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American Media Keep Citing "Zaka" — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited Given its prominence, Zaka has been scrutinized by the Israeli press but not the U.S. media. A blockbuster Haaretz report found after October 7, senior military leaders sidelined Israel Defense Forces soldiers specializing in recovering bodies and preserving evidence and sent in untrained Zaka volunteers instead. Zaka reportedly turned massacre sites into a “war room for donations,” used corpses as fundraising props, “spread accounts of atrocities that never happened,” and botched forensics t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2024 5:24am PST
Joe Biden and the Gaza war This Netanyahu, supported by the extremists in his cabinet and among his followers, disavows the US President at every opportunity. Recently, there have been repeated signs that he is not at all opposed to the idea of a "second Nakba" - a forced emigration of the Gaza population to Egypt and elsewhere. "Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2024 4:53am PST
ExxonMobil Drops Court Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara LOS ANGELES, February 16, 2024 — ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:31pm PST
International Day for Palestinian Journalists on February 26, Everywhere in the World 
The Palestinian Journalist's Syndicate is calling for an international day of solidarity for Palestinian journalists who have been arrested, beaten, jailed and murdered by the IDFF...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 8:43am PST
Hunger-Stricken Gazans Brave Israeli Fire For Bags Of Flour What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the occupation is ethnic cleansing. When aid reaches Gaza City, the army opens fire, resulting in casualties and injuries among the people. Since its establishment in 1948, Israel, for the first time, has been accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body of the United Nations, for its war against Gaza. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to provide and guarantee ...
Posted: Sun, Feb 25, 2024 1:00am PST
Academic From Gaza: We Started At Islamic University In Tents, We May Have To Start Again "We have the will and faith in our ability to resume the educational process immediately after the war ends, and we have done so before," he said. "I was at the Islamic University (at its founding in 1978), and we started there from tents, and we can return from tents again."...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2024 3:19pm PST
Travis Base Major Transport Base For Weapons To Israel & Ukraine 
Travis AFB is the largest military transport base of weapons to Israel and Ukraine. There will be an international day of action on the 2nd anniversary of the war in Ukraine at this base on 2/24/24...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2024 8:56am PST
Biden & Pelosi Protested in San Francisco's Pacific Heights for Supporting Gaza Genocide 
Hundreds rallies in San Francisco's Pacific Heights to protest Biden and Nancy Pelosi for their support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. Biden was in town to get contribution from the billionaires. There are over 80 in Pacific Heights and the Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2024 9:27am PST
The Mad Covid-19 Tea Party Public Health Policy regarding Covid-19, is unscientific and deadly madness...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 10:56am PST
Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Bord 
Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy covers Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Border; Rashida Tlaib Revives Discredited Allegations against Syria’s Assad...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 2:56pm PST
Free Palestine! Workers & General Strike NOW at SFLC Meeting to Stop US Supported Gaza 
Workers protested at the San Francisco Labor Council for the leadership's support for the genocide going on in Israel and their actions to shutdown any debate on the labor boycott and shutoff of all US weapons to Israel as well as the criminal genocide supported by the Biden administration. They are big supporters of war monger Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi who is pushing for war against China....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 10:22am PST
Big Oil and Big Gas spent a record $27 million lobbying in California in 2023! 
WSPA and the oil companies wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) sponsoring awards ceremonies and dinners, including those for legislators and journalists; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) creating alliances with labor unions, mainly construction trades...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2024 10:42am PST
What Laws Is the State Department Violating by Shipping Weapons to Israel? What laws are being violated by the State Department daily as it approves ships and cargo planes full of weapons of mass destruction to be used in Israel’s war crimes and genocide against hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s civilians, mostly children and women?...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2024 5:35pm PST
SF City Worker Rally Against Outsourcing, Union Busting At SF General Hospital 
Hundreds of San Franciscoo city workers marched and rallied at SF General Hospital to demand an end to outsourcing and union busting by Breed and City bosses....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2024 5:02pm PST
Dodging Biden’s Moral Collapse Is No Way to Defeat Trump Beyond evasions and platitudes...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 8:45am PST
Professor James Taylor on San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee 
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco at Geary Blvd...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2024 9:30am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 11:18pm PST
AT&T Landlines Under Immediate Threat in California 
he California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is considering a formal request by AT&T to eliminate Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) regulations that require the company to provide landline telephone service to customers in its service area. Such a move would likely mean the end of the traditional telephone network for most residents in California, a controversial policy opposed by many consumer and safety groups, who say such a move is preposterous and that landlines are needed now more t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 4:38pm PST
Flight Attendants Rally Globally To Demand Living Wages & Contract For 100,000 Workers 
Hundreds of flight attendants from all major unions rallied globally on February 13, 2023. At SFO they marched and spoke out abut their struggle for living wages. While the airlines are making billions they have taken pay cuts....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2024 7:43pm PST
WorkWeek Palestinian Journalist, Victory Against Zionists In UK & UC UPTE Workers Strike 
WorkWeek covers victory of UK Bristol professor David Miller, Strike of UPTE UC optometrists and Battle At Amazon RFK8...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2024 9:49am PST
Dear Mr. High Commissioner: Help Free Assange! Mr. Assange is a defender of human rights; an innovative journalist and creative publisher; he is one of us. He should not be locked up but standing with us in our office. Is he not persecuted for doing what every serious investigative journalist, every serious human rights investigator should be doing every day: investigating allegations and promoting truth, accountability and justice?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 2:06pm PST