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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |Ramzy Baroud |Mir Adnan Aziz
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel has postponed the release of 602 Palestinian detainees as part of the seventh batch of the prisoner exchange deal under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, allegedly accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire, despite the latter having handed over six Israeli captives earlier on Saturday.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Edward Curtin |Bharat Dogra |Lawrence Wittner |Mir Adnan Aziz
There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as a peacemaker with Russia over the US/NATO proxy war against Russia via Ukraine: President Richard Nixon, who ran as the peace candidate in 1968 with a “secret plan” for peace in Vietnam that was actually a plan for more war, visited China in February 1972 in a move to exploit the Soviet-China split, and yet the US war against Vietnam went on until April 30, 1975 when the U.S. was...
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Lawrence Wittner |Mir Adnan Aziz |Anisur Rahman
“The (Ukraine) war is all about money. People don’t talk much about it. But you know, the richest country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine. Two to seven trillion dollars (worth) of minerals that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century… Donald Trump is going to do a deal to get our money back, to enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Phil Pasquini |Mir Adnan Aziz |Anisur Rahman
Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is probably job security, for the sudden onset of Trump’s mass, indiscriminate firing of more than 200,000 federal government workers has sparked a furor.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Mir Adnan Aziz |Phil Pasquini |Andre Damon
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Channel 13 has broadcasted a report including footage of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, inside an Israeli detention center. The video shows him looking exhausted, pale, and with visible bruises on his face. His head is shaved, and his hands and feet are shackled.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Mir Adnan Aziz |Phil Pasquini |Andre Damon
Palestinian Territory – Israeli forces brutally killed two elderly Palestinians after using them as human shields during an invasion of Gaza City’s southern Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood last May, Euro-Med Monitor field investigations have revealed. The victims of the crime were identified by the Euro-Med Monitor field and legal teams as married couple Mohammed Fahmi Abu Hussein (70) and Mazyona Hassan Fares Abu Hussein (65).
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Mir Adnan Aziz |Phil Pasquini |Andre Damon
Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The oddity is that Palestinians—dying, resisting, but remaining steadfast in Gaza—usually stand at the polar opposite of everything the Israeli government and military represent. The same is true for the Israeli government.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Mir Adnan Aziz |Phil Pasquini |Andre Damon |Anisur Rahman
Law of the Instrument or Maslow’s Hammer is a cognitive bias that dictates a tunnel vision as an overarching solution for everything. Attributed to American psychologist Abraham Maslow it states that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. President Donald Trump, the fourth child of New York real estate tycoon Fred Trump, was reared in his father’s footsteps.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Mir Adnan Aziz |Andre Damon |Brett Wilkins
The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) in Palo Alto held a press conference on February 19 to announce CAIR’s designation of Stanford University as a “hostile campus.” The designation is placed on colleges and universities that suppress Palestinian advocacy, by cracking down on student protests and retaliation against faculty addressing Palestinian human rights.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thenews.com.pk | Mir Adnan Aziz
Blue skies, majestic trees, singing birds, lush green hills and pristine air bedecked the mesmerising Abbottabad of yore. Founded in 1853 by Major James Abbott, it was raised by the British Royal Engineers. In 1883, the Hazara Gazetteer declared Abbottabad, gateway to the breathtaking Siran Valley, fabled Silk Route and the towering Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalayan ranges, as the most beautiful hill town of the Subcontinent.
