Independent journalism by Samuel N. Gilbert

featuring reporting on immigration, border communities, international conflict, climate change, and Indigenous foodways. A portfolio of published work from leading global news outlets

Massive Climate March Puts Leaders on Hold

Al Jazeera

New York City, United States – More than 300,000 people converged on New York City to attend what organisers called the largest single climate change march in history.

Tens of

The Bitcoin of Israel Is Set to Tackle the Country’s Banking Monopoly

Vice News

The success of the pioneering Bitcoin has inspired a proliferation of new cryptocurrencies around the globe, and last week, six Israeli developers introduced their own virtual coin in an attempt

Palestinians Are Being Forced to Destroy Their Own Homes

Vice

Occupied East Jerusalem – For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home.

He gave his bed to his three small children whose

Palestinians forced to demolish own homes

Al Jazeera English
Occupied East Jerusalem - For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose

It’s Been a Deadly Winter Along Israel’s West Bank Border

Vice News

Israel’s aggressive vigilance of its borders has resulted in the loss of another Palestinian life.

On Wednesday, 15-year-old Yousef Nayif Yousef Shawamrah Abu-Akar was shot dead by an Israeli soldier

Abbas Meets With Obama as Palestinians Vent Frustration

Vice News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House on Monday, where he spoke with President Barack Obama about the peace negotiations with Israel that began last July and have continued

Attacks on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Backfire

Truth Out

In December, the American Studies Association (ASA) answered the call from Palestinian civil society and endorsed the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, a milestone for the controversial Boycott Divestment and

The Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico

Vice

In 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site, in New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert.

The massive blast pulled the white desert sand up into an atomic

Teenage Palestinian amputees top Kilimanjaro

Al Jazeera English
In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body.

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