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Archives for May 2018

Low-Tech Hamas Rockets a Standing Pretext for Israel’s Deadly Airstrikes

The “threat” from homemade Hamas “bottle rockets” has been used by Israel for over ten years to justify deadly airstrikes and a suffocating blockade of Gaza.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Flames of rockets fired by Palestinian militants are seen over Gaza, May 30, 2018. Hatem Moussa | AP

As the 1.8 million residents of the Gaza Strip face a humanitarian catastrophe -- living under an illegal blockade, forced to drink sewage due to the destruction of vital infrastructure, and with their hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings treated as “militant targets” by the Israeli military -- Israel’s government has announced that it

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North Korea Has Good Reason to Be Wary of a Trump Deal

Though Trump’s threats against North Korea have lacked some of the grace with which his predecessors operated, to Pyongyang, U.S diplomacy has been marked by 65 years of broken promises and outright aggression.

James Carey
By James Carey
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PYONGYANG -- Is lasting peace possible on the Korean Peninsula? The answer to that question may depend on whether Donald Trump follows the well-worn path of his predecessors. If the president’s latest stunt -- temporarily calling off talks with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over an insult Kim Jong Un slung at Vice-President

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Poland Wants a Permanent US Military Base, and is Willing to Pay $2 Billion for It

The Poles are buying what the U.S. is selling: fears of Russian aggression and a $2 billion permanent U.S. military base on Polish soil to meet it.

Emma Fiala
By Emma Fiala
U.S. Army soldiers are welcomed in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

WARSAW, POLAND -- As a result of the ongoing increase in NATO expansionism, the perceived threat of the mere existence of Russia has reached a tipping point in Poland, thanks to near-constant anti-Russian rhetoric. As it turns out, Poles are losing sleep over their close proximity to Russia and are prepared to cough up $2 billion as a result,

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Watch | Max Blumenthal Grills OAS Panel on Venezuela’s “Crimes Against Humanity”

An OAS panel featured condemnations of Venezuela’s human rights violations by one of the world’s most prominent defenders of Israeli atrocities.

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks to the media during a press conference in Jerusalem in 2009 where he announced a campaign for action against Iran. Dan Balilty | AP

On May 29, a panel of self-described independent experts convened a press conference at the Organization of American States in Washington DC. The panel presented a 400-page report accusing the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity and demanding the prosecution of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the International Criminal

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Pleasing Investors at the Expense of the People, Argentina Sells out to the IMF

President Mauricio Macri has put the country back on the neoliberal path with policies that favor big agricultural producers inside the country, and investors both inside and outside of Argentina.

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- Days before Christmas of 2001, a 54-year-old Argentine woman named Norma Cecilia Albino shoved her way past the throngs of demonstrators protesting the government’s new banking restrictions, walked into a bank branch in a northern Buenos Aires neighborhood, strolled to the counter, and asked to withdraw a few pesos from

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Nearly 6,000 People Died in Puerto Rico — 70 Times Official Count

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Jessica Corbett
By Jessica Corbett
In this Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 photo, Arden Dragoni, second from left, poses with his wife Sindy, their three children and dog Max, surrounded by what remains of their home destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. The Dragoni family has been living in a shelter set up at a school since the storm destroyed their wooden home in late September. They lost everything: clothes, household goods, and an old car. Dragoni supported his family by working construction, but his employers are currently out of business, leaving him and his family without a source of income. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

A study published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, with a survey indicating the mortality rate is likely more than 70 times the highly contested official death toll of 64. https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1001469543074512897 Researchers with

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