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Jill Stein speaking at a rally, with a crowd waving Palestinian flags behind her.

Green Party US Declares Zionism Is Racism

The Green Party of the United States adopted Proposal 1332 on November 8, 2026, declaring Zionism a form of racism and itself an anti Zionist party. The history behind the vote runs from the Balfour Declaration to the Nakba to the Nation State Law, and the record supports the charge.

A long line of Dearborn voters in winter coats waiting outside a brick polling place at dawn, one voter dropping a ballot into a ballot box, with a mosque dome and a church steeple on the skyline

Dearborn Voted in Record Numbers and Changed Michigan

On November 3, 2026, Dearborn cast 45,460 ballots, more than in any election in city history, and helped send Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate. Arab American candidates won up and down the ballot, while the Green vote told a harder story about protest, return, and the limits of a third party in Michigan.

JE VEUX — The Paris Within Us

JE VEUX — The Paris Within Us A poem written in 2018. A dream brought to life in 2026. I wrote this poem in 2018, before I had ever set foot in Paris. But I had already lived there a thousand times. I had walked its streets in my imagination, fallen in love beneath its ...

“WHY I AM AGAINST ALL TAXES” … Public Wealth Economics by Wissam Charafeddine

By Wissam Charafeddine | An Economic Vision for a Post-Tax Society Introduction: Why Must the Government Be Poor When Its People Are Productive? For centuries, governments have operated under an assumption so deeply embedded in political and economic thinking that few people seriously question it: to finance public services, the government must take a portion ...

Why I Am Running for the Michigan State Board of Education

By Wissam Charafeddinecharafeddine2026.com I have decided to run for the Michigan State Board of Education because I believe public education is one of the most important moral, economic, cultural, and democratic responsibilities we share. Education is not just about test scores. It is about whether a child in Dearborn, Detroit, Hamtramck, Livonia, Grand Rapids, Flint, ...

The 10 Best Films I Watched in the First Half of 2026 (Out of 40)

Forty films in six months. Some were entertaining. Some were unforgettable. A few completely rewired how I think about humanity, power, science, art, love, and oppression. If 2025 was the year I watched stories about identity, then 2026 has become the year of institutions—how they shape us, fail us, and sometimes destroy us. There is ...

Universal Declaration of Human Values: Article 12 – Due Process – Innocent Until Proven Guilty

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

حفل توقيع كتاب “حوار ـ كون من عدم” بقلم وسام شرف الدين

حفل توقيع كتاب حوار ـ كون من عدم بقلم السيد وسام شرف الدين الثلاثاء ٢٩ تموز ٢٠٢٥م الساعة السابعة مساءً بتوقيت ديترويت المكان: نادي بنت الجبيل الثقافي الواقع على 14201 Prospect st dearborn mi 48126 تقدم الأمسية السيدة حنان شرارة ويشارك فيها الأستاذ مصطفى العمري والدكتور عدنان جابر

New Book Eps 4 – Metaverse & Mortgages by Brigitte Jaward-Hachem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUXL4c7gZpA https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aOBHqJ5Dv51gm7dNKK77v?si=TU-0Ahv1TU2HEpMU9U-wRA

Dearborn Discussions: Searching fro Soul with Neurosurgeon Dr. Vivek Palavali

Dearborn Blog and the Livonia Salon invite you to a special live discussion, Searching for Soul: A Brain Surgeon's Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and Afterlife, with neurosurgeon Dr. Vivek Palavali.