Monday, February 12, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


New Analysis Blows Hole in 'Good Guy With a Gun' Myth

"In untangling the myth of defensive gun use, one thing is abundantly clear: If safety is the goal, guns are not the answer."

By Julia Conley



Trump Appeals Presidential Immunity Claim to US Supreme Court

One watchdog responded by stressing that "Trump is NOT above the law."

By Jessica Corbett



'Lead or Lose': 21 Arrested Blockading Biden Campaign HQ Over Climate, Gaza

"This is an emergency. We're choking on smoke, our homes are flooding," said Sunrise Movement. "Biden needs to act like it."

By Julia Conley



Human Activity Pushing More Than 1 in 5 Migratory Species Toward Extinction: UN

"The global community has an opportunity to translate this latest science of the pressures facing migratory species into concrete conservation action," said one U.N. official.

By Julia Conley



EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: 'Stop Saying Please' and Cut Off Arms to Israel

"If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed," Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.

By Jake Johnson



"Are They 'Hamas'?" 12,300 Children Killed by Israeli Forces in Gaza

Gruesome new data shows that kids make up around 43% of the death toll from Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip.

By Jake Johnson


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Trump Appeals Presidential Immunity Claim to US Supreme Court


Dutch Court Blocks Weapons Parts for Israel Over 'Undeniable' Risk to Gaza


Israel Is 'Obliterating Entire Families With Total Impunity' in Gaza, Amnesty Finds


IDF Rescues Two Hostages While Killing Dozens of Palestinians in Rafah


Trinidad and Tobago Mulls Historic Disaster Declaration After 'Ghost Ship' Oil Spill


As IDF Rafah Invasion Looms, Progressives Urge Biden to 'End the Complicity' in Gaza Genocide


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■ Opinion


To Solve the Climate Crisis, Look to Women

Women, and in particular women from the Global South, have delivered some of the biggest successes in the global race to climate solutions.

By Bianca Pitt,Reba Elliott


Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is the Gravest Moral Crisis of Our Time

The crisis in Gaza shows those nations that should be defending international law and humanitarian values to be openly betraying their commitments.

By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi


How the CIA Destabilizes the World

If only the CIA’s rogue operations had been consigned to history as a result of the crimes exposed by the Church Committee, or at the least had brought the CIA under the rule of law and public accountability. But that was not to be.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs


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