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  • “Die-In” at Israeli U.N. Mission, Blood Thrown on U.S. Mission

    As the 40-day fast for Gaza by Veterans and Allies ended Monday, the organizers escalated their activities with a “die-in” at the Israeli mission to the U.N. There were 28 people arrested in mass protests. Also Monday, Mike Ferner, a retired Navy corpsman and past director of Veterans For Peace threw blood at the U.S. mission to the U.N. and was also arrested. He and others held a vigil there during their fast for the past 40 days.

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  • Can Uniting for Peace Help Save the International Legal Order?

    “The UNGA should call out the genocide by name, strip Israel of its credentials, convene under Uniting for Peace to mandate a protection force, call for a complete military embargo and robust sanctions against the regime, demand a ceasefire, and take action to hold all perpetrators to account”

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  • Egyptian Plan: Rebuild Gaza Without Forcing Out Palestinians

    Egyptian officials have been discussing the plan with European diplomats as well as with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, according to two Egyptian officials and Arab and Western diplomats. …

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  • Internships and Volunteer Positions Available

    Noam Chomsky: “The Institute for Public Accuracy has been regularly providing the media with informed and expert commentary on the crucial events of the day, compensating for the inevitable distortion and significant omissions that trace to reliance on official sources and on a narrow spectrum of opinion, among other factors. Apart from its constructive contributions to media comprehensiveness and accuracy, for individuals who are seeking a better understanding of evolving world events IPA has been an incomparable source of critically important news that had escaped notice or received inadequate or misleading coverage, as well as acute analysis that is hard…

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  • “Help Wanted” Full-Page Ad in The Hill Calls for Challenger to Biden

    The Hill newspaper today published a full-page ad in its print edition calling for a progressive Democrat to step forward with a primary challenge to President Biden, who has said he intends to run for re-election.

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  • Espionage Act Misreporting and the Prosecution of Assange

    While Politico reports “FBI search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations,” some are cautioning that the Act has a long history of abuse. The U.S. government is trying to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from Britain and prosecute him under the Espionage Act for publishing material like the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed the U.S. military killing Iraqi staffers for Reuters. This prosecution has been condemned by numerous human rights and press freedom groups. On Monday at 11:00 ET, WikiLeaks is holding a news conference on a lawsuit regarding illegal spying in the case of Assange.…

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  • Amazon Union Vote

    MIKE ELK, [email protected], @MikeElk Elk is senior labor reporter for PaydayReport.com. His latest piece is “Anti-Union Amazon Workers Explain How Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings Turned Them Against RWDSU [Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union].” He said today: “As the union is trailing nearly 2-to-1 with almost half of the vote in, it appears likely that the union drive at Amazon in Alabama will be defeated.”In our interviews with workers, we discovered that most workers weren’t so heavily anti-union as much as they just didn’t know anything about unions. “This union failed to form a strong organizing committee that had a real plan…

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  • Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message

    U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic. On March 12, 2020, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif urged member states of the UN to end the United States’ unconscionable and lethal economic warfare.

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  • Timeline: How DNC Manipulated 2016 Presidential Race 

    April 25, 2017: In class action lawsuit alleging DNC fraud, DNC attorney argues the party has the right to ignore primary voters: “The party has the freedom of association to decide how it’s gonna select its representatives to the convention and to the state party. Even to define what constitutes evenhandedness and impartiality really would already drag the court well into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs. The party could have favored a candidate. I’ll put it that way… We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they…

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  • Francis A. Boyle in Defense of Kings Bay Plowshare 7 Activists

    It was my conclusion in June 25, 2018, for the reasons set out at length in that document, that the existence, threat or use of any of the Trident thermonuclear weapons at Kings Bay is absolutely illegal and criminal under the laws of the United States and international law…I repeat my opinion that the charges against these Defendants should be dismissed. The Court must recognize that the possession, preparation for use, threat of use or use of Trident nuclear weapons at Kings Bay is illegal and criminal. The non-violent, symbolic disarmament actions by Defendants in this matter are in full…

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  • “Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message”

    Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, published two articles today commemorating the impacts made by Pentagon Papers whistleblower and peace activist Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away on Friday.

  • Biden Rebuilds Ties with Saudi Arabia, Sanders Silent on Stopping Yemen War

    The Biden administration has recently made efforts to reconcile with Saudi Arabia. The US has been complicit in the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, being the former’s largest weapons supplier. Sacc Evans-Frant, a member of Action Corps said, “Bernie’s apparent silence — as the historic leader on the Yemen War Powers Resolution in…

  • A Tale of Two Espionage Act Defendants: Trump and a Drone Whistleblower 

    Institute for Public Accuracy’s executive director Norman Solomon, and whistleblower Thomas Drake who was indicted in 2010 under the Obama administration, commented on Donald Trump’s recent indictment and the use of the Espionage Act. Speaking in regards to Daniel Hale, a drone whistleblower serving a 45 month sentence, Drake said, “Daniel Hale held faith to…

  • NATO Playing with Fire

    Benjamin Abelow, author of “How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe” said recently, To say that the U.S. and NATO provoked the war could mean two different things. Do I mean that they wanted a war, and that they…

  • “Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is an Outrage”

    President of the board of World BEYOND War, Kathy Kelly, made a statement about the cancellation of the Summit for Peace in Ukraine conference in Vienna. She said, “This is not an isolated incident. Western liberal ideals have long asserted that the best answer to mistaken speech was wiser speech and more of it. We…

  • Widespread Loss of Medicaid Coverage

    Since April, upwards of 600,000 people have had their coverage terminated. Early data shows that the vast majority of enrollees have lost their insurance not because they are ineligible for it but because of “paperwork issues,” ie. procedural disenrollments.

  • Influential House Dem “Open to” Cluster Munitions for Ukraine 

    Regarding Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) recent comment speaking favorably of potentially providing Ukraine with cluster ammunitions, Norman Solomon says, “As a leading Democrat on military matters, Rep. Smith is putting forward an attitude toward cluster munitions that could have notably pernicious effects. But he’s hardly alone. The moral corrosion — reflected in the current Capitol Hill…

  • Peace Groups: The State Dept. Should Talk to the Russian Ambassador

    Director of World Beyond War, David Swanson, has launched a campaign urging the United States government to communicate with the Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov.

  • Upcoming Election in Sierra Leone

    Chernoh Alpha Bah, founder of Africanist Press, is living in exile in the United States for exposing corruption within the ruling and opposition parties in Sierra Leone. One way the country’s leaders have tried silencing Bah is by hiring an Israeli firm to spy on him.

  • Risk of Heart Disease in Younger People

    Over half of young adults in the U.S. have cholesterol levels high enough to increase their lifetime risk of a heart attack. But just 20 percent of young adults with high cholesterol are aware of it.

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