Photograph Source: Aimee – CC BY-SA 4.0 There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended the March for...
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On Creating a Cover for Genocide
Image by Alisdare Hickson. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local...
The Rabbi and the Robdozers – Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide
Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispensing wisdom in matters of religion and Jewish law. He’s also a reservist in the Sayeret Givati brigade of the...
Il nazionalista Karol Nawrocki è il nuovo presidente della Polonia
Lo storico conservatore Karol Nawrocki ha prestato giuramento come nuovo presidente della Polonia il 6 agosto. Le sue dichiarazioni prefigurano una difficile coabitazione con il governo filoeuropeo di Donald Tusk. Leggi
To Protect Voting Rights, We Need a Democratic Constitution
On this day 60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — and our fundamentally undemocratic Constitution is to blame. President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther...
Women’s emancipation through economic transformation: A conversation with Sandra Angeleri
A new book tells the story of revolutionary feminist economist Nora Castañeda, who attempted to empower women through an innovative state bank.
Mientras las democracias erosionan, los milmillonarios se enriquecen – Por Gloria García
Los conceptos vertidos en esta sección no reflejan necesariamente la línea editorial de NODAL. Consideramos importante que se conozcan porque contribuyen a tener una visión integral de la región. Gloria García* América Latina y el Caribe se enfrenta a una paradoja...
“Out, Damned Spot!” The Actively Complicit Try to Launder a Genocide
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A week ago, a parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I...
On Creating a Cover for Genocide
Image by Alisdare Hickson. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local...
Remember When the Democrats Lost the Elections Because of Fears About Inflation? The NYT Doesn’t
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.” The gist of the article is that the tariffs are on a path to raise close to $400 billion...
On Starvation Hasbara
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling the history of one of many catastrophic destructions of the nation of Israel. Observant Jews...
The War Economy at the Border
Image by Greg Bulla. While Venezuela Reunites Families, the U.S. Builds a $131 Billion Border War Machine In July 2025, the U.S. Congress passed a budget that commits $131 billion to expanding detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is the largest...