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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it."
"Today's warmongers cannot erase the clear lesson of the past," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. "Protecting human rights protects us all."
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the Israeli government of defying the International Court of Justice's order to ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Right-wing harrumphing about the foolishness of raising taxes on the rich rests on a relative handful of high-profile anecdotes that profoundly distort the actual tax-the-rich story.
Reconstituting democratic community requires an affirmative alternative to demagogic recidivism that advances an ethos of equality, diversity, inclusion, fairness, tolerance, commonweal, liberty, rights, lawfulness, nonviolence, and deliberation.
