Israel bombed Tehran's Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism's willingness to treat Jewish life as disposable in the service of its ideological project.
βThese people that say, βIt was an accident, move on,β they don't have to worry about what the contamination is going to do to their health long term... I can't afford to just go move.β
As the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was advised not to investigate the bombings, Pentagon officials expressed support for strikes on land, ostensibly against drug traffickers.
βIt's really a bit of a clown showβ¦ I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for itβ
Frank Bardacke's history of the Farm Workers union opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self.
"There is one law for Israeli Jews and there is another law for Palestinian Arabs."
Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said itβs βboth inspiring and frustratingβ to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.
βOur tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.β
βEverything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive wayβ Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.
This war is widening the deep systemic problems that were already present before February 28, says scholar Adam Hanieh.
βA warehouse is meant to be an economic hubβ¦ Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.β
Drugs. They have been the boogeyman across Latin America for decades. An excuse that has led to so much violence. And Trump is turning up the temperature. This is episode 10 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
βI'm just trying to get healthcare," says Laura Dixon, a veteran security officer and Abacus Corporation employee. "I haven't had healthcare in years."
Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire agreement, Israel launched a massive bombing campaign across Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and threatening to derail the U.S.-Iranian ceasefire before it even begins.
β[Iranians] don't want this war. They hate war. They desperately want peace, but they are not going to capitulate. They've made a collective decision that they will die if necessary to defend their country.β
Disabled, ill, and aging Americans are facing a broken system thatβs now harder to navigate than ever.
