Systematic Starvation: Genocide & the Engineered Collapse of Gazan Society

Source: Common Dreams
by Yoav Litvin

“Consequent to the escalated Zionist genocide of Indigenous Palestinian people, and after a blockade of all goods since the beginning of March 2025, Gaza is experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis, with widespread food scarcity and starvation among its population. Human rights organizations and international agencies report the Israeli blockade has led to catastrophic levels of hunger, particularly affecting children and vulnerable groups. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) indicates approximately 244,000 people in Gaza face the most severe level of food insecurity, with nearly 71,000 children under five at risk of acute malnutrition. The World Food Program warns famine is imminent, affecting nearly the entire population of 2.3 million. Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, a gross violation of international law, while noting children have died from starvation-related complications due to the blockade.” (05/22/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-systematic-starvation

Steve Trinward

UK regime signs deal ceding Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Source: Semafor

“The UK government on Thursday signed a deal ceding control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, possibly settling decades of dispute over the strategic archipelago. The deal had stalled after last-minute legal action by a Chagossian group campaigning for former residents to be allowed back on the islands: Hundreds of Chagossians were removed in the 1960s to make way for a UK-US military base on the largest island. The new deal does not allow them to return to living on the island.” (05/22/25)

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/22/2025/uk-signs-deal-ceding-chagos-islands-to-mauritius

Thomas L. Knapp

Woman shot after failing to stop at CIA headquarters gate, sources say

Source: CBS News

“A woman was shot by CIA security Thursday morning after she drove up to a gate at the agency’s headquarters, and failed to stop, sources said. The woman was taken to a medical facility with what law enforcement officials believed was a non-fatal gunshot wound to the upper body.” (05/22/25)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-shot-cia-headquarters-gate/

Thomas L. Knapp

FAA allows SpaceX Starship’s next flight, expands debris hazard zones

Source: Reuters

“The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it approved SpaceX’s Starship to return to flight after its explosive test failure in March, allowing Elon Musk’s space company to launch from Texas as soon as next week after redrawing hazard zones along the rocket’s flight path. SpaceX’s Starship, a 400-foot-tall (122 meter) rocket poised to play a central role in the U.S. space program, had a rare spate of back-to-back testing failures this year, diverting dozens of commercial flights and prompting complaints from other countries affected by Starship debris. … Debris from Starship’s last two testing explosions – one in January and another in March – rained over Turks and Caicos, a British overseas territory, and portions of the Caribbean, rankling residents and triggering cleanup efforts by SpaceX staff and local authorities.” (05/22/25)

https://archive.is/Gb0sM

Thomas L. Knapp

Judge orders Trump regime to reinstate Education Department employees

Source: CNBC

“A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to reinstate more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees. ‘The Department must be able to carry out its functions and its obligations,’ as well as ‘other relevant statutes as mandated by Congress,’ U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston wrote in the injunction. The U.S. Department of Education announced a reduction in force on March 11 that would have gutted the agency’s staff by a half.” (05/22/25)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/education-department-employees-must-be-reinstated-by-trump-judge.html

Thomas L. Knapp

Syria’s path of justice and mercy

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Almost half a year after its liberation from a dictatorship, Syria could be close to a ‘civil war of epic proportions’, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tuesday. A great distrust still exists among religious and ethnic communities after being pitted against each other for half a century by the despotic Assad family, he said. Yet like many foreign officials involved in Syria’s future these days, Mr. Rubio could not leave his dark prediction alone. He also cited a light of hope. ‘The good news is that there is a Syrian national identity,’ he told a Senate panel. ‘It is one of the places in the Middle East where Alawis and Druze and Christians and Sunni and Shia … and Kurds have lived alongside each other.'” (05/21/25)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0521/Syria-s-path-of-justice-and-mercy

Steve Trinward