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China’s Bigger Economic Threat

Walden Bello June 25, 2018 Walden Bello

America should worry less about China’s economic success and more about a potential Chinese financial implosion.

Conventional wisdom holds that China is on the ascent and the United States is in decline, that China’s economy is roaring with raw energy and that Beijing’s “Belt and Road” mega-project of infrastructure building in Central, South, and Southeast Asia is laying the basis for its global economic hegemony.

Some question whether Beijing’s ambitions are sustainable. Inequality in China is approaching that in the United States, which portends rising domestic discontent, while China’s grave environmental problems may pose inexorable limits to its economic expansion. read more

Hungering for Nuclear Disarmament

Kathy Kelly June 25, 2018 Kathy Kelly

In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay. In all, seven Catholic plowshares activists acted that day, aiming to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares.” The Kings Bay is home port to six nuclear armed Trident ballistic missile submarines with the combined explosive power of over 9,000 Hiroshima bombs.

What It’s Like Inside a Border Patrol Facility Where Families Are Being Separated

Zoë Carpenter June 18, 2018 Zoë Carpenter

Source: The Nation

The dog kennel: That’s how the Border Patrol processing facility in McAllen is known, because of the chain-link fencing penning more than a thousand migrants inside. The 77,000-square-foot facility—often called “Ursula,” because of the street it’s on—lies just a few miles north of the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for unauthorized migrants. Ursula is one of the first places immigrants are taken to after being apprehended by Border Patrol—and now, the facility is the epicenter for the family separations that are occurring because of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy towards border crossers. read more

Palestinian women flash the peace sign in front of Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on June 1, 2018. (AP Photo / Khalil Hamra)

Why Palestine’s Feminists are Fighting on Two Fronts

Jen Marlowe and Fadi Abu Shammalah June 18, 2018 Jen Marlowe and Fadi Abu Shammalah

New coalitions of women are shaping the future of activism and gender equality in the Gaza Strip.

The Colonization of Palestine: Rethinking the Term ‘Israeli Occupation’

Ramzy Baroud June 10, 2018 Ramzy Baroud

It is often argued that Israel is an Occupier that has violated the rules of Occupation as stated in international law. This would have been the case a year, two or five years after the original Occupation had taken place, but not 51 years later. Since then, the Occupation has turned into long-term colonization.

What Senator Jeff Merkley Saw at an Immigrant Detention Center for Children

Joan Walsh June 7, 2018 Joan Walsh

Source: The Nation

“The tiniest kid at the front of the line, he was knee-high to a grasshopper. He was 4, maybe 5 years old.”

When Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tried to visit a detention center for child immigrants in Brownsville, Texas, last weekend, he was turned away. The Facebook Live video of his journey through the bureaucratic shadows went viral. In the 20 hours after it was shared, it was viewed 1.1 million times.

As viral videos go, it was rather low-drama: it mostly featured Merkley standing around in the hot Texas sun for almost a half hour, waiting for a supervisor of the nonprofit Southwest Key shelter to come tell him why he could not enter the facility. One high point was when the senator inadvertently shared his personal cell-phone number with his million-plus viewers, trying to get someone in authority to return his call. read more