NB: About 160,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured or are missing in Gaza or the West Bank due to the genocidal attack by the American proxy, Israel. Many of them are children, some of whom have had amputations without anesthesia. Had even a fraction of Americans or Europeans been treated in this way we can… Read More ‘This has to stop’: plea by survivors of deadly IDF strike on school in Gaza
Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency by M. Todd Bennett; Reviewed by Chuck Steele Despite the centrality of the ocean research vessel Glomar Explorer to this fascinating story, this is not a book intended for an audience of environmental historians. It is, however, a first-rate account of the… Read More Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, said Israel was “genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at a time, one hospital at a time, one school at a time, one refugee camp at a time, one ‘safe zone’ at a time.” GAZA casualties, live statistics At least 93 Palestinians have been killed in an… Read More More than 90 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on school and mosque sheltering displaced people, Gaza officials say
GAZA casualties, live statistics By Dana Karni, CNN Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are returned, but “no one in the world would let us.” In a speech on Monday at the Katif Conference for National Responsibility in the town of Yad Binyamin,… Read More Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’ / Palestinian homes were destroyed ‘for revenge,’ says Israeli soldier
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other conflict in recent memory – so why is the Western media still silent? GAZA casualties, live statistics Mohamad Elmasry On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were struck by Israeli… Read More Gaza and the death of Western journalism
Seeking ideological uniformity on the issue, western officials and their media accomplices have long recognised the centrality of language to their political indoctrination project Joseph Massad n the official West and its mainstream regime media, there exists a specialised dictionary and thesaurus to translate to the western public all matters Israeli and Palestinian. Officials and journalists… Read More Policing language: Why the West created a new dictionary for Israel and Palestine
GAZA casualties, live statistics Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, has been killed by a strike in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the group said, only hours after Israel claimed it had killed a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut. Hamas blamed Israel for Haniyeh’s death, which one official described as a “grave escalation”. It said… Read More Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, says Palestinian group / Sniping, Shredding, Incinerating: Israel’s War on Children in Gaza
Historians on both sides of the Atlantic are currently engaged in a controversy about the allegedly genocidal nature of western colonialism and its connections with the mass violence unleashed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The debate touches upon some of the most “sensitive” issues of twentieth-century history: the violent “dark side” of modern… Read More Hannah Arendt’s ghosts: Reflections on the disputable path from Windhoek to Auschwitz
Barry Pollack, one of Assange’s lawyers, said his client had been the victim of an injustice. “The prosecution of Julian Assange is unprecedented,” he told reporters outside the court. In the 100 years of the Espionage Act, it has never been used by the United States to pursue a publisher, a journalist, like Mr Assange.… Read More Julian Assange on the way of our world
NB: Attacking Hadid feels like a great distraction from the (US taxpayer-funded) hell on Earth that is Gaza. It’s fascinating to see which media outlets have chosen to write about this fake shoe controversy, but have ignored recent stories such as a 24-year-old man with Down’s syndrome being attacked by an IDF dog in Gaza… Read More Why is Bella Hadid in the headlines? Because it distracts from the hell on Earth that is Gaza
After the truth-shower 