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Moves of UK and U.S. over Chagos expose true nature of ‘values-based alliance’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.
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Israel should ‘level Gaza and make it look like Auschwitz’, says official
David Azoulay, head of northern Israeli town, calls for besieged enclave to become a museum that ‘should resemble’ the extermination camp in Poland.
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Scholz’s low blow: Telling Orban to ‘get coffee’ during Ukraine vote
The German chancellor has taken credit for a cunning coffee break tactic, which saw the European Union voting to advance accession talks with Ukraine.
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U.S. troops are occupying Syria’s oil fields. Congress refuses to withdraw them
The U.S. military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops.
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Urgent int’l investigation needed to probe Israeli war crimes after Palestinian civilians buried alive at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
Euro-Med Monitor teams are continuing to document what happened at Kamal Adwan Hospital today, and emphasized the need to open an international investigation into the horrific violations that the facility witnessed over the past several days against patients, displaced people, and medical staff as part of Israeli’s deliberate and systematic targeting of health facilities in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
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Kenya – a loyal lieutenant of imperialism
On the 60th anniversary of Kenya’s independence, Gathanga Ndung’u writes that the country has spent decades as the loyal servant of imperialism. The country may have express highways, a busy international airport, a modern railway, and an emerging silicone savannah, but in reality, Kenya seeks only to endear itself to world leaders and potential investors through well-packaged imaginaries of the present and the future. Ndung’u lists some of Kenya’s extensive betrayals – not least support for Israel and the abandonment of Palestinians.
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UN Members support Gaza cease-fire in overwhelming 153-10 vote
Humanity has prevailed,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek. “The Israeli aggression on Gaza must end. This bloodshed must stop.”
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Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
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U.S., Big Oil exploit Guyana border dispute to attack Venezuela
Until recently Guyana was the third-poorest country in Latin America. U.S. business journals have been painting a picture of Guyana potentially becoming the richest country in Latin America.
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UK Special Forces secretly operated in Ukraine, says Polish journalist
Special forces operators of UK were embedded with Ukrainian troops in the early days of the conflict, Declassified UK reported on Wednesday, citing the newly published book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza—our political class only pays lip service to human rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
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Israeli politician calls for captured Palestinians to be ‘buried alive’
Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as ‘subhuman’ and invokes biblical reference.
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Your enemies destroyed one Palestine; my wounds populated many Palestines: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.
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‘From the river to the sea’: Palestine’s historic struggle to share the land v. Israeli rejectionism
And a comparison with issues raised in Australia’s recent referendum.
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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America
It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries
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Half of Americans under 35 see Hamas attack as ‘justified by Palestinian grievances’
Democrats are terrified because they are losing their grip on the young. A new poll says half of Americans under 35 see Hamas’s October 7 attack as justified by Palestinian grievances. Young Americans are seeing the enormity of genocide.
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Israel-Palestine war: Occupied West Bank home to ‘two million Nazis’ says Smotrich
Far-right finance minister is latest senior Israeli to make broad-brush inflammatory statements about Palestinians.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.
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In their own words: Seven Israeli films exploring the Palestinian cause
A number of Israeli filmmakers have bravely turned the camera on their own society, revealing dark truths about their state and its history
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Tel Aviv police ban World Children’s Day event supporting “children living in the shadow of the war”
Tel Aviv police refused to allow a silent vigil for World Children’s Day saying the event could “cause serious harm to public security.” Police have used this same rationale to attack and detain peaceful protesters around the country.