by Maha Hilal | Sep 15, 2026 | 9/11, Drone Warfare, Forever Wars, Islamophobia, Mass Surveillance, Muslims, News Analysis, racial violence, state violence, terrorism, War On Terror
In a 2013 Congressional hearing on drone warfare, a young Pakistani boy named Zubair Rehman, aged 13 at the time, talked about the feeling of living under the threat of constant drone strikes. In his powerful testimony, Zubair stated that “I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies…The drones do not fly when the skies are gray…When the sky brightens, drones return and we live in…
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by Amy Goodman | Aug 4, 2026 | Art, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, Interview, Lynching, Mississippi, racial violence, US history
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.” The Black teenager’s brutal murder, as well as his open-casket funeral that displayed his mutilated body, shocked the United States in 1955 and became a galvanizing moment in the…
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