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Dec 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Amir Nour |Phil Pasquini |Alex Lantier |Vikas Meshram
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Ministry of Health in Gaza has stated that dozens of wounded patients at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza are at risk of dying due to a lack of food and water, as the Israeli military has been besieging the area since October 5. The ministry said late on Tuesday that 60 patients were “at risk of death”.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Amir Nour |Phil Pasquini |Alex Lantier |Vikas Meshram
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Over 22 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building sheltering a displaced family near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Tuesday night. At 11:30 pm, local sources reported that the three-story residential building sheltering the Abu al-Tarabish family was targeted, killing at least 22 people, including children, and injuring dozens. Many others are still missing under the rubble.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Alex Lantier |Khairi Janbek |Bharat Dogra |Binoy Kampmark
After Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepped down Sunday and ordered a peaceful transfer of power to “rebel” forces led by the Al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia, US and Israeli warplanes started a massive bombing campaign against Syria. Washington and its regional allies are launching the rape and carve-up of Syria.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Alex Lantier |Countercurrents Collective |John Ruehl |Sandeep Banerjee
Yesterday, a 332-seat majority of the National Assembly’s 577 deputies voted to censure the Social Security budget (PLFSS) proposed by French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, bringing down his government. The vote was strictly along party lines: deputies of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon voted against Barnier. Macron announced last night that he would begin a rapid search for a new prime minister.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Juan Cole |Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier
Palestinian Territory – Given that Israel has blocked the entry of goods and aid to the hundreds of thousands of besieged residents in the northern Gaza Strip for more than 50 days now, the relevant international and UN organisations must formally declare famine in the region. Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon is one component of its ongoing genocide in the Strip, which also includes mass killings and forced displacement.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Juan Cole |Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi resistance movement, Biden’s woes weren’t inflicted by an enemy.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins
Gaza (Quds News Network)- As the Israeli genocide in Gaza entered its 401st day, Israeli warplanes intensified their bombardment, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens, and the destruction of residential buildings in northern Gaza. The relentless airstrikes have sparked fears of an imminent famine as Palestinians face worsening conditions under the Israeli siege. Overnight, the city of Gaza and its northern regions were hit by a series of air raids.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins
November 11, declared Armistice Day at the end of World War I, is celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day. Understanding why requires us to recall World War I and its aftermath. World War I was an international conflict, 1914-18, that embroiled most of the nations of Europe, along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins |Shaj Mohan
Addressing the UN in September, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held up a map of historic Palestine, in which the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not delineated; the whole territory, from the river to the sea, was labeled Israel. Other maps of Israel are even more ambitious and include parts of Lebanon and Syria as well.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins |Shaj Mohan |Ramzy Baroud
On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Israeli football hooligans ran riot in Amsterdam, tearing down Palestinian flags, assaulting Arabs, and chanting anti-Gaza slogans. Some clashed with residents of Amsterdam, where a protest was planned against holding a game between the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam football clubs during the Gaza genocide. Five people were taken to hospital, and yesterday the Israeli Foreign Ministry said all Maccabi fans were accounted for.
