On the Situation in Gaza: A Statement by Radical Elders

` (Issued Nov. 2, 2023)  Radical Elders adds our voice to the worldwide outcry for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli government’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The insanity of our imperialist, racial capitalist world continues to explode. We add our voice to the world’s outrage at this most recent eruption, in one of …

Where’s the US Peace Movement and US public outrage?

Israel is Committing an Epic War Crime with US Backing and US Arms

When the US was bombing levees and hospitals in North Vietnam and peasants in their rice paddies in Laos and burning villages in South Vietnam, herding those not killed in the process into “strategic hamlets,” Americans took to the streets en masse, occupied the Pentagon mall, brought central Washington DC to a standstill, and broke …

“No food, no water, no electricity”

Israel’s War Crime: Collective Punishment of Two Million in Gaza for Hamas Atrocities in Israel Incursion

Yesterday,  here in Philadelphia, I watched as a large grey four-engine jet with the distinctive fat squarish-looking fuselage of a military C-17 lumbered eastward far overhead, almost certainly one of the earliest of many such massive cargo planes bound for Israel loaded with heavy ammunition, bombs and who knows what other horrors designed by the …

What isn’t being asked:

Why Were Files Trump Illegally Took Kept Secret from the American People in the First Place?

The stolen and lied-about documents that Trump stands indicted for trying to hide from federal investigators, such as information about the American nuclear weapons stockpile, its assessment of other nuclear nations’ nuclear arsenals and vulnerabilities, plans to attack Iran, and embarrassing assessments of foreign leaders, have pundits and politicians in appropriate high dudgeon. But no …

US/UK Seek to Silence Julian Assange and Free Press:

After 4 Years in Isolation, Action Causes Light to Pierce Through for Assange as Australia Says: ‘Enough!’

By Dave Lindorff and Ron Ridenour (published in Counterpunch) On April 4, in what could be a major positive development in the 11-year entrapment and four-year solitary confinement by Britain of Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, he was visited for the first time in the hell-hole of Belmarsh Prison by the Australian Labour Party-led government’s …

Russia isn't the only or the worst war criminal:

Why Hasn’t the US Been Kicked off the UN Human Rights Council?

  The United Nations General Assembly voted 93-24 with 58 abstentions to drop the Russian Federation from membership on the UN Human Rights Council, based on allegations and grisly videos and photos appearing to show execution-style slayings of civilians in Ukraine by Russian troops. While there are calls for independent investigations into those allegations, the …