Friends, I've been sitting on this blustery winter evening, thinking about what a harsh and messy year 2024 is going to be for US politics. If all that we who live in the belly of this Beast slouching toward Armageddon can do is send a message to the Dems that they can still be voted out of office -- then we had better send that message, but do it now, don't wait for November.    /*Because we are slouching toward Armageddon*/.     Here're a few developments of the past two weeks that are do ...Continue Reading

  "We had /no idea/ there were /people/ in that Strip," stammered the testosterone-drenched warrior state. "What're you, antisemitic or something?" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/19/israels-war-on-gaza-live-us-support-for-israel-ironclad-despite-rebuffUS official John Kirby says there is no evidence of “deliberate” Israeli war crimes after Mexico, Chile request investigation from International Criminal Court.[So they were all "accidental" war crimes, eh?] ...Continue Reading

This way, I say, this way to World War III.https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/18/israeli-military-chief-says-lebanon-war-likely-in-coming-months/*Israeli Military Chief Says Lebanon War Likely in Coming Months* Says Israel will apply lessons learned in Gaza offensive by Jason Ditz January 18, 2024 at 2:45 pmi ET Categories NewsVisiting troops near the northern border, head of Israel’s military, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, discussed the potential of war in Lebanon, saying the likelihood of a conflict in the coming months is “mu ...Continue Reading

The Stuxnet computer virus that suddenly appeared in Iran's computerized systems overseeing enrichment of uranium in 2010 was introduced into the system by a Dutch intel spy engineer working for a contractor at the Iranian site at Natanz.This revelation comes now, as Iran is heating up its rhetoric greatly about its willingness to intercede in the genocide. Note that it says in the article that the Iranians have enough enriched Uranium at 60% for three bombs and that the US double cross a couple months ago to not releas ...Continue Reading

Legal experts and analysts weigh in on the argument by Israel on "no dispute" which requires a dispute between SA and Israel over the question of genocide before they can file with the ICJ. If the judges side with Israel it would not only discredit the ICJ making international law a total farce but would give any country a way to avoid prosecution, just don't respond to an allegation by another country.South Africa may have given the World Court a way out of ruling that Israel is plausibly committing geno ...Continue Reading

Josh Ruebner reports on Twitter tonight:The Senate just voted 72-11 to kill @SenSanders resolution to have the State Department report Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians. Senators voting not to kill it: Butler, Heinrich, Hirono, Lujan, Markey, Merkley, Paul, Sanders, Van Hollen, Warren, Welch.On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition] <peacelist@PROTECTED> wrote:__  From: tjlodge50@PROTECTED I can't find the actual vote taken in the Senat ...Continue Reading

  I can't find the actual vote taken in the Senate but it'd be useful to know who voted for Bernie's measure. This forced the fascist-leaning Senators to go on record with their complete indifference to the mass murder of Palestinians.        Invoking an obscure provision in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Bernie tried to force a State Dept analysis of human rights violations by Israel. The Zionists hold enormous sway in Congress.Senate votes against Sanders resolution to forc ...Continue Reading

"But let me now give you one other statistic, which maybe could be helpful. If you look globally, worldwide, right now, there are about a hundred and twenty-nine thousand people who are in I.P.C. Phase 5, meaning a catastrophic type of hunger. A hundred and twenty-nine thousand. In Gaza, there are five hundred and seventy-seven thousand. If you add these two numbers together, you can say that you have about seven hundred thousand people in the world who are in I.P.C. Phase 5, of which five hundred and seventy-seve ...Continue Reading

Tim Messer-KruseSent from my iPadOn Jan 9, 2024, at 10:31 PM, Anne Marie Abowd anneabowd@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition] <peacelist@PROTECTED> wrote: From: anneabowd@PROTECTED This is sad news.  Well, now the U.N. should get more insistent. Someone has got to stop this bloodshed.  Maybe just the initiative of South Africa itself will get the point across.  Finklestein is awesome, but I read somewhere he has sort of given up hope and isn’t as active anymore. I rmember his powerful ...Continue Reading

 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *January 10, 2024Susan Kuehn, ConvenorNorthwest Ohio Peace Coalitionsmkuehn@PROTECTED *NORTHWEST OHIO PEACE COALITION, AMERICAN MUSLIMS**FOR PALESTINE-TOLEDO CHAPTER, VETERANS FOR PEACE SAY **‘FROM GUANTANAMO TO PALESTINE: SHUT DOWN**UNJUST IMPRISONMENT’* On Thursday, January 11, the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition, American Muslims for Palestine, and Veterans for Peace will mark the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with a vigil and mar ...Continue Reading