Caitlin Johnstone's newsletter tells it like it is. Yesterday's "15 things you should never have to say to a country" piece is worth reposting in its entirety. Here it is.
1. Stop bombing children.
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2. Don’t kill journalists.
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3. Don’t bomb hospitals.
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4. Don’t shoot patients through their hospital window.
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5. Don’t drive bulldozers over dead bodies.
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6. Don’t bomb ambulances.
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7. Don’t do ethnic cleansing.
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8. Don’t call humans animals.
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9. Don’t starve people.
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10. Don’t cut off people’s water.
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11. Don’t cut off the electricity at hospitals, killing their ICU and NICU patients.
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12. Don’t bomb doctors.
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13. Don’t bomb UN staff.
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14. Don’t do apartheid.
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15. Stop lying constantly.
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tty next time,