by Ismail Salahuddin in Middle East Monitor, Sept 14, 2025 In an age where our phones glow with the endless stream of breaking news, short videos, and curated feeds, genocide itself has been transformed into consumable content. We live not simply in an era of wars but in what might…
What is urgently needed is for the General Assembly to hold an Emergency Special Session to vote on a UN protection force, as well as a UN-led arms embargo, trade boycott, and divestment from Israel. by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies in Common Dreams, September 3, 2025 One year ago,…
By Caitlin Johnson, August 30, 2025 As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that…
"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams, August 20, 2025 As the US backs Israel's plans to occupy Gaza and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, a solid majority of Americans say the world…
Valley fever disproportionately impacts people targeted by mass incarceration. California can move to prevent this harm. By Duane Palm , Truthout Published August 9, 2025 While incarcerated at California’s Wasco State Prison in November 2024, I woke up drenched in sweat. I quickly became sicker: body aches, shortness of breath,…
by Megan Russell, July 31, 2025 in Common Dreams Imagine: It’s the summer of 2025, and the United States has been surrounded by foreign military bases. The bases have been built by some antagonistic country on the other side of the world that drones on about the inevitability of war.…
Members of Congress introduced the first ever bill that proactively seeks to prevent the U.S. from sending some of the worst weapons to the Israeli military. The Gaza Healthy Ministry confirmed 59,219 people have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military since October 7, 2023, with human rights organizations…
Professor Sang Hea Kil, a tenured member of the Department of Justice Studies, was notified on June 30 that her position was terminated effective July 14. Professor Kil had served as a faculty advisor to SJSU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and acted as a liaison between…
by Caitlin Johnstone, June 24, 2025 Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN reports did no lasting damage, and Iran exercised extraordinary restraint with symbolic retaliatory strikes on US military bases coordinated to avoid American casualties — a move…
by Caitlin Johnstone, June 16, 2025 President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran. The US president has taken to social media to…
