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Las nuevas imágenes de Google Maps muestran una Gaza en ruinas: los mapas antes y después
September 28, 2026
Más de un año después, Google Maps ha renovado las imágenes de satélite de la franja de Gaza, que permiten ver a cualquiera que disponga de la aplicación cómo ha cambiado un territorio devastado por el ejército israelí. Al actualizar las imágenes en 2024, 2025, y ahora en 2026, Google ha dado un paso que otras aplicaciones como Apple Maps no han hecho.
Simplemente abriendo el navegador de la aplicación se puede recorrer la destrucción tal como estaba a principios de este año: barrios enteros totalmente allanados por las bombas y las excavadoras, caminos de tierra que atraviesan lo que antes eran zonas residenciales y áreas completamente en ruinas, como Tel al-Sultán, en el sur de la Franja, donde apenas quedan diez edificios en pie.
... full articleWe meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized. . . . The newspapers are subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrate, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hireling standing army . . . established to shoot them down. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes. . . . From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed two classes—paupers and millionaires. . . .
Palestine’s Predicament is Making Necessary the Once Unthinkable: Ending Genocide Nonviolently
September 29, 2026
When Serb nationalist leaders were inflicting ethnic cleansing on Bosniaks in 1995, NATO was relatively swift about using military force to stop it; and it offered the same assistance to Kosovar Albanians in 1999. Today, Israel is three years into its genocide in Gaza, which now increasingly extends into the West Bank. Western governments would be horrified to even contemplate military force to end this much more catastrophic, and extensively-documented, genocide. The West’s still mostly liberal democratic governments are, with rare exceptions, not trying to do much of anything, by any means, to stop it. The most prominent and powerful Western governments are more committed to inflicting draconian punishments on those who are trying—and trying nonviolently.
... full articleOne of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening – while the land is still being stolen, and the natives still being killed – any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.
Organizers Aim to Thwart Purchase of Israel Bonds by World’s Largest Investor
September 18, 2026
Organizers in Palm Beach County, Florida, are fighting to stop the county from investing further in bonds that help fund Israel’s occupation and genocide. The county already holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making its investment the largest in the world and roughly three times the next highest investor, the State of Florida. The Our Taxes, Our Needs campaign is ramping up ahead of the county’s next planned purchase of Israel Bonds on November 1.
... full articleWhat violent, good luck you had. When you bought your home you received stolen property, but the blood had dried, the war forgotten, and it seemed your god himself had granted you this land.