Ralph Nader Statement on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy

December 30,2024

Ralph Nader

Jimmy Carter was the last president to actively open the government for engagement by citizen groups. Right after his November 1976 election, he agreed to address a huge hotel ballroom in D.C. full of local and national citizen advocates. It was a great success never again repeated by succeeding president-elects. Mr. Carter then chose civic leaders and other solid progressives to head regulatory agencies such as NHTSA, EPA, OSHA, FTC, and for other high positions in government. Starting in 1981, Ronald Reagan undermined many Carter Administration health and safety initiatives.

 

Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia

Israel’s collateral killing of civilians is finally in the spotlight

December 30, 2024

Robert Inlakesh

The New York Times recently published a piece admitting that an unprecedented amount of “collateral damage” has been permitted by the Israeli military. However, in order to sanitize the revelations it claims to be uncovering, it omits key statistics that were previously revealed.

 

 FILE PHOTO. A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza. ©  Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images

Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir

December 30,2024

Michael K. Smith

A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights. The big business agenda during his term in office (1977-1981) was to roll back the welfare state, break the power of unions, fan the flames of the Cold War to increase military spending, engineer tax breaks for wealthy corporate interests, and repeal government regulation of business. While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.

 

LIVE BLOG: Dr. Abu Safiya Flogged | Massacres in the North | Hamdan: ‘Maximum Flexibility’ – Day 450

December 29,2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
45,484	108,090	11,000

 

Former President and Human Rights Champion Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

December 29,2024

Julia Conley

Former President Jimmy Carter, who served just four years in office and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of work promoting human rights and international peace, died on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100.

Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism

December 28, 2024

Henry A. Giroux

For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit and economic efficiency.

  

USC students walk out of class and march around their campus in support of Palestinians and the divest movement on October 7, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News / SCNG via Getty Images

Moscow warns US, UK preparing 'ISIS attacks' on airbases in Syria

December 28, 2024

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) warned on 28 December that the US and UK are planning to use ISIS to attack Russian military bases in Syria to further destabilize the country after the fall of the Syrian government.

10 Tips to Help You Fall Asleep Fast

December 5, 2024

Michelle Crouch

We’ve all been there: staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning and waiting for sleep to come — only to find it slipping further away.

 

Israeli soldiers storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, force out semi-naked medics and patients

December 27, 2024

Ahmed Dremly

Israeli soldiers stormed Gaza's last functioning hospital on Friday and forced semi-naked Palestinian medics and patients to leave on foot to an unknown destination, according to videos and eyewitness testimony shared with Middle East Eye.

 

 Israeli forces switched off oxygen supplies inside Kamal Adwan and forced medics and patients out in the streets on 27 December 2024 (Screengrab)

Resist, my people, resist: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2024)

December 27,2024

Vijay Prashad

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Maysa Yousef (Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory), Alice in Palestine #1, 2021.

'A Policy Choice': US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year

December 27,2024

Jessica Corbett

The controversial federal system for tracking homelessness in the United States recorded an 18% increase from 2023, breaking the record previously set last year, according to a report released Friday.

 

Unhoused people are seen near the City Hall during heavy rain in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2024. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Three babies freeze to death in Gaza refugee camp amid Israeli blockade Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/three-babies-freeze-to-death-in-gaza-refugee-camp#ixzz8vXS80ReP

December 26, 2024

Father of three-week-old victim Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh says family slept on cold sand in tent exposed to bitter winds.

 

 Mahmoud al-Faseeh carries the body of his daughter, three-week-old Sila, who froze to death in the family tent in the al-Mawasi area outside the town of Khan Younis, December 25, 2024 [Hani Alshaer/Anadolu]

‘We will leave when the last Palestinian leaves’: The defiant last stand of the doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital

December 25,2024

Tareq S. Hajjaj

For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army's attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the army steps up its attacks.

 

 Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiyeh (middle), holds up his hands during the Israeli invasion of the hospital, October 26, 2024. (Photo: Screenshot/Social Media)

Palestinians Endure Another Christmas of Genocide and Displacement

December 25, 2024

Michel Moushabeck

Over the past 14 months, I have watched in horror as fellow Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to Israel’s relentless bombardment — targeting refugee camps, residential neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, universities and bakeries — and forced to live the nightmare of homelessness in leaky tents without food, water or medical care. I have listened to friends and family in the West Bank and East Jerusalem talk about their despair and describe the daily terror they are subjected to at the hands of the Israeli military and armed settlers, whose aim is to get them to leave their homes and land.

 

Palestinians partake in the yearly Christmas procession towards the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem town in the Israel-occupied West Bank on December 24, 2024. HAZEM BADER / AFP via Getty Images

For Christmas: The Persian Poet Nezami’s Story of Jesus Finding Virtues even in the Lowliest

December 25, 2024

Juan Cole

On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other mystics. Today it is Nezami’s turn.

 

What If Jesus Had Been Born into the American Police State?

December 25, 2024

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart.”

    —Howard Thurman, theologian and civil rights activist

Netzarim corridor: Israel’s ‘axis of death’ for Palestinians

December 24, 2024

Ruwaida Amer

Earlier this year, when a rumour spread that Palestinians could travel from southern Gaza to the north, Sabreen Lashin was one of the first to attempt to return home.

 

 A displaced Palestinian woman stands outside her tent, which is damaged by wind and rain, in Deir al-Balah central Gaza Strip, on 25 November 2024 (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters)

President Musk Will See You Now (If You're Bearing Money or Power)

December 24,2024

Abby Zimet

In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America's "Mump regime," governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white supremacist gazillionaire whose new hobby is buying presidents is cosplaying as shadow president to cash in - and fuck kids with cancer - alongside a senile grifter selling everything in sight: Bibles, sneakers, perfume, hotels, cabinet seats, diplomatic posts and democracy itself. Beware: Just to be clear, "We now have a criminal enterprise, not a government."

 

 President Musk with his little Vice President-Image from meme on Bluesky

The day after: How Hamas envisions the future of Gaza

December 23, 2024

Jamil Mazen Shaqura and Saif Alislam Eid

On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” targeting the Israeli military positions surrounding Gaza, and the Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip. In the words of Mohammed Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing the Qassam Brigades, the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was aimed at eliminating the Israeli army’s Gaza Division. In Deif’s words, it was also meant to mark the beginning of the battle for “the Great Liberation” — to restore all occupied Palestinian territories that were settled in 1948. 

A Palestinian woman walks past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on April 12, 2024. (Credit Image: © Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via ZUMA Press APAimages)

What if… Musk is the real President?

December 23,2024

Lorenzo Maria Pacini