By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Helmi Hirez has much to offer the world. The world owes him a permanent ceasefire, an end to the weapons flow to the Israeli military and to the occupation that has dominated his young life.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Biden and his enablers have the power to end Israel’s war on Gaza and the slaughter of civilians there. Their decision not to is criminal.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Biden and his inner circle are increasingly isolated in their unflinching support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Unlike Palestinians in Gaza, though, Biden has a way out: Permanent ceasefire, now.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession and forced displacement Palestinians suffered in the years up to and including 1948.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them?

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “What starts here changes the world,” is quickly becoming, for thousands of students across the country, a call to action, demanding peace in Gaza.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, USC decided to abandon one its most prominent young women students, its 2024 valedictorian Asna Tabassum, buckling under a wave of neo-McCarthyism sweeping campuses nationwide.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan 1864 was a pivotal year in U.S. history, as the tide shifted in the civil war, leading to Union victory and the abolition of slavery the following year. Yes, the nation made faltering progress then, but it was by no means “great.” For true greatness, we can only look to the future.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Immigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Rachel Corrie died on March 16th, 2003. She went to Gaza to commit her idealism to action, in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. What she saw transformed her.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan US intervention in Haiti, Honduras and other countries is one of the principal drivers of people seeking asylum in the United States, as they flee violence, poverty and persecution at home.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan While the US has been airdropping food, it has also been delivering bombs to Israel to be dropped on Gaza as well.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Targeting hospitals, as Israel is doing in Gaza with US complicity, is a war crime.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The US should listen to the concerns of Australia, its ally–and drop the case.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If Biden wants to stop hemorrhaging electoral support, all he needs to do is stop the hemorrhaging of actual Palestinian blood in Gaza, stop arming Israel, and demand an immediate ceasefire.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Demands for an immediate ceasefire are growing, and, despite promises of indefinite war from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States, as Israel’s principal weapons provider, could shut down the bombardment with one phone call.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Grotesque abuses of state power as in Oklahoma and Alabama are what led the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Henry Blackmun to conclude, in a dissenting opinion in a 1994 case, “the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake.”

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If President Biden demanded an end to the bombardment of Gaza, it would stop. Now is the time to heed the global calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Boeing needs to be prosecuted, to show without a doubt that corporate crime doesn’t pay.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Bishop William Barber is taking a stand, after being denied a place to sit down. It happened on the day after Christmas.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan From Israeli refuseniks and Jewish protesters to courageous Christian pastors and congregations, to interfaith coalitions in the US and beyond, all joining in solidarity with Muslims around the world, the chorus demanding a ceasefire is growing. As the Christmas season transitions into the New Year–an election year in the US – the question is, will the leaders follow?

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 8,000 of them children. This “indiscriminate bombing,” as President Biden called it, has to stop now. Biden has the power to end it, with a simple Christmas phone call to Netanyahu.