The U.S. has provided Israel with over 10,000 tons of military equipment since the Hamas attack on 7 October prompted the Netanyahu government to carry out a brutal bombing campaign and blockade in Gaza that has been called an attempt at ethnic cleansing.
Doctors Without Borders issued an unusually sharp criticism of the U.S. on Friday after the bloodthirsty Biden administration stood as the lone vote in the UN Security Council against a ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel continues its collective punishment on Palestinians.
Lynn Hastings, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian territories, marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a somber update about the Israel campaign in Gaza and how things could have been different.
Craig Mokhiber, the former head of the UN’s human rights office in New York, said the world is witnessing the U.S. and European countries provide Israel the weapons and equipment to use as the country carries out its genocide in Gaza.
Consolidation is the name of the “Bigs” game. The more they own the more they control... it’s the way of the power-hungry world. As we have noted since the Central Banksters started to rapidly raise interest rates, the decade’s long merger and acquisition spree is over.
From January through August this year, Walmart bought 25 percent of its imported goods from Indian suppliers, compared to 2 percent in 2018.
Sigma Holding, which owns department stores and office buildings in several countries, has declared insolvency in its native Austria, similar to filing for bankruptcy in the U.S.
The federal government spends roughly $2 billion annually to operate office spaces it owns, and $5 billion more to lease others, but up to three-quarters of that square footage is probably empty on a given day, according to a three-week study of 24 federal agencies earlier this year by the Government Accounting Office.
Since the West imposed sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine, oil exports have been Moscow’s chief source of foreign revenue.
Surprising analysts, France’s economy contracted by 0.1 percent in this year’s third quarter, the national statistics agency said after revising its estimate down from an initial 0.1-percent gain.