On July 16, the US Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, announced that a third-country deportation flight had landed in Eswatini, a small kingdom in southern Africa. The flight contained five men, allegedly from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen, who she labeled as “barbaric” and “depraved monsters.” McLaughlin posted […]
In August, over five hundred people were arrested at demonstrations opposing the British government’s recent decision to list direct-action group Palestine Action as a “terrorist organization.” Peaceful protesters mostly aged in their sixties and seventies were dragged away from the square in front of the Houses of Parliament for the alleged crime of holding placards […]
Three weeks ago, Hamas agreed to a U.S.-Israeli-drafted ceasefire, but its offer was ignored. Now, the movement says it will accept a comprehensive deal in a renewed bid to end the genocide.