RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) submitted a joint report to United Nations investigators last week detailing Israeli forces’ killing of Palestinian children during mass protests in the Gaza Strip, conduct amounting to war crimes, said DCIP in a press release. The 57-page report, drafted in collaboration with the Human Rights […]
Archives for January 2019
The More Women in Government, the Healthier the Population
By Carles Muntaner< | - In November 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formed the first gender-balanced cabinet in Canadian history. In announcing his cabinet, he ensured that half of his closest advisers (15 out of a total of 30) were women. Canada’s gender-equal cabinet vaulted the country from 20th to fifth place in the world […]
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
By Ramzy Baroud | – The Israeli-US war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating any form of tangible protest of the ongoing Israeli colonization of Palestine. But an Israeli ‘victory’, even with blind US government support, is still too elusive if at […]
GOP Rep. Seeks to Block Tlaib Palestine Congressional Delegation
The newly elected Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who represents Michigan’s 13th District, is seeking to take a delegation of congressional representatives to the Palestinian West Bank, which is militarily occupied by Israel and where some 600,000 Israeli squatters have usurped Palestinian land belonging to the nearly 3 million Palestinians living there (another nearly 2 million live […]
Turkey Opposes Syria Regime Forces Recovering Manbij
Ankara (AFP) – Turkey on Friday insisted Syrian regime forces should not be allowed in Manbij as US troops withdraw, as proposed by a US-backed Kurdish militia viewed as terrorists by Ankara. The strategic northern city has been held by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia since 2016 after they recaptured the territory […]
Trump Gov’t Separated ‘Thousands’ More Immigrant Children Than Originally Reported
The administration of President Trump implemented a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to criminally prosecute and jail all illegal border crossers even those traveling with their children. The U.S. government may have separated “thousands” more immigrant children from their parents than previously known but inadequate record-keeping means the exact number is still unclear, an internal watchdog said […]
Helping Hamas? Trump’s USAID to End all Projects for Palestinians on Jan. 31st
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will end all its projects in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip on January 31st following the US administration’s decision to cut funding to the Palestinians, Dave Harden, former USAID Mission Director and Managing Director of the Georgetown Strategy Group, confirmed […]
The Fate of the Planet may Depend on You Changing your Diet – Lancet
By Isabella Kaminski | – ( ChinaDialogue) – New research calls for a switch to healthier foods and sustainable farming, writes Isabella Kaminski The ideal diet is mainly vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes and nuts. (Image: Public Health Image Library) A sustainable international food system that feeds people better would be a global “win-win”, according […]
80% of Workers live Paycheck to Paycheck, and Federal ones are no Different
(Otherwords.org) – Unemployment is low, but federal employees are lining up at food banks. They aren’t alone. As the government shutdown drags on, the image of federal workers lining up at food pantries has dramatized just how many workers live financially close to the edge. By one estimate, almost 80 percent of U.S. workers live […]
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