William Hartung says the bombing of Gaza this month by the U.S.-financed and supplied Israeli military is just the latest example of the devastating toll exacted by American weapons transfers.
If it took the death of a young woman to launch a relatively timid bill, Andrea Mazzarino asks what it will take to move the judging of violent crimes entirely off military bases and into the regular court system.
Amid growing opposition to the violation of Palestinian human rights, Marjorie Cohn notes that 31 U.S. states have legislation against boycott of and divestment.
Christian Sorensen maps out the global system of weapons mongering. Second in a series of five articles on the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex.
The U.S. and Israel tried to erase the Palestinian problem from the face of the earth, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
“We stay up all night looking for water to fill plastic buckets,” said one mother in northern Gaza.
The Transparency International report reveals a pattern of poor transparency and a disturbing trend of governments censoring key details of their orders from drug companies.
Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests.
CN Live! host Elizabeth Vos interviews anti-nuclear weapons activists about the existential problem that should be front and center in the public debate.
Israel uses Jews collectively as a political shield, exploiting sensitivities about the historical suffering of Jews at the hands of non-Jews to immunize itself from international opprobrium, writes Jonathan Cook.
Caitlin Johnstone says they’re both member states of the same undeclared empire ruled by uncrowned kings who use governments as weapons to kill and steal.
Profit alone drives the war industry, leaving behind piles of corpses, writes Christian Sorensen. First in a series of five articles about the military industrial congressional complex.
The targets of Washington’s bullets have been leaders who tried to assert their nation’s economic sovereignty, writes Jeremy Kuzmarov in this review of a new book by Vijay Prashad.
John Kiriakou & Elizabeth Vos interviewed Kevin Gosztola, and Paul Wright on “Seeking Justice in Gaza and the US Prison System.” Watch the replay.
Grotesque violence of this kind defines the Israeli apartheid project to annihilate the Palestinians, writes Vijay Prasad.
Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage, writes Norman Solomon.
“This needs the right intervention, an intervention from the outside world.” Ann Wright reports on an open letter from the director general of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
An entire nation cannot turn the other cheek to a power that is seriously intent on genocide, writes Craig Murray.
