Last Friday, May 15, marked the 78th anniversary of what Palestinians call “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” On that day in 1948 the new state Israel began a military program of ethnic cleansing to drive the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine out of the territories the UN had allotted to “Israel,” and also to conquer much of the land that the UN had not assigned to Israel, which was supposed to remain “Palestinian.” Nakba Day was commemorated by millions of people around the world this year, including our small vigil/protest in Hastings. The Nakba underlines the illegitimacy of “Greater Israel” and the need to keep the injustice done by Israel and much of the world to Palestinians, both then and now. As William Faulkner once reminded us, “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
As an introduction to some of today’s remarks on the meaning of the Nakba, here is the transcript of a recent video by Yanis Varoufakis, a leader of the European movement for justice and democracy. (You can see the video here.)
78 Years of Nakba — Gaza Burns While the West Looks Away
---- On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, we remember that dispossession and exile are not mere footnotes of the past but living, ongoing realities. To speak of justice today is to name the catastrophe of 1948 and to recognise that no future can be built on forgetting. Freedom and equal rights for all, from the river to the sea, is the only vision worthy of the name. As we mark another Nakba anniversary, the genocide that started then is intensifying. What we witness in Gaza and across the occupied territories is not a war, not clash of equals, nor a tragic but inevitable conflict — it is the violent, relentless logic of white settler terra nullius colonialism, dressed in modern military hardware and sustained by western complicity. A people is being erased, deemed superfluous, their humanity denied so that their erasure may be justified. To commemorate the Nakba is to stand with the living against the coloniser’s lie that some lives are mere obstacles. It is to insist that remembrance must become resistance, and resistance is not only a prerequisite for liberty but also of existence.
FURTHER THOUGHTS ON PALESTINE AND THE NAKBA
(Video) Nakba Day: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
From Democracy Now! [May 15, 2026]
----Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project. “Israel tried, since 1948 until today, to destroy us as a people, as a group, and they failed at it. Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada, who was born in Gaza and now lives in Denmark. Shehada discusses the ongoing process of the Nakba, including its latest intensification after October 7, 2023. “Now this veneer of civility has fallen off. The mask was taken off. And now it’s a matter of national pride in Israel to brag about annihilating Palestinians.” [See the Program]
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times [May 11, 2026]
---- In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards. There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel’s “standard operating procedures” and “a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.” … Yet our American tax dollars subsidize the Israeli security establishment, so this is sexual violence in which the United States is complicit. … The blunt reality is that when there are no consequences, we humans are capable of immense depravity toward those we are taught to scorn as subhuman. … Think of it this way: The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on Oct. 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day. It persists because of silence, indifference and the failure of American and Israeli officials alike. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Gaza elders who survived the Nakba reflect on being displaced by Israel again, 78 years later,” By Mohamed Solaimane, Mondoweiss [May 15, 2026] [Link]; “What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?: by Mohammed El-Kurd, The Nation [May 2024 [Link]; and “A Palestinian photographer’s search for what remained’ from 1948,” by Yahel Gazit, +972 Magazine [Israel/Palestine] [May 12, 2026] [Link].
MAYOR MAMDANI
Zohran Mamdani’s Budget Is a Step in the Right Direction
By Liza Featherstone, Jacobin Magazine [May 2026]
---- The mayor walked a delicate tightrope throughout negotiations at the city and state level around this budget, being the tribune for a movement that angrily campaigned to get the governor to do more for the city by taxing the rich, while also working in partnership with the governor to fund major campaign promises around universal childcare policies that were not possible to achieve without her cooperation. The state funding that Mamdani and Hochul just announced will help fund the city’s needs and close the budget gap that was exacerbated by the mismanagement of previous mayor Eric Adams and by the cruel cuts of President Donald Trump. The budget that the city ended up with is far from perfect or transformative. But overall, it moves the city in the right direction, especially given the immense structural difficulties that Mamdani was up against. [Read More]. ALSO OF INTEREST is “Mamdani’s Balancing Act,” by D.D. Guttenplan, The Nation [May 14, 2026] [Link].
NEWS NOTES
A useful and concise article in the media-analyst publication FAIR (“Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting”) finds that funds saved by the Trump elimination of “Climate, Weather, and Ocean Research” is offset by 32 hours fighting the war against Iran. The “cuts” saved $1.6 billion, eliminating “NOAA climate, weather and ocean research labs; zero out grants aimed at improving rainfall and flood prediction; and cut the Integrated Ocean Observing System, which monitors what’s happening in the ocean, where hurricanes strengthen and where coastal flooding begins. This comes on top of the 2025 DOGE layoffs of some 880 people from the agency.” [Read More]
Last Thursday, for the third time, the House of Representatives defeated a War Powers Resolution, this time by a 212-212 vote. The Trump people have made great efforts to prevent a War Powers Resolution from interfering with their war against Iran.. For some background of the War Powers Resolution and the legislative efforts to implement it, go here.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified by the UN in 1970 and one of the few arms-control agreements still in effect, is again under review. The Treaty envisioned allowing non-nuclear states to develop nuclear power programs, but not nuclear weapons, while mandating states with nuclear weapons to eliminate them. Needless to say, success has been elusive and is now complicated by the US demand that Iran, without nuclear weapons, be prevented from developing a nuclear power program, which would include “enriching” uranium to a level needed to run a nuclear reactor. With renewal of the Treaty dividing UN members, Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general stated in is opening remarks that “Today, a collective amnesia has taken hold. … Nuclear sabers rattle once more. Mistrust rules the day. Hard-won norms are eroding. Arms control is dying.” For a user-friendly explanation of the NPT, go here.
Finally, this week’s Recommended Reading highlights the new book by The Nation’s abortion rights correspondent Amy Littlefield. Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights is built around interviews with and research into a dozen or so grassroots leaders of the decades-long quest to defeat the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in the USA. Littlefield’s effort is primarily to understand, not just to expose, the motivations and tactics/strategy of these people in their efforts o end abortion rights. One interesting finding is that so many anti-abortion activists describe their understanding of their own lives as a quest to “get into heaven.” This book is reader-friendly and recommended.
CFOW NUTS & BOLTS
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FEATURED ARTICLES & ESSAYS
(Video) “Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
From Democracy Now! [May 15, 2026]
---- We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book Israel: What Went Wrong? Bartov says the early Zionist movement had liberatory intentions, aiming to emancipate the persecuted Jewish minority in Europe and modeling itself after other contemporary ethnonationalist movements. … Levy, on the other hand, says Zionism has never been reformable, because the movement, from its very beginning, “started wrong, without the belief or the conviction that we can live together.” … Both Bartov and Levy also respond to the Israeli government’s threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for publishing a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. “That has become the policy of the country — to abuse, to humiliate, to rape systematically,” says Bartov. Levy explains Israel’s reaction “is to attack the messenger.” [See the Program] – ALSO OF INTEREST - “Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view,” by Avi Shlaim, The Guardian [UK] [May 9, 2026] [Link].
White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Hammer & Hope [Spring 2026]
---- One year on, the Trump administration’s descent deeper into the gutter of racism no longer comes as a surprise. Trump’s second presidency has been devoted to demolishing anti-discrimination policies based on the absurd claim that they are unfair to white people, especially white men, who are now the real victims of racism. This is a departure for Republicans. Not that many years ago, most of them would try to co-opt the civil rights narrative as their own by claiming the U.S. had achieved the “colorblind” society that was supposedly Martin Luther King Jr.’s end goal. Thus, civil rights–era reforms were no longer necessary because the movement had succeeded. Today, Trump and JD Vance have dropped the hollow tributes to King and replaced them with disgusting racist memes that blatantly appeal to white men to see themselves as victims of anti-discrimination policies. The point of this isn’t just to undermine the historic accomplishments of the civil rights movement. It is also to create a scapegoat for the poor and working-class whites who make up a growing section of the MAGA base to blame for declining living standards. Dismantling what remains of civil rights–era laws and policies is necessary to bury the radical legacy of the civil rights movement, which, at its core, was about more than representation in politics and business or even formal political and legal equality. It was about materially improving the lives of all Black people and ultimately of all the have-nots. [Read More]
‘Auschwitz Is Only Sleeping’: What Ceija Stojka’s Art Told Me About Gaza
By Amira Hass, Ha’aretz [Israel] [May 13, 2026]
---- Comprising more than 60 works, the exhibition “Ceija Stojka: Making Visible” is gripping from the moment your eyes fall upon it. Surprising, yet familiar. Each piece on its own, and all of them together. From the figurative to the expressive and almost abstract, the paintings convey the horror Stojka experienced as a child: the boundless cruelty and power she faced, the beauty of nature desecrated and corrupted by that evil, and the erasure of every living person. I am a daughter of survivors. Every painting and drawing by Stojka told me something about my parents that I had never asked them, or had forgotten, or suppressed. … Every brushstroke in Stojka’s work resonates with what my parents experienced, knew and recounted. The dead and the living crowded together. Masses packed tightly beside the barracks and the gas chambers. And the Nazis, smiling broadly, watched those marked for deportation and whipped them [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Butter (and Schools), Not Guns (and Warfare)” - [The cost of the war on Iran], by Frida Berrigan, Tom Dispatch [May 14, 2026] [Link]; “We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media,” by Adam Johnson, The Intercept [May 12 2026] [Link]; and “The Electric Car Is the Only Winner in the Latest Iran War,” by Juan Cole, TomDispatch [May 12, 2026] [Link].
KILLING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
There’s No Way to Compensate for the Loss of Black Voting Power
By Elie Mystal, The Nation [May 15, 2026]
---- Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans are aggressively moving to gerrymander away the Congressional Black Caucus and eliminate Black voting power in red states. In my most recent piece, I wrote that it is largely too late for the Democratic Party to stop this race toward the racist bottom ahead of the 2026 midterms. But, assuming Trump doesn’t get us into a global nuclear war while he’s in China, life will go on, and future elections will happen. Democracy Docket has put forth a plan for how states controlled by Democrats might re-gerrymander their maps ahead of the 2028 election to offset the Republican gains this cycle. … The plan is doable, and necessary. But I don’t want people to miss what is still being lost even if Democrats can pull off these gerrymanders. The loss of Black representation in the South cannot be offset with a few more liberal white representatives from Wisconsin. The inability of Black people in Memphis to elect a fighter like Justin Pearson is not mitigated by spitting out another corporate Democrat from Hoboken. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - “Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow,” by Natasha Lennard, The Intercept [May 8 2026] [Link].
THE WAR ON IRAN
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
By Chris Hedges, Scheer Post [May 16, 2026]
---- America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of our adversaries, a catastrophic failure to understand the limits of imperial power and no discernable strategy. It swells the profits of the war industry, wasting billions of public funds, alienates our allies and erodes the global power and prestige of the United States. Dying empires, governed by the corrupt and the incompetent, are blinded by militarism and hubris. They are unable to read the world around them. They stumble into self-defeating cul-de-sacs — as we did in Iraq, Afghanistan and earlier in Vietnam — where military adventurism accelerates self-inflicted wounds. The war on Iran is one more chapter in our precipitous and ultimately fatal decline. … A resumption of the bombing, coupled with even a limited ground assault, would ensure a long and costly war. It will fulfill Israel’s objective — which seeks to bomb Iran into a failed state — but will be another mortal blow to the U.S. empire. … The tragedy is not that the empire is dying. The tragedy is that the empire is bringing so many innocents down with it. [Read More]
To Build the Anti-War Movement of the Future, We Must Learn From the Past
By Van Gosse and Bill Fletcher Jr., The Nation [May 13,2026]
---- This period is very different from the early 2000s, above all because we face a genuinely fascistic MAGA movement that makes the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld group look like amateurs. But the question still remains: Both Donald Trump and the Iran War are deeply unpopular, so why has no mass movement emerged to fight this conflict? … The absence of any substantive attention to foreign policy in the progressive movements of the past 15 years—from Occupy to the Bernie Sanders campaigns to Black Lives Matter to the “resistance” of Trump’s first term—means that we are virtually back at square one. Neither of the two major national left formations in the present, Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party, nor the bigger and broader left-liberal organizations like Indivisible, have much to say about the US role in the world. Fortunately, there is one large exception to this otherwise remarkable silence—the movement for Palestine, which has mobilized in ways not seen since the peak of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s. The entry of the anti-war message into the “No Kings Day!” rallies on March 28 is, perhaps, a further recognition of the need to integrate foreign and domestic policy. The question then becomes how to build upon that energy in order to offer a broader critique of empire ahead of the 2026 and 2028 elections. … To sustain an anti-war movement, the core of that movement must embrace a vision and program for an alternative foreign policy by the USA. We are not talking about a utopian future but precisely the sort of foreign policy we would want, let’s say, for the “Squad” or Bernie Sanders to implement, were they in office. Such an approach would move us away from single-issue opposition and toward a framework that helps masses of people understand that the atrocities that the USA unleashes go beyond the perverse mental framework of this or that political leader, but can frequently be advanced by politicians who have liberal, if not center-left, domestic policies. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities,” by Adam Entous, et al., New York Times [May 12, 2026] [Link]; “Hegseth Asks for More Money as Iran War Costs Skyrocket,” by Nick Turse, The Intercept [May 12, 2026 [Link]; and “Hormuz blockade threatens food security for 45M people: UN,” TRT World [May 11, 2026] [Link].
THE WAR ON CUBA
The United States’ Long War on Cuba
By Eric Ross, Counterpunch [May 15, 2026]
---- In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive U.S. blockade that has strangled the island for more than half a century. The resulting “energy starvation” has deepened a manufactured crisis, threatening Cubans’ access to food, water, healthcare, fuel, electricity, and other basic human rights and needs, while intensifying the broader assault on the island’s sovereignty and development. Since 2017, when the first Trump administration began dismantling the limited normalization measures introduced under Obama, Cuba has once again been subjected to a regime of “maximum pressure” economic warfare. The consequences have been severe. These policies have degraded material conditions across the island, accelerated the exodus of more than one million Cubans, and imposed disproportionate suffering on the country’s most vulnerable populations. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - “What We Saw in Cuba Shocked Us,” by Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan L. Jackson, New York Times [May 11, 2026] [Members of Congress] [Link].
WAR WITH CHINA?
Tech Race, Resource Wars, and the Cost of Militarization [China]
By Megan Russell, Counterpunch [May 13, 2026]
---- Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth urged Congress to pass a 2027 Pentagon budget of 1.5 trillion dollars. He justified the increase by saying we need a modernized, high-tech military to counter China. U.S. lawmakers have been using China as a military budget increaser and ultimate policy-generator for years. Competition with Beijing is invoked to justify military expansion, new regional alliances, AI weapons development, semiconductor restrictions, and rising nuclear expenditures. In Washington, framing a policy as necessary to “counter China” has become one of the quickest ways to secure bipartisan support. As a result, the “China threat” rhetoric proliferates while the military budget skyrockets. In truth, China is not the existential threat that Hegseth and others claim it to be. … So no, China is not a military threat, but it is a threat to the political and economic balance of power. China’s growth over the past decade is unprecedented, and its economy is soon set to surpass that of the United States. Not only that, but China has become a global leader in research and technological advancement. While this poses no real threat to the American people, it does rattle the ruling class and business elite who rely on U.S. imperial behavior to maintain a monopoly on advanced tech revenue streams. [Read More]
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Everyone Knows It’s Windy: A Breezy Rant
By Bill McKibben, Substack [May 12, 2026]
---- Those of us who came up in a different age still occasionally harbor the belief that facts, truth, science matters; that it hasn’t all just vanished into a tweeting flash of nonsense. In service of this delusion, I’m dedicating this newsletter to the topic of wind, because I think it distills the corruption and irrationality of our sad moment into its purest essence—190-proof Trumpism, the stuff that blinds you if you guzzle it. My rant is occasioned by the news that the administration has stopped all approvals on wind farms across the country. As Katherine Krawczyk explains, for 15 years wind farms have applied to the Defense Department where “they’re supposed to undergo a “timely, transparent, and repeatable process to evaluate potential impacts” to national security and military operations. It’s a routine that has spanned presidencies, including the first Trump administration, and that typically revolves around making sure turbines don’t interfere with radars or federal airspace.” This has always been routine, until last summer when it became…impossible. Pete Hegseth’s DOD simply stopped replying, and didn’t explain why till last month when it sent a letter to developers saying it was “reevaluating how it reviews wind projects national security impacts.” Somewhere between 165 and 250 big projects are in limbo, and that’s obviously the point: not only does it screw up their financing, it means they may not get done in time to qualify for what tax credits are left from the Biden IRA. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - “Trump Is Fighting the World’s Stupidest Culture War,” By Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times [May 12, 2026] [Link].
THE STATE OF THE UNION
(Video) Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting “Billionaire Big Tech Agenda”
From Democracy Now! [May 13, 2026]
---- As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ‘No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’” [See the Program] ALSO OF INTEREST - “The End of Hansel Valley and the Beginning of a Post-Industrial Dark Age” [Utah] by Kayo Robertson, Counterpunch [Link].
Fanon’s Rainbow: The Lithium Under Appalachia
By John Kendall Hawkins, Counterpunch [May 13, 2026]
---- Geologists have confirmed what preliminary surveys suggested for years: the Appalachian mountain corridor, running from Maine down through New Hampshire, Virginia, the Carolinas, and into Georgia, sits atop one of the largest lithium deposits in North America. The find is concentrated heavily in North Carolina and West Virginia, with significant deposits running the full length of the range. It could represent enough reserves to supply domestic battery production for decades. The timing is fortuitous. The United States has been scrambling to secure lithium supply chains for electric vehicles, grid storage, and defense technology. Turns out it was here all along. Right under the Appalachian Trail, which some optimists still hike end to end, Maine to Georgia, imagining a country that rewards persistence. Appalachia has been here before. Not the lithium part, but the part where something valuable gets discovered underneath people who have been poor for a very long time. [Read More]
OUR HISTORY
(Video) “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism
From Democracy Now! [May 14, 2026]
---- We speak with the acclaimed artist and author Molly Crabapple about her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Although largely forgotten today, the Jewish Labor Bund was once a powerful secular, socialist revolutionary party that fought for freedom and dignity for Jews in Europe. The movement formed in the waning days of the Russian Empire in an atmosphere of intense antisemitism, but it “rejected, from the very start, calls to create a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine,” Crabapple says. “They felt that Zionism was a capitulation to the same bigots that wanted to kick Jews out of Europe.” Bund members — known as Bundists — navigated profound historical changes from the founding of the movement in 1897 until its ultimate destruction in the Holocaust. But Crabapple, who learned Yiddish for the book, says the Bund is not just Jewish history. “This is a history that belongs to all rebels. It belongs to everyone who believes in the necessity of human solidarity,” she says. [See the Program]
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be the United States’ Suez Crisis?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, Code Pink [May 13, 2026]
---- Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis. In 1956, the British Empire was still resisting independence movements in many of its colonies. The horrors of British Mau Mau concentration camps in Kenya and Britain’s brutal guerrilla war in Malaya continued throughout the 1950s, and, like the United States today, Britain still had military bases all over the world. … The Suez Crisis was the pivotal moment when the British government finally learned that it could no longer use military force to impose its will on less powerful countries. Like Americans today on Iran, the British public was way ahead of its government: opinion polls found that 44% opposed the use of force against Egypt, while only 37% approved. As Prime Minister Eden dithered over the UN’s ceasefire order, 30,000 people gathered at an anti-war rally in Trafalgar Square. Eden was forced to resign, and was replaced by Harold Macmillan, who withdrew British forces from bases in Asia, expedited independence for British colonies around the world, and repositioned Britain as a junior partner to the United States. … Americans must insist that this crisis spark the radical rethink of US politics, economics and international relations that neocons in both parties have prevented for decades. Trump’s dead end in the Persian Gulf must also be the final end of this ugly, criminal neoconservative era, and the beginning of a transition to a more peaceful future for Americans and all our neighbors. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Texas’ Radical Past Points to a Possible New Future,” by Steve Early, Barn Raiser [May 14, 2026] [Link]; and “Puerto Rico Remains a Colony in All but Name,” by Alex MacArthur, Jacobin Magazine [May 2026] [Link].
