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  • Day 600: Palestine … and Poetry

    “And she is too weak to stand, too weak to withstand not being able to make her hill, and she starts crying now for her father who was killed, her three brothers killed, her infant sister who died of hunger, for the sky that used to be clear of warplanes, for the hill she is trying to make out of sand that keeps falling, falling.”

  • Focusing on Children

    As Congress votes on President Trump’s budget bill, experts warn that cuts severely impact children in the U.S. in particular. Trump’s first 100 days in office were also detrimental to children. 

  • “Guns and Bombs Will Not End this Genocide”

    “Why did he do this? He did it because he lost hope. The rightwingers are saying that the protests are fomenting violence. It’s the opposite: Meaningful protests give people hope.”

  • Saving Medicaid

    Last week, House Republicans passed the Trump administration’s budget bill, which includes over $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The fight is not over, however. Caring Across Generations put out a National Protect Medicaid 2025 Toolkit. 

  • Vets Fasting for Peace in Gaza

    “We don’t have to walk and stand in line for hours to see if it’s available. We sleep securely at night without fearing a missile will incinerate us. In comparison, the pain and tension blanketing every soul in Gaza must be paralyzing. And then … it’s unimaginable to have children, whose lives depend on you, slowly starve while the water they drink makes them sicker.”

  • As Israel Attempts “Final Solution” in Gaza, It Targets Nonviolent Activist in West Bank

    “Israeli settlers attacked my house with stones, they came at 4 am to throw stones and [set fire to] my family land, chanting about the death of my brother, and wishing that I will die too or [be] killed.”

  • 23andMe Data Sold to Regeneron

    Regeneron, a pharmaceutical giant, is gaining access to one of the largest consumer genetic  bases through the bankruptcy sale of 23andMe. Regeneron will gain control of more than 15 million users’ DNA information. 

  • Veterans and Allies Conduct 40-Day “Fast for Gaza”

    On Thursday, a coalition of military veterans, religious and humanitarian organizations will begin a 40-day “Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza,” with a news conference at 10:00 am ET, at the “Isaiah Wall” near the United Nations headquarters in New York City, moving to the U.S. Mission to the UN, where the fast will be conducted.

  • Trump Meeting with Ramaphosa

    “So although Pretoria’s Hague-centric Palestine solidarity (forgotten when it comes to Glencore-Motsepe’s massive coal sales to Israel to empower the genocidaires) probably can’t really be sacrificed aside from ‘dropping the megaphone’ (which was already done), we can expect Ramaphosa to offer Trump:…”

  • Israel Is Starving Gaza, a War Crime

    Last week, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council: “We have life-saving supplies ready, now, at the borders. We can save hundreds of thousands of survivors. … But Israel denies us access.”

  • Why Did the U.S. Bomb Iran Now?

    “Israel seeks to be the regional hegemon and for a long time Iran stood in its way. The real threat Iran has historically posed to Israel, rhetoric aside, has never been existential but rather strategic and ideological.“

  • Trump “Has Usurped” Congressional War Powers, “Summit of Impeachable Offenses”

    “President Trump has usurped the war power of Congress in making the United States a belligerent against Iran by systematic provision of intelligence, weapons, advisors, and military personnel in support of Israel’s criminal war of aggression. Mr. Trump tacitly acknowledged American belligerency in boasting, ‘we now have complete and total control of the skies over…

  • Israel’s Gaza Killing Spree, Netanyahu’s Manipulation of Americans

    “Israel murdered this baby along with two of his siblings yesterday in Jabalia. … the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and others! … You justified his killing with your coverage, even before he was born. Even after his murder, you did not run a story on him. You dehumanized him and his family. You…

  • “Impunity is Fueling Israel’s Spiraling Aggression”

    The New Statesman writes in “Impunity is fueling Israel’s spiraling aggression” that “Israel attacked Iran not out of fear but out of hubris. … This is the overwhelming lesson Israel has drawn from the past 20 months amid its intensifying onslaught on Gaza: there is no limit to what the world will let it get…

  • Is Israel Using Nuclear Blackmail Against the U.S.?

    Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said over the weekend: “If (Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front — Tehran will burn.”      Steinbach said: “This is clearly a nuclear threat. Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal of 90-400 nuclear warheads, though discussion of it has been avoided as it has…

  • Trump’s Intensified Militarism

    The U.S. Army estimates the cost of President Trump’s military parade last Saturday at as much as $45 million, including $16 million to repair damage done to city streets by heavy military equipment. The National Priorities Project writes about 10 things the government could have funded instead of the military parade. 

  • As Israel Attacks Iran, U.S. Vets Warn of Past Deceits as they March to Gaza

    Former UN official Craig Mokhiber stated: “The Israeli regime is now attacking Iran, in a blatant act of aggression. The world must unite to isolate and contain the Israeli regime, which, drunk with U.S.-guaranteed impunity, armed to the teeth by the West, and driven by a deeply racist and fundamentally violent ideology, is leaving a blood-soaked…

  • “No Kings Day”

    On June 14, organizers anticipate that 1,800 local demonstrations around the United States will challenge President Trump’s autocratic policies while a military parade in Washington marks his birthday. June 14 is also Flag Day and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary celebration. The campaign is calling for demonstrators to carry American flags at “No Kings Day”…

  • Gaza: UN Vote Today; Israel Cuts off Internet

    Today the UN General Assembly votes on a Uniting for Peace resolution on Gaza that reportedly: “Demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. … Strongly condemns any use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. … Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, immediately end the blockade. … Stresses the need for accountability in order…

  • Mental Health Misinformation

    Investigative reporting by The Guardian found that more than half of the top 100 mental health TikTok accounts contain misinformation. Experts established that 52 out of 100 videos about trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, and severe mental illness contained misinformation. 

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