Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: human rights

Palestinian activist featured in Oscar-winning film killed by Israeli settler previously...

Awdah Hathaleen, a peace activist and co-creator of No Other Land, was shot and killed during a settler-led raid on his West Bank village, days after his deportation from the U.S. and months after Trump lifted sanctions on his accused killer.

The genocidal partnership of Israel and the United States

Are the two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza?
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Another Freedom Flotilla sails to Gaza to break Israel’s ‘engineered famine’

Seven out of the 21 volunteers aboard the Handala are U.S. citizens, including our guest, the Palestinian American human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf. Arraf has participated in Freedom Flotilla missions for over a decade.

Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...

True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human...

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

UN climate expert urges criminalization of fossil fuel disinformation to protect...

The report presents the human rights argument for decisive political action to reduce the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.

What will it take to end Trump’s ICE raids?

Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism.

Israel accused of using aid as bait as over 300 Palestinians...

Palestinians seeking flour and water have become targets, with Israeli forces killing hundreds at so-called humanitarian aid points backed by the U.S.

LA under siege: Trump sends in National Guard as protests continue...

“If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families.”

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.