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Biden Turns His Back on Yemen

By Aisha Jumaan and Charles Pierson (*) – Common Dreams While he is a welcome change from the incompetence, venality, and cruelty of the Trump Administration, Biden has continued the Obama and Trump Administrations’ support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen In his first major…

Armed conflicts

The Human Cost of 10 Years of Conflict in Syria

By John Washington*  – The Nation A decade after the first shots were fired, cities are in ruins, over half a million Syrians have died, and more than ten million have been displaced “Bombing, bombing, bombing”—that’s how Ahmad Yassin Leila recently described the whirlwind…

Children

UN’s Double Standard on Human Rights Abusers Protects Big Powers

By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2021 (IPS) – When the UN’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict was released last week, it was expected to “name and shame” some of the world’s worst human rights violators – particularly the abusers of children. But these violators…

Armed conflicts

“The Creation of a Palestinian State Is Inescapable”

By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, Jun 25 2021 (IPS) – Every Israeli will sooner than later realize that the creation of a Palestinian state is the only way by which Israel can protect its democracy, independence, national security and national Jewish identity. Denying Palestinian…