Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Israel Must Release Thiago Ávila and Saif Abukeshek Who Were Abducted from the Global Summud Flotilla

Press Release, published on OMCT/SOS-Torture Network, May 7, 2026 URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY ISR 001 / 0526 / OBS 022  Arbitrary detention Abduction / Ill-treatment and torture / Incommunicado detention Israel 7 May 2026 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH),[…]

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U.S. “Weaponization of Starvation”

Washington’s “Humanitarian Aid Package” to Gaza and Cuba by Nuvpreet Kaivra, published on Global Research, February 10, 2026 Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid to Cuba, on top of the $3 million it sent in January after Hurricane Melissa. This aid package might appear contrary to the significant escalation of the 66-year-long[…]

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Hamas Says It Will Not Unilaterally Disarm as Trump and Netanyahu Threaten a Return to Full-Scale War

by Jeremy Scahill & Jawa Ahmad, published on DropSite News, February 16, 2026 As President Donald Trump prepares to convene the first official meeting of his speciously named Board of Peace on Thursday, he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have re-escalated demands that Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions imminently disarm—with Netanyahu insisting that all small arms must be[…]

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Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism. Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state[…]

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The Sham Trump/UN Peace Plan: Rebranding Genocide By Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges, published on Socialist Action, December 15, 2025 The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though,[…]

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AIPAC: A Tail, a Dog, a Carrot and a Stick

By John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, December 2, 2025  Many liberals and leftists believe AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, shapes US policy towards Israel or in fact controls it. The truth is quite different. Israel was not created by the United Kingdom, the US and other Western imperialists to give Jews a place of refuge after World[…]

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Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day

Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people’s struggle, not granted by[…]

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United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 26, 2025 By approving a U.S. “peace plan” that legitimizes genocide and ends the right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed Palestine—it has actively consolidated a new era of global fascism. A Day That Will Live in Infamy A few days into the massive revenge attack[…]

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Gaza Ceasefire

Statement by The United National Antiwar Coalition, November 6, 2025 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) salutes the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.  They have survived the attempted genocide. It is not over, but the 1st stage of the agreement has given some relief to the people of Gaza and has freed some of the Palestinian hostages that Israel was[…]

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How the Gaza genocide Transformed U.S. Public Opinion

by Adrienne Lynett and Mira Nabulsi, publlished on Mondoweiss,  October 26, 2025 Two years since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, U.S. public opinion on Israel, Palestine, and U.S. policy has undergone a profound shift. What was once a marginal foreign policy issue for most U.S. voters has moved to the center of national political debate, stirring visible division,[…]

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