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On August 14, 2024, at Riverside Church in Manhattan, the Palestinian Priest of Bethlehem, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, delivered a powerful speech addressing the silence of American churches and the influence of Christian Zionism. A video of the event can…

September 2024: Two Weeks to Pressure the Corporations putting Profit ahead of People and Planet Continued burning of fossil fuels will make this world uninhabitable within a few decades. A nuclear war would make this world uninhabitable in a few…

The pioneering TV host Phil Donahue, who revolutionized daytime television by tackling major social and political issues in front of a studio audience, has died at the age of 88. The Phil Donahue Show, later renamed Donahue, ran from the 1960s through…

When Barack Obama ran for president of the United States sixteen years ago, he snipped at his staff that they were pretending that he was not black. Of course this is an issue, he apparently said. Sixteen years later, the…

All urge U.S. military personnel to tell Congress “Stop Funding Gaza Genocide!” An Online News Conference: Noon EDT, August 15, 2024 To access the news conference, register at this link here. Here are the social platforms where it will be…

Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. By Marjorie Hecht Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of…

Aug. 11, 2024 (EIRNS)—Scott Ritter issued a 12-minute video on Aug. 8 regarding what happened during the FBI raid on his house on Wednesday, Aug. 7, and then used his regular two-hour Friday interview (“Ask the Inspector”) with Jeff Norman…

The IFC Center in New York’s Greenwich Village is currently showing a newly restored version of Miloš Forman’s Amadeus (1984) in commemoration of the film’s 40th anniversary. This re-release of Forman’s masterpiece is a cause for celebration not least of…

“Highway Zero” is the first novel I read while walking. My doctors, my niece, and my legs have been urging me to move more due to excessive sedentism, which worsened after the pandemic. So, when I got Billy’s book on…

Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women’s rights, healthcare, housing–and Palestine, just lost her primary because pro-Israel…