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![Presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd on June 2, 2023, in Gilbert, South Carolina.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0616-ron-desantis-400x300.jpg)
Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills as Part of Hardline Agenda
The same forces that are attacking abortion, trans health care and racial justice are also pushing for more executions.
![An illustration of a patient whose arms are cuffed behind their back with hospital identification bracelets](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0609-carcereal-healthcare-400x300.jpg)
Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence
The abolition struggle must confront how institutions that constrain people with disabilities inflict carceral violence.
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As Food Aid to Gaza Is Cut, Palestinians Demand Freedom Instead of Charity
Cuts made to Palestinian food aid by the United Nations have lent even greater urgency to our liberation struggle.
![Member of the Knesset and leader of the far right Zionut Datit (Jewish Zionism) party, Bezalel Smotrich, visits the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah of the Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021, in Israel.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0613-israel-400x300.jpg)
Human Rights Defenders Slam Israel’s Planned West Bank Settlement Expansion
Netanyahu's government reportedly informed the U.S. of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes.
![People sit in a line as they're watched by an armed and uniformed border patrol agent](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0607-cbp-400x300.jpg)
Human Rights Advocates Expose Systemic Reproductive Injustices by Border Patrol
“The agency knows this is happening, and they’re turning away from the problem,” said one immigrants' rights attorney.
![A police car drives past the main gate of the newly established refugee camp on the island of Samos, Greece, on September 18, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0526-Refugees-EU-400x300.jpg)
Europe’s War Against Refugees Is Fueling the Far Right’s Ascension
The international guaranteed rights of refugees are eroding on both sides of the Atlantic.
![PayPal President & CEO Dan Schulman speaks on stage at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta on December 13, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1448900602-400x300.jpg)
PayPal Upholds Its Discriminatory Ban on Palestinians Amid Pressure Campaign
Israeli settlers in the West Bank have access to PayPal, but their Palestinian neighbors are barred from the service.
![A U.S. flag flies behind barbed wire at the notorious U.S. prison camp on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, on January 15, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1250261408-400x300.jpg)
The US Continues to Try to Suppress Details About Its Torture Programs
It’s time to end the ongoing “war on terror,” expose it for what it is, and make sure it never happens again.
![A man yells while being arrested by several police officers](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0524-hindustani-protest-400x300.jpg)
Far Right Violence Surges in US and India
In India, Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means.
![A child pulls his destroyed bike out of rubble that was once an apartment](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0523-palestine-child-400x300.jpg)
“There Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault
In a vicious five-day assault, Israeli occupying forces killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza.