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6-year-old girl in Gaza goes missing after being caught in fighting

Hind Rajab's story highlights the ongoing plight of children in Gaza

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6-year-old girl in Gaza goes missing after being caught in fighting

“Come take me. Please, will you come?” That’s what 6-year-old Hind Rajab said over the phone to emergency workers early last week as she sat, trapped in a car, surrounded by dead family members, with an Israeli tank looming outside. According to NBC News, Hind and her family jumped in their car hoping to escape fighting near where they were staying in Gaza City. Emergency dispatchers sent a rescue team to look for the stranded child—but the rescue team went missing, too.

Hind’s story highlights the ongoing plight of children caught in Israel’s brutal slaughter of Gaza: the United Nations agency for children estimates that at least 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or separated from their parents. As of this morning over 11,500 children have been killed in the genocide; Al Jazeera reports a Palestinian child is killed in Gaza every 15 minutes.

Perhaps not unsurprisingly, a new poll has found half of U.S. adults believe Israel has "gone too far" in Gaza…

While Biden and Republicans debate how - not if - to send more of our tax money to Israel for its war…

Which, by the way, is VERY good for business. U.S. foreign military sales recently reached a record high, though that’s largely been driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine (at least so far). We’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

‘Enslaved’ prisoners are making our food—while companies rake in millions

Incarcerated people harvest turnips at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (AP photo)

A stunning, two year long investigation that just dropped from the AP found that goods tied to forced prison labor in our country have morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire, extending far beyond the classic images of people stamping license plates or working on road crews.

Incarcerated people are forced to work for pennies on the dollar—or for nothing at all—to produce foodstuffs that wind up in everything from Ball Park Franks to Frosted Flakes to Coca Cola. The workers are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. Meanwhile, big food companies get cheap or free labor to rake in multimillion dollar profits. Here are the key takeaways from the AP’s investigation.

Andrew’s take: It’s unsurprising this story got little to no play in corporate media: CNN, ABC, NBC, and other news outlets don’t give a damn about the human rights abuses in U.S. prisons, especially since they happen mostly to poor people of color.

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Good News: Connecticut will become first state to cancel medical debt for many residents

Maybe it’s time to move to the Constitution State? On Friday, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) announced the state will cancel roughly $650 million in medical debt for an estimated 250,000 residents this year, according to CNN. Lamont says they are they first state in the nation to do so. So maybe it does get better?

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