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  • Challenging Israel’s Impunity

    Jereski states that “the U.S. government has worked to subvert international law and we need to bring an end to Israel’s impunity.” He notes that while the U.S. is trying to legitimize Israeli control of more of Gaza, the UN Uniting for Peace resolution of Sept. 18, 2024 “Demands that Israel brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory … and do so no later than 12 months from the adoption of the present resolution.”

  • The Washington Post vs. Social Spending

    Writing for FAIR, Conor Smyth argues that the Washington Post has erred in its recent coverage of European social spending. In an article this month titled “Europe’s High Quality of Life Is Getting Hard to Afford. Just Ask France,” the Post argues that Europe needs to embrace cuts. 

  • Record Israeli Attacks on West Bank: Palestinians “Need to be Protected”

    “On the first day of the olive harvest in Turmus’ayyer, the Israeli Defense Force leads a group of farmers directly into a brutal ambush by armed settlers. These people need to be in prison by tomorrow, and the people of this village, and all across Palestine, need to be protected. Enough is enough.”

  • “Shadow President” Larry Ellison: Targeting Media and Gaza

    Israeli media outlet N12 reports in Hebrew that Larry Ellison is ready to put $350 million into a plan backed by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, along with Palantir boss Peter Thiel, to turn Gaza into a haven for billionaires. See summary by The Canary. 

  • Flotilla Activists Abducted by Israel Demand Release of Mohammed Ibrahim

    “Here & Now” reports: “more than 10,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli custody, and most are held without charges. Among the imprisoned is 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim. His family has been tirelessly trying to secure his release since he was taken by Israeli soldiers eight months ago.”

  • “The Muslim World: A Requiem”

    “Let us be honest: most Muslim-majority governments today are client states, marionettes in a puppet theatre directed by Western powers, primarily the United States. Iran is the notable exception, though even it often walks the tightrope between pragmatism and defiance. The rest?“

  • Israel Still Occupies Most of Gaza; Still Holds Thousands without Charge

    Nesrine Malik writes in the Guardian: “Devastation’s perpetrators disqualified themselves long ago from any mandate over the people they have aided in killing and shattering. … The crimes that have been committed cannot be redressed, or even prevented from recurring, if the conditions that enabled their perpetrators continue.”

  • Trump at Knesset Credits Big Funder Adelson for Shifting Policy

    “I actually asked [Miriam Adelson], I’m going to get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked her once. I said, ‘So Miriam, I know you love Israel, what do you love more, the United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That means, that might mean Israel.”

  • Public Health Association Bars Leader After Peaceful Protest for Gaza Ceasefire

    The American Public Health Association (APHA) has barred public health leader Amy Hagopian from APHA meetings and removed her from her elected position after she engaged in a silent, peaceful protest against the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in 2024. The protest occurred at APHA’s annual meeting, after the organization’s governing council declined to consider a statement promoting a ceasefire in the war on Gaza.

  • Using “Counterterrorism” Policy Against the Left

    Chip Gibbons writes that in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Trump administration has seized the opportunity to attack the left through reinvigorated “counterterrorism” policy. 

  • Thirst Strike Ends in Texas

    Representative Greg Casar held an eight-hour thirst strike on the steps of the Capitol to raise awareness about worker conditions during heat waves.

  • “Twin Crises of Israel”

    Following the Israeli government’s decision to overhaul the judicial system, Abba Solomon, author of two books on Zionism says, “The Israeli ‘pro-democracy’ movement’s sea of Israeli flags, exclusion of Palestinian flags, and the threat of Israeli Defense Forces reservists — key to continuing IDF raids and attacks on Gaza and West Bank communities —  to…

  • “Oppenheimer” Omits Information About H-Bomb Testing Just Before Scientist’s Career Was Destroyed

    Thomas Reifer, Sociology professor at University of San Diego and a fellow at the Transnational Institute says, “The film ‘Oppenheimer’ raises many important issues, none more urgent than the vast increase in destructive power that came with the making of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons…Unfortunately, the film doesn’t take the time to go into the…

  • Peace Groups to Protest Cluster Munitions at Weapons Factory 

    Multiple U.S. peace organizations are set to protest on Saturday, July 22 at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in light of the recent sale of cluster munitions to Ukraine. The groups say, “t reveals to the world just how little the U.S. cares for Ukrainian people and their futures and the futures of the Russian…

  • Congress Declares Support for Israel as It Recognizes Morocco’s Annexation of Western Sahara

    Salka Barca, a native Saharawi and coordinator of the feminist human rights group ‘Karama Sahara’ says “The Israeli official recognition of Moroccan ‘annexation’ is not a surprise… The Israelis provide Morocco with ongoing intelligence training, drones, and technology to repress and kill the Saharawis as the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.” Mubarak Awad, founder…

  • Assessing RFK Jr. and Claim That Covid Is “Ethnically Targeted”

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that SARS-CoV-2 may be an “ethnically targeted” bioweapon engineered by China.

  • “No Labels” a “Trojan Horse for Israel Support” 

    Editor of MondoWeiss, Philip Weiss, recently wrote about the organization ‘No Labels’ as a “Trojan Horse for Israel Support”. At the helm of ‘No Labels’ is Nancy Jacobson. Weiss wrote, “She bragged of creating the Problem Solvers Caucus in Congress (led by pro-Israel hack Josh Gottheimer) that attacked BDS: ‘Jacobson also credited the Problem Solvers…

  • Realities of War 

    Charles Glass’s new book ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’ says, “rom the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare… Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was 24 years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A burgeoning…

  • SAG-AFTRA Joins Writers Guild Strike

    Mike Elk, founder and Emmy-nominated senior labor reporter at Payday Report says, “Today, over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA (The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) members in TV and film went on strike, joining the 11,000 Writers Guild members, who have already been on strike for nearly three month.”

  • Flooding in Vermont and Rural-Urban Inequities

    Vermont is currently experiencing its worst flooding since Tropical Storm Irene hit the state in 2011. Rural communities are particularly at risk of the effects of the floods.

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