Prisoners for Palestine.

Jon Letman is a freelance journalist on Kauai. He writes about nuclear weapons, militarism, human rights and the environment in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Preston H. Smith II is a professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. Author of Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago, his research interests include black ...

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This text is not specifically about the brutal atrocity of the Gaza genocide. But it is dedicated to it, and the reasons will become clear. At the time of writing, Gaza is the tragic metaphor for the ...

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Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...