Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

When Genocide is No Longer Genocide

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 13, 2023 Some of Israel’s defenders want to do away with the concept of genocide in hopes of washing away its war crimes. Any redefinition would allow the U.S. to disappear the many genocides it has committed domestically and internationally. “We maintain, therefore, that the oppressed Negro citizens of the United[…]

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Charges Dropped on the Tampa 5, Students for a Democratic Society Protesters Walk Free

Statement, published on Fightback News, December 5, 2023 Fight Back New Service is circulating the following statement from the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are proud to announce a great victory: their misdemeanor and felony charges will be dropped! This victory was made possible by months of mobilizations of people across the state of Florida,[…]

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The Climate Costs of the U.S. Military Machine

by Pippa Bartolotti published on UNACPeace.org, November 27, 2023 The Department of Defense budget comprises more than half of all federal discretionary spending every year. Just 11% of the military budget could fund renewable energy for every US home. A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies calculates that the cost of U.S. militarization in the last 20 years[…]

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The Black Misleaders Promote Zionism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 As zionists ramp up the pressure, the Black misleadership class readily succumbs to protect their precious positions and dubious prominence. In 2021 this columnist wrote, “The Palestine Litmus Test.” At that time Israel was carrying out one of its periodic attacks against Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians, and in doing[…]

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Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

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Shame on the US Ambassador to the UN: She Has Forgotten Her Roots

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 21, 2023 Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has refused to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza to save lives, after more than 12,000 civilians have died, and half are children. Thomas-Greenfield’s policy statements suggest Israelis are deserving of human rights, while Palestinians are not. In 2015, Thomas-Greenfield received[…]

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The Issue is Not Racism But the Pan European White Supremacist Colonial/Capitalist Patriarchy!

by Ajamu Baraka,  published on Black Agenda Report, November 15, 2023 Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old. Presentation at the 30th Anniversary of the Black Community Process (PCN), Bogota, Colombia, November 12, 2023 The modern concept of race and what became[…]

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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2023 We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence[…]

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Palestine’s Right to Resist and Be Free: Debunking the October 7 “Massacre”

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, November 12, 2023 Tragically, too many antiwar activists and people of good will have felt compelled to include in their solidarity statements with the beleaguered Palestinian masses, a condemnation of the Hamas’s October 7 breaching the walls of its Gaza concentration camp and attacking its Zionist oppressors’ military facilities, settler communities and civilian[…]

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Civil Resistance is Alive and Well

Codepink struck on the East and West coasts recently: The vigil outside Nancy Pelosi’s home finally caught her attention when Toby Blome and Lydie Abood laid down under the front wheels of her van: Video by videographer Peter Menchini.  Tobey Blome’s elaboration of the moment: A couple of us arrived in the early morning to find several black SUVs (Capitol[…]

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