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The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead

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Life Under Siege: The Blockade on Gaza Turns Fourteen and Is Still as Illegal as Ever

With no foreseeable end in sight, Israel’s blockade on Gaza not only runs afoul of international law, but it has also already been on the radar of the United Nations and human rights groups for well over a decade.

Kathryn Shihadah
بواسطة Kathryn Shihadah
Gaza Blockade Feature photo

As the coronavirus pandemic has dominated the headlines for the past few months, it could be easy to miss the news that the Gaza Strip has quietly entered its fourteenth year under an Israeli blockade. The humanitarian ramifications of that blockade cannot be understated, with Israel controlling Gazans from the high seas, the air, and the ground.

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“A Disgrace”: Amnesty International Blocked From Monitoring Trial of Julian Assange

Amnesty International’s Europe Director described the hearings against Assange as an “assault on the right to freedom of expression” that would have a “chilling effect on media freedom.”

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Julian Assange Feature photo

The high profile extradition hearing of publisher and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continued in Central London today. But it did so without oversight from international human rights groups. Julia Hall, an expert on criminal justice and human rights for Amnesty International, revealed that her organization was again denied entry to the court

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Gorgon Stare: A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” May Be Coming to a City Near You

The military and the drone manufacturers, principally General Atomics, are arguing that the technology has advanced far enough that flying 79-ft. wingspan, six-ton drones over populated areas and alongside commercial air traffic is safe.

Medea Benjamin
بواسطة Medea Benjamin
US Drones Feature photo

Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we're looking at, and we can see everything. That same persistent eye in the sky may soon be deployed over U.S. cities. At the time he made that comment about surveillance drones over Afghanistan, Maj. General James Poss was the Air Force's top

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Steve Bannon’s Plans for a Privately-Funded Border Wall Are Crumbling

As Steve Bannon faces 40 years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, the trend of privately-funded border walls his organization started comes up against federal, international, and political barriers

Raul Diego
بواسطة Raul Diego
Steve Bannon

A three-mile private border wall in South Texas backed by Steve Bannon's We Build The Wall non-profit is at risk of failing, according to a new engineering report that questions the structural integrity of the controversial barrier. Bannon's scheme was started back in December of 2018 by Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who set up a GoFundMe

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In the Face of “Normalization” Congressional Dems Lobby to Protect Israel’s “Qualitative Military Edge”

A group of Congressional Dems are calling attention to a key pillar of US-Israeli policy in a futile effort to stall an arms deal as Israeli-UAE normalization takes effect.

Raul Diego
بواسطة Raul Diego
Israel QME Feature photo

Since the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, every U.S. president has formally upheld the strategic priority of Israel through what today has become an official policy of the United States government called "Qualitative Military Edge" or QME. Enshrined as law in 2008, it essentially calls for Israel to "build and maintain a military that is

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Wildfires Rage Across Syria in Wake of Increased US-Led Economic Warfare

The combination of a ten year military war, maximum pressure economic sanctions, the deliberate destruction of essential civilian infrastructure and the blatant scorched earth policies of the American neocolonialist foreign policy-managers are designed to reduce Syria to another failed state following NATO’s Libya blueprint.

Vanessa Beeley
بواسطة Vanessa Beeley
People fleeing Latakia

For nearly two weeks, Syria has been battling a new wave of fires that have engulfed much of the agricultural and forest-rich mountainous areas of western Syria. Thanks to a corporate media blackout, very few in the West are aware of the devastation that is affecting the Syrian people already crippled by U.S.-led economic sanctions, recently

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