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  • Gaza Stance Could Mean Harris Loss

    “A recent poll from the Arab American Institute received some much-deserved attention (if not enough) because it showed a massive decline in support for Democrats among Arab American voters because of White House support for Israel’s attack on Gaza. That decline could cost the Democrats several swing states.

  • “Pope Francis, Go to Gaza for God’s Sake!”

    KATHY BOYLAN, [email protected] Boylan is a member of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community. Video of her — “Pope Francis, go to Gaza for God’s sake!” — has gone viral on Instagram. She said: “The Pope should go to Gaza — immediately. I think the Pope has a responsibility to go. The Pope knows that God has commanded us not to kill. Killing on a genocidal level is going on in Gaza. The Pope has to denounce it, has to be with the victims. This is a violation of all the commandments of God. Pope Pius XII could have gone…

  • Oxfam Condemns Israel Banning UNRWA, Highlights Right of Return

    “Israel will have the obligation to take UNRWA’s place under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, The Hague Regulations of 1907, and international humanitarian law. … If not, this would be a war crime and a crime against humanity and an element of genocide.”

  • South Africa Files Over 700 Pages at World Court Against Israel

    The Biden administration’s phony ‘ceasefire negotiations’ maneuvers have simply bought Israel more time to commit more crimes, including its recent annihilation of northern Gaza.” See IPA news release from June: “U.S. ‘Ceasefire’ a ‘Ploy to Sabotage the Rule of Law.’”

  • Misinformation Before and After the Election

    With nearly a week until Election Day, experts on election-related misinformation and disinformation say that social media companies– including Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and X – continue to roll back previous commitments.

  • Lebanon: “Most Violent” Bombings Yet by Israel

    “A conference held in Paris today, by the initiative of the French president, pledged one $1 billion in aid for the war torn country. Paris, seeking to regain a role in Lebanon, has been moving in a direction that seems contrary to that of the U.S. and Israel.

  • Israel “Flattens Gaza,” Plans to “Resettle Gaza,” Targets Reporters Trying to Expose it

    He reports in “Netanyahu Declines Blinken Request To Publicly Reject Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan” that: “The completion of the general’s plan could pave the way for Jewish settlements in Gaza, an idea favored by many Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset. At a ‘resettle Gaza’ conference held on Monday, May Golan, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party and the minister for social equality, called for a new ‘Nakba’ in Gaza.” AntiWar.com also reports: “Israeli Military Kills 115 Palestinians in Gaza Over 48-Hour Period.”

  • U.S. Troops in Israel; Bombing Yemen “Impeachable”

    Boyle added: “Israeli Prime Minister Netanyhau’s goal may be to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran. A member of Congress moving to impeach Biden now is a tangible move to stop that.”

  • The Right-Wing Litigation Group Attacking Public Health

    Recent reports found that a corporate-aligned litigation group with ties to right-wing petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch is suing officials and agencies in the Biden administration, alleging that the administration influenced content moderation decisions made by social media companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The case centers around the administration’s efforts to get Americans vaccinated, with the lawsuit claiming that the government coerced social media companies to restrict posts on Facebook and TikTok. 

  • Could Israel’s “Illegal” Nukes Trigger Cutoff of Aid?

    n 2021, Grant Smith wrote to members of “The Squad” and other members of Congress who have been critical of Israel: “I believe your coalition has far more influence on the matter of foreign aid than it may realize. In 2016 and 2017 we sued the administration(s) over violations of the Arms Export Control Act, but did not prevail for lack of standing.

  • Rumsfeld: Star Wars Booster

    WILLIAM HARTUNG Senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute and co-author of the recent report “Tangled Web: The Marketing of Missile Defense, 1994-2000,” Hartung said today: “Donald Rumsfeld has a reputation as a moderate, dating back to his days as secretary of defense in the Ford administration in the mid-1970s, but during the 1990s…

  • Critics Blast Treasury Secretary for Comments on Debt Relief

    WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers faced criticism today for derogatory comments about a U.S. congressional commission’s call for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to use their resources to cancel 100 percent of their debt claims against poor countries. Speaking at the National Press Club on Thursday afternoon, Summers said that full…

  • Perspectives on the Fed

    ELLEN FRANK Professor of economics at Emmanuel College in Boston, Frank said today: “The rapid upsurge in business and consumer spending of the past few years has been heavily debt-financed. Consumer debt doubled over the last decade. Corporate indebtedness stands today at over $10 billion, while our $400 billion trade deficit requires unprecedented levels of…

  • Presidential Race: Unresolved Issues

    MANNING MARABLE Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, Marable said today: “The election in Florida represented a gross abrogation of voting rights for African Americans. There were widespread examples of local police harassing African Americans going to the polls, of polling machinery that didn’t work in largely African-American precincts.…

  • Supreme Court vs. Democracy?

    DAVID COLE Professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, Cole said today: “The U.S. Supreme Court has done what we all feared — it has decided the election itself, and has done so by a single vote. While the per curiam attempts to mask this fact, only five Justices — the five who likely…

  • The Florida Uproar: Deeper Issues

    DAVID COLE Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Cole is a leading specialist in constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court. MIKE GRAVEL A former two-term member of the U.S. Senate, Gravel used his position as a senator to officially release the Pentagon Papers and facilitated full publication as The Senator Gravel Edition,…

  • “Battle of Seattle”: One Year Later

    DEBORAH TOLER A policy analyst with the Institute for Public Accuracy, Toler said today: “Although, with the notable exception of Ralph Nader, trade was a ‘non-issue’ in the recent U.S. presidential election, trade issues are extremely hot in virtually every other country, particularly in Third World countries that suffer the most from World Trade Organization…

  • Global Warming Summit: Analysts Available

    This week, government representatives and non-governmental organizations are meeting at the Hague in the Netherlands for what many are calling a “make or break” summit on global warming. The following analysts are available for interviews: ROSS GELBSPAN Author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the Prescription, Gelbspan said: “Despite increasing climatic…

  • Broader Issues in the Florida Vote

    RABBI RICHARD YELLIN Rabbi for Temple Emeth of Delray Beach, Florida, Yellin was among the voters confused by the “butterfly” ballot. He has concluded, after extensive conversations with his congregation and others, that some of the “butterfly” ballots were misaligned and misprinted while others were not. THOMAS JOHNSON Director and Pastor of House of Hope,…

  • Post-Election Decisions

    ERIC FONER Professor of history at Columbia University, current president of the American Historical Association and author of The Story of American Freedom and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, Foner said today: “In 1876, there was a dispute over the Hayes-Tilden presidential election returns from Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. An electoral commission was formed (which…

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