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The Daily Sceptic

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Global temperature anomalies on both land and sea are dropping like a stone. But you won't hear about this from narrative-captured mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
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offsite link The Enormous Amounts of Taxpayer Funding Going to Migrant Charities Thu Jan 08, 2026 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill exposes the hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money being given to migrant charities ? including organisations that help migrants jump the housing queue ahead of homeless Brits.
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offsite link Police Chief ?Must Be Sacked? Over Claims Force ?Scraped? Google to Justify Ban on Israeli Football ... Wed Jan 07, 2026 17:27 | Will Jones
Craig Guildford, who heads the West Midlands Police force, has been told his position is "untenable" after being slated by MPs over the decision to ban Israeli football fans from attending a match in the UK.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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Killing Iran’s Children

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday August 15, 2012 21:54author by pat c Report this post to the editors

Dave Lindorff writes on how sanctions are affecting the Iranian people, especially childrren. Is this going to be a rerun of Iraq? Full text at link.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.

Albright, as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, when interviewed on CBS’s news magazine program “60 Minutes” back in 2000, was asked by reporter Lesley Stahl about reports that US sanctions on Iraq had led to the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children because of shortages of medicine and things like chlorine for treating water supplies. Stahl asked Albright if such a dreadful toll was “worth it.” Albright famously responded, “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.”

Albright must be happy then that apparently the same kind of heartless logic is at work once more, this time orchestrated by the Obama administration and the current Secretary of State, It Takes a Village author and self-styled child advocate Hillary Clinton.

According to a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon by the head of Iran’s Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, the current US-led sanctions campaign against Iranian financial institutions and efforts to prevent western banks from doing business with Iran have made it next to impossible for Iranian doctors and hospitals to obtain medicines from abroad for such relatively rare but serious diseases as hemophilia, Multiple sclerosis (MS), various cancers, kidney failure and thalassemia.

Related Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/13/killing-irans-children/
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