(2025-08-28). UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide in letter. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). Half of US voters believe Israel committing genocide in Gaza, poll says. aljazeera.com Six in 10 voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to Quinnipiac poll.
(2025-08-28). CAIR Designates UC Berkeley a 'Hostile Campus' for Systematic Suppression of Anti-Genocide Speech. indybay.org August 26, 2025 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced the designation of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a "Hostile Campus" due to its long and escalating pattern of targeting Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and allied students and faculty who speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
(2025-08-28). Iran Demands Concrete International Action To End Israel's Genocide. popularresistance.org Abbas Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, called for more concrete collective action against Israel, asserting that mere verbal condemnations are no longer enough to prevent its "insatiable" Zionist ambitions to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and expand their occupation in the region. | Araghchi reiterated that the Israeli war in Gaza "is not merely a fleeting military conflict or an ordinary humanitarian crisis: it is a systematic, full fledged genocide explicitly intended to achieve ethnic cleansing amid the complicit silence of the US and the West more broadly." | Citing the daily killing of Palestinians seek…
(2025-08-28). Colombia's former president under fire over trip to Israel. colombiareports.com Former president Ivan Duque came under fire after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Duque went to Israel to promote his wife's foundation and the business interests of the Gilinski oligarchy. On national television, the former president praised the ongoing collaboration between Israel and his foundation. Duque's mission …
(2025-08-28). Hundreds of UN Staff Urge Rights Chief to Label Gaza a Genocide. moderndiplomacy.eu Background The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), created in 1993 to protect human rights globally, has seen its current head, Austrian lawyer Volker Turk, repeatedly condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, while being careful to not use the word "genocide". The term "genocide" carries severe legal and political implications, as the action …
(2025-08-28). Australian pseudo-left conference: Protest politics and reformist electoral fronts to trap anti-capitalist sentiment. wsws.org Socialist Alternative's Sydney conference promoted the fraud of protest politics, that have manifestly failed to halt the Gaza genocide, and sought to justify its creation of reformist electoral fronts.
(2025-08-28). Genoa dockworkers confront Bahri Logistics over weapons shipments amid Middle East wars. wsws.org Italian dockworkers' struggle against Saudi shipping giant Bahri shows how the working class can fight genocide and war and raises important political issues facing workers internationally.
(2025-08-28). Gaza Genocide deniers are no different from Holocaust deniers, except that their denial abets the genocide itself. mondoweiss.net 
The denial of the Gaza genocide has been echoed from the mainstream media to the White House. While reminiscent of Holocaust denial, today's denials have deadly consequences as they are used to justify the very genocide deniers claim isn't happening.
(2025-08-28). Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death. scheerpost.com US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea speaks on August 27, 2025. | (Photo: US Mission to the United Nations/X) | In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Brett Wilkins / Every member nation of the United Nations Security Coun…
(2025-08-28). Death toll from Gaza mass starvation hits 313. wsws.org Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children.
(2025-08-28). What is famine, and how is it determined? aljazeera.com Famine doesn't happen naturally. It's political. Gaza joins the short list of places where conflict starves people.
(2025-08-28). Aid to famine-struck Gaza still 'drop in the ocean': WFP. newarab.com 
The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a "drop in the ocean", days afte The United Nations declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming the "systematic obstruction" of aid by Israel during its nearly two-year war on the enclave. | Carl Skau, WFP's chief operating officer, said that over the past two weeks, there has been a "slight uptick" in aid entering, averaging around 100 trucks per day.
(2025-08-28). Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 75 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours. news.antiwar.com Gaza's Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks have killed 71 Palestinians and wounded 339 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli attacks continue across the Strip. On top of the violent deaths, the Health Ministry said that it recorded another four starvation-related deaths amid the famine caused by the Israeli siege. "This …
(2025-08-28). LIVE: Israel starves four more Palestinians to death in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israeli attacks kill at least 17 people in Gaza, including a woman and her child in the Bureij camp.
(2025-08-28). All NATO members meet 2% defence spending goal, but only three surpass new 3.5% target. moderndiplomacy.eu BackgroundNATO allies agreed in 2014 to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence by 2024, a benchmark pushed strongly by Washington, particularly under former U.S. President Donald Trump. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 further accelerated spending across the alliance. At a June 2025 summit in The Hague, NATO leaders agreed to raise …