This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of... Read More

Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory... Read More

This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in... Read More

The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in Africa, destructive wars in Asia and most recently, genocide in... Read More

In this latest episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer welcomes recurring guest Ray McGovern. McGovern, a former CIA analyst, reflects on his Cold War-era experience, contrasting past apolitical intelligence with today’s politicized and misleading assessments, particularly on Iraq, Ukraine, and Russia-China relations. The two also discuss U.S. foreign policy, including Trump and... Read More

umerous international and domestic leaders reacted to President Donald Trump’s announcement, made during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposing the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip. Along with this declaration, Trump suggests that the Palestinians affected by the conflict should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt. His intention to... Read More

This is the keynote talk I gave on Nov. 1 at the conference, The End of Empire, at University of Califonria Santa Barbara. The conference was organized by Professor Butch Ware, who is also the Green Party’s vice-presidential candidate. University administrators banned advance publicity about the talk on university social media accounts. Transcript Extermination works.... Read More

11 NOVEMBER—The notion of a distant ally serving as “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” seems to be nearly as old as aircraft carriers. It means a usefully located landmass, typically but not always an island, that cannot be scuttled and can serve as a forward base for the projection of force. Over the decades, various hegemonic... Read More

Well, Kamala Harris has had her fun with all those “progressive” voters, in and at the edge of the Democratic Party, who were much taken—or taken in, better put—as the vice president played the empathy card in her many statements of concern for the fate of the Palestinians of Gaza. Let us be clear, to... Read More

Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities. The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we have seen in Gaza. Attack in... Read More

Let us begin with some facts of the cold, hard kind concerning conditions in Gaza and the West Bank after nearly a year of terrorist Israel’s daily assaults on the Palestinian populations in both places. These statistics derive from a World Bank report issued this month, Impacts of the Conflict in the Middle East on... Read More

The latest chapter of Israel’s occupation of Palestine has raged on for nearly the last year, marking a significant shift in the decades-long clash that has already initiated the demystification of the mythology behind Israel. Truth continues to be the first casualty of war in this particular struggle, as it has been massacred, through the... Read More