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As President Joe Biden supports efforts to bring about a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza shooting war, the United States continues to sell weapons to Israel, which are likely being used in Gaza. But it s difficult to know for sure. Unlike US sales of weapons to virtually all other countries, Israel s weapons purchases are conducted with little transparency, and they come with no requirement to adhere to human rights standards. Host Carol Hills gets details from Zaha Hassan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Posted on May 8, 2021
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On February 3, 2021, in the wake of the “deadly events” of 1/6, Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a 60-day stand-down and total purge of the U.S. military’s rampant, undefined “extremism” problem. Though the details of this purge were always kept vague and framed in apolitical terms, it was immediately obvious the target would be MAGA with the buzzword “extremism” tagged onto various proxies for Trump supporters, conservatives, and opponents of globalism of all stripes.
We now know the hatchet man the Pentagon has selected to carry out this MAGA purge of the American defense forces, and the entire operation is worse than you could have ever imagined.
Ethiopia s human rights situation continues to deteriorate in its Tigray region. There were reports of up to nine civilians killed this week by Eritrean troops in addition to rape and sexual abuse allegations leveled at both Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers. The World s Carol Hills spoke with International Crisis Group s senior Ethiopia analyst William Davison about the latest developments.
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