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WEBAug 26, 2024 · Israeli Airstrikes Set Record-Breaking Death Toll in Lebanon. Israel’s bombardment killed at least 558 people on Monday, the highest single-day death toll in nearly two decades. D emocracy N ow! “ Major investment banks have spent hundreds of millions buying up farms with claims to the groundwater beneath them.
Plastic Is Building Up in Our Brains — Scientists Say It ... - Truthout
WEBAug 24, 2024 · The results came as a shock, according to study lead author Matthew Campen, a toxicologist and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico. The researchers found that 24 of the brain samples, which were collected in early 2024, measured on average about 0.5 percent plastic by …
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Israel Is Evacuating Palestinians From Safe Zones With Critical …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Indeed, the “safe zone” is now so crowded that aid groups say it takes hours just to travel a short distance. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) reported on Wednesday that it took one of its workers two hours to drive six kilometers, or 3.7 miles, from Deir el-Balah to Khan Yunis. In the background of that journey was the constant sound of gunfire, the worker said.
Abortion Is as Old as Pregnancy: 4,000 Years of Reproductive …
WEBJan 22, 2016 · Abortion in Times of Old. Instructions for inducing an abortion appear in the Bible. In Numbers 5:11-31, God is described as instructing Moses to present “The Test for an Unfaithful Wife” (NIV) – a ritual to be used by priests against women accused by their husbands of unfaithfulness.The ritual involves the drinking of “bitter water,” a potion that will abort any pregnancies that ...
Panel on Supreme Court Reforms Lauds Ideas of Term Limits, …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · President Joe Biden recently announced support for reforms to the court, including term limits and new ethics standards. By. Chris Walker , T ruthout. Whitehouse also noted that the court’s decisions were very personal to voters. “I think the Supreme Court got very real with the Dobbs decision,” Whitehouse said, referring to the case that ...
Biden Says Civilians Being Killed on Both Sides in Gaza. The Ratio …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · The true death toll is likely far, far higher, experts have said. But, even at the highly conservative estimate of 38,000 Palestinians killed by Israel, the ratio between Palestinian and Israeli civilian deaths since October 7 is 45 to 1. Israeli forces have shot and killed 115 children in the West Bank in the past 10 months.
Israel Has Tripled The Number of Children It’s Killing Via Gunfire in ...
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Israeli forces have shot and killed 115 children in the West Bank in the past 10 months. By. Sharon Zhang , T ruthout. August 19, 2024. A Palestinian boy is looking outside a tent set on a road's median at a makeshift displacement camp set up in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 13, 2024. Majdi Fathi / …
6 Years After Standing Rock, Native Tribes Still Fight ... - Truthout
WEBOct 9, 2023 · The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Army Corps to prepare an EIS for the Standing Rock portion of the pipeline on March 25, 2020, because the pipeline’s “ effects on the quality of the human environment are likely to be highly controversial.”. It has taken the Army Corps more than three years to produce the ...
New Israeli Road in Gaza Suggests Plan for Permanent Occupation ...
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Over the past months, Israeli forces have been clearing space for and building a road in northern Gaza that may indicate that Israel is intending to maintain a permanent military presence in the region that was home to the largest and most bustling city in the Gaza Strip, a new analysis finds. According …