News Releases

  • Trump Backs Israel’s Peace-Killing Efforts

    “Three weeks ago, Hamas agreed to a U.S.-Israeli-drafted ceasefire, but its offer was ignored. Now, the movement says it will accept a comprehensive deal in a renewed bid to end the genocide.”


  • Activists Call out EU and Türkiye on “Pieties” on Gaza

      “The Republic of Türkiye must take action for an immediate ceasefire and urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, by immediately imposing unilateral economic sanctions on Israel, beginning with an immediate withholding of oil. Why has the Government of Türkiye not done this yet?”


  • Abbas Urged to Use U.N. “Uniting for Peace” to Get Protection Force for Gaza

    “It is imperative that you act immediately to formally request the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to mandate the deployment of a multilateral protection force in Gaza, pursuant to a ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution secured in an Emergency Special Session. This force should have a specific mandate to protect civilians, facilitate aid distribution throughout Gaza, secure evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in reconstruction. As you are aware, member states of the United Nations will need a formal invitation from the State of Palestine in order to proceed with the deployment of such forces to Gaza.”


  • Taxpayers Take Legal Action Against the U.S. Government for Funding the Gaza Genocide

    “This initial phase of the legal action involves filing a historic legal complaint against the U.S. government with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR), the official human rights body in the Western Hemisphere established by the Organization of American States (OAS). This is the only legal complaint in the world that directly takes on the U.S. government — including the Biden and Trump Administrations, and Congress — for its role in the genocide.”


  • Palestinian and Global Civil Society Call for UN and Global Action

    “The member nations of the UNGA have the power and obligation to stop the genocide, given that the Security Council has repeatedly failed to do so because of the US veto. Using mechanisms available to them, in particular the Uniting for Peace Resolution and non-recognition of Israel’s credentials, the state members of the General Assembly could act immediately to end the genocide within a month.”


  • The Economic Impacts of Science Funding Cuts

    According to the Science and Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP), the White House FY 2026 budget proposal cuts NIH research funding by $18 billion compared to FY 2024. The budget cuts are projected to lead to widespread economic and job losses in counties across the country. Upwards of 200,000 high-quality jobs in medical research are disappearing and going abroad, writes data analyst Joshua Weitz, “for no reason other than [that] Project 2025 [and] HHS leadership want to dismantle world-class NIH funded research in communities nationwide.” 


  • Europe’s “Snapback” Gamble Risks Killing Diplomacy with Iran

    The move would restore “pre-2015 sanctions on Iran unless concessions are made within 30 days. Designed under the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] as a last-resort remedy, snapback flips Security Council rules: sanctions return automatically unless affirmatively blocked — meaning any veto secures reimposition. With the October 18, 2025 sunset clause approaching, the move is a high-stakes gamble meant to maximize leverage.”


  • How the UN Could Act Today to Stop the Genocide in Palestine

    “Genocide continues to rage in Gaza and is spreading as well in the West Bank. Famine has been declared in Gaza. Israel is expanding its military presence in Gaza and is rampaging across the West Bank. And September 18 will mark the end of a one-year deadline set by the UN General Assembly for Israel to comply with their demands and that of the World Court or face ‘further measures’ The time to act is now.”


  • Blank Check for D.C. Occupation

    Republican governors from six states––Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia––are all voluntarily sending National Guardsmen to the nation’s capital. President Trump mobilized the National Guard “under the guise of restoring security” in D.C., “getting rid of the slums,” and forcibly removing unhoused people from the city. As of August 21, more than 2,000 National Guard troops had been deployed in Washington. The deployment costs more than a million dollars per day. The daily cost of operating public housing for the 30,000 unhoused people in those six states would be less than one day of the occupation. Meanwhile,…


  • Israel’s “Double-Tap” Kills Journalists and First Responders at Hospital

    “According to Khoudary’s report, ‘Israeli forces launched an explosive suicidal drone, where it hit the rooftop of Nasser Hospital.’ At least one journalist and another civilian were killed. ‘Civil defense teams went up to try to retrieve the body, tried to rescue whoever was wounded. And also journalists went to document what’s happened and then the Israeli forces targeted another airstrike on the same exact location.’


  • * Earth Day * World Bank and IMF Meetings

    BERN JOHNSON Today is Earth Day. Johnson is the executive director of the U.S. office of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, which works with activist attorneys in 60 countries to protect the environment through law. He said today: “Not only has the current administration abandoned environmental protection at home, but it is pressuring other countries…

  • * Vanunu — Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower — to be Released * Jordanian King’s Cancellation * Separation Wall

    JACK COHEN-JOPPA FELICE COHEN-JOPPA They are coordinators of the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu. Jack Cohen-Joppa said today: “Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who revealed Israel’s nuclear capacity to the London Sunday Times in 1986, is scheduled to be released from prison Wednesday. Vanunu has been jailed by Israel for 18 years, most…

  • Bush’s War Road Ahead

    MATT ROTHSCHILD Rothschild is editor of The Progressive magazine and author of a piece about last night’s Bush news conference — titled “A Scary Performance, and a Signal for Slaughter” — in which he writes that the president’s performance was scary because of such statements as: “Our commanders on the ground have got the authority…

  • 9-11 Commission: Role of the FBI

    NAT HENTOFF A writer for the Village Voice with a focus on civil liberties and author of the book The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance, Hentoff said today: “A primary problem of interagency cooperation, then as now, is the imperious culture of the FBI. As police chiefs around the country…

  • Fallujah and Baghdad — Eyewitness Accounts

    RAHUL MAHAJAN Currently in Baghdad, Mahajan was just in Fallujah. He is regularly posting to a blog at the above web page. Mahajan is author of the book Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond. Mahajan said today: “During the course of roughly four hours at a small clinic in Fallujah, I saw…

  • One Year After the Fall of Saddam: * Iraqi Uprising * A Vietnam Scenario?

    MOHAMAD BAZZI Currently in Baghdad, Bazzi is Middle East bureau chief for Newsday and is available for a limited number of interviews. He recently won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. The award specifically cited stories Bazzi wrote in July 2003 “that helped explain the driving forces behind the Iraqi insurgency…. At a…

  • Assessing Rice’s Testimony to the 9-11 Commission

    WRIGHT SALISBURY Salisbury’s son-in-law Ted Hennessy Jr. was killed on 9/11 when his flight, AA 11, was crashed into the World Trade Center. After today’s tesimony by Condoleezza Rice, he said this afternoon: “Ms. Rice offered a lot of detail which was not particularly relevant to the questions asked. The main question — why did…

  • Significance of Rice’s Testimony

    JOHN DEAN Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, is author of the just-released book Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush More Information BOB MCILVAINE McIlvaine lost his son Bobby in the World Trade Center. He is currently in New York City and will be in D.C., where he will attend the…

  • * Fallujah * Sadr City — Context and Parallels

    DAVID ENDERS Currently in D.C., Enders edited Baghdad Bulletin and has spent much of the last year in Iraq. He will be returning there in mid-April. He said today: “In Fallujah, as a mission to avenge the deaths of four ‘contractors’ killed there last week is underway, it is important to note: The four men…

  • Jobs Growth: The Big Picture

    JARED BERNSTEIN, [via Karen Conner] Jared Bernstein is a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of the report “Missing the moving target: Meager job growth and the poor track record of the administration’s job forecasts.” He said today: “The jobs paradox continues with the March 2004 jobs report from the Bureau of…

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