In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council, says Joe Lauria.
They understand that if they lose control of the narrative, they won’t be able to deploy their armies anymore.
The movement to stop Israel’s murderous oppression of Palestinians is up against the entire military-industrial-congressional complex, writes Norman Solomon.
After decades of brewing anti-imperialist sentiment in the Sahel, events in the region are now unfolding at a rapid pace.
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear.
While their ultimate impact should not be exaggerated, the protests for Palestine taking place on U.S. college campuses are historic.
Marjorie Cohn hopes the political movement on American college campuses will be a game changer in stopping Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide.
One political strategist called the party’s establishment “dysfunctionally out of touch with its voters on this issue.”
Britain’s “mandate” over Palestine from 1920-48 left an apparatus of repression which Israel inherited and still uses today in its ferocious war on Palestinians, writes A. Bustos.
The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence is refusing to give any new information about Israeli military aircraft landing in Britain, possibly to protect ministers from prosecution, reports Matt Kennard.