Women’s Day 2026: Did You Notice?

Jeanette Winterson Mind Over Matter
The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

Policies of Denial

Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

Cora Weiss: A Champion of Peace, Internationalism, and Women’s Rights

John Cavanagh Institute for Policy Studies
Cora was a champion of the United Nations and its mission to advance peace and women’s rights. She insisted that we at IPS name programs in positive terms with “what we’re for”: peace, disarmament, internationalism, women’s rights, the common good.

Blockade Without End: The US Fails, Cuba Pays

Katrien Demuynck Morning Star
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price.

Recognition of Palestine Is Not Enough

Aida Touma-Suleiman Jacobin
Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman argues that in order for the growing recognition of the state of Palestine to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by sanctions for Israel’s permanent illegal occupation.
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