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5Dec

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

Condemn first, ask questions never?

Condemn first, ask questions never? Israeli propaganda and the crimes the West chooses to believe Since October 7, Israel has consistently made unsubstantiated claims of atrocities committed by Hamas fighters. Uncritically repeated by the White House and western media outlets, these claims have worked to manufacture consent for Israel’s ongoing genocide in GazaDecember 06, 2023 by Tanupriya Singh President Joe Biden and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ahead of a daily press meeting. Photo: Wikimedia On December 4, Josh Paul, a former US State Department official who resigned in October in protest against Washington’s “expanded and expedited” provision of lethal arms to Israel, appeared on CNN. Host Christiane Amanpour brought up the “s...

Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees

5Dec

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Afghanistan, Pakistan & Kashmir

Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Paul Keller – CC BY 2.0 Across the globe, refugees, always treated as the pox of public policy, continue to feature in news reports describing anguish, despair and persistent persecution. If they are not facing barbed wire barriers in Europe, they are being conveyed, where possible, to third countries to be processed in lengthy fashion. Policy makers fiddle and cook the legal record to justify such measures, finding fault with instruments of international protection such as the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951. A very dramatic example of roughing up and violence is taking place against Afghans in Pakistan, a country that, despite having a lengthy association with hosting refugees, has yet to ratify the p...

History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

5Dec

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Gaza

History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Cole Keister. Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. And they can hardly be blamed. On November 3, the UN Development Programme and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced that 45 percent of Gaza’s housing units have been destroyed or damaged since the beginning of the Latest Israeli aggression on Gaza. But the history of Gaza is also a history of great civilizations, as well as a history of revival, rebirth. Shortly before the war, specifically September 23, archaeologists in Gaza announced that four Roman-era tombs had been unearthed in Gaza City. They include “two lead coffins, one delicately carved with ...

Colin Powell: Grotesque Atrocities and the New Liberal Conscience

4Dec

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USA

Colin Powell: Grotesque Atrocities and the New Liberal Conscience

BY RICHARD FALK - DANIEL FALCONE Photograph Source: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – CC BY 2.0 Colin Powell died on Monday at the age of 84. Born in New York City in 1937, he attended City College where he studied geology. Over the course of his high-ranking military and government career he formulated the Powell Doctrine and later became known for justifying the illegal Iraq War in 2003. In this interview, international relations scholar Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing: including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani. &nbs...

Protest in Iran: Historical and International Contexts

4Dec

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Iran

Protest in Iran: Historical and International Contexts

BY RICHARD FALK - DANIEL FALCONE Protests in Iran that have been taking place since September 16, 2022, as well as the Iranian response? Richard Falk: I am immediately reminded by these protests in Iran following Mahsa Amini’s arrest, detention, and death by the Iranian ‘morality police’ of the uprisings in Tunisia back in late 2010 that started after police abuses leading to the suicide of a vegetable street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, in a remote Tunisian city. The circumstances in these two instances, and nature of the abuse and the character of the regime were vastly different, but what unites these two events distant from one another in time and place is that single incidents involving a previously obscure individual sparked a massive reaction in the streets of the ...

Collective Forgetting and the Politics of the West Bank

4Dec

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Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Collective Forgetting and the Politics of the West Bank

BY RICHARD FALK - DANIEL FALCONE Daniel Falcone: With most Mideast current affairs, the reporting on human rights and the plight of Palestinians is usually geared towards a coverage of Gaza, Jerusalem, and Israel proper. Could you provide a brief history of the West Bank and the significance of this landlocked occupied territory? In your estimation, is the region overlooked in terms of the reporting and coverage? Richard Falk: You raise an important, indeed a vital question, by wondering why until quite recently the media focus on human rights issues, weak as it has been with respect to Israel overall, has mainly given attention to events involving Gaza and East Jerusalem, while backgrounding the West Bank. I think...

We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both.

4Dec

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Politics, USA

We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both.

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability, swing states and the electoral college, likely voters and poll results, and much more. Occasionally we may hear about some issues of importance. Most likely, we will hear little about the urgent need for wealth redistribution in the United States. Extreme inequality remains an invisible scourge underlying so much of what ails society and, even when discussed, is touted as an unavoidable and inevitable outcome of our economy. However, there is abundant evidence that wealth inequality is the product of intentional design and the idea that what is good for billionaires is good for society. Nothi...

Richard Falk on Kissinger’s Foreign Policy

4Dec

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USA

Richard Falk on Kissinger’s Foreign Policy

BY RICHARD FALK - DANIEL FALCONE Photograph Source: Gerald R. Ford Library – Public Domain International relations scholar Richard Falk once summarized Christopher Hitchen’s The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001). Falk reminded readers that Hitchens listed six major crimes carried out by Kissinger: 1) The deliberate mass killing of the civilian population in Indochina. 2) Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination in Bangladesh. 3) The personal suborning and planning of murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation—Chile—with which the United States was not at war. 4) Personal involvement in a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus. 5) The incitement and enabling of genocide in ...

Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”

4Dec

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Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Marsha Miller – Public Domain After the New York Times begn publishing “The Pentagon Papers” on June 13, 1971, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told President Richard M. Nixon that Daniel Ellsberg was “the most dangerous man in America and that he must be stopped at all costs.” Nixon was not inclined to seek legal action against Ellsberg and the Times, but Kissinger convinced the president to do so. Kissinger was never tarred with the crimes of Watergate, but his obsession with Ellsberg contributed to the worst aspects of Watergate. The obituaries for Kissinger in the Washington Post and the New York Times paint a dramatic picture of a dangerous man, an amoral man, who was unscrupulou...

The Gaza truce is a sign that Hamas can’t be defeated

4Dec

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

The Gaza truce is a sign that Hamas can’t be defeated

Israel has been unable to achieve any meaningful victories against the Palestinian militants Robert Inlakesh Palestinian prisoners cheer after being released in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza, on November 24, 2023 © AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP After repeatedly rejecting a truce with Hamas and labeling the idea “ridiculous”, Israel agreed to a four-day cessation of hostilities in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Six weeks of death and destruction, which Israeli and Western leaders declared should have led to the destruction of Hamas, have now bolstered the Palestinian movement's image throughout the Arab world and beyond. The four-day truce that was implemented this Friday provided a sigh of relief for those most affected by the war in the...