“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime.” The top United Nations expert on the right to food on Tuesday accused Israel of perpetrating genocide by intentionally starving Palestinians during the relentless assault on Gaza. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people—around 90% of whom have been forcibly displaced by Israeli bombardment and invasion—are […]
“Congress must put an end to this form of corporate welfare,” the senator said, arguing that one new way to do that involves reviving an old policy. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a novel way to stop military-industrial complex profiteers from “bilking the American people”—and it’s actually over 80 years old. In an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic, Sanders […]
A Chinese official implored Japan to “face up to the concerns of its neighboring countries and the international community.” Thousands of liters of radioactive wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan leaked from the outdoor vent of a filtering device, the company that operates the facility said Wednesday. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said about […]
“Guess we now know why former Defense Secretary Mattis has not been publicly critical of Trump,” quipped one observer. Before becoming former President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis secretly worked for the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates while the United States was supporting the monarchy in […]