Michael Laxer
“The horrendous events of the past 48 hours in Gaza beggar belief.”
Image via the Palestinian People's Party Top UN officials echoed the call to improve conditions for Gaza’s 2.3 million people, 1.7...
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Michael Laxer
- Nov 19
- 5 min
Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
A nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia is under attack by popular, big-name brands. Indonesian orangutan mother and child...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 19
- 5 min
Gaza Will Suffer, But the Palestinian People Will Not Break
The only solution to Gaza is the same solution to the rest of occupied Palestine—a clear understanding that the real problem is not...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 18
- 5 min
Americans Are Bankrolling Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Gaza
Through the flow of our tax dollars toward Gaza’s destruction, our hands are being stained with the blood of Palestinians. By Sonali...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 18
- 5 min
Cuban leaders express solidarity with Palestine at meeting with students in Havana
Translated and edited from an account by Alina Perera Robbio via the Communist Party of Cuba: Friday afternoon (November 17), at the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 17
- 1 min
"NATO is nothing but a terrorist organization" - TKP
From the November 16 statement of the Communist Party of Turkey opposing allowing Sweden to join NATO and NATO expansion in general: NATO...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 17
- 3 min
Probe Shows 126+ Civilians Killed by Israeli Airstrike Targeting 'Just One Guy'
Airwars noted that this is "the most named victims we have ever monitored in a single event." By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Israel's...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 17
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1092
"The Young", Irina Vasilievna Shevandronova (1928 – 1993), People’s Artist of the RSFSR, USSR, 1974
Michael Laxer
- Nov 17
- 1 min
Buen Vivir as a Pathway to Health for All
Organizers and activists at a launch event for the 5th People's Health Assembly. Photo: PHM Julio Monsalvo region By Global News Service...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1091
September 1948, painting Lee Shkreli, People's Republic of Albania 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1091 On September 11, 1942, the patriotic women of...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 1 min
Arab-OIC Summit Calls Israeli Assault on Gaza a War Crime
By Global News Service A joint Arab-Islamic summit held in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on November 11, rejected Israeli claims that the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 1 min
European Trade Unions Intensify Actions of Solidarity with Palestine
Protest at the Genoa port by USB workers. Photo: USB By Global News Service On November 9, in a joint statement, the dock workers and...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 3 min
'Red Cup Rebellion': US Starbucks Workers Strike Nationwide
"Red Cup Day too often means defeat for employees and customers alike," said one shift supervisor. "And Starbucks walks away with a...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 5 min
Fast Fashion Is Antithetical to Workers’ Rights
Don’t believe the fashion industry’s stated commitment to support a living wage for Bangladesh’s garment workers. By Sonali Kolhatkar...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 2 min
Life expectancy in the US drops dramatically
In a remarkable development that is a clear indictment of healthcare and public health initiatives in the United States, life expectancy...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 16
- 3 min
Biden Refuses to Provide Proof of Hamas Base at Gaza Hospital
Neither Israel nor the U.S. have put forth concrete evidence that Hamas set up its headquarters under al-Shifa, Gaza's largest medical...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 6 min
The Israeli Attack on Palestinian Health Workers in Gaza and the Failure of the AMA
An image provided by Maxar Technologies shows Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings in Gaza City By Rupa Marya and Vijay Prashad On...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 2 min
Open rebellion in the UK Labour ranks over ceasefire in Gaza
Thousands rally outside the UK parliament to call for MPs to support a ceasefire in Gaza, November 15 For many months -- buoyed by, to...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 5 min
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch
The values of the U.S. public are not the same as those of the wealthy and corporations. It took a UN official—an outsider—to point out...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 4 min
"Hospitals are not battlegrounds": International condemnation grows as Israel raids al-Shifa
Brazil's Lula says Israel is committing the "equivalent of terrorism" in Gaza while both South Africa and Türkiye say they may refer...
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