Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Shortly before a huge migrant boat disaster early this month, The Sun, a daily paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, published a column by British TV star and rightwing provocateur Katie Hopkins calling migrants “cockroaches” and “a plague of feral humans.” Not long after it went to press, as many as 850 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean when […]

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On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Gadeir Abbas, an attorney representing dozens of Yemeni-Americans in their lawsuit against the US government’s refusal to evacuate their loved ones from Yemen. (Download the episode here or subscribe for free on iTunes here). Here’s Kevin with the details:  Tom Kelly, according to McClatchy, acknowledged that hundreds of Americans had fled Yemen for […]

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Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza last summer, according to a new report by Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine). Of the 2,220 Palestinians killed during Israel’s 51-day bombing campaign, at least 1,492 were civilians, including at least 547 children. A total of 535 of those children were killed as a direct result of Israeli attacks. Moreover, 68 percent of […]

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Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Israel has supplied 60.7 percent of the world’s drones since 1985, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. As a result, Israel is the single greatest source of drone proliferation in the world. In second place is the United States, which accounts for 23.9 percent of global drone exports, […]

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/ February 17, 2015 / Comments Off on Why can’t media describe Chapel Hill murders as terrorism?

Why can’t media describe Chapel Hill murders as terrorism?

Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada Today marks one week since 23-year-old Yousef Abu-Salha’s younger sisters — Yusor, 21, and Razan, 19 — were murdered by their neighbor. Yousef told The Electronic Intifada over the the phone from North Carolina that he has no doubt their murder was an anti-Muslim hate crime. The women were executed along […]

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/ February 15, 2015 / Comments Off on Podcast: Dahr Jamail on Extinction, Disease & Other Dangers Caused by Climate Disruption

Podcast: Dahr Jamail on Extinction, Disease & Other Dangers Caused by Climate Disruption

For this week’s “Unauthorized Disclosure” episode: Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek are joined by Dahr Jamail, Truthout writer, to talk about his monthly “Climate Disruption” dispatches. He provides an overview of thresholds that have perilously been crossed as a result of human-caused climate disruption. He highlights methane blowholes, disease and even describes electromagnetic war games […]

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Here’s Kevin with the details for this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure: A military memo shows that that personnel at Guantanamo recognized that force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike violated medical ethics and international law. Jason Leopold, a VICE News journalist, reported on the document, which he obtained, and explained it could be important in the case of a […]

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/ February 2, 2015 / Comments Off on Podcast: Journalist Marcy Wheeler Reports on Trial Against Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling for Alleged Leak

Podcast: Journalist Marcy Wheeler Reports on Trial Against Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling for Alleged Leak

From Kevin: A jury continues to deliberate on a verdict in the trial against former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of leaking details about a CIA operation that involved a Russian asset, who secretly provided Iran with flawed blueprints for a nuclear weapon. The government claims he leaked the details to New York […]

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/ January 29, 2015 / Comments Off on Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims

Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims

Originally published at The Electronic Intifada There are two groups of people Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has spent his career resolutely defending. The first is Israeli war criminals. And the second is accused and convicted rapists. As rape allegations against Dershowitz intensify, his increasingly bellicose denials, steeped in brazen hostility towards child victims of sexual abuse, are raising eyebrows. With […]

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/ January 22, 2015 / Comments Off on “American Sniper” spawns death threats against Arabs and Muslims

“American Sniper” spawns death threats against Arabs and Muslims

Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Following the release of the film American Sniper in theaters across the US, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has warned of a “significant rise in violent hate rhetoric targeting the Arab and Muslim-American communities.” While the ADC believes the threats “are directly linked to the negative media coverage and hateful propaganda […]

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