News Releases

  • Understanding Hamas

    “The killing of Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar are the sort of decapitation attempts that fading colonial powers use. This was highlighted in one of our conversations that the book is based on, with the Dutch expert Jeroen Gunning, one of the founders of critical terrorism studies.”


  • Sinwar Reported Killed in South Gaza as Israel Accelerates Genocide in North

    Gazans, irrespective of age or physical condition, were ordered to depart on short notice under circumstances in which they would be deprived of means of sustenance. The World Health Organization denounced the evacuation scheme as a ‘death sentence.’


  • Misinformation about Immigrant Voters

    Organizations that track misinformation have observed an acceleration of racist lies in social and mainstream media targeting immigrants and Latino voters. Such misinformation includes the claims that noncitizen immigrants are illegally voting in droves and the lie, popularized in fringe groups but amplified by Donald Trump, that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. The misinformation targets undocumented as well as legal immigrants.  


  • War and Media: Has Nothing Been Learned?

    “The media — despite some good reporting by many individual journalists in the field — has treated the IDF onslaught against Gaza, the West Bank and Gaza as reasonable conflicts rather than mass murder.”


  • Demands for Arms Embargo on Israel

    “As the genocide and massacres continue .. the Israeli regime and its enablers have reached new levels of depravity. Civilians, hospitals, schools, and vital infrastructure are being systematically obliterated, in direct contravention of international laws meant to protect human life. The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe that the Israeli government is perpetrating with clear impunity.”


  • Corporations Undermining Democracy

    The International Trade Union Confederation released a list of seven corporations undermining democracy. Big Tech, Big Oil, and private equity firms all made the list.


  • Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine

    “Dehumanization is the first step in genocidal incitement. However, counter-annihilation is also a key feature of settler colonialism. It is the belief and practice that colonial society must annihilate Native people; otherwise, the colonizers, in turn, will be annihilated in a zero-sum calculus. It is a pre-emptive ‘self-defense’ against any real or imagined anti-colonial attack. It makes invasion look like ‘self-defense.’ It is why the chorus of Western media outlets repeat the mantra: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself.’ But the colonized are never granted the authority of self-defense or the right not to be annihilated.”


  • “Israel is Turning Northern Gaza into a Killing Cage”

    Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. See his articles and interviews he has given, including “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” recently published by the New York Times.


  • As Israel Targets the North, Doctors Back From Gaza: “I Saw Maggots Coming Out of a Patient’s Wound”

    “The doctors, nurses, and administrators that we met at the Indonesian hospital are by far the most admirable and heroic people that I’ve ever met in my life. They felt they had no choice but to stay at the hospital and provide care for the community because they could not fathom there being no health care services left for those in need.”


  • As Israel “Fires at Anyone Who Moves”

    We wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since we have returned: dreams of children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable mothers begging us to save them. We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot fathom why you continue arming the country that is deliberately killing these children en masse. …


  • Health Care: Big Issues

    Yesterday, for the first time, the American Medical Association voted to endorse unionization for doctors. Also, there is renewed discussion of a patients’ bill of rights. The following analysts are available to discuss these and other health care policy issues: DIANE LARDIE National coordinator for the Universal Health Care Action Network, Lardie said: “Ten years…

  • G-7 Meeting: Interviews Available

    NJOKI NJOROGE NJEHU Director of 50 Years Is Enough Network, Njehu will be in Cologne with other members of the Jubilee 2000 movement. “So far the proposals the G-7 have put forward are woefully inadequate,” she said. “They are still maintaining adherence to IMF structural adjustment programs as qualifying criteria for countries to receive minimal…

  • Clinton and Child Labor Rights

    In his speech today at the International Labor Organization Conference in Geneva, President Clinton said: “We must wipe from the Earth the most vicious forms of abusive child labor. Every single day, tens of millions of children work in conditions that shock the conscience… There are children handling dangerous chemicals; children forced to work when…

  • Russians in Kosovo: Analysis

    DAVID KOTZ Co-author of Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System and professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Kotz said Monday: “The Russians’ preemptive move into Kosovo is a consequence of the two-track strategy that NATO followed regarding ending the war. The first track was their insistence on a NATO force…

  • Was This War Necessary?

    While many are claiming the peace agreement shows that Milosevic backed down, some analysts are suggesting that essentially the same agreement could have been achieved without bombing. They point to U.S. demands at Rambouillet in February that are absent from the current agreement. While some elements of the new accords remain unclear, apparent major differences…

  • Mental Health

    The White House Conference on Mental Health convened today in Washington. These policy analysts are available for interviews: DR. PETER BREGGIN Author of Back to Prozac and Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Stimulants for Children, Breggin said: “Psychiatric drugs are far more dangerous than the public is led to believe.…

  • Voices on Yugoslavia

    GEORGE KENNEY A former Yugoslavia desk officer at the U.S. State Department, Kenney said: “An unimpeachable press source who regularly travels with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told [me] that, swearing reporters to deep-background confidentiality at the Rambouillet talks, a senior State Department official had bragged that the United States ‘deliberately set the bar higher…

  • Behind the “Economic Miracle”

    JOEL BLAU Author of the just-released Illusions of Prosperity: America’s Working Families in an Age of Economic Insecurity, Blau said: “Below the rosy surface of economic exuberance lurk low-paying jobs, job insecurity, corporate downsizing and massive inequality. The average worker’s pay (in real terms) actually declined 8 percent from 1973 to 1997. CEO compensation has…

  • War Crimes?

    WALTER ROCKLER Rockler, a Washington lawyer and a former prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, said: “For some to shout ‘war criminal’ at Milosevic only emphasizes that those who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones. The Nuremberg Court found that to initiate a war of aggression, as the U.S. has…

  • Perspectives on China and Spying

    MIKE MOORE Editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Moore said: “What the Chinese are doing is developing a survivable second-strike force — that is the ability to respond if they are attacked. To do this, they need to miniaturize their nuclear warheads to fit them on mobile missiles. To do that, you need…

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