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Ten Years Later, Snowden’s Heroism Shines Ever Brighter

16Jun

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C.I.A, USA

Ten Years Later, Snowden’s Heroism Shines Ever Brighter

BY JAMES BOVARD Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 Ten years ago this week, Edward Snowden began shocking the world with his revelations of federal surveillance crime sprees. Unfortunately, many of the media outlets that used his disclosures of confidential information have long since shunned him or joined the shameless stampede calling for his prosecution. Snowden did heroic service in awakening Americans to Washington ravishing their privacy. Snowden’s “reward” is to be banished in Russia without a snowball’s chance in hell of a fair trial if he returns to America. But as he courageously declared, “I would rather be without a state than without a voice.” He explained why he leaked classified information: “I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to ...

The USS Liberty: a Well-Planned Accident

16Jun

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

The USS Liberty: a Well-Planned Accident

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The U.S. Navy – Public Domain Today marks the 56th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, which has been described by too many U.S. and Israeli accounts as an accident. In fact, the attack took place after eight hours of aerial surveillance by Israel, and it involved a two-hour air and naval attack that killed 34 sailors and wounded an additional 172 servicemen. This marked a casualty rate of 70% in a crew of 294. The Israelis claimed that they were attacking an Egyptian ship, but the configuration of the Liberty clearly marked it as the world’s most sophisticated intelligence ship, one that could only belong to the United States. The air attack lasted nearly a half-hour as unmarked Isra...

Why There Should Be a Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones

16Jun

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USA

Why There Should Be a Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones

BY ANN WRIGHT Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons and to ban the use of landmines and cluster munitions. Of course, countries that want to continue to use these weapons will not follow the lead of the vast majority of countries in the world and sign those treaties. The United States and the other eight nuclear armed countries have refused to sign the treaty to abolish nuclear weapons. Likewise, the United States and 15 other countries, including Russia and China, have refused to sign the ban on the use cluster bombs. The United States and 31 other countries, including Russ...

16Jun

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USA

Roaming Charges: The Shame of the Game

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Still from Ingmar Bergman’s “Shame.” “The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22 + In the manufactured showdown over the debt ceiling, Biden didn’t just blink; he set a political speed record for rapid eye movement. + Cutting future spending for poor people, sick people and children in order to pay the debts rung up by tax cuts for the rich and astronomical spending by the Pentagon. This is the gist of the deal Biden brokered with Kevin McCarthy, a deal that needed the support of Democrats to push through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. In the end 165 Democrats voted for the bill and only 149 Republicans. + The deal is bad and probably only a harbinger o...

The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization

15Jun

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Media, USA

The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Ken Walton – CC BY 2.0 The Washington Post finally conceded in an editorial last week that the United States must “spend smarter” when it comes to defense. Instead of looking for ways to cut defense spending, however, the Post simply wants to spend differently. It favors more spending on conventional and nuclear-armed submarines, despite the huge U.S. advantage in both power projection and lethality in air and naval resources. The Post favors greater investment in cyber defenses and secure communications as well as in “predictive analytics” and artificial intelligence. And, of course, the Post joins the chorus of political and pundit voices warning that China “continues to c...

15Jun

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Human Rights, USA

Is Killing Blacks a Growth Industry?

BY ISHMAEL REED Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916. Photo: Crisis magazine, April 1916. A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not exist in the past. Well, lynching Black men is nothing new, except in the past, the lynchers didn’t get paid. Maybe the local economy thrived when families attended lynchings in a carnival atmosphere. Souvenirs were sold. The taverns were filled. Perhaps a piano player playing Theodore A. Metz’s “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” Photographers who snapped photos of tourists posing next to the lynched got paid. But the average lyncher in those days ...

Plutocracy Uses Technology to Clobber the Poor

15Jun

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USA

Plutocracy Uses Technology to Clobber the Poor

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 Technology wielded by oligarchic government is a nightmare. From killer police dog robots to facial recognition in public housing, it’s not just the poor who are targets, it’s everybody. But the poor and the left get smacked with it the worst. It’s open season on antifa, a season inaugurated by killer Kyle Rittenhouse shooting two Black Lives Matter protestors to death, getting off scott free and becoming the darling of far-right celebrities. As for how technology crushes the poor, just take the case of 33-year-old Tania Acabou, who found herself a victim of constant surveillance in her public housing project. Cameras bought through the department of Housing and Urban Development have been installed in public ho...

15Jun

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Literature

The Global Class War in Five Novels

BY MARK STEVEN Cover Art for the book The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Since class war first appeared in radical thought during the final decades of the eighteenth century, it has continuously evolved through an exchange of ideas between political activity and literary narrative, reframing revolutionary action through military language. My new book, Class War: A Literary History, explores this fusion of politics and literature from the Haitian Revolution through the Black Panthers. But what can be said of class war and its purchase on the literature of revolution right now, in the historical present? Ours is an era into which the story of class war is conveyed by literature, emerging from the revolutionary past into a moment defined by the death of liberal progre...

15Jun

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Russia, Ukraine

The Continuing Carnage in Ukraine

BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Mil.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0 Getting Real About Capitalism-Imperialism and Reckless US Foreign Policy* Last I looked the blood-drenched inter-imperialist carnage was continuing in Ukraine, where the war continues be the long and gory slog many figured it would be from early in Russia’s invasion. The bodies continue to pile higher. The monstrous conflict appears likely to go on for years, putting more humans in early graves, maiming and poisoning bodies and minds and the Eastern European landscape well into the future. Along the way, it remains the leading likely trigger point for a potentially terminal nuclear war and should retain that status unless/until the United States and China really mix it up over Taiwan. Last April, I w...

Gaza: A Love Story Cut Short by Nazi Aggression

15Jun

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

Gaza: A Love Story Cut Short by Nazi Aggression

A Love Story Cut Short by 'Israeli' Aggression in Gaza MAHMOUD MUSHTAHA Mohammad Sameh Saad holds a photo of his fiance Diana Adas, 21, who was killed along with her sister Eman, 17, by an Israeli bombing on their residential building in the Tofah neighborhood east of Gaza City on May 9. (PHOTO COURTESY MAHMOUD MUSHTAHA) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 36, 39 Voices from Gaza By Mahmoud Mushtaha THE HISTORY OF LOVE and war in Gaza is long and complicated. For Mohammad and Diana, the young couple from Gaza, marriage was their light at the end of the tunnel. Mohammad Sameh Saad, 19, works with his father in a sewing factory. To work toward his goal of starting a life with Diana Adas, his fiancée, he worked two jobs:...