Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tag: U.S. complicity

Progressive Caucus backs bill to block bombs to Israel

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has endorsed legislation halting offensive U.S. weapons sales to Israel, marking a historic shift as outrage over Gaza’s devastation grows.

Senate vote on Sanders resolutions marks historic shift in US support...

Though blocked, Bernie Sanders’s efforts to halt weapons transfers to Israel gained unprecedented Democratic support amid Gaza’s worsening famine and civilian death toll.

‘The Witkoff Massacre’: Israeli forces kill scores at Gaza aid site...

Palestinians describe massacre at U.S.-Israeli “humanitarian” zone in Rafah as food-starved civilians are lured and gunned down under a controversial Trump-backed aid plan.

Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty...

As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.

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Trump quietly expands corporate tax breaks while threatening states over food aid

Treasury guidance weakens corporate minimum tax as the Agriculture Department warns states to “undo” full November SNAP payments amid shutdown confusion.

Bill Gates gave $3.5M to think tank run by climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg 

Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

Military moral injury, iolence, and the parable of the Guinea worm

An unexpected encounter with compassion.

Taxing the rich is key to challenging the far-right

There are many things that need to change in this world. But one thing is clear: anyone who claims to oppose the rise of the far right must, at the very least, support higher taxes on extreme wealth.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.