“By the way, there’s also been slaughter in Israel. So, there’s a lot of pain on both sides. So, we don’t really need a lecture on the problem. I’m not talking about the politics of this tonight.” That was Anderson Cooper’s response before shutting Nina Turner down.

Bakari Sellers interject by saying that “prior to October 7 there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.”

Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. 

 In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through ‘unconditional negotiations’.

 This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip service to the ‘peace process’ and other US-originated fantasies. Back then, he spoke about his readiness to hold unconditional negotiations, though constantly arguing that Israel does not have a peace partner. 

 All of this was, of course, ‘doublespeak’. What Netanyahu and other Israelis were, in fact, saying is that Israel should be freed from any commitment to international law, let alone international pressure. Worse, by declaring that Israel has no Palestinian peace partner, the Israeli government has essentially canceled the hypothetical and ‘unconditional negotiations’ before they even took place.

The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. 

 As soon as the Israeli war began, following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, every moral or legal frame of reference that Washington and its western allies supposedly held dear was suddenly dropped. Western leaders rushed to Israel, one after the other, offering military, political and intelligence support - along with a blank check to rightwing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals to torment the Palestinians.  

 The likes of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, went as far as joining Israel’s first war council meeting, so that he could take part in the discussion which directly resulted in the Gaza genocide. 

Bruce Miller, a Far South Columbus Area commissioner, has caught the eye of City officials after he spoke out about future development plans for the Far South Side. Now he’s facing intimidation, something a Columbus resident should never be dealing with when it comes to simply wanting their neighborhood having a seat at the table.

Miller, a nurse, has alerted hundreds of South Side homeowners and business owners to the City’s new “Zone In Columbus” plan, which has designs on building condos and apartment buildings – twelve stories tall possibly – at the Great Southern Shopping Plaza. Also in the crosshairs is a nearby beloved drive-in theatre, and all of South High Street, for that matter, from State Route 104 to 270, including residential side streets.

Saturday, March 2, 10am
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St., and then Ohio Statehouse

Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Ready for real and fundamental change that will shift the status quo and lift from the bottom? Join hundreds of other Ohioans, and thousands of other people, in a nationwide day of action at the Mass Poor People’s and Low-wage Workers’ State House Assemblies and To the Polls! Ohio will join 30+ other states, across the country, in calling on our state and federal governments to address the interlocking injustices of racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation.

Poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in this country, and there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in the U.S. (almost half the population) who are at, below, or just one crisis away from the (outdated) “poverty line” while subsidies and policy preferences continue flowing to rich individuals and corporations.

We cannot address poverty without addressing ecological devastation, nor can we address systemic racism without addressing the war economy, and so on. It all goes hand in hand, and the time to act is now.