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Steven Aftergood: US Aid to Israel $124.3 Billion — to Palestine $5 Billion

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

US Foreign Aid to Israel (Congressional Research Service, 10 June 2015)

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $124.3 billion(current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance.

US Foreign Aid to the Palestinians (Congressional Research Service, 18 March 2016)

Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion in bilateral economic and non-lethal security assistance to the Palestinians, who are among the world’s largest per capita recipients of international foreign aid.

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CounterPunch: Zero-Sum in Brussels – the Savage Vision Driving a Terror-Ridden World

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Terrorism

counterpunch squareZero-Sum in Brussels: the Savage Vision Driving a Terror-Ridden World

The atrocities in Brussels — and they are horrific, criminal atrocities — are not occurring in a vacuum. They are not springing from some unfathomable abyss of motiveless malevolence. They are a response, in kind, to the atrocious violence being committed by Western powers on a regular basis in many countries around the world. And just as there is no justification for the acts of carnage in Brussels (and Paris and Turkey and elsewhere), there is likewise no justification for the much larger and more murderous acts of carnage being carried out by the most powerful and prosperous nations on earth, day after day, year after year.

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Antechinus: McGraw-Hill Censors Map of Israel’s History

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities
Antechinus
Antechinus

McGraw-Hill Map Censors Map of Israel's History

In March 2016 executives at McGraw-Hill took the extreme step of withdrew a published text from the market and then proceeded to destroy all the remaining books held in inventory. The book “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World” contained a series of four maps that show “Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to 2000.”

Censored Map Below the Fold

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Berto Jongman: Japanese Citizen-Scientists Measure Food Radiation

08 Proliferation
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

The mothers who set up a radiation lab

They saved and collected $600 (£420) to buy their first Geiger counter online, but when it arrived the instructions were written in English, which none of them understood. But they persevered and with the help of experts and university professors, organised training workshops. Soon they knew all about becquerels, a unit used to measure radiation, and sieverts, a measure of radiation dose. They would meet at restaurants and cafes to compare readings.

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