(2024-09-02). My Lost Summer. My Hopes of Building Bridges of Friendship to Russia and Prevent Nuclear War. Scott Ritter. globalresearch.ca I had hoped to make the Summer of 2024 a memorable one—building bridges of friendship to Russia, working to develop knowledge and information as an antidote to the poison of Russophobia in America, and trying to prevent a nuclear war …
(2024-09-02). Lost in Translation: Radical Politics of a Trans Trade Unionist. counterpunch.org 
Imane Khelif: Working Class Muslim Hero For the millionth time: Imane Khelif is not a trans woman. She is AFAB, has female body parts from birth, all the essentialist markers that transphobes use to justify their bigotry. This truly is an instance of horse-shoe theory at its best. Transphobes start off by laying down these
(2024-09-02). Beyond Bombs and Bullets: The Full Tally of Gaza's Dead. counterpunch.org 
The impact of losing access to healthcare is starkly illustrated by the example of pregnant women in Gaza, estimated at 50,000 when the war began. Many have miscarried and are having stillbirths, faced C-sections with unsensitized equipment and without anesthetic, while increasing numbers of newborns are "simply dying," according to the World Health Organization, because starving mothers are giving birth to critically underweight babies.