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RT @NatCounterPunch: Sayfollah Musallet would die only a week after coming to Palestine. He would die shortly after attending Friday prayer….
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And why would the Israelis aggressively pursue holding the killers to account? The settlers are agents of the regime. Indeed, they are the leading edge, the shock forces, if you will, for the...
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RT @NatCounterPunch: “Everything beautiful in their lives is gone:” US physicians read aloud the searing testimony of desperate doctors and….
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“What will I tell them? When I go to buy shoes for my children, what will I do when Hanan and Misk ask why I don’t buy them any? If they say, ‘I want to play’, ‘I want to dance’, ‘I want to ride a...
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland have announced that they are opting out of the Ottawa Treaty. The withdrawals represent a serious weakening of disarmament treaties that have humanitarian objectives as well as respect for international law.
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Treaties are voluntary agreements in which states consent to follow a given set of rules. Once signed and ratified, treaties commit states to specific obligations. They are neither ad hoc, spur-of-...
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RT @ZoydintheVoid: Put it in the same radioactive waste bin as that Zadie Smith piece in the New Yorker. .
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RT @brian_goldstone: A reminder: framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to dive….
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“Everything beautiful in their lives is gone:” US physicians read aloud the searing testimony of desperate doctors and patients in Gaza.
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“What will I tell them? When I go to buy shoes for my children, what will I do when Hanan and Misk ask why I don’t buy them any? If they say, ‘I want to play’, ‘I want to dance’, ‘I want to ride a...
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Sayfollah Musallet would die only a week after coming to Palestine. He would die shortly after attending Friday prayers in the ancient town of Sinjil. But die is not the right word. Saif was murdered. Murdered by a mob.
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And why would the Israelis aggressively pursue holding the killers to account? The settlers are agents of the regime. Indeed, they are the leading edge, the shock forces, if you will, for the...
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This tragedy is different from past atrocities in one disturbing respect: the suffering, the use of starvation as a weapon, the unrelenting bombardment, the mass murder, they are laid bare for all to see. The violence is not concealed, it is flaunted.
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In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination. Omer Bartov, a distinguished scholar of Holocaust and Genocide studies, reports in The New...
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The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier.
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In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide...
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RT @PeteTucker: There have been more journalists killed in Gaza War than US Civil War, World Wars I & II, Vietnam & Afghanistan combined, a….
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It’s been nearly eight years since you took over as New York Times publisher from your dad, and the paper is in top form. At just 44, you’ve achieved a level of financial success for the Times that...
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RT @NatStClair: All I can think about right now is the title of Omar El Akkad's book: One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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RT @_Zeets: The teenagers and adults also don’t deserve to be bombed and starved. You can also say that. We don’t need to accept the framin….
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're pro….
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RT @LindseyBoylan: I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide….
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RT @NatCounterPunch: Timber mining is Empire’s latest scorched earth policy.
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Here in Montana, early mining claims at Benetsee Creek (1852); Bannack (1860); Alder Creek near Virginia City (1862); and Last Chance Gulch in Helena
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RT @wideofthepost: This is cover your ass posturing because she's been 100% on board with this mass murder campaign the entire damn time, a….
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In an era when the supremacy of the U.S. dollar is increasingly scrutinized, could dollar-backed stablecoins be the digital scaffolding that fortifies its global reign, or the spark that accelerates its decline?
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When Circle, the world’s second-largest dollar stablecoin company, floated its shares at the start of June, the reaction was euphoric. By June 27,
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RT @edzitron: Premium newsletter: Based on my research, the majority of SoftBank and OpenAI’s partnership - Stargate and the $3bn-a-year SB….
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Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." To...
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Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the conflict is bewildering.
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Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the conflict is bewildering. Between 60-200
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RT @ZoydintheVoid: Trump's problem isn't that he hung out with a pedophile. It isn't even that he may have forced himself on very young wo….
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