John Rachel

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Marjorie Cohn |Phil Pasquini |Kathy Kelly |John Rachel

Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7. “We have gone through all the channels open to us in our effort to stop U.S. officials from using our tax dollars to fund genocide.

4 weeks ago | countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Karen Greenberg |John Rachel |Bharat Dogra

This July the US Postal Service (USPS) will celebrate its 250th anniversary making it older than the country. Once again it is facing a call for privatization, this time from President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE. Love it or hate it, the USPS has become a regular part of Americans’ everyday lives six days a week making its daily rounds delivering wanted and unwanted mail to practically every person in the country.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel

The Hague (Quds News Network)- Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) has submitted a historic referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging an investigation into former US President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The group filed the ICC referral against them over complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Three newborns died in Gaza due to extreme cold as Israel continues to ban entry of mobile homes and tents. Dr. Saeed Salah, medical director of the Patients’ Friends Benevolent Society Hospital, said three other infants remain in critical condition. “In the past two weeks, we admitted eight newborns suffering from severe cold injuries,” Salah said. “Three of them died within hours of arrival. They were only a day or two old, weighing between 1.7 kg and 2 kg.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel

Occupied Palestinian Territory – As part of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Israeli army targeted the Juha family’s home without warning or military necessity. The attack resulted in a massacre that killed approximately 90 civilians – including 71 women and children – and injured dozens more.