Tag: Francesca Albanese
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu...
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes...
Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.
Ceasefire prompts cautious celebration in Gaza as aid groups brace for...
Palestinian civilians and humanitarian workers express relief and skepticism after Trump announces Israel and Hamas have signed the first phase of a peace plan.
Gaza-bound aid flotilla vows to continue after explosion on Tunisian port...
Conflicting claims emerge after the Global Sumud Flotilla says a drone struck its “Family Boat” in Tunisia; authorities dispute the attack while the aid mission to break the Gaza siege vows to continue.
Global outrage after Israel seizes Gaza-bound aid ship in international waters
With activists from 10 countries aboard, including Greta Thunberg and a member of the European Parliament, Israel’s armed interception of the Madleen is being condemned as piracy and a violation of international law.
With Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, UN rapporteur calls for...
Some 350 staff and patients were illegally detained by Israeli forces, though most were subsequently released.
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Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Yale study says Medicare for All would save US $450 billion, prevent nearly 70,000...
The study in The Lancet found that Medicare for All, supported by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will save money and is more cost-effective than “Medicare for All Who Want It."