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With US Support, Israel Extends Gaza Genocide to the West Bank

by Andre Damon, published on World Socialist Website, August 28, 2024 Israel has launched a new phase of its ethnic cleansing operation in Palestine targeting the West Bank. On Tuesday and Wednesday, hundreds of Israeli troops, along with armored vehicles and bulldozers, supported by drones and helicopters, launched the largest raid into the occupied West Bank in two decades, targeting[…]

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An Arms Embargo on Israel is Not a Radical Idea — It’s the Law

by Youana Tchoukleva, published on Mondoweiss, August 31, 2024 As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an[…]

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Israel launches largest occupied West Bank offensive since Second Intifada

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine and Huthifa Fayyad, published on Middle East Eye, August 28, 2024 Israel launched its largest offensive on the occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada, attacking three cities – Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas – from land and air. Drone strikes were reported in the three cities as troops opened fire at Palestinians on the[…]

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Protests for Palestine at the DNC

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 The struggle to struggle in today’s hyper restrictive environment played out in Chicago where protesters fought legal and popular battles to be allowed to express their rejection of politics as usual and support for the people of Palestine.  [jb] DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide[…]

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Democratic Party Convention: Lesser Evilism Strikes With a Vengeance and a Cacophony of Corporate Media Hype

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action,  August 25, 2024 24,500 full size posters reading “We ♥ Joe” [See photo above] were held high by virtually every Democratic Party Convention delegate and attendee jammed into Chicago’s United Center to cheer for yesterday’s disgraced and withdrawn presidential candidate, Genocide Joe Biden. That the Biden-Harris administration presided over a new congressionally approved[…]

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Ceasefire Negotiations as a Weapon of War

by Malik Hijazi, published on Mondoweiss, August 25, 2024 I have lost count of how many times I have clung to the hope of a ceasefire, only to watch it crumble into dust. As the war in Gaza stretches into the summer of 2024, the promise of ending this suffering has become nothing more than a cruel illusion. Every time[…]

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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, August 21, 2024 An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct involvement in major wars with Russia and Iran,[…]

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Tens of thousands march for Palestine at the Democratic National Convention

Staff, published on Fightback News, August 21, 2024 Chicago, IL – On August 19, over 20,000 people marched on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The march was the result of over a year of work by the Coalition to March on[…]

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Meeting Palestinian hero Leila Khaled

by Saher al Khamash, published on Workers World, August 12, 2024 During our trip to Nicaragua, we never thought we would meet Leila Khaled. However, her visit during this time in July is actually no surprise to those familiar with the details of her life and the parallels between the Palestinian and Nicaraguan liberation struggles. Palestinian revolutionary, socialist and guerrilla[…]

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Kamala Harris in Her Own Words

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2024 Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what she will do should she become president. What did Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden do? President Harris would follow in their ignoble footsteps. “People have said if[…]

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