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IDF Snipers Ordered to Shoot Children, Israeli General Confirms
An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.
Israel Continues Recycling Tired Myths to Divert Blame For Its Own Repeated War Crimes & Massacres in Occupied Palestine
Whether or not the protesters in Gaza The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered, and their children to be starved.
UN To Launch War Crimes Probe Into Israeli Forces’ Shooting Of Protesters In Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council has voted in favor of sending an international war crimes probe to Gaza after the body’s leading human rights official slammed Israel‘s reaction to the protests along the Gaza border that killed over 60 people and injured 2,700 in one day as “wholly disproportionate.”
Fantastic Didactic Weekend Flick Pick (May 18-20, 2018): ‘Palestine Is Still The Issue’ (2002) – Timeless Truth: The John Pilger Film That Defied a Campaign to Ban It
With the present-day massacre of Palestinians by Israeli snipers along the border fence with Gaza, this 2002 film by renowned journalist and filmmaker John Pilger tells a timeless truth.
2017 Had Highest Level of Conflict Flight in a Decade — Int’l Report
Conflict forced nearly 12 million people to flee within their own country last year, the highest level of such internal displacement in 10 years, international monitors said Wednesday.
Asylum-Seeking New Zealand Journalist Suzie Dawson Is Critically Ill In Moscow
Long-time activist Suzie Dawson, a journalist and the current President of the Internet Party of New Zealand, is critically ill in Moscow, where she has been seeking asylum, after being targeted by New Zealand intelligence agencies as a result of her activism in the Occupy movement, in support of WikiLeaks, and against the TPP, among other causes.
State Court Rules Ballot Images Are Public Records, In a Win for Election Transparency
In what could be a landmark decision in the ongoing election integrity battle, New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division ruled last week that electronic ballot images are public records, and therefore subject to freedom of information laws.
WHO Report: 95% of World Population Reside in Regions Contaminated By Life-Threatening Air Pollution
Most of the world’s population reside in regions where air quality contains life-threatening pollutants, with 95% breathing in unhealthy air, a World Health Organization (WHO) study has determined. This health crisis has already claimed 7 million lives since the Syrian War began, many whose surroundings exceed toxic levels, causing asthma, stroke, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, and serious breathing difficulties.
England tries to extend MI5 and police powers, will target those ‘vulnerable to radicalization’
UK police and domestic intelligence agency MI5 will get new powers to round up suspected terrorists before they strike, including targeting radicalization-prone communities, as terror threats grow, according to Read More…
Swaziland King Officially Renames Country “Kingdom of eSwatini” to Mark 50th Anniversary of Independence
Swaziland’s king has officially renamed the struggling African nation the “Kingdom of eSwatini,” to commemorate 50 years since winning independence from British rule.
WATCH: Douma Locals, Doctors & Medical Staff From Viral Video Recall Staged Event Filmed By White Helmets, Refuting “Chemical Attack” Claims (VIDEO)
Western claims of a chemical attack in Douma have been thoroughly debunked to be a false-flag staged event as irrefutable evidence and eyewitness accounts continue to emerge, and more independent journalists arrive in Douma to discover and confirm a gas attack never took place.
Pioneering autism doctor Hans Asperger sent disabled children to be killed by Nazis, new study claims
Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who gave his name to a kind of high-functioning autism, helped the Nazis in their murder of disabled children, according to a new report.
MUST WATCH: US/UK Delegations Walk Out As Syria’s UN Ambassador Dr. Bashar al Ja’afari Begins Trenchant Indictment of US, UK, & France’s History of Lies Starting Foreign Interventions (VIDEO)
Responding to attacks from the US, UK, and French delegates at the Security Council meeting, the Syrian Ambassador to the UN called out the countries’ lies and hypocrisies, denouncing their funding and arming of terrorist groups and foreign mercenaries dispatched to Syria, in a droll, biting rebuke of imperialist aggression..
More Evidence Douma Gas Attack Was Staged: Mistakes Found in Video Footage of Alleged Gas Cylinders
While horrible photos of the victims killed in the alleged April 7 Douma chemical attack posted on social media by the White Helmets rapidly spread throughout Western media generating universal shock Read More…