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  • Legal Scholar on How to Stop Israel from Shutting Down UNRWA

    “Israel is shutting down UNRWA as part of its longstanding campaign to extinguish the Palestinian Right of Return under International that is enshrined in UN General Assembly Resolution 194, which Israel formally accepted as a condition for its Membership in the United Nations Organization along with the UN General Assembly Partition Resolution 181. The Question posed by the UN General Assembly to the International Court of Justice for its Advisory Opinion must deal comprehensively with all these matters.”

  • Kushner: * Gaza into Real Estate * Was Russiagate Actually Israelgate?

    Netanyahu asked the Trump transition team to lobby other countries to help Israel stop the resolution from passing. Netanyahu would sleep in Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s bed when he visited New York.

  • Is the U.S. the “De Facto Occupier” of Lebanon?

    “Awkar also forced Middle East Airlines to comply with its orders not to transport injured people from Lebanon on its flights for treatment abroad, especially those injured in the pager and telecommunications bombings on 16 and 17 of September, by threatening to impose sanctions on MEA should it disobey. …

  • Election Day ICBM Test Launch Denounced as “Dangerous” and “Wasteful”

    “Test launches damage human communities and ecosystems. The Marshall Islands, already forced to bear the overwhelming environmental costs of U.S. nuclear weapons testing, are still used as a target test area.

  • Election Denialism as Voter Suppression

    “If you look at all the things being done to disrupt, dismantle, or dissuade people about the election results, it is all about voter suppression: keeping people [the Republican Party doesn’t] want to vote from voting.”

  • Is Israel Turning Lebanon into Gaza?

    “Amos Hochstein, born in Israel in 1973 and once an Israeli tank crewman, returned to Lebanon as a U.S. envoy, not to protect peace but to redefine it” on Israel’s terms.

  • Mapping Election-Related Violence

    Experts from the Center for Election Innovation and Research, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law gathered for a webinar on Oct. 30, “Red, White & Coup: Mapping Threats of Violence Around the 2024 Election.” They discussed credible threats to election integrity and safety before, during, and after the election. 

  • Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing and Violations of U.S. Law

    From a legal standpoint, the Biden administration is breaching international humanitarian law by providing ongoing military assistance to Israel while these grave violations occur. This conduct exposes U.S. officials to potential accountability under international law, including before the International Criminal Court.

  • 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…

  • Hurricanes and Climate Change

    ROSS GELBSPAN Author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription, Gelbspan said: “The ferocity of Hurricane Floyd — like Hurricane Mitch, which last year killed 9,000 people in Central America — is part of a pattern of extreme weather which results directly from early-stage global warming. Warmer surface waters fuel…

  • Just Back From East Timor

    Despite Indonesia’s agreement to an international force in East Timor, the violence there continues. The following people, most of whom were UN-accredited observers for the late August vote, have recently returned from East Timor and are available for interviews: BARBARA NASH A UN-accredited observer with the International Federation for East Timor, Nash just returned on…

  • East Timor and Economic Summit

    KRISTIN SUNDELL A UN-accredited observer with the International Federation for East Timor and national field organizer with the East Timor Action Network, Sundell recently returned from East Timor. She is in contact with others who are just returning and have witnessed the brutality there. More Information AMY GOODMAN and ALLAN NAIRN Goodman and Nairn have…

  • East Timor: What’s Going On?

    News reports from East Timor indicate that the Indonesian army and the militias are now working together openly to wreak new terror on the streets of East Timor’s capital, Dili. The following analysts and commentators are available for interviews: JOSE RAMOS-HORTA Jose Ramos-Horta is winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and the International Representative…

  • Labor Day: Key Issues

    LAURA JONES A recent study by the 2030 Center, a public policy institute that advocates for the economic interests of young adults, examined the threats to job security due to increases in temporary work. Jones, communications director for the 2030 Center, said: “As Americans race to the beach this Labor Day weekend, an army of…

  • Election Context in East Timor

    Indonesian-backed forces have increased their violence in recent days as Monday’s UN-organized referendum on self-determination approaches. In 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor with tacit U.S. backing. In the 24 years since, 200,000 people have died, a third of the population. Interviews are available with the following analysts: LYNN FREDRIKSSON Washington representative of the East Timor…

  • U.S. Bombing of Sudan: One Year Later

    A year ago — on August 20, 1998 — the U.S. government launched cruise missiles at Sudan and Afghanistan, claiming retaliation for the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya two weeks earlier. Key assertions by U.S. government officials — that the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was producing chemical weapons and that it was…

  • Global Warming Warning?

    ROSS GELBSPAN Author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription, Gelbspan said: “This year in the United States, a 315-mile-an-hour tornado destroyed parts of Oklahoma City, one of the worst droughts on record is decimating crops in the mid-Atlantic states and a summer heat wave has killed more than 270…

  • Fallout From Nuclear Exposure

    Newspaper accounts this week report that workers were unknowingly exposed to deadly radioactive isotopes at key Department of Energy facilities. The following analysts are available for interviews: JAY TRUMAN Founder and director of Downwinders, a group of people exposed to radiation during nuclear tests, Truman said: “The news that the workers at Paducah (Ky.) and…

  • Farmers: Beyond the Drought

    These analysts are available to talk about the drought and other issues facing farmers: KATHY OZER Director of program operations at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, which works with small (mostly African American) farmers, Zippert said: “What’s far more serious than the drought for our farmers is the price of agricultural commodities. They’re getting 3…

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