How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide NB: The USA is founded upon genocide and slavery. Ten million Native Americans were reduced to 300,00 by the year 1900. Slavery is another story. Until the American population and the rest of the world confront this bloody history of the only power… Read More We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves
‘What’s happening in Gaza and the occupied territories is not Judaism – it’s a horrific religious and fanatic mutation. We must stand against it, speak truth to power, and refuse to be silenced‘ An open letter, signed by at least 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures, calls on the UN and heads… Read More Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable ‘for Gaza atrocities’
Narendra Modi’s decade in power has seen an erosion of democracy alongside soaring inequality. While religious nationalism diverts public attention, the super-rich add to their wealth. Economic performance remains lacklustre, welfare spending stagnant, and authoritarian tactics silence dissent. Atul Kohli; Kanta Murali —Growing economic inequalities under Congress governments after 1991 fractured the party’s voter base,… Read More India Under Modi: Shrinking Democracy, Growing Inequalities
Krishnadas Rajagopal Sonam Wangchuk’s wife told the Supreme Court that she was accompanied by security personnel, her meetings supervised, not allowed to meet anyone in Jodhpur and was ‘taken’ to the railway station, ‘constantly’ surveilled in Delhi, among other infringements of her ‘fundamental rights as a free citizen of India’ A complaint by Gitanjali Angmo,… Read More Gitanjali Angmo’s ‘surveillance’ raises question on personal freedoms of NSA detainee’s family members
By Nick Turse / TomDispatch Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when… Read More On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Seham Tantesh in Gaza At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry… Read More At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
The actor condemns ‘runaway train’ of unregulated slander, baseless claims and deepfakes that have dogged her in recent years Aniston was speaking to Harper’s Bazaar to coincide with a new season of The Morning Show, the TV series in which she plays a TV presenter opposite Reese Witherspoon. Aniston, who has been the target of media… Read More Jennifer Aniston says social media ‘has taken down a huge portion of humanity’
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi Diane de Vignemont The wreckage of the plane lay scattered across the ocher sand of Niger’s Tenere desert — twisted aluminum, scorched luggage, a lone shoe. There were no survivors. French investigators… Read More A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy
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’
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