Month: March 2025 - Page 2 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Ireland Stands with Palestine, but Does the Taoiseach?

March 18, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney *Taoiseach is the Irish word for head of government or prime minister “Two psychopaths sitting in front of an open fire in the White House.” That’s how Ruth Coppinger, a member of Ireland’s People Before Profit party, described Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu […]

Columbia Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil is Disappeared to Notorious Private Prison in Louisiana

March 18, 2025 Liam Noble

by Liam Noble At 8:27 pm on March 8th, 2025, Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from Columbia University housing by men who refused to disclose their affiliation, saying, “We don’t give our names.” Filmed by his eight months pregnant wife, Abdalla, Mahmoud was handcuffed and hauled […]

Belgium just had its biggest protest in history – why?

March 12, 2025 Carrie Hou

by Carrie Hou On Thursday, February 13, over 100,000 people in Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to protest the new coalition government austerity plans. Led by unions, who called for a general strike, the protest was one of the biggest in Belgium’s history, […]

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron

March 12, 2025 Ken Jones

by Ken Jones This article was originally published in CounterPunch. “Tell our story!” the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed together waiting to be checked out, one at a time, by an Israeli […]

How to Fight Trumpism

March 4, 2025 Brian Garvey and Cole Harrison

by Brian Garvey and Cole Harrison Donald Trump has launched his second term with a blizzard of executive orders and policy changes that have bamboozled the Democratic opposition and portrayed himself as a man of action to his supporters. Firing watchdogs, putting the world’s richest […]

From Benign Neglect to Active Assault

March 3, 2025 Sandy Eaton

by Sandy Eaton Over many years we’ve witnessed our state government’s benign neglect of the health needs of our diverse working-class communities. The demise of Steward Health Care last year laid bare the unwillingness of the Healey-Driscoll-Walsh Administration to address the devastating effects of such […]