Michael Laxer
Israel Shuts Down Al Jazeera Operations in the Country
By Global News Service Two days after the world commemorated Press Freedom Day, Israel ordered the shutdown of the Al Jazeera media...
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Michael Laxer
May 73 min read
Cutting Off Lifeline for Starving Gazans, Israel Seizes Control of Rafah Crossing
"This has devastating impacts for the people of Gaza who are already on the verge of famine," said the UNRWA's director of planning....
Michael Laxer
May 63 min read
'Unlawful and Catastrophic': IDF Begins Forced Evacuation of Rafah
The head of one humanitarian group called the Israeli military's directives "a serious violation of international law." Smoke from an...
Michael Laxer
May 42 min read
UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering 'Full-Blown Famine'
"And it's moving its way south," she warned. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy...
Michael Laxer
May 35 min read
The Older Generation of Politicians Can’t Stop the American Intifada
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police...
Michael Laxer
May 23 min read
'Their Blood Is on Gene Block': UCLA Students Injured in Violent Police Raid
Officers in military gear fired flash-bang munitions and used batons to clear a nonviolent encampment calling for an end to Israel's...
Michael Laxer
May 12 min read
Palestinian Students and Academics Express Solidarity With University Encampments Across the Globe
A message of thanks on the side of a tent in Gaza -- image via X screenshot By Global News Service Since late April, thousands of...
Michael Laxer
May 13 min read
This May Day, Cuba and its workers are celebrating
Around 200,000 Cubans gathered in this historic Tribune of a Thousand Battles, along with the warm embrace and support of 1,100 friends...
Michael Laxer
May 13 min read
'All Because Columbia Refuses to Divest': Police Storm Campus, Violently Arrest Dozens
"The U.S. government and institutions like Columbia are showing that they would rather brutalize students than divest from apartheid and...
Michael Laxer
May 13 min read
Fight for a new and better tomorrow – a future of peace, progress and socialism -- Workers Party of Ireland
May Day Statement by the Workers Party of Ireland May Day is an international celebration of workers’ solidarity and class struggle. At a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 302 min read
Greek youth mobilize for protest at US embassy, 50th Communist Youth Festival
Images via the KKE Youth in Greece mobilized to protest in solidarity with US university students and Gaza at the US embassy and to...
Michael Laxer
Apr 292 min read
Israel Kills Daughter, Infant Grandson of Slain Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer
"I have beautiful news for you. I wish I could tell you in person. Do you know you have just become a grandfather?" Shaima Alareer wrote...
Michael Laxer
Apr 273 min read
Campus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University on the night of April 24 -- screenshot image via X By Saurav Sarkar Students at more...
Michael Laxer
Apr 262 min read
Sabreen, Baby Girl Rescued From Mother's Womb After Israeli Airstrike, Dies
Sabreen's grandmother watching over her clinging to life -- video screenshot via X By Julia Conley, Common Dreams A grieving family and a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 241 min read
Water Crisis Adds to Women’s Health Burden Amid War on Gaza
A woman holding three small children in Gaza, March 2024 -- image via X By Global News Service Over 34,000 people have been killed in...
Michael Laxer
Apr 242 min read
Students Launch Encampments in Solidarity With Gaza Across the U.S.
NYU students and faculty stage protest in Washington Square Park, March 23, after NYPD conducted mass arrests clearing their protest...
Michael Laxer
Apr 242 min read
US unions call for Columbia University to "immediately end the repression of protest"
Protests in the Columbia Quad, March 22 -- image via X With the ongoing Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University in New York...
Michael Laxer
Apr 232 min read
UN human rights chief calls for international investigation into Gaza mass graves, deplores the "harrowing killings of children and women in Rafah"
Bodies being exhumed outside of the Nasser Hospital -- image via the Palestinian People's Party In a statement on April 23, United...
Michael Laxer
Apr 225 min read
Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Professors join students at mass protests at Columbia University, April 22 -- Image via X By Vijay Prashad Israeli bombs continue to fall...
Michael Laxer
Apr 212 min read
'Obvious Evidence of Genocide': Mass Grave Discovered in Gaza's Nasser Hospital
Palestinian rescue workers said they found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands bound and others with their skin, organs, or heads...
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