Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Trump’s Gaza Riviera and Israel’s War

by Barry Shepard, published on Socialist Action, September 196, 2025  In late August President Trump met with his son-in-law Jared Kushner and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss plans for a postwar Gaza. A month before, staff members of a think tank set up by Blair met with Israeli business leaders in developing a postwar Gaza plan that[…]

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Apathy to Peace and War: Palestine

By Dr Mahboob A Khawaja, published on Countercurrents, August 27, 2025 Egoistic Leaders against Peace and Humanity Authoritarian leaders propel insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture. The Arab-Muslim world lives in fantasy  as puppets as paper boys claiming to be negotiating peace but cannot mold nor[…]

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Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions, Says Ex-UN Special Rapporteur

by Marjorie Cohn, published on the LA Progressive, July 15, 2025 The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Note that all of Albanese’s recent reports are linked in this article.  [jb] The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States[…]

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China is a Force for Peace and Progress, That’s Why the World Needs China

by Carlos Martinez, published on Friends of Socialist China,  June 27, 2025 Friends of Socialist China was among the organisers of a hybrid event in Portland, Oregon (US), held on 22 June 2025, discussing Kyle Ferrana’s important book Why the World Needs China. In his speech (delivered via Zoom), Carlos Martinez endorsed the central thesis of the book, arguing that[…]

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The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Defend Democracy, June 5, 2025 A people’s tribunal Almost sixty years ago, the world watched in horror as the US carried out brutal aggression and serial atrocities against the people of Vietnam. Those atrocities, and the apparent impunity afforded to the US in their commission, was, for many, too much to bear. Because no state,[…]

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How Israel is Using the War with Iran to Accelerate its Annexation of the West Bank

by Qassem Muaddi, published on Mondoweiss, June 18, 2025 For three days, I was trapped in an area between three villages, no more than a ten-minute drive apart. At the entrance to each of the three villages, an actual iron gate blocked the road, quite literally caging in their residents. This was how Palestinians in the West Bank were informed[…]

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Iran Has A Right To Defend Itself From Israel’s Relentless Aggression (Video)

Dimitri Lascaris interviews Craig Mokhiber on his talk show, Reason2Resist, June 18, 2025 Editor’s note:   I am posting this interview because it very clearly makes some very important points about the issues at hand.   It shows how far from reality the discussion of Israel’s war on Iran (not to mention Palestine) really is.   I hope you will listen carefully, and[…]

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No, Israel Does Not Have a Right to Defend Itself in Gaza. But the Palestinians Do.

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Mondoweiss, September 10, 2024 One of the many disturbing revelations that have emerged since the current phase of genocide in Palestine began almost a year ago, is the degree to which U.S. and other Western politicians are prepared to dutifully stick to a script provided by Israel and its Western lobbies, whether the script is[…]

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Activism Join the Anti-Genocide Pledge to Stop the Bloodshed in Gaza

Statement by the Palestinian Youth Movement, published on Mondoweiss, June 1, 2025 On October 17 2023, after 10 days of relentless aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israel bombed al-Ahli hospital which was housing hundreds of Palestinians who had fled their demolished homes. The world watched in disbelief at the intentional targeting of a hospital sheltering the displaced, certain that[…]

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