🚨BREAKING🚨 The MIT Coalition for Palestine representing 19 student and faculty groups just released an 83-page report 'MIT Science for Genocide' on how MIT conducts war research on campus sponsored directly by the Israeli military.
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Recently gave a talk at the University of Rhode Island as part of their "Democracy in Peril" series. Subtitle - How, Why and Why Not Democracy Can Help Us Solve (some of) Our Problems". A beginning...
youtube.com/live/gT9MbPcSZEE…
Twenty-three years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. At least 243,000 lives were lost in a war that has cost the U.S. at least $2.3 trillion dollars. [THREAD]
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the political violence in Rwanda, a group of scholars and journalists who have been doing work on/in Rwanda as well as the region came together to engage in a retrospective: mivideo.it.umich.edu/channel…
"As a country, I think we are going in the wrong direction."
On the first day of Kenya's 3-day tax protests over the rising cost of living and tax hikes, at least 12 protesters were wounded.
Yesterday activists from across the Americas and the Caribbean gathered in Washington DC to bury the Monroe Doctrine on its 200th anniversary and fight against the neocolonial systems that uphold it order to achieve true peace & justice for all peoples.
#RIPMonroeDoctrine
"Polarization becomes a way to talk about politics without talking about politics at all..."
That's it exactly. Explains why "we're so polarized" is so popular with the press. From an interview @PaulHRosenberg did with scholar @kreissdaniel.
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