The Gaza Catastrophe: Is It a Genocide?

January 15, 2024

The Hamas-Israel War has devastated Gaza and displaced its people. It could result in expulsions in the West Bank over time. Is it a genocide? In late December, South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) arguing that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 […]

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Conflicts of Interest: Does Netanyahu See War in Lebanon as Key to Keeping Power?

January 15, 2024

On COI #525, Kyle Anzalone discusses the wars in Ukraine and Israel. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

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Netanyahu to Congo, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Rwanda: ‘Who Will Rid Me of These Pesky Palestinians?’

January 14, 2024

After 97 days of his genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has only wiped out 1%. It’s actually a tad higher as thousands of innocents lay dead under the rubble of over a hundred thousand buildings destroyed by Israeli and US bombs. At that rate it will take him 9,700 […]

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ADL Report Decried for Equating Anti-Zionism With Antisemitism

January 14, 2024

The Anti-Defamation League came under fire Wednesday after publishing a report that significantly expanded the group’s definition of antisemitic incidents to include demonstrations against Israel’s U.S.-backed genocidal war on Gaza. “For the first time, the ADL is counting pro-Palestinian rallies that do not feature overt hostility toward Jews in its count of antisemitic incidents,” Jewish […]

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The US Is Choosing Escalation and a Wider War

January 14, 2024

Spencer Ackerman is not impressed by defenses of the U.S./U.K. strikes in Yemen: The respectable set says that once the Houthis started attacking Red Sea shipping, a U.S. reprisal was inevitable. There’s a lazy-person’s truth here, for sure. Like the Royal Navy before it, the U.S. Navy sails under the banner of free trade. Any […]

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22 Years, 4 Presidents, and Just 1 Conviction Later, Dozens Still Jailed at Guantanamo

January 13, 2024

Human rights defenders marked 22 years since the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba with renewed calls for President Joe Biden to fulfill his stated intention to close the notorious torture camp, where 30 men—16 of them cleared for release—remain behind bars. Like most of the roughly 750 prisoners released from […]

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Bombing Another Country for Peace

January 12, 2024

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last night, the U.S. bombed another country, Yemen, in the name of the “rules-based order.” Yemen has been striking shipping as a form of protest against the ongoing Israeli genocide-in-slow-motion in Gaza. It always looks good when the U.S. uses its military to enable mass murder elsewhere. […]

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With Attack on Yemen, the US Is Shameless: ‘We Make the Rules, We Break the Rules’

January 12, 2024

Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously. Overall, the default assumption is that top officials in Washington are reluctant to go to war, and do so only as a last resort. The framing […]

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Fears of Wider War as US, UK Bomb Yemen

January 12, 2024

The United States and United Kingdom on Thursday launched air and missile strikes on Yemen as part of the international effort to end Houthi rebels’ attacks on Red Sea shipping, with the armed group warning earlier that such aggression “will not go without response.” Thursday’s U.S.-led attacks on Yemen fueled fears of a wider Middle […]

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Conflicts of Interest: Will Biden Follow Israel to War in Lebanon?

January 12, 2024

On COI #524. Kyle Anzalone discusses the wars in Ukraine and Israel. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

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