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đź”´ While corporate mainstream media gave Israel the cover to commit genocide in Gaza, MintPress has been at the forefront of challenging atrocity propaganda and naming the names of those who profit from this massacre. For this, we have been targeted financially and
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Video footage shows a French Zionist shouting and pretending to be attacked, despite no one touching him, at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in France.
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"I'm proud to be racist. ". This is how black people are treated in Israel.
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The 22 year-old man who confronted Prince Andrew was arrested and has now been charged by police with a "breach of the peace." . The second such charge in as many days as republicanism in Britain is suppressed.
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Four Israelis were kicked out of a hotel in Tanzania for complaining about the free Palestine badge on the manager's car. The Canary Nungwi Hotel in Zanzibar kicked out four Israelis who interrogated a receptionist about a vehicle parked outside the premise with stickers that
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"Round them up tomorrow morning!". This is how black people are treated in Israel.
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Barcelona's city council has become the first to suspend all ties with the occupation government in Tel Aviv.
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“You are the governor of Colorado, not the governor of Tel Aviv. ". Protesters disrupted Colorado Governor Jared Polis in Denver as he held a pro-Israel event.
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Israel is violently suppressing protests by orthodox anti-Zionist Jews.
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The persecution of Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, continues. He's another victim of the US Empire's campaign to maintain its grip on hegemonic power as China's global influence grows.
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Slovenia will support ICJ case against Israel. It has been reported that Tanja Fajon, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia, has stated the Slovenian government's support for the South African case against Israel.
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CNN has reported that Israeli soldiers returning from Gaza are being “plagued by suicide.”. The rise in suicide rates among these soldiers highlights the severe psychological toll experienced by those involved in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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"One month into the genocide, BP was given a contract for gas exploration off the coast of Gaza.". Activists from Energy Embargo for Palestine disrupted a panel discussion hosted by BP’s Chief Economist, Spencer Dale, this morning in London.
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🧵In a 1994 presentation, former MI5 intelligence officer Annie Machon described how Israel bombed its own London Embassy and blamed innocent Palestinians for it.
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"The killers of Patrice Lumumba, those who toppled Kwame Nkrumah, those who killed Nasser, those who killed Muammar Gaddafi, today are coming to teach us about democracy.". An excerpt from Zambian opposition leader Fred Mnembe's speech during the visit of US Vice President Kamala
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Rahma Zain speaking on her interaction with a CNN reporter Clarissa Ward earlier today, as well as Israel's current activities in Gaza.
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Clarissa Ward, an American journalist, is facing accusations of fabricating a scene involving the rescue of prisoners in Syria. It has been reported that the prison she claimed to have discovered prisoners in had already been cleared by HTS, with families of former prisoners
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🧵While Israel’s reputation is reaching new lows worldwide, it still enjoys widespread support among the Hollywood elite. Here are nine celebrities who have gone beyond supporting Israel into raising money for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) itself.
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Suella Braverman banned a Palestinian student refugee from the UK. It has emerged that, at the direction of Suella Braverman, the UK Home Office denied a visa to Palestinian refugee Amena El Ashkar, who was granted a full scholarship at the London School of Economics, on the
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Microsoft is banning Palestinians for life from using Skype if they call relatives in Gaza. A BBC investigation found numerous cases where Palestinians have had their Microsoft accounts abruptly shut down for making calls to their relatives in Gaza. One affected user, a
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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss is reported to have texted the words "It's done" to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken just minutes after the Nord Stream explosion. Russia has today summoned the British Ambassador to explain.
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Israeli guards at the Sde Teiman prison camp weaponise rape against Palestinian civilian captives. Multiple reports of gruesome forms of rape have emerged from a UN report on an Israeli detention camp for civilians taken captive from Gaza. Testimonies reveal Palestinian detainees
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Last Friday, the Portuguese parliament passed a motion to recognise Palestinian statehood and mark the Nakba.
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Pro-Palestine Minister Ione Belarra of Spain has been removed from her position. Minister Ione Belarra has been removed from her position as head of the social rights cabinet in Spain during a cabinet change for unknown reasons, but her supporters suspect her support for
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A Palestinian man is detained by an Israeli soldier while his home is demolished. This is Zionism.
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🧵As Israel continues to pound Gaza into dust, MintPress compiles some of the most genocidal statements made by senior Israeli officials, proving that their intent is to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its population.
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Arrested activist Sarah Wilkinson was reportedly asked to give up the location of contacts in Gaza by police and refused. After being arrested and barred from using electronic devices, over her activism in favour of Palestinian human rights, it has emerged that Sarah Wilkinson
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Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the chair of Israel's investigative committee into rape on 10/7 by Hamas, presented an old photograph depicting deceased female Kurdish fighters, falsely portraying them as victims of sexual assault at the Nova music festival.
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Reports on the Israeli pilots involved in the airstrikes that targeted hospitals and civilians in Gaza have been published by Nournews. Tal Zahavi, pictured on the left, boasting over 23 years in the Israeli Air Force, has been involved in air operations against civilians in
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Last night researcher @JebSprague interrupted President George W. Bush in attempt to hold him accountable for his war crimes. This comes the day after @MikePrysner confronted him for his war crimes in Iraq.
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50 lawyers prepare a case against the US and UK for complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Led by South African lawyer Wikus Van Rensburg, a group of around 50 legal professionals is preparing a law suit against the US and the UK that focuses on the complicity of the two
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"I was getting attacked for being Jewish. ". An Israeli soldier in London, who recently went viral for verbally attacking a Muslim woman and attempting to remove her headscarf—only to retreat when a man intervened—is confronted in public. Here’s what happened next.
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A massive pro-Palestinian protest takes to the streets in Durban, South Africa.
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“I wish I could say the same as my Ukrainian colleague told you. when it came to Palestine, you call it a conflict. It’s a genocide.”. A Palestinian speaker highlights the complicity of the West in supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza at the 25th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights
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13 years ago today, Julian Assange and Wikileaks published a video of US forces killing Iraqi civilians from an Apache helicopter in Baghdad entitled "Collateral Murder."
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Gazan child rescued after hours under the rubble. Last night, Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp. Today, after being trapped in the dark for hours, the child was rescued from under the rubble by Gaza civil defense teams.
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Algeria prevents a US aircraft carrying weapons to Israel from flying over their airspace.
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"Israel is not on trial here; what's on trial is actually the international court.". Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, argues the result of the trial at The Hague will define the integrity of the institution.
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"The baby was removed from her stomach and beheaded. ". British presenter Rachel Riley lied about October 7th on national TV.
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Jeremy Corbyn makes his way to The Hague today to back South Africa's case against Israel. The South African authorities only specifically listed one political figure, Corbyn. "The South African delegation will be joined by senior political figures from progressive political
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Israeli forces attack anti-Zionist Jews who denounce the state of Israel in a Jerusalem synagogue during their religious services.
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The new administration in Niger has raised the price of uranium exports. Niger provides 25% of the uranium that Europe consumes. The West African state has taken the bold step of increasing its uranium prices from €0.80/kg to €200.00/kg. Will EU states need firewood for the
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Israeli Apache shot down for the first time in Gaza. An Israeli Apache helicopter has been shot down by anti-aircraft missiles in Khan Yunis.
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The Libyan parliament has voted to ban Israeli ships from its waters and Israeli aircraft from its airspace in the midst of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
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"What has capitalism given the world?". Fidel Castro didn't hold back.
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“The CIA assassinated your first popular leader Mr. Lumumba…”. American economist Jeffrey Sachs drops some truth about the Congo.
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🧵A new MintPress News investigation reveals that a number of the most influential journalists in the United States were previously operatives of Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200.
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"Hezbollah recognizes, I hope, that this is a trap. " Scott Ritter
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Former Scottish Police Federation (SPF) general secretary Joe Grant has chosen to return his title of MBE to express his disagreement with the UK government's stance on Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Spain has suspended all arms export licences to Israel since October 7, 2023, according to Spanish Foreign Minister José Albares Bueno.
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The producers of Stephen Fry's controversial Christmas message were members of a Zionist youth group that funnels members into the Israeli military. Fulwell73 was founded by Leo Pearlman, Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner, and Ben Winston. All of whom were members of the Zionist
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Witness lied to Israeli media about the Nova festival killings. Israeli media have removed interviews with Niko Ostroga, who claimed he saw 29 friends killed at the music festival on October 7th, after it was revealed that he was never there.
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Anti-Zionist Jews raise the flag of Palestine and pay a solidarity visit to the Jenin Refugee Camp.
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"Stop nuclear war with Russia!". Former US President Barack Obama's speech is interrupted by anti-war protestors.
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Over 250,000 people occupy the streets marching towards the Israeli Embassy today in High Street Kensington, London, protesting Israel’s war in Gaza.
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"If I'm alive, he's alive.". Heartbreaking footage of an internally displaced Palestinian girl from Gaza explaining her bond with her pet.
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French police violently repress demonstrations against NATO and the Ukraine war in Paris.
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The US State Department pressured Pakistan to remove Imran Khan from government. Leaked Pakistani government documents have revealed that US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu was instrumental in the push to overthrow Imran Khan.
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"Deport the children! Deport the women! Deport all the innocents!". Iris Bernstein, a settler from the area surrounding Gaza, called for the deportation of Palestinians and the seizure of their lands during a speech at the Knesset. Not long ago, her son was neutralised in Gaza.
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The co-founder of Wikipedia has exposed that CIA and FBI computers were being used to edit Wikipedia articles as early as 2008. "We do have evidence that, as early as 2008, CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia. Do you think that they stopped doing that?".Larry
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“Bibi Netanyahu is completely not welcome here in London….we are not supporting a two-state solution at all. All of the land needs to be returned to the Palestinians.”. - Rabbi Elhanan Beck from Neturei Karta told MintPress today at a demonstration in London against Benjamin
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“I was a murderer…”. 90-year-old Israeli laughs as he describes killing unarmed Palestinians with their hands up during the Nakba of 1948.
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"I share your pain. ". British MP Jeremy Corbyn sends an emotional message to the people of Gaza today outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda is nominated for an Emmy over her coverage of the war in Gaza. Despite a concentrated campaign to remove her nomination, the Emmys have stood by their decision to nominate one of the central voices from Gaza that is educating the world in English
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The BBC insists on using the passive voice whenever the Israeli military kills Palestinians so we fixed this headline for them.
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"I know Mr. Secretary, I'm gonna go stop". President Joe Biden stops talking about Israeli hostages during a speech today after Secretary of State Antony Blinken nods his head for him to stop.
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"Supporting NATO, you are not supporting the people of Ukraine, you are supporting US hegemony.". Labour member Angelo Sanchez has been suspended from the party for this intervention at the annual conference.
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BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II is dead. She oversaw 70 years of oppression against the most vulnerable people on the planet. On this day, remember the victims of British colonial violence from Ireland, to Palestine, to Argentina, and beyond.
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The BBC’s Middle East Editor is revealed to be far from impartial . Raffi Berg was revealed to not only have been a former CIA employee, but has also expressed support for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who currently has an ICC arrest warrant issued against him for committing war
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A French-Israeli soldier who mocked Palestinian torture victims unmasked as Yoel Ohnona. The soldier resides in Lyon, France, and has committed acts of torture on Palestinians during his “stay” in Gaza.
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"Sy Hersh just released the fact that the United States blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Are you going to put a Congressional probe into that — yes or no?". Activists confront NY Rep. Ritchie Torres on Seymour Hersh's recent reporting.
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An Israeli settler mocks a Palestinian man who was recently expelled from his own house by offering stolen milk from his very own refrigerator in Al-Quds, Occupied Palestine.
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"If you were to give an estimate, how many children do you think you have killed?". A high-ranking employee of arms giant Lockheed Martin recently delivered a speech at the University of Texas at Dallas. During the event, he was asked some interesting questions.
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Palestinian children in Gaza writing their names on their arms with the to help doctors identify their corpses in case if they are killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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A disaster response team led by the Israeli military smuggled 200-year-old Book of Esther scrolls out of earthquake-stricken Turkey last Thursday. The scrolls were returned on Friday after the Turkish public learned about the incident and complained on social media.
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With Julian Assange on the verge of extradition to spend the rest of his life in a US prison, and the judge claiming he is "duty bound" some are questioning the United Kingdom's independence and sovereignty. Cartoon by @LatuffCartoons
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“I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine.”. These were the words written on the will of Aaron Bushnell.
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Instagram has suspended the account of Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Shareef, one of the last reporters in northern Gaza. The Al-Jazeera journalists account that had 1.2 million followers and had garnered billions of views, was suddenly deleted by Instagram, silencing the most
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20 years ago today, on March 20, 2003, the United States and its allies, including Britain, launched the invasion of Iraq.
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Cuba defies Israel and demands a moment of silence at 41st Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2017. "So with your indulgence, let me request, Mr Chairman, that we stand for a minute of silence for all of the Palestinians who've died in the region.”
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The UAE has been accused of sending aid to Lebanon that is laced with spyware. Displaced people who received the aid reported having found chips inside blankets and towels, which they suspect were planted there with the purpose of collecting data on them. The allegations are
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"They are scared to death.". Former US intelligence analyst Scott Ritter sizes up Israel's readiness for a ground invasion of Gaza.
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On January 13, 2004, British photographer and human rights activist Tom Hurndall died after being in a coma for nine months. Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in April 2003 while trying to rescue children from Israeli gunfire in Gaza.
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Eric Clapton, regarded as one of the most successful musicians of all time, has spoken out against Keir Starmer by extending his support to the independent candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras, Andrew Feinstein. "Along with my dear friend Roger Waters, I stand in support of
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British-Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad to run for parliament against Israel lobby-backed Wes Streeting in Ilford North election. She was selected by nearly 200 attendees of a hustings last night to represent the community against Labour MP Wes Streeting in the Ilford North
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"I'll crush him.". This is how illegal Israeli settlers treat Palestinians in the West Bank.
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South Africa to prosecute citizens fighting for Israel in Gaza. On Monday, the South African government cautioned that South Africans participating in combat for Israel in Gaza will face prosecution upon returning home.
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An African asylum seeker protests his imminent deportation from Israel.
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🧵As American politicians dance to the drums of war against Gaza, MintPress News unveils the top recipients of Israel lobby money of all time.
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Katie Halper was fired by The Hill this week for a factual report explaining how Israel is an apartheid state. Here is the report she was fired for:
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"You are killers.". A passenger on a bus in Haifa, occupied Palestine, confronts Israeli soldiers in uniform during her journey. The soldiers plead, explaining that they are protecting civilians, but the woman remains unconvinced.
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BREAKING: Russia has claimed British Navy involvement in Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
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From the NYT & CNN to the BBC, here's how media outlets work directly with Israel to ensure a pro-Israel narrative is dominant when reporting about Gaza. Mnar Adley explains.
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Journalist Alina Lipp had her bank account closed & could face 3 years in a German jail for reporting from Donbass where she witnessed Ukrainian war crimes. Lipp is being punished because she showed the world the truth about the proxy war in Ukraine.
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“The global north is now a minority in a new world order which won’t be based on the dollar but will be based on a new system of multilateralism.”. Irish MEP Clare Daly with a message for NATO.
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Former general in the Israeli Military Amiram Levin has compared Israeli treatement of the Palestinians to Nazi Germany's treatment of Jewish people. He also described Israel as "total apartheid.". "It's hard for us to say it, but it's the truth. Walk around al-Khalil, look at
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#Arizona man says @SenJohnMcCain should be tried for treason for supporting #AlQaeda in #Syria - to his face! 👏🏽
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“If anyone’s been to Gaza, it’s one of the most criminal places on earth.”. Edward Said's comments from a 1998 interview seem as if they could have been made today.
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