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  Craig Murray: Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon Rampant war crimes and ceasefire violations mark the trail of the Greater Israel project as it  advances   — with help from the U.S.-backed government in Beirut  —  in southern Lebanon. The author reporting Monday on Israeli ceasefire violations in Kfarkela, Southern Lebanon.  (Craig Murray) By  Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk N ot only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon on Sunday, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, its forces also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition). This included a 12-year-old boy wounded in the neck in Kfarkela, standing right next to my local producer Mahmood. I was 20 yards away and on my way to them. Four were killed in Kfarkela and overnight the Israeli army demolished numerous homes there in “punishment.” Apart from one Leba...

  American Pravda: "If Anything Happens to Me..."  Ron Unz   Jeremy Farrar, Credit: Wellcome Trust Elections have consequences and the remarkable return of Donald Trump to the White House has already led to a flurry of major reversals across numerous policy areas. The weekend newspapers revealed that these now included the longstanding Covid origins debate, which had largely disappeared from the headlines over the last year or two. John Radcliffe, the new incoming CIA director, had long favored the lab-leak hypothesis, claiming that the virus had accidentally escaped from China’s Wuhan lab, and under the influence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump himself  had sometimes taken that same position  during 2020. According to articles in the  New York Times  and the  Wall Street Journal , the CIA has now reversed its previous position and declared that it favors that theory. Although that shift was not based upon any new evidence and was only ex...