US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

JeffreyD. Sachs

December 26, 2023

The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.

  

US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield abstains during a vote to approve a resolution that "demands" all sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict allow the "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" at UN headquarters in New York on December 22, 2023.

(Photo by Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War

Joseph Gerson

January 13, 2024

we must join the majority of the world’s nations in building pressure on Biden and Netanyahu to declare a ceasefire, to deluge Gaza with the food, water, medicines, and fuel essential for life. We must do this with everything we've got and we must do it now.

  

Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall giant puppet representing a ten-year-old Syrian refugee child, joins tens of thousands of protesters marching through central London in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand an immediate ceasefire to end the war on Gaza in London, United Kingdom on January 13, 2024.

(Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)