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Just two days before instructing his United Nations ambassador to abstain and allow a Security Council ceasefire resolution to pass, President Joe Biden signed a budget package that permanently cut all funding for UNRWA—the organization responsible for distributing most food, water, and shelter ai...

    by c.j. atkins   just two days before instructing his united nations ambassador to abstain and allow a security council ceasefire resolution to pass, president joe biden signed a budget package that permanently cut a

The State Department has paused funding for UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in the October 7 attack. BY MICHAEL ARRIA  JANUARY 26, 2024 , https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/ The State Department paused additional funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after the Israeli governme...

The State Department has paused funding for UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in the October 7 attack.

Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar of the left-wing political and antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. “The whole idea of S.D.S. began with the idea of, ‘We need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,’” said Mr. Flacks, who helped write the group’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. “We knew we were right, and I don’t think we were arrogant about...

Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar of the left-wing political and anti-war group Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. “The whole idea of SDS began with the idea of, ‘We need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,’” said Flacks, who helped write the group’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. “We knew we were right, and I don’t...

The war in Vietnam ignited a protest movement that helped define a generation. Is the war between Israel and Hamas doing the same thing?

Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are living through genocide in real time, as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them. Your solidarity is vital. Israel's total bombardment of Gaza is directly funded by the U.S. government, with a blank check for $3.8 billion/year in U.S. military funding to Israel. Now, the U.S. is…

Not only has Israel lost the information war, but also Western media, no matter how hard they tried, could not silence pro-Palestinian voices.

Widespread backing for a ceasefire among the Democratic base is not represented among Democratic members of US Congress