The United States Senate on Tuesday evening voted down a joint resolution that would have blocked the proposed sale of $650 million worth of U.S. armaments to Saudi Arabia, weapons critics said will help exacerbate a war in Yemen that is driving one of the world's...
Durbin Introduces Amendment To End ‘Legacy of Cruelty’ by Closing Guantánamo
Recounting some of the "atrocities committed shamefully in the name of our nation" during the ongoing so-called War on Terror, Sen. Dick Durbin on Tuesday said he has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would close the U.S. military...
47 Groups Urge Congress To Avert ‘Human Rights Failure’ by Blocking Biden’s Saudi Arms Sale
Slamming the Saudi-led coalition's war crimes in Yemen – which are often perpetrated with U.S.-supplied weaponry – 47 advocacy groups on Monday published a joint letter to congressional lawmakers urging them to block the Biden administration's "wrongful"...
‘No Tech for Apartheid’: 40+ Groups Demand Amazon and Google Ditch Israeli Military
A day after hundreds of Amazon and Google workers condemned their employers for complicity in Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians, over 40 grassroots groups on Wednesday announced a campaign to amplify the efforts of activists around the world...
Twenty Years After 9/11, ‘The Only Way To Effectively Counter Terror Is To End War’
As the United States on Saturday commemorates the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with plenty of patriotic zeal but perhaps too little introspection, peace advocates have marked the occasion by reflecting on the costs and bloody consequences of the...
Israel Condemned for ‘Unambiguous War Crime’ After Destroying Gaza Apartment Tower
Israel's military faced war crime accusations Tuesday after carrying out an airstrike that completely destroyed a high-rise apartment building in densely populated Gaza City, prompting a massive barrage of retaliatory rocket fire as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Peace Activist Interrupts General Dynamics Shareholder Meeting To Blast the Business of War
Antiwar activism met corporate gaslighting Wednesday as General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic refused to acknowledge the deadly consequences of her firm's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other nations after CodePink cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted a company...
Israeli Man Trying To Take Over Palestinian Home Says ‘If I Don’t Steal It, Someone Else’ Will
In what Palestinian observers and advocates call a glaring example of settler colonialism in action, a video circulating on social media this week shows a Palestinian woman confronting an Israeli man who admits he is trying to steal her family's home in occupied East...
‘Is Our Blood Worth Less?’ Afghan Anguish After European Court Sides With Germany Over Airstrike That Killed 90 Civilians
Afghans and human rights advocates around the world expressed deep disappointment Tuesday after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Germany in a case brought by victims of a 2009 NATO airstrike that killed as many as 90 civilians.The New York Times...
Press Freedom Groups Urge Biden DOJ To Drop ‘Disastrous’ Charges Against Assange
A broad coalition of progressive organizations on Monday sent an open letter to the Justice Department urging it to undo a "grave threat to press freedom" by ending efforts to extradite jailed journalist Julian Assange from Britain to the U.S. and dropping the charges...
