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Israeli Human Rights Group Highlights How Israel Makes Fishing in Gaza Deadly

As is the reality with most elements of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, the greatest challenge in Gaza’s fishing industry is not the weather, or fluctuations in the market – it’s simply living to fish another day.

Kathryn Shihadah
بواسطة Kathryn Shihadah
Gaza Fisherman Feature photo

The Gaza Strip, just six miles wide, boasts a twenty-five-mile coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. Fishing is a natural industry in such a location and as recently as 2000, was a lucrative business for ten thousand Gazans. Today, only about 3,700 remain in the fishing trade – and about ninety-five percent of these live below the poverty line, with

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Bezos Doubles Wealth as Amazon Essential Product Prices Rise 1000% Amid Pandemic

A report by Public Citizen found that “Amazon is engaged in price gouging on products it sells directly” through its Amazon Essentials line, with products like facemasks and corn starch seeing elevenfold increases in price.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Amazon price gouging

A new report from advocacy group Public Citizen details how retail giant Amazon “misled the public, law enforcement, and policymakers about price increases during the pandemic,” raising their prices on essential products “to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states.” The prices of many products in high demand

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Democrats Campaigning to Keep Green Party off the Ballot in Key Swing States

Voter shaming did not work for the Democrats in 2016 and with this latest attempt to bar the Green Party from even standing, Democrats are choosing a high-risk strategy that could backfire on election day.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod

The 2020 presidential election is already underway — or, at least, it should be. Because of an ongoing legal battle, none of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties will be sending out mail-in ballots today like they were originally scheduled to. Democrats are attempting to remove Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins from the ballot because of an

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Patriot Act Coauthor Michael Chertoff Touts More Election Security as Federal ID System Looms

Calls to overhaul the legacy bureaucratic systems of the U.S. with cutting-edge AI-driven mass tracking and surveillance technologies are intensifying at the top echelons of the National Security state with all eyes on the 2020 election.

Raul Diego
بواسطة Raul Diego
Michael Chertoff

Keeping in line with the trend of governance consolidation taking place among current and former members of the American political establishment, such as the recent lovefest between ex-president George W. Bush and liberal elites, Michael Chertoff, once Bush's DHS Secretary and coauthor of the Patriot Act along with two of his DHS peers sat down at

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كيف كشف تحقيق في مجلس الشيوخ عن دور صناعة المراقبة الإسرائيلية في تدبير فضيحة روسيا جيت

يكشف تحقيق أجراه مجلس الشيوخ أن اتحادًا من شركات القرصنة والمراقبة الإسرائيلية قام بتنسيق وتسهيل الاجتماعات بين عملاء حملة ترامب وروسيا خلال حملة عام 2016، لكنهم لا يريدون حقًا التحدث عن ذلك.

Raul Diego
بواسطة Raul Diego
Israel Russiagate Feature photo

Alleged Russian interference in the 2020 presidential election is headline news, once again, as a Ukrainian lawmaker is charged by the Trump administration "in a sweeping plot to sow distrust in the American political process," reports the Associated Press. Microsoft also made claims that it detected "hacking attempts targeting U.S. political

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Why is the US Government Using Stolen Cash To Pay Doctors in Venezuela?

The US government is using cash stolen from the Venezuelan government as part of a hearts and minds campaign on behalf of opposition figure Juan Guaidó.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Juan Guaido Venezuela Feature photo

Venezuelan doctors currently fighting COVID-19 are receiving funding from an unlikely source: U.S. backed coup leader Juan Guaidó. Health workers, who sometimes earn less than $20 per month, are receiving $100 dollars monthly from the self-declared president of Venezuela. Where is Guaidó getting all this money from? The U.S. government, who, in

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