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Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)

Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)

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Officials Green-Light Shooting of Unarmed Demonstrators

Arms Sales
Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal (for Everyone)

Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal (for Everyone)

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By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It’s one of those stories of the century that somehow never gets treated that way. For an astounding 25 of the past 26 years, the United States has been the leading arms dealer on the planet, at some moments in near monopolistic fashion. Its major […]

Displaced and Refugees
Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

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By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen] the transitional regime established after the 2011 popular uprisings, a regime which can roughly be described as intended to shift power from one […]

Saudi Arabia
Spanish Activists to Kick Out Saudi Ship Loading Weapons for Yemen War

Spanish Activists to Kick Out Saudi Ship Loading Weapons for Yemen War

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TeleSur | – – The Bahri Hofuf ship was already kicked out of Bilbao, but sneaked into Santander. In the first days of March, a Saudi cargo ship docked on the Spanish port of Santander to load weapons with Yemen as its final destination and activists are trying to kick it away. The Saudi Bahri […]

Climate Change
How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

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By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

Donald Trump
As N. Korea Summit Looms, Trump's New Security team are hardly Diplomats

As N. Korea Summit Looms, Trump’s New Security team are hardly Diplomats

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By Christopher R. Hill | (Project Syndicate) | – – While Mike Pompeo and John Bolton have shown that they can communicate with Donald Trump, neither has ever shown any capacity for dealing with a crisis, much less arresting the decline of US leadership in the world. The expected meeting between Trump and North Korean […]

Christianity
Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land

Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land

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Middle East Monitor | – – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there “does not spare the defenceless”, Reuters reports. The pope made his appeal in his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Hundreds Wounded by live fire as Israeli Snipers Shot protesters in Back & while at Prayer

Gaza: Hundreds Wounded by live fire as Israeli Snipers Shot protesters in Back & while at Prayer

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Alex Gatopoulos | Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | – – “Israeli soldiers have fired on Palestinians in Gaza for the second day running. Four young men were injured near the border, where 17 unarmed Palestinians were killed on Friday. Videos from Gaza show one protester being shot in the back while running […]

Israel/ Palestine
Rights groups slam Israeli 'crimes' in Gaza, say 'shooting unarmed civilians illegal'

Rights groups slam Israeli ‘crimes’ in Gaza, say ‘shooting unarmed civilians illegal’

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Human rights organizations have come out in full condemnation of Israel’s violent response to massive unarmed civilian protests in Gaza on Friday, which left 16 Palestinians – one farmer and 15 protesters — dead along the Gaza border. Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, […]

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