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The Western Way of Genocide

The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth. Explore Gaza - by Mr. Fish Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean wat

Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every...

Myanmar: Four years on, coup leaders ramp up violations to unprecedented levels, UN finds

AFP Myanmar’s military ramped up violence against civilians last year to unprecedented levels, inflicting the heaviest civilian death...

Oklahoma schools may begin collecting immigration status of parents

The State Board of Education approved the proposal in a push to eliminate “sanctuary schools.” "We're not going to allow sanctuary schools here in Oklahoma,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told CNN Tuesday. | Sue Ogrocki/AP Oklahoma may require parents to report their immigration status when enrolling children in schools. “We’re not going to allow sanctuary schools here in Oklahoma,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told CNN’s Brianna Keila

Trump directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants

President-elect Donald Trump visit's the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for their inaugural wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 19, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alicia Brand/released) President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants. The memorandum calls for the Defense and Homeland Security Departments to

We Need the International Legal Order: A Call to Protect the International Criminal Court

[Getty Images] As we enter the new year, the future of the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces significant threats. Sanctions...

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully A child amid buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, 25 October 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images F or the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes , now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true

Now, it is time to grieve in Gaza

The ceasefire has not put an end to my people’s suffering; it has only given them time to mourn. Human remains are retrieved from the rubble of a home in a ruined neighbourhood of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on January 22, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP] It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been replaced by silence. But this silence is not peace. It is a silence that screams loss, devastatio