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1Sep

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Italy, Libya

The Italy-Libya Treaty at 15: A Precedent for Colonized Nations

MUSTAFA FETOURI At the Quirinale Palace, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi hailed a “new era” in relations with Italy during his first visit to his country’s former colonial ruler on June 10, 2009. (ERIC VANDEVILLE/GAMMA-RAPHO VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2023, pp. 44-45 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri IN 2008 ITALY signed a treaty with Libya whereby it agreed to pay reparations to that country for its decades of ruthless colonial misdeeds during the first half of the 20th century. The treaty—the first of its kind between a colonial power and a former colony—offers a model for other countries to follow. THE MOVIE THAT EXPOSED ITALY’S DARK HISTORY In 1980 the Libyan government spent more than $30 milli...

The Destructive Impact of ‘Israel’s’ Artificial Intelligence Industry

1Sep

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ZIO-NAZI

The Destructive Impact of ‘Israel’s’ Artificial Intelligence Industry

JENNY JACOBY A surveillance camera is pictured at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron, on Nov. 9, 2021. (HAZEM BADER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2023, pp. 56-57 Waging Peace ISRAEL IS ON a mission to become an artificial intelligence (AI) “superpower,” retired Israeli Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said earlier this year. Already subjected to Israeli mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies, Palestinians will likely face greater risks as AI technology grows, argued panelists on the Arab Center Washington DC’s June 15 webinar, “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: The Case of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians.” Mona Shtaya, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute fo...

Amid Environmental Destruction, Qumsiyeh Sees Reason for Hope

1Sep

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Palestine Affairs

Amid Environmental Destruction, Qumsiyeh Sees Reason for Hope

IDA AUDEH Despite Zionist attacks on the people and land of Palestine, Mazin Qumsiyeh believes in a shared future between Israelis and Palestinians. (PHOTO COURTESY JAMAL NAJJAB). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2023, pp. 58-59 Waging Peace CONDITIONS IN Palestine are pretty dire these days, but Mazin Qumsiyeh—a Bethlehem University professor and founder of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability—is an optimist. As part of a 12-state tour of the United States to talk about Palestine and to raise funds for his center, Qumsiyeh addressed a group of 50 people assembled at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, VA on August 16 to discuss “Decolonization of Minds and Nature in Palestine and Globally.” A scientist...

Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires

1Sep

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Ukraine

Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires

When privatised water utility Thames Water was publicly exposed for its dire record of negligence, letting Victorian-era pipes go to rack and ruin, failing to keep up with the resultant leaks and deliberately dumping raw sewage into the region’s waterways, the initial public reaction was to focus on individual examples of mismanagement, negligence, incompetence and greed – of which there were aplenty. But scratch the surface and what has begun to emerge is the way that the company has been like a time bomb ticking away, dragging behind it a burden of unpayable loans inherited from the period when the company was owned by Australian investment bank Macquarie, from 2006 to 2017. It turns out that in the eleven years Macquarie had its fangs sunk into the water company, Thames Wate...

Film Uncovers Truth About JNF’s Tree Planting in ‘Israel’

1Sep

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Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Film Uncovers Truth About JNF’s Tree Planting in ‘Israel’

Film Uncovers Truth About JNF’s Tree Planting in Israel CATHERINE BAKER A woman overlooks the Hula Valley in northern Israel, on Nov. 22, 2022. According to Palestinian environmentalist Mazin Qumsiyeh, 219 species of plants and animals have disappeared from the valley since 1948, due to Israeli mismanagement and abuse of the land. (JALAA MAREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2023, pp. 57-58 Waging Peace THE PLANTING of more than 250 million trees in Israel since 1901 by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has been a major part of efforts to uproot the native people of Palestine and reshape their land, said Mazin Qumsiyeh during a July 16 online discussion hosted by Voices From the Holy Land. Qu...

Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

31Aug

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World

Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

For decades, Oxfam shops have been a common fixture on British high streets. Their twin-track approach of selling cheap second-hand clothes, used books, tantalising bric-a-brac and ethically-sourced products from developing countries, with the promise of charitable contributions winging their way to the wretchedly poor overseas, has appeared to be a winning formula: spending and salvation. In a single transaction, Oxfam meets the needs of the enlightened shopper worrying about conspicuous consumption – or, with the deepening economic crisis, in need of cheap clothes – while promising to address the global economic inequalities that leave faraway war-torn villages desperate for clean water. Regardless of how popular or profitable its shops have been, Oxfam is aware that the need...

31Aug

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Literature

Oppenheimer the film, a review

This film, directed and written by Christopher Nolan, currently on release and the subject of much publicity and hype, is well worth seeing on many levels. It is a fascinating story, filmed with great artistry. It is acknowledged to be based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird (2005). The authors view Oppenheimer as a tragic figure, a scientist of great stature who was brought low by a collection of people motivated by their own personal ambition, who saw Oppenheimer in the post-war years as the obstacle in their way and who accordingly took steps to remove him from his positions of influence, using whatever means came to hand. The film is essentially a biopic covering the adult life and work of the famous US scientist, J (Julius) Robert Oppenheime...

Statement of the Anti-Imperialist Platform: How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

31Aug

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Greece

Statement of the Anti-Imperialist Platform: How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

The party of the Greek revolution has objectively transformed itself into an agent of imperialism, both nationally and internationally (1). On the basis of a Marxist analysis of the rapidly escalating imperialist war drive, anti-imperialists of the communist movement came together last year to form the World Anti-imperialist Platform. This was done in order to apply our energies to what has been identified as the most pressing priority facing our movement at this moment: to rally the widest possible forces in support of the struggle against the US-led imperialist bloc – a struggle which has the potential to unleash the next, decisive wave of socialist revolutions if correctly approached. Launched in Paris last year, the Platform’s founding statement outlines the tasks that w...

How the USA practises so-called ‘coercive diplomacy’ – a new name for an old imperialist game

31Aug

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USA

How the USA practises so-called ‘coercive diplomacy’ – a new name for an old imperialist game

We sum up below the evidence presented in a report by our comrades in the Communist Party of China, to which a few of comments of our own have been added. ***** Diplomacy is the art, science and means by which nations, groups or individuals conduct their affairs, in ways to safeguard their interests and promote their political, economic, cultural or scientific relations. It’s the practice of building and maintaining relationships and conducting negotiations with people using tact and mutual respect. Or so online definitions would have us believe. But at an international level, when you’re an imperialist power, the art of ‘diplomacy’ takes on a very different aspect. In the words of US president Theodore Roosevelt back in 1901, diplomacy is “speaking softly and carrying a big...

31Aug

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United Kingdom

Deindustrialisation kills

A recent article in the Cambridge Journal of Economics entitled ‘Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis’ once again draws attention to the catastrophic effect on the working-class people of the countries of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe of the overthrow of communism. The word ‘katastroika’ has been coined to describe this disaster. It is estimated that it caused upwards of 700,000 premature deaths during the 1990s. The authors point out: “Male life expectancy in Russia declined by seven years between 1988 and 1995. …[After the end of the Second World War] … with … the [delayed] consequences of wartime malnutrition and injuries, the mortality rate was only nine to ten per 1,000, compared with 14–16 in 1994. Hungary also suff...