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10Apr

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France

Macron’s Denial of Democracy

BY PHILIPPE MARLIÈRE Demonstrators on the July Column. Photograph Source: Roland Godefroy – CC BY-SA 4.0 After imposing an unpopular pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is in serious trouble. Governments make occasional faux-pas and get into trouble. But this time round, the French president has put himself in a very bad situation. The nation is deeply scarred, and the wounds will not heal easily. Why should raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 be a national drama when, in most European countries, people retire at a later age? The standard Anglo-American view is the French should ‘get with the realities of our economic world’. But the French sometimes get it right, and they probably are right about opposing Macron’s pension reform. The reform Various economist...

20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on U.S. Empire

10Apr

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Iraq, USA

20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on U.S. Empire

BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, “20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?” The piece acknowledges some harsh realities about the war, while dodging questions about its legality and the imperial motivations that fueled it. This is par for the course for the paper of record, which has a decades-long history of sidestepping damning questions about the war. To provide some context, I should say that I’ve probably done more empirical research on the ways in which we think and talk about Iraq and the “War on Terror” than any other scholar studying media, public opinion, and war (see here, here, and&nbs...

Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

10Apr

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Algeria, Italy, ZIO-NAZI

Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

BY RAMZY BAROUD - ROMANA RUBEO Photograph Source: Blitz1980 – CC BY-SA 4.0 When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv by a helicopter because anti-government protesters blocked all the roads around it. Netanyahu’s visit was not met with much enthusiasm in Italy, either. A sit-in was organized by pro-Palestine activists in downtown Rome under the slogan, ‘Non sei il benvenuto’ – ‘You Are Not Welcome’. An Italian translator, Olga Dalia Padoa, also refused to translate his speech at a Rome synagogue, which was scheduled for March 9. Even Noemi Di Segni, President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, though unsurprisingly reiterating her love and support for Is...

Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On

10Apr

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Iraq, United Kingdom, USA

Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not being an ICC member country, does not acknowledge that court’s jurisdiction. Nor, for that matter, does the United States, despite the evident chortling from US President Joe Biden. Twenty years on, former US President George W. Bush, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australia’s own John Howard, the troika most to blame for not just the criminal invasion of a foreign country but the regional and global cataclysm consequential to it, remain a...

Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem

10Apr

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USA

Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Edward A. Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment – Public Domain When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and naval facilities for war like a gambling drunk, and essentially asking its officials to commit seppuku for the Imperium, another task was given. While the ditzy and dunderheaded wonders in Canberra would be acquiring submarines with nuclear propulsion technology, there would be that rather problematic issue of what to do with the waste. “Yes,” said the obliging Australians, “we will deal with it.” The Australian Defence Department has published a fact sheet on the matter, ...

The Next Bomb to Go Off in the Banking Crisis Will Be Derivatives

10Apr

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USA

The Next Bomb to Go Off in the Banking Crisis Will Be Derivatives

BY PAM MARTENS - RUSS MARTENS Image Source: CounterPunch U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finds herself in a very dubious position. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was given increased powers to oversee financial stability in the U.S. banking system. This increase in power came in response to the 2008 financial crisis – the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. The legislation made the Treasury Secretary the Chair of the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC), whose meetings include the heads of all of the federal agencies that supervise banks and trading on Wall Street. The legislation also required the Treasury Secretary’s authorization before the Federal Reserve could create any more...

China’s Foreign Policy: Lessons for the United States

9Apr

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China

China’s Foreign Policy: Lessons for the United States

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain China’s orchestration of the renewal of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia should be a wakeup call to the Biden administration’s national security team, particularly to Antony Blinken’s Department of State. China’s success exposes flaws in American national security policy, particularly the policy of nonrecognition as well as the reliance on the use of military force to achieve gains in international politics. Our instruments of power are not working. Mao Zedong often cited a Chinese proverb from the Han Dynasty that “No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.” Deng Ziaoping cited this proverb to justify radical changes in domestic pol...

On the ICC, Putin, Naziyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion

9Apr

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Russia, USA, ZIO-NAZI

On the ICC, Putin, Naziyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion

On the ICC, Putin, Netanyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion BY JOHN WHITBECK Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 All wars, which by their nature involve killing people and destroying property and infrastructure, are brutal and ugly and give rise to hundreds of events which can be qualified as “war crimes”. The current war on the territory of Ukraine is surely no exception. In applying international law, as in applying national and domestic laws, no prosecutor can pursue and prosecute more than a miniscule percentage of potential offenses and crimes. As a practical matter, prosecutorial “discretion” as to what matters to pursue is unavoidable, and, inevitably, this discretion is often highly subjective and even “politically motivated”. As the whole world is now ...

Why China’s Actions Toward Ukraine and Russia Could Shape the Course of Future Geopolitics

9Apr

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China, Russia, Ukraine

Why China’s Actions Toward Ukraine and Russia Could Shape the Course of Future Geopolitics

BY JOHN P. RUEHL PM attends the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 16, 2022. Days before the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023, U.S. officialsclaimed that China was considering providing Russia with lethal weaponry to support its military campaign. China denied the accusations, and on the anniversary of the invasion instead put forth its 12-point peace plan to end the conflict. These events followed after tensions between Beijing and Washington flared during the Chinese spy balloon scandal that began in early February 2023. Since the war’s inception, the U.S. has cautioned China not to support Russi...

The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception

9Apr

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Health, Japan

The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception

by Bertrand R. Jordan Christopher Busby Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1627–1629, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195339 In his recent article Jordan (2016) addresses the public’s “unreasonable” fears of radiation. He claims that the lifespan study (LSS) of Japanese A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has given definitive information on the relation between exposure and genetic damage, expressed as cancer and heritable effects in offspring of those exposed. He presents the LSS as the gold standard in radiation epidemiology, and he is not alone in this (Kamiya et al. 2015). The LSS results are the basis of legal limits for exposure and are employed to dismiss evidence showing that health effects from Chernobyl (Yablokov&n...