United Nations officials and others strongly condemned Monday’s raid by Israeli authorities on a facility run by the UN’s office for Palestinian refugees in occupied East Jerusalem – an act one rights group decried as part of an ongoing effort “to undermine and...
Pentagon Weighed Sending Boat Strike Survivors to Salvadoran Prison To Avoid Defending Bombings in Court
Pentagon officials asked about sending survivors of US boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador in a bid to keep them out of American courts – where the Trump administration’s high seas extrajudicial...
Trump Says Ground Attack on Venezuela Imminent – Plus Colombia, Mexico Also in US Crosshairs
President Donald Trump said in an interview published Tuesday that a US land attack on Venezuela is coming and signaled that he is open to launching similar military action against Colombia and Mexico. “We’re gonna hit ‘em on land very soon, too,” Trump told...
Trump Envoy Ripped for Claim That ‘Benevolent Monarchy’ Is Best for Middle East
Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, faced backlash Monday after arguing that US-backed Middle Eastern monarchies – most of which are ruled by prolific human rights violators – offer the best model for governing...
Demands to Release Full Video of Deadly US Boat Strike Grow After Congressional Briefing
Calls mounted Thursday for the Trump administration to release the full video of a September US airstrike on a boat allegedly transporting drugs in the Caribbean Sea following a briefing between Pentagon officials and select lawmakers that left some Democrats with...
‘Intellexa Leaks’ Reveal Wider Reach of Predator Spyware
Highly invasive spyware from consortium led by a former senior Israeli intelligence official and sanctioned by the US government is still being used to target people in multiple countries, a joint investigation published Thursday revealed. Inside Story in Greece,...
Calls Grow to Release Transcript of ‘Highly Disturbing’ Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder
The widow of Jamal Khashoggi on Friday joined Democratic members of Congress in urging President Donald Trump to release the transcript of a phone conversation between the US leader and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the journalist’s 2018 kidnapping...
UN Approval of Gaza ‘Stabilization Force’ Slammed as ‘Denial of Palestinian Self-Determination’
Palestine defenders decried Monday’s approval by the United Nations Security Council of a US plan authorizing a so-called international stabilization force for Gaza – a plan decried by one peace group as a denial of Palestinian self-determination. Thirteen UNSC...
At Least 12 Somali Civilians – Including 8 Children – Killed in Suspected US Airstrikes
At least a dozen civilians – eight children, three women, and an elderly man – were killed in weekend bombings that local sources claimed were the latest of nearly 100 US airstrikes in the Horn of Africa nation this year alone. The Somali Guardian reported that the...
As Israel Keeps Killing Palestinians, Tlaib Leads Bill Recognizing War on Gaza as Genocide
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and 20 Democratic colleagues on Friday introduced legislation that would officially recognize Israel’s 25-month war on Gaza as a genocide, a move that came as Israeli forces continued killing Palestinians in the coastal strip and violating...


