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?’
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’
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’
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
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
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
The truth never dies, but is made to live like a beggar: Yiddish proverb People all seek to know what they do not know yet / they ought rather seek to know what they know already : Zhuang Zhou (369-286 BC) What you run away from, runs after you: Roumanian proverb Raoul Wootliff There is a moment in 1948:… Read More October 7 War: Remember, Remember Not
NB: This is typical racist blackmail at the point of a gun: surrender or we will continue slaughtering and starving children, women and men. It is also noteworthy that Trump and Netanyahu changed the terms of the ‘deal’ behind the backs of the other participants in the negotiations, ensuring Israels continuing control over Gaza. This… Read More Great Betrayal: Why Arab & Muslim rulers backed Trump’s Gaza plan / Imperialist subjugation of Palestine to continue, genocidal murderers to be rewarded
Thousands marched in cities across the world following the interception of the flotilla and detainment of activists including Greta Thunberg Follow latest updates live As Israeli forces began their long anticipated interception of a pro-Palestinian flotilla nearing war-torn Gaza, the ripples of the event spread across the world, triggering mass demonstrations, diplomatic censure and threats… Read More Israel’s Gaza flotilla interception triggers protests, diplomatic expulsions and calls for strikes
They do not hide their vision for America. They plan to make the legal system subservient to dogma. They hate the “secular humanist” society based on science and reason. They dream of making the Ten Commandments the basis of the legal system… Power in the age of Trump is based on blind personal loyalty… Lies… Read More Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America
After the truth-shower 