Saudi-led coalition airstrikes using weapons supplied by the U.S. and UK were responsible for killing 87 civilians in Yemen in a 14-month period, a new report has found.
Oxfam: U.S., UK Fueling ‘Pattern of Violence’ Against Yemenis
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Space Junk
Remember the Cold War Space Race between the former Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s and 1960s? During the past year, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk went ahead and turned that into a modern-day dick-measuring contest, for lack of a better phrase, to see who could get there first for the longest. Their space outfits, extensively reported on by CNN Science, received more attention than the pollution caused by this narcissistic billionaire power competition, in which one rocket launch produced an estimated 300 tons of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, where it can remain for years.
Space Junk
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European Ukraine’s Lives Matter! Asian, MidEast, African, Latin Lives Didn’t!
Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse Than Anything We Have Ever Seen
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Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse Than Anything We Have Ever Seen
Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
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Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
US considers designation of leading NGOs as ‘anti-Semitic’
US considers designation of leading NGOs as ‘anti-Semitic’
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Why we don’t need a post-Covid ‘new normal’
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Why we don’t need a post-Covid ‘new normal’
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