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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Gideon Polya |Ramzy Baroud |Ellen Isaacs
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel has resumed its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip after nearly two months of ceasefire. The attacks began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, killing over 200 starved civilians, most of whom are children. Israeli air force jets launched a wave of attacks across Gaza, targeting multiple areas in the north, center, and south. Reports confirm heavy bombardment of residential homes and makeshift shelters housing displaced Palestinians.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Gideon Polya |Ramzy Baroud |Ellen Isaacs
UNICEF, the UN agency for children, reported that one million children in Gaza are “struggling to survive” due to Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the enclave.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Ramzy Baroud |Ellen Isaacs |Jessica Corbett
From 1950 onwards the US was involved in horrific wars that took the lives of tens of millions of people but the unforgivable American perpetrators unsurprisingly failed to acknowledge the carnage. However General Curtis LeMay, diplomat Madeleine Albright and President Donald Trump are just 3 top US perpetrators who have actually confessed to the US mass murder of civilians (in North Korea, Iraq under Sanctions, and in the ongoing Gaza Genocide, respectively).
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Ellen Isaacs |Binoy Kampmark |Edward Curtin
ToShri Gyanesh KumarChief Election CommissionerDr Sukhbir Singh SandhuElection CommissionerDr Vivek JoshiElection CommissionerDear S/Shri Gyanesh Kumar, Sandhu and Joshi,I am glad that the new team of Election Commissioners are trying to restore the trust of political parties and the public at large to enhance the overall credibility of the Commission. Such a response from the Commission is long overdue.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Ellen Isaacs |Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and Israeli officials say about the Middle East.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ellen Isaacs |Ramzy Baroud |Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark
Thousands are protesting the detention and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student and green card holder who began life as a Palestinian refugee in Syria and led demonstrations at Columbia against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. He committed no crime, but is being called a security threat, a supporter of terrorism, in words that have reverberated many times in US history. The Trump regime threatens that his will be the first of many deportations to come.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Hiren Gohain |Ellen Isaacs |Bruce Lerro
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream another dream. Or perhaps to privately twist and shout. Or what? I am not going to report what Trump and his lackeys are doing, nor even the ramifications of what they are doing yet again. Such reports are abundant. More, the broader implications have begun to register. Events are no longer just academic factoids. Implications have become felt awareness. Our condition is serious.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Ellen Isaacs |Bharat Dogra |Ram Puniyani
As resistance to fascism grows, and it is growing—how could it not—activists will face many choices. One that has often been quite contentious will re-arise. How should we decide whether to be mainly class-oriented or mainly identity-oriented? This is not a topic for a tweet or a snippet. More attention is needed. So, my apologies that this article may look to some so, so long. It really isn’t. I worry, instead, that it isn’t long enough. You decide.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective |George Capaccio |Ellen Isaacs
Caption: “Palestinian journalist (Ali Abunimah) detained in Switzerland ahead of speaking event for his ongoing press tour, as Swiss authorities attempt to suppress pro-Palestine speech.” – Palestinian Youth Movement The issue, as a circulating petition on social media for the release of Ali Abunimah states, is this: “Award-winning Palestinian-American journalist and human rights defender Ali Abunimah, executive director of the media platform ‘Electronic Intifada,’ was violently and forcibly...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Eric London |Andre Damon |Arun Mitra |Ellen Isaacs
The first wave of immigration-related executive orders issued by President Donald Trump have now been published. With a few scribbles of his name on paper and no involvement from Congress, Trump has undertaken a substantial transformation of the legal landscape in the United States, eviscerated the basic rights of a significant portion of the population and upended the lives of millions of people.
