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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Countercurrents Collective |Vijay Prashad |Marwan Asmar
Geneva – The US military airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and multiple Yemeni governorates have resulted in several civilian deaths and injuries. The provisions of the UN Charter and the principles of international law must be upheld, especially regarding using force and protecting civilians.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Countercurrents Collective |Vijay Prashad |Marwan Asmar
The US military carried out dozens of airstrikes on Yemen Saturday and Sunday, including strikes on residential areas in the densely populated city of Sanaa, killing at least 53 people, including 31 civilians. Anis al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Yemeni Health Ministry, said that over 100 people were wounded, “most of whom were children and women.”In an unhinged rant on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Heather Stroud |Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon
Geneva – Israel’s systematic sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians is widespread and amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to United Nations experts. Anew report released by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, also concludes that Israel has been responsible for acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Heather Stroud |Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, seems to neither heed the lessons of history nor the wisdom of such folk sayings. By leading a vilification campaign against Egypt, the Israeli leader is further exposing his country’s vulnerabilities. This is yet another example of Israel’s inability to alter the political reality in Gaza, 17 months after it launched its devastating war on the Strip.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Heather Stroud |Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon |Julia Conley
New York (Quds News Network)- A judge in the United States has extended his order blocking authorities from deporting Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil from the US after he was arrested by ICE agents over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Heather Stroud |Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon |Julia Conley
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), an organisation funded by the public, yet controlled by the government and influential lobby groups, finds itself at the centre of a storm. This time it is not about presenting biased news, or half lies that feed the narrative of their most favoured influential lobby groups, it is about airing a documentary that simply presents a view of life through the eyes of children in Gaza.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon |Julia Conley |Marwan Asmar
Palestinian Territory – Israel has killed 150 Palestinians—an average of three people every 24 hours—since the ceasefire on 19 January 2025. The Euro-Med Monitor field team has documented Israeli sniper and drone attacks since the ceasefire went into effect, as well as the continued use of the blockade as a weapon of slow death by starvation in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Saurav Sarkar |Andre Damon |Julia Conley |Marwan Asmar
As chants of ‘No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ echoed through downtown Manhattan on 10 March 2025, I spoke to a person named Richard who had been marching just ahead of me. He declined to give his last name but was eager to speak his piece. ‘We need to be out in the streets and say “This will not fly. This will not happen on our watch”’, he said.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Andre Damon |Julia Conley |Nagesh Chaudhari
On March 11, 2025, the people of Odisha witnessed a historic low in the Odisha State Legislative Assembly, where ruling party BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) attacked opposition party members inside the house, which is considered the temple of democracy. The ruckus was not accidental; it was a result of the criminalisation of politics in the state. In Odisha, more than fifty percent of the MLA candidates contesting in the 2024 elections had criminal records.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Julia Conley |Marwan Asmar |Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli government announced Sunday that it will completely shut off electricity into Gaza, following the blockade of all food and humanitarian supplies earlier this month. The total blockade is aimed at implementing the plan, first proposed by far-right members of the Israeli government and later publicly adopted by the Trump administration, to ethnically cleanse Gaza by making the enclave unlivable, forcing its people to flee “voluntarily” in order to avoid starving to death.
