Rabbi Arik Ascherman speaks frankly on Jewish settlers’ assault on the West Bank, and how extreme the dehumanization of Palestinians has become in Israel.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Assad government falls after nearly 14 years of civil war as rebels seize capital
“The city of Damascus has been liberated,” rebel fighters declared on state TV.
Posted inRattling the Bars
Alabama prisoners sued to stop forced labor—a court dismissed their case
The court ruled that Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and the state’s Department of Corrections Commissioner were protected from the prisoners’ lawsuits by state sovereign immunity.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Robert Reich predicted the death of the US middle class 30 years ago. We asked him how to save it.
The former US Labor Secretary explains how wealthy elites and conflict merchants have bought off our democracy, profited from dividing us, and smothered popular progressive policies like universal healthcare.
Posted inWorking People
Is the Great Depression a glimpse of our future?
A new history of poor and working people’s struggles to survive the dark 1930s, facing economic devastation and rising global fascism, can teach us a lot about the moment we’re in today.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
‘We are human’: Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza
Journalist Ruwaida Amer, who has produced numerous documentary reports from Gaza for TRNN, shares an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Biden supports genocide in Gaza because he agrees with it
Fake behind-the-scenes maneuvering, supposed electoral necessity: all cover to avoid the unseemly fact that Biden simply supports genocide in Gaza because he thinks it’s justified.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump picks ‘deeply strange’ Kash Patel—who vowed to ‘come after people in the media’—for FBI director
Kash’s nomination to lead the FBI, said one watchdog, “represents the cronyism that is coming to define the second Trump administration. Loyalty to President-elect Trump is what matters above all else.”
Posted inWorking People
What a can of tuna can teach us about international workers’ solidarity
Fishers in Southeast Asia are combatting horrendous abuses at sea—and they’re doing it by organizing transnationally with fellow workers.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Yes, the ‘nonprofit killer’ bill is that bad—but it’s not invincible
If passed by the Senate, HR 9495 would grant the Trump administration unilateral power to target nonprofits, especially those that have been critical of Israel, as “terrorism”-supporting entities.
