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Committee to protect journalists accuses Israeli regime of trying to 'shut down' Gaza coverage by bombing media outlets
May 26, 2021 10:58Global press freedom organizations are accusing the Zionist regime of attempting to violently stamp out on-the-ground coverage of its assault on Gaza by bombing the offices of media outlets across the Occupied Territory, attacks that the groups characterized as war crimes under international law.
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'US-made bombs are devastating Gaza'
May 26, 2021 10:52Joining his progressive allies in the US House of Representatives, Senator Bernie Sanders recently introduced a resolution of disapproval against the Biden administration's proposed sale of advanced weaponry to the Israeli regime, which continues to unleash deadly airstrikes on the occupied Gaza Strip amid global calls for a cease-fire.
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As talks bog down, hopes for bipartisan deals on Biden’s priorities dim
May 25, 2021 16:46Negotiations in Congress over some of President Biden’s key priorities are facing new headwinds, dimming Democrats’ hopes that they might be able to overcome the partisan gridlock that has come to define Washington and quickly broker deals with Republicans to push through their ambitious agenda.
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Black workers in US cannot afford another lost decade
May 25, 2021 16:42Black American workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic. They are more likely to lose income because of COVID related layoffs and shutdowns, and by last August — five months into the pandemic — Black unemployment was nearly double that of white unemployment.
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Difference between Biden and Trump on Palestine policy is rhetorical
May 25, 2021 16:38The longstanding reality of Palestinians facing violence and eviction, living under occupation and blockade, denied the right to move, and being killed by Israeli regime settlers, police, and military forces — that’s all considered normal in official Washington.
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Ronald Greene punched and dragged by police before his death, video shows
May 25, 2021 16:16Two years after Ronald Greene, a 49-year-old Black man, died after a confrontation with white police officers in May 2019, the Louisiana police department released footage of the incident. Louisiana state police had refused to publicly release footage from the incident, which they claimed culminated in Greene dying from crashing into a tree and injuring his head.
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Joe Biden's hit and run on Palestinian people
May 23, 2021 14:51U.S. taxpayers who want to see their tax dollars at work should look no further than the Gaza Strip, the besieged enclave where 2 million Palestinians live in what former Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron described as an “open-air prison.”
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American arms makers are making a killing off of Israeli regime’s slaughter in Gaza
May 23, 2021 05:05Major arms and aircraft manufacturers — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon — are reaping massive profits from Israeli regime’s assault on Gaza, and all are expected to see their earnings boom with the quarter-billion-dollar arms deal the Biden administration is trying to push through.
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Biden cuts infrastructure plan to $1.7 trillion
May 23, 2021 04:47The Biden administration on Friday (May 21, 2021) submitted a slimmed-down version of its massive infrastructure package as part of an effort to compromise with congressional Republicans who have previously balked at the proposal's multitrillion-dollar price tag and the tax hikes that would pay for it.
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Why COVID is surging in world’s most vaccinated nation?
May 22, 2021 10:52As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in some parts of the world, the risk increases of more dangerous mutations that are vaccine-resistant or too contagious to control with current vaccines.