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But What About Hamas’s Rockets?

By Jeremy Scahill on May 14, 2021

Photo: Bill Hackwell

The U.S.-backed, armed, and funded extreme right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is currently engaged in a systemic collective punishment campaign against the people of Gaza. More than two million of them are trapped in an open-air prison camp with nowhere to run or hide from this scorched earth operation. Children are being slaughtered. Civilian residential buildings are being razed to the ground. (more…)

Peoples of the World Stand with Palestine

By Bill Hackwell on May 15, 2021

SF, Photo: Bill Hackwell

On the 73rd anniversary of Nakba -known to the Palestinians and Arab peoples as the Catastrophe when they were violently driven from their historic land – large protests took place around the world standing up in support of the right of the Palestinians in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem to live in peace and to condemn the Zionist attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the genocidal aerial bombing on Gaza that rages and has now killed 188 people including 55 children. (more…)

The Acoustic Attack Epidemic

By Jesus Arboleya on May 12, 2021

US Embassy in Havana, Photo: Bill Hackwell

What at one time was known as the “Havana Syndrome,” the alleged incidents of unknown origin that affected the health of U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba, has now spread around the globe. It turns out that even in Miami and Washington there are “attacks with microwaves” capable of driving the dogs of US officials crazy while on a walk through the park. (more…)

Latin America’s Authoritarians Back Israel

May 14, 2021

Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell

The latest Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza and ruthless killings of Palestinians has Latin America split along ideological lines once again. (more…)

The Cuban Government Denounces US Support for the Israeli Crimes in Gaza

May 12, 2021

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Cuba has charged the United States with supporting the Israeli regime in their indiscriminate bombings of the Palestinian people. Yesterday Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno issued Havana’s repudiation of the attacks carried out by the Israeli regime in the last two days, which have caused at least 48 deaths in Gaza, 14 of whom were children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. (more…)

Zionism’s Alliance with Luis Almagro the Yanacona

By Pablo Joffre Leal on May 11, 2021

Luis Almagro and Zionist President Reuven Rivlin

The policy of “public diplomacy” that the Zionist Government has ordered to carry out, as part of the process of cleaning up the image and make-up of its regime, implies the purchase of wills and the search for support from international organizations, governments, parliamentarians and opinion leaders. (more…)

Those Who Live in Glass Houses …

By Elsa Claro on April 22, 2021

Whenever the United States accuses other countries of spying on them, they hide or justify their extensive world-wide network dedicated to finding out movements, their military installations, and their destabilizing operatives who focus on countries and entire regions. (more…)

Will There Be Wars Over Water?

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein on April 17, 2021

The Tigris River in Iraq after the invasion of the US. Photo: Bill Hackwell

As reported by the Union de Trabajadores de la Tierra (Union of Workers of the Earth) of Argentina and quoted  by Resumen Latinoamericano, according to the 2010 national census in Argentina there were “5.3 million people who had no access to potable water in their homes, and about 1 million who had no access anywhere on their property.”  This means that about 13% of the inhabitants of Argentina have no possibility of a dependable water supply in their homes. (more…)

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