Thursday, April 23, 2026

Murder as messaging

Under Trump, U.S. foreign policy hits violent new lows.

Peace through weapons sales to the UAE

If the American people really want to pursue peace in the Middle East and instead use our taxes to build up U.S. infrastructure, healthcare, education and address the climate crisis, then we must immediately pressure our Congressional representatives to make sure that the U.S.-UAE weapons sales deal does not go through.

Lame-duck Trump’s “Middle east arms bonanza” continues with approval of $290 million weapons sale...

Additional arms deals this week include $4 billion in helicopters to Kuwait, $169 million in military equipment to Egypt, and $65 million in drones and fighter jets to UAE.

American healthcare workers demand Biden and Harris end support for Israeli assault on Gaza

As President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza urge U.S. leaders to end Israel’s assault, citing the atrocities witnessed firsthand.
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‘Stop profiting off genocide’: 200 arrested at Jewish Voice for peace protest at NY...

We discuss the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

The last good guys?

Why in this century has America, the “leader of the free world” (as we used to say in the days of the first Cold War), also become the leader in promoting global warfare?

Gaza: it’s not a war it’s genocide

The cost of inaction: a deep dive into the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the global response.

Sports can distract us (but not enough)

It’s now all Trumpiana all the time.

Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in ruins for decades,’ as airstrike kills children seeking...

Keeping millions of Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, living in ruins for decades is not the sort of goal announced by sane, civilized, ordinary European politicians.

Wars: In Memoriam

“America must bear the stigma of being the only nation in the world to have unleashed an atomic holocaust....and has never apologized.”