Few know the history of the violent explusion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948: it is not taught in schools, and instead many- myself included- were  taught outright lies about Palestine being an empty desert, “a land without a people for a people without a land.” As ideas for a  second Nakba are being drawn up…

By Victor Grossman (Posted Nov 01, 2023) his is not really a Bulletin, but an essay, far too long, undoubtedly very controversial, but from the heart.  A Bulletin about dramatic German events with Sahra Wagenknecht will follow as soon as I can! Alas, events have been moving much faster than I can write about them, terrible events. Our…

Not everything is meant to be remembered. Firmin DeBrabander “I have discovered a potion for memory and wisdom,” the Egyptian god of the underworld tells the King of Thebes in an exchange recounted by Plato. This “magic potion,” it turns out, is writing. Previously, stories and histories, facts and fables were passed on orally. Minstrels…

by Michael D. Yates Sharon Rudahl, Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson, edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020), 142 pages, $23.95, paperback. One of my favorite Paul Robeson songs is “Jacob’s Ladder.” It originated as a slave spiritual, based upon the Biblical story of…

Jabayla refugee camp’s most populated neighborhood is razed using six US-made bombs, each weighing one ton October 31, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch Photo: Quds News Network On October 31, Israel dropped six US-made bombs (each weighing one ton) on the most populated neighborhood of Jabayla refugee camp in Gaza, killing and injuring 400, reports the Palestinian Ministry of Health.…