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After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments
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The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release
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