From the start of the g–nocide in Gaza to today, pro-Israel forces have lazily screamed “blood libel” any time Israel has come under criticism for one or another bloodcurdling atrocity.
Article in LIB
After successfully challenging deportation orders in court last year, Palestinian student activists Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi are facing renewed attacks from the Trump administration.
Their persecution is meant to chill political speech broadly.
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Central planners had a rational vision: replace the anarchy of the market with conscious coordination.
📰 In LIB, Vivek Chibber explains why calculation and incentive problems undermined that vision, but a different sort of socialism can still flourish.
The sanctions against Albanese, who previously recommended the ICC pursue war-crimes charges against Israeli officials, were announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in July 2025. But on Wednesday, a DC judged ruled the sanctions were a violation of free speech.
In August 2025, Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC, was locked out of the financial system and most online services. Why? The US had placed him on a sanctions list that includes al-Qaeda members and Vladimir Putin because the court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
German journalist Hüseyin Doğru serves as another example. Doğru was placed on an EU sanctions list in May 2025, which barred him from traveling or accessing his personal financial accounts. The journalist said the sanctions were imposed because “the state was bothered by our critical reporting on the repression of pro-Palestinian activists here in Germany.”
The result? Doğru has struggled to feed his newborn child.
📰 We wrote about Guillou, Doğru, and others in "Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism" in LIB
For the average American, a data center looks like an annoying physical and financial encroachment that doesn’t create local jobs but threatens to make the affordability and education crisis worse, all to enrich a distant tech bro’s AI product.
📰 Full from David Sirota in LIB
It’s 78 years since the Palestinian Nakba — the catastrophe.
Rather than a single point in time, we might think about it as a disaster whose legacies and possible outcomes are still unfolding. In its lifespan, a new geological time period has been anointed, the number of sovereign nation-states has jumped from seventy to almost two hundred, and communication has been revolutionized by IT.
Amid this dizzying kaleidoscope, the Palestinians have fought desperately — often in vain — to control the tide and meaning of their national cataclysm. In one direction lies survival. In the other, the way of the dodo. The Nakba’s ultimate legacy has never been predetermined. But the starkness of that binary choice has always been obvious to Palestinians.
📰 Full from British Palestinian political commentator Kieran Andrieu in LIB
Philadelphia congressional candidate Chris Rabb is candid about his democratic socialist politics, saying, “Socialists need to expose the role of both parties in our crisis and point toward a future where the working class holds power.”
📰 Full interview in LIB
New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Sam Levine writes in Jacobin that we need more than technocratic tweaks against corporate surveillance — we need policy and citizens’ movements that can be bulwarks against economic domination.
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Unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines peasant and indigenous land rights.
We wrote about it in LIB
