The bombs that have killed more than 3,500 Lebanese, the majority of them women and children, were made in the U.S. and supplied for that purpose, along with the aircraft that dropped them.
The media constantly deploy an anti-Semitic trope of crucial use to the Western power elite — that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington, writes Jonathan Cook.
The Pentagon refuses to say whether Joe Biden even informed it of his reckless decision to allow the strikes, which the DoD has strenuously opposed, reports Joe Lauria.
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein arrives in Lebanon as his country carries out mass killing of civilians through its colonial settler proxy. The Lebanese should throw shoes at him.
British arms exports are continuing to support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza because Labour has not implemented a complete embargo, writes John McEvoy.
With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.