Ziad Dallal

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

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Momodou Taal, a Persecuted Pro-Palestine Activist at Cornell, on Black and Palestinian Solidarity “As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example.”

"...it’s always been a struggle I see as the last kind of stronghold of 500 years of European colonialism. As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example."

- Momodou Taal

hammerandhope.org/article/momo...

29.04.2025 11:53 — 👍 146    🔁 41    💬 2    📌 1

Türkiye: Ensure Peaceful Assembly, Free Speech During Protests (Istanbul, March 27, 2025) - Türkiye’s authorities should immediately cease attacks on peaceful protesters, stop targeting journalists and news channels, and halt the crackdown on online speech, a gro...

Türkiye’s authorities should immediately cease attacks on peaceful protesters, stop targeting journalists and news channels, and halt the crackdown on online speech:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

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The corruption that’s killing us all—but purified and magnified.

“Donald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Climate Change Makes Vaccines More Important—While Also Undercutting Them - Inside Climate News Vaccines are crucial to mitigate the spread of climate-fueled diseases, experts say. But global warming also makes them less effective, while the anti-vaccine movement reduces uptake.

2 things can be true at the same time:

1/ We're not going to rebuild an economically populist left by talking carbon every day.

2/ We can't explain basic threats to wellbeing—like the spread of diseases and heat undermining vaccines—without talking climate.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

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Preparing a syllabus on dreams and delirium in middle eastern literatures.

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من الأوّل: عن الياس خوري وله وإليه «من الأول»، «نبدأ من جديد»، العودة إلى البدء… كان الياس خوري يعود إلى الأول، إلى نقطة البداية، عند كل منعطف سياسي، للانطلاق من جديد، بحثًا عن دور للكلمة في عالم كان وما زال ينحدر نحو عنف قاتل للمعاني....

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