Back in early March when the Israel/Gaza conflict was still in its fifth month, longtime progressive icon Ralph Nader published an important column in Common Dreams arguing that the official Palestinian death toll widely cited in media reports probably represented a huge underestimate of the actual reality. His piece opened as follows: Since the Hamas... Read More

Blood is such a strange substance in human experience. We all have blood, of course, but it is hidden away, as it were, out of sight and out of mind. On the one hand, it is the very fluid of the living body, as necessary as air. Blood is life, energy, vibrancy, youth; we speak... Read More