As a rogue, blood- and oil-thirsty US empire pushes for military intervention in Venezuela, what does it mean to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people without excusing the crimes of Venezuela’s ruling class?
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
‘Defeat for justice’: Ecuador to pay Amazon-polluting Chevron $220 million
“A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Annual defense bill includes provision to effectively undo Israel arms embargoes
Republicans boast that the budget “provides unprecedented levels of support for the security of Israel.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
One year after Assad’s regime fell, Yarmouk residents rebuild their lives
“When so many people are gathered here together 14 years after everything we went through, it’s like a revenge. Returning here is a revenge against our departure.”
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Standing Together: Inside Israel’s Jewish-Arab movement for equality and peace
“We need to make a choice: Are we going to allow our leadership to continue to push us [in] the direction of eternal war, genocide, annihilation, occupation, and apartheid… or are we going towards a historic solution of Israeli-Palestinian peace—of freedom and dignity and equality and safety to all?”
Posted inRattling the Bars
Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn’t an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world’s number one jailer.”
Posted inStories of Resistance
Thousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
Over the weekend, thousands of people protested in more than 65 cities across the United States against US intervention in Venezuela. This is episode 80 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Remembering the resistance to US intervention in Latin America
Marches, hunger strikes, blocked weapons shipments, solidarity actions, pledges of resistance. The 1980s solidarity movement stood up against US intervention in Central America. This is episode 79 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
‘Microsoft workers refuse to be complicit in the genocide’
“None of us have to be a complicit in the US and Israeli genocide. I worked [at] Microsoft… for seven years, and today I quit.”
