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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Binoy Kampmark |Rima Najjar |Aijaz Ahmed
Washington (Quds News Network)- A Biden administration official pressured the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) to soften its conclusion that famine was occurring in Gaza last December and demanded the organization pull its report when it refused to comply. According to a report published by The Washington Post, USAID official Sonali Korde wrote to the head of FEWS NET to “strongly” recommend the organisation change the title of its report to emphasise a “risk” of famine in Gaza.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Binoy Kampmark |Rima Najjar |Aijaz Ahmed
Gaza Civil Defense reports that 123 Gazan citizens in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement last Wednesday until 10:00 AM today, Saturday. The casualties are two in Rafah, 19 in Khan Younis, 10 in Central Gaza, and 92 in Gaza City. Among them, 33 children, 33 women. The number of injured people is about to reach 300. Heavy bombardment is being reported in densely populated civilian areas.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective |Aijaz Ahmed
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 101 Palestinians, including 27 children and 31 women, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since the announcement of a ceasefire agreement set to take effect on Sunday, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. The rescue group reported that the death toll from the time of the ceasefire announcement until 9:00 AM on Friday reached at least 101, with casualties in Rafah (2), Khan Younis (14), central Gaza (5), and Gaza City (82).
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective |Aijaz Ahmed
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is under way, with serious implications for peace and security”. Repeatedly, requests by the relief and works agency responsible for providing welfare and aid to Palestinians to continue its work, notably in northern Gaza, had been rebuffed.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Rima Najjar |Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective |Aijaz Ahmed
Samidoun’s poster for the article: Gaza: The Resistance Lives, The Prison Doors Open — On the Road to Liberation and ReturnIn today’s age of information, history is not written by those in power. The powerful international consortium that orchestrated Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians might be able to push through the first drafts of history, but broader truths are inevitably uncovered through research and subsequent analysis.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Aijaz Ahmed |Samina Salim |Ramzy Baroud
As Gazans wait for ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday 81 people were killed in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile Israel’s cabinet is delaying its meeting to approve the ceasefire. A ceasefire deal between Palestinian factions and Israel will take effect next Sunday on January 19th, 2025. It means that there are still 72 hours until the fire is truly ceased. Gaza people fear these hours to be filled with Israeli air strikes and deliberate attacks.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Hiren Gohain |Aijaz Ahmed |Srijoni Hore
A Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s SongTheme: Prem (love)Raag: DeshTaal: RupakComposed: 17 May 1889Place: Pune, India========================It is the day to tell my belovedin this monsoon,in this torrential rain. It is the day to open my heart–In thunderous roars,relentless downpoursenveloped in total darkness, no sun. No one to listen in,nary a soul around. Face to face,deep sorrow in our hearts,the sky commiserates,in unison–The world bereft of souls.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Hiren Gohain |Aijaz Ahmed |Soumyanetra Munshi
“Fear not, comes the message fromthe direction of the rising sun,Those that will givelife to the last throbwill diminish not, never.”-Rabindranath TagoreOn May 8th in 2011, on the occasion of Biswa Kabi Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary, a prominent Tagore singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya was invited to join the celebration in New Delhi. The program was inaugurated by H.E. Dr Manmohan Singh, Honorable Prime Minister of India.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thenews.com.pk | Aijaz Ahmed
KARACHI: The chairman of the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI), Flight Lieutenant (retd) Khaqan Murtaza, has barred officers from using the institution’s name in their WhatsApp groups in view of the damage being caused to the institution’s reputation by these social media groups.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Monish R Chatterjee |Vikas Meshram |Viswabhadrananda Shaktibodhi |Aijaz Ahmed
The author, poet and essayist John D Rachel (JDR), whose political philosophy and leanings are rooted in the ideals of a world without war and anti-imperialism and militarism, published a compilation of critical and insightful responses from a distinguished panel of political thinkers and public figures under the title US and Perpetual War (Literary Vagabond, also Lulu.com, ASIN B0C5CCL854, ISBN-13 9781312561571) in May, 2023 .
