Biden’s plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump’s playbook — but even worse. Aída Chávez WHY DOES Joe Biden insist on pursuing a foreign policy of blind support of Israel’s war on Gaza? In addition to the moral calamity — on full display as Israel bombed Palestinian refugee camps in… Read More Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia
B. Michael Israel-antisemitism relations are a model of successful ambivalent relations that efficiently serve both sides. Israel, with its actions, provides vital fuel for antisemitism. And in exchange, antisemitism provides Israel with a host of excuses for its actions, and helps to nurture Israelis’ paranoia and hysteria, which is so vital for taming the citizenry… Read More Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the ‘New Antisemites’
Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that’s what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in… Read More Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s
Nearly 80 years since the Allied invasion, the testimony of Charles Shay, a 99-year-old former US army medic, reminds us of the significance of that day Andrew Anthony American D-Day veteran Charles Shay stands on a dune overlooking Omaha beach in Normandy where he landed as a 19-year-old. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/The Observer Next month will see… Read More June 6, 1944. What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory
‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile By Jonathan Cook On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building… Read More The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians
NB: Salute! For resisting state oppression, for defending the defenceless people of Gaza, and for upholding the democratic traditions of American students, I salute you. We are Spartacus. DS A group walked out during Harvard College’s commencement to decry the exclusion of 13 would-be graduates who were said to be involved in an earlier pro-Palestinian… Read More Hundreds walk out of Harvard College graduation; UCLA contends with new protest
Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza. Sam Biddle IN MARCH, WHATSAPP’S security team issued an internal warning to their colleagues: Despite the software’s powerful encryption, users remained vulnerable to a dangerous form of government surveillance. According to the previously unreported threat… Read More Undisclosed WhatsApp vulnerability lets governments see who you message
The Arsenal of Genocide: The US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah. The move… Read More Arsenal of Genocide: US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza / NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons and Risk
By Four Corners / ABC News (Larry’s List) Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas – but he enabled its development. Four Corners asked Israeli insiders how this happened in the new documentary, The Forever War *********************************************** The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names The End of Innocence The Palestine Exception to… Read More Documentary Details How Netanyahu Funded and Boosted Hamas
UK court approves Assange extradition appeal Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition case. “We are heartened that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal his extradition to the United States,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg,… Read More UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters
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