Thursday, April 23, 2026

Benjamin Netanyahu Wants Israeli Forces to Use Live Fire Against Rock-Throwing Demonstrators (Video)

Activists in Jordan are protesting Israel's newest assertion of authority over Muslim sacred space in Jerusalem, the al-Aqsa mosque complex. Will Israeli's aggressiveness at al-Aqsa further destabilize the Middle East?

A Family Broken Up: Freed After 8 Years at Guantánamo, a Father and Son...

Democracy Now discusses a story about a father and son who were held for many years at Guantánamo. Here is how their relationship was used against them in Guantánamo and what's become of them after their release.
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Palestinian American woman tries to save family in Gaza after her mom dies awaiting...

We speak with Narmin Abushaban in Detroit whose mother died from lack of medical care while waiting to leave Gaza; she is working now to rescue the rest of her family members.

Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia

After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.

“We will never again be a colony”: Venezuela defies Trump as global protests erupt...

With Nicolás Maduro detained in Brooklyn and at least 40 reportedly killed, Venezuelan leaders project unity while protests spread worldwide and US lawmakers warn of an illegal war.

Should we feed hungry children, or the war machine?

On August 21, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, put out a heartbreaking call for nations to make good on their pledges...

‘Genocidal machine’: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals

“I blame the Western journalists, who perpetuated the narrative that militarized the hospital as a justifiable and acceptable target."

The Pentagon’s Real $trategy

Faced with such boundlessly ambitious raids on the public purse, no one should claim a “lack of strategy” as a failing among our real policymakers.

This vanishing moment and our vanishing future

John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the end of world...