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Dear President Biden,

The undersigned 80 groups – 49 national, and 31 state and local – work across the ideological
spectrum and represent multiple sectors including veterans, diaspora communities, working class
voters, national security experts, faith leaders, peace advocates, human rights defenders, public
health professionals, and more.

US officials told NBC News that the US is planning to launch a weeks-long bombing campaign in the Middle East in retaliation for the drone attack in northeast Jordan that killed three American soldiers.

Sometimes there’s a thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy.

Here’s the gist of my speech at the January 27 protest organized by Marin DSA in downtown San Rafael, California:

If Biden wants to win, they say, he must end US support for Israel’s war on Gaza and declare a climate emergency.

Students at Columbia University in New York held an “emergency protest” Wednesday over the school’s response to an attack on members of Columbia University Apartheid Divest at a rally on campus last Friday.

The New Hampshire primary has confirmed that the United States is on the way to a disastrous fall election. Unless a health crisis forces withdrawal from the presidential race, either Donald Trump or Joe Biden is headed for a second term. The electoral outlook is now dystopian.

St. Louis is the 16th US municipality to pass a resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza.

Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re really seeing the war.

The new year has just begun and already there have been five victories against wrongful conviction within the first week,