Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza.
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
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Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith
Common Dreams
From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?
After viewing the video of the second strike, Representative Jim Himes said, “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel, who were killed by the United States.”
There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. Still, it may be useful to reflect on the situation as it currently exists and pose the question: if this were the end, which side won?
While Israeli settlers drive Palestinians from their land through violence, another, quieter expulsion continues through bureaucracy and law, signed by army generals, and approved by Israel's High Court of Justice.
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In Livorno, a port city off the coast of Tuscany, a coalition of labor unions, local organizations, and everyday people have blocked container ships from moving cargo.
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