(2024-05-16). US Army Officer Resigns Over 'Unqualified' Support For Israel. popularresistance.org An Army officer working at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has resigned in protest of the US's "unqualified" support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. | Maj. Harrison Mann posted his resignation letter on LinkedIn and said it was initially distributed within the DIA on April 16. In the letter, he said the DIA does not only "inform policy" but "facilitates, and at times, directly executes policy," referring to US support for Israel. | "The policy that has never been far from my mind for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has e…
(2024-05-16). University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns. wsws.org The momentum of the strike must not be lost, especially now that the 48,000 academic workers in the UC system have voted to strike in response to police attacks against peaceful anti-genocide protests.
(2024-05-16). Wednesday 5/22: Webinar: Genocide in Gaza and Repression at Home: Making the Connection. indybay.org Online | masspeace.us/GazaHomeConnection…
(2024-05-16). Professors come to the defense of New Orleans students protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza. wsws.org Faculty at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans issue public letters denouncing the violent police assault and disciplinary measures against a peaceful student encampment protest earlier this month.
(2024-05-16). Hezbollah Launches Deepest Drone Strike in Israel Since War Began. news.antiwar.com Israel and Hezbollah carried out tit-for-tat airstrikes throughout Wednesday. Scores of Hezbollah missiles were fired at northern Israel and a drone strike against a military site near Golani Junction hit some 21 miles from the border. Israeli military reported damage but no injuries from the explosives-laden drone, but more noteworthy is the fact this is …
(2024-05-16). Hezbollah Launches Deepest Drone Strike in Israel Since War Began. news.antiwar.com Israel and Hezbollah carried out tit-for-tat airstrikes against one throughout Wednesday. Scores of Hezbollah missiles were fired at northern Israel and a drone strike against a military site near Golani Junction hit some 21 miles from the border. Israeli military reported damage but no injuries from the explosives-laden drone, but more noteworthy is the fact …
(2024-05-16). Arab League will call for 'UN peacekeeping force' in Palestinian territories, reports say. middleeasteye.net 
Arab League will call for 'UN peacekeeping force' in Palestinian territories, reports say | Expected statement comes as international post-war plans for Gaza remain disputed with questions over the role Arab states and Israel will play in the territory | | Bahraini and Arab League flags are displayed…
(2024-05-16). Saturday 8/3: Pacific Grove: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance & Peace Lantern Ceremony. indybay.org Lovers Point Beach Cove, Ocean View Blvd., at 17th Street, Pacific Grove, CA 93950…
(2024-05-16). Saturday 5/18: Webinar: Update from the West Bank: How has the Occupation intensified since Oct. 7. indybay.org Online | masspeace.us/west-bank-update…
(2024-05-16). On Nakba Day, Canada Must Address Complicity in Palestinian Dispossession. globalresearch.ca
(2024-05-16). UAW 4811 authorizes strike across UC campuses defending right to protest for Palestine. liberationnews.org 
On May 15, 2024 — the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — UAW 4811 members across the University of California took the historic step to authorize a strike in defense of workers' rights to peacefully protest in support of Palestine.
(2024-05-16). Cuban president meets Venezuelan foreign minister. plenglish.com During the meeting, the head of State described Gil's presence in Cuba as significant and sent a warm greeting to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. | The Presidency of the Republic informed on its X profile that Diaz-Canel congratulated Venezuela on the successful holding of the recent Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP). | The Venezuelan foreign minister, in turn, thanked Cuba for all support and conveyed a "greeting of affection and solidarity" from President Nicolás Maduro. | He also addressed common challenges the two nations face in the…
(2024-05-16). In Ukraine, Wounded Soldiers' Families Suffer Just As Much. fairobserver.com Pavel Shevchenko (not his real name) lost his leg and his eyesight fighting for Ukraine's freedom. Remarkably, he shows no self-pity. "I'm not the only one this kind of thing has happened to," he told me. "Stuff happens, and I don't see this as unfair." He's at least mostly at peace with the idea that…
(2024-05-16). Why is New Caledonia on fire? According to local women, the deadly riots are about more than voting rights. greenleft.org.au 
Rioting broke out in New Caledonia's capital Noumea this week, following weeks of peaceful protest against a constitutional vote taken in Paris which will undo provisions in the 1998 Noumea Accord. Nicole George looks at how the situation has spiralled.
(2024-05-16). Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia in Cuba defends peace in Palestine. mronline.org 
Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for "All rights for all people", organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.
(2024-05-16). NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha to be released on bail after arrest ruled illegal. mronline.org 
Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times "hit piece" published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the U.S. as well.
(2024-05-16). Díaz-Canel: Venezuela puede contar con Cuba para lo que sea. cubadebate.cu Venezuela puede contar con Cuba para lo que sea, afirmó este miércoles el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez al recibir en el Palacio de la Revolución al canciller de esa hermana nación, Yvan Gil Pinto, quien realiza una visita oficial a la Isla.
(2024-05-16). Canciller venezolano afirma que Cuba y Venezuela comparten un destino de esperanza. radiohc.cu Caracas, 16 mayo (RHC) El canciller Yván Gil afirmó hoy que Venezuela y Cuba comparten un destino de esperanza y complementariedad, que guiará el camino hacia un mundo mejor.
(2024-05-16). Venezuela reitera apoyo a Palestina en conmemoración del Nakba. telesurtv.net El embajador de Palestina en Venezuela, Fadi Alzaben, denunció que su país está padeciendo "una grave situación" producto de "ataques genocidas" en la Franja de Gaza..
(2024-05-16). Realizan movilización por el Día de las Familias en Venezuela. telesurtv.net El mandatario afirmó que está decidido a refundar el valor de la familia como base de unión y creación de una nueva civilización para las generaciones futuras.
(2024-05-16). Venezuela y Cuba fortalecen relaciones bilaterales. telesurtv.net El canciller venezolano agredeció la bienvenida y "el respaldo en la lucha conjunta contra los ilegales bloqueos impuestos a nuestros pueblos".
Students and workers at the City University of New York held a peaceful occupation Tuesday of the school's Graduate Center in solidarity with Palestine and renamed its library "The Al Aqsa University Library," after Gaza's oldest public university, which was destroyed by Israel's bombardment. This comes as over 500 faculty and staff at CUNY have signed a letter demanding the charges be dropped against at least 173 people arrested in April when NYPD violently raided a peaceful Gaza solidarity encampment on the City College campus. "This is really the most egregious example we…
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker claimed she wanted the Encampment for Palestine, on the University of Pennsylvania campus since April 25, to "end peacefully." But at 5: 30 a.m. on May 10, city and university police gave sleeping participants just two minutes notice before they began arresting them and tearing down tents . . . | 
I've spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I've been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and its allies in Congress and at the Pentagon as they push for a "military-first" foreign policy. I've worked 
Bahrain signals willingness to join Arab multinational force in Gaza, US official says | Western officials say Bahrain and other Arab Gulf states would participate in peacekeeping operation under a UN Security Council resolution | | Palestinians move past destroyed buildings along a street i…
Fighter for peace, defender of indigenous peoples, President of the Participatory Indigenous Consultative Council of the Republic of Argentina, lover of dialogue, declared apolitical, co-author with Araceli Maldonado of his biography "Qarashe. A fighter for his people and for the justice of his communities, a great friend, a brother, and a humanist who gives us lessons in coexistence, as we will see in this long interview that leaves no one indifferent. | We spent many hours talking, sending each other messages and photos, talking about the problems of the indigenous peoples of northern Argentina, and about the t…
TEL AVIV—Hundreds of Arab and Jewish students took part at noon Wednesday in a rally commemorating Nakba Day that was held at the entrance to Tel Aviv University on the initiative of the student chapter of Hadash, the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. Contrary to what has happened in the past 11 years, the …