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Analysis, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, U.S., War Crimes

WATCH: Senior UN Official — ‘It Will Be Too Late’ to Rule It ‘Genocide’ … ‘What More Evidence Do You Need?’

May 14, 2025

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher excoriates Israel for intentionally starving Gaza and shames the rest of the world for failing to stop it.

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Commentary, Crimes Against Humanity, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Legal, Palestine, Trump Administration, U.S., War Crimes

Watching Gaza Starve to Death

May 14, 2025

Israel is inflicting starvation on 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – a deliberate war crime — while the international community fails to act, writes Ramzy Baroud.

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Commentary, Film, Israel, Media, Palestine, United Kingdon

Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’

May 14, 2025

Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with Israel’s state terrorism, “are us.”

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Afghanistan, Commentary, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Terrorism, U.S., War Crimes, Yemen

Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan

May 14, 2025

Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride  — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.

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Afghanistan, Analysis, Australia, Britain, CN Live!, Commentary, Intelligence, Julian Assange, Legal, Media, Military, Politics, Prisons, U.S., WikiLeaks

WATCH: Day 365 for Exposing Australian War Crimes

May 14, 2025

Blocking his ability to tell a jury his motive, a judge sentenced David McBride to 5 years & 8 months in prison, of which he spent his 365th day Wednesday, for leaking evidence of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. 

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Books, Central America, Chile, Commentary, Cuba, Haiti, History, Human Rights, Latin America, Spain, U.S.

Latin America’s Long Fight Against the US for Sovereignty

May 13, 2025

John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, France, Haiti, History, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Spain, U.S.

Vijay Prashad: Punishing Haiti’s Liberation

May 13, 2025

Ever since waging the first successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1804, the Caribbean nation that overthrew slavery has been hit with crippling debt, coups and foreign meddling.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, France, Haiti, History, Human Rights

200 Years Ago, France Extorted Haiti

May 13, 2025

Marlene L. Daut on Haitians’ push for reparations for France’s 19th-century gunboat deal to compensate former enslavers, rather than the other way around.

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Africa, Burkina Faso, Colonialism, Commentary, France, Libya, Mali, Niger, U.S.

Burkina Faso’s 37-Year Old Leader Draws US Ire

May 13, 2025

Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.

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Analysis, Commentary, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations, War Crimes

Medhurst Case: Test of a Turning Tide on Gaza

May 12, 2025

British police have given the Crown Prosecution Service the file on journalist Richard Medhurst in a test of how far Western governments will go to continue defending Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.

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Commentary, Crimes Against Humanity, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Media, United Kingdon, War Crimes

Jonathan Cook: BBC Mystifies Starvation in Gaza

May 12, 2025

The public-service broadcaster presents Israel’s clear crime against humanity as a highly complicated geopolitical matter its audience cannot hope to understand.

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Commentary, Disinformation, Gaza, Gulf States, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Media, Saudi Arabia, Syria

Craig Murray: UK Intel’s Fake Terror Plots

May 12, 2025

Islamophobic propaganda is being ramped up to drive public support in the U.K. for the genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.

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Civil Rights, Free Speech, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Legal, Palestine, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept.

Student Jailed for Writing Op-Ed Released From US Detention

May 12, 2025

Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Boston at the weekend after being released less than 24 hours after courts ruled that Badar Khan Suri’s case must be heard in Virginia and Mahmoud Khalil’s case must remain in New Jersey.

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American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Gaza, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestine, U.S.

Caitlin Johnstone: Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza

May 10, 2025

The task shouldn’t be falling to university activists and obscure antiwar bloggers. Every news outlet in the world should be making this their entire focus.

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Commentary, History, Intelligence, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S., Ukraine

WATCH: Ray McGovern on Trust Between Russia & the US

May 10, 2025

Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow on April 29 ahead of the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis. 

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Austria, Censorship, Civil Rights, Commentary, Free Speech, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Legal, Palestine, Press Freedom, Syria

The Chris Hedges Report: The West as Israel’s Police

May 10, 2025

Richard Medhurst — his journalism tools now confiscated and under “terrorism” investigation for his reporting on Palestine and Lebanon  — discusses his experiences in the U.K. and Austria.

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Analysis, Commentary, France, Germany, History, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S.

Who Defeated the Nazis? A Colloquy

May 9, 2025

Russia destroyed more than 40,000 German tanks from June 1941 to November 1944. By the time the Allies came ashore at Normandy, the Germans had already lost the war, writes Scott Ritter. Larry Wilkerson responds. 

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Commentary, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, U.N. General Assembly, U.N. Security Council, United Nations

Vijay Prashad: Israel’s Crimes on the West Bank

May 9, 2025

Israel’s genocidal actions in the West Bank include the denial of basic services, forced displacement, mass killings, incarceration and the destruction of infrastructure.

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Colonialism, Commentary, Gaza, Greece, History, Indigenous People, Israel, Nazism, Palestine, Racism

Exterminating Israel’s Helots

May 9, 2025

Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.

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Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., WMD

VIPS MEMO: Arms Control — Toward Lasting Peace

May 8, 2025

At the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis, the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity issue this memorandum calling for nuclear arms control leading to lasting peace.

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Commentary, European Union, History, Militarism, Russia, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Trump Missing His Chance to Make History in Moscow

May 8, 2025

Edward Lozansky on the snubbing by European leaders, along with the U.S. president, of Moscow’s May 9 celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

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