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Aug 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Ramzy Baroud |Brett Wilkins |Saleem Ayoub Quna
High-profile talks have been continuing for some time for a peace agreement on Gaza, involving diplomats of the USA, Qatar and Egypt. It is strange that the two main parties are not directly involved in these. Anyway, as peace must get all possible chances, the world is again waiting anxiously to see if a genuine justice based agreement can still be clinched by the diplomats and negotiators of the three countries against all the heavy odds.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Brett Wilkins |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Binoy Kampmark
While many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits. For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Brett Wilkins |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ramzy Baroud |Binoy Kampmark
Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded its first case of polio since the highly contagious virus was eradicated there 25 years ago, prompting a Friday call by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for a temporary truce to enable a vaccination drive in the embattled strip.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumanta Banerjee |Yanis Iqbal |Sabiha Mazid |Saleem Ayoub Quna
The recent case of the rape and killing of a female trainee doctor in the premises of Kolkata’s prestigious R.G. Kar Hospital has drawn all India attention to the murderous hazards that women medical practitioners including nurses, face in our hospitals all over India. There have been several incidents of their harassment by their male seniors in their places of work, and also by relatives of patients who feel aggrieved by what they allege as ill-treatment in different parts of India.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ramzy Baroud |Binoy Kampmark |Vijay Prashad
Whatever our political affiliations might be, there is no denying that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to navigate his way through the worst crisis that hit Israel since 1948.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sonali Kolhatkar |Ramzy Baroud |Benjamin Mateus |Saleem Ayoub Quna
What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October. After Israeli citizens, tax-paying residents of the United States have the most leverage over the perpetrators of genocide given that the U.S. is Israel’s biggest weapons supplier. What if our taxes were spent on the things we need rather than on the deadly weapons Israel is thirsting for?
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Benjamin Mateus |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ali Abunimah
Palestinian Territory – The international community must act swiftly and forcefully to end Israel’s systematic and widespread use of torture and other serious violations against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, particularly those from the Gaza Strip. These acts of torture and abuse are committed as part of Israel’s full-scale genocide against the Palestinian people, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Benjamin Mateus |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ali Abunimah
Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth. It was an expression of his desperation, if not defeat, on all fronts. This is not new. For years, Netanyahu has served the role of a social media meme.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Benjamin Mateus |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ali Abunimah |Bharat Dogra
The Right to Food Campaign is appalled by the merciless use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza by the Israel government. We are equally dismayed by the Indian government’s continued complicity with this and related war crimes in Gaza. During the last nine months, tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians including countless children have been blown to pieces, buried under the rubble, charred to death or grievously wounded.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Benjamin Mateus |Saleem Ayoub Quna |Ali Abunimah |Bharat Dogra
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that polio had been detected in Gaza and warned that urgent preventive measures had to be taken to protect children from the infection, which can cause death or crippling paralysis. “The detection of polio in Gaza is another reminder of the dire conditions the population is facing,” the WHO director wrote on X, referring to the Israeli military onslaught on the Palestinian enclave.
