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There’s No Free Press Without a Free Assange

21May

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

There’s No Free Press Without a Free Assange

BY DAVID S. D’AMATO Photograph Source: Anthony Crider – CC BY 2.0 In September 1918, Eugene V. Debs stood trial on several charges brought following an anti-war speech he had delivered in June, at a gathering of socialists, workers, and sympathetic friends in Canton, Ohio. For delivering his speech, critical of the United States’ entry into World War I and heralding “the emancipation of the human race,” Debs was arrested and branded a traitor and seditionist by the U.S. government. His words that day call to mind the truth-telling mission of another freedom of speech champion, wrongly imprisoned journalist and activist Julian Assange. Debs said: The truth alone will make the people free. And for this reason, the truth must not be permitted to reach the people....

The Gaza Strip: a Struggle For Daily Survival Amid Death, Exhaustion And Despair

21May

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Gaza Strip: a Struggle For Daily Survival Amid Death, Exhaustion And Despair

BY PHILIPPE LAZZARINI Photograph Source: Yairfridman2003 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Every time I visit Gaza, I witness how people have sunk further into despair, with the struggle for survival consuming every hour. In the south, around Rafah, makeshift structures of plastic sheeting have mushroomed everywhere including on the streets, with people trying to protect themselves from the cold and rain. Each one of these flimsy shelters can be home to over 20 people. Rafah is so congested that one can barely drive a car amid the sea of people. The population of Rafah has almost quadrupled, with more than 1.2 million people. Everyone I met had a personal story of fear, death, loss, trauma to share. Over the 100 days, the people of Gaza have moved from the sheer shock of losing eve...

21May

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Genocide in My Living Room

BY L. MICHAEL HAGER Photograph Source: Wafa (Q2915969) in contract with a local company (APAimages)‏‏ – CC BY-SA 3.0 History is replete with genocide. Among the earliest was the Albigensian Crusade 0f 1209 that sparked the Cathar genocide in southern France. In the 20th century, the Turkish genocide of 1915 killed up to 1.2 million Armenian Christians; the Nazi Holocaust of 1941-1945 sent 6 million Jews to death chambers or execution sites; and the Rwanda Genocide of 1994 killed more than half a million Tutsis. Reports of more recent genocides appear in the major media, including Darfur (2003), Yazidi (2010), and Rohingya (2016). While history books and newspapers give us written descriptions of genocide, never before have we seen one unfolding before ou...

It’s All About Me: Naziyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood

21May

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It’s All About Me: Naziyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: US Department of State – Public Domain Israel has been given enormous license to control the security narrative in the Middle East for decades. This is not to say it is always in control of it – the attacks of October 7 by Hamas show that such control is rickety and bound, at stages, to come undone. What matters for Israeli security is that certain neighbours always understand that they are never to do certain things, lest they risk existential oblivion. For instance, no Middle Eastern state will be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons on the Jewish State’s watch. Nuclear reactors and facilities will be struck, infected, or pulverised altogether (Osirak at Tuwaitha, Iraq; the Natanz site...

Trump Allies Plot to Take Over the European Union

21May

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Europe, USA

Trump Allies Plot to Take Over the European Union

BY JOHN FEFFER Image by Markus Spiske. It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine. As 2023 ended, European nations failed to agree on a $54-billion package of assistance for Ukraine at a time when that country was desperately trying to stay afloat and continue its fight against Russian occupation forces. Bizarrely, the failure of that proposal coincided with a surprising EU decision to open membership talks with that beleaguered country. In other words, no military aid for Ukraine in the short term but a possible offer of a golden ticket to join the EU at some unspecified future ...

Gassing Execution Horrifies Jewish Groups

21May

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Gassing Execution Horrifies Jewish Groups

BY MICHAEL ZOOSMAN Photograph Source: Felton Davis – CC BY 2.0 Alabama’s plan to inaugurate the next generation of a human gas chamber on January 25th is a repulsive affront to the thousands of international members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty.” On January 25th, Alabama will become the first state to attempt state-sponsored killing by strapping a mask onto a human being’s face and forcing him to inhale nitrogen gas in a process known as nitrogen hypoxia. Two days later, Alabama will tell the world that it honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th ,just as the state regularly hypocritically boasts of its commitment to the human right of life. This gassing is a nauseating slap in the face to Holocaust victims, survivors and descendant...

Majoritarian Democracy or Minority Tyranny?

20May

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USA

Majoritarian Democracy or Minority Tyranny?

BY JAMES C. NELSON Cover art for the book Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt What is more American than that the majority rules—the principle that 50.1% carries the day when decisions affecting all of us are made. The majority wins, and the minority has to accept, even if not graciously, the decision of the greater number. That’s how decisions are made in this Country. Right? Not necessarily! In their recent book, The Tyranny of the Minority, authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt dissect the majority-rules rule, and show it to be, in many cases, more fiction than fact. Often our political system, our fundamental rights, and our democracy are held hostage and are fettered by a minority-rules rule that has been not only institu...

Belligerents or Criminals? Terrorism in a World Without Peaceful Redress

20May

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USA

Belligerents or Criminals? Terrorism in a World Without Peaceful Redress

BY JEFF HALPER Photograph Source: CCTV footage: No human authorship – Public Domain On the face of things, the issue seems fairly simple and straightforward. Terrorism is bad, even horrific. The killing or harming of innocents is morally wrong and indefensible, no matter what the circumstances. Since the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians, Israeli officials have denounced the terrorists in no uncertain terms. “We are fighting human animals,” declared Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Where do you go from there? Well, several places. If we sincere about “combatting terrorism,” then we must both understand its rationale and provide alternative avenues of redress. We must understand that terrorism often represents for oppressed peoples a strategic co...

Postscripts on ‘Israel’: October 7 Surprise?

20May

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Postscripts on ‘Israel’: October 7 Surprise?

Posted by: John Phoenix BY M. SHAHID ALAM Photograph Source: Oren Rozen – CC BY-SA 4.0 Israel claims that the attacks of October 7, 2023, were a surprise. It wants us to believe that a country with one of the world’s most powerful and sophisticated militaries and intelligence agencies had neither expected, nor prepared for these attacks. This claim is not plausible. In the past, Hamas had tried to draw attention to the incarceration of 2.3 million Gazans by firing primitive, home-made rockets into Israeli territory. These rockets caused little damage; they did however force some Israelis to shelter in their basements. Always anxious to prevent inconvenience to Israel, the US Congress decided that American tax-payers should pay for Israel’s Iron Dome, a missile...

20May

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USA

Change Is Coming Soon

BY LIZ THEOHARIS Howard Zinn at Pathfinder Book Store, Los Angeles, August 2000. (Photo: Slobodandimitrov / Wikipedia) “All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect.” That’s how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s. Zinn pointed out a truth from the Black freedom struggles of that era and earlier: that young people were often labeled aloof and apathetic, apolitical and uncommitted — until suddenly they were at the very forefront of justice struggles for themselves and for the larg...