Stocks rise for Israeli drone-maker as Gaza slaughter continues
As Israel ruthlessly destroys the besieged Gaza Strip, its largest developer of military technology, Elbit Systems, is benefitting from the bloodshed. US-traded shares of Elbit have climbed 6.1 percent...
View ArticleIsraeli army uses Gaza children as human shields
Since the assault on Gaza began, Israeli leaders and their supporters have repeatedly accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an attempt to absolve Israel of responsibility for...
View ArticleIsrael-trained police “occupy” Missouri after killing of black youth
Since the killing of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police in Missouri last weekend, the people of Ferguson have been subjected to a military-style crackdown by a squadron of local police...
View ArticleIsraeli officer admits ordering lethal strike on own soldier during Gaza...
The civilian population in Gaza is “a partner of terror” that “gets what they choose,” the top commander of the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade told the Israeli press recently, after orchestrating some...
View ArticleIsraeli drone conference features weapons used to kill Gaza’s children
Less than one month after killing more than 2,100 Palestinians in Gaza, including over 500 children, Israel is hosting its annual drone conference. Organized in partnership with the US embassy in Tel...
View ArticlePodcast: As Congress Buys Into More War, CODEPINK Becomes the Conscience of...
On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure Kevin Gozstola and I speak with retired Army colonel and former US diplomat Ann Wright of CODEPINK Women for Peace about the group’s protests against...
View ArticleRaw Cell Phone Footage of West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Explosion
I will warn you that this video is disturbing. A man not to far away from the initial fire at the plant is sitting in his car recording when suddenly he’s knocked over by the sheer force of a...
View ArticleCollectively Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Arabs, Muslims Face Revenge...
Ahmad Almujahed, Heba Almujahed and baby Shaam Abolaban during a family trip to the Boston Aquarium earlier this month. (Malden Patch/ Chris Caesar) The word “terrorism” is synonymous with “Middle...
View ArticleAt Least 9 Toddlers Were Involved In Accidental Shootings In April
A 5-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister yesterday afternoon with a .22-caliber rifle he received as a gift last year. Their mother, who was home at the time, told police...
View Article40% Of White Americans Have Zero Non-White Friends
The cast from the HBO series “Girls” (Chad Batka/The New York Times), representing four out of 10 white Americans who clearly have no non-white friends. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals...
View ArticlePolice Fatally Shoot Man In Front Of Wife And Daughters
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young...
View ArticleUnarmed Pittsburgh Teen Faces 20 Years In Prison After Being Paralyzed By Police
Leon Ford Jr. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) Leon Ford Jr. was unarmed when pulled over by Pittsburgh police on the night of November 11, 2012. The Root explains what followed: Almost everything that...
View ArticlePodcast: British Citizens Are Being Stripped Of Citizenship, Then Killed In...
This week marks our 10th episode of Unauthorized Disclosure. To celebrate, Kevin Gosztola and I spoke with independent journalist Aviva Stahl about her killer piece at The Nation on how the UK is...
View ArticleIsrael firing experimental weapons at Gaza’s civilians, say doctors
Doctors treating patients in Gaza have accused Israel of using experimental weapons on Palestinian civilians. Addressing reporters at a press conference on Sunday, Youssef Abul Resh, undersecretary of...
View ArticleMerciless Israeli mobs are hunting Palestinians
All eyes are on Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s merciless bombing campaign has topped 1,000. But back in Jerusalem, where sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair was burned alive by Jewish...
View ArticleStocks rise for Israeli drone-maker as Gaza slaughter continues
As Israel ruthlessly destroys the besieged Gaza Strip, its largest developer of military technology, Elbit Systems, is benefitting from the bloodshed. US-traded shares of Elbit have climbed 6.1 percent...
View ArticleRaw Cell Phone Footage of West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Explosion
I will warn you that this video is disturbing. A man not to far away from the initial fire at the plant is sitting in his car recording when suddenly he’s knocked over by the sheer force of a...
View ArticleCollectively Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Arabs, Muslims Face Revenge...
Ahmad Almujahed, Heba Almujahed and baby Shaam Abolaban during a family trip to the Boston Aquarium earlier this month. (Malden Patch/ Chris Caesar) The word “terrorism” is synonymous with “Middle...
View ArticleAt Least 9 Toddlers Were Involved In Accidental Shootings In April
A 5-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister yesterday afternoon with a .22-caliber rifle he received as a gift last year. Their mother, who was home at the time, told police...
View Article40% Of White Americans Have Zero Non-White Friends
The cast from the HBO series “Girls” (Chad Batka/The New York Times), representing four out of 10 white Americans who clearly have no non-white friends. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals...
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