By Eva Bartlett on August 24, 2017
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In early 2016 the hillside town of Madaya, just northwest of Damascus, was the focus of sudden Western and Gulf media campaigns featuring harrowing photos of emaciated elderly and children splashed widely across print, online and social media. (more…)
By Neil Clark on September 2, 2017
Raqqa, Photo: Moruke Umnaber / Global Look Press
As Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian adviser on Syria, has stated, if there’s a worse place to be in the world at the moment than the Syrian city of Raqqa, then it’s hard to imagine. This week, the UN estimated that the battle to capture the de facto ISIS capital is costing the lives of 27 civilians a day. (more…)
By Julia Conley on September 2, 2017
On what one observer called “a sad day for warmongers,” the United Nations declared Friday that Iran is fully adhering to the nuclear deal reached in 2015, and that inspectors will not go looking for infractions at the request of the Trump administration. (more…)
By Diana Block on August 29, 2017
Oscar and Rasmea
On May 18, 2017 Oscar López Rivera was welcomed by a large and loving crowd in Chicago’s Paseo Boricua after 35 years of imprisonment for the “crime” of supporting Puerto Rican independence. One of the people who greeted Oscar was Rasmea Yousef Odeh who will soon be punitively (more…)
By Jordan Shilton on August 25, 2017
The US-backed onslaught on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is claiming hundreds of civilian lives every week, including dozens of women and children. US aircraft and troops on the ground are deploying indiscriminate force on a civilian center where an estimated 25,000 people remained trapped and a further 270,000 have already fled. (more…)
By Crawford Kilian on August 23, 2017
When you follow disease outbreaks in obscure parts of the world, you soon notice the outbreaks that don’t get much attention. We all recall SARS and swine flu and Ebola and Zika — mostly because they made some North Americans sick. But when people get sick in a country of no strategic interest, we yawn and look for better clickbait. (more…)
By Leandro Albani on August 18, 2017
On Thursday morning, a suicide attack shook the Gaza strip, that fragile portion of land that still belongs to Palestinians. A man trying to cross the border towards Egypt detonated a bomb on his body in a border crossing, ending his life and killing a Palestinian security agent (more…)
August 21, 2017
SHARMINI PERIES: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The longest war in the history of the U.S. enters its sixteenth year, the war in Afghanistan. (more…)