After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the group sought to penetrate and “intimidate” European financial regulators who charged them with corruption.
Leaders have a chance to make gender apartheid a crime against humanity in international law. Will they meet the moment – for women and girls in Afghanistan, and worldwide?
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hardship, Barnard suggests “immediately [contesting] when they get a notice of wage seizure.” She lays out what is at stake, options for those facing default, and more.
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Climate is not an easy issue to be an activist on. You’re taking on some of the world’s most powerful corporations, contending with a culture of widespread indifference, and going up against endless propaganda reassuring people that global warming will simply turn the Earth into a lush tropical paradise. There is plenty of repression, but advocates for Palestinian rights face demonization as terrorists and antisemites, blacklisting, and are even criminalized. So when the world’s most well-known climate activist, Greta Thunberg, expanded her focus to include Palestine, she must have known she would incur a wave of new hostility. But Thunberg has not just spoken up for Gaza, she has put her body on the line, and has been arrested and abused by the Israel Defense Forces after trying to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.