Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute

The casualty count keeps climbing – nearly 45 dead and over 5,500 wounded – the deafening silence also continues.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
A relative reacts to the lifeless body 15-year old Palestinian boy, Azzam Hillal (Owidah), at his home during his funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2018. Hillal died a day after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier. (AP/ Khalil Hamra)

Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded last Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests at the Gaza-Israel border. Yet as the casualty count keeps climbing – nearly 45 dead and over 5,500 wounded – the deafening silence also continues. Tellingly, many of those who long chastised Palestinians

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Is the Left Pro-Islamic?

As corresponding ideologies, the left and Islamic antiestablishmentism, each in its own ways, challenges money cartels, power establishments, military occupations, environmental degradation, settlements, drone assassinations, corporate abuse, and the extreme forms of racism, including casteism and apartheid.

L. Ali Khan
By L. Ali Khan
People carry posters during a rally in support of Muslim Americans and protest of President Donald Trump's immigration policies in Times Square, New York, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

Opinion -- Many well-meaning people wonder whether the left is pro-Islamic. The left has been a vociferous critic of Middle Eastern wars, American hegemony, settler colonialism, and social conservatism that endorses narrow nationalism and overbudgeted militaries. Though skeptical of religion, in theory, the left seems much more tolerant of Islam

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Left, Undone: As Women March, Blacks Increasingly Question the Quality of their Allies

“The point for me,” said one 41-year-old African-American who works in Silicon Valley, “is that black people in America can trust no one but each other. This world means us harm and nobody has our back; you’d have to be a fool to believe otherwise.”

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter
Skylar Barrett walks alone with an American flag in the middle of the street during a march through the Buckhead neighborhood against the recent police shootings of African-Americans on July 11, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP/David Goldman)

Forty years ago last fall, the late Richard Pryor took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for a gay rights fundraiser and delivered what was perhaps the most incendiary monologue of a career that was both famously -- and literally -- combustible. What the audience of 17,000 mostly gay, white men anticipated was to be regaled by the virtuoso in his

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How Democrats Used ‘Alt-Left’ To Demonize Progressive Critics

There simply can be no equivalency between the “alt-right” and the “alt-left.” Nor is the “alt-left” responsible for any threat the rise of the “alt-right” may pose to the country.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
How Democrats Used 'Alt-Left' To Demonize Progressive Critics

Liberal and centrist Democrats did not necessarily coin the label “alt-left,” however, in recent months, the term was popularized by them. It was deployed against anyone on the left who challenged their politics, especially those perceived as supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders or members of the Democratic Socialists of America. But in a recent

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Julian Assange hits back at death threats from #tolerantliberals, lashes out at MSM

Using the hashtag #tolerantliberal, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been retweeting articles and posts from senior writers at organizations such as Politico and Mediaite who have made the case that he should be made the target of an extrajudicial killing.

RT
By RT

Julian Assange has taken to Twitter to expose the aggression of liberal media commentators who have unceremoniously called for him to be executed in retaliation for WikiLeaks releases. Using the hashtag #tolerantliberal, the WikiLeaks founder has been retweeting articles and posts from senior writers at organizations such as Politico and

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Syria, Linda Sarsour & The New Left & New Right

The concepts of “Left & Right” are being reworked in the face of a global crisis. The 21st century is new political terrain and the old rules are being rewritten.

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
Women's march organizer, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion)

For many people in the west, the traditional political compass seems broken, and “left” and “right” are almost indistinguishable in a confused political mess. The controversy surrounding the Arab-American figure now embraced by the Democratic Party, Linda Sarsour, illustrates this perfectly. In Syria, it is very clear who the “right” and the

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