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In the midst of genocide in Gaza–The legacy of Rachel Corrie lives on
During her time in Gaza, Corrie stayed with a family in Rafah. In her letters home, she referred to the difference between there and here as a “virtual portal into luxury”.
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The Turkiye–Israel trade boom: Talk is cheap, but money talks
While denouncing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a ‘genocide’ and ‘inhumane,’ Erdogan is stealthily supplying Israel and its military forces with all the necessary goods to keep on ticking.
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Internet ‘gardeners’ resist the communication blackout of Gaza
Since October, Gaza has been an internet black hole. But the Italian NGO ACS has helped build a network of e-SIM internet hotspots known as the Gazaweb.
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The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 4)
Now, as in the worldwide revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s-70s, the strongest emotive and analytical connections between China’s historical experience and the Palestinian resistance come through the memory of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Charging Canada’s genocidaires
Dozens, possibly two hundred, Canadians are currently subjugating Palestinians in the West Bank and slaughtering them in Gaza.
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Conquest, war, famine, and death hit you straight in the heart: The Eleventh Newsletter (2024)
In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestine.
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Instead of ‘civil discourse’ we have civil terror
Last week, the CBC ran an interview on its flagship program, The Current, with Randy Boyagoda, a professor at the University of Toronto (U of T). Dr Boyagoda is neither Jewish nor Palestinian. He is an English scholar with several novels and critical essays under his belt.
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The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 3)
In the last section we explored the Axis of Resistance and its pursuit of material self-sufficiency, as well as Basel al-Araj’s incisive Mao-inspired analysis of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior enemy.
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UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’
Israel has sought for years to dismantle the UN agency to destroy Palestinian refugees’ right of return.
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The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 2)
Notwithstanding Mao’s admonition to his PLO visitors to avoid book worship—including and especially of his own works—his writings on guerrilla warfare had by then become canon, and for good reason.
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How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel’s genocide
Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 1)
As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its sixth month, Qiao Collective presents an urgent intervention from Charles Xu on the Palestinian resistance and the place of China, its people, and their revolutionary legacy in the global solidarity movement.
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Pretending the U.S. can’t just drive aid into Gaza
Have they considered digging a giant tunnel to get aid into Gaza as well? Or launching aid into Gaza by building a giant slingshot? Or perhaps they could invent some type of portal gun à la Rick and Morty?
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‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians
Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.
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[UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare
When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.
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Climate crisis and nuclear waste in the U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report.
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Illegal Israeli settlements land for sale in Canada
The Canada Files became aware of planned Canadian illegal settlement events for selling land in the West Bank and Gaza through a Twitter post from Ghada Sasa, a Palestinian PhD Candidate at McMaster University.
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The good Germans are blowing smoke
There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth—negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages.
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Goalposts and gunfire: Israel’s deliberate attacks on Palestinian football and its players
Amid an ongoing onslaught against the Gaza Strip by apartheid Israel, the Palestinian national football team was a Cinderella story at this year’s AFC Asian Cup, reaching the knockout stages, eventually falling only to hosts and eventual winners hosted in Qatar.
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The nobodies are worth more than the bullet that kills them: The Ninth Newsletter (2024)
On 20 February, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield had the terrible job of vetoing Algeria’s resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Amar Bendjama, the Algerian Ambassador to the UN, said that the resolution he tabled had been shaped by conversations amongst the 15 members of the UN Security Council.