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Topic: Oct. 7

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The hidden truths of the Gaza deal

Norman Solomon
Protestors demonstrate on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

It's time to sue Congress

Norman Solomon
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for HISTORY)

Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Oct. 7

Rann Miller
People mourn following an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City on February 29, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

Ending the Middle East cycle of revenge

Helen Benedict - TomDispatch.com
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Kennedy's "vitriolic attack” exposes GOP

Dean Obeidallah
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet as they debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Undebatable: What was left unsaid

Norman Solomon
US President Joe Biden speaks on economics during the Vote To Live Properity Summit at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024. (KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lost in DNC's lovefest for a lame duck

Norman Solomon
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) confers with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a news conference in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

All hail Lord Voldemort

Sandy Tolan
Protesters hold a demonstration in support of a cease fire in Gaza in the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a rally to call for a cease fire in the Israel–Hamas war. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Life after Zionism

Ruben Brosbe
Palestinians mourn a relative who reportedly died following his injury in clashes with Israeli settlers in Qusra village, in Rafidia hospital in Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on October 11, 2023. (ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Global general strike for Gaza kicks off

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Pro-Palestinian protesters chant after they blocked the entrance at Bert 20 to delay the departure of Cape Orlando ship from the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

US war machine fuels Israel's military

Norman Solomon
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin | Ukrainian soldiers from the 63 brigade are seen leaving the trenches after military training (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The world is coming apart at the seams

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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