Enter Amazon and you have exited capitalism. Despite all the buying and the selling that goes on there, you have entered a realm that can’t be thought of as a market, not even a digital one.” When I say this to people, which I frequently do in lectures and debates, they look at me as they […]
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As the bodies of thousands of Palestinian civilians, thousands of whom are children, pile up at Gaza hospitals’ morgues and, tragically, in the streets, Israel's narrative is finally being challenged.
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To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our favorite former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s returning columnist, Chris White, was one of the winners of our first-ever Column Contest in 2009. For Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents, he posed tough questions about our former leaders and then wrote hilarious (and historically accurate) responses to them. We’re happy to welcome Chris back to the to the site with a brand-new installment.
Lowkey catches up with Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori to discuss the revelations in The Guardian of Israeli Embassy intervention in Palestine Action court cases. They also examine Huda's upcoming court case and the possibility of going to prison for shutting down the Israeli war machine in Britain.
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As America’s Got Lettuce ends its run, it’s the perfect time to look back at the contestant performances and judge reactions that made it the world’s top-rated show for thirty-seven consecutive seasons—and reminded us that, through it all, America does got lettuce.
When the Mean Judge couldn’t help admitting, “You, ma’am, have got lettuce” to Lisa Cabinet.
As Lisa Cabinet stood on stage nervously cradling a head of lettuce, none of us watching could be confident that she would be judged to got lettuce. But the Mean Judge proclaimed that she did, indeed, got lettuce, and we all stood up and cheered loudly, in the studio audience and at home. She had got that lettuce, for sure.
- by Psyche Film
Y.D. Ashush, which got a piece of the $35 million Pentagon contract, built a new settlement community on stolen Palestinian land.
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- by Katie Mulkowsky