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New U.S. ICBM Tests Spark Criticism
The coordinator of the coalition, Emma Claire Foley, is the author of the landmark report “The Real Cost of ICBMs.” After this week’s tests, in an article titled “America’s Nuclear Missiles Make Its Citizens Less Safe,” she wrote that ICBMs “are not only strategically impractical but a threat to the lives of millions.”
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The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
“AIPAC wading into elections was nothing new. … But the sheer scale of AIPAC’s spending – enabled by Supreme Court decisions that have unleashed the distorting influence of big money in elections – and the tactics being used are more recent developments. These pro-Israel groups now directly intervene in Democratic primary races, flooding the airwaves with negative ads defaming…
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Assessing Race-Neutral Tests for Lung Function
A new study shows the implications of adopting race-neutral equations when physicians are testing for lung function.
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1967 War Myths Key to Gaza Today
“Most people, even those knowledgeable about the Middle East, if asked how Israel portrayed its invasion of Gaza and Sinai in 1967, will say that it claimed self-defense on a rationale that Egypt was about to invade. In fact, that is inaccurate. In the Security Council, Israel claimed that Egypt had initiated hostilities by shelling…
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Palestinian Groups Call to Declare Gaza a Famine-Stricken Area
The groups “call on the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority to immediately declare Gaza a famine-stricken area due to famine, environmental pollution, and the spread of diseases.”
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* Israel’s Impunity * U.S. Bombs Yemen
+972 Magazine has also conducted an investigation with the Guardian: “Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed.” This was followed up with “Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry” which reports that according to accounts shared with ICC officials, then Mossad head Yossi Cohen is alleged to…
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U.S. Doctors Back From Gaza: Israeli Marksmen Shooting Children in the Head
They wrote: “On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis. We were immediately overwhelmed by the overflowing sewage and the distinct smell of gunpowder in the air. We made the short journey from the Rafah…
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Will Israel Go the Way of Apartheid South Africa?
Alfred de Zayas said today: “On 30 Sept. 1974 the General Assembly adopted resolution 3206. The resolution approved the rejection of the credentials of the South African delegation by the Credentials Committee. Since then South Africa was effectively banned from participating in the work of the General Assembly. Today the General Assembly should…
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Far-Right Summit in Spain
A far-right summit took place in Spain, organized by Spain’s right-wing Vox party, with right-wing attendees from across the European Union, in preparation for the EU elections taking place in June.
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Israeli Bombing Shows “Complete Disregard for the Lives of Civilians in Gaza”
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) just released a statement, reporting that: “On the night of May 26, the trauma stabilization point supports” for the group “in Tal al Sultan, Gaza, recorded 180 wounded patients and 28 dead after Israeli airstrikes hit a camp sheltering displaced people in a designated safe zone. Most of the…
