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It’s really disturbing how Columbia administration has effectively desensitized the student body to the arrests of their peers by allowing us to be mass arrested by NYPD twice last semester. Now there are arrests of students at almost every action and it is accepted as normal.

Eiffel’s steel pillar was erected in 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the beginning of France’s “Great Revolution” in 1789, but also to erase the memory of less “great” but more recent and very traumatic revolutions, namely those of 1848 and 1871. counterpunch.org/2024/09/04/par…

If workers’ pay had kept pace with productivity, as it did in the three decades after World War II, it would be roughly 40% higher than it is today. counterpunch.org/2024/09/04/div…

It’s been a pretty rough year for those in the reality-based community here in the United States. Even the very nature of cause and effect has been hijacked. Don’t believe your gut when you see wanton carnage, believe in the “joy” based toxic positivity. counterpunch.org/2024/09/04/let…

Great Basin solar apocalypse

A country that calls the routine shootings of its own school children the cost of doing business in our weird notion of a "free society" is unlikely to feel any empathy for Palestinian children killed by the weapons we sell Israel.

A rational person would return it to sender.

WOW: A black bear was recently seen swimming in Crater Lake and exploring Wizard Island for the first time in “many decades." trib.al/IHQSufx

I was there! Reflecting on the event and the movement around it 25 years later.

The genocidal imperial practices in Gaza constitute a blueprint for future aggressive actions in the Global South and for suppressing dissent within the imperial core. counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/fro…

The challenge of saving Gaza’s children is complicated by the fact that Israeli bombs continue to be dropped on every part of Gaza, including the so-called ‘safe zones’, which were declared by Israel soon after the start of the war. counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/war…

The majority of Americans are trying to disconnect from painful lives. counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/the…

Is the AfD a fascist party? Björn Höcke, its boss in Thuringia, one of its three best-known national leaders and its main rabble-rouser, has never concealed his admiration for Germany’s days of swastika glory. counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/eas…

"I was introduced to the Gaza Flotilla by Bob Suberi, who was born in America, descended from Yemeni Jewish parents and has dual citizenship with Israel. He lives near St Louis." counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/the…

The shooters dad got his son an AR-15 as a Xmas gift. Wonder where he got that idea?

The “apology” is even more genocidal than the podcast

Aysenur Eygi, a 26-year-old American peace activist with the group ISM, has been shot in the head and reportedly killed by Israeli forces today in Beita, near Nablus in the West Bank.

MAGA is reinventing the decadent phase of Maoism, you love to see it.

It’s not that the Democrats did not show any concern about Palestinians at the Democratic National Convention. They showed extraordinary concern given the lengths they went to erase them from Kamala’s coronation. counterpunch.org/2024/09/06/why…