‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages Ruchi Kumar Ukrainian children from a Donetsk orphanage at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, Russia. Up to 35,000 Ukrainian children may be held in Russia, with many feared… Read More ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime

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Enabled by the USA, UK & servile Arab states, Israel has slaughtered an average of 122 Palestinians EVERY DAY for 629 days

The international political-economic system is not just a disgrace, its a corrupt and vicious murder machine. This is genocidal mania in broad daylight. No one will do anything to stop this massacre. We can only watch the IDF (which styles itself ‘the most moral army in the world’), bombs hospitals, refugee camps, schools, and ‘safe… Read More Enabled by the USA, UK & servile Arab states, Israel has slaughtered an average of 122 Palestinians EVERY DAY for 629 days

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Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists

By Angus Watson It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent. The rare event is now… Read More Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists

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Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think

A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it Saida Grundy By the time Jesse Owens bowed his head from the highest podium tier to be crowned with his fourth Olympic wreath in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Europe’s premiers… Read More Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think

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Why BBC Editors Must One Day Stand Trial for Colluding in Israel’s Genocide

the BBC has largely ignored Israel’s campaign of murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza. A greater number have been killed by Israel in its war on the tiny enclave than the total number of journalists killed in all other major conflicts of the past 160 years combined Jonathan Cook / Jonathan Cook Blog Veteran journalist Peter Oborne… Read More Why BBC Editors Must One Day Stand Trial for Colluding in Israel’s Genocide

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Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World

By Michael Hudson / Geopolitical Economy Report Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and… Read More Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World

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Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles

NB: Truth be told the happy couple look like inflatable crocs themselves. DS Angela Giuffrida in Venice Campaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree. The main reception for the wedding of Bezos… Read More Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles

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Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers

Among the dozens killed are 13 aid seekers, as NGO warns Israel is also deliberately blocking energy access. At least 43 people have been killed in various Israeli attacks since dawn as the military relentlessly pounds the besieged enclave, medical sources say, with the overall Palestinian death toll in the war surpassing a staggering 56,000.… Read More Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers

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‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files. He suddenly stopped. “It was devastation,” he said finally. “I can’t go back there. I don’t dwell… Read More ‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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