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The Priority Must be to Put Bush, Blair and Cheney Behind Bars, Before Trump
USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Priority Must be to Put Bush, Blair and Cheney Behind Bars, Before Trump

JONATHAN COOK •  There is not much to thank Dick Cheney for. But perhaps he deserves credit for one thing: illustrating how effectively our political systems can rehabilitate even the most monstrous of moral monsters. Just watch this short clip that went viral on X (formerly Twitter), in which Cheney warns against the re-election of Donald Trump. Perhaps not suprisingly, it has proven a big hit with Democratic party supporters, those who once reviled Cheney for his role in invading Iraq. In the video, speaking for Republicans Against Trump, Cheney declares: “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” https://twitter.com/i/status/1699857958555820418 That is almost certainly ...
Human rights paper: 4,000 Palestinians arrested in the West Bank since October 7
Holocaust, Human Rights, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Human rights paper: 4,000 Palestinians arrested in the West Bank since October 7

Several institutions concerned with Palestinian prisoners’ affairs confirmed in a study released on Wednesday that Nazi has arrested four thousand Palestinians in the Nazi occupied West Bank since October 7. The human rights institutions presented a “special report” in their study regarding the arrest campaigns carried out by the Nazi occupation forces (IOF) after October 7 and the accompanying crimes, as well as the situation of prisoners in Israeli prisons. The report was prepared by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, the Palestinian Prisoners Association, the Al-Dameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Wadi Hilweh Center in Jerusalem. Wholesale crimes and violationsThe report documented the overall crimes and violations committed by the ...
The New McCarthyism on US Campuses 
Human Rights, USA

The New McCarthyism on US Campuses 

BY FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In a post on the California Public Agency Labor and Employment Blog, David Urban explained in 2018 how: At a public college or university, students and employees can assert First Amendment claims against the institution if it tries to discipline or censor them for speech activities. However, students, faculty and staff at a private institution, according to Urban, “do not have that option, because the institution is not bound by the First Amendment” because private universities are not government entities. This explains why the most extreme clampdowns on vocal critics of the Israeli genocide unfolding in Gaza since Oct 8, have occurred on campuses of elite private colleges and universities, among them Harvard, Uni...
Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia Ready for a Major Shift in its Middle East Policy?
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia Ready for a Major Shift in its Middle East Policy?

BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the Middle East region on Wednesday, December 6. Some news reports referred to the trip as ‘rare’, especially since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. We know that the situation in Gaza, namely the Israeli war and the subsequent genocide, is a major objective in Putin’s visit, based on press statements from Russia’s official media. But we do not know, yet, exactly how Gaza factored in, in Putin’s one-day visit. Putin’s visit included the UAE and Saudi Arabia, two of the richest and most economically influential Arab countries, which are, like Russia, members of OPEC+ – the larger ...
Fascism 101 for Today’s Geopolitics
USA

Fascism 101 for Today’s Geopolitics

BY WALDEN BELLO Photograph Source: Peter van der Sluijs – CC BY-SA 4.0, Vox España – Public Domain Donald Trump’s electoral defeat in 2020 and Jair Bolsonaro’s loss to Lula in Brazil in 2022, along with Rodrigo Duterte’s leaving the presidency of the Philippines last year, gave some quarters hope that the far-right or fascist wave had crested globally. Two political earthquakes, taking place just in the last two weeks, have shattered this illusion. In Argentina, Javier Milei, a Trump-like, self-described anarcho-capitalist who brazenly denies that human rights abuses took place in that country during the so-called dirty war waged by the army in the late 1970s was overwhelmingly elected president. Two days later, in the elections in traditionally liberal Netherlands, the ...
Gaza: Nazi Struggle for Oil
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Gaza: Nazi Struggle for Oil

Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil BY CHARLOTTE DENNETT Aerial View of Haifa oil refineries. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed. It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and silent, holding aloft a piece of cardboard with these words scratched in black: “Jews against Genocide.” “So it has finally come to this,” I said to myself. Why, I wondered, would Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden administration risk their standing in the world and ignore calls for a ceasefire? Did they have an unspoken agenda? As  a chronicler of the endless post-9/11 wars in the Middle East, I concluded that the ...
The Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. Policy in Palestine
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, United Kingdom, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. Policy in Palestine

BY M. REZA BEHNAM Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Among the many memories I have of growing up in Tehran are of my elementary school days in Ms. Naji’s class.  On one occasion, she assigned a poem by the celebrated 13th-century Iranian poet and mystic, Saadi Shirazi.  Our class was asked to write our reflections on Saadi’s poem from his book, the Gulistan (flower land).  Little did I know then of the relevance of his poem to our world today; he wrote (in translation): Human beings are members of a whole,In creation of one essence and soul.If one member is afflicted with pain,Other members uneasy will remain.If you have no sympathy for human pain,The name of human you cannot retain. Saadi’s poem, which speaks to our common humanity, graces ...
A Resounding Rejection of Nuclearism at the UN
UN

A Resounding Rejection of Nuclearism at the UN

BY TOM UNTERRAINER The Meeting of States Parties 2 to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons declared a full-frontal rejection of ‘nuclearism’ and a challenge to the nuclear-armed world. Photo: ICAN. The non-nuclear majority met in New York between 27 November and 1 December for the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This coming together was not simply ‘non-nuclear’ but decidedly anti-nuclear in outlook and approach. The TPNW represents many things: a ‘work in progress’, a part of international law, a mechanism for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons and similar. What it represents politically, at the time of coming into force and since, is a full-frontal rejection of ‘nuclearism’ and a challenge...
What Next After the General Assembly Vote?
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

What Next After the General Assembly Vote?

BY JOHN WHITBECK The UN General Assembly has now voted on the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel/Gaza conflict which the United States vetoed in the Security Council. The result: YES: 153; NO: 10; ABSTENTIONS: 23 Joining Israel and the United States in voting “no” were Austria, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Liberia, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay. The 23 abstainers were Argentina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Romania, Slovakia, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uruguay. It is noteworthy that only two European countries voted with Israel and the United States and that only eight members of the...
Protest Against War at Last
USA

Protest Against War at Last

BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair From the perspective of a 1960s and 1970s protester, the domestic and international scenario looks worse than grim. Following the 2016 election cycle, a campaign worker for a moderately liberal Congressional candidate working from an upstate New York campaign headquarters told me after that candidate’s abysmal loss to a far right-wing Republican, “I refuse to be cynical.”  Electoral politics in the US and elsewhere most often fuels the march toward cynicism with left parties and candidates often herded to the desert of oblivion, the so-called scapegoat. Those who hang on to the chimera of electoral progress are chastened, for example, by the reversal of much of the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights acts. The...