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  • “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.

  • “Kamala Harris Lost Because of the Ukraine War…”

      Kamala Harris lost because of the Ukraine War — but not for the reason you think. … Foremost, Biden’s decision to impose a broad array of sanctions on Russia in 2022″ did “not hamper Russia’s illegal invasion. Instead, they led to a Wall Street-fueled commodity bubble that sent inflation soaring. That turned the national economic mood sour as prices of gas and groceries soared, leading to Kamala Harris’s defeat against Donald Trump.

  • With Further Israeli Atrocities, Is Congress Finally Acting?

    At the same time, the Biden administration has approved over $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, fueling this conflict and further destabilizing the region. … But Congress has not authorized this weapons transfer.

  • Is Biden Allowing Ukraine to Strike Deep in Russia the Latest Provocation?

    “Earlier this year, President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to strike Russian border regions with U.S.-provided weapons, including shorter-range rockets fired by the HIMARS. A few months later, Ukraine launched its invasion of Kursk, and Ukrainian officials began pushing hard for the U.S. to support longer-range strikes inside Russia.

  • What’s Next for Social Security and Medicare?

    Experts caution the public on the differences between Trump’s campaign promises on Social Security, Medicare and drug prices… and the reality. 

  • Huckabee: “No Such Thing as a Palestinian”

    “Huckabee will be fully supportive of Israel annexing the rest of the West Bank and East Jerusalem because he erroneously believes God gave all of historic Palestine to the Jewish people, as if God were a real estate agent who believed in redlining and ethnic supremacy.” 

  • Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush Political Dissent

    “In the past year, accusations of support for terrorism have been freely lobbed at student protesters, aid workers in Gaza, and even mainstream publications like the New York Times. In unscrupulous hands, the powers of the proposed law could essentially turn the Treasury Department into an enforcement arm of Canary Mission and other hard-line groups dedicated to doxxing and smearing their opponents as terrorists.”

  • Trump Turns to Hawks

    Rubio has also urged overthrowing Latin American governments, at one point posting a graphic image of Gaddafi’s murder in an apparent threat to Venezuela’s Maduro.

  • Moment of Truth, or Lies?

    DENIS HALLIDAY Former head of the UN oil-for-food program, Halliday warns of “the catastrophic humanitarian impact of war and the imminent collapse of the oil-for-food program.” Halliday, who was also former U.N. Assistant Secretary General, said today: “The Secretary General should be prohibited from recalling the inspectors without the permission of the five permanent members…

  • Beyond the Rhetoric: Accuracy.org/sc

    The Bush administration has repeatedly cited violations of UN Security Council resolutions as key reasons for its policy on Iraq. But several nations have Security Council resolutions pending against them, including Indonesia, Armenia and Croatia. And the violators with the most Security Council resolutions — more than Iraq — are Israel (over 30), Turkey (over…

  • Showdown at the U.N. — Interviews Available

    “All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent…

  • Why Has It Taken Iraq 12 Years to Disarm?

    In his presentation before the Security Council on Friday, Hans Blix claimed: “If Iraq had provided the necessary cooperation in 1991, the phase of disarmament — under resolution 687 — could have been short and a decade of sanctions could have been avoided.” However, an examination of U.S. policy indicates that for the last 12…

  • Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.S. Spying on U.N. Scandal

    A 28-year-old woman working at the British Government Communications Headquarters has been arrested on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. The arrest came shortly after the Observer newspaper in London revealed a top-secret memo from the U.S. National Security Agency outlining plans for spying on U.N. delegates, part of U.S. efforts to gain approval…

  • * Iraq UN Debate * White House News Conference

    MICHAEL RATNER Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and coauthor of Against War with Iraq. A resolution with a March 17 deadline is reportedly being put forward to the Security Council. Ratner said today: “The U.S. government is clearly desperate to get some sort of cover for its war. No one has…

  • Interviews Available: Women and War

    Saturday is International Women’s Day and March is Women’s History Month. The following analysts and activists are available for interviews on issues of war and peace: JODY WILLIAMS Recently back from Burma, Williams is the 1997 Noble Peace Laureate for her work on the Mine Ban Treaty. She said today: “The ‘relevance’ of the United…

  • Tough Questions for Bush on Iraq Tonight

    Has the National Security Agency, as the Observer in Britain recently reported, been spying on delegates from various countries at the UN? Is the U.S. bribing and threatening other UN members? You have said that this invasion of Iraq would be “moral,” yet the national board of your own denomination, the United Methodists, has said:…

  • U.S. Spying on UN Delegates: Fallout

    The Observer newspaper in London has reported on a leaked U.S. National Security Agency memo outlining plans for the surveillance of both office and home communications of UN delegates from Security Council member countries, as part of U.S. efforts to gain approval for its new Security Council resolution on Iraq. The story is now causing…

  • Top Secret Document Reveals U.S. Spying on U.N. Delegates

    This afternoon, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer refused to comment on questions about a story broken by the Observer newspaper in London. On Sunday the paper published an article headlined “Revealed: U.S. Dirty Tricks to Win Vote on Iraq War.” The Observer reported that it has obtained a top secret U.S. National Security Agency memo…

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