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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark |Jean Shaoul
US President Donald Trump said in an interview over the weekend that the Palestinian people he is seeking to ethnically cleanse from Gaza would not be allowed to return to their homes. “I’m talking about building a permanent place for them,” Trump said. Trump’s statement contradicted claims last week by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that the relocation of the Palestinians from Gaza proposed by Trump would be temporary.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark |Jean Shaoul |Kim Petersen
We the undersigned appeal to PM Modi, the Government of India and the Parliament, to condemn U.S. President Trump’s statements calling for the ‘clean out’ & ‘take over’, essentially calling for US ownership & total ethnic cleansing of the Gazan Palestinian population. President Trump has shocked the world when he used the phrase – ‘just clean out’ Gaza, by transferring the Palestinian population to Jordan & Egypt.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark |Jean Shaoul |Kim Petersen
A coalition of over 100 organizations on Monday forcefully denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians and take over the coastal enclave recently decimated by an Israeli military campaign conducted with American weapons.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Kathy Kelly |Ramzy Baroud |Jean Shaoul
FIFA has done it again. With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation has deemed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fit for hosting the largest sporting event on the sporting calendar – not counting the Olympics. The FIFA Men’s World Cup will be hosted, yet again, in a desert country, where football is a most recent thing but cunning opportunism not.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
Angola has experienced a high growth rate in recent times. It has been reasonably stable politically. Angola has significant oil deposits and exports. It also has gold and diamonds, not to mention copper. At the same time Angola has one of the highest infant mortality rates and one of the lowest life expectation in the world. There is a serious humanitarian crisis in the country.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
Geneva – Yemen is facing a nutrition emergency of catastrophic proportions, with three districts plunged into severe crisis and four more teetering on the edge of famine. This escalating disaster demands immediate global action and unwavering humanitarian support to avert further tragedy and safeguard countless lives.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
There are several fragile ad vulnerable countries which are passing through very difficult times due to a combination of factors. Often a large number of people in these countries are facing serious shortages of food and are unable to meet several other essential needs as well.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
At the beginning of this year, on January 12, 2024 to be precise, about 20 eminent persons involved in humanitarian aid efforts for Central Sahel region of Africa issued an appeal for giving the proper attention to the serious humanitarian situation in the three countries of this region—Mali, Burkino Faso and Niger. These eminent persons included the UN Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs Mr. Martin Griffiths and the FAO Secretary General Dr. Qu Dongyu.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul |Bharat Dogra
Belying the confidence of the , with its overarching tagline “Water is Life, Water Is Food. Leave No One Behind”, the world is teetering on the brink of a food crisis that threatens to leave many millions behind. World Food Day observed annually is a clarion call to ameliorate hunger and famine for a third of humanity, bereft of nutritious food.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul |Bharat Dogra |Priti Gulati Cox
Following 15 months of civil war in Sudan that’s displaced more than 10 million people and blocked the delivery of food to desperately hungry Sudanese, the United Nations Famine Review Committee said Thursday that famine now exists in a camp housing hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in North Darfur. The Famine Review Committee (FRC) published a report “confirming U.N. agencies’ worst fears” about the arrival of a long-forewarned famine in the Zamzam camp.
