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A long-term United Nations and New York City-based journalist who loves true journalism and cultural diplomacy. Foreign-policy analyst. Diplomacy, arts and culture correspondent, documentary and fine art photographer.

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Billionaires Spend Big to Tank Mamdani, Who Vows to 'Tax the Rich' in NYC | Common Dreams A week away from Election Day in New York City, Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund released a report detailing how billionaires "outraged at the prospect of the rich and corporations paying high...

Billionaires Spend Big to Tank Mamdani, Who Vows to 'Tax the Rich' in NYC www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

28.10.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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300+ Writers Boycott NYT Opinion Pages Over 'Shameful' Anti-Palestinian Gaza Coverage | Common Dreams Over 300 writers and commentators are boycotting The New York Times for supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greta Thunberg, Rashida Tlaib, and others demand accountability and call on the paper to d...

300+ Writers Boycott NYT Opinion Pages Over 'Shameful' Anti-Palestinian Gaza Coverage www.commondreams.org/news/nyt-gaza

28.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Trump’s Recent ICE Raids in New York
Were Extreme Even for Him
www.theroot.com/why-trumps-r...

26.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Palestinian Rights and Free Speech Rights Are Closely Linked A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents o...

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...

26.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remaining NYC mayoral hopefuls court Black women voters at Harlem's Apollo Theater With just weeks to go before America's largest city chooses a new mayor, the candidates answered questions live onstage but did not interact directly.

Remaining NYC mayoral hopefuls court Black women voters at Harlem’s Apollo Theater

www.fastcompany.com/91415770/nyc...

03.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dozens Arrested as 1,000+ Jews Demand Gaza Ceasefire at Rabbi-Led ​Yom Kippur Protest in NYC | Common Dreams Protesters blocked traffic to the Brooklyn Bridge, embodying the ancient Jewish tenets of justice, righteousness, and saving life.

Dozens Arrested as 1,000+ Jews Demand Gaza Ceasefire at Rabbi-Led ​Yom Kippur Protest in NYC www.commondreams.org/news/rabbi-p...

03.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Is Expanding His Masked Thugocracy Federal agents are essentially acting as paramilitaries to fulfill the administration’s violent fantasies. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they will be empowered.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

12.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Les opinions « antiaméricaines » des candidats à l’immigration aux États-Unis vont être contrôlées Les services américains de citoyenneté et d’immigration ont annoncé mardi 19 août qu’ils chercheraient désormais si les candidats à l’immigration aux États-Unis ont fait par d’opinions « antiaméricain...

www.ouest-france.fr/monde/etats-...

19.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The week around the world in 20 pictures Wildfires all over Europe, aid airdrops in Gaza, the frontline in Ukraine and Palestine Action arrests in London: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Here is one of my photos from last week:

The week around the world in 20 pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

16.08.2025 03:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICJ can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide? The International Court of Justice’s silence on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians reveals how international law fails the vulnerable

prismreports.org/2025/08/14/i...

14.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy.

www.thenation.com/article/arch...

14.08.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence
theintercept.com/2025/07/30/n...

30.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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House Progressives Demand Answers From Noem on Masked ICE Agents | Common Dreams Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration: Why are federal agents allowed to hide their identities while carrying out immigration raids?

House Progressives Demand Answers From Noem on Masked ICE Agents www.commondreams.org/news/police-...

26.07.2025 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Israeli Impunity Still Shapes Global Politics | Common Dreams Every time the world looks away, it signals to other aggressors that crimes can be committed without consequence, as long as the perpetrator has the right allies.

Why Israeli Impunity Still Shapes Global Politics www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...

12.07.2025 04:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Top Democratic Senator Goes On Wildly Racist Tirade Against Zohran Mamdani Two other Democrats have now joined Kirsten Gillibrand in falsely accusing the Muslim mayoral candidate for New York City of supporting calls for violence against Jews.

uk.news.yahoo.com/top-democrat...

30.06.2025 01:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Can’t Silo Our Struggles for Justice, Freedom, and Liberation Showing solidarity with Palestine isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s tactically smart.

“There’s Only One Cause” www.thenation.com/article/acti...

17.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US Wields 'Hand of Genocide' by Vetoing Yet Another UN Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution | Common Dreams "This latest shameful U.S. veto—one in a long list—gives Israel the green light to continue its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza," said the head of Amnesty International.

US Wields 'Hand of Genocide' by Vetoing Yet Another UN Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution www.commondreams.org/news/us-veto...

05.06.2025 03:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters New filings reveal how the FBI tried to unmask the Columbia students’ Instagram account and got blocked in court on free speech grounds.

How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/06/04/f...

04.06.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is the Trump Administration Taking Deportation Orders From Extremists? Mahmoud Khalil believes that his deportation resulted from advocacy work by anti-Palestinian groups.

Is the Trump Administration Taking Deportation Orders From Extremists? newrepublic.com/post/195882/...

29.05.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump y su orden ejecutiva para eliminar la protección sindical: ¿qué cambia para los trabajadores? El presidente ha alegado motivos de seguridad nacional para justificar la eliminación de la protección sindical de cientos de miles de empleados federales

elpais.com/us/2025-05-2...

24.05.2025 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journalism Schools Are Facing Dual Pressures Under Trump The administration’s attacks on both news outlets and universities can place journalism schools—and their students—at an alarming intersection.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

14.05.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anyone Want an Old Rite Aid? After declaring bankruptcy (again) this week, there are now 35 available across the city.

Retail apocalypse
www.curbed.com/article/rite...

08.05.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A New Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast Although there’s been an uptick in labor organizing in recent years, it hasn’t been the “resurgence” that many commentators claim it is.

A New Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast www.thenation.com/article/econ...

01.05.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Governor Hochul, Are You F’ing Kidding? You can’t name Penn Station after Donald Trump. You can’t even joke about it.

Governor Hochul, Are You F’ing Kidding? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

28.04.2025 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It Is Time to Build a World Based on Solidarity | Common Dreams We are at a crossroads in human history. We will either figure out how to share, or we will tear apart the fabric of the world that supports us.

It Is Time to Build a World Based on Solidarity www.commondreams.org/opinion/buil...

23.04.2025 05:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests The US government should end its sweeping effort to arbitrarily arrest and deport international students and scholars in retaliation for their political viewpoints and activism related to Palestine.

US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

23.04.2025 05:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Columbia University Sees Drop in Applications It’s the first application cycle since pro-Palestinian protests swept the campus and the University found itself in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration.

Columbia University Sees Drop in Applications—and Some Admits Reconsider Enrolling

time.com/7272471/colu...

29.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Columbia University Charging Student Group $1,500 After Anti-Rape Protest The university said the expenses were clean-up costs

Columbia University's free speech problem is not new.

This is an example of the problem, with my photo taken in 2024.

time.com/3587175/colu...

29.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mahmoud Khalil Is a Victim of Trump’s Free-Speech Crackdown The detention and possible deportation of former Columbia University student and pro-Palestine organizer Mahmoud Khalil is the most serious attack on the First Amendment by any president in years.

Mahmoud Khalil Is a Victim of Trump’s Free-Speech Crackdown jacobin.com/2025/03/trum...

Mahmoud Khalil talks to the press on June 1, 2024, at Columbia University in New York. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images)

29.03.2025 05:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome to a new Trump era!

05.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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