Joe Catron is a MintPress News contributing journalist. He covers Palestine and Israel and other human rights issues. Catron has written frequently for Electronic Intifada and Middle East Eye, and co-edited The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology of accounts by detainees freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.
“自从该国军事独裁政权垮台以来，Bolsonaro一直在监督巴西对人权和环境保护的最重大的回击和全面攻击。”
As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction. A report released by Amazon Watch as part of its ongoing
“美国的制裁故意旨在破坏委内瑞拉的经济，从而导致政权更迭。这是一项毫无结果，无情，非法和失败的政策，对委内瑞拉人民造成严重伤害。“ – 哥伦比亚大学经济学家和联合国顾问杰弗里·萨克斯
UNITED NATIONS - As a United States-backed coup attempt sputters in Venezuela, the embattled South American country’s economy continues to groan under a series of punishing sanctions imposed by Washington, while Western media ignores their devastating impact and instead pushes Juan Guaidó and regime-change as the cure-all for Venezuela’s ills. A
“大多数阿拉伯政权都是腐败的，极度镇压和对帝国主义的眷顾，与以色列没有太大的政治分歧。” – 黎巴嫩裔美国作家乔伊斯·切迪亚克·威尔科克斯
UNITED NATIONS -- As the Trump administration renews its push for a formal military alliance between the United States and its Arab allies to target Iran, several members of the emerging bloc have joined an unprecedented drive to normalize their relations with Israel. The timing, regional observers told MintPress News this week, is no
大赦国际和人权观察通常都是在对以色列的批评中保留的，它们指责占领国“犯有战争罪”。有些人希望以色列对手无寸铁的平民的大规模射击以及大量的文件将会刺激ICC采取行动。
THE HAGUE -- As the Great March of Return by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip nears its eighth month, legal organizations in the besieged Palestinian enclave have called for the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel over its forces’ repeated fire against unarmed protesters. By the end of the 30th weekly mobilization last Friday, over
“以色列军队依赖于一个国际公司网络，提供从狙击步枪到催泪弹的各种服务，以便在加沙对大规模抗议者进行屠杀。这些公司故意支持战争罪，并且是国家策划谋杀的同谋。“ – 公司职业研究员汤姆安德森
NEW YORK — As Israeli soldiers gun down unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the Great March of Return, their lethal operations depend on an array of contractors and suppliers, many of them companies based outside Israel. “The Israeli military relies on a network of international companies, supplying everything from sniper rifles to tear gas, to
“加沙的经济和社会状况已经持续了十多年，但最近几个月已经呈指数下降并已达到临界点。” – 世界银行加沙和西岸国家主任Marina Wes
As the Great March of Return roared past its half-year anniversary last Friday, it also seemed to reach levels of resistance and repression not seen in months. The escalation aims to “put more pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities, hoping they meet the protesters' demands -- lifting the siege and recognizing the right to return,” a
Longstanding rivalries between Gulf powers are pushing the Palestinian Authority to tighten Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip, even as Egypt takes unexpected steps to ease it. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas movement is seeking reconciliation with a faction of Fatah, its longstanding rival.
UNITED NATIONS -- Over a thousand miles from the heart of a tense diplomatic impasse between Qatar and its regional rivals, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a lesser known but closely related situation is developing in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. On June 18, 13 days after Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with Bahrain, Egypt, the
