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Members of Israel’s Ruling Likud Party Once Planned to Assassinate Henry Kissinger

Daniel Boguslaw

A radical faction within the Likud party plotted to kill Kissinger in 1977, according to a news report from the time.

JERUSALEM - SEPTEMBER 1: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the King David Hotel September 1, 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

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On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East

Let’s not forget that Kissinger’s crimes included the deaths of thousands of Arabs and Israelis.

NYPD Accused of Fabricating Domestic Violence Survivor’s Murder Confession

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office dropped the murder charges against Tracy McCarter last year, citing insufficient evidence.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 02: Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at the entrance of the migrant relief center at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on February 02, 2023 in New York City. Dan Goldman (D-NY) spoke during a press conference after he and various elected officials took a tour of the temporary migrant relief center for adult men at the terminal. The center has been taking in migrants from the Watson Hotel after they were evicted from the premises in order to be relocated to the center. On Wednesday night, NYPD and DSNY cleared a group of migrants who refused relocatiing to the center citing inhumane conditions. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Some Politicians Calling for a “Ceasefire” Are Not Actually Calling for a Ceasefire

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 13: The U.S. Capitol Building is secured in response to a call for a "Day of Rage" on October 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Security has increased across the U.S. in response to last weekend's Hamas attacks on Israel. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Plan to Trade Immigrant Rights for Ukraine Money Is Sinking Fast

Pablo Manriquez

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Donald Trump's lawyers are expecting the former president to be indicted as soon as Thursday over attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the matter. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

India Accidentally Hired a DEA Agent to Kill Sikh American Activist, Federal Prosecutors Say

Murtaza Hussain

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Pro-Palestinian activists hold a rally at Union Station on November 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. The group of activists attempted to shutdown Union Station as they called for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas war. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

With Ceasefire Calls Growing, Israeli Military Launches Closed-Door “PR Blitz” on Capitol Hill

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

Podcasts

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attends a news conference with Democratic lawmakers about the Biden administrations border politics, outside the U.S. Capitol on January 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. A group of 77 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden this week criticizing his administrations policies restricting asylum access for migrants crossing the southern border. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Deconstructed

Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim on the Squad

Intercepted

Prisoners, Propaganda, and the Battle Over the Gaza War Narrative

Voices

GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 28: Gazans displaced due to Israeli attacks move towards the southern Gaza Strip through roads determined by the Israeli army as 'safe passage corridor' in Gaza City, Gaza on November 28, 2023. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians

AL BIREH, WEST BANK - NOVEMBER 26: 39 Palestinians, brought by International Committee of the Red Cross vehicle, reunite with their relatives as they are released from Israeli Ofer prison as a part of Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas prisoner swap amid Humanitarian pause, according to Palestine Liberation Organization's prisoners in Al Bireh city of Ramallah, West Bank on November 26, 2023. Israeli authorities released 39 Palestinians, including 6 females, 33 minors as part of second batch of prisoner swap according to official Palestinian news agency WAFA. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Israel’s Insidious Narrative About Palestinian Prisoners

Politics

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 21: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears before Judge Scott McAfee for a hearing in the 2020 Georgia election interference case at the Fulton County Courthouse on November 21, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge McAfee heard arguments as to whether co-defendant Harrison Floyd should be sent to jail for social media posts and comments that potentially targeted witnesses in the trial. McAfee declined to revoke Floyd's bond. Floyd was charged along with former US President Donald Trump and 17 others in an indictment that accuses them of illegally conspiring to subvert the will of Georgia voters in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Dennis Byron-Pool/Getty Images)

Georgia Supreme Court Blocks GOP Attack on Trump Prosecutor — For Now

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 14: Chairman U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on unions on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Union leader testified before the Committee at a hearing titled, "Standing Up Against Corporate Greed: How Unions are Improving the Lives of Working Families." (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders May Push Vote on Conditioning Aid to Israel in Coming Weeks

Daniel Boguslaw

UNITED STATES - JULY 15: From left, Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mass., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center responding to negative comments by President Trump that were directed the freshman House Democrats on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

A Big-Money Operation Purged Critics of Israel From the Democratic Party

US President Joe Biden during a meeting to accelerate efforts to counter the flow of fentanyl into the United States in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. The Biden administration's decision to remove a Chinese organization from a sanctions list as part of a deal to combat the fentanyl crisis marks an unusual concession to Beijing's complaints over US trade restrictions. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile

Ken Klippenstein

Justice

Police Officers from the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, NY investigate the scene where police shot and killed a suspect who fired at police on May 13, 2022. Plain clothes officers were investigating a separate case when they encountered a group in a dispute and an armed suspect fired at police officers, police returned fire striking the gunman fives times, the gunman died at a nearby hospital. (Photo by Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

NYPD Paid Out $30 Million in Misconduct Cases Before Litigation in First Nine Months of 2023

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: Police take security measures as students of American University attend a campus protest against ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza in Washington, D.C., United States on November 01, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

American University Called on the FBI to Investigate Defaced Posters

NEW HAVEN, CT - NOVEMBER 18: Yale Bulldogs students protests for Palestine during the game as the Harvard Crimson take on the Yale Bulldogs on November 18, 2023 at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field in New Haven, CT (Photo by Williams Paul/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Harvard Law Review Editors Vote to Kill Article About Genocide in Gaza

Natasha Lennard

Facebook Approved an Israeli Ad Calling for Assassination of Pro-Palestine Activist

National Security

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks during a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) conference November 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. The commission held a conference on "Strength Through Innovation: The Future of A.I. and U.S. National Security." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100

Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program divests 21 vehicles to BG Sherzad with the Ministry of Peshmerga valued at $5.3 million at Erbil Air Base, Iraq on August 11, 2021. The CTEF program supports Iraqi Counter Terrorism Headquarters with the equipment to enhance their fight against hostile forces. (U.S. Army photo by SFC Ernest Henderson)

Missiles and Drones Among Weapons Stolen From U.S. in Iraq and Syria

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - OCTOBER 19: Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder holds a press conference at the Pentagon on October 19, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. Ryder spoke on the Israel–Hamas war, U.S. military aid to Israel and the recent drone attacks on U.S. military installations in the middle east. Ryder reaffirmed that the recent explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital was a result from an errant rocket fired from within Gaza and not from an Israeli airstrike. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Pentagon Fails Sixth Audit in a Row, Claiming “Progress Sort of Beneath the Surface”

Ken Klippenstein

U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron take off from RAF Lakenheath, England, for a deployment to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Oct. 16, 2023. While deployed, the 494th FS will support 9th Air Force (Air Forces Central) and be an engaged, postured and ready partner, supporting coalition forces to assure, deter and defend in an increasingly complex and dynamic security environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Olivia Gibson)

Pentagon Won’t Say Where It’s Sending U.S. Troops — to Avoid Embarrassing Host Nations

Ken Klippenstein

World

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 7: A kidnapped poster for hostages kidnapped on October 7 by Hamas in Israel is torn and covered with an anti_Israel sticker, November 7, 2023, in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

How to Read the Israeli “Kidnapped” Posters

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MARCH 02: Palestinians, holding banners and photos of Palestinian prisoner, gather to stage protest to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after the preliminary hearing is held for the law that would execute Palestinian detainees convicted of murdering Israeli in Gaza City, Gaza on March 02, 2023. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

After Hamas Attack, Israeli Politicians Want to Empower Military Tribunals to Execute Palestinians

Daniel Boguslaw

Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah wave flags as they watch a televised speech by its leader Hassan Nasrallah (unseen) in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on November 3, 2023. Nasrallah told the United States on November 3, that his Iran-backed group was ready to face its warships and the way to prevent a regional war was to halt the attacks in Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s Unwavering Support for Israel Fuels Iran-Backed “Axis of Resistance”

Members of Pakistan's Sikh community shout slogans as they hold banners during a protest in Quetta on September 23, 2023, to condemn the killing of a Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. India's historic adversary Pakistan said on September 21, that Western nations had failed to see the "reality" of New Delhi's right-wing leadership after Canada alleged Indian involvement in a killing. Canada expelled an Indian diplomat, prompting a tit-for-tat reaction, after concluding that Indian agents played a role in the June killing near Vancouver of a Sikh separatist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar. (Photo by Banaras KHAN / AFP) (Photo by BANARAS KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Secret Intelligence Documents Show Global Reach of India’s Death Squads

Murtaza Hussain, Ryan Grim

Technology

A masked witness leaves the military court in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during the trial against six soldiers accused of crimes against humanity and violating orders, on September 15, 2023. Six soldiers, including two officers of the elite Republican Guard, faced a military tribunal over the killing of nearly 50 people in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in Goma. Congolese soldiers had on August 30, 2023 stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against United Nations peacekeepers in the city. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

Robert Flummerfelt, Nick Turse

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

LexisNexis Sold Powerful Spy Tools to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Google Activists Circulated Internal Petition on Israel Ties. Only the Muslim Got a Call from HR.

SAPIR, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 11: A view of the Israeli cyber company NSO Group branch in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021 in Sapir, Israel. The company, which makes the spyware Pegasus, is being sued in the United States by WhatsApp, which alleges that NSO Group's spyware was used to hack 1,400 users of the popular messaging app. An US appeals court ruled this week that NSO Group is not protected under sovereign immunity laws. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Demands “Urgent” Meeting With Blinken Amid Gaza War Lobbying Effort

Environment

The Norlite hazardous waste-burning plant in Cohoes, New York, seen on October 1st, 2023. (Photo: Rebecca Redelmeier)

New Yorkers Voted to Put Environmental Rights in Their Constitution — but the Attorney General Is Fighting Back

Rebecca Redelmeier

Seal Beach, CA - December 13: Plastic bottles and other trash is piled up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach on Tuesday morning, December 13, 2022. Recent heavy rains have sent trash flowing down the river from many miles inland. (Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Unproven “Advanced Recycling” Facilities Have Received Millions in Public Subsidies

Schuyler Mitchell

NEW HAVEN, CT - OCTOBER 08: Yale Professor William Nordhaus speaks during a press conference after winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at Yale University on October 8, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut. Professor Nordhaus' research has been focused on the economics of climate change, economic growth and natural resources. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Christopher Ketcham

BONN, GERMANY - JUNE 8: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President-Designate of the UNFCCC COP28 climate conference and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, speaks at a side event at the UNFCCC SB58 Bonn Climate Change Conference on June 8, 2023 in Bonn, Germany. The conference, which lays the groundwork for the adoption of decisions at the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai in December, will run until June 15. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit

Ben Stockton, Amy Westervelt