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The Biden administration’s missile sale to Saudi Arabia is offensive, and must be stopped
Dec 02, 2021 16:23The Biden administration should halt all U.S. arms and maintenance to the Saudi regime as leverage to get it to end the air and sea blockades.
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UN human rights envoy slams racist voter suppression in US
Nov 28, 2021 17:55A top human rights official at the United Nations has concluded that new voting restrictions pushed by conservatives in Texas and other states are diluting the political representation of people of color in the United States, where human rights protections are “far from comprehensive” and “even incoherent.”
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Despite pledge, Biden leaves tap open, approving billions in arms deals to Saudi Arabia (2)
Nov 25, 2021 15:26A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate deals inked during Biden’s presidency.
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Despite pledge, Biden leaves tap open, approving billions in arms deals to Saudi Arabia (1)
Nov 24, 2021 14:12A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate deals inked during Biden’s presidency.
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'Honest mistakes': How US and Israeli regime justify targeting and killing civilians
Nov 24, 2021 14:09The “honest mistake” is a continuing colonial narrative western nations tell themselves, and the rest of us, when they kill civilians. When western troops invade and occupy other people’s lands - and maybe help themselves to some of the resources they find along the way - it is done in the name of bringing security or spreading democracy. We are always the Good Guys, they are the Evil Ones. We make mistakes, they commit crimes.
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'Morally repugnant': Video shows Zionist regime troops waking, photographing Palestinian kids
Nov 21, 2021 17:07Human rights groups reacted with outrage to video footage showing Israeli regime troops forcing Palestinian children from their slumber and photographing them outside their family home.
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US military training in Mexico increased as human rights waned, new database reveals
Nov 21, 2021 07:00In the years after the U.S. pledged to invest in human rights and rule of law, the Pentagon spent millions training elite Mexican units how to fight.
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Is the EU really shocked about the killing of a Palestinian boy?
Nov 18, 2021 15:25The European Union’s representatives in the West Bank city of Ramallah issued a statement expressing “shock” over the killing of Dadas, describing it as the “disproportionate use of lethal force.” The EU did not say what level of lethal force it would consider “proportionate.”
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Settler attacks on Palestinian olive harvest 'most dangerous in years’
Nov 14, 2021 14:14Palestinian olive farmers say attacks 'under the watchful eye' of the Zionist regime army have destroyed the otherwise festive harvest season.
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How the Israeli regime occupation ravages the environment in Palestine?
Nov 14, 2021 14:12Not a single day passes without a Palestinian tree or an orchard being set ablaze or cut down. ‘Clearing’ the Palestinian environment is, and has always been, the prerequisite of constructing or expanding the illegal settlements. For these illegal units to be built, countless trees have to be ‘removed’, along with the Palestinians who have planted them.