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UN officials denounce Israel’s “illegal and unacceptable” war on Palestinian civil society
UN official Mary Lawlor calls Israeli attacks on Palestinian human rights organizations an “atrocity.” “It’s as simple as that,” Lawlor tells Mondoweiss, “Israel does not want human rights defenders documenting and publicizing the attacks and injustice done to the Palestinians. So, this is their tactic.”
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‘Avenging Sabra and Shatila’: On Israeli massacres and Palestinian resistance
September 16 marks the 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the killing of around 3,000 Palestinians at the hands of Lebanon’s Phalangist militias operating under the command of the Israeli army.
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Saad Hariri and the collapse of Lebanon
The Syrian regime-change war and Lebanon’s economic collapse happened under Saad Hariri’s watch, but the Future Movement leader is seldom mentioned for the pivotal role he played in Lebanon’s unravelling.
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Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the U.S., inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, U.S.-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
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Washington is the reason why “Israel” gets away with killing Shireen Abu Akleh
The joke of a U.S. report claims that it can’t judge “Israel”, because it does not have conclusive evidence of who fired the bullet, yet somehow claims to know the intent of the one responsible, without even knowing who that is.
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No room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.
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Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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U.S. troops loot 84 oil tankers from Syria, smuggle them into Iraq
The United States is still plundering Syrian oil, stealing the country’s resources via illegal border crossings and siphoning them out to further line its pockets.
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Four years later, parents of 40 school bus children killed in US-supplied bomb await accountability
Parents were angry at the Biden administration’s resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9.
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Israel’s friends struggle to justify unprovoked attack that killed 17 children
Israel’s supporters are crowing that the Gaza attack was successful, but these advocates have blinded themselves to the moral dimension of such awful force.
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Over 70 economists call for Biden Administration to return Afghanistan’s Central Bank reserves
“The people of Afghanistan have been made to suffer doubly for a government they did not choose.”
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Israel heads further right: 30-40 percent of young support fascistic Jewish party
The Gaza attack has heightened Israel’s right-wing political tilt as it approaches its next election.
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Palestinian workers forced off Israeli bus to make way for Jewish passengers
A man pretending to be a transport ministry official manipulated the driver into removing around 50 Palestinian workers from the bus.
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Russia, Turkey launch new economic ‘roadmap’
The Putin-Erdogan meeting in Sochi has rapidly accelerated Russian-Turkish economic initiatives and financial ties. These include bypassing western sanctions, integrating money transfers, and trading outside the dollar.
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Children bear brunt of Israel’s savagery in Gaza
A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad resistance group took effect before midnight Sunday, ending a deadly Israeli assault on Gaza.
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‘Apartheid’ is not sufficient: an interview with UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari
UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.
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Israeli Supreme Court rules citizens can be stripped of status for ‘breach of loyalty’
Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population.
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“The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017”
In Palestine, those attempts at ethnic cleansing, a necessity for the Zionists in regard to their demographic fears of majority Arab/Palestinian population, came up against the post-WWII decolonization movements rising from the liberal rhetoric of the western powers and the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union.