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NY Times Acknowledges Venezuela Opposition as Cause of Aid Fire, Echoing Initial Reports by Alternative Press

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Israel Bans Arab Parties and Liberal Candidate from Coming Elections

In Israel, two Palestinian political parties and one liberal Jewish party member have been banned from running in the April 9th election; meanwhile, a radical Jewish candidate stays in, even after Israel’s Attorney General recommended he be banned.

Kathryn Shihadah
بواسطة Kathryn Shihadah
Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel Elections

The Washington Post reported that Israel’s electoral committee has decided to ban two Palestinian parties and one liberal Jewish, pro-Palestinian rights candidate from running in next month’s elections. At the same time, the committee retained an extreme right-wing candidate, in spite of a recommendation from Israel’s Attorney General to bar

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“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

Even as the Venezuelan government blamed the recent power outage on U.S.-led “sabotage,” the U.S. has long had a plan on the books for targeting the civilian power grid of adversarial nations.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Venezuela | Power Outage

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- For nearly four days, much of Venezuela has been without power, bringing the country’s embattled economy to a near standstill. Though power is now returning, the outage saw U.S. officials and politicians blame the Venezuelan government for the crisis while officials in Caracas accused the U.S. of conducting “sabotage” and

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The Grooming of Juan Guaido, Pawn for US Economic Interests in Venezuela

Kei Pritsker explains how Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido came to have the backing of US corporations, political interests and ultimately, the Trump administration.

Kei Pritsker
بواسطة Kei Pritsker
Juan Guaido | Venezuela

 This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration. Donald Trump and Mike Pence declared Juan Guaido, a Venezuelan politician known to fewer than one in five Venezuelans, the President of Venezuela, despite Venezuela’s already having a democratically elected president, Nicolas Maduro. Washington doesn’t care

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In Bid to Control Yemen Border Towns, Saudi Arabia Employs Deadly Airstrikes and Jihadi Militias

Saudi Arabia has taken to the pulpit in local mosques, airwaves, Facebook and Twitter, and local media to inflame sectarian tensions that previously did not exist in Yemen’s border region.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
بواسطة Ahmed Abdulkareem
Hajjah | Yemen | airstrike

HAJJAH, YEMEN -- At least 28 civilians, mostly displaced women and children, were killed and 17 were injured after the Saudi-led Coalition launched a barrage of airstrikes in the early hours of Sunday morning in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah Province. The airstrikes, at least 30 in number,  struck 13 residential homes in the Talan village of Hajjah’s

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السر المظلم وراء "الدولة الموازية" للملياردير البريطاني في باتاغونيا بالأرجنتين

هناك خطة شريرة يشارك فيها أشهر الأوليغارشية في العالم ، بالإضافة إلى صندوق النقد الدولي والعناصر الرئيسية في اللوبي الصهيوني العالمي ، تتربص تحت دولة مستقلة بحكم الواقع أنشأها أحد أغنى رجال إنجلترا في قلب باتاغونيا الأرجنتينية.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Joe Lewis | Argentina

EL BOLSÓN, ARGENTINA – At the “end of the world,” spanning the southernmost regions of Argentina and Chile, lies the land of Patagonia, much of which remains a pristine wilderness that has inspired countless naturalists and would-be adventurers with its dramatic landscapes and natural beauty. For many, it is a place that still feels remarkably

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Oxfam: Starving Yemeni Families Selling Daughters as Young as Three into Marriage

The fact that girls as young as three have been sold is shocking and a testament to the severity of the humanitarian crisis, particularly the country’s burgeoning famine, that many Yemenis face.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Yemen | Child Marriage

LONDON -- As the entirely man-made crisis in Yemen continues to worsen, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam has stated that some desperate Yemeni families are selling their daughters, some as young as three years old, as child brides in hopes that their dowries can buy them much needed food and shelter. Oxfam made the shocking and disturbing claims in

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