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Video: IDF Soldiers Block Road, Shoot Unarmed Protesters, Celebrate on Camera

As the video’s description notes, these Israeli soldiers casually discussing how to shoot a man who is trying to clear road access to his home is “part of the discordant soundtrack accompanying 51 years of occupation.”

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
An Israeli soldier walks past tanks during training in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Israeli human rights group B’Tselem released a video on Tuesday that shows an Israeli soldier celebrating and shouting “that son of a bitch” after shooting an unarmed Palestinian protester with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the town of Madama in Palestine’s West Bank. The video, taken on April 13, also shows soldiers of the

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Chomsky Among “Progressives” Calling for US Military Involvement in Syria

Since most progressive figures would never publicly call for extending a U.S.-led military occupation, this petition shows that the war propaganda in Syria – particularly as it relates to the Kurds – has been highly effective in subverting the progressive anti-war left as it relates to the Syrian conflict.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Noam CHomsky

NEW YORK – On Monday, the New York Review of Books published an open letter and petition aimed at securing Western support for putting pressure on Turkey to end its occupation of Afrin, opposing further Turkish incursions into Syria, and backing autonomy for Rojava -- the region of Northern Syria that has functioned autonomously since 2012 after

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Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

In the third and final part of his series, Nicolas JS Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Par Nicolas J.S. Davies
A relative of two children and their mother, who died after a NATO bomb fell on their home, grieves during their funeral in Zlitan, Libya, Aug. 4, 2011. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

In the first two parts of this report, I have estimated that about 2.4 million people have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while about 1.2 million have been killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.  In the third and final part of this report, I will estimate how many people have been

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Gaza: Israeli Forces Kill Second Palestinian Journalist

Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein was stationed at a permissible distance from the border fence when an Israeli sniper shot him in the stomach.

teleSUR
Par teleSUR
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein, who was killed by Israeli troops while covering a border protest, during his funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, April 26, 2018. (AP/Adel Hana)

After Yaser Murtaja, Ahmed Abu Hussein, another Gazan photojournalist‎, who was seriously injured last Friday while documenting the March of Return, succumbed to injuries Wednesday afternoon, Gaza's Health Ministry has said. Hussein‎ was stationed at a permissible distance from the border fence when an Israeli sniper shot the 24-year-old

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Defending Nuclear Deal, Iran’s Rouhani Says Trump Has ‘No Clue’ About International Treaties or Law

« You are just a businessman, a tradesman, » Iranian president declared, addressing Trump. « You are a tower builder. How is he going to pass judgment on international issues? »

Jon Queally
Par Jon Queally
President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a conference in the northwestern city of Tabriz, Iran, April 25, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

The nuclear deal is the nuclear deal, said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to comments by both U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House a day earlier in which Macron suggested that changes could be made to (or alongside) a multilateral nuclear agreement in order to save it from sabotage by the

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War Pressure Builds as Iran and Israel Each Vow to Respond to Other’s Escalations

“This is the first time in seven years that the Israelis have deliberately killed Iranian revolutionary guards … Attacking T-4 airport is a pivotal incident in the history of the region that can’t be ignored.” — Iranian Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah

Elliott Gabriel
Par Elliott Gabriel
Iranian army troops march during a parade marking National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2018. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

TEHRAN, IRAN – Iran has no intention of letting Tel Aviv get off scot-free after the Israeli military struck an alleged Iranian air-defense system at the T4 base in Syria earlier this month, according to a senior military official in Tehran who promised that the Islamic Republic “cannot remain indifferent” to escalations by Israel, the U.S. and its

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