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The American Psychological Association Takes Another Step—Backward
19Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

The American Psychological Association Takes Another Step—Backward

BY ROY EIDELSON Photo by Bret Kavanaugh Having witnessed first-hand a crucial vote by the American Psychological Association’s governing Council of Representatives earlier this month in Washington, DC, I couldn’t decide whether to begin this commentary with a quote from Lewis Carroll or George Orwell. So here are both. Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass includes this memorable exchange between Humpty Dumpty and Alice: Humpty Dumpty (scornfully): “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Alice: “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” Humpty Dumpty: “The question is which is to be master—that’s all.” And in Politics and the English Language, Orwell wrote, “The gre...
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Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
19Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Cuba, USA

Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 At a meeting in Havana on August 11 attended by government ministers and the press, Cuban National Assembly President Esteban Lazo communicated a message to Cuba’s Minister of Agriculture from the Assembly, whose recent session ended on July 22. The ministry would be “transforming and strengthening the country’s agricultural production,” to initiate “a political and participatory movement that would unleash a productive revolution in the agricultural sector.” The National Assembly dealt primarily with Cuba’s present food disaster. The lives of many Cubans are precarious due to food shortages, high prices, and low income. Information emerging from the Assembly’s deliberations attests to the reality of crisis...
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The Rise of Private Cops: How Not to Tackle Homelessness
19Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

The Rise of Private Cops: How Not to Tackle Homelessness

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from the sidewalk. Three white women looked on at the interaction that took place in the trendy Nob Hill neighborhood on August 7, 2023, right in front of a yoga studio. But the guard was not responding with compassion. Seconds earlier, the tall and very muscular man sporting a flak jacket emblazoned with the word “security,” had walked right by me toward the unhoused man and savagely knocked him to the ground without provocation or warning. Blood streamed from the victim’s face and onto the sidewalk. He stood up as the guard hovered over him and stumbled toward the damaged glasses that had fallen off his fa...
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Develop an Exit Strategy for the Endless War in Ukraine
19Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Develop an Exit Strategy for the Endless War in Ukraine

BY RALPH NADER Image by Alex Fedorenko. Russia’s criminal war in Ukraine intensifies as it grinds on, World War I style with heavy casualties on both sides. While President Joe Biden keeps repeating that NATO, mostly meaning the U.S., will expand military support for Ukraine “as long as it takes.” “As long as it takes,” is not a policy, it is deadly procrastination without any exit strategy. Of course, Biden, who voted for Bush’s criminal war in Iraq as a Senator in 2003, along with hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, is experienced in “as long as it takes.” That invasion and occupation took over one million Iraqi lives, even more injuries and sicknesses and plunged Iraq into destructive chaos that persists to this day. “As long as it takes” for a million Ukrai...
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The Military Junta in Burkina Faso
19Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa

The Military Junta in Burkina Faso

BY MALICK DOUCOURÉ Ibrahim Traore, shortly after the military coup in September, 2022. Youtube screengrab. West Africa has, in recent years, seen a flurry of coup d’états spanning across the Sahel and extending into the tropical shores of Guinea. France, the former colonial power for these nations, has been caught on the backfoot again and again – French President Emmanuel Macron was reportedly “furious” with French intelligence services for not predicting the Niger Coup. The anti-Western sentiments accompanying these events, alongside the encroachment of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) throughout the African continent, remain a significant topic of discussion as the world reacts to the reshaping of the West African geopolit...
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Oppenheimer, the New York Times and the Cold Wars
18Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Russia, USA

Oppenheimer, the New York Times and the Cold Wars

BY GERALD SUSSMAN Photograph Source: conceptphoto.info – CC BY 2.0 Oppenheimer is an impressive, well-produced biopic based on a critical book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus. It tells the story of one of the iconic scientists in American history, who led the project to develop and ultimately deploy the atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer was the son of German-born Jewish parents and raised in the affluent upper west side in Manhattan where works of European art adorned their apartment walls. In the 1930s and ‘40s, he was not only anguished by what the German Nazis were doing to Jews in his parents’ homeland, but also the threats to physicists, many of whom happened to be Jewish. Hence his initial willingness to develop the bomb before the physi...
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The Maui Inferno in Historical Perspective
18Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Environment

The Maui Inferno in Historical Perspective

BY GARY LEUPP Lahaina, after the fire. Youtube screen grab. It’s a damn tough life full of toil and strifeWe whalermen undergo.And we don’t give a damn when the day is done/gale has stoppedHow hard the winds did blow.’cause we’re homeward bound from the Arctic groundWith a good ship, taut and freeAnd we won’t give a damn when we drink our rumWith the girls of Old Maui. (Chorus) Rolling down to Old Maui, me boysRolling down to Old MauiWe’re homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Maui. This sea song (not technically a “shanty”) was sung from at least the 1850s, by mariners en route from “six hellish months” in the whaling grounds of “the cold Kamchatka Sea,” driven by “a northerly gale,” towards their “island home” in Old Maui. The Maui “girls” ref...
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A Growing Nuclear Threat Requires a Diplomatic Solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War
18Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Russia, Ukraine, USA

A Growing Nuclear Threat Requires a Diplomatic Solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War

BY MICHAEL SLAGER Photograph Source: Neil H – CC BY 2.0 Many years after Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the physical symbols of the country’s decades-long membership in the Soviet Union were still visible: in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, a massive statue of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, dominated the city’s main square. He was cast with a confident forward stride, showing the way to the Kharkiv Regional Administration building located just opposite him. Farther away in a residential neighborhood, a modest concrete statue of a seated Lenin reading a book occupied a quiet corner of a school’s playground. Having lived and studied in Kharkiv in the 1990s, I knew the city well and was sickened to see images of that school and the administrati...
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The Clock is Ticking: What Awaits the U.S. After the 2024 Election?
18Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

The Clock is Ticking: What Awaits the U.S. After the 2024 Election?

BY DAVID ROSEN November 5, 2024, is the scheduled date for the next presidential election.  Of course, it’s too early to predict who will win, but it can be useful to speculate. Given where things stand today and no disruptive developments occur, Joe Biden will run for reelection on the Democratic Party ticket and Donald Trump will attempt to seek a second term asthe Republican candidate.  One likely outcome is that Biden wins the election with a large margin and Trump suffers a very disappointing defeat. Like in 2021, individual state election outcomes are awarded to “electors” whose votes are aggregated by the Electoral College and the candidate with 270 electoral votes is the winner.  In 2025, the Electoral College outcomes will be sent to the Congress who w...
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Rosa Jimenez Was Exonerated of a Crime That Did Not Occur: Others Are Still Fighting
18Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Human Rights, USA

Rosa Jimenez Was Exonerated of a Crime That Did Not Occur: Others Are Still Fighting

BY ELIZABETH WEILL-GREENBERG Rosa Jimenez in downtown Austin, Texas, on March 4, 2021. Photograph Source: The Innocence Project This story was originally published by The Appeal. Rosa Jimenez is one of more than 1,300 people who have been exonerated of crimes that never occurred. Countless others remain incarcerated, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence. On Monday, a Texas judge dismissed all charges against Rosa Jimenez, a mother of two who was wrongly convicted of killing a child in her care more than two decades ago. In January 2003, when Jimenez was 20 years old and seven months pregnant, she was babysitting a 21-month-old boy while watching her one-year-old daughter. The boy began to have trouble breathing, and she went to a neighbor...
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