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Starvation in Gaza

Alex de Waal London Review of Books
Genocide Convention: Article 2(c) prohibits ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’.

Land of Hope and Dreams

Bruce Springsteen and the EStreet Band YouTube
On May 14, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Highlights from that first night are now available digitally as the “Land of Hope & Dreams” EP

Can Donald Trump Build the ‘Golden Dome’ Over the US?

Bernd Debusmann, Jr BBC
The Congressional Research Office, or CRS, has said that "hundreds or thousands" of space-based platforms would be necessary to "provide even a minimal defence" against incoming missiles - a potentially enormously expensive proposition.

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