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Nov 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kathy Kelly |M K Bhadrakumar |Jonathan Cook |Jordan Shilton
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him. Issues of evil, justice, and divine wisdom are explored, and while the Book of Job surrenders divine wisdom to God, it recognizes that the work to be done here on earth is our own.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Jonathan Cook |Jordan Shilton |Umang Kumar
The election victory of Donald Trump in the November 5 election is being perceived in the West Asian region with growing anxiety as presaging the US aligning one hundred percent with the Zionist project for Greater Israel. Although Trump has kept out vociferous neocons from his government positions, the same cannot be said for pro-Zionist figures.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jonathan Cook |Jordan Shilton |Ramzy Baroud |Medea Benjamin
There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself further from reality. Its priorities are so inverted, so obscene, that the most appropriate response is ridicule. The latest example was the reaction late last week to violent clashes in Amsterdam before and after a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local team Ajax.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jordan Shilton |Ramzy Baroud |Medea Benjamin |Andre Damon
Palestinian Territory – In a new ‘flour massacre’, the Israeli occupation army has killed dozens of Palestinians who were gathering in the Sudanese roundabout area, northwest of Gaza City. The victims were waiting for the arrival of humanitarian aid after roughly 50 consecutive days of a complete denial of aid. Israeli army forces opened fire on dozens of Palestinian civilians waiting for aid trucks on the sea road northwest of Gaza City on Wednesday 13 November at around 10:00 am.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vanaja Jasphine |Mohd Khan |Jordan Shilton |Umang Kumar
The Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) condemns the brutal abduction of six activists from the Moolvasi Bachao Manch on the morning of 8th November in Girgunda, Chhattisgarh. These activists—Arjun Soni, Muya Hemla, Nagesh Banse, Joga Midiyam, Gillu Katam, and Bhima Kunjam—were en route to a demonstration from Nambi to Kondaphalli and had stopped in Girgundi the previous night, where they rested in the village.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jordan Shilton |Ramzy Baroud |Medea Benjamin |Andre Damon
Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. There is no plausible imperative military reason to justify Israel’s mass displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s population, often multiple times. Rather than ensuring civilians’ security, military “evacuation orders” have caused grave harm.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jordan Shilton |Ramzy Baroud |Medea Benjamin |Andre Damon
Israel carried out four major air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut yesterday, as well as a series of strikes on bridges and other infrastructure on the Lebanon-Syria border. Coming as the Zionist regime continues to starve Gaza and the US military once again struck targets in Yemen, the attacks show that there is no let-up in the drive by Washington’s attack dog to redraw the map of the Middle East.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
indybay.org | Jordan Shilton
"Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died," Clinton said. "People who criticize it are essentially saying ... look how many people you've killed in retaliation. So how many is enough for you to kill to punish them for the terrible things they did?" To this, Clinton replied, "What would you do if ... one day they come for you and slaughtered the people in your village, you would say ... I'm not keeping score that way. ...
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Andre Damon |Hiren Gohain |Jordan Shilton
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers in their own homes. This official explanation by the Israeli military was meant to justify the killing of 492 people and the wounding of 1,645 in a single day of Israeli strikes. This ready-to-serve explanation shall accompany us throughout the Israeli war in Lebanon, however long it takes.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Hiren Gohain |Jordan Shilton |Mazin Qumsiyeh
US and Israeli officials openly endorsed a large-scale attack on Iran Tuesday, following a strike by Tehran on Israel with 185 ballistic missiles the same day. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, a move that has been planned by Israel and the US for decades.
