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When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?

When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope that it might be a forum for these rising economic powers from the...

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Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for...

During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to demand...

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The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth

As Ukraine prepared to launch its much heralded but long delayed counteroffensive, the media published a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with his finger on his lips, symbolizing the need for secrecy...

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We Must Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore up Ukraine’s slow counter-offensive against Russian troops....

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US-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis

President Joe Biden wrote in The New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.”...

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Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist, or a Peacemaker?

Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate task, to provide U.S. policymakers with accurate intelligence about the world beyond...

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A Global Call for Peace in Ukraine Emerges at UN General Assembly

As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly has been debating what role the United Nations and its members should play in the crisis in Ukraine. The United States and its allies...

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An Isolated US Backs Israeli Atrocities in Gaza

On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14, for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of...

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The Familiar Propaganda of US Media Makes Horrors in Gaza Possible

We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of...

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Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?

While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli conflict in Gaza from exploding into a regional war, the United States has...

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Despite US Opposition, the World Shows It Wants an End to Israeli Genocide in...

On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article 99 is an emergency provision that allows the Secretary-General to summon the...

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A Chance to Hold Israel–and the United States–to Account for Genocide

On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. The first provisional measure...

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Biden's Choice: Gaza Cease-Fire or Devastating Regional War?

In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq, and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to...

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How the US Can Be a Good Neighbor to Latin America

The Trump administration dusted off the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of Latin America to U.S. interests. The Biden administration, instead of reversing course, followed...

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Instead of Diplomacy and Peace, US Chooses to Back Genocide and War

On February 7, 2024, a U.S. drone strike assassinated an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, in the heart of Baghdad. This was a further U.S. escalation in a major new front in the U.S.-Israeli...

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After 2 Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace

As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR,...

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Exit of Victoria Nuland Presents Opportunity for Peace in Ukraine

President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the...

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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign...

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Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might...

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Arsenal of Genocide: The American Weapons Destroying Gaza

On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold...

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The ICC Takes on Israel and the US Congressional Mafia

Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court when he grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a May 21 congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he...

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The Major Obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Is the United States of America

On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the U.S. proposal for a pause in the Israeli massacre in Gaza. The group said it has “dealt...

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Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington

After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Afghanistan, on July 9 NATO plans to invade Washington D.C. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three...

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Like Biden, NATO Is Unfit to Lead

As NATO wrapped up its Summit and Biden held a crucial press conference, the media frenzy continued to focus on Biden’s age and cognitive abilities. Is he too old and disoriented to lead the “free...

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10 Reasons Netanyahu Should Not Address Congress

On Wednesday, July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver his record-setting fourth address to a Joint Session of Congress. Here are 10 compelling reasons why he should not...

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AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush's Race–and Our Elections

Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, Missouri who is a member of “the Squad” in the U.S. House and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women’s rights,...

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US Resumes Offensive Weapons Sales to Major Human Rights Abuser: Saudi Arabia​

One issue that has slipped beneath the radar in terms of news coverage is the recent decision by the Biden administration to resume the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia. For starters, the...

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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns

An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates...

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Can the World Save Palestinians From US-Israeli Genocide?

On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" within six months....

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Biden's Destructive Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran

On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports...

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