Citing examples of Richard Nixon’s leadership, historian Joan Hoff-Wilson refers to Henry Kissinger as “a glorified messenger boy,” writes Robert Scheer.
Kissinger as Nixon’s ‘Messenger Boy’
Category: International
Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens Gaza Slaughterhouse
Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Caitlin Johnstone: If I Were Going To Commit Genocide
I would eventually force other nations to either take the targeted people in or keep allowing them to be slaughtered.
Direct-Action Targets UK Firms Arming Israel
Dozens of companies that supply Israel’s war machine face a growing campaign to end U.K. complicity in crimes against Palestinians, write Sam Perlo-Freeman, Khem Rogaly and Anna Stavrianakis.
Peddling Propaganda About al-Shifa
Gareth Porter begins his dissection of a U.S. journalist’s unequivocal backing of Israel’s justification for closing down Gaza’s largest hospital with a simple test: Who is the source?
SCOTT RITTER: Kissinger – War Criminal Who Saved the World
The United States’ most notorious diplomat was behind key nuclear arms control treaties with the USSR that kept a lid on the possibility of catastrophic nuclear exchange.
Israeli War on Gaza Raising Regional Tensions for US
From Lebanon to Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, the possibilities of the conflict spreading are enormous, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
WATCH: UN Security Council Debates Catastrophe in Gaza
Foreign ministers from several Council nations took part in the meeting Wednesday, in which some countries decried the massacres, while others defended Israel. No solution to the war was found.
WHO: Disease Could Be Bigger Killer Than Bombs in Gaza
Humanitarian groups have warned for weeks that Israel’s total blockade of Gaza — cutting off fuel, water, food and electricity — was quickly fueling outbreaks of gastrointestinal illnesses, Julia Conley reports.
A Blunt Message for Israel
This is a rare example of a very direct message delivered by one government to another at the United Nations.