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Activists detail frontline struggles against U.S. militarism in Northeast Asia
The Asia-Pacific region has once again become a hotspot in Washington’s new Cold War, as Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy has been dead set on forging a new anti-China bloc across the region.
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Censorship and civic terror in Canada: The silencing of Palestinian voices and Palestinian supporters
These are the final days of 2023. But are we sure it’s not the end of 1953?
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UN Members support Gaza cease-fire in overwhelming 153-10 vote
Humanity has prevailed,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek. “The Israeli aggression on Gaza must end. This bloodshed must stop.”
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Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
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NYT amplifies outrage over imaginary calls for genocide
University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses.
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The ‘brain drain’ is a symptom of how capitalism has failed the healthcare sector
Every year, thousands of healthcare workers leave South Africa, in order to chase better opportunities, as wealthier countries exploit desperate working conditions faced by them. This brain drain is a direct result of neoliberal policies, especially austerity.
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‘Moral insanity’: Biden admin bypasses Congress to rush tank shells to Israel
“Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress,” said one critic.
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U.S. blocks Gaza peace proposal at UN for 3rd time, holding world hostage
The U.S. government has paralyzed the United Nations, voting against the rest of the world and preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Washington continues giving weapons to Israel.
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Rape, war and human rights: the real story
Sexual abuse is too serious to be treated as a justification for war, argues Lindsey German.
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Israel’s onslaught drags U.S. Jewish life into the abyss
The Jewish establishment has been consigned to the support of genocide, and it has accepted that role eagerly. The effect on Judaism of this moral collapse is unfathomable.
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Israel committing “horrific crimes” against starving civilians in Gaza
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called for an “urgent international investigation” into field executions, torture and threats of rape against Palestinians by Israeli ground forces in Gaza.
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UK Special Forces secretly operated in Ukraine, says Polish journalist
Special forces operators of UK were embedded with Ukrainian troops in the early days of the conflict, Declassified UK reported on Wednesday, citing the newly published book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
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Black People won’t be silenced about Israel
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement.
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‘Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health’ – book review
Pharmanomics is an important book that shows how Big Pharma’s profit seeking damages health care globally, but the solution lies outside the current system, argues John Clarke
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COINTELPRO political prisoner Edward Poindexter dies in Nebraska prison after 53 years serving life sentence following unfair trial
Edward Poindexter, 79, died on December 7, 2023 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary serving a life sentence for the murder of Omaha police officer Larry Minard.
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The attack against the freedom to read and what to do about it
During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality.
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How Israel undermined the prisoner exchange by widening the definition of ‘security prisoners’
Israel undermined the prisoner exchange with Hamas by widening the definition of “security prisoners” to include those held for little more than social media posts.
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Your enemies destroyed one Palestine; my wounds populated many Palestines: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.
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Anti-Palestinian racist secures anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism resolution
Republican Congressman Max Miller, who recently made a genocidal call to turn Gaza into a “parking lot,” has joined with Republican Congressman David Kustoff to push through a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”
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The nuclear geopolitics of anthropogenic clouds
Among the various types of anthropogenic clouds, mushroom clouds that form in the sky after atomic bomb explosions are arguably the most spectacular.