NP editor’s intro: This reflection is written by a refugee who left Gaza at the end of 2023. It was forwarded to us by a regular contributor who has known her for around a dozen years. My sister spent more than twenty years as an elementary school teacher. To her students, she was far more [...]
“As a fourteen-year-old boy getting my first job at the grocery store down the street I learned power relationship the first day I placed the apron on. I learned that what I earned was controlled by the person above me … that the boss controlled everything” America has celebrated its 250th year of existence. At [...]
The politics of artificial intelligence are entering a new phase. In the United States and beyond, communities are protesting data centers that are projected to triple water and electricity consumption by 2030, drive up utility costs, and harm the environment. Artists, journalists, and writers are suing AI companies for using their work without permission. Teachers are questioning whether generative AI is improving education. And workers in many fields are growing worried about automation, [...]
Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada The following is from the news roundup during the 23 July livestream. Watch the entire episode here. Israel has carried out massacres on multiple families this week in Gaza, killing Palestinian children, men and women, as the army encroaches on more land and squeezes Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas. On […]
By Eman Abu Zayed This article was originally published by Truthout With its waste disposal infrastructure destroyed, Gaza is experiencing a growing health and environmental crisis. Just a few hundred meters from Al-Ma’madani Hospital in the center of Gaza City lies Firas Market, which has turned into a site for heaps of mixed garbage as […]
it Klarenberg The Grayzone Leaks reveal failed journalist Paul Mason secretly advised ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Defence Secretary and now-Chancellor John Healey, and top aides on important security matters. Mason’s belligerent pronouncements on the need for Britain to “deter” Russia through a massive military build-up influenced Labour’s policies and rhetoric. Mason was secretly working […]
Mehdi talks to Rob Malley about Trump’s ‘war crimes’ in Iran, Iran’s ‘guerrilla warfare’, and Gaza accountability for his former pro-Israel colleagues in the Biden administration.