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The famine in Gaza: When a nibble of food is stolen from the hungry
For many long months, the Gaza Strip has been groaning under the weight of a devastating war; one that has left no stone unturned, no heart untouched by sorrow, and no home untainted by the scent of death. Hunger was never a passing guest in this besieged land, but in this war, it has become the dominant force, creeping into exhausted bodies and gripping the hearts of mothers who find nothing to feed their children. In this corner of the earth, famine has become an undeniable reality.
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Russia’s War Won’t Kill Ukraine’s NATO Dreams—It’s Fueling Them -
thechanzo.com Russia’s War Won’t Kill Ukraine’s NATO Dreams—It’s Fueling Them - The Chanzo
If NATO means fewer Ukrainians in graves, why wouldn’t Kyiv pursue membership?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37602652
If NATO means fewer Ukrainians in graves, why wouldn’t Kyiv pursue membership?
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On June 22, Donald Trump concluded his announcement of the Iran bombings with a grotesque flourish: “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE.” [...] Earlier, Vladimir Putin claimed his so-called “Special Military Operation” aimed to “liberate” Ukraine from “Nazis.” The victims, of course, see through the lie. In Bucha, a city where Russian troops committed unspeakable atrocities, one woman told me, her voice laced with bitter irony: “Yes, the Russians liberated me. From my job. My home. My car.”
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It also never escapes me how little ordinary lives matter when nations decide to wage war or when warlords and autocrats struggle for power. Normal people —those who dream, work, and love just as I do—are reduced to abstract casualties, their suffering buried beneath headlines dominated by jingoistic frenzy and geopolitical posturing.
Why Are Americans Letting Israel Starve Us to Death in Gaza?
truthout.org Why Are Americans Letting Israel Starve Us to Death in Gaza?
US veto power at the UN is blocking Gaza’s chance for survival.
US veto power at the UN is blocking Gaza’s chance for survival.
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West can’t help Ukraine win the war — but it could help end it
www.politico.eu West can’t help Ukraine win the war — but it could help end it
As Western leaders continue to insist they’ll support Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” the question now is, to what end?
India-Pakistan escalation shows there is no military solution for Kashmir
www.middleeasteye.net India-Pakistan escalation shows there is no military solution for Kashmir
After the two nations teetered on the brink of war this month amid an increasingly dangerous standoff, now is the time for real diplomacy
This month’s confrontation between India and Pakistan caused a diplomatic, military and political earthquake in Asia and beyond. The tectonic plates will take a while to resettle.
The root cause was all too familiar, dating back to the 1947 partitioning of India and Pakistan and the unresolved issue of Kashmir, control over which remains divided between the two nations.
Pakistan’s official position is that this conflict can only be resolved through a plebiscite, as ordered by the UN Security Council in 1948, while India maintains that its control over its part of Kashmir is non-negotiable.
Since 1989, the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir has been in a state of insurgency, with tens of thousands of people arrested, brutalised or killed. India blames Pakistan for the unrest, but decades of Indian state repression have clearly played a role.
Are we witnessing the end of US exceptionalism — and the beginning of European renaissance?
www.euronews.com Is this the end of US exceptionalism and start of European rebirth?
Say hello to the multipolar world in which China is rapidly becoming a pole of economic and military power. Meanwhile, the old continent is struggling to speak with one voice and remain relevant, Philippe Gijsels writes.
Say hello to the multipolar world in which China is rapidly becoming a pole of economic and military power. Meanwhile, the old continent is struggling to speak with one voice and remain relevant, Philippe Gijsels writes.
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How Ukraine could break the western alliance
www.ft.com How Ukraine could break the western alliance
The US and Europe have fundamentally different views on the threat from Russia and the protection of democracy
Donald Trump’s America is becoming more like Xi Jinping’s China -
www.smh.com.au Day by day, Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China
The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31700111
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The Australian sinologist Geremie Barme observes that there are “haunting parallels” between the values shared by [U.S. President] Donald Trump and [China's] Xi Jinping. They both possess autocratic personalities. Their signature chants echo each other: Trump’s “Fight, Fight, Fight” and Xi’s “Struggle, Struggle, Struggle”, and they share values.
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How to measure such a convergence? Helpfully, the Chinese Communist Party compiled a checklist for us. Document No. 9 was published in 2013, during Xi’s first months as president.
The document lists the regime’s “seven taboos” [...]
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The first taboo is “Western constitutional democracy”. Essential to this is the separation of powers. [...] A practical
- Debunking the “mysterious Russian soul” once and for all: It’s not Pushkin and Pavlova, it’s Putinism’s practice of mass rape and war crimes
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31226135
[This is a piece by Dr. Kerry McElroy, cultural historian and founder of The Sága Project: An International Women's Journalism and Oral History Collective.]
In 2022, numerous phone calls were intercepted between Russian soldiers and wives and girlfriends about raping Ukrainian women. Roman Bykovsky and wife Olga Bykovska went viral on one such call, in which the wife laughingly encouraged her husband to rape Ukrainian women as long as he used a condom.
From the first year of the war into the second and third, the greatest site of sexual war crimes has moved from civilian young women to male POWs. One of the favorite "games" of the occupying Russians has involved spinning the wheel of the field telephone then making a call, electrocuting the prisoner connected to its wire. It has varied genital electrocution, known as "Zelensky’s Call", with anal electrocution, known as "Biden’s Call".
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