COMMON DREAMS: Top News: Gaza Aid Airdrops 'No Substitute for Sustained Ground Deliveries'

 

Friday, March 1, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  Nicaragua Hits Germany With ICJ Case for Aiding Israel in Gaza Genocide "The Global South strikes again against the morally and politically decayed West," said one supporter of the case. By Jessica Corbett Sanders Says US Gaza Aid Airdrops 'No Substitute for Sustained Ground Deliveries' "Israel MUST open the borders and allow the United Nations to deliver supplies in sufficient quantities." By Brett Wilkins Imperiling Climate Goals, Global Resource Extraction Set to Surge 60% by 2060 Wealthy nations are responsible for most of the consumption of natural resources, according to a new United Nations report. By Thor Benson In Latest Crackdown on Rich Tax Cheats, IRS Pursues 125,000 Non-Filing Cases "At this time of year when millions of hard-working people are doing the right thing paying their taxes, we cannot tolerate those with higher incomes failing to do a basic civic duty of filing a tax return," the IRS chief said. By Olivia Rosane US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid Israel is "responsible for creating catastrophic conditions that led to yesterday's killings," said Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch. By Jake Johnson 'Utterly Ridiculous': Biden DOJ Aims to Bypass Congress to Renew Spying Power "The administration has decided to short-circuit the legislative process and ask the FISA Court for an extra year of surveillance without any reforms at all," said Sen. Ron Wyden. By Jake Johnson ■ More News Federal Judge Dismisses Pharma Giant's Challenge to Medicare Drug Price Negotiations CVS and Walgreens to Offer Abortion Pill Mifepristone in Some States As Outrage Over Gaza Grows, Biden Hides From Protests Amid High-Stakes Election EPA Praised for Boost to 'Life-Saving' Protections From Chemical Incidents VIEW ALL NEWS SUPPORT COMMON DREAMS TODAY Independent news is more important than ever. DONATE TODAY ■ Opinion On the 70th Anniversary of the Castle Bravo Test, Remember the Victims Between 1946 and 1958 the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands that vaporized whole islands, carved craters into the shallow lagoons, and exiled hundreds of people from their homes. By Gerry Condon,Helen Jaccard This November, Women Will Remember Who Took Away Their Rights Women—both those who want abortion to be legal and those who want to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization—are furious. By Martha Burk The World Must Act to Prevent the Invasion of Rafah If the international community does not finally develop the will to stop Israel, this horrific crime will, by far, prove worse than all the crimes that have already been committed. By Ramzy Baroud VIEW ALL OPINION

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