Civic Self-Respect is out today from @7StoriesPress. Tune into this week's Ralph Nader Radio Hour where we will be discussing the book and much more.

Musk (@elonmusk) started Tesla with a huge U.S. government welfare grant. He has taken taxpayers to the cleaners for his factories and for Starlink. He is a gigantic corporate welfare king masquerading as a capitalist businessman. -R

Hillary Clinton, the butcher of Libya and neighbors, backer of the criminal Iraq war-slaughter, and lucrative toady of Wall Street, now blasts Bernie Sanders, who opposed all the above, and campaigned for her in 2016, before she gave America Trump. Disgraceful! -R

The plunge in the stock market based on Trump’s announcement of 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada was suddenly reversed when he paused for a month. The market then surged back. This is the first of many vast insider trading opportunities for the Trumpsters who get advance notice about how Trump’s impulsive actions are going to be announced.

Given Netanyahu's deliberate destruction of a number of large apartment buildings in Beirut with U.S. made bunker busting bombs that caused hundreds of civilian casualties, it's important to recall these two points of history:

Stage 2 of Israel’s genocidal war is emerging. Mass graves are being discovered. Torture of abducted Palestinian hostages thrown in Israeli prisons and reports of selected human organ extractions from fresh Palestinian corpses in Gaza. Intelligent agencies report all this in their morning briefings to President Biden. Still he sticks to his master, Netanyahu, and makes the American taxpayer pay $14 billion more for Netanyahu’s slaughter of Palestinian children, women and male civilians.

Hamas abducted 240 or so hostages on October 7th. Since then, Israel has kidnapped over 8000 Palestinians and sent them, without charges, to a concentration prison in the Negev desert. Even Israeli doctors are describing the horrors and the tortures in that remote place. Aren’t these hostages as well? -R

Biden is the triple BBB candidate. The Big Business-War Machine Biden. He's carried water for big banks, credit card companies against student loans. He ran with corporate trade deals emptying out jobs in America's heartland. He covers for Delaware's notorious corporate havens -R

Over 200,000 Palestinians—not 35,000—have already died since October. This is based on nearly 100,000 bombs and missiles directly on civilians, without food, water, medicine, electricity, healthcare and World Health casualty projections starting last October. The 35,000 official fatality count is absurd. No human beings could endure those massacres and related untreated diseases since October 7th. -R

It is not widely known that every morning, intelligence agencies brief Joe Biden with detailed satellite pictures of the Israeli destruction of Gaza, down to bodies of children in the streets. Day after day, Biden sees what few others see, yet still knuckles under to Netanyahu. Whose president is he, anyway? -R

Under strict AIPAC demands, the Democratic National Convention rejected appeals by some of their own delegates and outside protestors to give a few minutes to a Palestinian American pediatrician back from Gaza to describe the horrors of civilian death and destruction and urge a permanent ceasefire. AIPAC demanded and received time on stage for an Israeli hostage family to speak to over 4000 delegates. Astonishing double-standard cruelty that will not be forgotten by millions of Arab and Muslim Americans. -R

American doctors and health workers back from Gaza have begged President Biden to authorize the airlifting of severely burned and mutilated children in Gaza for treatment at ready and willing hospitals in the U.S. Biden and the White House has declined to respond. How cruel. -R

A dictatorial, unelected majority in the Supreme Court has just rendered America a dictatorial president above the law. Thank you Hillary Clinton, whose blundering campaign let the dictatorial Trump become president and led to a rightwing dictatorial majority on the Supreme Court. -R

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The Pro-Israeli marchers in Washington demanded the release of 240 hostages. They forgot about 8000 hostages in Israeli prisons for years without charges. Many are youngsters and women, kidnapped to extort information from their extended families in the West Bank and Gaza. -R

There are two million Lebanese Americans in the U.S. with relatives over there. They are in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. If enough of them boycott the Lebanon-destroying Biden/Harris in November, the Democrats can pay dearly for their "iron bond" with the genocidal Israeli government. Wake up Bibi Biden! Strike Netanyahu's chains around you! The Trumpsters are coming! -R

Hillary Clinton is out with a book on empathy. Tell that to the Iraqis and to the Libyans and to the Afghan civilians who bore the brunt of illegal wars of aggression by Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Trump which she voted for as a Senator or implemented in the Obama administration. Now the “Butcher of Libya” has the nerve of talking about empathy. Maybe she wishes to issue a statement of material empathy/assistance to some of the next of kin of the millions who died in those countries from the bombings and the destruction of critical public health and safety services. -R

McDonalds is unpatriotic. In Denmark, they pay their unionized workers twice as much as U.S. workers with long paid vacations and benefits, because they have to. In our country they strip-mine their unorganized workers, because they can. In both countries, McD's makes profits.-R

Israel has cut off food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity from all innocent Palestinian civilians, half of whom are children. Israel has struck 120 health facilities—victims cannot escape from Gaza’s open air prison. They can’t even surrender, they can only die. Genocide! -R

Trump is speaking now before the media. NPR cut off him off for a fact check. Unacceptable decision. I then scrolled through all the many commercial radio stations. They were not carrying Trump's remarks. Misusing our public airwaves, free.

AIPAC, the domestic lobby for the Israeli-Government-Can-Do-No-Wrong, has corrupted the Congress and contributes to widespread censorship against Americans’ freedom of speech on U.S. policy and Palestinian rights. Their loyalty to the genocidal Netanyahu has no bounds. Example—they refused to support the entry of American journalists (and even Israeli journalists), barred for years by the Israeli government to enter Gaza to inform the American people and taxpayers about what is going on in that devastated enclave. AIPAC even refuses to support the entry into the U.S. of horribly burned and amputated Palestinian youngsters for treatment by ready and able hospitals. AIPAC’s antisemitism against Palestinian Arab semites is brutally violent and is contributing to the Palestinian Holocaust by blocking any efforts in Congress or in the Executive Branch to condition the export of weapons to Netanyahu, thereby violating six federal U.S. statutes. No wonder an increasing number of legal experts believe that AIPAC should register as a Foreign Agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. -R

Prediction: @elonmusk will withdraw his bid for Twitter within a week or so. Key reason: Tesla stock, used as collateral for his gigantic bank loans to take over Twitter, is collapsing by the day. He’s already lost about $80 billion in equity. Watch for the reason he gives. -R

Using terms like “extermination”, “annihilation” and “human animals”—and cutting off water, food, electricity and fuel—the Israeli government's genocidal bombing attack on Gaza’s defenseless civilian population is underway. Once again.

The focus on the 100+ Israeli hostages in Gaza is not matched by the focus on many thousands of Palestinian hostages abducted into Israeli jails without charges or trials. Many of them are children and women.

The Israeli Genocide in Gaza reportedly has its specialized teams that take destructive turns. One team specializes in destroying United Nation relief and health buildings. Another team specializes in blowing up school shelters where sick and dying families are huddling. Another team focuses on wholesale removal of hundreds of thousands of refugees having gone to what Netanyahu called “safe areas" into new unknown areas exposed to whatever the F-16s choose to destroy. Another team specializes in hunting down Palestinian journalists and their families.

In 1978, Israel's most prominent military analyst, Ze've Schiff, summed up remarks by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur as follows: "The Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposefully and consciously . . . The Army has never distinguished civilian from military targets – but purposefully attacked civilian targets."

The Trump triumph was made entirely possible by the weak Democratic Party, having long abandoned half of the country (red states) to the GOP, indentured itself to Big Business campaign money, run by arrogant and smug apparatchiks, willingly captive to its own corporate-conflicted political consultants, and dismissive of advice from the citizen community and progressive labor unions. (See winningamerica.net.)

Israel and the U.S. are violating numerous international laws daily. Why are the international law professors not speaking up? Not writing public letters to the so-called legal advisor to the State Dept, not organizing full page ads in newspapers... There are hundreds of these international law professors in the U.S. and they have their opinions but don’t seem to be voicing them in any public way. Speak out! The public needs to hear your expert voices. -R

To @realDonaldTrump: You are the enabler of the genocidal Netanyahu death cult shooting down starving children and parents and watching human beings kneel over and collapse from starvation and lack of water in Gaza, including doctors and other health workers so weak from lack of food and water that they are collapsing on the floor of what’s left of their hospital.

The Executive Order providing $400 in unemployment insurance payments from monies not appropriated for that purpose usurped the congressional power of the purpose and constituted a criminal violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act.

Three days of the @washingtonpost and @nytimes and still no editorial condemnation of the mega boobytrap brutal war crimes by Israel in Lebanon. Such boobytraps of products used by civilians is a flat out violation of international law. Silence. No editorials, no columnists. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? There would be no space left for the condemnation that would flow out of these two newspapers. -R

Lebanon has long been called an ally by the United States. Now, Netanyahu’s Biden bombs are being used to destroy thousands of innocent civilians, including children, and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon. And what is Biden’s response to his treachery? To have his White House spokesman and UN Ambassador now declare that the U.S. is “fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel.” Biden keeps expanding his performance as a war criminal, funded by coerced U.S. taxpayers and permitted by breaking six federal laws conditioning weapon shipment exports to foreign countries. Call the White House at 202-456-1111. -R

The Netanyahu Terror Machine yesterday blew up a humanitarian truck convoy in Gaza, bombed an apartment building, a refugee camp and other civilian crowded facilities, killing scores of innocent Palestinians, most of whom were women and children. There is nothing left of the small Hamas guerrilla group to speak of—but Netanyahu’s genocidal war crimes continue so he can keep his job, stall an official investigation into the mysterious collapse of his sophisticated border security apparatus on 10/7/23 and ward off Israeli prosecutors for corruption.

The Governor of NY is proposing spending 850 million taxpayer dollars to help build a $1.4 billion football stadium for the Buffalo Bills. The NFL is the richest sports franchise, full of billionaire capitalists demanding socialist handouts so they can make even more profits. -R

Former UN Ambassador and Foreign Minister Abba Eban wrote of Israel under then Prime Minister Menachem Begin that Israel "is wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr. Begin nor I would dare to mention by name." -R

Young Americans back Bernie Sanders in big numbers. But most have not voted in early primaries. They let Bernie down. Their voice, their jobs, student loans, health insurance and overall better future at stake. Wake up, turn out. This may be your last chance. -R

Netanyahu’s tanks are starting an invasion of Southern Lebanon. Why does the corporate media keep referring to it as an “incursion”? Continuation of bias, perhaps? -R

Would be nice if Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had expressed similar heartfelt concern for the tens of thousands of children killed or seriously maimed by the wars of their husbands in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. -R

The state and federal Democratic machines gang up on Bernie Sanders for Super Tuesday. Got Pete, Amy and others to endorse Big Business Biden and drop out suddenly. The Dems are immolating themselves with a bumbling, war-mongering Wall Street toady. -R

The enforcer president of Columbia University— Minouche Shafik—is one of the wealthiest people in America. As president, she makes over $2000 an hour every weekday. In three days, she makes more than many blue collar workers at Columbia make in a year. -R

Tomorrow, July 24, 2024, is a Congressional Day of Infamy. Netanyahu, a mass murderer of over 300,000 innocent Palestinian children, women and men—continuing his daily bombardment and starvation of the dying, homeless, defenseless Gazan population—is set to address a joint session of Congress.

Breaking news: Israeli historian Lee Mordechai's report documenting Israeli war crime depravity in Gaza – 124 pages, 1400 footnotes.  "I felt that I couldn't go on living in my bubble, that we're talking about capital offenses, and that what's going on is just too large, and contradicts the values I was raised on here," Mordechai told @haaretzcom.

I sent @AOC the following letter suggesting ways she can broaden her progressive impact and help many people now that she is in the media spotlight. She has not replied, despite repeated requests. Can anybody help us get AOC to respond? -R nader.org/2020/07/31/ralph-n…

The hate group @AIPAC—with pro-Netanyahu money—has dollarized the cowardly nest of the Democratic establishment to endorse a corporate challenger to a leading progressive House Democrat, @JamaalBowmanNY in the June 25 primary. This includes cowards on @TheBlackCaucus. Bowman’s sterling record for the people against corporate predators is sabotaged for Netanyahu’s genocidal slaughter of Palestinians, including tens of thousands of children and women. -R

"Gaza is now the world capital of child amputation. And that doesn't even cover the true horror, because Israel blocks any anesthesia from entering Gaza as a means of imposing further agony on the population that they are subjecting to genocide." - former senior United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber

Mass murderer and war criminal Netanyahu has been invited by both party leaders to address the joint session of Congress on July 24th. An ongoing bomber— killing tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, mostly children and women—a politician under indictment by Israeli prosecutors for domestic corruption, and a defier of Biden’s recent demand for ceasefire, Netanyahu is despised by 3 out of every 4 Israelis. Yet obeisant Congressional politicians are doing his bidding by arranging for a bipartisan hoopla. -R

Trump is normalizing federal criminality by holding a campaign event on White House premises, another in his serial criminal violations of the Hatch Act. The White House has become a crime scene repugnant to the rule of law. -R and Bruce Fein, former DOJ Associate Dep. AG

Where are the large federal government employee unions on the Trump Shutdown? Protesting statements are not enough. They and their families should be mass demonstrating and educating about the public harm in front of the White House. Or are they intimidated by the bully Trump? -R

Attention: Sources tell us that the AFL-CIO is not supporting Bernie Sanders for Secretary of Labor. They have another candidate in mind. Bernie was on picket lines before many of these labor rights were born. Another cold shoulder to Bernie from establishment Democrats. -R

Isn’t it about time for the media to call out Netanyahu who everyday is blowing up schools, refugee camps, apartment buildings, and UN Relief Facilities full of civilians, including many children, by claiming there is a Hamas fighter here and there? Hamas fighters wear no uniforms. How would he know? If he does know, then he knows of the civilians, journalists and aide workers there that he is blowing to bits. Day after day the media prints his unsubstantiated assertions, even though they know governments lie routinely during wars. -R

Israeli state terror is widening the Palestinian holocaust. Half a million people are either dead or on the verge of starvation. A larger number sick and injured. Tell your Representatives in the House to stop the $14 billion genocide weapons bill to Israel. 202-224-3121. -R

Why was the bloated, redundant military budget off limits in the debt limit negotiations between the militaristic GOP and Joe Biden? That’s over half the federal operating budget. Untouchable. Full of contractor rip offs and corruption.

The mass mutilation war crimes of Netanyahu in Lebanon last week has been met with racist silence by the Biden Administration and Congress. Secretary of Defense Austin’s first response to thousands of victims of boobytrapped pagers and two-way radios was to dittohead “unwavering support for the Israeli regime” No denunciation.

To @realDonaldTrump You took credit for the ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza that lasted for 40 days. Then, Israel broke the ceasefire unilaterally and has bombed Gaza over 200 times as well as blocked all U.S. funded humanitarian aid trucks with food, water, medicine, and other lifesaving materials for the besieged families of Gaza who had nothing to do with October 7th. According to the UN’s health agency, at least 60,000 children are on the verge of starvation. American doctors back from Gaza say just about everybody is sick, injured or dying. Over 400,000 have been killed by U.S. weapons so far. Don’t believe Hamas’ under count of 50,000. Netanyahu has defied your ceasefire. So far, you have let him continue his violent mass murder after breaking your ceasefire. Whatever happened to your celebrated sense of ego? Whatever happened to your campaign promises that you would end the conflict pronto? Whatever happened to your compassion for the slaughtered babies and children in Gaza? Now well over 120,000 of them. To use your phraseology, “one call” from you to Netanyahu will restore the ceasefire, restart serious negotiations, and allow lifesaving U.S.-paid for trucks to resume going into Gaza. Don’t you want history to recognize that you are not afraid of Netanyahu and his domestic lobby which pressures you to violate six federal statutes conditioning the shipment of weapons to foreign countries with their hands clean of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide? You boast of your chesty dominance of all foreign leaders, allies or adversaries. Why is Netanyahu your exception? Israeli reporters say you are frightened of Netanyahu. Is this true? Please tell the American taxpayers your response. They are being forced to fund this genocidal war without any congressional hearing or oversight. Which means “you’re the man”. Are you? For peace and justice. -Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein (@BruceFeinEsq)

This is to @JoeBiden, @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries You are instrumental in unconditionally shipping weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli govt engaged in genocidal slaughter of defenseless Palestinian children, women and men—civilians who had nothing to do with Oct. 7th.

If the Democratic Party loses tomorrows elections to the worst, cruelest, most corrupt, bigoted, misogynistic, anti-worker, anti-environment, vote suppressing, climate denying, book banning GOP in history, will there be an accounting? Will there be a cleaning of the house, discharging the colossal architects who have contracted out their trusteeship to profit driven commercial consultants? Daily wasting billions of campaign dollars on repetitive, vacuous and forgettable advertising so they can receive their 15% commission. Infected through and through with corporatism, the Democratic Party turns its back on unions and progressive civic groups with millions of members and campaigns and curries the favor of the war criminal, war mongering Cheneys and Clintons. Kamala Harris campaigns with them but declines to campaign with the most popular elected official in our country, Senator Bernie Sanders. She’s not sending messages that could have landslided the worst Republican Party in history. -R

After dropping over 50,000 bombs/missiles in crowded Gaza, the official huge undercount of fatalities reaches 30,000—mostly children and women. When will the realistic estimates come forward that it's closer to 100,000? And many more dying under the rubble every day after 4...

To the Grandmaster of Tweetitis: Credit to you for breaking the auto industry's technological stagnation with Tesla. But to deny that your companies do not receive continual federal and state subsidies – apart from overseas governmental largesse – is to deny reality.

Once again, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens showed why he is the most extreme antisemite against Arabs in Palestine and Lebanon. In his column, he approved of the Israeli terrorist attack with boobytrapped pagers and two way radios. Former CIA director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called this Israeli attack “a form of terrorism” endangering the global supply chain.

How could AIPAC et al. get away with pouring a record $25 million into two Congressional primaries to defeat Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Rep. Cori Bush because they spoke out early against the Netanyahu genocide in Gaza demanding a ceasefire? Because they didn’t have to worry about the Black Caucus opposing them.

Before the end of the month, after 60 days without water, food, fuel, electricity or medicine, it's likely that 100,000 Palestinians will have expired. Israelis have dropped over 15,000 deadly missiles on a crowded Gaza strip, striking babies, children, women, fathers, mothers...

Hamas fighters hunkering down in tunnels have small arms with dwindling ammunition. Hamas has no air force, tanks, or armed drones. Why is Netanyahu exaggerating their power? Is it because he wants to expel from Gaza the Palestinian survivors of his deadly ongoing genocide? -R

Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee, announces five major hearings. Not one includes single payer health insurance—his trademark presidential campaign demand. That means Sanders has given up on Democrats in the Senate and the House for this session.

Since Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, he’s also withdrawn and gone silent on the intensifying genocidal war crimes by his boss Netanyahu in Gaza and the West Bank. While international humanitarian agencies are calling out Netanyahu to stop the killing, ceasefire, and let thousands of trucks with humanitarian aid reach the starving sick, injured Gazan civilians who had nothing to do with October 7th, Biden—Netanyahu’s leading weapons dealer—remains silent.

R's in Congress, with one exception, did not react to Trump's latest, baseless, depraved charge that cable host Joe Scarborough committed homicide. This is a vicious criminal libel and none of the GOP from McConnell to McCarthy uttered a word of disgust, dismay or reprimand -R

Netanyahu—who has already set a world 21st century record for slaughtering children in Gaza—is now blowing up a school shelter for huddling homeless, sick and injured Palestinian families every day. Biden is doing this knowing that he is violating six federal statutes in weaponizing unconditionally Netanyahu’s daily genocide. Guilty as can be. Shame on you, Joe Biden, for humiliating our country. -R

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What’s with the @nytimes harassing Zohran Mamdani repeatedly about disavowing the phrase “globalize the intifada”? It has written several articles featuring accusers of Mamdani for not affirmatively denouncing this slogan which means different things to Palestinians and Israelis—but doesn’t demand that these accusers disavow their support of Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and his starvation policies.

Bibi Blinken has completed his 11th blinking trip to Israel to meet his master Netanyahu and demonstrate the futility of an obedient Secretary of State representing the mighty United States of America. Bibi Blinken is the object of private mockery and jokes by Netanyahu’s terrorist regime. -R

With Biden’s backing, the Israeli govt’s cut off of water, food, electricity and fuel to Gaza are classical conditions for genocidal violence under int'l law. You’ve disgraced what our country should stand for, Delaware Joe, and are fueling the dangerous expansion of this war. -R

Will the Securities and Exchange Commission apply the requisite staff to track these possible serious violations? There will be many more surges up and down in the stock market to come given the preliminary dictates and announcements of the Trump Administration. -R

White supremacist-coddler @RepStefanik hurled a fictitious question at three university presidents during a House hearing. She couldn’t cite a single case where anyone called for genocide against Jews on campus. All while she is giving ghastly full-throated support for weapons...

For months I’ve been condemning a cruel, vast undercount of Palestinian deaths and injuries caused by Netanyahu’s Israeli state terror on Gaza. Confirmation of the undercount comes in the current issue of the prestigious British medical journal @TheLancet .

Has there ever been a more banal, ditto-heading a sitting president speech by his successor presidential nominee as last night’s acceptance address by Kamala Harris? It was Biden 2.0, except obviously with different family proper names. No mention of the corporate crime wave, no touting of unions and labor law reform, no mention of corporate tax reform. Not even highlighting an authentic pledge to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour from its present frozen $7.25. No critique of massive corporate welfare giveaways. No mention of massive deficits, which don’t qualify as investments, but are due to Trump’s tax cuts and other longstanding corporate and super-rich tax escapes, and no mention of America coming home and pulling back on boomeranging empire wars. What you are going to get is another younger version of Biden. And Harris also made the AIPAC ultimatum lobby and their mentor Netanyahu deliriously happy. -R

Biden’s speech today focused entirely on the atrocities in Israel and ignored the far greater atrocities surging by the hour in Gaza. It is as if the endless slaughter of Palestinians under occupation over the years by U.S. made weaponry and political backing didn’t exist. -R

AIPAC made similar demands on the DNC in 2008 to stop Jimmy Carter—who brokered the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel—but later called out the Israeli regime for its apartheid practices. All former presidents usually get a few minutes on the stage. AIPAC humiliated Carter, who had to settle for silently walking across the stage with Rosalynn to mild applause. The power of the "Israeli Government Can Do No Wrong" lobby keeps intensifying to the detriment of the USA and its taxpayers. -R

Joe, at least demand that Israel allow U.S. reporters into Gaza and get those obstructed 500 humanitarian aid trucks daily into that tiny enclave containing 2.2 million besieged Palestinians. -R

When the history of the Biden/Congress-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza—with the slaughter of children, mothers, fathers and everything called civilian infrastructure—is written, the American Bar Association (@ABAesq) and state bar associations who have remained silent will receive the verdict of history. Will not be forgotten. Nor will those medical societies like the American Medical Association (@AmerMedicalAssn) who remained silent while the Israeli military was slaughtering doctors, nurses, healthcare workers and destroying hospitals. -R

Congratulations to those Columbia University students celebrating their "People's Graduation" at St. John's Cathedral. Try as they might, the overpaid administrators of your universities cannot force you to choose between standing up for Palestine human rights and the fruits of your academic career. Go forth, for peace and justice.

Why are Caroline Kennedy, former ambassador to Japan, and Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the UN, on Boeing's Board of Directors? They have neither knowledge nor experience in Boeing's military, space and civilian passenger business...

Why are the views of dozens of American doctors and healthcare workers back from the horrors in Gaza not considered newsworthy by the @washingtonpost, @nytimes, @WSJ and @AP? With U.S. journalists banned by Netanyahu from entering Gaza for years, how can the detailed descriptions and urgings of these valiant medical specialists be ignored? It’s one thing for Joe Biden to turn his back on their letter addressed to him, but the mainstream media? Shame. -R

Under the international Nuremberg rules, all soldiers are required to disobey illegal orders from their superiors. Knowing this, Netanyahu’s military carefully screens Israeli soldiers so that only the most brutal and merciless are sent into Gaza and the West Bank, according to Israeli reporters. Soldiers who have any qualms about blowing up families and health clinics are kept in the military backup systems in Israel. -R

Donald Trump, you are so afraid of Netanyahu that you won’t even stand firm in denouncing the killings of American citizens in the West Bank. Most recently, a Palestinian American who grew up in and lives in Florida.

The undercount in fatalities in Gaza is huge and getting bigger by the day. Many thousands of families missing, more thousands under the rubble. Hard to survive over 30 thousand bombs on the homeless civilian population—denied food, water, fuel, electricity and medical care...

I wonder how the Israeli generals pick the F-16 pilots each day to go and bomb defenseless schools, healthcare and other civilian facilities? Maybe the pilots themselves bid for such war crimes. Palestinians have no air defenses. They’re trapped and totally vulnerable to U.S. planes and Biden bombs—daily for over a year and continuing. Hundreds of thousands have already died with many more starving and sick on the way. Call the White House at 202-456-1111. -R

President Joe Biden’s statement on the fall of the Assad regime included Biden saying that Assad caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. Interesting, isn’t it, that he doesn’t give the trapped Palestinians in Gaza the same estimates? They have been under assault for 14 months by the genocidal Netanyahu regime. Especially since Biden has far more information about the massive war crimes in Gaza inside the State Dept. and his intelligence agencies than he has about Assad’s mayhem. Biden even cast doubts about the vast undercount number put out by Hamas, which has its own self serving motives for not estimating the death toll — now over 400,000 and rising in Gaza. This is pure racism and antisemitic behavior against the Palestinian semites. Shame on him. -R

Big Capitalists begging to be saved by Big Socialism. They are all over D.C. Nothing new. Socialism always saves capitalism. Ordinary taxpayers rarely get any credit, do they? Even when they save the chaotic health care industry and fill the wide gaps of non-coverage. -R

Elizabeth Warren is pouring out progressive policies on the domestic front. She's gaining in the polls. But where are her positions on military budgets, Empire and foreign policy? -R

Biden’s forked tongue is not subtle. He says he's urging the Israeli govt to allow more humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, water, fuel and medicine to the injured, sick, dying Gazans. Yet he’s delivering massive weapons of destruction for the Israeli army’s ongoing genocide.

Biden's touted $2.3 trillion infrastructure over 8 years is trivial. It comes down to less than $300 billion a year for a $21 trillion economy. He even refused to take the corporate tax rate back to 35% as under Obama. Just proposed 28%. Democrats going small again. -R

Netanyahu's savage genocidal attacks on smoldering Gaza continue with most of the casualties being children, women and the elderly. He bombed another hospital compound, burning alive refugees in a tent area. Routine for the war criminal Netanyahu, fully backed by the Biden regime and a supine Congress. -R

Stop Repeating the Vast Undercount of Gazan Deaths. It Is Ten Times Greater. nader.org/2025/02/22/stop-re…

The highly regarded @Oxfam put out a report charging the Israeli government with “intentionally restricting the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza strip.” The report, titled “Inflicting Unprecedented Suffering and Destruction”, says Israel’s continued obstruction is a...

If @RobertKennedyJr wants to find huge opportunities for the public well being, he can start with the 5000 Americans who die every week from “problems in hospitals” according to a peer reviewed study by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine physicians. That’s 250,000 lives a year. And the physicians' said that was the most conservative estimate. So what has @HHSGov been doing about this? Very little—except to recommend doctors and nurses wash their hands between patients, which is a good idea.

With an exchange of 50 Hamas-seized hostages for 150 Israeli-seized youngsters and women, held for years without charges, their freedom is starkly different. The Israeli hostages will be sent to functioning hospitals via operating ambulances and helicopters...

Weeks ago, 45 American doctors and nurses back from Gaza’s horrors wrote a detailed, footnoted plea to Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden to stop the slaughter and get adequate humanitarian aid to two million dying, sick and injured civilian Palestinians in Gaza. They received some media but were totally ignored by the Bidens and their genocidal, unconditional, American taxpayer-funded backing of the war criminal Netanyahu, who is despised by 3 out of 4 Israelis. Biden talks a good game but he walks a deadly trek into the annals of Holocaust histories across the globe. -R

Antisemitism against dying Arabs in Palestine, mostly women and children, is spreading among U.S. companies and corporate law firms. They are throwing away job offers and resumes from young Americans who have spoken out against Israel’s genocidal war crimes and are supporting...

Where are the editorials denouncing the war crime by Netanyahu when he boobytrapped pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon, killing and injuring thousands of Lebanese—many of them civilians, including children and hospital workers? Another indication of how the @washingtonpost, @nytimes and @WSJ devalue Palestinian and Lebanese lives in comparison to Israeli lives...

The Yankees' collapse in last night’s 5th game of the World Series was a long time coming. The Yankees have been mismanaged or poorly managed since their last World Series in 2009. Loaded with money, they make the wrong choices in buying athletes from other teams. They’ve weakened seriously their farm system and the owner, Steinbrenner, is not that ambitious for a winning team because he’s still making a lot of profit. Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman and Yankee team manager Aaron Boone are relentless losers. Yankee fans should demand their replacement. The only thing going up at Yankee stadium are the prices, not the World Series wins. -R

For months I have been pointing out the vast undercount of deaths in Gaza under the Israeli Regime's daily bombardment of civilians and their infrastructure and suspension of food, water, medicine, electricity, fuel and lack of shelter and healthcare. These messages have been ignored by the mainstream media and the independent media.

In a @washingtonpost op-ed, five U.S. Senators have demanded that the U.S. launch 'Operation Gaza Relief' immediately. They demand bypassing Israeli military obstructions and sending food, water, medicine and temporarily shelter directly into Gaza via humanitarian agencies.