Amnesty Report: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

Amnesty International concluded in a new report this week that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza:

The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity.

“Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International. 

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Dave DeCamp Video: Are We Headed Toward World War III?

Antiwar.com news editor Dave DeCamp appeared on  Crisis Magazine‘s podcast Crisis Point, hosted by Eric Sammons. Crisis is a Catholic publication founded in 1982 by leading Catholic intellectuals.

It was a fascinating interview about how Dave came to Antiwar.com and rediscovered his faith.

Tucker Carlson Interviews Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since 2021.   The Secretary of State is supposed to be America’s top diplomat.   Instead, Blinken has served as an advocate for war with Russia, refusing to engage diplomatically.

Throughout the Cold War, US diplomats continued to engage with their Soviet counterparts.    But Blinken has abandoned his main responsibilities during his tenure.

Journalist Tucker Carlson has engaged with President Putin and now with Foreign Minister Lavrov.    On Friday, Carlson interviewed Lavrov in Moscow.     Below is the interview.

Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear Weapons

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Is the U.S. military becoming a paper tiger whose sole remaining power move is a mighty nuclear roar? It’s a disturbing thought, given the extent to which U.S. military power is overstretched, recruiting shortfalls, and the usual waste, fraud, and abuse at the Pentagon, exacerbated by imperial megalomania.

Meanwhile, that same Pentagon still seeks a huge “investment” in new nukes. America surely needs to launch a “first strike” against the absurdity of spending $1.7 trillion (or more) on “modernizing” the nuclear triad. Aren’t you tired of Presidents and Congress diverting your hard-earned tax dollars from Main Street USA to MAD Street, as in mutually assured destruction via nuclear war?

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