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Bolivia Protesters Shut Down Seat of Government, Demanding President Resign
“This has been going on for over two weeks now, and the city has essentially been shut down. And the government hasn’t shown an ability to negotiate with broad sectors. They blame everything on Evo Morales. They’ve issued a new arrest warrant for him, and there’s been a great deal of noise from the DEA about going after him — [there has been] this DEA obsession with capturing Morales after they were expelled in 2008.“
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Rubio-Trump “Starving the Cuban People,” Creating “Ludicrous Pretext” for Invasion
“’Cuba is the country under attack,’ said the Cuban embassy in a statement, months into a ramped-up oil blockade by the U.S. that has left the island’s electric grid in a ‘critical state’ and forced frequent rolling blackouts as well as causing a healthcare crisis, with tens of thousands of people waiting for surgeries.”
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What the West Can Learn from Islamic Environmental Thought
A new book, The Cambridge Handbook of Islam and E…
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Fertilizer Crisis: An Argument for Organic Farming
“It’s not true that crops can’t be grown without synthetic, fossil fuel derived fertilizers as some claim. Organic farms don’t use these, but it is true that U.S. industrial farms rely on them. Many industrial farms using the most synthetic fertilizer don’t grow food. They grow field corn that is inedible and is used primarily for ethanol, secondarily for animal feed, and, in tiny amounts, for junk food ingredients like high fructose corn syrup.”
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Rape and Torture in Palestine: What Nicholas Kristof Left Out of The New York Times
“The documentation of this is clear. This existed before October 7th. I think that’s one thing I’m upset with Kristof about, Kristof did not make that clear in his column. You could read it almost as if this is a recent development. It’s not. The systematic torture, including rape and sexual assault on Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian hostages is a better term, has been evident and documented for decades, including on children.”
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Netanyahu Complains About Outlets Which Hire Israeli Operatives
Adam Johnson writes about the CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Netanyahu on Sunday night: “It’s even more softball than you can imagine: No mention of Netanyahu’s ICC warrant, no mention of the 20,000+ dead children, no mention of 200+ journalists killed, 60 Mins props up conspiracy theory outrage over Gaza is driven by foreign bots; no mention of ‘Palestinians’ at all.”
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“Patent Thickets” Continue to Drive Up Global Drug Prices
In a new article, Swiss pharmaceutical industr…
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Rubio Claims U.S. Only Defensive, Then U.S. Attacks Civilian Ship, Violating International Law
“The incident marks at least the second time the U.S. military fired on a civilian ship in the Gulf of Oman while enforcing the blockade.”
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Washington Post Quotes Official About “Fresh Scrutiny” Over Israel’s Nuclear Threat
He wrote the in-depth article “The Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program,” which makes numerous points including: “During the 1973 war, Israel used nuclear blackmail to force Kissinger and Nixon to airlift massive amounts of military hardware to Israel.” He stresses that Israel’s nuclear weapons program should not be compared with the North Korean, Indian or Pakistani programs. He notes that at this point there’s significant evidence it is more advanced than the British program, or the French program from which it emerged in the 1950s.
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Israeli Targeting of Flotilla Part of Continued Attack on Gaza
Al Jazeera reports: “Two activists from a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla have been presented before an Israeli court days after they were abducted following their detention with 175 other campaigners by Israel in international waters near Greece.”
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