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A constitutional rights group in the United States is suing President Joe Biden for “failure to prevent genocide” in Gaza. The legal complaint is on behalf of Palestinian groups and individuals charging Israel’s actions amount to genocide.
The New York civil liberties group is suing Biden, (...)
Since the Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October and the ensuing assault on Gaza, the Biden administration has performed what is euphemistically described as a ‘balancing act’. On the one hand it praises the collective punishment of Palestinians; on the other it warns Israel against overreach. Its support (...)
Pro-Palestine protests and rallies have spread across the United States in opposition to the Israeli war.
In response to the October 7 Gaza breakout and surprise attacks by Hamas militants in Israel, which resulted in 1,400 deaths, Israel has conducted non-stop self-described “revenge” (...)
Three Tempest members report on demonstrations in New York City for Palestinian self-determination and a ceasefire.
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Brooklyn, October 21-Keith Rosenthal
Between three and five thousand people protested in solidarity with Palestine and against Israel’s war in (...)
Israel’s merciless bombardment of Gaza destroying apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and places of worship killing thousands, its siege cutting off food, water, and electricity, and its massing of tens of thousands of troops on the Gaza border preparing an invasion has horrified millions (...)
Tempest members report on large and inspiring rallies, marches, and acts of civil disobedience over the past week in defense of Palestinian resistance and condemnation of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
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Minneapolis–Paul KD
There have been two protests in (...)
The Biden administration has called a coup a coup in Niger. Now it may have to relocate U.S. troops to another location.
For two months after the coup in Niger in August 2023, the Biden administration refused to declare that a “coup” had taken place. They did this because using the word (...)
As Jews, we condemn what Israel is doing in Gaza. Any mass slaughter will not just be on Israel’s hands, but on the hands of America
It is now impossible for US politicians to ignore the slaughter in Gaza: more than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in the 12-day barrage, including the 500 (...)
Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide education and ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in (...)
The brutality of the Israeli Occupation, the scale of Israel’s continuing political turmoil, the undisguised Ku Klux Klan-ish murderous Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinian civilians and towns, the deepening rage within the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories and inside (...)
In a surprise state visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington DC on June 21. He was only the third world leader to get such royal treatment by President Joe Biden since his election in 2020.
Modi, who tries to avoid unscripted moments and has presided over a steady (...)
Advocates of “peace now” in Ukraine would do well to listen to what Ukrainian and Russian progressives have to say.
Henry Kissinger is arrogant. At 100 years old, he still represents all that is smug and imperious about U.S. foreign policy. Donald Trump and his fellow denizens of the far (...)
The White House has distanced itself from the US House speaker’s potential visit to Taiwan. But does it still signal a shift in policy over diplomatic ties with the island?
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the (...)
Biden’s Israel trip didn’t accomplish much, but it symbolized the increasingly passive US role in the region.
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DAZED AND DISORIENTED in his public appearances, President Joe Biden has often seemed to (...)
“I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” That simple statement, delivered to rousing effect by Barack Obama in his first State of the Union, in January 2010, managed to summarize the current American strategic horizon in a single sentence.
For decades, the United (...)
President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, with a short three hour stop off with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas sandwiched in between, began in Israel.
An article in the New York Times from Jerusalem said, “A year and a half after Donald J. Trump left the White House, (...)
To be scrupulously fair to Joe Biden: No one who may have expected that Biden’s presidency would represent a new direction in U.S. policies toward Palestine or the region’s dictatorships can claim they were deceived — any such hopes were only self-delusion.
Nothing in his record, his (...)
Joe Biden is set to make his first visit as president to the Middle East, during which he will meet the Saudi crown prince the US accuses of ordering the murder of a journalist.
Even before setting foot in the Middle East for his first visit to the region as president, Joe Biden felt (...)
America must be consistent. It cannot pick and choose when to follow international law.
Last December, as Russian forces encircled Ukraine, the Biden administration and its allies delivered a stark warning to Vladimir Putin : “Any use of force to change borders is strictly prohibited under (...)
In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.
We haven’t had an anti-war movement in the United States for so long it’s hard to remember what one looks (...)
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