Why do small states rely on international law to protect their sovereignty and #security? Watch Anna Vardapetyan, Osvaldo Zavala Giler, Boštjan Škrlec, Nancy Okail, & Sheila Paylan discuss the #global imperative of the rule of law at the #YerevanDialogue2025 youtu.be/BF5K3aayYOI

One of the things sustaining American public support for Ukraine is the idea that it’s a developing democracy defending itself against an authoritarian neighbor. This will undermine that.

Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.

Under the current Netanyahu government Israel is suffering the biggest diplomatic collapse since 1948

If I were in the Senate, I would vote yes on Sen. Bernie Sanders' resolutions today to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel. The Israeli government is knowingly starving civilians — and the U.S. shouldn’t be complicit.

Wow: 1/4 of US senators now oppose more American weapons to Israel.

The rain didn’t stop us. A historic march.

Military Spending Monitor: The Pentagon as an Engine for Privatizing Public Funds A new study coauthored by Center for International Policy fellow Stephen Semler quantifies how the Pentagon’s growing reliance on a small number of corporate contractors redistributes taxpayer dollars to wealthy elites.

NEW Security Assistance Monitor Special Report: Arming Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Center for International Policy’s Ari Tolany and Allie Hansen analyze the exports of US-origin and taxpayer-subsidized weapons that have enabled Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. internationalpolicy.org/publications/s…

This news breaks just as a group of US Democratic lawmakers lands in Israel for an all expenses paid trip by AIPAC’s “education foundation.” No doubt Netanyahu is eager for a photo of them standing with him, as he stands against the survival of Palestinians and Israeli hostages.

Alex de Waal tells Isaac Chotiner that even if humanitarian aid now reaches Gaza, probably thousands of Palestinian children "have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food." All happening on the world's watch. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/h…

Israel has killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Esharif and four of his colleagues in an airstrike on their tent outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza. This deliberate assassination of Palestinian journalists is part of Israel’s ongoing effort to silence the truth and carry out genocide

🚨 BREAKING: Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al-Khaldi was killed in the Israeli massacre that targeted a press tent in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which also killed five other journalists.

Israel bans ALL journalists access to Gaza, as it panics to conceal Genocide, and desperately tries to control the narrative via propaganda. Israel is murdering Palestinian journalists, the goal: to eliminate the custodians of troves of war crime evidence…the guardians of truth.

The system is rigged. Our government has been captured by wealthy interests who enrich themselves while everyone else struggles. Unrigging the system and making it work for working people should be the Democrats’ message. Our piece in Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Former Biden administration officials know that Israel's justifications for demolishing Gaza, assassinating journalists, blocking humanitarian aid, and maiming and starving kids are lies. They're still choosing to keep silent about it. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/bid…

Why do small states rely on international law to protect their sovereignty and #security? Watch Anna Vardapetyan, Osvaldo Zavala Giler, Boštjan Škrlec, Nancy Okail, & Sheila Paylan discuss the #global imperative of the rule of law at the #YerevanDialogue2025 youtu.be/BF5K3aayYOI

RIP Sonallah Ibrahim

"Between June 7 & July 24, 1380 casualties were received at MSF clinics in southern Gaza near sites [run by the US+Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]. During those 7 weeks, MSF treated 71 children for gunshot wounds, 25 under the age of 15." doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-back…

I spoke with ⁦Ike Ejiochi⁩ ⁦⁦ABC News⁩ about what a potential war-ending compromise could look like for Ukraine, one that preserves its sovereignty, security, and democracy. There’s still no evidence that Putin is interested, but diplomatic efforts should continue.