A U.S. university is selling dead bodies that were donated for scientific research and education to the U.S. Navy. And some of those bodies are being used to train Israeli military surgical teams in Los Angeles – all without the donors’ consent.
AJ+’s @denatakruri investigates what’s been happening at two universities, the University of Southern California and the University of California, San Diego, which are involved in the Israeli military training program.
#Israel #Military #California #USC #UCSD
The U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, a status it has maintained for more than eight decades. So then why does it feel like one big hoax?
Economist @yanis.varoufakis breaks down how the dollar gained worldwide domination – and warns that its reign “can’t go on forever.”
#Dollarization #Dedollarization #Currency #GoldStandard #Trump
They called it a ceasefire.
People in Gaza say the war never ended.
Bombings continue.
Families are still displaced.
Basic needs are still out of reach.
“They say the war ended. But it didn’t.”
Bisan Owda reports from Gaza, where daily life is still shaped by destruction and uncertainty – from children walking to school under fire to families living in tents on the rubble of their homes.
And at the edge of it all, the sea remains one of the few places people can go to breathe.
“They cannot destroy the sea.”
#Gaza #Palestine #BisanOwda #AJPlus
Israeli military doctors have been training on dead American bodies — and the donors never consented to it.
A new @ajplus investigation found that USC has been selling donated bodies to the US Navy, where Israeli military surgeons use them for training in Los Angeles.
The bodies, sourced largely from UC San Diego, were donated with the intention of advancing medical research. Donors and their families had no idea this could be their fate.
AJ+’s Dena Takruri spoke to Drop Site’s Maysa Mustafa about the investigation, done in collaboration with USC student journalists who broke the story in October.
“They see the connections that what is going on at their university is not so far removed from what is going on in Gaza.”
Watch the full AJ+ Direct From documentary now on YouTube.
Israel has killed over 70 children in the occupied West Bank since January 2025 – an average of one Palestinian child killed every week.
The UN says Israeli forces and settlers have wounded over 850 other children, with documented cases of children being shot, stabbed, beaten or pepper-sprayed.
#Palestine #Israel #Children #WestBank #SettlerAttack
“Resign or we will kick you out – those are your options.”
Unions across Bolivia declared a national strike and demonstrators have installed dozens of road blocks shutting down trade across the country. Their message: The president must step down – either by choice or by force.
For years, Bolivians have been facing economic exhaustion – which is now worsening with long fuel lines, soaring inflation and supply shortages so severe even hospitals have run out of basic medical supplies. Conservative President Rodrigo Paz rose to power in 2025, pledging to stabilize Bolivia’s economy. Since then, his government has stripped Indigenous land protections and pushed for reforms that would further privatize industries like mining.
#GeneralStrike #Protest #Bolivia #LatinAmerica #Indigenous
“In my classroom now, there is one Hassan who is an orphan, and another Hassan who is a martyr.”
In southern Lebanon, teacher Alaa Younis had two children in her classroom with the same name: Hassan Farhat.
Israel killed one’s father. Now, an Israeli strike has killed the second Hassan, alongside his father and siblings.
#Lebanon #Israel #School #Teacher #Beirut
Cuba says it has run out of fuel – leaving millions of people in darkness due to a “genocidal energy blockade” imposed by the U.S.
#Cuba #Trump #Oil #Energy #Blockade
78 years ago, Israel declared itself a state. Palestinians now commemorate the day after — May 15 — as the anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe.”
Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias massacred thousands of Palestinians and violently forced over 750,000 from their homes.
#Nakba #Palestine #Catastrophe #May15
Nabiha Malek lives in the Beirut suburb where Israel developed the template it later used on Gaza: widespread destruction.
But she refuses to leave Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of Beirut where Israel has leveled entire blocks. Across the country, more than 1 million people have been forcibly displaced.
In its 2006 war on Lebanon, Israel infamously honed the strategy known as the “Dahiyeh Doctrine.” The aim is to use massive force on heavily populated civilian areas. That makes Nabiha a possible target.
But she knows the risks — she’s part of a generation whose lives have been shaped by repeated displacement.
She still remembers when Israel’s invasion of the south in 1982 forced her out of her village. Decades later, she is refusing to leave again.
“Even if they filled this room with gold, I wouldn’t leave.”
#Lebanon #Dahiyeh #SouthLebanon #Occupation
4 reasons why the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be very different from years past.
The competition is being jointly hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada – but Trump travel bans on qualified countries and prohibitive “dynamic” pricing could leave many fans locked out of matches.
#WorldCup #Football #Soccer #FIFA #Iran
“For them our land is a map. But for us our land is alive.”
This Lebanese artist created a digital map of the Levant, showcasing the region from an Indigenous perspective – as Israel destroys villages across southern Lebanon.
Eazuka Khazrik calls her project “a counter-cartography of liberation.”
#Lebanon #Maps #Israel #Apple #Cartography #Indigenous
