Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Poof! It’s Forgotten

Five Ways the Newest Story in Iraq and Syria is... That There Is No New Story

From a concert in Las Vegas to a funeral in Yemen, we must stop...

Just as we are trying to get Congress to take action on gun control, so we must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.  

In a historic vote, Senate passes War Powers Resolution to end support of Saudi-led...

“This is historic. For the first time in 45 years, Congress is one step closer to withdrawing U.S. forces from an unauthorized war.”

Destroying Raqqa in order to save it

The devastation of Raqqa was not covered in the English language press with the same vigor as the earlier battle for Aleppo.

U.S. Cold War with China: First stop, Equatorial Guinea

Officials are hyping the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic to get yet more funding for military operations.

What can the United States bring to the peace table for Ukraine?

The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in "unprecedented danger," as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' new Doomsday Clock statement calls it.

Israel’s scholasticide and the irrelevance of US politics: 11,923 Palestinian students didn’t go...

“With more than 80 percent of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as ‘scholasticide.'”

Oxfam analysis says dangerous level of hunger could lead to famine in Gaza

The risk of famine is increasing each day as "the current situation of intense hostilities and restricted humanitarian access persists or worsens.”

NYC transit hubs grind to a halt as protests for Gaza cease-fire sweep the...

NYC's transit hubs became stages for impassioned pleas for peace in Gaza, as protesters demand action amidst a rising death toll and global reactions.
The village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. Photo: יעקב / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers

Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus.