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7 Feb 2023 Source: Al Mayadeen Net By Sara Salloum With thousands dead and thousands of others injured in Syria due to the earthquake, numerous international cargo companies refuse to land in Syria out of fear of US and EU sanctions. A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 Richter ripped through Syria on early Monday, […]
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A Chinese Blockade of Taiwan Will Trigger International Response, US Navy Says
September 21st, 2022 
Awake Goy The U.S. Navy’s frontline fleet commander warned that China’s military is capable of imposing a blockade around Taiwan, but doing so would trigger a concerted effort by the international community to intervene. Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that China […]
The Gaza blockade didn’t begin in 2007
September 11th, 2022 Awake Goy This year is supposed to mark 15 years since Israel imposed its devastating blockade on Gaza. It’s been 15 years of systematic collective punishment, with entire generations growing up in Gaza virtually isolated from the outside world, with no idea about what life was like before the siege. We were most recently reminded of this […]
Milwaukee Cuba Caravan Highlights The Damage Caused By The Us Blockade And The Tragic Fire In Matanzas
September 4th, 2022 Awake Goy Thirty Cuba solidarity activists heard updates, Sunday, August 28, on how the people of the island are adapting to the ongoing impacts of the US economic blockade and the recent fire at an oil depot in Matanzas, fifty miles from Havana. Three members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation gave report backs from a recent […]
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No Comments »Trucker Rebellion: The Story of the Coutts Blockade
August 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Trucker Rebellion: The Story of the Coutts Blockade A new documentary by Rebel News breaks down the Canadian freedom convoy’s defiance of the mandatory COVID vaccines, specifically the standoff with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the border crossing at Coutts, Alberta earlier this year.From the documentary’s description: You’ve heard of the Canadian ‘freedom truckers’ […]
Watch Live: ‘ShutDownDC’ Attempt Planned ‘Blockade’ of SCOTUS Ahead of Possible Abortion Ruling
June 14th, 2022 Awake Goy “These unelected extremists are trying to steal our rights and roll us backwards on issue after issue – abortion, guns, environment, due process, &c [sic]. They are illegitimate & the people say no,” said the group in a tweet on Sunday.
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ahead, attempt, blockade, planned, scotus, shutdowndc, watch No Comments »Germany and France Call on Putin to Lift Grain Blockade, Engage in Peace Talks with Zelensky
May 30th, 2022 Awake Goy French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to lift the blockade on Ukrainian grain in order to mitigate the growing global food crisis.
UK Backs Plan to Escort Grain Ships Past Russia’s Naval Blockade of Ukraine
May 25th, 2022 Awake Goy An international fleet of naval warships could break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of food.
West Virginians lead blockade of coal plant that made Manchin rich
April 12th, 2022 Awake Goy Organizers of the “Coal Baron Blockade” protest which targeted right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s coal empire Saturday afternoon reported that state police almost immediately began arresting campaigners who assembled in Grant Town, West Virginia. “Sen. Joe Manchin’s policies hurt poor people and hurt our environment so deeply that activists are ready to put themselves on […]
CN Rail Wins Right To Privately Prosecute Rail Blockade Participants
December 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: CN Railway tracks blockaded near New Hazelton, B.C in February 2020. Resource Works Video Screengrab. The group was arrested on Feb. 24, 2020. BREAKING: A private corporate prosecution targeting Indigenous activists is taking root in Canada — based on the same @Chevron model used to detain me in the U.S. for 2 years. […]
Climate Activists Blockade Amazon Warehouses Across Europe On Black Friday
November 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Climate activists blockaded Amazon warehouses in three European countries on Friday, part of a global effort to pressure the e-commerce giant on one of its busiest days of the year to improve working conditions and end business practices that hurt the environment. Members of Extinction Rebellion targeted 13 Amazon fulfillment centers in the United Kingdom […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: across, activists, Amazon, blockade, climate, Europe, warehouses No Comments »Comirnaty Approval, Funder Pressure, Truckies Blockade – New World Next Week
August 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Watch on Archive / BitChute / Minds / Odysee This week on the New World Next Week: the FDA approves Comirnaty; even Nature is reporting how health research funders are suppressing inconvenient results; and Aussie truckies are preparing to block every highway in anti-lockdown strike. CLICK HERE for show notes and mp3 audio […]
Why there are increasing reasons now for the USA to end its blockade of Cuba?
July 21st, 2021 Awake Goy The USA has imposed the longest ever embargo on Cuba which has continued for almost six decades with very limited relaxations for short durations . The Cubans ( as well as other critics) refer to this as blockade to convey its more damaging impacts. For almost the last three decades the United Nations General Assembly […]
Animal Extinction Protesters Blockade McDonalds Factory
July 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Animal Rebellion. The Meat And Dairy Industries Are Responsible For 80-90 Per Cent Of Amazon Deforestation, At Least 18 Per Cent Of Global Emissions, Patterson Said. Animal Rebellion protesters have barricaded a McDonald’s factory in Scunthorpe in a move to get the burger chain to switch to an entirely “plant-based food menu by […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: animal, blockade, extinction, factory, McDonald's, protesters No Comments »Assad Highlights Syria’s Potential to Overcome Blockade
June 11th, 2021 Awake Goy 10/06/2021 By Staff, Agencies Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the country is capable of overcoming the blockade and create more investment opportunities. On Wednesday he visited a number of factories and facilities at Adra industrial city in Damascus countryside which were established under the circumstances of the war and blockade, but their owners have succeeded […]
Police arrest 7 protesters at logging blockade on southern Vancouver Island
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy By Dirk Meissner, CBC May 19, 2021 Above Photo: RCMP officers move in to remove a blockade and people protesting logging of old growth forests in the Caycuse River area of southern Vancouver Island. (Dave Malysheff) Protesters say they were given 24 hours notice to leave or face arrest Police have arrested seven people at a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: arrest, blockade, logging, police, protesters, southern, vancouver No Comments »Palestinian Resistance Imposes an Air blockade on “Israel”
May 15th, 2021 Awake Goy 14/5/21 By Staff Hours after “Israeli” authorities decided to close Ben Gurion Airport, which sits just east of Tel Aviv, and divert flights to Ramon Airport in the southern Negev, the Ayyash 250 made its debut. This is a new missile that the military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigade, launched at Ramon. Meanwhile, a number […]
Like Yemen Like Palestine: A Blood-stained Eid amid War, Blockade!
May 14th, 2021 Awake Goy By Yehya Salaheddin, Zeinab Abdallah Eid is the usual occasion during which people, mainly children, celebrate. It is the day they wait and dream of, often sleeping over the Eid’s eve hugging their new clothes, shoes, and perhaps toys. The unusual is the case some dear nations are passing through… War, famine, blockade and insecurity! […]
Echoes Of B.C.’s War In The Woods As Fairy Creek Blockade Builds
April 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Members of the Rainforest Flying Squad prevent loggers from crossing a bridge to access a cut block in the Caycuse watershed on Vancouver Island, B.C. In recent weeks a blockade has attracted hundreds of old-growth forest advocates who do not want logging to go ahead in the Fairy Creek region. Jesse Winter / […]
Hunger striking activists seek to end the Yemen blockade
April 8th, 2021 Awake Goy The war on Yemen has lasted six years and killed over 100,000 people. The amount of Yemenis experiencing food insecurity is rapidly rising. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 16,500 people in the country were living under famine conditions at the end of 2020 and they estimate that number could rise to 47,000 […]
Protests In 60+ Countries Against Genocidal US Blockade On Cuba
March 30th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Seville protesters demand the U.S. to end the genocidal blockade against Cuba. Twitter/@Jose_Martinez72. Citizens and organizations from at least 60 countries on five continents have begun activities this Saturday to demand the end of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba. In a worldwide day, the initiative launched a month ago […]
Behind the blockade: reflections from a medical delegation to Gaza
March 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy In early March 2020, I was privileged to join a ten-person medical delegation to Gaza organized by the Washington state chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Several among our group have long histories and deep personal ties with Gaza, which has been subjected to a harsh Israeli blockade for fourteen years. The staff of our […]
UN Special Rapporteur Urges US To Lift The Blockade Against Venezuela
February 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures. AFP. NOTE: Sign the petition calling on the Biden administration to end the economic war at SanctionsKill.org/petition. And join us on Saturday, February 27 at 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific for a training on the new Sanctions Kill toolkit. Click […]
Posted in Sanctions, united nations Tags: against, blockade, rapporteur, special, urges, Venezuela No Comments »Thousands Of Farmers In India Blockade Highways Protesting New Agricultural Laws
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of protesting Indian farmers blockaded highways across the country for several hours Saturday to press their demands for the repeal of new agricultural laws that have led to months of massive protests. The protesters used tractors, trucks and even boulders to blockade the roads. They carried banners and flags denouncing […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, blockade, farmers, highways, India, protesting, thousands No Comments »Invisible Blockade: the Media Is Silent on the Palestinian Authority’s Gaza Sanctions
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Hamas members wear protective gear as a precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. Ever since Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held for the first time […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: authority, blockade, invisible, Media, palestinian, sanctions, silent No Comments »Arab states ending Qatar blockade is really about Biden
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in qatar, saudi-arabia Tags: about, biden, blockade, ending, Qatar, really, states No Comments »End of Qatar air blockade opens up flying in the Gulf
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy Three years after Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Middle East began a blockade of Qatar, the conflict has been resolved – which means a return to relative normality for airlines in the region. But what does it mean for visitors and those travelling around the region? These are the key questions and answers. […]
Qatar’s ruling emir lands in Saudi Arabia for summit to end blockade
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy AL-ULA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Qatar’s ruling emir arrived in Saudi Arabia and was greeted with an embrace by its crown prince on Tuesday, following an announcement that the kingdom would end its years-long embargo on the tiny Gulf Arab state. The decision to open borders was the first major step toward ending the diplomatic […]
Posted in qatar, saudi-arabia Tags: arabia, blockade, lands, Qatar, ruling, Saudi, summit No Comments »Gulf States Reach Deal to End Blockade Against Qatar
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy A Qatari flag is seen at a park near the Doha Corniche, in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 17, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem al Omari. JNS.org – The Gulf states have reached an agreement to end the three-year-old boycott of Qatar, announced Kuwait’s foreign minister on Monday. White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner […]
COVID has given Israel an excuse to tighten the blockade of Gaza
December 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
