NB: This is a crime unfolding right in front of our eyes; barely spoken of or called out for what it is by the so-called civilised world. The impunity enjoyed by the USA and Israel, backed up by covert or overt military assistance of the Western powers is a token of their brazen colonial attitude… Read More The Demon of Ethnic Cleansing Has Been Let Out of the Bottle in Israel
Christian fascists come out of a theocratic sect called Dominionism. This sect teaches that American Christians have been mandated to make America a Christian state and an agent of God. Political and intellectual opponents of this militant Biblicalism are condemned as agents of Satan. Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and… Read More Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs / How the Left Destroyed Itself (AV interview with Yanis Varoufakis)
From Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page A builder fantasizes about transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East, with a string of luxury hotels for the consumption of the world’s super-rich. Netanyahu looks baffled and even pained by the thought, because this real estate fantasy transforms the Israeli state into a mercenary that has unwittingly… Read More Trump on Ketamine
Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president’s foreign policy have on the Middle… Read More Chris Hedges: Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States
Despite the ceasefire, Benjamin Netanyahu is capitulating to extremists who have no problem with ethnic cleansing. And they’ve found an ally in Donald Trump Ben Reiff The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has now entered its second week. Over the past two weekends, Hamas has handed over seven Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of… Read More Israel’s far right is planning for a Gaza without Palestinians
First posted July 21, 2016 During the early hours of 18 July 1936, General Francisco Franco declared a state of war and his opposition to the Second Spanish Republic. In undermining the Republican government’s ability to keep order, the ensuing coup d’état precipitated unprecedented open violence. Thus began the Spanish Civil War. From April 1939… Read More Julián Casanova: The Spanish Civil War, 80 years after
NB: Nothing conveys the shameless racism of the American Empire better than Trump’s use of words like ‘cleaning out’ Gaza, as if Palestinians are a pile of trash. Coming after the actions of Biden, who is responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, and who presented 30 billion dollars to the… Read More Trump’s Gaza proposal rejected by allies and condemned as ethnic cleansing plan
The ceasefire deal clinched on Wednesday may end the latest episode of mass slaughter in Gaza, but it won’t halt the structural genocide of Palestinians Muhannad Ayyash The ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is, first and foremost, a welcome relief for the Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering from a most brutal and horrific… Read More Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide?
“Trump and his coterie of billionaires, generals, half-wits, Christian fascists, criminals, racists, and moral deviants play the role of the Snopes clan in some of William Faulkner’s novels” “The rage of those abandoned by the economy, the fears and concerns of a beleaguered and insecure middle class, and the numbing isolation that comes with the… Read More Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came
The Chris Hedges Report With Richard Solomon and Prahlad Iyengar “You can’t just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it’s serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of… Read More America’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists)
After the truth-shower 