Tag: ceasefire
Biden Redefines “Cease-Fire” to Stem Anger Over Gaza
After months of not using the term at all, the administration has embraced it, but is using it in a way that has little to do with what activists are demanding.
The pressure to back a cease-fire is immense,
Und die Gewinnerin ist… Annie Lennox und Artists for Cease-Fire
Aktivismus
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6. Februar 2024
Die Forderung der Sängerin nach einem Ende des Mordens in Gaza hat die Grammys politisiert, was fantastisch ist.
Annie Lennox tritt bei den Grammy Awards 2024 auf.
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Die 66. jährliche Grammy-Verleihung war viel ansprechender als die meisten ihrer Vorgänger. Tracy Chapmans Darbietung ihres Liedes „Schnelles Auto„mit Country-Unterzeichner Luke Combs war erlösend. Joni Mitchells Auftritt von „Both Sides Now“ war transzendent. Jay Zs Kritik an der
This Russian Opposition Leader Met With Putin to Discuss a Cease-Fire to Stop the Killing
Grigory Yavlinsky is the founder of Russia’s leading and oldest democratic opposition party, Yabloko, which is the only party in Russia calling for a cease-fire. The interview was conducted by The Nation’s longtime contributor Nadia Azhgikhina at Yabloko’s Moscow offices.
At the end of 2023, the Russian media talked a lot about Yavlinsky’s “peace program” and about your midnight December 19 meeting in the Kremlin with Putin to discuss it. What is the essence of this program?
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Bernie Sanders’s Incoherent, Pernicious Gaza Cease-Fire Position, Explained
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December 18, 2023
Instead of demanding that we end the war that actually exists, Sanders is lobbying for a humane war that Israel has zero interest in.
Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on unions on November 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
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There’s been a lot of confusion over Senator Bernie Sanders’s position on the Gaza war. On the one hand, few elected
Israel-Hamas war LIVE: IDF troops ‘will enter Gaza City within 48 hours’ after ‘splitting territory in two’ – as UN agencies call for ceasefire
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Those Who Say “a Cease-Fire Won’t Work” Are Wrong. Here’s Why.
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October 27, 2023
There are four arguments people often make to support Israel’s bombing campaign, and all of them are hollow.
Edmontonians hold a one-hour silent candlelight vigil outside Town Hall, braving -1° C temperatures, to call for peace and an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.
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Since Hamas attacked Southern Israel on October 7 and the Israeli government retaliated with a bombing campaign on Gaza,
Colombia Rebel Group ELN and Government Begin Cease-Fire
A cease-fire between the Colombian government and the country’s largest remaining rebel group took effect on Thursday, the longest halt to hostilities the group has agreed to and a milestone in efforts to end the country’s 60-year internal conflict, which has killed roughly 450,000 people.
While the cease-fire is supposed to last six-months, it could pave the way for a permanent truce with the leftist group, the National Liberation Army, a guerrilla organization known as the E.L.N. that operates in
No cease-fire while Ukraine is on the offensive, Putin says – POLITICO
Vladimir Putin said he does not reject the idea of peace talks over Ukraine, but the Russian president added that there could be no cease-fire while Ukrainian forces are “on the offensive.”
Speaking after meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, Putin told a press conference that African and Chinese peace initiatives could serve as a basis for ending the war in Ukraine, but are “impossible to implement” at the moment.
“The Ukrainian army is on the offensive, they are
China urges for the END of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as it calls for a cease-fire and peace talks
China has urged for the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – as its foreign ministry called for a cease-fire and peace talks on Thursday.
The communist state said it wants to prevent the crisis from getting out of control, noting that dialogue and negotiation are the only viable ways to resolve the conflict, a position paper from the Chinese foreign ministry released on Friday said.
On the one-year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, China called for a comprehensive ceasefire
Ukrainians run as Russian bombs rain on Irpin while ceasefire to protect 400k civilians shattered
Devastating images and videos have laid bare the horror of Vladimir Putin’s lawless invasion of Ukraine, as Russian troops unleash heavy gunfire and missiles on local residents.
Heartbreaking footage, taken in Irpin, located on the outskirts of the besieged capital city Kyiv, confirmed that Russian forces are attacking heavily populated civilian areas where men, women and children are leaving the country as the Russian tyrant continues denying bombing Ukrainian cities.
One image depicted a mother and her two children lying