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  • Public Universities and Gaza

    A tenured political science professor at Indiana University was suspended from the university, potentially as retaliation for his criticism of the administration’s immediate response to October 7. Sinno’s suspension reflects the climate at public universities across the country. A law was passed this spring by the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state legislature, effectively abolishing tenure by subjecting tenured faculty at public universities to tenure review every five years. 

  • Opposing Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late

    Israel’s failure to comply with international treaties and humanitarian law signal an acute need for other countries to organize weapons embargoes, cease trade deals, and provide support for civilian peacekeepers to bring about a permanent ceasefire.

  • Sinwar Named Leader of Hamas After Beirut and Tehran Attacks

    It is widely expected that Iran and Hezbollah will retaliate against Israel. The State Department has refused to acknowledge that Iran has a right to defend itself.

  • AIPAC Misinformation Targets Cori Bush

    “On the ground in St.Louis the amount of money being poured in to smear Rep. Bush and misinform voters is astonishing”

  • The Pregnancy Police

    A new book, The Pregnancy Police, details how pregnant Americans have faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses since long before the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

  • Israel’s Assassinations, Torture and Rape

    Sharon Zhang reported on Monday at Truthout: “Israel Bombs Girls’ School in Gaza, Killing 30 and Wounding Over 100.” And on Tuesday: “Israeli Militants Riot Over Investigation Into Torture of Palestinian Prisoner.” “The detained soldiers have reportedly been charged with the sexual abuse of a Palestinian man who suffered injuries to his anus so severe that he was unable to walk. … In the Israeli Knesset on Monday, meanwhile, lawmakers debated whether or not sexual abuse was a legitimate tactic for Israeli soldiers. … At least 35 Palestinians have died in Sde Teiman as a result of abuses that appear…

  • “No Harbour for Genocide” Campaign Targeting “Ships of Death” Bound for Israel

    The Guardian reports: “Tanker carrying jet fuel for Israel must not dock in Gibraltar, say MPs.” Activists from Morocco, Gibraltar and Spain are collaborating at the Strait of Gibraltar, in coordination with a broad international coalition including Disrupt Power, Global Energy Embargo for Palestine, the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine, Progressive International, La Vía Campesina, and numerous other groups, to prevent the tanker Overseas Santorini from delivering military grade jet fuel to Israel. The campaign, called “No Harbour for Genocide,” has already succeeded in forcing the tanker to reroute, and aims to create a people’s blockade throughout the…

  • Public Souring on Project 2025

    New polling finds that 54 percent of Americans are familiar with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation proposal that aims to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government and consolidate executive power if a Republican wins the 2024 presidential election.

  • Israeli Military Destroys Palestinian Water Facilities as Poliovirus Found in Gaza

    Drop Site News reports in “The IDF Just Destroyed a Key Rafah Water Facility Rachel Corrie Spent Her Last Month of Life Defending” about a video showing the “calculated demolition of a chief water facility in Rafah. The video, in three parts, shows Israeli soldiers planting explosives inside and around the water pumps of a facility in the occupied city. The video — which is captioned in Hebrew, ‘Destruction of the Tal Sultan water reservoir in honor of Shabbat’ — ends with footage of the water facility being blown up. The soundtrack is a song produced by soldiers of the…

  • Hezbollah Denies Killing Arabs on Golan Heights

    “Hezbollah denies responsibility for attack in occupied Golan Heights, but Israeli officials insist on retaliation”

  • Death Penalty

    Gary Graham is scheduled to be executed at 7 P.M. Eastern Time. The following analysts and critics of the death penalty are available for interviews: WILLIAM HARRELL Executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Harrell said today: “We are outraged by the board’s failure to halt this execution. The judicial system has…

  • “Prosperity and Progress”?

    Inequalities, Health-Care Coverage, Estate Tax CHARLES ANDREWS The author of the forthcoming From Capitalism to Equality, Andrews said today: “Before we celebrate the economy’s alleged prosperity and progress, we should tally the exhaustion it is causing. The average husband-and-wife family works six hours today for every five hours worked in 1979. The percentage of employees…

  • Interviews Available: Father’s Day

    WILL GLENNON Glennon is author of Fathering: Strengthening Connection with Your Children No Matter Where They Are, for which he interviewed 180 fathers, aged 15 to 87, almost all of whom cried during their interviews. He said today: “Fathers need to get deeply engaged in the upbringing of their children. Fathers don’t want to be…

  • Arafat’s Visit to U.S.

    The following analysts are available for interviews about the U.S. visit by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat scheduled to begin on Wednesday: NASEER ARURI Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, former board member of Amnesty International and author of The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel, and the Palestinians, Aruri said today:…

  • Study Finds Conservative Think Tanks Predominant

    Brookings Leads; Left-of-Center Think Tanks Decrease WASHINGTON — A study released today found that conservative think tanks and the centrist Brookings Institution dominated much of the national media debate last year. Of the 25 leading think tanks studied, Brookings had the most citations (2,883), twice as many media mentions as the next-ranked conservative/libertarian Cato Institute…

  • Analysts Available on Microsoft Decision

    The following analysts are available to comment on the Microsoft decision: NORMAN HAWKER Hawker is a law professor at Western Michigan University specializing in antitrust issues. JUDY SLOAN Sloan is a professor at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles. ROBERT LANDE Lande is senior research scholar at the American Antitrust Institute and professor of…

  • Interviews Available on Germany and Russia

    MARTIN A. LEE Author of The Beast Reawakens, a book on neofascism, Lee said today: “President Clinton’s visit to Germany comes at a time when that country is mired in a major political scandal, involving secret slush funds and illegal influence-peddling by big business. The scandal has resulted in the fall from grace of former…

  • Interviews on “Missile Defense”

    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: “In its ongoing effort to ‘triangulate’ by co-opting Republican issues, the Clinton administration has met right-wing missile defense boosters more than half way. Meanwhile, Republicans have stepped up…

  • United – U.S. Airways

    United Airlines said today it intends to buy U.S. Airways. The following analysts are available for interviews: PAUL HUDSON Executive director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project, Hudson said today: “If this merger is approved without major divesting of routes and other restrictions, the ‘Big Six’ will quickly become the ‘Big Three’ and U.S. airline…

  • Interviews Available on International Issues

    SIMONA SHARONI Author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Sharoni is currently a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She said today: “If there is any relationship between the recent mini-intifada and the negotiations, it is that the two issues that have been central to the protests — the Palestinian refugees and the…

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