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US Ambassador to Israel: “It Would Be Fine” If Israel Took Over Most of the Middle East

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On Sunday, more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments condemned statements made by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee after he said n an interview with Tucker Carlson that Israel had the biblical right to take over land belonging to other states in the Middle East.  “It would be fine if they took it […]

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Trump Made Us a Soundtrack to World Peace

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In the run-up to the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, which began about 40 minutes late on Thursday at the recently renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, representatives from over 40 countries jammed out to a mix of disco, ’80s hits, and Sinéad O’Connor classics. “Does everybody like the music?” the president […]

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“Who the Fuck Are These Men?”

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By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]

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Trump Promises Billions in Aid to Gaza as Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 12 Palestinians

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Donald Trump said Sunday that member states of his Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza.  Countries will also send thousands of personnel to “maintain Security and Peace for Gazans,” the president wrote on Truth Social. The pledge will be officially announced during the board’s inaugural meeting on […]

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Immigration Court Blocks Trump from Deporting Pro-Palestine Tufts Student

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An immigration judge dropped a deportation case against Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by masked and plainclothes federal agents nearly a year ago, according to a letter from her lawyers on Monday.  In March 2024, Öztürk was one of four authors of an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper, Tufts Daily, […]

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They Want You to “Quit Demonstrating”

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Two days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, Rep. Roger Williams issued an ultimatum to the Trump administration’s critics in Minnesota and beyond. “People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil,” the Texas Republican told NewsNation. “And until we do […]

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Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza

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On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide. Israel has claimed that the organizations failed to meet new vetting guidelines. However, as the Associated Press reported, […]

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Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

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The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.   The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]

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Gazans Face “Not Just a Humanitarian Catastrophe but an Ecological Collapse”

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanitarian worker who evacuated from Gaza […]

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I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.

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Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader. At a time when the […]

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Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant bombardment, Israeli forces have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, at least a third of whom are children. The human toll has been called genocide by human rights organizations around the world and by a UN commission, but a new […]

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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza

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In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s media. Run out of Tel Aviv University, in a modern building on the campus surrounded by well-kept lawns and native trees, the INSS had a controversial task for the congregated press: Assess […]

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