Archives for 5 月 2018

低科技哈马斯火箭是以色列致命空袭的常设借口

自制哈马斯“瓶式火箭”的“威胁”已被以色列用于十多年,以证明致命的空袭和对加沙的窒息封锁。

Flames of rockets fired by Palestinian militants are seen over Gaza, May 30, 2018. Hatem Moussa | AP

As the 1.8 million residents of the Gaza Strip face a humanitarian catastrophe -- living under an illegal blockade, forced to drink sewage due to the destruction of vital infrastructure, and with their hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings treated as “militant targets” by the Israeli military -- Israel’s government has announced that it

North Korea Has Good Reason to Be Wary of a Trump Deal

Though Trump’s threats against North Korea have lacked some of the grace with which his predecessors operated, to Pyongyang, U.S diplomacy has been marked by 65 years of broken promises and outright aggression.

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PYONGYANG -- Is lasting peace possible on the Korean Peninsula? The answer to that question may depend on whether Donald Trump follows the well-worn path of his predecessors. If the president’s latest stunt -- temporarily calling off talks with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over an insult Kim Jong Un slung at Vice-President

波兰希望成为美国永久军事基地,并愿意为此支付20亿美元

波兰人正在购买美国出售的产品:担心俄罗斯的侵略行为,以及20亿美元的美国在波兰土壤上的永久军事基地。

U.S. Army soldiers are welcomed in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

WARSAW, POLAND -- As a result of the ongoing increase in NATO expansionism, the perceived threat of the mere existence of Russia has reached a tipping point in Poland, thanks to near-constant anti-Russian rhetoric. As it turns out, Poles are losing sleep over their close proximity to Russia and are prepared to cough up $2 billion as a result,

观看| Max Blumenthal就委内瑞拉“危害人类罪”问题举行小组讨论

美洲国家组织的一个专题讨论小组以谴责委内瑞拉侵犯以色列暴行的全球最着名捍卫者之一侵犯人权为由。

Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks to the media during a press conference in Jerusalem in 2009 where he announced a campaign for action against Iran. Dan Balilty | AP

On May 29, a panel of self-described independent experts convened a press conference at the Organization of American States in Washington DC. The panel presented a 400-page report accusing the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity and demanding the prosecution of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the International Criminal

取悦阿根廷人民的投资者向国际货币基金组织出售

总统Mauricio Macri已经把该国重新置于新自由主义的道路上,其政策有利于国内大农业生产者以及阿根廷境内外的投资者。

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- Days before Christmas of 2001, a 54-year-old Argentine woman named Norma Cecilia Albino shoved her way past the throngs of demonstrators protesting the government’s new banking restrictions, walked into a bank branch in a northern Buenos Aires neighborhood, strolled to the counter, and asked to withdraw a few pesos from

近6000人在波多黎各死亡 – 70次官方统计

“新英格兰医学杂志”发表的一项研究估计,在飓风玛丽亚之后,近6,000人在波多黎各死亡。

In this Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 photo, Arden Dragoni, second from left, poses with his wife Sindy, their three children and dog Max, surrounded by what remains of their home destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. The Dragoni family has been living in a shelter set up at a school since the storm destroyed their wooden home in late September. They lost everything: clothes, household goods, and an old car. Dragoni supported his family by working construction, but his employers are currently out of business, leaving him and his family without a source of income. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

A study published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, with a survey indicating the mortality rate is likely more than 70 times the highly contested official death toll of 64. https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1001469543074512897 Researchers with