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      An Open Letter to the Washington Office on Latin America About Its Stance on US Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government

      An Open Letter to the Washington Office on Latin America About Its Stance on US Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government

      We believe that the Trump administration’s regime change effort in Venezuela is wrong in every way: morally, legally, and politically.

      Noam Chomsky
      Greg Grandin
      Sujatha Fernandes
      Daniel Hellinger
      Mar 04, 2019

      The following open letter, signed by 124 academics from around the globe, is addressed to the Washington Office on Latin America and voices serious concerns over WOLA's support for various components of the Trump administration's policy towards Venezuela.

      We write out of concern for the direction that WOLA has taken with regard to a matter of life and death, and possibly war and peace, in Latin America. This letter is an attempt to engage with WOLA about your support for various components of the Trump administration's efforts to topple the government of Venezuela.

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      United Nations Inaction and the Gaza Crisis: Ten Years ago and Today

      United Nations Inaction and the Gaza Crisis: Ten Years ago and Today

      The refusal of the United Nations, largely because of U.S. pressure, to hold Israel to account for the horrific "Cast Lead" operation a decade ago created a dangerous precedent of impunity that has continued to this day

      Phyllis Bennis
      Jan 13, 2019

      According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, during the week beginning December 27, 2018, a disabled Palestinian man was killed by Israeli snipers, and 25 other civilians were wounded, including five children, a journalist and two paramedics. Those 26 Palestinians are among the two million or so, 80 percent of them refugees, still living in the Gaza Strip under military occupation, with insufficient water, food, and medicine amidst destroyed homes and infrastructure.

      Many of the conditions they currently face can be traced back to Israel's war on Gaza exactly ten years earlier.

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      A Loose Cannon for Peace?

      A Loose Cannon for Peace?

      What is the value of Trump’s decision to start shrinking U.S. involvement in several war-ravaged sectors of the Middle East?

      Robert C. Koehler
      Jan 02, 2019

      Circle the wagons!

      Apparently what's under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of the shocking announcement by the president that he plans to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops now deployed in Syria and 7,000, or half, the U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

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