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Michael Laxer
Jan 103 min read
Lancet Study Finds Official Gaza Death Toll Likely a 41% Undercount
The peer-reviewed analysis estimates that Israel's assault on Gaza killed 64,260 people between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024—a...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 85 min read
The Children of Gaza Are Freezing to Death
January image of Gaza via the WHO By Vijay Prashad From early December 2024 to early January 2025, the body temperature of eight babies...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 85 min read
"Capitalism has no solutions for workers and their families" - WPI New Year's statement
The Workers Party of Ireland New Year's Statement CLLR. Ted Tynan, President of the Workers Party of Ireland The Workers Party over the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 65 min read
The Genocidal Legacy of Joe Biden Will Not Be Forgotten
Public domain image of Joe Biden in October, 2023 By Norman Solomon, Common Dreams When news broke over the weekend that President Biden...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 113 min read
2024: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Although there were many stories from around the world we looked at -- from Syria to Ukraine to Sudan and on -- the grinding, genocidal...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 12 min read
Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Over 20—Including Children—on First Day of New Year
Israel's military bombed two refugee camps in the besieged enclave, pushing the official death toll since October 7, 2023 to 45,553....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20247 min read
A Palestinian's Year in Review: Genocide in Gaza
While Israel's desperate attempt to control the global narrative on the Gaza genocide largely failed, the ethnic cleansing continues....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 28, 20242 min read
Last major hospital in North Gaza knocked out as children continue to die in Israeli attacks
Devastation of the hospital and its courtyard by Israeli attacks -- image via Al Jazeera video screenshot The World Health Organization...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20242 min read
Israeli Strike on Press Van Kills Five Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
"Journalists are civilians and must always be protected," said the Committee to Protect Journalists' Middle East and North Africa...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20243 min read
At Least 3 Palestinian Babies Freeze to Death in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade
"As you celebrate the holidays in the U.S., be sure to remember all the holidays the U.S. has robbed from Palestinians through funding...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20245 min read
Israel Orders 'Impossible' Evacuation While Attacking One of North Gaza's Last Hospitals
"If Kamal Adwan Hospital is decommissioned, there will be no way of preserving conditions of life to the remaining 75,000+ civilians in...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20242 min read
European Council meets under new leadership but keeps old agenda
Under new President António Costa, the European Council session upheld the EU’s stale international policy, showing no readiness for...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 19, 20245 min read
The Genocide Grinds On
By Vijay Prashad It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20242 min read
Israel Kills Palestinian Known for Touching Tribute to Slain Granddaughter
The killing of Khaled Nabhan came amid a fresh wave of Israeli attacks across Gaza that pushed the Palestinian death toll in the 14-month...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 15, 20243 min read
'We Have Run Out of Body Bags to Bury the Dead' in Gaza
A relentless series of assaults in central and northern Gaza by Israeli forces, according to reports on the ground, have killed numerous...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 15, 20242 min read
Special Declaration in Support of Palestine - ALBA-TCP
On Saturday, December 14, the XXIV Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) was...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 14, 20243 min read
IDF Gaza Bombing 'By Far the Most Intense, Destructive, and Fatal' Airwars Has Analyzed
"Save this for the next time you hear that the Israeli military does everything possible to avoid harming civilians, and that the level...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 12, 20248 min read
How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called it Peace
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 9, 20247 min read
Solidarity with the people and the Communists of Syria
Statements about events in Syria from Communist parties in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Chile. In light of the alarming events...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20242 min read
'A Critical Situation': Gaza Doctor Warns of Catastrophe as Israel Assails Hospital
"We have called on the world to protect both the healthcare system and its workers, yet we have not received any response from anyone...
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