Michael Laxer
To Joe Biden: "You have destroyed the international rules of the game"
Devastation around the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza - screenshot image via Al-Jazeera As the slaughter continues in Gaza and with the...
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Michael Laxer
- Nov 20
- 1 min
On World Children's Day remember the over 5,500 children killed in Gaza since October 7
Image of a memorial to some of the children killed in Gaza at a protest in Toronto, November 4. Since then at least another 2,000...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 19
- 3 min
“The horrendous events of the past 48 hours in Gaza beggar belief.”
Image via the Palestinian People's Party Top UN officials echoed the call to improve conditions for Gaza’s 2.3 million people, 1.7...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 5 min
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch
The values of the U.S. public are not the same as those of the wealthy and corporations. It took a UN official—an outsider—to point out...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 12
- 3 min
"The world cannot stand silent while hospitals...are transformed into scenes of death, devastation"
As calls mount around the world for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's indiscriminate attacks, Al-Jazeera reports on Sunday...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 8
- 2 min
Rendering "an entire city – such as Gaza city - uninhabitable for civilians is a war crime"
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, said that carrying out hostilities “with the knowledge that they will...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 6
- 2 min
"Enough is Enough. This must stop now" UN agencies call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
As the death toll due to Israeli attacks on Gaza now tops 10,000 (with over 4,100 being children), 18 United Nations agencies have issued...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 2
- 1 min
UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against US Cuba embargo
UN Photo/Evan Schneider The UN -- once again -- has voted overwhelmingly to demand that the US end its blockade against Cuba. The...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 1
- 7 min
An Isolated US Backs Israeli Atrocities in Gaza
The United States should stop fueling the occupation with an endless supply of weapons, and stop diplomatically shielding Israel from...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 1
- 1 min
In Just First Six Months of 2023, Over 110 Million People Were Forcibly Displaced
By Global News Service Over 110 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes from January through June 2023, according to new...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 31
- 5 min
Israel Wants Either an Apartheid State or an Ethnic Cleansing Process
Both are crimes under international law. Aftermath of an Israeli attack on Gaza, October 29 By Vijay Prashad On October 30, 2023, Israeli...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 29
- 3 min
Díaz-Canel on Palestine: History will not forgive the indifferent, and we will not be among them
Official Statement translated from the Spanish: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 29
- 2 min
Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza tops 8,000 as demands for ceasefire grow
Aftermath of an Israeli attack on Sunday -- image via Twitter As the Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza intensify with the aggression...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 27
- 6 min
The Suffocating Occupation of Palestine Is Now a Series of War Crimes
By Vijay Prashad On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 26
- 3 min
Death toll in Gaza rises to over 7,000 dead including nearly 3,000 children
One scene of the aftermath of Israeli attacks on Gaza -- image via RT on Twitter In an appalling new milestone Al Jazeera reports that...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 25
- 2 min
UN reports over 2,300 children killed in Gaza since October 7
“It is shameful that some continue to justify what is happening, citing the right to self-defence and resisting terrorism". In a...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 23
- 3 min
Scores of UN Workers and Journalists Killed in Israel's Indiscriminate Strikes on Gaza
"We are in shock and mourning," said the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency. "We are devastated. We are grieving with each other and with...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 23
- 3 min
'A Mass Atrocity': Israeli Airstrikes Have Killed At Least 400 in Gaza Over Past 24 Hours
Israeli bombs reportedly hit Gaza's largest refugee camp and residential buildings. Israeli strikes on Gaza By Jake Johnson, Common...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 20
- 7 min
Women’s rights organizations raise concerns with the UN over the US’s failure to uphold human rights
A coalition of leading women's rights organizations is holding the USA to account for failing to protect the rights of women and girls in...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 20
- 2 min
Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs "condemns the indiscriminate bombing of the people of Gaza"
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the press conference -- image via Twitter The Communist Party of Cuba reports that the Cuban Minister of...
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