NB: Simply stated, the rulers of the ‘civilized’ Western powers and their Israeli proxy are genocidal butchers. For the victims of their slaughter, there’s no difference between various political factions. The funny thing is, they don’t even realize how racist they are. The Biden Administration has presided over the cold blooded murder of over fifty thousand Palestinians (the figure could be 186 thousand according to The Lancet); and is complicit in genocide. It has given nearly $ 23 billion in military aid to Israel over the past 12 months. It’s hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of innocents, and they still talk as if they’re defenders of democracy. In fact they are defenders of genocide: take a look at the UN definition.
They think there will be a ‘day after Gaza’ – as if they can stabilize the world order under their tutelage after another unleashing terror of such magnitude. There’s no going back ladies and gentlemen. This is the end of your rotten dream factory. DS
A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza have estimated the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death.
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinians and injured 214 in the previous 48-hour period as Israeli strikes continued across the Gaza Strip.
One strike on Thursday targeted a school-turned-shelter in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. At least 12 Palestinians were killed and 30 were wounded in the attack on the Shati Elementary Boys School, which is affiliated with the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA.
Later in the day, Al Jazeera reported that at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Thursday, including 42 in the north, where Israeli forces are carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Reuters reported that dozens of Palestinian families were pushed out of Beit Lahia, one of the cities where the ethnic cleansing campaign has been focused. Israeli forces have been destroying homes in Beit Lahia to ensure Palestinians don’t return…
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/10/israeli-forces-kill-78-more-palestinians-in-gaza-over-48-hours
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US Spending on Israel’s Military Operations & Related U.S. Operations: Oct 7, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024
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Patrick Lawrence on the Great American Delusion
There was an old political adage to the effect that Democrats care about domestic matters and the commonweal and are not much good with foreign policy, while Republicans care about overseas markets and are very good with foreign policy. When I say “old” I mean very old, as in pre–World War II old, when one could make the distinction. It hasn’t held well since the 1945 victories, when the policy cliques got their first taste of global primacy.
The imperium that now blights the world is nothing if not a bipartisan affair.
Empire was not an “issue” on Nov. 5, to state the obvious. There was no voting against it in all its awful manifestations: genocide, interventions of all kinds, proxy wars, sabotage operations, the usual menu of coups, starvation sanctions, “civil society” subterfuge, infinite varieties of coercion—altogether the disorder wreaked in the name of the “rules-based international order.” There was not even any talking about what America has made of itself and what it does beyond its shores.
But the archaic distinction remains in faint outline. Democrats prefer to say they conduct the imperial business in the name of high, humane ideals. It is all for the good of all, just as the Wilsonian universalists have had it since they decided the world must be made safe for democracy as righteous old Woodrow, the Presbyterian elder from Princeton, led America into the First World War. The Republicans are still perfectly pleased to tell you they want this, that, or the other market or resource and nobody is going to “eat America’s lunch.”
President Biden and Vice–President Harris went on incessantly about “values,” to put this point another way. The foreign policy of the new Trump administration will be just as it was the first time around: It will be “transactional.” Or as Peter Feaver, a poli sci professor at Duke, put it in a Nov. 6 Foreign Affairs piece: “The essence of Trump’s approach to foreign policy—naked transactionalism—remains unchanged.” Trump, in short, stands accused of an “idiosyncratic form of dealmaking.”
What you think of this kind of talk depends on how dependent you are on The Great American Delusion….
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/09/patrick-lawrence-notes-of-a-non-voter
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Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
‘This is what it means to be from Gaza’: Poet captures people’s stories of life, love and loss
Israelis Must Ask Themselves if They’re Willing to Live in a Country That Lives on Blood
‘We have paid the price’: Gazans say Sinwar’s death will not change anything
After the truth-shower 