News Releases

  • What Does the Public Think of RFK Jr.?

    Polling shows that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s net approval rating declined from -11 percentage points in March 2025 to -21 points in September. CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten suggests that Kennedy’s approval rating has dropped because the public does not “like him on vaccines.” 


  • Disruption at Port Elizabeth: “The Nonviolent Way to Stop a Genocide Is to Stop the Shipment of Weapons”

    “This site exports weapons used by Israel to kill Palestinians in Gaza, shipped by Maersk and ZIM. In addition, it is one of the largest weapons exporters on the East coast. Supplying these weapons for Israel’s genocide is a blatant violation of the U.S. War Crimes Act, the Leahy law, The Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, and The Genocide Convention Implementation Act. To uphold these laws and prevent unlawful weapons shipments, protestors peacefully came to uphold all U.S. and international laws pertaining to genocide.”


  • * Israel Illegally Attacks Flotilla * Italy: Mass Strike

    “We now have a verdict. Vox populi vox dei as the ancient Romans used to say (the voice of the people is the voice of God). … Will Italian popular masses start enacting a people’s embargo and drag their political class to institutionalize it? The answer is a resounding yes, at least for the People’s Embargo.”


  • * Palestinian Push for Colombia Initiative * Pope Asked to Atone for His Stance on Gaza on Yom Kippur

    Palestinian factions largely see Trump’s “peace plan” as a farce. Crafted by Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides with no Palestinian input, it ties food and medicine to Hamas’s surrender and hands Gaza to a foreign “viceroy.”


  • It’s not a “Peace Plan” — It’s a Threatening Ultimatum

    “Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza is not a peace plan but an ultimatum, reminiscent of Nazi Luftwaffe’s Albert Kesselring’s ultimatum to Rotterdam in 1940 — surrender or we obliterate you. A civilized world cannot accept this. The media is complicit in the scam.“


  • U.S. Vets on Flotilla Approaching Gaza

    There are several U.S. veterans on the Sumud Flotilla, which is approaching Gaza with humanitarian aid. See on XandInstagram.  Spain and other countries have dispatched navy vessels to support the Flotilla. The Flotilla just reported: “Turkish navy vessels spotted alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla — the circle of protection is growing.”


  • Trump Administration Continues to Spout Autism Misinformation

    In the past week, the Trump administration spread two pieces of pseudoscience related to autism: first, that acetaminophen use during pregnancy can cause autism, and second, that a prescription supplement called leucovorin (folinic acid) can benefit autistic children.


  • Change in Vaccines for Children

    The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted last week to restrict access to the combined measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine for low-income children under the age of four. Vaccines for Children, a program that provides low-cost or free vaccines for children who are uninsured or on Medicaid, will no longer provide the MMRV vaccine.


  • Colombia Acting at U.N. to Overcome U.S. Veto on Gaza Genocide

    In a sweeping speech, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday: “First of all, we must stop this genocide in Gaza.” He added that it “cannot be stopped by words alone.” Petro outlined actions including economic sanctions and a protection force using the General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace process to overcome the U.S. veto in the Security Council. See his speech. 


  • StopGenocide.com UN Livestream Challenges “Two State” Rhetoric Normalizing Genocide

    StopGenocide.com will be carrying a livestream of the U.N. meetings that begin at 9 a.m. ET Tuesday, featuring real-time critical analysis. The organizers scrutinize not just the U.S. and Israeli governments, but others as well for using rhetoric to effectively normalize genocide. The U.N. Secretary General refuses to use the term “genocide” in spite of the recent findings of the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry, which stated that “since at least 26 January 2024, when the International Court of Justice ordered its first provisional measures, all States Parties to the Genocide Convention, and all other States too, have been on notice of a serious risk that…


  • Yemen: Is the Scandal the Leak or the Slaughter? 

    The YDP released a report on Tuesday analyzing 38 strikes on Yemen the U.S. launched from March 15 to March 21 and found that 55 percent of the bombings hit non-military targets.

  • Israel Escalates Genocide, Kills Journalists

    Kouddous now notes: “Israel has now issued forced displacement orders for Jabaliya. The attack is unhinged and relentless.” Israel has been widely condemned as pursuing a goal driving out the Palestinians to take more of their land, including by UN specialists. 

  • Does Chuck Schumer Know What Genocide Is?

    Last December, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports which unequivocally concluded that Israel has been engaging in genocide in Gaza. “But very few members of Congress dare to acknowledge that reality,”

  • The Israeli-American Trump Mega-Donor Behind Speech Crackdowns

    The Trump administration’s effort to deport a Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, in retaliation for Khalil’s role in campus protests opposing Israel’s war in Gaza, showed the lengths the White House is prepared to go to police speech about Israel.

  • The ‘War on Seniors’

    The future of Social Security is on the line. Nancy Altman, president and co-founder of Social Security Works, has “never been this worried” about the future of the program. Meanwhile, Martin O’Malley, commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) from 2023 to 2024, is warning that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s steps to hollow out…

  • Israel Restarts Large-Scale Bombing of Gaza, Killing Over 400

    “Pictures and videos from Gaza that have surfaced online show there is a large number of child casualties. ‘Israeli bombardment has returned to Gaza, bringing massacres with it once again,’ Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif wrote on X. ‘The bodies of children, killed in their sleep, lay scattered in the aftermath.’ The massive attack came…

  • Trump Bombing Yemen for Israel

    U.S. warplanes struck Sana’a and seven other provinces in Yemen in what U.S. defense officials described as the beginning of a large-scale military campaign against the Houthis.

  • Is Trump Going to Tank the Economy?

    Though the Trump-Vance administration inherited the strongest economy for an incoming administration in a quarter century, experts say there are already signs flashing red on the economy.

  • Protests Target Swiss for Caving on Geneva Conventions and Israel

    “Switzerland intentionally sabotaged (and then cancelled) the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the 4th Geneva Convention on behalf of the Israeli regime.”

  • Syria: Civil War to Holy War?

    tempered by fear for the future. The victorious insurgents were supported by outside powers and had a track record of brutality comparable to Assad’s in addition to religious fanaticism.

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