Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Israeli airstrikes kill 73 in Gaza just hours after ceasefire announcement, including 20 children

Israeli strikes escalate in Gaza even as cease-fire talks continue amidst a humanitarian crisis.

No shelter left as Israeli forces displace 180,000 Palestinians in ten days

A renewed wave of Israeli bombings and ground offensives has displaced 180,000 people in 10 days, with schools, homes, and designated “safe zones” turned into mass graves—many funded by U.S. weapons and shielded by diplomatic silence.

The War Racket Continues.. 84 years later!

On this Memorial Day weekend, all Amerikans should look back to the great essay written in 1935 by Marine General Smedley Butler....

After Paris, Imagine the Children of Syria

The recent attacks on Paris are terrible, but is indiscriminate retaliation only fueling the flames of terrorism?

Is the long war finally ending?

Withdrawing several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg.

Helsinki 2.0

The European security order has broken down. The conflict around Ukraine is a symptom of this larger problem.

Syrian Refugees in Canada Donating to Help Climate Refugees (Video)

Annalise Klingbeil of the Calgary Herald wrote that the drive was begun with an Arabic posting on a private Facebook group for Syrian refugees in Alberta province by recent arrival Rita Khanchet.

UN rights chief raises alarm over unlawful killings by Israeli forces in West Bank

UN's Volker Türk reports dramatic deterioration in West Bank, highlights serious concerns of unlawful killings.

Blowback, Payback; The War on Terror is Backfiring

Are the recent horrific acts of terrorism that occurred in Paris, Brussels, and other parts of the world just a precursor of what is soon to come?

Making America’s wars great again

The Pentagon portrays a powerful need to think of ourselves as a righteous, just, and successful country that fights only righteous, just, and successful wars.