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Tag: humanitarian crisis

Children are dying as sanctions tighten and fears of military escalation...

UN human rights chief says U.S. restrictions are driving medicine shortages, food insecurity, and prolonged blackouts while lawmakers warn of a possible new conflict in the Caribbean.

The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.

Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.

Netanyahu presses Trump for renewed Iran war push amid widening regional...

As Israel’s prime minister heads to Mar-a-Lago, reports indicate he will seek U.S. backing for new military action against Iran while clashing with Washington over Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon.

The hidden crisis: How America fails to protect its children

From child labor to trafficking—and even foster care, sports, and detention—institutions meant to protect children often cause the greatest harm.

Wikipedia founders face backlash over push to rewrite ‘Gaza genocide’ entry

More than 40 advocacy groups accuse Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger of attempting censorship and genocide denial amid mounting political pressure and internal disputes over neutrality.

Israel has killed two children a day during Gaza ceasefire, UN...

UNICEF and humanitarian agencies say ceasefire conditions have collapsed as Israeli strikes continue in Gaza and Lebanon.

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of thousands have already died since Trump...

“We’re seeing early deaths, like the malnutrition cases, and then we’ll see the wave that’s more to come.”

10,000 Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble as families dig by hand

With more than 10,000 bodies still trapped under the ruins of Gaza, families search with shovels and bare hands while aid agencies warn that recovery could take years amid explosives, disease, and ongoing destruction.

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.

Trump meeting with Netanyahu coincides with new hospital strikes and mass...

As White House talks tout a cease-fire framework and a new Gaza governance plan, fresh attacks hit al-Shifa and Al Helou and tens of thousands flee Gaza City.

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The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.”
The mouth of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. Photo: Ralf Kiepert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.
The United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, where the case against 15 protest defendants is pending. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches

Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
Crowds of anti-war protesters filling a London street on 15 February 2003

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.
A National Park Service wayside exhibit sign. Photo: National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons

National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the...

The Interior Department listed dozens of park sites where it pulled materials, and a group of government documents librarians is archiving what came down.