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Jan 17, 2025 | 
antiwar.com | Brett Wilkins
New reporting published Wednesday details the impotence and insincerity of President Joe Biden’s “multiple threats, warnings, and admonishments” to Israel as it annihilated the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians while receiving tens of billions of dollars in U.S. arms and unwavering diplomatic support. Writing for ProPublica, Brett Murphy showed how multiple “red lines” issued by Biden administration officials were ignored by Israel with impunity.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
indybay.org | Brett Wilkins
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝟒𝟓 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐆𝐎𝐏 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐂 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 '𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜' "𝑨𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝑪𝑪," 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
indybay.org | Brett Wilkins
As the people of Gaza suffer hell on Earth, Israeli soldiers committing what the world increasingly recognizes as a genocide against them can now kick back and relax at a beachfront resort in the embattled strip and enjoy treated water from a desalination plant while Palestinians die from lack of water, food, and other necessities.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
indybay.org | Brett Wilkins
The United Nations human rights office noted the "unprecedented levels of killings, death, injury, starvation, illness, disease, displacement, detention, and destruction" wrought by Israel's 13-month onslaught. Nearly 7 in 10 people killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during an earlier six-month period of the ongoing assault on the Palestinian enclave were women and children, the United Nations human rights office said Friday.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thehansindia.com | Brett Wilkins
The world’s nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a “catastrophic” rise in global average temperatures, a key United Nations climate report published last week warned.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
antiwar.com | Brett Wilkins
Israel’s intensified bombardment of northern Gaza – which according to Palestinian officials has killed or wounded more than 1,700 people since early October – has forced a halt to the third phase of a polio vaccination campaign scheduled to begin Wednesday.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
indybay.org | Brett Wilkins
"History books will be written on this and countries will have to reckon-media agencies will have to reckon-with their major role in the genocide," said Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan. Human rights advocates on Friday highlighted a rare instance in which a U.S. corporate media outlet allowed a pro-Palestinian voice to set the record straight about Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Brett Wilkins
Above photo: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2023. Khamenei.ir, Wikimedia Commons. The Iranian supreme leader told a gathering in Tehran that the region will enjoy peaceful coexistence only after the U.S. and Europe leave. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the United States and some European nations are responsible for the turmoil in the Middle East, and that the people of the region will enjoy peaceful coexistence only after the interlopers leave.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Rima Najjar |Brett Wilkins |Bharat Dogra
Northern Israel is on fire. Hezbollah rockets fired from Southern Lebanon have been a constant reminder that a war-situation is here to stay and likely to develop. Under Hezbollah's rocket fire, Israelis in the north who haven't been evacuated from their homes, spent the night in fear, facing the constant threat to their homes and lives.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Marwan Asmar |Brett Wilkins |Norman Solomon
Unprecedented increase in attack-related deaths of aid workers in Gaza raise questions whether even they are being targeted. There has been an unprecedented increase in the attacks on humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. According to the Aid Worker Security Data Base, during the roughly 11 months since the October 7 attack, over 75% of the humanitarian aid workers killed all over the world have been from Gaza and West Bank.
