News Releases

  • The “Double Lie of ‘Human Shields’” and Israel’s Targeting of Healthcare in Gaza

    Dr. Sidhwa wrote the piece “Based on extensive investigations in previous conflicts, reporters should treat Israeli claims of Palestinians using human shields with extreme skepticism.” Also see from Craig Mokhiber: “Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields,’” which states: “Multiple human rights reports show that Palestinian armed groups do not use human shields, but Israel does. Israel’s false claims about Palestinian human shields are just attempts to justify its own targeting of civilians.” Dr. Sidhwa can talk about specific patients he treated who are now traumatized and broken, see talk from Wednesday. He says: “Israel is attempting to depopulate…


  • The U.S. Is Manufacturing Doubt About Gaza’s Famine

    “This phony dispute about the humanitarian reports in the North is designed to obscure these facts and pave the way for Israel’s continued assault on the people of Gaza. As Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and numerous reports have corroborated, Israel has demonstrated a clear intent to commit genocidal acts against the Palestinians. U.S. officials and media have been instrumental in running cover for this crime.”


  • “Within a Year, We Will Be Living in Gaza”

    “We have reached the point where no functional difference exists between the work of Holocaust functionary Adolf Eichmann and the work of the Israeli military since Oct. 7, 2023 in the Gaza territory. The scale of degradation and indifference to human life is the fruit of political Zionism which ranked ‘Jewish’ sovereignty in Palestine over all other values.”


  • Facility Making Weapons for Israel Protested in South Carolina

    He said today: “Elbit Systems is responsible for the suffering of countless innocent people and they should be ashamed. It’s not something that our communities need to tolerate.” The flyer Wilder was handing out read: “Elbit Systems is an Israeli weapons and surveillance manufacturer who opened a facility in Ladson, South Carolina where truck mounted Howitzer cannons are being produced for exportation to Israel. These weapons have a singular purpose: to kill and maim.”


  • Child Mental Health in Gaza

    A new report reveals the shocking psychological impact of the ongoing war on children in Gaza.


  • How Israeli Propaganda and Spying Manipulates Opinion

    “Israel announces a dramatic expansion to its ‘Hasbara’ (propaganda) operations in 2025 budget. The Foreign Ministry will receive an additional $150 million on top of its existing budget, marking a staggering 20-fold increase in funding for ‘consciousness warfare’ activities compared to previous years. This massive increase is aimed at reshaping international opinion through aggressive propaganda campaigns targeting American college campuses, social media platforms, and the foreign press. The effort will be coordinated with American Jewish organizations and the Diaspora Affairs Ministry.” 


  • Jimmy Carter Began the “Free Market” Revolution Before Reagan, New Historical Evidence Shows

    “My research has found that Carter was far more conservative than previously recognized. Evidence from newly opened archives shows that Carter initiated the deregulation of U.S. industry and finance, reduced the power of organized labor, lowered taxes on business, and imposed austerity measures that intentionally raised unemployment among working people. Carter also augmented military spending for the first time in a decade, diverting resources from domestic programs, while increasing U.S. interventions overseas. Carter provoked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, greatly escalating international tensions, as former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski later boasted. He reoriented the Democratic Party in…


  • Class Action Lawsuit Against Congress Members

    More than 500 federal taxpayers across 10 Northern California counties have filed an unprecedented class action lawsuit against their congressional representatives, Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson, charging that they illegally abused their tax-and-spend authority when voting to allocate $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel on April 20, 2024. By doing so, the lawsuit alleges, they violated the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, and U.S. federal laws.


  • “Christmas Message from Bethlehem”

    “We had a university campus in Gaza. It was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike during Holy week this year. We have 36 staff, all of them displaced. They refuse to surrender to fear. They are determined to do something against the fear, the trauma, the depression. They volunteer daily reaching out to the thousands of displaced children around them with art therapy programs so that the children can heal, at least partially.”


  • Public Health Overview Before Second Trump Presidency

    With the second Trump presidency looming, experts are concerned about a host of emerging issues in public health, including immunization practices, biomedical research, federal funds, and fears about bird flu. 


  • Nuclear Precipice: Korea and Iran

    BILL MESLER A former editor of the Seoul-based Korea Economic Journal, Mesler said today: “The upcoming talks in Beijing are a positive sign. Unfortunately the Bush administration has continued to make unacceptable demands without offering any concrete concessions, which continues to hamper the possibility of reaching a fruitful accord. The Bush administration says it wants…

  • Weapons of Mass Deception?

    SHELDON RAMPTON, JOHN STAUBER Rampton and Stauber are the authors of the just-released Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq. They said today: “In our book we report that the Bush administration’s phony claims about Iraq go well beyond those mere 16 words in the State of the Union…

  • * Israel’s Wall * Sharon’s Policies * Liberia * WTO in Montreal

    MARK LANCE Lance, a professor at Georgetown University, was in the West Bank in June and July with a delegation of university faculty and has written about the wall that Israel is constructing in the West Bank. He said today: “Sharon claims that Israel is building a ‘security fence’ so that it can protect itself.…

  • * Hussein’s Sons * 9/11 Report * Abbas and Bush

    ANAS SHALLAL The Pentagon has just released pictures of dead Uday and Qusay Hussein. Shallal is founder of Iraqi-Americans for Peaceful Alternatives. He said today: “This is reminiscent to me of previous coups in Iraq. As a child, I remember seeing the killing of Abdul Karim Kassem on TV in 1963. Now, we have the…

  • The Economy: The Other Credibility Gap

    ROBERT McINTYRE McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, said today: “Recently a lot of issues have come to light regarding presidential credibility about the war on Iraq. The administration also has serious credibility problems when it comes to economics. For example, the president has given numerous speeches implying that most people stand to gain…

  • Iraq Occupation: Huge Problems

    EMAN AHMED KHAMMAS Khammas is co-director of the newly founded Occupation Watch Center in Iraq. She said today: “We are all happy that Saddam Hussein is gone, but we continue to pay a very high price with our lives, our health and our country. The security situation here is hell, I don’t know how else…

  • Mr. Blair Goes to Washington

    MEL GOODMAN Goodman, a former CIA analyst, is a professor of international security at the National War College in Washington and a senior fellow for intelligence reform at the Center for International Policy. He said today: “The administration is now asserting that statements about Iraq’s alleged attempts to obtain unenriched uranium from Africa may well…

  • Iraq Interviews Available: “Had I known…”

    On July 11, 2003, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told the press aboard Air Force One: “Had I known that there was a forged document here, would I put this in the State of the Union? No.” RAHUL MAHAJAN Mahajan, author of the new book Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond, has…

  • WMD: The Dog Ate My Homework

    GREG THIELMANN Thielmann served as director of the Office of Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research until September 2002. He said today: “I believe the Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture to the American people of the military threat posed by Iraq…. Going down the…

  • Bush in Africa: Photo-Ops vs. Policies

    SALIH BOOKER Booker, the executive director of Africa Action, said today: “While Bush has made much of his commitment to fighting AIDS in Africa, this is becoming a cruel hoax… The president requested no new money this year and only $450 million in new money for 2004. He has virtually sidestepped the Global Fund to…

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