Joe Catron

Joe Catron is a MintPress News contributing journalist. He covers Palestine and Israel and other human rights issues. Catron has written frequently for Electronic Intifada and Middle East Eye, and co-edited The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology of accounts by detainees freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.

Chávez Supporters Mobilize For Venezuela Amid Coup Reports And Fresh Sanctions

In addition to challenging the recent sanctions slapped on Venezuelan officials by President Obama, activists and political scientists criticize Human Rights Watch for “attacking Venezuela while turning a blind eye to abuses happening elsewhere.”

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Venezuela United States

A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro wearing a head band with the image of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez's eyes, waves a national flag during a rally outside of Miraflores Presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 12, 2015. NEW YORK --- Shortly after demonstrators in Venezuela and several other

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Middle East Quartet Joins Israel In Attempts To Freeze Palestinians Into Submission

With the cataclysmic condition of the Gaza Strip aggravated by the punitive measures of both Israel and the Quartet, and Israel’s financial strangulation of the PA decimating what remains of a Palestinian economy, those living under occupation see few signs of change.

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By Joe Catron
Tony Blair

Tony Blair visits a United Nations run school sheltering Palestinians, whose homes were destroyed during last summer's Israel's war on Gaza City, Feb. 15, 2015. GAZA STRIP --- On Feb. 15, Tony Blair arrived in Gaza with an ultimatum. He traveled not on his own behalf, as a disgraced former head of government potentially facing war crimes

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NY Demonstrators Say #No2Netanyahu While DC Protesters Rally To #ShutDownAIPAC

Against the backdrop of AIPAC, Israeli Apartheid Week, Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress, and Iran’s nuclear talks with the U.S., activists and demonstrators find a perfect storm for protesting Israel’s actions on a number of fronts.

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By Joe Catron
Demonstrators Netanyahu

NEW YORK, March 1 - Demonstrators rallied outside the News Corp. Building to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States. NEW YORK --- Dozens of demonstrators in New York braved driving snow on Sunday to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States. “One of

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