The Carnage in Gaza Cries Out for Repudiation and Opposition. Maybe Poetry Can Help.

November 16, 2023

Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Yet elite power has routinely vetoed their best measures. Still, the ability of poetry to inspire and nurture is precious, including when governments are on protracted killing sprees. In Gaza, more than 11,000 civilians have been killed since early October. […]

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Conflicts of Interest: Biden’s Support for Israel Comes at a Huge Cost to Americans

November 15, 2023

On COI #498, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

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Ron Paul on Where Does the Antiwar Movement Go From Here, With Guest Dave DeCamp

November 14, 2023

Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp with the guest on today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Israel… As the entire world seemingly goes up in flames, there is at the same time an antiwar movement struggling to break free. Censorship from the media and the “censorship industrial complex” is trying to strangle the messengers […]

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Robert Jay Lifton On Nuclearism and Oppenheimerism

November 14, 2023

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I was pleased on Sunday to find The New Yorker online posting at the top of its site a massive Q & A that finds Masha Gesssen interviewing one of my longtime mentors and heroes, Robert Jay Lifton, at age 97. We first […]

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America, Land of Innocents

November 13, 2023

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s depressingly true that no nations or peoples are immune from committing atrocities. History is filled with them. Atrocities, that is. Did Hamas commit atrocities, most notably on 10/7? Yes. Has Israel committed atrocities in Gaza since those terror attacks? Yes. Any sane human is outraged by […]

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Ukraine’s Military Leadership Admits the Obvious

November 13, 2023

Commander in Chief of Ukraine’s armed forces Valery Zaluzhny admitted last week in the pages of The Economist that the war with Russia has become a stalemate and there will “most likely” be no breakthrough. It has been clear for months that Ukraine’s much hyped summer offensive has been a massive failure, and military leadership […]

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Conflicts of Interest: Journalists Say Israeli-Friendly Media Coverage Is Enabling Gaza Onslaught

November 13, 2023

Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the latest news from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

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Netanyahu Blames Arabs – Not Hitler – For the Holocaust!

November 12, 2023

From The Jimmy Dore Show: An old video of Benjamin Netanyahu has surfaced in which the Israeli Prime Minister alleges that Adolf Hitler had not planned the Nazi’s “Final Solution” to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population until he was given the suggestion by a Palestinian Mufti. He was rightfully raked over the coals for this Nazi […]

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Over 50 Bodies Pulled From Rubble of Gaza School Bombed Amid Israeli Assault

November 12, 2023

Palestinian civil defense officials said Friday that more than 50 bodies were recovered from the rubble of a school in northern Gaza where civilians were sheltering when it was destroyed during overnight Israeli bombardment. Palestine’s WAFA News Agency reported civil defense and ambulance rescue teams removed the blasted and crushed remains of victims of Thursday […]

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The People of Gaza Need a Ceasefire Now

November 11, 2023

The Biden administration is now admitting that the death toll in Gaza is likely much higher than the count from the local Ministry of Health: A senior Biden administration official said the death toll of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is likely far higher than the 10,000 number being reported by the health ministry amid […]

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