Saturday, September 28, 2024

■ The Week in Review


Hezbollah Confirms Hassan Nasrallah's Death as Israel Carpet-Bombs Lebanon

"Israel is committing crimes against humanity and waging regional war (while dragging international states to it) all in order to maintain its control of resources in the region," said one West Bank journalist.

By Jessica Corbett • Sep 28, 2024



X Suspends Journalist Ken Klippenstein Over Publication of JD Vance Dossier

"The 'free speech absolutist' has once again silenced a journalist he didn't like," said one observer.

By Brett Wilkins • Sep 26, 2024



25 Arrested Blocking Netanyahu's Motorcade to UN General Assembly

"Our world leaders have done nothing to stop Netanyahu and his genocidal administration," said one organizer. "We must be the ones to stop him."

By Brett Wilkins • Sep 26, 2024



Exclusive: Khanna Proposes End to 'Unconscionable' Taxpayer Subsidies for Big Oil

"The fossil fuel industry receives over $20.5 billion in taxpayer dollars every year while fleecing American consumers and driving a global climate crisis," said the California Democrat.

By Jessica Corbett • Sep 26, 2024



With All Eyes on Gaza, Israel Bulldozed 'Mile After Mile' of West Bank

"We watched their bulldozers tear up streets, demolish businesses, pharmacies, schools," said one local leader. "They even bulldozed the town soccer field, and a tree in the middle of a road."

By Jessica Corbett • Sep 25, 2024



Progressive US Lawmakers Call for Arms Embargo to Halt Israeli Escalation in Lebanon

"We cannot continue to stand idly by while innocent civilians are being bombarded with our tax dollars," said U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.

By Jake Johnson • Sep 25, 2024



Blinken Faces Calls to Resign Over Lie That Israel Is Not Blocking Gaza Aid

"When a senior American official lies to Congress in the middle of genocide so that the government can keep funding that genocide, he is deliberately flouting the law and prolonging the suffering of millions of innocent people."

By Jake Johnson • Sep 25, 2024



GOP Killing Spree Continues as Missouri Executes Marcellus Williams

"We must abolish this flawed, racist, inhumane practice once and for all," Congresswoman Cori Bush said of the death penalty.

By Brett Wilkins • Sep 24, 2024



'Deeply Anti-American': Trump Calls for Jailing Supreme Court Critics

"This Trump fellow is an obvious, unrepentant fascist without the slightest understanding of what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution demands and requires."

By Jessica Corbett • Sep 24, 2024



'Unfortunately,' Say Critics, Biden's Climate Claim at United Nations 'Not True'

"Biden presided over a historic oil and gas production expansion and our research shows that his administration's energy policies fall short of U.S. climate goals," said Allie Rosenbluth of Oil Change International.

By Edward Carver • Sep 24, 2024


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■ Opinion


Wake Up Democrats! Trump Is Eating Your Working-Class Lunch

Trump has promised to stick John Deere with a 200% tariff if it outsources U.S. jobs to Mexico; the Dems responded by getting a billionaire to call this “insanity.”

By Les Leopold • Sep 26, 2024


A Coup or Authoritarian State Capture? On Conceptualizing Trump's Project 2025 Program​

We don't need to call it a coup, but a sinister advance of authoritarianism in the United States it certainly would be.

By Earl Picard • Sep 26, 2024


Calling Trump a Fascist Threat to Democracy Is Not Inciting Violence—It's the Truth

Nobody has done more to bring hatred and violence into the political arena than the Republican nominee for president.

By Robert Reich • Sep 23, 2024


What Was Teamsters’ Leadership Thinking?

Being Trump’s buddy is not going to save you from the end of the NLRB and a return to pre-New Deal hostility to all forms of union power.

By Hamilton Nolan • Sep 22, 2024