In a surprise move, Hamas has formally agreed to Trump’s peace plan and is prepared to release all hostages. In response, the U.S. president ordered Israel to cease fire. Will it listen?
Trump Orders Israel to Stop Bombing Gaza
Category: Middle East
WATCH: A Rally for Sanity
Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Gerald Celente, Garland Nixon, Roger Waters (video) and Joe Lauria addressed a rally in Kingston, NY Saturday in defense of sanity in a world gone mad.
Caitlin Johnstone: A Liberal Fantasy of Palestine
The problem is the west established a state in the middle east which holds as its foundational ideology that the people who were living there before that state was created are less than human.
Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
WATCH: Defending Free Speech on Palestine
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, accused in court of antisemitism because of her reporting critical of Israel, was among the speakers at this rally in Melbourne covered by CN.
The Return of the War Department
America’s rebranded Department of War promises a new era of endless death and violence, says William Astore.
WATCH: US Again Vetoes Security Council on Gaza Ceasefire
The Council met on Thursday to vote on an immediate ceasefire resolution in Gaza that the U.S. vetoed against the wishes of the other 14 Council members.
Jonathan Cook: Billionaires Want You to Think Israel Is in Control
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up.
West Asia is Lurching Toward War
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.
Why Palestine Is Already a State
The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply, wrote Joe Lauria.