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UN Security Council vote (on December 8) calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza:

FOR (13)
🇦🇱Albania
🇧🇷Brazil
🇨🇳China
🇪🇨Ecuador
🇫🇷France
🇬🇦Gabon
🇬🇭Ghana
🇯🇵Japan
🇲🇹Malta
🇲🇿Mozambique
🇷🇺Russia
🇨🇭Switzerland
🇦🇪UAE
(🇺🇳Backed by 90+ UN member states and Secretary-General…

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The US Senate just voted 13-84, rejecting a call to withdraw troops from Syria: c-span.org/video/?c509673…

The US has c. 900 troops in northern Syria, which are illegally occupying its sovereign territory, where the majority of Syria's oil and wheat is produced.

The US government…

The US Senate just voted 13-84, rejecting a call to withdraw troops from Syria: c-span.org/video/?c509673… The US has c. 900 troops in northern Syria, which are illegally occupying its sovereign territory, where the majority of Syria's oil and wheat is produced. The US government…
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Western media outlets have exaggerated China's financial difficulties. It does have problems with local government debt (which it is dealing with), but they often look only at its liabilities and ignore the asset side of its balance sheet.

The Chinese government's financial…

Western media outlets have exaggerated China's financial difficulties. It does have problems with local government debt (which it is dealing with), but they often look only at its liabilities and ignore the asset side of its balance sheet. The Chinese government's financial…
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The piece goes through many examples. There are training vids from Israeli gov officials on social media debating tactics, funds for using AI to flag & report content. VCs coordinating w/a Wix exec to fire an Irish worker who posted 'Free Palestine' on LinkedIn.

The piece goes through many examples. There are training vids from Israeli gov officials on social media debating tactics, funds for using AI to flag & report content. VCs coordinating w/a Wix exec to fire an Irish worker who posted 'Free Palestine' on LinkedIn.
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Inside the Pro-Israel Information War

I have a new investigation up with WhatsApp logs, docs & videos showing how tech execs & Israeli gov officials are working to cancel pro-Palestinian speakers, win Twitter fights & ship weapons, among many goals. Reported w/Jack Poulson.

Inside the Pro-Israel Information War I have a new investigation up with WhatsApp logs, docs & videos showing how tech execs & Israeli gov officials are working to cancel pro-Palestinian speakers, win Twitter fights & ship weapons, among many goals. Reported w/Jack Poulson.
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On Thursday, a Reuters investigation revealed that an Israeli tank crew killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six reporters by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling. reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

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SCOOP: The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve the sale of 45,000 shells for Israel's Merkava tanks for use in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza, sources tell me, amid concerns over the use of U.S. weapons in a conflict that has killed thousands of civilians.

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Yesterday, an investigation found that an Israeli tank crew murdered a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon.

Today, Biden proposed giving Israel 45,000 tank shells.

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My friends in Gaza have been displaced four times now. They sleep under rubble and tarps. Wait in food lines all day & leave with nothing. With Israel bombing every 'safe' area, they know every night could be their last. And they know the world has abandoned them. 'We are living…

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United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages

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In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)

#BREAKING United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages VOTE In Favour: 13 Against: 1 (US) Abstain: 1 (UK)
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Remember during the election year of 2018, when S. Paulo public prosecutor Marcelo Milani accused PT's presidential candidate Fernando Haddad of orchestrating a 'bribery scheme'? Milani, now retired, admitted in court yesterday that he made up the charges out of revenge.+

Remember during the election year of 2018, when S. Paulo public prosecutor Marcelo Milani accused PT's presidential candidate Fernando Haddad of orchestrating a 'bribery scheme'? Milani, now retired, admitted in court yesterday that he made up the charges out of revenge.+
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Brazil's President Lula da Silva criticized European governments for disrespecting Latin America and refusing to agree to fair trade relations:

'We are no longer colonized. We are independent. And we want you to treat us with respect', Lula told the EU
swissinfo.ch/spa/ue-mercosu…

Brazil's President Lula da Silva criticized European governments for disrespecting Latin America and refusing to agree to fair trade relations: 'We are no longer colonized. We are independent. And we want you to treat us with respect', Lula told the EU swissinfo.ch/spa/ue-mercosu…
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These bloodcurdling crimes against humanity are being sponsored by Western imperialists in the so-called 'civilized' 'garden'.

This is the real face of their 'rules-based international order' -- which is just the centuries-old colonial order based on murder, theft, and genocide.

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