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  Bennis: Understanding Israel’s Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits

  Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence
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  Cohn: Israel Isn’t Entitled to “Self-Defense” Against the People Under Its Occupation

  “This is the worst I witnessed in my life. No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal.”
• Wilkins: 100+ Groups Condemn Israeli Violence in East Jerusalem and Gaza

  A statement signed by 124 groups says the current conflagration is part of a "broader context of Israel's ongoing policy to forcibly remove Palestinians from their homes through eviction, home demolition, and displacement."
• Abu Jamei: This Must End

  Open letter from the director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program
• Machine Workers of America: United Electrical Condemns Attacks on Palestinian People

  Working people need and deserve, instead, a foreign policy based on diplomacy, peace, and international solidarity
• Rothchild: The Nakba Continues

  It is up to the international media, governments, human rights and grassroots organizations, and communities all over the world to make this story different this time
• Ashrawi: U.S. Backing Has Given Israel License to Kill & Maim Palestinians

  Israel’s latest assault on Gaza is turning life in the besieged territory into “sheer hell,” aided by U.S. military and diplomatic support
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  Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government

  Over more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Mr. Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism
• Sugarman: We’re Living With the Consequences of Rich Nations’ Vaccine Hoarding

  The Biden administration has finally backed a patent waiver for Covid vaccines, but it’s already too late for Argentina and countless countries across the Global South
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  Raina: The ‘Nationalists’ must consult the Nation in Finding a Way Forward

  Close to four hundred districts in India now have a positivity rate of twenty percent or more
• Driver: How the Rich Hide Their Wealth: Tax havens and Capital Flight

  The power and wealth of the biggest banks and financial institutions is one of the most under-reported issues in society
• Sirota: After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy

  The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates
• Mazza: Why I am not a climate doomist

  People power is changing the story
• Watkins: A New Wave of Jim Crow Laws Is Here

  Here’s What You Need to Know
• Rebellion: The Power of One

  From Alaska to Israel, lone rebels are sitting in the streets. They are facing not only arrest but oncoming traffic, baffled onlookers, and potentially aggressive drivers
• De La Cour: Massachusetts Nurses Waging Longest Current Strike in the US

  The longest active picket line in the US is in Worcester, Massachusetts, where over 700 union nurses are entering their third month on strike. Their chief demand: safe staffing for patients
• Aziza: Can Palestinian Lives Matter?

  George Floyd’s death penetrated the American imagination. Now Palestinians fight for the right to be human. Will the world see them?
• Harwood: Wisconsin bill would cut funding to cities that defund the police

  Wisconsin’s legislature is largely dominated by Republican minded bodies, who blatantly disregard Black, Brown and Indigenous communities
• Gordon: Nurses in the Real World of For-Profit Medicine

  All over the country nurses are fighting to make sure hospital staff get needed personal protective equipment and safe staffing
• baseMjondolo: The Attack on our Movement Continues

  Another comrade appeared in court today on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder
• Johnson: Sanders Rejects Top Dems’ Push for a Big Tax Break for the Rich

  "You can't be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you're going to really fight for working families."