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  • 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”

  • Newsom Targets Homeless, Pushed by Palantir Co-Founder

    “Newsom’s Executive Order will devastate the lives of thousands of people already struggling to survive.”

  • Senate Wants to Force U.S. to Share Sensitive Intel with Israel

    “In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States.”

  • ICC and Israel: Finding New Ways to Avoid Taking Action?

    “The decision by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, a political body dominated by Western states and their allies, to suspend ICC Prosecutor Khan, despite the exculpatory findings of both the judicial panel that reviewed the case and the OIOS [Office of Internal Oversight Services] oversight body, can only be seen as just…

  • Coalition Calls for Schumer to Step Aside as Minority Leader

    The electronic billboard, circulating around the Capitol throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, reads: “Chuck Schumer has failed to provide real leadership against a war-crazed Trump administration” and “Chuck Schumer: Step Aside as Minority Leader.” Groups participating in the campaign include RootsAction, World BEYOND War, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Peace Action.

  • Israel: Ally? * Iran * USS Liberty

    Common Dreams reports: “The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came in retaliation for Israel’s earlier bombing of Beirut.” On Monday afternoon, Rep. Thomas Massie made remarks about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty…

  • Rubio Refuses to Address Threat of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

    The Washington Post recently noted: “‘There is a low boil of unease about Israel’s nuclear program and what could compel them to use nuclear weapons short of facing a WMD attack,’ said an administration official.”

  • SNAP Cutbacks and $1.5 Trillion for War: Food Not Bombs a Solution?

    McHenry said today: “I have spent my entire adult life sharing food with the hungry but this policy of forcing people already struggling to spend hours of their week just to get assistance that is not enough to provide food for the month is one of the cruelest hunger policies I have witnessed. For many…

  • Pope’s Call for Peace and Resistance and the Pentagon Protests

    They assembled on the right-hand side of the Pentagon entrance to protest, they said, the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran — a war His Holiness Pope Leo XIV declared unjust, immoral, in violation of international law, and against the Gospel. Standing or kneeling, they began to sing and pray for peace. All 27 were…

  • Israel Escalates Attack on Lebanon, Threatens Beirut

    “Trump claimed in two posts on Truth Social after his call with Netanyahu that some sort of ceasefire had been agreed to, though Israeli attacks continue in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah continues to fire at Israeli forces.“

  • Colombia Elections to Proceed to Runoff Between Left-Wing and Far-Right Candidates

    “Colombia held presidential elections yesterday. Among a field of several candidates, far-right criminal defense attorney Abelardo de la Espriella leads with nearly 44 percent of the vote while left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda of the governing Pacto Histórico party came in second with nearly 41 percent. Since no candidate reached the 50 percent threshold needed to…

  • Congress “Moves to Integrate U.S. and Israeli Militaries”

    “Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released [last week], is section 224, entitled ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.’ The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received…

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