A new report and interactive map published Thursday by a leading airstrike monitoring organization offer detailed insight into incidents of civilian harm caused by Israel Defense Forces' aerial bombardment of Gaza during the May 2021 Operation Guardian of the Walls...
US Appeal Decision on Assange on Friday at British High Court
Joe Lauria of Consortium News reports: WikiLeaks has said that the judgement in the U.S. appeal against an order not to extradite imprisoned publisher Julian Assange will be read at the High Court in London at 5:15 am EST, 10:15 am GMT on Friday. The two judges on the...
As Putin Asserts Russia’s Right to Defend Against NATO, US Urged to Avoid ‘New Cold War’
As Russian President Vladimir Putin responded Wednesday to NATO provocations along his nation's western frontier by warning that his country reserves the right to defend itself, peace advocates stressed the need for US self-awareness and restraint in order to avoid a...
Biden’s Pointless ‘Global Posture Review’
Emma Ashford is appropriately withering in her comments on the Biden administration’s Global Posture Review:The main problem with the posture review is that it was completely irrelevant. I’m honestly not sure how the Pentagon managed to take a year to come to such...
As Senate Holds Guantánamo Hearing, Biden Urged to ‘Finally End This Chapter of Injustice’
Human rights defenders on Tuesday renewed demands for President Joe Biden to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba as the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing at which experts and advocates testified about the damage that Gitmo does to...
Biden Keeps Trump’s Crushing Sanctions Yet Blames Iran for Nuclear Impasse
From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Maté At the Vienna talks on restoring the Iran nuclear deal, the US and EU are accusing Iran of refusing to compromise. Mohammad Marandi, a University of Tehran professor advising the Iran delegation in Vienna, says that the...
Senate Dems Help Torpedo Resolution That Would Have Blocked $650 Million Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
The United States Senate on Tuesday evening voted down a joint resolution that would have blocked the proposed sale of $650 million worth of U.S. armaments to Saudi Arabia, weapons critics said will help exacerbate a war in Yemen that is driving one of the world's...
Governor of Hawai’i Orders Operations of US Navy’s Massive Jet Fuel Tanks Suspended and Fuel Removed from Tanks within 30 Days
On December 6, after all hell broke loose at each of the five town hall meetings held over several days by the U.S. Navy to try to calm military families who have been drinking and bathing in fuel contaminated water, the Governor of the State of Hawai’i issued an...
Biden Has Set the Mousetrap: What Mouse Will He Catch?
Today the “international community” is waiting impatiently for the start of the Biden-Putin video conference which is scheduled to begin at 18.00 Moscow time, 10.00 AM Washington time. While the proceedings will be closed to the public, the opening...
Illegal Attacks on Iranians Won’t End the Impasse
Giorgio Cafiero notes near the end of a new article on Israel and Iran that Iranian nuclear weapons are not a foregone conclusion if the Vienna talks fail and the agreement collapses:Iran’s nuclear activities seem designed to be mainly about boosting the country’s...


