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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.
The unholy alliance between the Philippine and U.S. governments is long-standing.
Amnesty International described the move as “the latest attack on international justice and international institutions by an administration hellbent on rolling back human rights protections.”
The world has since got so used to companies taking over what were long functions of the state that the Trump administration is now considering handing over the Afghan war to them.
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