2026-06-23: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2026-06-23 09:03am GMT

Dan Bacher (2026-06-23). Sacramento Approves Ethical Investment Policy Amendment, Divests from Lockheed Martin. indybay.org Sacramento joins Alameda County, Richmond, Albany, Dublin, and Pasadena as well as communities across the country responding to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement's call to cut ties with the companies fueling genocide, apartheid, and war crimes, as well as systems of oppression here at home, like mass incarceration and immigrant detention and surveillance.

Caitlin Johnstone (2026-06-22). True Spirituality Confronts The Abuses Of The Empire. thealtworld.com A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you're wasting your time. | Sometimes I get asked why I only occasionally write about "spiritual" matters like awakening, egoic delusion, inner work etc, but from my point of view everything I write is about that stuff. To oppose the injustices and abuses of our world is to directly interface with the mechanisms of humanity's struggle to become a conscious species. | The overwhelmi…

newarab (2026-06-22). Genocide Keir is out but can damage of Starmer legacy be undone. newarab.com Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has at long last resigned, outlining a timetable for his departure from Downing Street. His exit marks the end of a tenure that has done lasting damage to both people at home and abroad. | Part of his fall is down to the Mandelson—Epstein affair- a scandal that is, in its own way, a perfect metaphor for everything rotten about Starmerism. Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of leaking sensitive government information to a convicted sex offender, Starmer's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to resign, and a senior Foreign Office civil servant was pu…

Kate Horgan (2026-06-22). The Misuse of History: Archaeology in Palestine. projectcensored.org On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with professor Abboud Hamayel to discuss the misuse of history, in particular archaeology as a tool of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Abboud also deconstructs the performative solidarity of pity, the entangled histories that make Palestine a lens through…

Ramona Wadi (2026-06-22). The international community is fast losing its diplomatic relevance. thealtworld.com

newarab (2026-06-22). Starmer's legacy shaped by Gaza genocide, UK rights crackdown. newarab.com Less than two years after winning a thumping parliamentary majority, albeit with a record-low voter turnout and a vote share of just 33%, UK Prime Minister Starmer, a human rights lawyer by training, exits Number 10 with a record that rights groups say showed little respect for human rights and civil liberties, both at home and abroad. | The prime minister…

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