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Human Rights, Intelligence, Israel, Military, Palestine, Surveillance, Torture, United Kingdon, War Crimes
RAF Spy Flights Over Gaza Could Benefit From Torture
Britain’s military could be receiving intelligence from Israel that was obtained under torture, according to human rights campaigners, as Hamza Yusuf and Phil Miller report.
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Climate Change, Commentary, Environment, Iraq, Israel, Military, Palestine, U.S.
US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the climate, writes Marjorie Cohn.
American Empire, Ancient World, Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, NATO, Poland, Russia, U.S., U.S. State Department, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Raising the Stakes in Ukraine
John Wight on the grim context of the latest escalatory development in the blood-soaked proxy conflict between Russia and the West.
Biden Administration, Censorship, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Legal, Media, Press Freedom, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S. Justice Dept., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Free Speech & the Department of Political Justice
The feds apparently believe that the First Amendment has some holes in it for the speech that the government hates and fears, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
The Continuous Mass Military US Violence
Caitlin Johnstone says it’s strange to spend her life criticizing the depravity of the empire. It’s a job that shouldn’t exist, like working as a vampire hunter.
Belated Reporting on Oct 7 Helps Justify Genocide
Mick Hall analyzes an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens.
Craig Murray: That Harris-Trump Debate
While various nonsenses spouted by the former president were “fact-checked” by the moderators, the vice president’s completely clueless propaganda was endorsed and reinforced.
Pro-Palestine Students, Faculty Sue UC Santa Cruz
The lawsuit seeks to “vindicate the fundamental democratic and constitutional rights to free speech, free assembly, and due process against overreach by university authorities.”
Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Party Vs Cheney Party
Two warmongering oligarchic parties are shoving the Overton window of acceptable opinion as far in the direction of imperialism, militarism and tyranny as possible.
WATCH: Standoff in Glasgow
A rally called by anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson for George Square, Glasgow drew a vociferous response from pro-immigrant and anti-genocide protesters on Saturday.
The Dangerous Silence on Nuclear War
Sixty years after LBJ’s “Daisy Ad,” Norman Solomon says the danger of nuclear war is higher than in 1964 but Harris and Trump are ignoring it. Will it come up in tonight’s debate?
Zionism Vs Zionism
Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New
Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of Oct. 7, have little understanding of human nature, writes Jonathan Cook.
UN Rights Chief: Hold Israel Accountable
Volker Türk on Monday called on countries to hold Tel Aviv accountable for violating international law in its war on Gaza and escalating violence in the illegally occupied West Bank.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Hezbollah’s Calibrated Response
The political party and militant group calling for Palestine’s liberation has factored domestic and regional conditions into its response to Israel’s genocidal war.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Vote Joy’ — a Delusion of Nostalgia
Those populating the vice president’s joy-and-vibes crowd can pretend to celebrate a state of elation while acquiescing to their candidate’s approval of mass murder.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, U.S. Congress, United Kingdon, War Crimes
Why Limiting Israel Arms Sales Doesn’t Absolve the UK
Each day the Labour government delays banning all arms to Israel – not just a few – the more Britain contributes to Israel’s crimes against humanity, writes Jonathan Cook.
Vijay Prashad: Three New Kinds of Refugees
Despite many attempts to redefine the term “refugee,” it remains in international law as a term related to persecution and not to starvation.
Biden Administration, Censorship, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Israel, Palestine, Protests, U.S.
Anti-Genocide Students Are Back
Sustained pushback against campus repression will be essential to upholding the right to protest as guaranteed by the First Amendment, writes Norman Solomon.