From Dallas to Gaza: Was JFK’s Assassination Instrumental in Strengthening Zionist Israel?

By Rick Sterling, December 13, 2023

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago. If he had  lived and won a second term, the Israeli Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. 

A Wall and a Watchtower: Why Is Israel Failing? Ilan Pappe

By Ilan Pappe, December 14, 2023

These architects of Zionism were too racist and orientalist, like the rest of Europe, to realize how progressive Palestinian society was in relation to that period, with an educated and politicized urban elite and a rural community living at peace within a genuine system of co-existence and solidarity. 

Getting Serious About Halting Israeli Genocide

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, December 14, 2023

On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article 99 is an emergency provision that allows the Secretary General to summon the Council to respond to a crisis that “threatens the maintenance of international peace and security.”

Is Free Speech a Relic in America?

By James Bovard, December 13, 2023

Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

The U.S. Is Complicit with Israel in the Genocide in Gaza

By Steven Sahiounie, December 13, 2023

A UN Security Council vote on December 8, demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war, failed because the U.S. used their veto power in the sole dissenting vote. The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, did not cast the damning vote, she sent her assistant instead, shielding herself from the disgust of the international community.

Zelensky’s “Rose-tinted” Speeches No Longer Convince His Team or Military

By Ahmed Adel, December 13, 2023

Sources familiar with Zelensky’s communications strategy told the Financial Times that the purpose of these messages is to maintain optimism at home and abroad and that there is a communications policy applied at all levels of the state, including strict censorship of bad news, such as the number of Ukrainian casualties or the success of Russian troops.

Pfizer Has a Criminal Record

By US Department of Justice and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 13, 2023

In September 2009, the U.S Justice Department attorneys and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a news conference “dealing with a health care-related settlement”. Pfizer Inc which is currently involved in the Worldwide distribution of the mRNA vaccine, was accused in 2009 of “Fraudulent Marketing”.

Genocide and a Holocaust – Palestine, Gaza AD 2023. Open Letter to Lord Cameron, U.K. Foreign Secretary

By Dr. David Halpin, December 13, 2023

I will be ‘personal’ but the current and most terrible holocaust in Gaza requires this. About a quarter of my practice involved looking after dear children, often from infancy and with skeletal defects such as congenital dislocation of the hip, club foot etc. Included were those with cerebral palsy – often caused by injury during birth.

Women’s Rights and the Dominant Neoliberal Agenda: The Current Global Trajectory Is Far from Sustainable

By Tina Renier, December 13, 2023

In these perilous times of growing unpredictability, I also think of how public debt as new form of colonialism and imperialism has influenced the everyday lives of peoples in the Global South, which are former colonies of Empires.

Ret. Col. Ann Wright Unmasks the Truth in Arms Transfer Debate

By Melissa Garriga, December 13, 2023

In a heated session at the United Nations Security Council, diplomats engaged in a vigorous debate over the provision of arms to Ukraine amid the protracted war with Russia. The eleventh meeting on this pressing issue since Russia invaded in February of 2022 drew sharp criticisms from multiple speakers, who accused Moscow of deflecting attention from its own aggression.