Michael Laxer
UNRWA Says 6 Workers Among at Least 18 Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza School
"This school has been hit five times since the war began. It is home to around 12,000 displaced people, mainly women and children. No one...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 117 min read
Take Cuba off the list of sponsors of terrorism!: Open Letter
Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons From Casa de las Americas in Havana:...
Michael Laxer
Sep 103 min read
'Another Unbearable and Horrific Massacre': US-Armed IDF Kills Dozens in Tent City Bombing
"The far-right genocidal Israeli government continues to use its one-ton Biden bombs to massacre Palestinians as if they were sheep for...
Michael Laxer
Sep 94 min read
How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...
Michael Laxer
Aug 308 min read
Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
Michael Laxer
Aug 293 min read
US workers need protection from record-breaking heat
2,000 workers die from extreme heat every year. As temperatures rise, we need federal standards for water breaks, shade, and other basic...
Michael Laxer
Aug 282 min read
'Deeply Complicit': US Has Sent Israel Over 50,000 Tons of Weaponry in 11 Months
On average, the Biden administration has sent Israel "a weapons shipment every 12 hours" since October, noted the IMEU Policy Project. US...
Michael Laxer
Aug 243 min read
America's nuclear "downwinders" deserve justice
Countless Americans were poisoned by the nuclear arms race — and their federal compensation just expired. That’s an outrage. Trinity By...
Michael Laxer
Aug 223 min read
'Complicity in War Crimes': Report Names Countries, Companies Supplying Fuel to Israel
"Corporations supplying jet fuel and oil to Israel may be providing material support to the military," one expert said, "and therefore...
Michael Laxer
Aug 216 min read
The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
The combined dangers of nuclear war and climate catastrophe have pushed the hands of the Doomsday Clock all the way to 90 seconds to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 203 min read
Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
A speech that denied the suffering of Palestinians was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who...
Michael Laxer
Aug 129 min read
Capitalism, Mass Anger, and 2024 Elections
Public domain image By Richard D. Wolff In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French...
Michael Laxer
Aug 122 min read
On the 75th anniversary of the Fourth Geneva Convention open letter calls on US to end sanctions
August 12 is the 75th anniversary of the Fourth Geneva Convention and its prohibition on collective punishment and dozens of legal...
Michael Laxer
Aug 102 min read
US and 6 western ambassadors shamefully skip Nagasaki atomic bomb memorial ceremony
A scene from the ceremony -- image via X By Michael Laxer In a truly shameful decision, ambassadors from the United States, the UK,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 104 min read
'Heinous': Children Among 100 Killed by Israel Bombing of Gaza School Just Hours After US Weapons Approval
"It is hard to comprehend how the Biden administration can justify rewarding Israel with new weapons, despite Israel's persistent...
Michael Laxer
Aug 93 min read
Families Flee Khan Younis 'Wasteland' as Israel Hammers Gaza With US-Supplied Bombs
"The most effective action the U.S. could take to halt Israel's genocidal war would be cutting off weapons." Long line of people fleeing...
Michael Laxer
Aug 53 min read
'Beyond Horror': Israel Kills Mostly Children in Fresh Attacks on Gaza Schools
"Remember that each one of those numbers is one person, a child who has been forever changed by what's happened." Screenshot of a man...
Michael Laxer
Jul 273 min read
The US must stop arming Israel
Congress should listen to the American people, not an Israeli prime minister who may be guilty of war crimes. Kamala Harris and...
Michael Laxer
Jul 263 min read
Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis
The southern Gaza city is the latest region where Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order, displacing hundreds of thousands of...
Michael Laxer
Jul 233 min read
KKE delegation visits Cuba, pledges to intensify solidarity efforts
Photos via Roberto Morales Ojeda on X The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that a delegation of the KKE, headed by the General...
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