Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Tag: war

‘Should shame the world’: Famine takes hold in Gaza as Israel...

Israel's obstruction of humanitarian assistance and repeated attacks on aid convoys have sparked catastrophe in the Palestinian enclave.

‘Stop profiting off genocide’: 200 arrested at Jewish Voice for peace...

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.

Biden must stop enabling ‘this evil genocide,’ Progressives say after latest...

"These atrocities must end. Civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be protected."

Powder keg in the Pacific

Such seeming strength contains both a heightened risk of great power conflict and possible political pressures that could fracture America’s Asia-Pacific alliance relatively soon.
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Ex-US Army major who resigned over Gaza warns against Biden sending...

This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations.
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‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes filmed by...

We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid

His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.

Inside the State Department’s weapons pipeline to Israel

Ambassador Jack Lew urged Washington to give thousands more bombs to the Israelis because they have a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.

Will Harris lose the election over Gaza?

A deeper dive into the polls does indeed show that Harris's inability to take a stand against Israeli violence can indeed lead to a Trump victory.

Biden’s Israel policy has led us to the brink of war...

How Biden's unconditional support for Israel's expanding war with its neighbors has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran.

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The empire is going down

In some fashion, we now seem to be on a post-imperial planet in which—if only—the best approach would be: chill, baby, chill.
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10 worst things about the Trump presidency

We cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.