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Flour massacre called ‘aid-related deaths’—rather than part of Israel’s engineered famine

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 22, 2024 by Robin Andersen (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | (Posted Mar 25, 2024)

Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.
Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia

Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 24, 2023 by David C. Perlman (more by Marx & Philosophy) | (Posted Apr 26, 2023)

A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.
Citing famine, UN urges reversal of terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthis; U.S. refuses

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 15, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch) |

Mark Lowcock of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that recent labeling of Houthis as a terrorist organization by the U.S. would likely trigger a “famine on a scale we have not seen in 40 years.