As the deadliest year for West Bank Palestinians since the end of the second intifada draws to a close, a group of United Nations human rights experts on Thursday condemned the "rampant violence" perpetrated by Israeli security forces and settlers against residents of...
The Biden administration is considering an offer from military-industrial complex giant Boeing to supply Ukraine with long-range precision-guided bombs capable of striking targets up to nearly 100 miles away, Reutersreported Monday.The Pentagon is reviewing Boeing's...
Peace advocates on Thursday said that the near-unanimous vote by United Nations member states to demand an end to the US economic embargo of Cuba underscores the imperative for the Biden administration to lift the crippling 60-year blockade.For the 30th straight year,...
Prominent antiwar voices including Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, and Roger Waters on Monday joined over 220 groups around the world in calling for the cancellation of Lockheed Martin's $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter plane program.The women-led peace group...
The death on Monday of a 12-year-old boy wounded by Israeli gunfire last month brought the number of Palestinian teens and children who have died at the hands of Israeli occupation forces since Friday to five.Middle East Eye reports Mahmoud Mohammad Samoudi, 12,...
Human rights defenders on Friday welcomed a move by Chile's progressive president to put off accepting the new Israeli ambassador's credentials in response to the killing of a Palestinian teenager earlier in the day.A spokesperson for the Chilean Foreign Ministry...
As the Biden administration on Thursday announced billions of dollars in additional aid for Ukraine's defense against Russian invaders, peace activists renewed calls for a diplomatic solution to the nearly seven-month war."The White House and Congress are fueling this...
Peace activists on Friday challenged what they called Saudi Arabia's "sportswashing" of war crimes in Yemen and domestic human rights abuses by protesting outside – and over – a Massachusetts golf tournament funded by the repressive kingdom.Members of...
Human rights groups were cautiously optimistic Thursday as the United States military – which has killed more civilians in foreign wars than any other armed force on Earth in the post-World War II era – published a plan meant to reduce non-combatant...
Congressional progressives this week urged top Biden administration officials to end the transfer of military weapons to local law enforcement agencies under a program that critics say disproportionately harms communities of color.In a letter led by Rep. Ayanna...
