NORMAN SOLOMON – More than 800 Americans in Northern California have now joined in a class-action lawsuit against their Democratic congressional representatives, charging them with illegally helping to provide weapons to Israel for use in committing genocide in Gaza. News of the suit has caused a stir in the Bay Area, with media coverage putting the pair, Rep. Jared Huffman and Rep. Mike Thompson, on the defensive.
Big data centers, big problems
R.J. CROSS, QUENTIN GOOD, JOHANNA NEUMANN, and ABE SCARR – The rapid growth of data centers can deepen America’s reliance on fossil fuels and is putting consumers and communities at risk.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe
LAWRENCE WITTNER – Given the weapons-obsession of a small group of nations, the current prospect for an effective ban on nuclear weapons is bleak. But, longer-term, the revival of a massive antinuclear movement, combined with pressure from an empowered United Nations, could bring the holdouts into the treaty and, thereby, avert nuclear catastrophe.
Is Iran’s Weakness America’s Opportunity?
MEL GURTOV – Reflecting on long-term consequences should lead to a US policy based on win-win diplomacy rather than one based on zero-sum confrontation.
Doomsday Clock Announcement Highlights Global Danger from Nuclear Weapons
PETER BERGEL (contact) – The 2025 setting of the Doomsday Clock on January 28 will be yet another warning to the world, and especially the Nuclear 9, that we must either eliminate nuclear weapons or they will eliminate us.
How U.S. Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War
NORMAN SOLOMON – The Gaza war has received a vast amount of U.S. media attention, but how much it actually communicated about the human realities was a whole other matter. The belief or unconscious notion that news media were conveying war’s realities ended up obscuring those realities all the more. And journalism’s inherent limitations were compounded by media biases.