Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine


by www.counterpunch.org

www.counterpunch.org— Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the Israeli military. Half of the 35,000 Palestinians killed by Israel were children, their bodies littering the overwhelmed morgues and mosques of Gaza. The former United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights Andrew Gilmour told BBC Newsnight that the Palestinians are experiencing...

CHCH—Global plastic treaty talks begin in Ottawa. Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Delegates from around the world are meeting in Ottawa this week, trying to create a legally binding treaty that would address not just how plastics are discarded, but also how much plastic is produced in the first place and how it is used. If the governments can agree, the treaty could become the most significant […]

Phys.org—Talks on global plastic treaty begin in Canada. Negotiators from 175 nations began talks Tuesday to agree a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and within human blood and breast milk.

BBC—Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat. Florida's governor says he will "save our beef", but a lab-grown meat firm calls it an assault on liberty.