“They wouldn’t listen to me,” he said. “They wouldn’t let me call my family. Nothing. They just said: You’re going to Iraq and your best bet is to cooperate with us.”
“It is beholden on those of us fighting for climate justice to ensure that not an inch is given to those who would use environmental degradation as grounds for racist nationalism.”
“Somehow Jake Tapper still finds a way to bring the Arab world and Palestinians into a conversation about WHITE SUPREMACISTS murdering innocent people. Disgusting. But hey, when someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
“Criticizing the occupation doesn’t make you anti-Israel, frankly. It doesn’t mean that you are against the existence of a nation. It means that you believe in human rights, and it’s about making sure that Palestinian human rights are equal to Israeli human rights, and there are a lot of troubling...
“Israeli forces killed and maimed some 2,800 Palestinian children in 2018, the highest number in years, and yet were not mentioned on an annual United Nations blacklist of armed forces that commit atrocities against youth.”
“Contrast this rosy scenario with what would happen under Trump’s rule. If that same worker gets a 50-cent raise at work, the whole family will lose SNAP benefits overnight because it puts them over 130 percent of the federal poverty level cutoff.”
“Imagine how many people that don’t have the reputation, the reach, and the resources that Jose LaSalle has. They get f*****, and there’s nobody there. There’s no technology on their phone to save them. They just get stuck in the system.” ...
If the United States goes to war with Iran, you are unlikely to hear the word “oil” uttered by top Trump administration officials, but make no mistake: that three-letter word lies at the root of the present crisis, not to speak of the world’s long-term fate.
he biggest divide in America today runs between oligarchy and democracy. When oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates, they neuter democracy. The oligarchs know politicians won’t bite the hands that feed them. So as long as they control the money, they can be confident there will be no meaningful...
By all accounts, it was the President’s pollsters who insisted on this strange talk about the environment. They are desperately afraid that they are losing independents who have come to fear the physical future that climate change is imposing. That means that the school strikers and the divestment campaigners and...