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Kill a poet and his poems fight on. That poet is still throwing his marker at the bastards.

I am left with one simple question for Israel’s leaders, their American defenders, and the Biden administration: have you no decency?

The Retired Army colonel discussed how U.S.-supplied arms and munitions are prolonging deadly conflicts in both Ukraine and Gaza.

A longtime member of Veterans For Peace shares what he has learned about and from the people living in Israel/Palestine.

In the 17 years of total lockdown since Hamas won the election, Zionist forces have launched four major military assaults on Gaza

Self-realization only occurs when there’s been a clear seeing into the nature of awareness and perception.

Two choirs, one Israeli, one Palestinian. Judge for yourself The Ramallah Friends School Choir 'Friendship Song'

What is notable in the current moralizing obituary circuit, is the framing that Kissinger was somehow uniquely evil and murderous.

The problem is that America continues to make war, continues being “essential” only as the world’s leading merchant of death.

Lessons in genocide learned while joining journalists and others trying to get into Gaza at the Rafah crossing in Egypt.

The only way to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again is to take them out of arsenals and eliminate them.

It is crucial to understand the disparities in deaths between Israelis and Palestinians – and why we are calling Israeli violence “genocidal”

200 protesters of all ages called for the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant to stop operations and for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that the country’s ground assault now encompasses “all of the Gaza Strip”

Mosab Abu Toha’s debut book, “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza” (City Lights Books), won the 2022 Palestine Book Award

There is a sadistic pleasure voiced by many Israelis over the genocide and a groundswell of calls for the murder or expulsion of Palestinians

“A big part of the problem with ovarian and gynecological treatment is there just is not enough pressure,” says Nina Schnall.

The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal notes that weapons makers’ stocks on Wall Street have risen 7% since the war started.

A mother whose child is held captive in unknown circumstances is enduring a helplessness, grief and terror that should never be known.

As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well...

Is this enough for “Genocide Joe,” the willing enabler of the Israeli criminal genocide on Palestinians in the Gaza “Ghetto”?

Once again, we stand in this forum to call on all states to respect and ensure respect for international law.

With a so-called Jewish state engaged in genocide reminiscent what befell European Jewry, it is time to take back the symbols we lent this state. 

Israel tests drones, surveillance technology, smart fences, experimental bombs and AI-controlled guns on Gaza, often with lethal results.

Are we to wander indefinitely in a state of negativity, of not believing, of alienation from our own polities?

When asked at a meeting if he also meant killing families, women, and children, Smotrich replied: “In war as in war.”

There is little more than Israeli narrative spin so far to suggest that there was an unparalleled depravity to Hamas’ actions.

The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus.

Apart from the United States, the world is remarkably united behind the goal of ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories

There has been growing speculation in recent years about the possibility of war over Taiwan, pitting China against the United States.

Some day, if we work hard enough, the US military empire will fall, taking the other pariah state of Israel with it.

An Open Letter from Veterans For Peace to the 212 Republicans and 22 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib on November 7, 2023

When white supremacists promote antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism, misstating what antisemitism is harms all of our work for justice.

Does the truth of what happened on October 7 matter? Yes it does because it is used to justify an ongoing genocide.

We’ve no excuse, none whatsoever, for not raising our voices resoundingly, thunderously, clamoring for a Ceasefire, Now.

“… we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”–Nelson Mandela.

You see the limp bodies when they are dug out. I am a reporter. It is my job to see this. You are a child. You should never see this.

Tomorrow I may not find any water to drink. Today, we ate bread and some canned food. Tomorrow there may be nothing.

Our past, including our recent past in the Middle East, is built on the idea of subduing or wiping out the “inferior” races of the earth.

There has always been a strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project. Now it has taken control of the Israeli state.

The absence of Palestinians and their advocates from news coverage isn’t just unfair. As a Jewish American, I think it’s harmful.

The Israeli military demands that Palestinians flee and then they bomb the only evacuation routes of defenseless civilians.

Over 8,000 Palestinians, including over 3000 children, have now been killed in the three weeks of massive air and artillery attacks on Gaza.

Irish party demands that Israel immediately ends the barbaric military assault on Gaza and that it removes all obstacles to humanitarian aid.

Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, thousands of protesters filled Grand Central Station Oct. 27; more than 300 were arrested.

Through journalistic sleight of hand reporters across the U.S. are fueling the genocide their newsrooms are refusing to acknowledge.

The realization of the Bordertown Sasabe Playground project represents a remarkable triumph of community spirit and determination

Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel’s 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to recent events.

We make a decision to prioritize the creatures other than ourselves. We no longer do a fall cleanup; we do a fall neatening.

Wednesday night’s slaughter – so far, 18 dead, 13 wounded – was the country’s 36th mass killing this year, and its deadliest so far.

I can’t stop thinking of all the children in Gaza who can’t understand why no one is coming to their rescue.

It was not a fair or unbiased forum to “build public understanding and generate discussions on our foreign, security, and defence policies.”

And have you seen the madmen/who strut the world’s stage?/threatening our destruction/as they prance and preen and rage

For many of us we become numb even seeing these videos, Yet we must look and if we survive remember the 21st century genocide.

We in Veterans For Peace have learned from our experiences with war and death to be life affirming.  Join us for peace.

Netanyahu and Gallant are committing genocide in Gaza. Biden and Blinken are aiding and abetting Israeli genocide.

Russia Fears the West is a brilliant, must watch 11- minute historical video by Quintin Casella and Jack Gilroy. We were amazed (and pleased) at how much highly relevant information for today could be put into a short historical video. -the editors

“All these years it felt to me almost as if we’re deaf to Mother Nature’s calls for equal human rights for our brothers and sisters.”

Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza will take twenty times or more lives of innocent Palestinians than those killed by Hamas on October 7th 

They’re using the unprovoked word again. They’ll use it until the poison slips into the public mind and becomes accepted as factual.