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Gaza death toll for first 16 months of war far higher than reported, says peer-reviewed study Lancet Global Health research suggests more than 75,000 killed in period, 25,000 more than announced at the time

Lancet Global Health research suggests more than 75,000 killed in period, 25,000 more than announced at the time.

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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Puts Rights Abusers in Charge of Global Order Since taking office a year ago, the Trump administration has been working hard to undermine the United Nations, especially the UN’s efforts to uphold universal human rights. Now US President Donald Tr...

🚨 @hrw.org's primer for today's inaugural meeting of #Trump's Board of Peace.

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Aims to Put Human Rights Abusers & Suspected War Criminals in Charge of Global Order

Another American teenager was shot and killed yesterday by Israeli death squads in the occupied West Bank.
Don't expect the racist leadership of either party in Washington to do anything about it, however, since the victim is of Palestinian background

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza, sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian. The site is envisioned as a military operating base for a future International Stabilization Force (ISF), planned as a multinational military force composed of pledged troops. The ISF is part of the newly created Board of Peace which is meant to govern Gaza. The Board of Peace is chaired by Donald Trump and led in part by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Continue reading...

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges Israeli prison service and IDF reject allegations after research by Committee to Protect Journalists Almost 60 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli prisons since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack have been beaten, starved and subjected to sexual violence, including rape, a report alleges. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reviewed dozens of testimonies, photographs and medical records documenting what it describes as serious abuses by Israeli soldiers and prison guards against Palestinian reporters. The report draws on in-depth interviews from 59 Palestinian journalists. Of those interviewed, 58 reported being subjected to what they described as torture while in Israeli custody. Continue reading...

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges

As Trump mulls an attack against Iran, a reminder: The post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere led to the deaths of at least 4.5 million people and cost roughly $8 trillion dollars.

Harvard cut off donations from Epstein, but emails reveal his influence continued years later | CNN Politics In 2008, Harvard University quietly decided it would refuse future donations from a generous benefactor, Jeffrey Epstein.

How Epstein enlisted Harvard scientists to burnish his reputation — and try to make a profit
-CNN investigation

www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace Dozens of world leaders head to Washington for what White House says will largely be a fundraiser on Thursday

The only right thing to do. European states must confront their own colonial past and do all they can to end grave violations of international law in Palestine — not legitimize a neo-colonial genocide-sustaining project that tramples on self-determination.
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Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay Among 81 Names to Sign Open Letter Criticizing Berlin Film Festival for ‘Silence’ on Gaza: ‘We Are Dismayed’ (EXCLUSIVE) Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay are among the names to sign the letter criticizing the Berlin Film Festival's 'silence' on Gaza

Respect.

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Former diplomats accuse French foreign minister of disinformation over UN envoy Albanese The ex-ministers, ambassadors, and diplomats accuse French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot of spreading disinformation and called for a correction of his comments about UNrapporteur for Palestine, F...

Appalling and embarrassing: #Barrot & other EU ministers reacted more strongly to a doctored video of #Albanese than to Israel's documented atrocities.

They either didn’t realise it, or didn't see the backlash coming. Hard to say which is worse.
@euobserver.com 👉🏽 euobserver.com/203567/forme...

US Contractor's Proposal Exposes Trump Gaza Plan as 'Vehicle for Mass Exploitation' | Common Dreams “Having spent three years looking at contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, this looks like highway robbery,” one expert said of the proposal—which has reportedly been halted—that would return 300% profit...

“Trump’s family and associates are poised to make billions at the expense of US taxpayers and Palestinian rights and lives,”
@dylanwilliams.bsky.social on Trump’s Gaza plan being a “vehicle for massive exploitation and corruption.” ➡️ @commondreams.org
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Panel rebukes EU nations for seeking ouster of UN’s Albanese over Israel-Gaza remarks Review committee says the antisemitism allegations against the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories are “rooted in disinformation.”

A United Nations committee empowered to review complaints against the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has dismissed allegations of antisemitism against Francesca Albanese as being based on disinformation.

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

““These are coercive measures designed to attack our ability to do our jobs objectively and independently,” she said. “We want people to appreciate how wrong this.”

Sanctions on ICC judges - just wrong.

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Two vignettes. 1. Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, with quote: “Now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state.” 2. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, with quote (preceded by my words “…not while…”), “We’re deepening our roots in all parts of the land of Israel and burying the idea of a Palestinian state.”

Now?
My @smh cartoon.

When Palestinian peasants brought an empire to its knees Annemarie Jacir’s ‘Palestine 36’ gets a lot right in telling the story of the 1936 Palestinian revolution against the British. But a better accounting of the class dynamics in the uprising could...

Annemarie Jacir's 'Palestine 36' gets a lot right in telling the story of the 1936 Palestinian revolution against the British. But a better accounting of the class dynamics in the uprising could have helped explain why it was crushed.

mondoweiss.net/2026/02/when...

#Palestine #Israel

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age

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Meanwhile in Ireland..

UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks

Canada should do the same to protect wider economy.
More so, full digital independence is needed to safeguard sovereignty.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

British Museum removes word “Palestine” from its displays after the lobbying from pro-Israel legal group.
Ridiculous.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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Saying “Free Palestine” is considered antisemitic but dehumanizing Muslims as less than dogs is considered free speech for which this MAGA member of Congress will face zero consequences whatsoever.

“The most dystopian technologies continue to flow out of Israel.. because Israel is empowered by theUS&Europe to maintain a system of apartheid built upon invasive&authoritarian technologies of control..no surprise..that the largest company inUS sees these technologies as essential to its AI future”

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

“Israel is not fighting a war of self-defence. It is fighting a war of aggression. A war to occupy more territory, to strengthen its Apartheid apparatus and tighten its control on Palestinian people and the region”

-Arundghati Roy, PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech Oct/2024

“The holocaust of Gaza is heinous and new even by western imperialism's barbarous standards”

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“When it comes to the genocide of Gaza, the Berlinale “has to stay out of politics.But when it comes to Ukraine, the Berlinale “has to speak out.”
“All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions..have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state”