"On Friday, Palestinians were sharing a cartoon on social media. It displayed two pictures with the same image of a man in a blue jacket and Star of David on his kippah hugging a man in Gulf-style clothing. On the first, they were hugging while hiding under a table. On the second, they were hugging openly sitting on top of it, suggesting that a hidden romance was now out in the open."

In the days after Alexander Lukashenko stole Belarus’s election, the state has unleashed intense repression against all who dared to protest. But now workers from metro drivers to oil refinery employees have gone on strike against Lukashenko’s fraud — a powerful stand for their democratic rights.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is wrecking Americans’ mental health, according to the CDC. One in four young adults have contemplated suicide during the pandemic, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"UAE-Israel ties have intensified and become increasingly visible in the last decade – based on shared hostility to Iran. Intelligence cooperation is highly developed. Israel diplomats are based at the Abu Dhabi HQ of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have followed suit in engaging with Israel, though generally behaving more discreetly."

A Chavista activist talks about advances and setbacks in the sphere of human rights in Venezuela.

Media blames the crisis in Lebanon only on corruption, but a US "maximum pressure" campaign pushes regime change with sanctions to crush resistance

Sophia Sanniti says it’s time to unionize.

Sanniti works as a teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo while completing her PhD. Previously she worked for York University while finishing her master’s degree. Graduate student workers are unionized at York University, and not at the University of Waterloo.

It is simply astonishing that the first attempt by the Guardian – the only major British newspaper styling itself as on the liberal-left – to properly examine the contents of a devastating internal Labour party report leaked in April is taking place nearly four months after the 860-page report first came to light.

What the young people of Lebanon desire – or those we actually observe demonstrating today – is easy to understand. No nation whose president must be a Christian Maronite, whose prime minister will always be a Sunni Muslim, whose speaker of parliament must always be a Shia, will ever be a modern state. The very certainty of power-through-religious-sect ensures corruption. There can be no checks on dishonesty when power rests on mutual fear rather than compromise.

Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.