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The Gaza Flotillas Will Not Stop
While Palestinians are exhausted from the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing and the coordinators and volunteers of the Gaza Flotillas are tired, they like the Palestinians, will never give up challenging the immoral, criminal actions of the Israeli state. In the past two years a remarkable number of persons have confronted the Israeli military at sea. Over 1,000 persons on hundreds of boats have risked their lives by direct confrontation with the Israeli genocidal military.
Rape, Assault, Abuse
Gaza flotilla participants, both men and women, young and old, endured an endless succession of criminal actions by Israeli state security officials. It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi’ot prison.
Solidarity with Gaza Flotilla Needed NOW!
The U.S. Boats to Gaza, one of the 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (FFC) urgently requests solidarity and action to help safeguard the current flotilla mission enroute Gaza. There are 25 U.S. citizens among the over 500 participants from 45 countries on the 2026 flotilla to Gaza.
I Resigned In Opposition To The US War On Iraq 23 Years Ago
Above photo: Ann Wright, a retired U.S. army colonel, speaks during a press conference held by retired U.S. army veterans and activists in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2024. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images. Now 23 Years Later a U.S.-Israeli War on Iran. And sadly, several U.S. military operations in between. Twenty-three years ago on March 19, 2003, Iresigned from the U.S. Department of Statein opposition to Bush Jr’s administration’s decision to attack and invade Iraq.
Organizing for the Protection of the Community: New Minnesota Nice is F**k ICE!
From the audience in a recent Minneapolis hockey game to whenever Minneapolis residents meet on a street corner. Minnesota “Nice” has turned into “F**k ICE.” From the audience in a recent Minneapolis hockey game to whenever Minneapolis residents meet on a street corner.
Minneapolis: Organizing For The Protection Of The Community
By Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wrecking on the community.
Visit Cuba Now
Despite Marco Rubio’s warnings, This is the time to go to Cuba in solidarity against the latest U.S. aggressions. I came back from Cuba over last weekend. I had not been in Cuba since a year ago. Despite the warnings from the U.S. State Department and Marco Rubio, now is the time for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba in solidarity with the Cuban people against the latest U.S. aggressions in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Give Shovels, Not Bullets, to the National Guard to “Protect” Washington, DC Residents
Have you thought to ask if the National Guard could buy some shovels for you to help protect citizens from injury? “Yes, but no one has.” I’ve been in Washington, DC for the past week battling the icy and snow piled sidewalks and streets, one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days.
Guantánamo at 24 Years: 15 Men Still Imprisoned Without Justice as Vigils Span the Globe
24 years after 9/11, 15 Are Still Imprisoned in the U.S. Military Prison at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Venezuela Reversal: From Anti-Regime Change to Enforcer of U.S. Power
Once a vocal critic of U.S. intervention abroad, Tulsi Gabbard now sits at the center of a Trump administration accused of doing exactly what she warned against. Seven years ago, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote in 2019 on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.
Increasing Flotilla Sailings to Gaza
The 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, International Campaign to Break the Siege, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, United States) met in Dublin, Ireland December 5-7, 2025 to plan for many more vessels to sail to challenge the illegal Israel naval blockade and the genocide of Gaza.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition Joins Increase Of 2026 Sailings To Gaza
6 days ago The ongoing genocide in Gaza has become a litmus test of institutional integrity. When a university denies the reality of Israel’s brutality, it reveals complicity with the genocidal regime’s actions. To then misrepresent campus dissent over institutional investment in the Zionist entity as illegitimate — or even “antisemitic” — makes it clear that that these institutions are invested in the existence of Israeli apartheid and genocide.
Global Sumud Flotilla Boats Attacked by Israeli Drones in Waters off Greek Island of Crete
As the Israeli government continues unabated its horrific genocide of Palestinians and the destruction of housing and infrastructure in Gaza, in the third attack on the 42-ship Global Sumud flotilla, drones attacked multiple boats in international waters south-west of the Greek island of Crete, this morning September 24, 2025. In May 2025, another flotilla ship, the Conscience, was attacked in international waters off Malta.
Tone deaf Threats of Treatment Fall on Deaf Ears
Threats of treatment from one of the architects of this genocide will not deter those who are fed up with Israeli murder of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza. Threats of treatment from one of the architects of this genocide will not deter those who are fed up with Israeli murder of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza.
Those Who Press the Nuclear Button Should Have to Live with the Consequences
Those who fire the nuclear weapons should have to suffer the resulting fires, destruction and deaths. No one will be immune from the horrors of nuclear bombs. Those who fire the nuclear weapons should have to suffer the resulting fires, destruction and deaths. No one will be immune from the horrors of nuclear bombs.
Why Has the U.S. Abandoned Its Citizens in an Israeli Prison?
Three Americans from Gaza Freedom Flotilla Held Without U.S. Embassy Visit Amid Reports of Abuse, Hunger Strikes, and Inhumane Conditions Why Has the U.S. Abandoned Its Citizens in Israeli Prison?
US Embassy-Israel Consular Officials Have NOT Visited US Citizens From Gaza Flotilla
US Citizens Who Were On Board The Handala Have Been in Israeli Prison For Four Days. Harsh and Degrading Conditions in Israeli Prison. As a former US diplomat charged with the protection of US citizens outside the U.S., I am appalled that no officials from the US Embassy in Israel have made visits to Givon prison in Israel to check on the welfare of the seven US citizens from the Gaza flotilla ship Handala who have been imprisoned for over four days.
Israeli Navy Seizes Second Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla Vessel in 2 Months
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Olivia Rosane / Common Dreams The Israeli military intercepted and seized the Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel The Handala late Saturday night local time as it attempted to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.
As Israel Attacked Iran, a Multi-National Effort to Bring the Last Three Madleen Sailors Out of Israeli Prison
Delayed by the Israeli Attack on Iran, the Last of the 12 Madleen Volunteers Are Out of Israeli Prison and Going Home As Israel began its unprovoked attack on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons. Marc van Rennes, Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian retaliation to target the airport.
For Trump’s Birthday Military Parade, Veterans Organizations Demand “Military Off Our Streets”
Having served 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves and retiring as a Colonel, I am ashamed that the 250th birthday of the institution I was in for almost three decades has been politicized by President Donald Trump for his birthday celebration. The idea of a big military parade was quashed by military leadership in Trump’s first term.
Israeli Commandos Intercept Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat Madleen
Its 12 unarmed crew and participants were out onto an Israeli military ship. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° East The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated, as well as personal possessions taken.
Gaza Flotilla Sailboat with 12 Onboard Will Reach the “Danger Zone”
The Next 48-140 Hours Critical in Citizens Worldwide Demand that the Israeli Genocide of Gaza Must End Within 48 hours, the Israeli military will have killed hundreds more Palestinians in Gaza who are being starved to death, many killed this week as they were enticed by food into killing zones. Within 48 hours, more Palestinian children will die from US bombs dropped from Israeli drones and jets.
Gaza Flotilla Ship Madleen Begins its Voyage to Gaz
The ship is a symbol of the unyielding spirit of Palestinian resilience and the growing global resistance to Israel's use of collective punishment and deliberate starvation policies. The Gaza Flotilla sailboat Madleen set off from Catania, Sicily, Italy on June 1, 2025 for a 7-day voyage to Gaza to break the 40-year illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and now to stop the 600 day genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
How Violent Will They Be When the Flotilla Sails Again for Gaza
15 Years Ago I was on a Gaza Flotilla Mission That Ended in the Deaths of 10 and Wounding of 50 by Israeli Commandos Fifteen years ago, in May 2010, I was one of approximately 700 persons that sailed on 7 unarmed civilian ships to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and bring needed food, medicines and materials to Palestinians in Gaza who were suffering under the brutal, inhumane policies enacted by the Israeli government, which included a naval, land and air blockade of Gaza.
This House Regrets Western Intervention in the Middle East
Western interference — or more accurately, wars — in the Middle East has shown that military action to resolve political issues unleashes chaos, war crimes, and devastation for innocent citizens. I gave the following speech as a part of the Cambridge University Debates on May 15, 2025. The motion of today’s debate, “This House Regrets Western Intervention in the Middle East,” is very timely considering the events of the past months and years.
Holding Weapons Industry Responsible for War Crimes
On May 8, 2025, I was honored to speak at the Oxford Union Debates on the topic: “This House Would Hold The Arms Industry Responsible for War Crimes.” My partner speaking in favor of the motion was Katie Gallagher, an excellent attorney with the remarkable Center for Constitutional Rights. The following is my presentation at the Oxford Union debates.
After Freedom from U.S. Nuclear Weapons for 18 Years
U.K. Activists Are Challenging the Return of U.S. Nuclear Weapons with a Two-Week Encampment at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath In anticipation of U.S. nuclear weapons returning to U.K. soil after their removal 18 years ago, activists from around the world are gathering at the Lakenheath Peace Camp from April 14-25, 2025 with a 24 hour a day, 7 days a week vigil at the main entrance of RAF Lakenheath.
Analysing The Philosophy Of Pacifism Of John Ruskin And Leo Tolstoy And Its Significance In Today's World| Countercurrents
Introduction Pacifism as a concept emerged during the 19th century. It is the philosophy of renunciation of war and the complete opposition to it under all conditions. We must try to understand the backdrop to the emergence of such a philosophy and why it emerged only during the 19th century. It evolved through the writings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy.
Bibi the Exterminator Back Begging for More Bombs
No doubt, Trump issued his sudden invitation to Netanyahu as a morale booster to the war criminal facing International Criminal Court arrest warrants abroad and court proceedings on corruption charges when he returns to Israel.
Slandering CODEPINK
Senator Cotton’s untruthful statements in a US Congressional hearing aired around the world can have immediate and dangerous consequences for those he lies about Today, in the US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the US government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.
From Resignation to Resistance
I Resigned 22 Years Ago From the US Government over the Bush War on Iraq …And Wish I Had More Resignations to Give! 22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the 10-year U.S. war on Iraq, March 19, 2003.
Trump Gives the World the Middle Finger
On a motorized float designed and built several weeks into the Trump administration for the Rose Monday celebration before Lent in Cologne or Koln, Germany, the likeness of U.S. President Donald Trump vividly illustrates what is becoming more of his view toward the world and toward citizens of the United States. Trump Giving the Middle Finger to the World On the float, Trump has the world perched on his middle finger, a derogatory symbol known worldwide.
Trump Gives the World the Middle Finger
On one small float in Germany as a part of the celebration of the Easter season, the worldwide effects of Trump and his administration are portrayed with stunning accuracy. On a motorized float designed and built several weeks into the Trump administration for the Rose Monday celebration before Lent in Cologne (Koln), Germany, the likeness of President Trump vividly illustrates what is becoming more of his view toward the world and toward citizens of the United States.
Influential Saudi Arabia leader Tells Trump to Pound Sand on Gaza Relocation
If Palestinians in Gaza are moved, “they should be allowed to return to their homes and to their orange and olive groves in Haifa, Jaffa and other towns and villages from which they fled or were forcibly driven out by the Israelis.” In an opinion piece on February 3, 2025, influential Prince Turki Al Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to Washington and London and director-general of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency gives President Trump a history lesson about the Palestinian struggle and...
Musk’s DOGE “Proud Boys” Blitzkrieg Threatens All American
The billionaire oligarch and his henchmen are wreaking havoc in government offices with sensitive personal data of all U.S. citizens.
Remembering the Holocaust, Ignoring the Genocide
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025, the U.S. government remembrance is without one word about the ongoing Israeli and U.S. Genocide of Gaza On January 24, 2025, the Veterans Administration of the Pacific region sent out a notice to all veterans registered in the Pacific region to not forget Holocaust Remembrance Day. Not surprisingly, the email did not say one word about the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, nor U.S. complicity in that genocide.
Three Reasons to Oppose Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Why I will protest the nomination of Fox News commentator and Trump’s Buddy Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense On January 14 at 9:30 a.m., the Fox News commentator and Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth is scheduled to be questioned by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in a confirmation hearing on President-elect Trump’s nomination for him to be Secretary of Defense.
Women In The Biden Administration Complicit In Israeli Genocide Of Gaza
Above photo: Linda Thomas Greefield cooking Thanksgiving Turkey. As we in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving dinners, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza and U.S. complicity in that genocide are facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes and drones and rain and cold from the winter storms. Here in the U.S. families are enjoying meals prepared by mothers and wives.
Prisoner Abuses and Female Participation: From Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib
As a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel with 13 years on active duty and 16 in the Reserves, I became interested in the topic of women involved in prisoner abuses when so many U.S. women at all levels were linked to the prisons or prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Iraq.
Pro-Palestinian Non-Profit Killer Bill Up for Another Vote This Week
The legislation would take away the tax-exempt status from nonprofit organizations by designating them as “terrorist supporting organizations.“ While the first version of H.R. 9495 targeting pro-Palestinian nonprofits was defeated in the US House of Representatives on November 12, with 256 voting in favor of the bill and 145 opposed, this week the bill will be brought back under a procedural ploy in which only a simple majority is needed to pass the bill instead of the two-thirds majority...
UN Expert Accuses Israel Of “deliberate Starvation” As A Means Of Exterminating The Palestinians| Countercurrents
Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has published a report accusing Israel of carrying out the “deliberate starvation” of the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of exterminating them and annexing their land. “Israel has engaged in an intentional starvation campaign against the Palestinian people, which evidences genocide and extermination,” Fakhri said in his report. Why is this happening? This about land. In 2023, Isr.
Israel's Murderous Colonial Drive | Countercurrents
In 2023, Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New York wrote, and very sharply, that “{the reason Zionists have the full support of European and US leaders is because the genocidal drive to ‘exterminate all the brutes’ is embedded deep in their psyches.” As millions of Palestinians trapped in Gaza were facing starvation and mass murder, Israel’s invading army made sure to film themselves enjoying...
Israel Lobbies US Congress To Pressure South Africa To Drop ICJ Genocide Case| Countercurrents
Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to a report published Monday.
Israel And US Already Know Who Assassinated Aysenur Eygi| Countercurrents
As someone who spent 29 years in the U.S. Army, I know the Israeli military knows the names of all of its snipers, just as the U.S. military knows the names of those who have been trained as U.S. snipers and who killed Afghans and Iraqis in the past decades. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi’s killing by Israel military forces.
Who Killed Aysengur Eygi?
The Israeli and U.S. Governments Know the Name of the Israeli Soldier Who Assassinated Peace Activist Aysengur Photo of Aysengur Eygi at graduation from the University of Washington U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi’s killing by Israel military forces. Blinken doesn’t need time to “gather the facts.” The facts are already known to the Israeli military, the U.S. military and the U.S. government.
Millions Spent on Netanyahu’s Trip to Washington, DC
Security for war criminal Netanyahu was more extensive than what was provided for 32 heads of state for the recent NATO anniversary in D.C. Unbelievably, the U.S. Congress invited the war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress on July 24, thereby solidifying the complicity of the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government in the genocide of Gaza.
Mother Nature Says Adios to the Rube Goldberg US Military Pier in Gaza
Sea delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid will be transferred to the Israeli port of Ashdod to never be delivered in Gaza Sea delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid will be transferred to the Israeli port of Ashdod to never be delivered in GazaWell, I told you so.
NATO/US Complicity in Israel's Relentless Genocide of Gaza
Biden says U.S. should not have “Killing Fields,” while he is complicit in the Israeli “Killing Fields” in Gaza.
Is NATO Taking Over the Pacific?
As the United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with countries in the Asia-Pacific, the world’s largest naval war exercises are going to be held in the mid-Pacific from June 26 to August 2, 2024-and NATO is in the middle of it.
Mother Nature Mocks US Military’s $320 Million Pier in Gaza
Despite the warnings from Mother Nature about the frailty of the military pier system, the Biden administration intends to have the pier repaired and re-anchored to the Gaza coast. Well, I told you so. Mother Nature did to the U.S. military’s $320 million Rube Goldberg pier exactly what I and others predicted.
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