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Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on 27 December, evacuating people at gunpoint and setting the facility ablaze after brutal attacks on the hospital’s vicinity. Continue reading “Israeli army sets fire to north Gaza’s last functioning hospital”
US and UK warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes on the Yemeni capital late on 27 December, targeting the 21 September park in the Maeen district of Sanaa, according to Yemen’s Al-Masirah TV. Continue reading “US, British jets rain fire on Yemeni capital in new late night attack”
By KIT KLARENBERG – The Grey Zone
Continue reading “Leaked files show secret UK Syria project boosted Jolani’s HTS”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
“The GEC is dead – long live the GEC!” That would be one way to summarize the situation around the US State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) that has formally shut down. Continue reading “Global Engagement Center Officially Shuts Down, but Censorship Efforts Likely To Persist Through State Department Offices”
By Katie Daviscourt – The Postmillennial
A violent teen with an extensive criminal history has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 14-year-old boy, tying him to a tree, and disembowling him at a park in Everett, WA, a city located just north of Seattle. The suspect was released from custody by a Seattle judge just two weeks prior to the alleged offense despite the prosecutor’s objections. Continue reading “Gang-affiliated teen kidnaps 14-year-old, ties him to tree, disembowels him 2 weeks after Seattle judge released suspect from custody: prosecutors”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
The short-lived era of Elon Musk’s Twitter being a semi-“free speech platform” came to an end on Friday after Musk started banning right-wing critics of his who vocally opposed his plan to radically expand Indian immigration. Continue reading “Elon Musk Launches Twitter Purge, Bans Critics of His Push to Expand Indian Immigration”
By Brendan McDonald – Campus Reform
Tufts University is offering students a chance to study transgender-identifying persons throughout history in a course called “Transcestors: Trans History, Narrative & Influence” next semester. Continue reading “Tufts University offering ‘Transcestors’ course next semester”
By TAREQ S. HAJJAJ – Mondoweiss
Patients are trying to sleep inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. But just outside, they can see a remote-controlled robot carrying explosives sent by the Israeli army. It’s only a matter of time before the bomb is detonated. Tanks and bulldozers move around the hospital and in front of its entrances all day long. The sounds of explosions and bullets do not stop. Continue reading “‘We will leave when the last Palestinian leaves’: The defiant last stand of the doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital”
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Israeli soldiers are increasingly engaging in acts of brutality and war crimes in Gaza, with the appearance of more “callous” and “ideologically violent” troops, according to a detailed analysis published in Haaretz by Professor Yoel Elizur, former chair of the Council of Psychologists and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Continue reading “‘These kids need to be killed’: Israel ‘losing its humanity’ in Gaza”
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. Continue reading “WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?”
No one helped.
The bystanders were too busy filming. The cops? Well, instead of wrapping their jackets around a burning woman in an F train stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station on Sunday morning, they walked by. Continue reading “Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New York City’s sad disconnect to humanity”
Continue reading “Israeli Airstrikes Target Gaza Hospitals and Civil Defense HQ – Scores Killed”
The Pentagon said on Monday that the US has more troops deployed in Iraq than it has been disclosing, an admission that comes after it revealed there are significantly more US troops in Syria than the US has said. Continue reading “Pentagon Admits It’s Been Lying About the Number of Troops in Both Iraq and Syria”
The Israeli military has almost completely destroyed the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, once one of the most densely populated places on earth, turning it into a “ghost town,” Haaretz reported on Sunday. Continue reading “Israel Has Turned Jabalia Refugee Camp Into a ‘Ghost Town’”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom will in January come out with requirements that online platforms will have to meet in order to enforce age verification, expected to be “highly accurate.” Continue reading “UK’s Ofcom to Enforce Age Verification Using Facial Recognition Under Online “Safety” Act”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
The US allegedly shot down one of its own F/A-18 jets over the Red Sea on Sunday just hours after conducting a bombing operation against the Houthis in Yemen. Continue reading “U.S. ‘Shoots Down Own Jet’ Over Red Sea in ‘Friendly Fire Incident’”
A federal initiative that began during the Obama administration with the goal of debanking certain industries disfavored by federal officials has apparently been resurrected and is taking aim at cryptocurrencies.
By Thomas Stevenson – The Post Millennial
The Guatemalan illegal immigrant arrested for burning a woman alive on a New York subway told police that he was so drunk he could not remembers lighting the woman on fire. He was seen on video captured by bystanders sitting on a platform bench and watching as the woman was engulfed in flames. No one stepped in to help. Continue reading “Guatemalan man arrested for torching woman to death on NYC subway says he was too drunk to remember it”
By Christina Maas – Reclaim The Net
Within the spectrum of overreactions, few can rival what unfolded in New Jersey when Angela Reading, a mother and former school board member, dared to question a poster at her daughter’s elementary school. Continue reading “New Jersey Mom Targeted by Military and Homeland Security for Questioning LGBTQ+ Poster at Elementary School”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
A 50-year-old Saudi national rammed a car into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least 4 people and injuring over 200. Continue reading “Saudi National Rams Car Into Germans at Christmas Market in Suspected Terrorist Attack [UPDATED 2X]”
