Ray Acheson

@rayacheson.bsky.social

they/them. abolitionist, antinuclear. author: Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages. organizer at reachingcriticalwill.org. writer at counterpunch.org. more at rayacheson.com.

125 organisations, including @wilpf.bsky.social, released an open call to all states to end support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The letter reminds states that continuing to provide support could expose them to legal responsibility.

An Open Call to All States to Stop Facilitating US Extrajudicial Killings

125 organizations released an open call to all States to end support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, and reminding States that continuing to provide support could...

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everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Once again, the US and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country, complete with false claims about WMD. We are being marched deeper into a global hellscape of carnage and chaos, but opportunities to resist abound. My latest for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social.

Boys With Toys Try to Blow Up Iran

Once again, the United States and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country. Once again, US and Israeli officials claim “self-defense” and “pre-emption,” attempting to...

counterpunch.org

A horrific new report from Al Jazeera about Israel’s use of thermal and thermobaric weapons provided by the United States reveals how munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. The supply chain is evidence of complicity in genocide and war crimes.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

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Join us for our second webinar with organizers from FL, KS, and CA on how they are resisting detention expansion to Abolish ICE!  📆Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 13:00-14:30 PT/ 15:00-16:30 CT/ 16:00-17:30 ET 🔗Register here: bit.ly/RESISTANCE101

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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”

“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

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