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The United States is already at war

Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan...

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Israel’s assassinations can’t kill resistance

After assassinating Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in a devastating air strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood, the Israeli army...

29.09.2024 100

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Big Brother without borders: Israel’s psychopathic warfare in Lebanon

Exactly one week ago, on Tuesday, Israel remotely detonated hundreds of handheld pagers used by members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, killing at least 12...

24.09.2024 90

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The Lebanon pager attack: Israel’s terror playbook strikes again

On Tuesday, hundreds of handheld pagers used by members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded across Lebanon, killing at...

18.09.2024 80

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Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed...

05.09.2024 60

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The US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediator

On July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza...

28.08.2024 100

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‘Less flexible?’ Just say it NYT, Israel is sabotaging a ceasefire deal

Once in a while, The New York Times has to tell inconvenient truths regarding Israel, the preferred partner in crime of the United States and the...

14.08.2024 100

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Israel is not interested in peace

Just when you thought the situation in the Middle East couldn’t get any more incendiary, the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail...

31.07.2024 90

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Israel is in no place to talk about ‘red lines’

On Saturday, July 27, at least 12 children from the Druze community were killed in a rocket attack on the town of Majdal Shams in the...

30.07.2024 80

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Biden is out, but American plutocracy carries on

And so it has come to pass. United States President Joe Biden has dropped out of this year’s presidential race, bowing to pressure from fellow...

22.07.2024 100

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Is America’s gun fixation backfiring on its pushers?

It was a shot heard round the world – but most of all by presidential candidate Donald Trump, the victim of Saturday’s assassination attempt at a...

15.07.2024 20

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US election 2024: People’s will or donors’ will?

In the aftermath of United States President Joe Biden’s train wreck of a performance in the June 27 presidential debate with Donald Trump,...

10.07.2024 20

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The rule of law is made to be broken

Monday was a good day for Donald Trump, the former United States president and current Republican presidential hopeful, who is waging a forever war to...

02.07.2024 30

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Commandment 11: “Thou shalt not think”

On Wednesday, June 19, Louisiana’s far-right governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 into law, which will require all public school classrooms in...

30.06.2024 90

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Nothing ‘out of the box’ about Italy’s asylum offshoring deal with Albania

Imagine for a moment that you are a racist Western government plagued by an influx of asylum seekers, many of them dark-skinned. Wouldn’t you dream...

19.06.2024 50

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Collateral genocide in Nuseirat

On June 8, the Israeli military slaughtered at least 274 Palestinians and wounded nearly 700 more in a raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the...

09.06.2024 20

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Mexico’s election: A victory for organised crime

On June 2, Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president. The 61-year-old scientist served as mayor of Mexico City from 2018 until...

03.06.2024 100

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Letter from ‘Kibbutz Israel’

In the wee hours of May 8, police officers in Washington, DC violently cleared the pro-Palestine encampment at George Washington University (GW) with...

28.05.2024 70

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Not even the US government knows the US government line on Rafah

In an interview on Sunday with NBC News, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was questioned about President Joe Biden’s recent threat to...

15.05.2024 100

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Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’

On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US...

09.05.2024 100

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US Gaza protests: Call­ing the cops on free speech

On April 17, students at Columbia University in New York City set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus to call for divestment from Israel and a...

04.05.2024 80

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Strikes on Iran: Can one de­mand ‘re­straint’ while fund­ing Is­rael?

Early on Friday, Iran activated its air defence systems after reports of explosions in Isfahan province. According to Iranian state media, three small...

19.04.2024 30

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Sor­ry, but Iran is not the ag­gres­sor here

On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in...

14.04.2024 50

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Weapon­is­ing un­der­wear: Geno­cide with a semi-porno­graph­ic twist

Let’s pretend for a moment that, in the course of waging war against the state of Israel, Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip had taken to posing...

12.04.2024 100

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Gaza is one big ‘kill zone’

Four Palestinian men are walking in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip through an area largely pulverised by Israeli bombardments....

05.04.2024 90

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The US ‘con­tin­gency plan’: Send Haitians to Guan­tanamo, again

In March, amid a flare-up in gang violence that prompted the declaration of a state of emergency in Haiti, the United States made it known that – as...

31.03.2024 30

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How I be­came a mi­grant traf­fick­er in Mex­i­co

In February 2024, far-right American activist and white nationalist Laura Loomer – whom former United States president and current presidential...

25.03.2024 20

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The crim­i­nal hypocrisy of Her­nan­dez’s drug con­vic­tion in a US court

On Friday, March 8, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted on three counts of drug trafficking and weapons conspiracy in a...

17.03.2024 60

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‘Birthright’ in a time of geno­cide

In January, the Birthright Israel programme resumed operations following a brief suspension of activity. The hiatus was triggered by the October 7...

06.03.2024 70

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Sui­cide vs geno­cide: Rest in pow­er, Aaron Bush­nell

On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy...

26.02.2024 30

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The tri­als of Ju­lian As­sange: A death sen­tence for democ­ra­cy

In June 2022, when Russia’s foreign ministry announced that it was considering “stringent measures” against United States media outlets in...

22.02.2024 40

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Thomas Fried­man: De­hu­man­i­sa­tion par ex­cel­lence amid a geno­cide

There are few American journalists who so transparently embody the United States’ pompous and demeaning approach to Arab and Muslim lands and...

17.02.2024 30

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Face­book at 20: From vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ty to cen­sor­ship of re­al­i­ty

When I joined Facebook in 2007, three years after the platform launched, I used it solely as a means of staying in touch with friends I had acquired...

04.02.2024 70

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Let­ter from Pana­ma’s ‘Lit­tle Hi­roshi­ma’

Once upon a time, the United States was good buddies with a fellow named Manuel Noriega, a longstanding CIA asset and the dictator of Panama in the...

25.01.2024 30

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Biden and the big bor­der de­ba­cle

Shortly before Christmas, an extended Venezuelan family of 10 crossed into the United States from Mexico with a large contingent of other asylum...

15.01.2024 20

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The (not so) sur­pris­ing rev­e­la­tions of the Ep­stein list

What do former United States presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have in common with Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker and...

05.01.2024 80

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New year, ‘new Mid­dle East’?

In July 2006, in the middle of Israel’s war on Lebanon that ultimately killed approximately 1,200 people – the overwhelming majority of them...

03.01.2024 40

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The real ‘Per­son of the Year’

It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: lots of hubbub about Time magazine’s annual “Person of the Year,” a tradition that...

29.12.2023 30

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The US is no coun­try for old men

Shortly prior to his death from prostate cancer in August of this year at the age of 72, my father emerged from a state of muteness to recite, with a...

23.12.2023 30

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Is­rael is tak­ing scorched earth pol­i­cy to a new lev­el

In October, shortly after the start of the Israeli war on Gaza that has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians, Israel pledged to wipe Hamas “off the...

17.12.2023 70

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Hol­ly­wood’s Is­rael prob­lem

It’s that time of year again: when Hollywood’s thought police undertake to ensure that American celebrity culture remains firmly in the service of...

07.12.2023 10

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