Tag: imperialism
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Milei closing federal agency against discrimination and racism
Argentine President Javier Milei’s administration Thursday announced it would dissolve the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (Inadi) in a move to cut public spending, it was reported in Buenos Aires. In making his decision, Milei argued that the Inadi, which includes some 400 workers and had dozens of delegations nationwide, was the “Thought…
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WHO chief calls Gaza ‘death zone’
With thousands of Gaza residents and hundreds of aid workers reportedly dead in Israel’s conflict against Hamas brutal genocide, a top United Nations health official called the region a “death zone” Wednesday and reiterated his calls for an immediate cease-fire. “Gaza has become a death zone,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a…
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Brazil’s Lula compares Israel’s war on Gaza with the Holocaust
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and compared its war on Gaza with Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate Jewish people. “What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Lula told reporters in Addis Ababa where he was attending…
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Anthony Albanese says asylum seeker boat arrival ‘unfortunate’ but government not to blame
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the arrival of a boat carrying several asylum seekers to Western Australia’s far north coast is “unfortunate” but not a failure of Operation Sovereign Borders. The federal opposition has gone on the offensive over the arrival of 39 men who say they travelled by boat from Indonesia to remote communities in WA’s north-west on…
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US to send weapons to Israel amid invasion threat in Gaza’s Rafah
The United States is preparing to send more bombs and other weapons to Israel even as it pushes for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and has said it opposes Tel Aviv’s plans for a ground invasion in southern Rafah where more than half the enclave’s displaced population is trapped. The proposed arms delivery…
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Fired Dozens Of “Rockets” Into Israel, Says Hezbollah
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, a Hamas ally, said Thursday it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, a day after Israeli raids killed 15 people including a Hezbollah commander. “In a first response to the massacres in Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, Islamic resistance fighters fired dozens of Katyusha-type rockets at Kiryat Shmona,” an Israeli town…
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Israel escalates aggression against southern Lebanon
Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Lebanon on February 14, killing four, including a woman and her two children. According to Al Mayadeen the attacks targeted the villages of Souaneh, Adshit, and Chehabiyeh. Israel’s attacks are believed to be in response to an operation carried out by Hezbollah earlier in the day against the Israeli military command base…
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Biden Pushes for Six-Week Fighting Pause in Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal
US President Joe Biden said he’s pushing for a six-week pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow for the release of hostages, saying those conditions could lay the groundwork for broader peace. Such a pause “would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm into Gaza for at least six weeks, which we…