As the vote on full U.N. membership for Palestine shows, the only way to understand the U.S.-centralized global power structure is to watch what its officials do, not say.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Doesn’t Want ‘2-State Solution’
Category: Middle East
WATCH: US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
UPDATED: Video of U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday when the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech. Joe Lauria reports.
Israel Has a Choice
A military that initiated a conflict with an extreme act of aggression obviously has a choice about whether to escalate, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
German Police Shut Down Palestine Conference
Police arrested attendees as German authorities prevented Gazan doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta, an invited speaker, from even entering the country.
WATCH: Nicaragua v Germany on Genocide Complicity
The Central American nation laid formal charges against the Federal Republic at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday, demanding Berlin stop arming Israel.
British Rebellion Grows Against Arming Israel
London’s mayor, 50 Labour MPs and Winston Churchill’s grandson have joined widening calls to defy Israel’s impunity by demanding the U.K. stop sending it arms, reports Joe Lauria.
Pressure Mounts on Sunak to Stop Arming Israel
Former U.K. Supreme Court justices wrote to the prime minister telling him to cease arms sales to Israel amid a “plausible genocide” in Gaza and also stunningly called for sanctions against Israeli leaders, reports Joe Lauria.
UK Ignores Its Lawyers’ Warnings on Arms to Israel
In a leaked recording, the Tory chair of a foreign affairs committee says government lawyers advised Britain to stop arming Israel because it is committing war crimes, reports Joe Lauria.
‘A Declaration of War’ Against Iran
Seven people including Iranian diplomats and an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior commander were killed in Israel’s airstrike Monday on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: The Revenge to Come
Thousands of Palestinians — and other Arabs — will be planning violent acts of revenge over Gaza. How far will Arab governments go in shielding U.S. and Israeli interests from their angry populations?