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As of October 2025, over 11,000 Palestinians are reportedly being held in Israeli prisons. This is the highest recorded number in over 25 years, and it is no doubt correlated to the ramped-up raid operations in the West Bank and Gaza intended to subdue the population. In Lebanon, we see Israel’s imperial violence escalating by the day, bombing cities and taking innocent people as prisoners. Israel uses its prison system to stifle resistance so it can continue its genocide freely, and since October 7, 2023, it has banned the Red Cross from entering to visit the prisoners.
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Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners include children, women, and men. Their treatment inside Israeli prisons is nothing short of torture and systemic abuse. The Red Cross has international leverage to call for an investigation of the human rights abuses by Israel in its prisons.* They must use this leverage now.
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Speaking as a former harbor master, operator of cargo ships, and a military specialist on the Mideast, the current war in Iran is a fool’s errand. The much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz is only 33 odd kilometers wide and averages only 220 meters deep. It’s a bottom-scraper for the huge oil tankers that use it. What will happen if the Iranians scuttle one or two large tankers in these narrow waters? The Egyptians did so in 1956 in Suez and jammed up world oil traffic for months.
Someone in the Trump administration forgot to explain these topographical facts to the war-focused president and the hard right neo-conservatives around him. `Obliterating Iran' (the White House’s favorite new term) may not be as easy as the pro-Israel neocons believe.
No Kings III NYC
A slice of the march featuring the Jewish Elders NYC and my take on Woody G’s All You Fascists Bound to Lose. And of course the creativity, seen through the signs, that drives the movement. Also, marching bands, choirs, and special footage from Gwendolen Cates and Mindy Gershon.
It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath.
Today, we’re holding our breath again. Can we hold it until another FDR leads us out of this darkness? Roosevelt comforted us, rallied us. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Today, our Maximum Leader Kim Jong Trump says he has nothing to SELL us but fear itself.
This first-person account by Gordon—no last name—tells about his time of fear: not a damn bit of work to be had— a young man with his tubercular young wife Edith. He’s wondering if anyone gives a damn.
If, in your news feed today, you don’t hear Gordon’s words, you’re not paying attention. He wrote:
American activist Guy Christensen wrote on his X account today: “I would sacrifice my life for a free Palestine.”
What compels a young American—with whom we share no ties of religion or language—to utter such words, while many within the Islamic Ummah claim to have no concern for the Holy Land or Al-Aqsa Mosque, going so far as to promote the hashtag “Palestine Is Not My Cause”? Thus, this makes this young American very special to each and every Palestinian.
Guy is a 21-year-old American with millions of followers across his social media accounts—including 3.6 million followers on TikTok alone. At the age of 17, after watching videos depicting the mass atrocities in Gaza, he decided to speak out. He produced a video drawing parallels between the historical treatment of Native Americans and the plight of the Palestinian people.
He was taken aback when many of his professional associates began contacting him, accusing him of supporting terrorists. Furthermore, the Zionist lobby reportedly offered him money to publicly declare that Israel was the victim and that Palestinians were terrorists.
Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and dismantle the apartheid regime.
Among the conditions circulated in Iranian and sympathetic media—though not formally confirmed by Tehran—is the proposition that any resolution must include an end to Israel’s war across all fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. However, these conditions did not specifically prioritize the freedom of Palestine as a precondition to ending the war.
That frustration is neither misplaced nor marginal. For many, Palestine is not one issue among others, but the defining axis of the conflict itself. Precisely for that reason, however, it cannot be approached in isolation. To treat the current war solely through what has or has not been explicitly stated risks narrowing a profoundly complex confrontation into a single dimension, when in fact it is through this broader, interconnected struggle that the question of Palestine is ultimately being shaped, contested, and potentially resolved.
The past week has seen the usual mixture of developments flowing from the United States government that make one either want to laugh or cry. On the humor side, though with more than a bit of extreme disgust, there are the latest moves by the megalomaniac-in-chief in the White House to slap his name and picture all across the nation and even on maps depicting the rest of the world. His latest foray was to drop into an otherwise innocuous speech a suggestion that he might be renaming the much-in-the-news Strait of Hormuz after himself, suggesting he might be calling it the Strait of Trump after the US takes it away from the Iranians. This, of course, comes on top of the renaming of the US Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to include his name and anticipated impending renamings of places like Virginia’s Dulles International Airport. There is also the soon-to-start construction of the huge Arch’ De’Trump outside Arlington National Cemetery.
Opposing the ongoing war against Iran by the United States and Israel is not the same as supporting the Iranian regime. This distinction is critical, yet often deliberately obscured. The conflict, which began in late February 2026, is framed by Washington and Tel Aviv as a response to security threats, but its deeper aim is coercion: to force the regime in Tehran to accept a regional order shaped by American and Israeli interests. Rejecting this war is not an endorsement of authoritarianism—it is a rejection of the false notion that freedom can be delivered through bombs and missiles.
Will California’s gubernatorial candidates realize that they could split the vote enough in the primary to create a Republican victory? The 2016 Washington State Treasurer’s race offers a cautionary tale. All candidates competed together in the primary under similar rules to California. Three strong Democratic candidates split their vote nearly evenly, totaling 51.6%. But because there were only two Republicans to divide their smaller 48.4% share, the November ballot was Republican vs Republican. Washington got a Republican state Treasurer despite Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump by 16 points in the state.
The same could happen this year in California, where eight Democrats are running for governor. All three Democrats running to succeed a highly-respected Washington State treasurer were smart and capable, with strong endorsements and relevant experience. I remember my own struggle to decide between them. But when they and the two Republicans all split nearly evenly, the November election ended up being Republican vs Republican even though the Democrats drew more total votes.