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New York Times ‘Reviewing’ Reporter Who Liked Gaza ‘Slaughterhouse’ Tweet
The likes on X included a tweet calling for Israel to turn the Gaza Strip into a “slaughterhouse.”
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The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: Friend Says Self-Immolation Was a Demand for Justice
In an act that has captured the attention of the world, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington Sunday to protest Israel’s assault on Gaza and U.S. support for the military campaign. Bushnell, who live-streamed the action, said, “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” before lighting himself on fire and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” as he was engulfed in the flames. He was pronounced dead in the hospital later that day. Democracy Now! speaks with Bushnell’s friend and conscientious objector Levi Pierpont, who says his friend’...
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Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused”
A Kibbutz Be’eri official said the New York Times's story of sexual violence against two girls is “not true”: “They were not sexually abused.”
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Majority of Biden voters oppose weapons shipments to Israel, poll says
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It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too
Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long cutoffs of food supply deliveries.
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Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow’s biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War. Ukraine’s new prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said Russian President Vladimir Putin had effectively declared war on his country.
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Washington’s Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War
In some quarters public awareness is catching up with Stephen Lendman, Michel Chossudovsky, Rick Rozoff, myself and a few others in realizing the grave danger in the crisis that Washington has created in Ukraine.
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Ukraine: Kiev snipers reportedly hired by opposition leaders not Yanukovich according to 'bugged call'
Protesters in Ukraine were shot on the orders of their own leaders it has been alleged in a phonecall apparently between Estonia’s Foreign Minister and EU Foreign Policy Chief Cathy Ashton.
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The First Person to Talk to Millennials Like Human Beings Will Run the World
A new study says Millennials will put an end to the two-party system in America. Will the people currently in power learn to talk to them like people before it all happens?
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UK Government to introduce law requiring porn sites to obtain proof that users are over 18
The Government plans to make anyone aiming to view porn online prove that they are over 18 years of age through new requirements for website owners.
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North Korea diversifies drug smuggling, counterfeiting, study says
The ruling family despots of North Korea, always desperate for hard currency to finance their lifestyle and loyalties, are now funneling increasing amounts of drugs, counterfeit goods and currency, as well as legitimate trade, through China, according to a study released last week that is sponsored by a committee that monitors the country’s boggling human rights abuses.
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How a Boston College research project could send Gerry Adams to prison
The Sinn Fein president is the latest arrest stemming from a US history project gone wrong. GlobalPost unravels the Boston Tapes.
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In 2007, Romney Predicted Current Events In Iraq So Accurately He Must Have Had A Time Machine
At a campaign event in 2007, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney shared his views on what could happen in Iraq if the situation was not handled with care.
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The Men Who Run Afghanistan
A mellowed academic, a ruthless general, a shadowy spy: Inside Hamid Karzai's inner circle
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Could Saudi Arabia Be the Next ISIS Conquest?
With ISIS on the border, Saudi Arabia is nervous about the terrorist incursion, but remains the source of its greatest support.
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German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S. spying row
The German government has cancelled a contract with U.S. telecoms firm Verizon Communications Inc VZ.N as part of an overhaul of its internal communications, prompted by revelations last year of U.S. government spying.
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Prominent female Libyan activist assassinated in her Benghazi home
A prominent Libyan activist who had become an international face of her strife-torn country's efforts to build a democracy was assassinated by gunmen who stormed her home in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, police said Thursday.
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China Launches Campaign To Control The Internet
Beijing is advocating communist principles of Internet censorship and governance.
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The Middle East That France and Britain Drew Is Finally Unravelling: And there's very little the U.S. can do to stop it
If you look at a map of the Middle East in 1917, you won’t find Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, or Palestine. Since the sixteenth century, that area was part of the Ottoman Empire and was divided into districts that didn’t match past or future states. The British and French created the future states—not in order to ease their inhabitants’ transition to self-rule, as they were supposed to do under the mandate of the League of Nations, but in order to maintain their own rule over lands they believe
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Passions run high as Hong Kong marches for democracy
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday, many calling for the city's leader to be sacked.
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