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The U.S. has again vetoed a Security Council resolution urging an immediate end to the killing in Gaza, in essence backing the ongoing genocide, writes Joe Lauria.

What US Got Most Crucially Wrong in UN Veto The U.S. has again vetoed a Security Council resolution urging an immediate end to the killing in Gaza, in essence backing the ongoing genocide, writes Joe Lauria.

The biased chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court condemns Hamas but ignores Israel’s atrocious crimes.

The Forcible Transfer of 85% of Palestinians in Gaza Is a Crime Against Humanity The biased chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court condemns Hamas but ignores Israel’s atrocious crimes.

"What the media presents as a war between Israel and an armed Palestinian resistance group is in reality an Israeli war on Palestinians’ physical survival, on their food and clean water supplies, on their homes, healthcare, schools, children..."

‘Israel-Hamas War’ Label Obscures Israel’s War on Palestinians Characterizing what has happened since October 7 as an “Israel-Hamas war” fails to adequately capture the character of Israel’s violence.

Jake Sullivan previously said the US was not drawing red lines on Israel's use of the incendiary weapon

Israel Used US-Supplied White Phosphorous in Attack on Southern Lebanon Jake Sullivan previously said the US was not drawing red lines on Israel’s use of the incendiary weapon

Antony Loewenstein joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, the arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations

The Chris Hedges Report: The Weapons Israel Tests on Palestinians Will Be Used Against All of Us As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.

"This was more than a side show about semantics. It was a lesson in who runs Congress and whose speech is free and whose isn’t."

Zionist Suppression in Congress It isn’t enough for U.S. legislators that Palestinians are suffering genocidal violence, writes Corinna Barnard. Last week lawmakers went after the freedom to protest in support of Palestinians as …

"The United States was the only country on the 15-member council that voted against the measure."

US Blocks Gaza Peace Proposal at UN for 3rd Time, Holding World Hostage The US government has paralyzed the United Nations, voting against the rest of the world and preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Wash…

"The West Bank's general strike kicked off what's expected to be an international day of strikes and other protests around the world demanding an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza."

West Bank General Strike Kicks Off Global Protest Against Israel’s War on Gaza Work stoppages were also held in Jordan, Lebanon, and elsewhere to demand an end to the Israeli onslaught.

For a brief decade and a half the U.S. government gave the Archie Bunkers of America the power to have a real say, to have their voices heard. No one advanced this federal project more than Norman Lear.

Norman Lear: A Giant of the Public Interest By Mark Lloyd / Original to ScheerPost For a brief decade and a half the U.S. government gave the Archie Bunkers of America the power to have a real say, to have their voices heard.  No one ad…

Chris Hedges addresses the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.

Chris Hedges: ‘The Genocide in Gaza’ Chris Hedges addresses the Middle East crisis with a talk titled “The Genocide in Gaza” on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.

Protest meeting in front of the White House in Washington DC in support of Palestinian resistance to Israel on Oct. 8, 2023 (Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons) By Ralph Nader / Nader.org The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily....

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Ralph Nader on Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress Protest meeting in front of the White House in Washington DC in support of Palestinian resistance to Israel on Oct. 8, 2023 (Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons) By Ralph Nader / Nader.org The humiliatio…

The prosecution of Julian Assange in 2023 mirrors the prosecution of journalist Bill Oatis during the Cold War....

The US Condemned Stalin’s Prosecution of Journalists. Now It Uses His Playbook. The prosecution of Julian Assange in 2023 mirrors the prosecution of journalist Bill Oatis during the Cold War.

"Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress," said one critic....

‘Moral Insanity’: Biden Admin Bypasses Congress to Rush Tank Shells to Israel “Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress,” said one critic.

The bill was led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and failed in a vote of 13-84.

Senate Votes Down Resolution to Withdraw Troops from Syria The bill was led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and failed in a vote of 13-84.

Crowds of thousands take to the streets across the country, disrupting centers of power, responding to a call to “Shut It Down for Palestine”

As the US Vetoes UN Ceasefire Resolution, the People Take the Streets for Palestine Crowds of thousands take to the streets across the country, disrupting centers of power, responding to a call to “Shut It Down for Palestine”

What Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism” finds its supreme expression in the routine of nuclear weapons policies, which rely on an extreme shortage of countervailing outcry and activism.

Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race? The specter of omnicide looms.

"There’s no indication that Israel is successfully taking out Hamas fighters, as its bombardment has incurred a massive civilian death toll."

White House Says No Deadline for Israel to End Gaza Onslaught Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 17,000 Palestinians have been killed.

"Our government, with the FBI in the lead, has come to treat Section 702—enacted by Congress for the surveillance of foreigners on foreign soil —as a domestic surveillance program of Americans. This simply cannot be allowed to continue."

The House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance ‘Reform’ Bill Is a Farce By India McKinney / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked u…

"There is an enormous bloc of very rich, very advanced nations arrayed against the West. It’d be nice to believe our rulers have the sense to be flexible, adapt for survival to this new reality and thus display peaceable intentions."

Beltway Geniuses Keep Flinging Russia and China Into Each Other’s Arms Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You don’t hear much about it in the U.S., but Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is a big deal in the Global South. That’s …

"The Future If Donald Trump Returns to the Oval Office."

Make America Fascist Again (MAFA!) The Future If Donald Trump Returns to the Oval Office.

The wars do not end. The suffering continues. The Palestinians die in the tens of thousands. This is by design.

Chris Hedges: The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel spea…

Norman Lear - Mr. Fish Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, visited the KCRW studio in Santa Monica, CA six years ago to sit down and talk with host Robert Scheer in this two-part interview about Lear’s life through his autobiography, “Even This I Get to Experience.” Scheer said of the book:...

‘If I Was To Be Buried, I Would Want That on My Stone’ Norman Lear – Mr. Fish Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, visited the KCRW studio in Santa Moni…

"Refaat was a model of the resistance which Israel and its patrons aim to destroy."

‘If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale’: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer “I am going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I do,” Refaat Alareer vowed in one of his final interviews.

"[T]he bombing in the south of Gaza, where 1.8 million Gazans are displaced from the north, has been among the most intense in two months of Israeli attacks."

Not a Penny Nor a Bullet Off the Table The U.S. vice president, secretary of state and defense secretary are using unusually blunt language against Israel’s massacres of Palestinians. But the money and weapons keep flowing, says Joe Lau…

"Content moderation is impossible at scale, but clear signs and a record of discrimination against certain groups escapes justification and needs to be addressed immediately."

Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestine By Jillian C. York / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) In the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing backlash on Palestine, Meta has engaged in unjustified content and accou…

"From October 7 to December 2, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) national headquarters and chapters received a total of 2,171 requests for help and reports of bias—a 172% increase over a similar two-month period the previous year."

‘Staggering’ Rise in Reports of Islamophobia During Gaza War “People and institutions have spent the past two months weaponizing Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias to both justify the ongoing violence against Palestinians in Gaza and silence supporters of…

"Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country’s catastrophic war on Gaza."

The Israel-India-US Triangle Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable.

Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.

Why Journalists Must Speak Out About Gaza Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.

"Colonel Erez’s interview with Haaretz painted a picture of a chaotically indiscriminate Israeli response to the Palestinian military assault on 7 October."

We Blew Up Israeli Houses on 7 October, Says Israeli Colonel Elbit Systems Hermes-900 UAV takeoff. Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho www.ngphoto.biz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Asa Winstanley / The Electronic Intifada An air force colonel has said that Israe…

“The only people who could resolve the war over Ukraine are the Americans”, Schröder emphasized.

West Sabotaged Ukraine Peace Deal With Russia, Admit Zelensky Official and Germany’s Ex Leader Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zel…

Strong Nations and the Merely Powerful.

Patrick Lawrence: Gaza Divides the World, Again Strong Nations and the Merely Powerful.

"The academics conclude, 'Our evidence is consistent with informed traders anticipating and profiting from the Hamas attack.'"

Just Like 9/11? Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack Hearkening back to the days preceding the 9/11 attacks, suspicious stock market activity suggests that someone with prior knowledge of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood sought to capitalize on the events on …

Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklisting....

Matt Taibbi: Sue the Bastards: Federalist, Daily Wire Take the State Department to Court Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding “censorship enterprises” and blacklisting.

Norman Lear in 2015. Louise Palanker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Editor's Note: It is with profound sadness that ScheerPost acknowledges the passing of Norman Lear. A visionary who boldly reshaped television, Lear courageously elevated the medium from mere entertainment to a powerful educational tool. In tribute to Lear's enduring legacy, we proudly present a compilation of the insightful interviews he conducted with Robert Scheer....

Norman Lear: Remembering a True Legend in American History Norman Lear in 2015. Louise Palanker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: It is with profound sadness that ScheerPost acknowledges the passing of Norman Lear. A visionary who bo…

"It’s we who must decide if there will even be generations, a century from now, to look back on our follies, no less thank us for subversively saving our planet for them."

Duck! Walt Disney and Salvador Allende Are Still Fighting for Our Souls

“How self-centered can you possibly be? Self immolation is never an act of ‘hate.’ It’s the opposite. It’s a desperate plea for humanity.”

Immolation Revelation Life is honored by hearing those who immolate themselves, for no one knows what might rise from their ashes.

"It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people..."

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in Latin America It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict be…

"We spent three nights sleeping rough on the floor, unprotected, under the skies—cold nights."

One Family’s Harrowing Journey Out of Gaza City Zakaria Baker and his family were forced from their home in Al-Shati refugee camp by Israeli bombs on November 7. As they traveled south over 15 kilometers they witnessed incredible horrors and not…

"We must stand against any attempt to define legitimate criticism of this war and the government perpetrating it as antisemitism."

95 Democrats and 216 Republicans Support Resolution Conflating Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism “This extreme and cynical Republican resolution does nothing to combat antisemitism,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, stressing the importance of “legitimate criticism” of the Israeli…

"Walker Todd and Bill Bergman, who’ve been in the Federal Reserve trenches, give an insider’s perspective on the history of banking instability, the fallout of regulatory choices, and the ongoing battle to shield the public from financial risk..."

Is American Banking Safe? You Might Not Like the Answer From Two Fed Veterans Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public from financial chaos.