"Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral."
US doctors who visited Gaza tell Biden, Harris they've never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources, that our bombs are cutting down women and children, and that a ceasefire must be imposed.
In this interview with the People's Tribune, Abla Abdelkader, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine in Chicago, describes the repression facing pro-Palestine students and the common interests that most Americans have in the fights for peace and social justice.
Bernie Sanders unveils resolutions to block US arms sales to Israel in what is said to be the first time in U.S. history a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel has been made.
Without a cease-fire, Israel "could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years," said the U.N. special rapporteur.
Forty-five American physicians and nurses sent an open letter to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Jill Biden about the carnage they saw while working in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to Congress on July 24. Protests are planned that oppose his visit and to demand his arrest as a war criminal.
University of California academic workers represented by UAW 4811 are striking. They say the UC system has failed to protect their freedom to speak and failed to keep them safe from police brutality during recent campus protests.
The UCSC rally saw Palestinian flags, UAW picket signs, and chants such as "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation"; and "Disclose, divest."
The UAW union representing about 3,000 graduate student workers at USC filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty.
Helen Benedict, a Columbia University journalism professor, describes how the right wing has used accusations of anti-semitism against campus protests to distract attention from the death toll in Gaza.
The violent arrest of Emory University Prof. Caroline Fohlin April 25 in Atlanta shows the degree to which democracy is being trampled as resistance to the Gaza genocide grows.
Outrage is mounting here and globally for immediate cease-fire in Gaza. A significant percentage of Democrats are voting "uncommitted,” but the Biden administration is not stopping U.S. from providing bombs that kill Palestinian children.
Hundreds of protesters block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech to call for ceasefire and end to U.S funding for Israel's assault on Gaza.
Congresswoman Tlaib introduces bill to stop politicians from funnelling billions of American tax dollars to same defense contractors many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from.
Israeli forces have killed over 10,000 children in roughly 100 days of Israel's assault into Gaza, as Save the Children reported, or about 100 children per day.
Al Jazeera’s update to its "Know Their Names" project identifies some of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It lists children from infants to 17-year-olds and the children are sorted by age.
U.S. Congress members who called for peace in Palestine are being targeted for defeat in 2024 by well-funded political action committees. Now the Congress members are rallying voters to their cause.
Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International call for Israel to be investigated for war crimes in targeting journalists, after a Reuters investigation conclusively found that its journalist was killed by an Israeli tank shell fired on him and others.
The number of people displaced by climate disasters, conflict, and violence continues to reach unprecedented levels. Vulnerable communities and countries under attack from wars for corporate ownership of resources are living with the worst impacts.
Forty-two journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7th. Independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who produced the award-winning documentary 'The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh,' asks where is the global response? And where is the journalist outcry to their colleagues killed in Gaza?
Biden and the congressional majority won't impose a ceasefire on Israel because Israel was created in part on behalf of American and European corporations and billionaires to further their interests in the Middle East.
Freedom of speech is under attack throughout the United States, with those who criticize the seige of Gaza facing retribution at schools and workplaces.
Despite attempts to silence them, hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the world to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and that the U.S. cut off financial and military support to Israel.
Amid escalating Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians, millions around the world are demanding a ceasefire. The people of the U.S. have a crucial role to play in pushing for a ceasefire as a first step toward a real peace.
The dangers and costs of the Ukraine war are immense in terms of threats to humanity and the huge sums of money diverted into military spending and away from spending on human needs.
As a historic debt default looms, a new report says the majority of this year’s federal discretionary funds were used for militarized programs, urging gov't to re-prioritize spending to serve human needs.
As the war continues, it's producing huge profits for U.S. oil companies and arms makers while threatening all of us with nuclear war. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are hungry as massive military spending is consuming resources we need.
Veterans for Peace want urgent diplomacy to end Ukraine war, not more U.S. weapons and endless war, nor a nuclear war. Spend the billions for climate, jobs, healthcare, housing, not weapons manufacturers and war profiteers.
More than 50% of our income taxes are spent on the Pentagon. Even a 10% cut in the military budget ($74 Billion) could: create jobs, affordable housing, schools, childcare and community health centers, sustainable energy projects, and clean drinking water facilities, end homelessness, and more.
Let us imagine a world where laborers, scientists, and politicians across the world blow the trumpet of nuclear disarmament, where we stop, look at each other and sigh, and see that none of us want this anymore, to be under threat of nuclear extinction. The patient work of disarming the arsenals then begins.
An $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” was made by the Biden administration in March for the military-industrial complex. This when the greatest risks to the safety of Americans and rest of world are not military. Covid took 1 million people in the US, and the fires, floods, and heat waves caused by climate change impact tens of millions.
World War III is beginning. It is starting in the Middle East. The war being waged against Syria by the US and its allies is in fact a proxy war between the US on the one hand and Russia and China on the other ...
