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Sara Roy of Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern studies...has written that “innocent human beings, most of them young, are slowly being poisoned in Gaza by the water drink and likely by the soil in which they plant.”
Addameer has hard evidence on the crimes of torture and ill-treatment committed against a number of detainees held at interrogation centers since late August 2019.
U.S. “Plans” for the Afghan War Might Prove a Crime Against Humanity.
Israel’s spraying “has created a dead zone of entire swathes of formerly arable land.”
Whether it’s Cuba or Venezuela or Iran, history shows that sanctions alone have never forced a change in policy by an adversary. Iranians and Americans alike deserve diplomacy, not war — and that includes war by economic means.
For the empire, genocide, like aggression, is a normal part of politics. Nuclear planners plan how to commit it. Sanctions officials administer it. And for the most part, human rights organizations take no position on it.
...only relatively low-level soldiers and contractors have been held responsible for crimes committed in the war on terror.
The worst war criminals wear suits, not fatigues
Activists protest war criminal Elliot Abrams' affiliation with Washington DC’s Holocaust Museum in the wake of his appointment as special envoy to Venezuela
The bombs start again. Israel, as if on a timer, begins to pulverize Gaza. The bombs strike from one end of the country to another, a warning against the protests that have been ongoing for a year.
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