Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As Christmas approaches, it doesn’t seem to be the season to be jolly, unless you’re a U.S. weapons manufacturer. It seems instead yet another season for war, as the president and Congress fight over how much...
Diplomacy Offers the Only Humane Path Forward in Gaza, Ukraine
The streets of Gaza are awash with blood. Gaza’s residents furnish the blood, but we – the American taxpayers – furnish the bombs which are spilling this blood. 20,000 lives worth of blood thus far. When we watch war on television, we see the rockets take off, but...
Sounding the Alarm on the Starvation of Gaza
The level of acute food insecurity in Gaza has become catastrophic, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today: Between 24 November and 7 December, over 90 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.08 million...
‘Cashing in on Genocide’: Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate in Leveled Gaza
Palestine defenders this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza. "A house on the beach is not a dream,"...
Conflicts of Interest: Biden Gives Israel Support as Netanyahu Ignores US Requests
On COI #514, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on Venezuela, Ukraine, and Israel. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Biden Staffers Give the Boss a Lesson in Humanity
Last Wednesday night, dozens of President Biden’s employees held a vigil outside the White House. They called for a lasting cease-fire in Gaza to protest their Chief’s near total support, in weapons and words, of Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in...
Groups Demand US ‘Make Long-Overdue Amends’ for Airstrikes in Somalia
Two dozen Somali and international human rights groups on Monday asked the Pentagon to "take immediate steps to address the requests of families whose loved ones were killed or injured by U.S. airstrikes in Somalia" – people who often say they're being ignored by...
Conflicts of Interest: Gaza Nears Epidemics as Israeli Destroys Medical Facilities
On COI #513, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss Israel's war on Palestinians. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Kristin Stewart Promotes New Film Based on Daniel Ellsberg’s Doomsday Machine
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. News emerged yesterday, via the Hollywood Reporter, that a feature-length doc based on a book by my late friend Daniel Ellsberg is making progress, now with help from...
Scary: US Presidents Still Have Unchecked Authority To Launch Nuclear First-Strike
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. There’s an important, if scary, opinion piece today at The Washington Post by Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists and former...


