Tag: organised crime

The Israeli gangster regime is deliberately murdering children in schools and hospitals. The USA and UK are complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people

GAZA casualties, live statistics NB: The Netanyahu regime is a proxy for the USA; which supplies it with money and arms for this killing spree. They cannot achieve peace by ethnic cleansing; to the contrary this is a recipe for permanent warfare. The only people profiting from this are the arms manufacturers. The events of… Read More The Israeli gangster regime is deliberately murdering children in schools and hospitals. The USA and UK are complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people

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Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars

according to the Costs of War Project, the USA ended up spending at least $8 trillion on those wars. According to that project, an estimated 940,000 people died directly thanks to America’s war on terror (almost half of them civilians) and 3.6 to 3.8 million indirectly in its war zones, bringing the total to nearly five million dead…. that group has estimated that… Read More Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars

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At least 22 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school compound

GAZA casualties, live statistics At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there. A spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, Mahmoud Basal, said the missile hit the Al-Zaytoun School, near Gaza City, where thousands were… Read More At least 22 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school compound

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The Minister’s Millions: Crime and politics in Bangladesh

The Minister’s Millions I Al Jazeera Investigations Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit goes on the trail of The Minister’s Millions to find out how he built a half-billion-dollar property empire – on a thirteen-thousand-dollar salary. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, a close ally of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, bought hundreds of luxury properties in London, Dubai, and New… Read More The Minister’s Millions: Crime and politics in Bangladesh

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Stormy weather

Like all despots, major & petty, Mamata thrives on playing the victim. But now, faced with this horrendous instance of a genuine victim, her fake-victimhood shrivels up into a carbonised farce.. Just as global warming creates unpredictably cruel weather, corruption too creates its own hard rain. Ruchir Joshi On the evening of the day Rizwanur… Read More Stormy weather

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The Palestine Laboratory: How To Make Friends And Influence People, Israeli Style

Israel has made many friends in the international sphere by selling countries state-of-the-art defence technology that it ‘battle tests’ on Palestinian people Saleem Rashid Shah In February 2022, against rising tensions in the region, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Bahrain to sign a landmark security cooperation agreement with the Kingdom. Bahrain was among the… Read More The Palestine Laboratory: How To Make Friends And Influence People, Israeli Style

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Beyond the Kolkata Rape And Murder, a history of medical corruption In West Bengal

The brutal rape-murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital has an inescapable geography Saikat Majumdar The brutality of rape and murder elicits a reaction that is not only ethical and political in nature. It also evokes a response that is deeply aesthetic. By aesthetic I mean that visceral reaction to… Read More Beyond the Kolkata Rape And Murder, a history of medical corruption In West Bengal

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Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destruction

So many of Gaza’s children have been buried. Or orphaned. Or been found clutching their dolls under rubble. Or died of heart attacks from terror. So when Netanyahu, a man with a potential arrest warrant for war crimes, receives a standing ovation from our Congress, that’s not just Netanyahu’s legacy. That’s ours As we are saturated with… Read More Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destruction

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