The time to transfer funding away from hardware and to counseling training is now. 



By John Kiriakou
Special to Consortium News
With Zoran Mamdani poised to win the New York mayor’s race, the red herring of “defunding the police” is rearing its head…

We must allow for the possibility of success of Trump's 20-point peace plan in Gaza, of course. But at writing I simply cannot see it.



By Patrick Lawrence
The Floutist



As I read of the ceasefire Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza formally…

There’s not a lot to feel optimistic about here. If the killing does stop on a lasting basis, it will be a pleasant surprise.




By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article
Israel continued to hammer Gaza with…

It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.
By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report




This interview is also available on podcast platforms…

Governments of the world have the collective power to end this genocide and the brutal, illegal occupation of Palestine, writes Nicolas J. S. Davies.




By Nicolas J. S. Davies
Common Dreams
As President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point…

After its failed attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the U.S. is trying to extradite another Australian on the grounds that he trained Chinese pilots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6kvWIJkIo8
Guest: Saffrine Duggan. Interviewers:…

Israel-U.S. relationship examined: Ex-C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou, former U.S. Green Party V.P. candidate Ajamu Baraka and CN Editor Joe Lauria joined host Danny Haiphong on his webcast Sunday.
The Israel-US Relationship Under the Microscope

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While Trump is declaring "war over" in Gaza, top Israeli officials are directly contradicting him with statements about resuming the onslaught.



By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article.
Israel’s top officials…

What is going around now is another cover up, another denial of what a lot of people on both sides call “the second Nakba,” the sin atop the original sin.




By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

Headline in the Sunday editions of The New…

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war as the history of Israel's "peace agreements" shows.




By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost 








There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating…

UPDATE: Israel is leaning towards resuming violence as Hamas says it can't locate or extract all of the hostages' dead bodies, writes Joe Lauria. 




Update: Israel is contemplating restarting the killing after Hamas said on Wednesday it could not return…

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.




By Mark Curtis
Declassified UK
British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour…

Here is the U.S. president on Monday in the Israeli parliament, once again openly admitting the influence that billionaire Zionists have on him, writes Caitlin Johnstone.



By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
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The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights documents crackdown on Palestinian solidarity movement in France, Germany, the U.K. and U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023.



By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams
“From Paris to Washington, Berlin to London…

Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel.



By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the U.K. Education…

Hamas is urging international mediators to help enforce the ceasefire agreement, warning that Israel’s continued violations risked blowing up the tenuous truce.




By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Israeli occupation forces have killed numerous Palestinian…

We know from Lebanon that in Gaza, the Israelis will break any agreement and the American “guarantors” will support their continued violence as “counter-terrorism.”



By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal…