Category: War
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
After ceasefire, battered Palestinians recall Israeli ‘massacre’ “I was a mother of four children. Today my children have become three in the blink of an eye. My son was very obedient, kind-hearted and excelled in his studies despite our difficult circumstances,” she said. “Why are we in Gaza exposed to all this? We can lose…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
China cuts off vital U.S. contacts over Pelosi Taiwan visit Pelosi’s visit has stirred emotions among the Chinese public, and the government’s response “makes us feel our motherland is very powerful and gives us confidence that the return of Taiwan is the irresistible trend,” said Wang Lu, a tourist from neighboring Zhejiang province. #China #unitedstates #Trade #taiwan When…
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The United States of Poverty
In June of 2022, I had something happen to me that’s never like before. An older woman arrived at my front door. At first, my wife thought it was a Jehovah’s Witness. Well, the woman wasn’t trying to share a Watchtower magazine and save our souls from damnation. She told us she’d just buried a son, had…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Mass shootings are America’s parade of horribles It is a fact that the U.S. is armed for battle and that the homeland is threatened, but the assailant is neither an abusive king nor a foreign enemy. Americans have taken up weapons of war against their neighbors. #fourthofjuly #massshootings #Gunviolence #theunitedstates The “Sniper Frontier” competition of the Army Games…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Summit of the Americas highlights US disconnect with Latin America Fourteen leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), followed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Bolivian Luis Arce and Honduran Xiomara Castro, announced that they would not participate if Washington persisted in its drive to exclude other nations. #SummitoftheAmericas #Presidente #LatinAmerica #Politics 1 Killed, 30 Injured As Car…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh laid to rest Thousands of people gathered for Abu Akleh’s funeral on Friday, including family, friends, and those who only knew Abu Akleh as a mainstay for 15 years in Al Jazeera’s coverage of the occupied Palestinian territories and the lives of everyday Palestinians #Palestine #ShireenAbuAkleh #Israel Prison riot kills…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part III
New World Order If you watch the mainstream media in the United States, the average citizen would be blissfully unaware of the sea change in geopolitics happening thanks to the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The global south has refused to condemn Russian actions against the nation of Ukraine. I deep dove into Europe’s latest war in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Two Palestinian women killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank “It’s gotten to a point where nobody is safe – not Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Palestinians in Gaza, not Palestinians in the West Bank, and not Palestinians in forced exile,” #palestine #Israel #WestBank #Conflict Poll: 7% of U.S. adults say they’ve had ‘long COVID.’ That’s 18…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part II
Empire Babies “The world is a freak show, and if you live in the United States. You have a front-row seat.” The quote at the beginning of this essay is to paraphrase the late great comedian George Carlin. We citizens of the U.S are empire babies, and too many of us don’t realize we have a…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
America finally gets an Amazon union Beyond that, workers interested in organizing at other large employers with a strong history of union-busting may view the shocking turn of events at Amazon as the catalyst for renewed efforts inside their own company. And in the US labor community, large established unions may reflect on what they…
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