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Despite its appearance as an impartial NGO, HRW produces ideologically biased and politically motivated reports Illustration: Chen Xia/GTWhat is Human Rights Watch really watching? What is Human Rights Watch really watching? 22 May 2022 | Xin Ping | Global Times The US has long used human rights issues to interfere in other countries internal affairs…
Brendan Gleeson is a rare actor who never seems to be acting at all. If he is in a movie, I will watch it. And usually, as in The General, again and again. This is a great interview. Photo: Brendan Gleeson: ‘There are people who are deeply flawed in every single corner of humanity.’ Photograph: Johnny…
Legal-weed businesses must first obtain approval from local authorities, helps to make legal weed much more expensive than illegal weed Photo: Illegal cannabis growers and sellers are not subject to many of the costly regulations that legal purveyors are. Above, an illegal grow operation in the Antelope Valley. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) 22 May…
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The early rush in the west to declare victory might soon face the cold light of day. 22 May 2022 | Alastair Crooke | Al Mayadeen For now, the goal for Ukraine and its NATO allies should be to contain the Russian offensive within southeastern Ukraine, push Putin’s forces back where possible – and make…
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Perhaps it is truly time for governments to stop shopping for wars in foreign lands and get back to doing what they are paid to do: governing. Photo: Empty shelf where baby formula should be 23 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News by James Porteous Who is to blame for the inability…
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The US uses sales of second-hand arms as bait to expand its influence, but there has always been the risk of selling even-outdated arms to future enemies. Photo: A contingency of American soldiers bringing military equipment to support NATO allies in Eastern Europe arrive in Germany on February 6, 2022. Photo: VCG It has become…
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From Woodstock to Paris, from Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder and solo albums, for decades Bob Neuwirth was never far from the centre of everything. Photo: Bob Neuwirth with Bob Dylan 19 May 2022 | Chris Willman | Reuters |With additional photos and videos LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Bob Neuwirth, a recording artist, painter, mainstay…
The raid Shireen Abu Aqleh was covering when she was murdered took place in Jenin, the home of Palestine’s remarkable Freedom Theatre Photo: Tri-Continental Collage Art is a dream in which we imagine our future: The Twentieth Newsletter (2022) 20 May 2022 | Vijay Prashad | The Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute…
“When war is waged, people go hungry.” Secretary-General António Guterres. It is surely time to stop both of these things. Photo: Woman and her daughter visit food bank in Osage, Iowa. PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMY TOENSING 21 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News You probably did not hear about the ‘Open debate in…
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Even if Meta only spends 10 minutes reviewing their policies it will be 10 minutes longer than Israel 18 May 2022 | Layla Maghribi | The National Facebook has said it is closely reviewing the application of its content moderation policies, taking on board activist and user representations that there is bias in its removals decisions. Richard Lappin,…
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It is incomprehensible how anyone could have written this without one SINGLE word about the actual civilians fighting to survive this ‘complicated’ war. Indeed, it ends by saying: ‘America’s support for Ukraine is a test of its place in the world in the 21st century, and Mr. Biden has an opportunity and an obligation to…
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War is always hell, but even more so if you are ‘in charge’ of moving a multitude of chess pieces, all designed to work in your favour. by James Porteous Photo: FILE – Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File) 20…
