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Report Shows Corporations and Bolsonaro Teaming Up to Destroy the Amazon
A report by Amazon Watch shows how Brazil's Bolsonaro is teaming up with corporate interests to pilfer the Amazon rainforest for profit. → Read More
Palestinians Trampled as Trump Targets Iran and Pulls Arab States into Alliance with Israel
As Trump renews his push for an alliance between the US & Arab states to target Iran, Arab countries have warming up to Israel. → Read More
Will Israel’s Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action?
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, normally reserved in their criticism of Israel, accuse it of war crimes over the Gaza massacres → Read More
Meet Ten Corporate Giants Helping Israel Massacre Gaza Protesters
As soldiers in Israel gun down unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, their lethal operations rely on a cadre of International contractors. → Read More
Amid AIPAC Protests, Two Alleged JDL Members Charged With Assaulting Protesters
Two alleged members of the extremist Jewish Defense League have been charged with attacking protesters at last weekend’s AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C. The attacks mark the group’s most violent public incident in years. → Read More
Trump’s Military Budget Won’t Pass – But It Might Not Have To
Analysts agree that Trump’s military-heavy budget “is dead on arrival,” but the effects of its proposal may still be significant. The proposal has already stoked concerns about possible cuts to valuable domestic programs, as well as lined the pockets of defense contractors. → Read More
Israeli Comptroller Report Reveals 2014 Gaza Massacre Was A War Of Choice
A new report issued by Israel’s state comptroller provides disturbing new details surrounding the country’s 2014 attack on Gaza, which , Banjamin Netanyahu, comptroller, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Yosef Shapira, → Read More
Fordham University Employs Bizarre Tactics To Curb Student Activism
Following previous efforts to block SJP, Fordham's Dean of students insisted that University policy required he meet alone, behind a closed door, with a student representing the group, with a white noise machine turned on. → Read More
ABC, NBC Censor Largest Native Mobilization In Decades Against Dakota Access Pipeline
Native nations across the continent sign a new treaty opposing oilsands expansion as anthropologists, historians and museums condemn destruction of Sioux sites, but you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media. → Read More
Women's Boat to Gaza Prepares a New Challenge to Israel's Blockade
Even the idea of the Women's Boat to Gaza gives Gazans hope that there are those who understand their plight. → Read More
On US Campuses, Pro-Israel Groups Target Supporters of Palestinian Rights
Palestinian rights activists in the US face broad, organized efforts to repress their advocacy, especially on college campuses. → Read More
Israel Escalates ‘Water-Apartheid’ As Illegal Settlers Contaminate Palestinian Water
Israel’s discriminatory allocation of water, along with its theft, destruction and pollution of Palestinian water resources, sparks accusations of racism and apartheid. → Read More
‘We Are Not Numbers’: New Project Connects Young Writers In Gaza To The World
“I really want to tell the world about the other side of Gaza they never hear about,” a participant in a new project by young Palestinian writers in the Gaza Strip tells MintPress. → Read More
Ten Years of BDS: The Growing Movement Against the Occupation of Palestine
As BDS activists celebrate an increasing number of campaign victories, the movement's greatest successes may be the ones that don't make the headlines. → Read More
‘Wrong, Tasteless And Unperceptive’: Ban Ki-Moon Places Politics Over Justice For Palestinian Youth
Despite clear criteria and the advice of his top staff, the U.N. Secretary-General removed Israel, whose attacks made Palestine the world’s third-deadliest country for children last year, from a list of children’s rights violators. → Read More
Israel’s Antisemitism Ad Hominem To Silence Dissent Under Fire
“The Antisemitism allegation against BDS is clear evidence that Israel and its allies have lost the battle to defend Israeli state policies. Name-calling and smearing opponents is all that is left. This strategy has failed miserably everywhere and will fail here,” a BDS organizer warns. → Read More
"Freedom Flotilla III" Sails to Break a Shifting Siege of Gaza
Global pressures stemming from the first ''Freedom Flotilla'' have tempered the ferocity of Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip, but its impact remains severe. → Read More
Gentrifiers And Prison Profiteers Are “Re-Engineering” The NYPD
A “re-engineering” proposal bankrolled by the wealthiest interests in New York City will likely push for the NYPD to hire hundreds of new cops for an already bloated police force under scrutiny for its brutal police practices. → Read More
Netanyahu’s ‘Genocidal’ Cabinet Promises More Conflict, Isolation For Israel
Members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s new cabinet have previously called Palestinians “beasts” and their children “little snakes,” warned of the “cancer-like attributes” of Palestinian society, and celebrated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, among other atrocities. → Read More
Why The NYPD Is Cracking Down On Anti-Police Brutality Protests
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's hope that demonstrations against police killings would "peter out" has apparently fallen flat. → Read More