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As Israeli forces stand accused of war crimes during attacks on multiple Gaza hospitals in recent days, Francesca Albanese – the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories – on Monday implored the global medical community to respond by cutting ties with Israel.

“I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel's full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide.#FreeDrHussanAbuSafiya https://t.co/qzZ7CqufI6

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) December 30, 2024

Albanese amplified a post by Dr. Rupa Marya – one of the most vocal defenders of Palestinian human rights in the U.S. medical community – calling on Israeli forces to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.

Continue reading “UN Expert Urges Medical World to Cut Ties With Israel Amid Attacks on Gaza Hospitals”

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When the world lives in anticipation of whether Trump’s second term brings promised peace and reduces the risk of nuclear WWIII, the war party is pushing its agenda. The magazine Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the influential Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), warns about the heavy price of American retreat from the world stage and explains why Washington must reject isolationism and embrace primacy.  In the article, signed by the outgoing Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell, there is plenty of criticism of his congressional opponents who insist that there be parity between increases in defense and those in nondefense discretionary spending.

McConnell or whoever wrote this article for him calls them isolationists who “unwittingly peddle the fiction that military superiority is cost-prohibitive or even provocative.” In the Senator’s inflated brain, “the United States’ security and prosperity are rooted in military primacy. Preserving that decisive superiority is costly, but neglecting it comes with far steeper costs.”

Continue reading “Edward Lozansky on Anticipating January 20”

On COI #735, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and the Middle East.

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In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested with a long time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to a Raytheon Corp. facility.  We both requested jury trials and the dates were set for mid-December and early January. Prosecutors dropped the charges in each case and the trials did not happen.

For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county.

That same approach can be used for any city or county in the U.S. Simply find your population and area, then do the math based on Gaza’s population and area. The genocide statistics were published by Al Jazeera for its summary report on one year of Israel’s U.S.-funded genocide.

Continue reading “Bringing Gaza Home”