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"Israel will under no circumstances agree to the end of the war as part of an agreement to release our hostages" -Israeli Official The bitter truth about Israel's actions in Gaza is now glaringly evident. This is not a noble rescue mission; there were...
by michlawa2
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 07:06 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 09:49 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I live reasonably close to Columbia University. Over the years, on my daily walks, I’ve often wandered through the gates of its...
by TomDispatch
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 05:43 AM PDT
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April has come and gone but the scourge of genocide persists What can you do? Don’t buy Shein products. Their ads are everywhere and the products look great. These fast fashion items are made from cotton processed by the Uyghurs. Sign this petition to...
by Alyson Chadwick 1789
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 08:16 AM PDT
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by LaFeminista
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 04:05 AM PDT
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For various reasons, I’m not going to comment myself. Rabbis for Gaza are arrested trying to bring food to starving Palestinians. Faculty members at Emory are arrested as they try to stop Police from attacking Protestors.
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 11:19 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Let me say that, in some strange way, I’m awed. A little background here: I grew up in New York City and, while still quite young,...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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As I read "Gone Too Far" critiques of overwhelmingly peaceful but disruptive student protests demanding that universities divest from Israeli-related investments and demand a ceasefire and end to the U.S. military aid that supports the genocidal war on...
by acamins
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on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 07:53 AM PDT
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A 2019 scientific study by the University College London, UK, and published in the Quaternary Science Reviews, found that European colonization and genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas at the end of the fifteenth century cooled the planet,...
by Pakalolo
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on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 04:19 AM PDT
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As protests related to the Israel-Hamas war erupt at college campuses nationwide , it's worth looking at the recently released Harvard Youth poll to take the temperature of what's important to young ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 09:40 AM PDT
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At the very moment when state and national Democratic leadership should be harnessing youthful energy for a more just world, they appear clueless. If Democrats want to win the next election as the guardians and saviors of democracy, they have a lot of...
by acamins
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 06:01 AM PDT
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I am not an antisemite. I believe in the right of Israel to exist as an independent country in the Middle East. I recognize that many of the original Jewish settlers in Palestine after World War II were survivors of the European Holocaust desperate for...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 02:35 PM PDT
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If you’re in charge of a war and you’re intentionally targeting civilians, you’re a bad guy. Note that I said “a bad guy”, not “the bad guy”. In some wars, the leaders of both sides are bad guys; although the civilians who happen to live in a war-torn...
by Perlinator
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 02:33 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. When you watch the latest TV news on Israel’s war in Gaza, it feels as if its military had invaded another country. So, it’s...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 07:36 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I was born on July 20, 1944, barely a year before the world (potentially) ended. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S., which had...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 07:19 AM PDT
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I’ve had comments on my original comment posted on 9 April saying I came across as ‘rather one sided.’ This is as opposed to the vast majority of writing and commentary on the war in Gaza and on Hamas — to the vast majority of supposed ‘pro...
by DrLou
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 11:06 AM PDT
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Hamas says it won’t compromise on key demands as US leans into hostage talks Perhaps the Allies should have 'negotiated' with Hitler in 1945. Hitler could have promised to — generally — end hostilities which would have been, as would be now from Hamas,...
by DrLou
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 01:34 PM PDT
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This seventh day of April, 2024 marks 6 months since the Hamas attacks on Israelis and subsequent horrific cleansing of Gaza launched by Israel. The Biden administration keeps isssuing confusing, contradictory, hypocritical and ineffective statements...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Hey Joe where you goin’ with those bombs in your hands? I said hey Joe where you goin’ with those bombs in your hands? I’m sending them down to Bibi He's exterminating Palestinians Yeah I’m sending them down to Bibi You know he’s massacring Palestinians
by JustBrodie
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 10:13 AM PDT
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"Who is the fu****g superpower here?" President Bill Clinton asked his aides after meeting Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time as president. The world came together to support Israel after Hamas terrorists outdid ISIS in the ferocity of the murders,...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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