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Amid a relentless Israeli onslaught that has wrought monumental physical and psychological destruction in Gaza, a report published this week revealed that nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent – and nearly half of them want to die.

The Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management, supported by War Child Alliance, surveyed more than 500 Palestinian children in Gaza last June and found that 96% of them fear imminent death, 92% are not accepting of reality, 79% suffer from nightmares, 77% avoid discussing traumatic events, 73% display signs of aggression, 49% wish to die because of the war, and many more “show signs of withdrawal and severe anxiety, alongside a pervasive sense of hopelessness.”

“This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child,” War Child U.K. CEO Helen Pattinson said in a statement. “Alongside the leveling of hospitals, schools, and homes, a trail of psychological destruction has caused wounds unseen but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”

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As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, a hell has been unleashed inside Syria with the seizure of the country by the re-named “al-Qaeda in Syria” now called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its leader is a former deputy commander of ISIS, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.

While neocons and the mainstream media in the US and Europe celebrate the overthrow of the Assad government – a priority since the Obama Administration – as with previous US “liberations” in Libya and Iraq the outcome is proving to be anything but liberating. Christian churches are being ransacked and believers abused.

Sharia law has been announced by the new justice minister, Shadi Alwaisi.

Continue reading “Al-Qaeda Rides Again… in Syria”

On COI #726, Kyle Anzalone discusses the wars in Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza.

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In 1967, an American Navy spy ship came under attack by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats.   The attack on the USS Liberty left 34 US sailors dead and 171 wounded.   Israel claimed (and most official US government sources agree) that it was a case of mistaken identity.   There is significant evidence to the contrary.

Candace Owens interviews one of the few living survivors of the attack, Phil Tourney.   It is a fascinating and illuminating interview that no one should miss.  In the first 24 hours of the release of the video, about 2 million people have viewed it on YouTube.

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

Libertarian Institute director and longtime Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss his new book on how it was the US, not Russia, that started the new Cold War.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

President Biden celebrated the ouster of Syrian ruler Basha Assad by US designated terrorist organization Hayat Tahir al-Sham (HTS).

Syria remains one of the longest and bloodiest US regime change operations in history. After 13 years and over a half million dead Syrians, supported by in part by US aid to Islamic Jihadist rebels, America achieved his goal of deposing imagined enemy Bashar Assad.

Continue reading “Why Is Biden Cheering Terrorist Takeover of Syria?”