The “Transatlantic Civil Servants’ Statement on Gaza” signals mounting dissent inside Western governments over support for Israel’s war on Gaza as famine and disease spread across the enclave.
Western Officials Warn of War-Crimes Complicity
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WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Assange Defence’
An Australian senator and an MP discuss a letter to the U.K. home secretary requesting “an urgent, thorough and independent assessment” of Julian Assange’s health risks, should he be sent to the U.S.
US Judge Rejects US Complicity Case on Technical Grounds
With an eye on the World Court genocide case, the Northern California judge implored defendants to reconsider their support of Israel’s military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.
For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Across the Anglo-American mainstream media the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter, writes Des Freedman.
Israel Cannot Hide From the UN Court
U.S. military force is useless or worse in sustaining regimes that lack broad international support and legitimacy, writes Jeffrey Sachs.
Russiagate & Gaza
Instead of criticizing a government credibly accused of genocide, a leading Democrat applies a debunked partisan smear to pro-Palestine protesters and wants the F.B.I. to investigate them, writes Elizabeth Vos.
Craig Murray: UN Court Spurned Israel’s Key Argument
That the ICJ has not affirmed Israel’s right to self-defence is perhaps the most important point in this interim order. It is the dog that did not bark.
WATCH: Saving Julian Assange
An Australian parliamentary group has written to the U.K. home secretary calling for a probe into the risks to Assange’s health should he be extradited.
Court Hears Case Alleging Biden Complicit in Genocide
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ case against the U.S. president and secretaries of state and defense seeks an emergency injunction to stop aiding Israel’s bombing.
An Anniversary the West Would Rather Forget
M.K. Bhadrakumar raises the contemporary relevance of the Nazi effort to exterminate Russians by enforced starvation during the Siege of Leningrad.