“More and more open areas in East Jerusalem are being designated as preservation or national parks, and this is clearly in order to prevent Palestinian urban development.” -- Sari Kronish, Israeli planning rights organization Bimkom
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Recent developments in the Yemen war are increasingly pointing to the possibility that Biden's ostensible moves towards peace may simply be an attempt to control the narrative and save face around what is looking like yet another defeat in the long-running American-sponsored global war on terror.
After a decade of bombing, invasions, exoduses and economic strife, it is clear that there are precious few winners in the Syrian Civil War — or from the rest of the Arab Spring, for that matter.
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With Western intelligence sources once again stoking the flames of a nuclear Iran and the secret movement of America's nuclear warheads across Europe, the war economy is up to its old tricks.
The post US Gins Up a “Credible” Iranian Nuclear Menace Befitting Its Own Stockpile appeared first on MintPress News.
“There were [dozens] of soldiers around, and one of the soldiers dragged one of the children to the vehicle and the other soldiers followed and started to arrest them... We begged the soldiers to wait until the children’s families could come and talk to their families, but that didn’t help.”
US aggression against China and Russia sets the tone of the Biden administration’s Cold War doctrine.
The post Video: US Escalates New Cold War as Diplomatic Gloves Come Off, with Carl Zha appeared first on MintPress News.
Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto’s glyphosate across the country, a plan Biden once fought hard with his Republican colleagues to enact.
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Facebook itself “poses one of the biggest threats when it comes to children's privacy,” according to the human rights organization.
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Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the 'Satanic' forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.
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More evidence of CIA support for al-Qaeda exposed.
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