Among the dozens killed are 13 aid seekers, as NGO warns Israel is also deliberately blocking energy access. At least 43 people have been killed in various Israeli attacks since dawn as the military relentlessly pounds the besieged enclave, medical sources say, with the overall Palestinian death toll in the war surpassing a staggering 56,000.… Read More Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers
The fact is that in 50 years, India’s democracy has swung between two extremes – from two years of the ‘darkest period’ to ten-plus years of the ‘deep-dark period.’ M.G. Devasahayam June 26, 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Emergency. As the anniversary year dawned in 2024, the top honchos of the ruling… Read More Fifty Years After the Emergency, India’s Democracy Is Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself Mohamad Bazzi In May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a triumphant speech, declaring that major combat operations in Iraq had ended – six weeks after he had ordered US troops to invade the country.… Read More Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
In the Long Run, the Means to Nonproliferation Ends Matters Statement by Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy, and Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation and International Security, June 21, 2025 President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s illegal attacks against… Read More Trump Decision to Strike Iran Sets U.S. Up for Wider War, and Undermines Nonproliferation Regime / Iran says US has begun a dangerous war
“If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam” – M. L. King “Civil disobedience arises when a significant number of citizens have become convinced either that the normal channels of change no longer function, and grievances will not be heard or acted upon, or that, on the contrary the government… Read More Seyla Benhabib: Breaking Silence, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Luther King
“If this is what he’s publicly sharing, who knows what he’s saying behind closed doors,” a Pentagon contractor, who has interacted with Col. Nathan McCormack, told JNS. Andrew Bernard Col. Nathan McCormack, the Levant and Egypt branch chief at the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate, has referred publicly to “Netanyahu and his Judeo-supremacist… Read More Chief Israel planner at Pentagon bashes Israel publicly, extensively
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The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization. The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy Israeli forces kill… Read More Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza
Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians. “The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” an eyewitness told Mondoweiss. On Sunday morning at dawn, Palestinians from southern Gaza headed to the aid distribution… Read More Aid Massacre: Israeli Forces Kill 75 Palestinians at U.S.-Run Aid Distribution Center. June 3, 2025
Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as ‘outrageous’ attempt to keep influential dissident imprisoned Helen Davidson in Taipei Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible. Wong, a well-known… Read More Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong hit with new charges
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