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43 years ago today, 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated'
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Israel's Channel 12 News exposes that IDF soldiers were given polygraph tests about their rape of a Palestinian detainee. The soldiers were found to be lying & tried to cover it up. A lawyer for one soldier tries justifying the crime as a 'security measure' because the detainee was 'resisting'. NSFW
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Climate activists tagged Lionel Messi's $12 million luxury Ibiza villa with the message: "Help the Planet – Eat the Rich – Abolish the Police." The Spanish gov't allowed the villa's construction without a 'certificate of occupancy' while 300 workers were evicted just this week in Ibiza.
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CNN reports that only 3 of Hamas's 24 battalions have been destroyed during Israel's 9 month attack on the Gaza Strip. Journalist Jeremy Scahill comments: "Israel has proven very effective at killing massive numbers of Palestinian civilians [...]."
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On the pro-Palestine panel, Daniel Levy (once an Israeli negotiator at Oslo 2) says pro-Israel arguments are now ineffectual since Israel has immunity for its crimes & no longer has to be convincing. Benny Morris pejoratively labels Levy, who fires back "I'm pro-Jewish, pro-Palestinian, pro-human!"
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