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Speaking in Michigan on Monday, former President Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishment against non-combatants, both of which are war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 3:53am PDT
This week, in teeing up his brilliant geopolitical insight, Milley wasted no time planting his lips on the audience’s asses:
“I know people thank all of us in uniform for our service, but I want to thank you and your service because the two key components of national security and the international scene is a strong military and a strong economy. … I know that the people in the crowd are controlling basically 24, 25 trillion of a 30 trillion economy. So, good on you for doing that.”...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 12:12am PDT
Speaking at a Michigan rally to support Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Clinton argued that Israel was justified in not keeping “score” of civilian casualty counts in Gaza, claiming that Israel has been “forced” to inflict civilian casualties. Clinton lied that Israelis had lived near Gaza since “before [Islam] existed,” citing King David and referring to the Holy Land as “Judea and Samaria,” a term used by far-right Israelis who oppose a Palestinian state....
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2024 8:25pm PDT
Biden/Harris regime accused of ignoring evidence of civilian harm to continue ‘unconditional weapons transfers’ to Israel, reports say.
Original article at link contains 3 videos and 1 infographic....
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2024 2:00am PDT
The most significant threat that Trump represents to the EU is to its values: multilateralism, environmental responsiveness, the rule of law, and democracy itself. Trump tramples on these principles through his actions and rhetorical attacks and sways public opinion. The EU needs to think hard about defending the rule of law both inside and outside its borders....
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 12:10pm PDT
Both Trump and Harris are auditioning for a role that will necessarily entail the creation of mountains of human corpses by US-sponsored violence....
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 6:40am PDT
When it comes to Gaza, you can protest—and keep protesting—until universities and workplaces divest from weapons manufacturers. You can support downballot candidates who support Palestinians. You can shut down highways. Interrupt speeches by war criminals. Boycott institutions and companies that profit from and perpetrate genocide. Give to mutual aid networks in Gaza and Lebanon that attempt to counteract the harm caused by US tax dollars. Don’t just unsubscribe but boycott news outlets that ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 5:45am PDT
In Dearborn, Michigan, Hamzeh Abbas, a retired gas station owner, told AsAmNews Israeli Warplanes dropped what he called US-made bombs on his home village of Lebanon, killing three of his cousins. He will vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein because “She’s anti-war, anti-violence.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 10:03pm PDT
By masking support for Israel with hollow humanitarian gestures and empathy for Palestinians, Biden and Harris have diluted pressure to end the war....
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 9:18pm PDT
Several dozen parents and students staged a protest at a Philadelphia School District board of education meeting Thursday in defense of a teacher who had recently been terminated for her outspoken views on the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinians. The protest temporarily shut down the board’s proceedings, forcing it to reconvene in a remote location....
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 6:38am PDT
“𝐖𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 .. We are at the tipping point. It feels like we’re closer now than ever before.” – Dr. Jill Stein...
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 6:01am PDT
At least 77 bodies have been recovered on Tuesday from a five-story residential building belonging to the Abu Nasr family, where approximately 100 displaced Palestinians had been sheltering....
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 2:10am PDT
A key part of the staff petition was the demand for divestment from “any company that profits from the Israeli government’s human rights violations — including but not limited to companies providing offensive weaponry, policing, and surveillance technology,” following the model set during the South African divestment movement.
In its October memo, the ACLU leadership said that divestment would have “very significant deleterious impact on our investment portfolio, including an impact on our a...
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2024 6:21pm PDT
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza....
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2024 5:57pm PDT
A rally at City College Of San Francisco was held on October 24, 2024 for more classes and parking for students as well as the construction of the Performing Arts Education Center which has been promised for decades. Speakers also addressed the drive for privatization of all education including the attacks on SFUSD with school closures, San Francisco State University & the UC system. Many speakers called for the formation of a workers party as a political alternative to the privatization ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2024 11:52am PDT
Apart from the 1,600 Palestinian fighters killed on 7 October, according to the same sources, 45 times more Palestinians have died during the Israeli military’s attack on Gaza than Israelis died on 7 October, including fatalities reported by the Palestinian health ministry (steadily rising) and people still thought to be buried under rubble (more than 10,000 according to an estimate by UNOCHA)....
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2024 11:28am PDT
Initial reports state that the truck collision in north Tel Aviv injured soldiers who were on their way to military bases....
Posted: Sun, Oct 27, 2024 4:45am PDT
In recent days, this aggression has directly targeted media outlets critical of their invasions of both Gaza and Lebanon....
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2024 9:06pm PDT
In a wide-ranging interview with The New Arab, Stein said if elected, her immediate priority would be a long-overdue “single call to end the war in Gaza"...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2024 6:08am PDT
