Tag: Global War and Violence

The shameless racists who perpetrated Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland

They make a desert, they call it peace: These plunderers of the world [the Romans], after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth & indigence with… Read More The shameless racists who perpetrated Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland

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Gaza in ruins: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory / No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble. As the number of WCNSFs – ‘wounded child, no surviving family’ – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them A UN commission report concluded Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza  Jason Burke The… Read More Gaza in ruins: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory / No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

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Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East

NB: More self-serving bufoonery by a corrupt war criminal. Brittania rules – if not the waves, the graveyard of murdered Palestinians. Blair and Trump make a good circus. They and their chums among the Arab despots are the vultures of our time, circling scenes of human devastation caused by their ally Israel; and looking out… Read More Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East

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Against the crime of silence: Bertrand Russell’s War Crimes in Vietnam (1967)

NB: This book changed my life. I read it when I was seventeen. Along with Palestine, Vietnam’s valiant struggle against American imperialism was the epic of our generation. I will salute the Vietnamese people till the end of my days. DS “There are few parallels with the war in Vietnam. It has lasted nearly two… Read More Against the crime of silence: Bertrand Russell’s War Crimes in Vietnam (1967)

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A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’

By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced… Read More A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’

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Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’

NB: I respect this writer and this film maker for speaking the truth as far as their resources allow. The term community of crime is something terrifying because it reflects the truth about the fragility of human consience; and the power that ideologies possess to pervert the conscience into its opposite; to literally create communities… Read More Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’

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Peter Beinart: ‘What Israel Is Doing in the Name of the Jewish People Is a Desecration’

Itamar Katzir From his home in New York City, Peter Beinart watched in amazement as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets during the first “day of disruption” in August. Peter Beinart – “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” | The Daily Show The 54-year-old Jewish American journalist and commentator… Read More Peter Beinart: ‘What Israel Is Doing in the Name of the Jewish People Is a Desecration’

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others: Turkish activist ErsinÇelik Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Damian Carrington in London The environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in… Read More Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

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Kerala woman gets a ‘thank you’ from Gaza

Sreereshmi Udayakumar arranged a 3,000-litre water truck to make the supply to around 250 Palestinian families Sreereshmi Udayakumar. Photo: Special arrangement A young woman from Kerala is making headlines with visuals showing displaced families in Gaza thanking her for arranging drinking water supply for them going viral on social media. Sreereshmi Udayakumar, the founder of… Read More Kerala woman gets a ‘thank you’ from Gaza

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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized / Palestinian NGO requests help to recover thousands of bodies buried under rubble

Thousands of Palestinians remain buried beneath Gaza’s rubble, according to a Palestinian NGO, who has issued an urgent appeal to the international community for help recovering the bodies of the dead after nearly two years of war. The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared said today that without urgent international assistance the bodies of… Read More How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized / Palestinian NGO requests help to recover thousands of bodies buried under rubble

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