by Hend Salama Abo Helow | Jan 27, 2026 | Blockade, ceasefire, Gaza, Gaza Ceasefire, Genocide, Israel, Op-Ed, Palestine, War
Since the supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza came into effect on October 10, 2025, I have personally borne witness to two ceasefire breaches in my refugee camp. One was on October 19, when Israeli forces bombed a café — a space to breathe away from scenes of destruction, a place to work or study with a reliable internet connection, a meeting point for displaced friends, a brief chance to enjoy the…
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by Patrick O. Strickland | Jan 26, 2026 | American Imperialism, Donald Trump, Europe, immigration, Nicolás Maduro, Op-Ed, Palestine, Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration, UNHCR, US Mexico border, Venezuela
After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly…
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by Imani Gandy | Jan 25, 2026 | ICE, immigration, Minneapolis, Op-Ed, Third Amendment
Hotels across the country are housing ICE agents as they carry out violent raids, detention operations, and street abductions. Of course people are pushing back. Activists have been calling for boycotts of hotel chains like Marriott and Hilton that cooperate with ICE, arguing that businesses should not be providing material support for an enforcement regime built on mass detention…
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by Nerdeen Kiswani | Jan 24, 2026 | BDS, Israel, Israeli settlements, New York, New York City, Op-Ed, Palestine, west bank, Zohran Mamdani
When Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race of New York City, many believed his election would transform not just municipal policy but how the city confronts injustice, at home and abroad. Many were inspired when, as an assemblyman in May 2023 at the CUNY School of Law, Mamdani introduced the “Not On Our Dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act” (NOOD Act), a bill that would…
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by Jonathan Stegall | Jan 23, 2026 | Abolition, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd Uprisings, ICE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Movement for Black Lives, Mutual Aid, Op-Ed, Organizing, Policing, Resistance
Organizers in Minneapolis are in a whirlwind right now. We are facing what appears to be — so far — the biggest deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cops in one city in the agency’s existence. The brutality and ubiquity of the agents have become central features of the city’s life, as have the massive networks of resistance and protection being built in opposition to them.
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by Craig Mokhiber | Jan 23, 2026 | Board of Peace, Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, Op-Ed, Palestine, Trump Administration, UN
Trembling and genuflecting before the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis, a cowardly world has, once again, offered up the Palestinian people for sacrifice, and, with them, the global system of international law itself. I have written previously about the document of global surrender, codified in notorious (and blatantly unlawful) UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and about Trump’s…
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