Pro-war voices spent the past few days gleefully seizing on an erroneous report to claim that the UN had cut the death toll for Palestinian women and children in half. The lie is still spreading like wildfire as you read this.
jacobin.com/2024/05/gaza-u…

The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.
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Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale. jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic…

In the midst of a dire affordable housing crisis, landlords are also charging residents junk fees — which can include “benefits” that are not in tenants’ best interests, application and pest fees, and basic services to keep apartments habitable. jacobin.com/2024/05/landlo…

The bribery trial of New Jersey senator Bob Menendez gets underway this week. But he should have been investigated long ago for his links to Cuban American terrorists. jacobin.com/2024/05/bob-me…

In the past few days, US officials and mainstream media figures have been sharing the false claim that the UN cut its Gaza death toll estimate in half. It took a serious misreading of the actual UN report to get this wrong.
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'Cuban American terrorists have always enjoyed impunity in this country.' – Jose Pertierra, a Cuban-American lawyer.

Not just Miami, but New Jersey politics has been shaped by the Cuba lobby for decades. Menendez's corruption emerged from that rot. jacobin.com/2024/05/bob-me…

The US-Kenya alliance in Haitian intervention represents a convergence of strategic interests between the United States as an imperial power and Kenya as an increasingly assertive player in the Global South.
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Since October 7, Israel has massacred and displaced more than three times as many Palestinians in Gaza as it did in all of Palestine during the Nakba of 1948. jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic…

“Marxism” seems to be taking up a lot of space in the heads of contemporary conservatives. But all too often, it’s used as a catch-all term for every left-coded trend that frightens them.
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Compounding the ongoing housing crisis, landlords are charging their tenants junk fees. These fees can include services landlords are legally required to perform as well as “benefits” that are not in tenants’ best interests. jacobin.com/2024/05/landlo…

The trial of New Jersey senator Bob Menendez gets underway this week, as he is charged with acting as an Egyptian “foreign agent.” Not on trial? His links with far-right Cuban American terrorists.
jacobin.com/2024/05/bob-me…

From the start, Israel’s war on Gaza has seen a whirlwind of misinformation meant to keep the slaughter of Palestinians going, often promulgated by mainstream media and powerful officials. The past few days have seen one of the most glaring examples yet.
jacobin.com/2024/05/gaza-u…

Pro-war voices spent the past few days gleefully seizing on an erroneous report to claim that the UN had cut the death toll for Palestinian women and children in half. The lie is still spreading like wildfire as you read this.
jacobin.com/2024/05/gaza-u…

Global South states like Haiti have often served as labs for Western imperial powers to test new techniques of control. But the US’s embrace of Kenya as a purported Pan-African “face” of intervention there is a sign of the changing nature of imperialism.
jacobin.com/2024/05/us-ken…

The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.
jacobin.com/2024/05/us-ken…

In 1948, Israel killed more than 10,000 Palestinians. Today the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues in Gaza on a much larger scale. jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic…

Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale. jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic…