News Releases

  • Opposing Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late

    Israel’s failure to comply with international treaties and humanitarian law signal an acute need for other countries to organize weapons embargoes, cease trade deals, and provide support for civilian peacekeepers to bring about a permanent ceasefire.


  • Sinwar Named Leader of Hamas After Beirut and Tehran Attacks

    It is widely expected that Iran and Hezbollah will retaliate against Israel. The State Department has refused to acknowledge that Iran has a right to defend itself.


  • AIPAC Misinformation Targets Cori Bush

    “On the ground in St.Louis the amount of money being poured in to smear Rep. Bush and misinform voters is astonishing”


  • The Pregnancy Police

    A new book, The Pregnancy Police, details how pregnant Americans have faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses since long before the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 


  • Israel’s Assassinations, Torture and Rape

    Sharon Zhang reported on Monday at Truthout: “Israel Bombs Girls’ School in Gaza, Killing 30 and Wounding Over 100.” And on Tuesday: “Israeli Militants Riot Over Investigation Into Torture of Palestinian Prisoner.” “The detained soldiers have reportedly been charged with the sexual abuse of a Palestinian man who suffered injuries to his anus so severe that he was unable to walk. … In the Israeli Knesset on Monday, meanwhile, lawmakers debated whether or not sexual abuse was a legitimate tactic for Israeli soldiers. … At least 35 Palestinians have died in Sde Teiman as a result of abuses that appear…


  • “No Harbour for Genocide” Campaign Targeting “Ships of Death” Bound for Israel

    The Guardian reports: “Tanker carrying jet fuel for Israel must not dock in Gibraltar, say MPs.” Activists from Morocco, Gibraltar and Spain are collaborating at the Strait of Gibraltar, in coordination with a broad international coalition including Disrupt Power, Global Energy Embargo for Palestine, the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine, Progressive International, La Vía Campesina, and numerous other groups, to prevent the tanker Overseas Santorini from delivering military grade jet fuel to Israel. The campaign, called “No Harbour for Genocide,” has already succeeded in forcing the tanker to reroute, and aims to create a people’s blockade throughout the…


  • Public Souring on Project 2025

    New polling finds that 54 percent of Americans are familiar with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation proposal that aims to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government and consolidate executive power if a Republican wins the 2024 presidential election.


  • Israeli Military Destroys Palestinian Water Facilities as Poliovirus Found in Gaza

    Drop Site News reports in “The IDF Just Destroyed a Key Rafah Water Facility Rachel Corrie Spent Her Last Month of Life Defending” about a video showing the “calculated demolition of a chief water facility in Rafah. The video, in three parts, shows Israeli soldiers planting explosives inside and around the water pumps of a facility in the occupied city. The video — which is captioned in Hebrew, ‘Destruction of the Tal Sultan water reservoir in honor of Shabbat’ — ends with footage of the water facility being blown up. The soundtrack is a song produced by soldiers of the…


  • Hezbollah Denies Killing Arabs on Golan Heights

    “Hezbollah denies responsibility for attack in occupied Golan Heights, but Israeli officials insist on retaliation”


  • Ahead of Venezuela’s Election, What Do the Polls Really Show?

    “This Sunday, July 28, Venezuelans will head to the polls in what has been framed as the opposition’s best chance to unseat President Nicolás Maduro”


  • U.S. Bombs Somalia for 100th Time this Year

    “AFRICOM said the strikes targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region. … AFRICOM said that the airstrikes were launched on November 21 and November 22 about 37 miles southeast of the Gulf of Aden port city of Bosaso, where U.S.-backed forces have been fighting against an ISIS affiliate in the Caal-Miskaad Mountains.”

  • Psychotherapists Challenging Insurance Company Denials

    The Psychotherapy Action Network has created an Insurance Toolkit that includes an Insurance Guide and Insurance Tracker. The guide outlines what psychotherapists and patients should know when insurance companies deny or question care, while the tracker aims to document obstacles dealing with insurance and reimbursement. 

  • Israel Strikes Beirut, Has Violated Lebanese “Ceasefire” 10,000 Times in Last Year

    “The strike comes after an unprecedented escalation in threats of launching a major military campaign that would not amount to a war according to Israeli officials. It was the first time the southern suburbs were hit since July. It comes only two days after Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said in a speech, on the occasion…

  • “The UN Embraces Colonialism” and Israel Escalates Bombing Gaza, Moving Yellow Line

    Not since the UN partitioned Palestine in 1947 against the will of the indigenous people, setting the stage for 80 years of Nakba, has the UN acted in such a baldly colonial (and legally ultra vires) way, and trampled so recklessly on the rights of a people.

  • “How to Monkeywrench a Genocide”

    Police in England and Wales arrested more than 140 people on Tuesday, the first day of coordinated protests against the UK government’s proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action. This is happening as a trial of members of the group begins.

  • “America First Global Health Strategy”

    The State Department’s new America First Global Health Strategy and reorganization of foreign assistance “fundamentally change the structure and goals of U.S. foreign aid in a way that marginalizes children,” writes an advocate for international children’s issues and global health. The shift moves foreign assistance toward a focus on serving the U.S.’s “national security” interests.…

  • Israel Continuing to Block Aid to Gaza

    Dr. Sidhwa said: “Israel continues to block approximately half of healthcare workers with Emergency Medical Teams. No reason for the denials is given.”

  • UNSC Reported to Back Trump Plan, Palestinians Outraged

    “The U.S. is pushing for a vote on the U.N. Security Council by Monday on the U.S.-Israel colonial land grab in Gaza. The U.S. draft would ignore the findings of the International Court of Justice and U.N. human rights bodies, violate key provisions of international law, reward and normalize the perpetrators of the genocide, punish…

  • U.S. and Israel Trying to Consolidate “Land Grab in Gaza” Using U.N.

    “The co-perpetrators of the genocide are seeking U.N. authorization to take over the lives of the survivors and normalize the status of the perpetrators. Russia and China must stand firm against this abomination, and the UNGA must move now under Uniting for Peace to provide protection for Palestine and accountability for the Israeli regime.”  

  • Epstein’s Work with Israel: New Revelations

    “Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but…

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