Even in the face of American intransigence, the world can act — and the U.S. government will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with Israel.
Jeffrey Sachs: How to Stop Israel Starving Gaza
Category: Human Rights
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
The upcoming United Nations General Assembly may show whether those nations who have pledged to support a Palestinian state really mean business.
Vijay Prashad: Liberals Paved the Way to the Far Right
The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Former Prisoner is New BOP #2
The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive.
The Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s War on the UN
Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of UNRWA USA exposes Israel’s war on the U.N. and how the destruction of UNWRA infrastructure is an attack on all civilian life in Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships to Set Sail for Gaza
Dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors and trade unionists, along with humanitarian cargo, are preparing for departure.
The Attack on Palestine Chronicle
The allegation against Ramzy Baroud rests not on proof, but on the word of a belligerent army, writes Mohamed El Mokhtar.
US Pressuring Lebanon to Disarm the Resistance
As Washington pushes Beirut to produce a disarmament plan, Hezbollah’s leader vows to keep “the weapons that protected our dignity,” Aseel Saleh reports.
The States & the US Presidency
Trump’s campaign to use federal force to enhance public safety lacks constitutional authority, writes Andrew Napolitano.
Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory
The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can’t understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don’t understand the past.