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  • “Shadow President” Larry Ellison: Targeting Media and Gaza

    Israeli media outlet N12 reports in Hebrew that Larry Ellison is ready to put $350 million into a plan backed by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, along with Palantir boss Peter Thiel, to turn Gaza into a haven for billionaires. See summary by The Canary. 

  • Flotilla Activists Abducted by Israel Demand Release of Mohammed Ibrahim

    “Here & Now” reports: “more than 10,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli custody, and most are held without charges. Among the imprisoned is 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim. His family has been tirelessly trying to secure his release since he was taken by Israeli soldiers eight months ago.”

  • “The Muslim World: A Requiem”

    “Let us be honest: most Muslim-majority governments today are client states, marionettes in a puppet theatre directed by Western powers, primarily the United States. Iran is the notable exception, though even it often walks the tightrope between pragmatism and defiance. The rest?“

  • Israel Still Occupies Most of Gaza; Still Holds Thousands without Charge

    Nesrine Malik writes in the Guardian: “Devastation’s perpetrators disqualified themselves long ago from any mandate over the people they have aided in killing and shattering. … The crimes that have been committed cannot be redressed, or even prevented from recurring, if the conditions that enabled their perpetrators continue.”

  • Trump at Knesset Credits Big Funder Adelson for Shifting Policy

    “I actually asked [Miriam Adelson], I’m going to get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked her once. I said, ‘So Miriam, I know you love Israel, what do you love more, the United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That means, that might mean Israel.”

  • Public Health Association Bars Leader After Peaceful Protest for Gaza Ceasefire

    The American Public Health Association (APHA) has barred public health leader Amy Hagopian from APHA meetings and removed her from her elected position after she engaged in a silent, peaceful protest against the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in 2024. The protest occurred at APHA’s annual meeting, after the organization’s governing council declined to consider a statement promoting a ceasefire in the war on Gaza.

  • Using “Counterterrorism” Policy Against the Left

    Chip Gibbons writes that in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Trump administration has seized the opportunity to attack the left through reinvigorated “counterterrorism” policy. 

  • Nobel Committee Pushes to Target Venezuela

    Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday morning.  DAVID SWANSON, [email protected], @davidcnswanson    Swanson is executive director of World Beyond War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.     He just wrote the piece “Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize,” which states: Trump is not the right type of warmonger. Nobody could do it with a straight face. Zelensky was saying he’d support Trump for the peace prize if Trump were to send him long-range missiles with which to start World War III. …     “But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in…

  • Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

    “While it is likely to save numerous lives, at least for the time being, and should be welcomed for that reason alone, it is hardly a peace agreement nor one that lays the basis for attaining Palestinian rights.”

  • Palestinian Prisoners, Propaganda Stressed by Gaza Flotilla Members

    * It’s up to the people of the world “to shut down this war machine.” He cited the general strikes in Italy and moves to use Uniting for Peace: “We have to use every tool that we have.” 

  • Corruption Under Trump

    Corruption is likely to be of great significance under Donald Trump’s upcoming administration, in part because accountability mechanisms have weakened since his last time in office. Jeff Hauser, from the Revolving Door Project, contends that the probable scope of corruption under the new Trump administration is beginning to sink in across the political spectrum. 

  • 124 Nations Have a “Legal Obligation to Arrest Netanyahu”

        Now, all 124 states parties to the Rome Statute have a legal obligation to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant and send them to the ICC if they are caught in the state’s territory.

  • Netanyahu Does Ceasefire with Hezbollah, Bombs School in Gaza

    “There will undoubtedly be a great deal of grief and trauma. Many will have no homes to return to, no schools for their children, and livelihoods destroyed. The wellbeing of children and their families must be prioritised in what will be a long journey to recovery.

  • * Omnicide Joe? * Pakistani Movement for Democracy

    “While it should be obvious to all that no one is going to survive a nuclear confrontation, the U.S., UK and some NATO countries continue playing with fire and irresponsibly escalating the Ukraine war, instead of looking for ways to end the conflict by diplomacy and negotiation. This is yet another reason why the Global…

  • Israel’s Dahiya Doctrine in Action: “This Is My Home Burning”

    “The Dahiya Doctrine is an Israeli military doctrine that calls for the use of massive, disproportionate force and the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure.”

  • Will Rep. Massie Move to Impeach Biden on Ukraine?

    “Biden is risking provoking Russia to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war by green-lighting unrestricted use of our long range ballistic missiles by Zelensky. Nukes would threaten species existence worse than Hitler. Impeach Biden instantly.”

  • Should Rahm Emanuel Be the New DNC Chair?

    In recent days, Democratic Party strategist David Axelrod has urged that Rahm Emanuel become the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which will elect its new leader early next year. Today, The Hill published a piece headlined “Rahm Emanuel Is a Terrible Choice for DNC Chair,” warning that “if the Democratic National Committee is trying to find…

  • “At Long Last” ICC Arrest Warrant Issued for Netanyahu

    “At long last, ICC arrest warrants have been issued for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity. All states must now cooperate in their arrest. The western-built wall of impunity constructed around this genocidal apartheid regime is crumbling. We must all now work together to ensure that justice is done.”

  • Legal Moves on Israel at UN and Congress

    The Intercept reports that “The House is set to vote … on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.” The legislation is reportedly being put to a vote this week. Udry is executive director of Defending Rights & Dissent.

  • What Trump Can’t Do to Immigrants

    In the wake of Trump’s first election to the presidency in January 2017, activist David Bacon wrote about the economic context of immigration policy and what Trump could and could not do to shape immigration for Dollars and Sense. The piece was republished after Trump’s reelection.

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