The U.S. Treasury’s targeting of the Flotilla campaigners follows Israel’s full-scale attack on the humanitarian mission on Monday and extends Washington’s target list of critics of the genocidal war on Gaza.
US Sanctions 4 Gaza Flotilla Organizers
Category: Human Rights
Resisting Regime Change in Cuba
The Cuban people have vowed to resist a new U.S. invasion, writes Marjorie Cohn. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the nation is a “free sovereign state” with the right to “self-determination,” and not “subject to the designs” of the U.S.
The United States’ Long War on Cuba
A U.S. invasion would only mark the bloodiest phase in an extended bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty and providing an example of independence from Empire, writes Eric Ross.
Names of Some US Boat Strike Victims Revealed
Despite the Trump administration’s effort to conceal their victims’ identities, journalists and researchers have disclosed some biographical detail about some of the people “blown away over vast stretches of ocean.”
Craig Murray: Hiding the Terrorism Charge
By keeping anti-genocide activists in prison pending sentencing and — unbeknownst to the jury — adding a “terrorism” aggravation, the judge may intend abnormally long sentences.
Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese
The U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine says the interim decision gives her respite, but that the “battle is not over.”
The Error in Banning the Nakba Day March
Police wrongly want to ban a Nakba Day pr0-Palestine rally but are allowing the right-wing’s anti-Islam rally the same say, writes Nailah Sharif, a retired London Metropolitan Police detective.
Craig Murray: Zionism Poisons UK’s Central Nervous System
Not questioning Zionism has long been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment, but although public belief in the Zionist narrative is fatally damaged, prosecutions of pro-Palestinian activists continue.
Caitlin Johnstone: The World’s Most Urgent Problem
Is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and living in different cultures and Westerners just compartmentalize it away.
The Chilling UK Case Against Palestine Action Lawyer
Lawyer Rajiv Menon faces contempt charges for reminding a jury of its independence in the Palestine Action case, prompting alarm that if “lawyers begin to self-censor … the right to a fair trial is placed at risk.” Dania Akkad reports.