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Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Nov. 15, 2023; Sarah Leah Whitson: Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, War Crimes and U.S. Complicity; Liv Kunins-Berkowitz: Jewish Voice for Peace Protests Demand Biden, Congress Pressure Israel to Accept Gaza Ceasefire; David Pepper: Ohio Voters Overcome GOP Dirty Tricks to Approve Abortion Access Constitutional Amendment.

The Supreme Court has just heard the case US v. Rahimi, which is specifically about whether those under domestic violence restraining orders should have access to guns. Most media did better than Time magazine’s thumbnail of Rahimi as pitting “the safety of domestic violence victims against the nation’s broad Second Amendment rights”—because, as our guest explains, Rahimi is much more about whether this Court’s conservative majority will be able to use their special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future. ... Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Gaza crisis, and at McCarthyism.

It’s been called the end of innocence. The first of the great assassinations of the nineteen sixties. The first emergence of a national tragedy in real time on the media airwaves. The end of Camelot. The death of the 35th president of the United States in a motorcade travelling through Dallas marked the end of trust in the U.S. government, and the dawn of what came to be known as “Conspiracy Theories” revolving around seemingly impossible events. Did someone really kill our beloved president? How can that be? But as listeners to this program, and patrons of Global Research know all too well, we cannot exclude criminal practices from within the ranks of governments and government servants acting nominally in our own interests. ...

Opening with a keynote discussion featuring Angela Davis, Pam Africa, Julia Wright, and Johanna Fernández, the event featured two dozen experts and artists working and studying incarceration and its wide-ranging effects on society. The second day of the symposium also marked the opening of the Mumia Abu-Jamal papers for research at the John Hay Library with the launch of the exhibit, Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration. This exhibition centers on the writing, music and art of Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose papers anchor the John Hay Library’s Voices of Mass Incarceration in the United States collection. Mumia has been imprisoned for 43 years for allegedly killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. ...

(1) We read Harvard faculty member Salma Abu Ayyash’s response to Harvard’s new president’s recent message on Gaza, which falsely accuses critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza of anti-Semitism and blames Gazans for triggering the genocide; (2) Al Jazeera conducted a thorough interview with Craig Mokhiber, longtime UN high commissioner who resigned. Mokhiber resigned because of the UN’s failure to adequately address Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gazan civilians, hospitals, schools, and even UN facilities. ; (3) A lawsuit has been filed by CCR attorneys to stop US aid and hold Israel responsible for its war crimes. With it, an emergency motion calls for this result. Emergency or not, the motion is scheduled for argument in early January.

Reporter Max Blumenthal explains how the Israeli military launched a series of attacks on Oct. 7 designed to kill Hamas gunmen along with their Israeli hostages. (This means the vaunted Israeli deaths include those killed by "friendly fire.")