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Hamas disolves Gaza government in move for Palestinian unity

Some opinion polls have shown that if parliamentary elections were held today, Hamas would win both in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a bid for national unity among Palestinians, Hamas has decided to dissolve its administrative committee in Gaza and expressed its awillingness to hold general elections. Faced with repeated Israeli military attacks and systemic occupation of their land, Hamas aims to foster dialogue with Fatah and consolidate Palestinian unity. Hamas released a statement saying that the group “ invites the consensus government to come to Gaza to practice its mission and carry out its duties in the Gaza Strip immediately, and it accepts the holding of general elections. " It also noted that the group agreed to key conditions outlined by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah, who considered the Hamas government a parallel government. The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil

Brazil: shots fired at Homeless Workers occupation, injuring one

Organizers of the occupation, now comprised of 7,000 people, indicate that shots came from a condominium complex located beside the mega-encampment. Shots were fired at the Fearless People of Sao Bernardo Occupation, initiated by Brazil's Movement of Homeless Workers Saturday, where a man was shot in the arm and later hospitalized, according to Carta Capital. Organizers of the occupation indicated that the shots came from a condominium complex located beside the mega-encampment. Witnesses have filed a report at the military police station. The occupation, which began on Sept. 2 has grown to include 7,000 people living in rudimentary conditions on a terrain in Sao Bernardo do Campo city. Comprised principally of unemployed and homeless people demanding decent housing, the land occupation is located on an open plot measuring 60,000 square meters owned by the MZM construction company. Though the terrain has been used for absolutely nothing over

Επάγγελμα: καθαριστής δολοφόνων

Μεγάλες εταιρείες διαφήμισης και δημοσίων σχέσεων αναλαμβάνουν συχνά να «ξεπλύνουν» τα εγκλήματα αιμοσταγών καθεστώτων. Σύντομα, κάποιες θα βρεθούν αντιμέτωπες με το πιο δύσκολο έργο του αιώνα: να καλλωπίσουν την εικόνα της Σαουδικής Αραβίας. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Το να αποκεφαλίζεις ανθρώπους και να τοποθετείς τα ακέφαλα σώματά τους σε μεγάλους σταυρούς συνήθως δεν ευνοεί την εικόνα σου σε διεθνές επίπεδο. Εάν βομβαρδίζεις καθημερινά γυναικόπαιδα σε γειτονικές χώρες και ευθύνεσαι για τη μεγαλύτερη επιδημία χολέρας στη σύγχρονη ιστορία, επίσης ενδέχεται να αντιμετωπίσεις προβλήματα με το «ίματζ». Οταν, τέλος, ο Αμερικανός πρέσβης στη χώρα σου στέλνει απόρρητα τηλεγραφήματα στο Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ στα οποία υποστηρίζει ότι χρηματοδοτείς τρομοκρατικές οργανώσεις σε διάφορα σημεία του πλανήτη, ίσως δυσκολευτείς να πάρεις το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης (αν και κάποιοι έχουν αποδείξει ότι είναι εφικτό). Ολες αυτές οι κατηγορίες, που βαραίνουν εδώ και δεκαετίες τη Σ

Assad: certain Western states still back terror groups in Syria

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says “certain Western countries” still support, directly or indirectly, terrorist organizations and groups in Syria despite the fact that this wrong policy has already backfired on their governments and people. The Syrian president made the comments in a meeting with an Italian parliamentary delegation headed by Mario Romani, a member of the Senate of the Republic, in the capital Damascus on Sunday, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported. President Assad said such visits by the European delegations to Syria, with the aim of getting acquainted with the facts on the ground, could play a significant role in raising the awareness of the Western public opinion about the realities of the crisis in Syria and expose the lies told by the Western mass media in this regard. The Italian delegation had visited a number of areas in Syria in an attempt to obtain firsthand experience of what the situation was like in the war-tor

EU Uber Alles? Neoliberal echoes of a darker, mid-century plan for continental unity

The unflinching support for the EU and its institutions is not about preventing European countries from becoming “Afghanistan.” Not about preventing collapse. Not about the inconvenience of long lines at passport control. It is about promoting an ideology, a specific worldview, a vision for the way the world should work. by Michael Nevradakis Part 7 - International cooperation and repairing what’s broken A lack of willingness to question the aforementioned political and economic order may help explain why even those individuals who expressed “solidarity” with Greece—at least up until Greece and its crisis were largely forgotten following the July 2015 referendum—nevertheless refused to question the very core issues of the EU, its policies in Greece and other crisis-stricken countries, and continued membership in the EU and the Eurozone. Even during the “#ThisIsACoup” phase of “solidarity” towards Greece, the “bad” Europeans who were said to be blackmaili