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Lee, Pocan Revive Bill to Cut Military Budget by $100 Billion

16Mar

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USA

Lee, Pocan Revive Bill to Cut Military Budget by $100 Billion

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) speaks at the House Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on February 27, 2020. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images). "It could power every household in the U.S. with solar energy; hire 1 million elementary school teachers amid a worsening teacher shortage; provide free tuition for 2 out of 3 public college students; or cover medical care for 7 million veterans." JESSICA CORBETT www.commondreams.org U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan on Wednesday reintroduced their People Over Pentagon Act, which would slash $100 billion from the nation's military budget and reallocate that money to urgent needs, from investments in education and healthcare...

‘Watering Down’ the Reality of Life Under Nazi Apartheid Is a Crime

16Mar

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

‘Watering Down’ the Reality of Life Under Nazi Apartheid Is a Crime

'Watering Down' the Reality of Life Under Israeli Apartheid Is a Crime A view over the village of Hawara after settlers riot and set houses and cars on fire in the village of Hawara on February 27, 2023 in Hawara, Palestine. Few hours after the death of two settlers in Hawara, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, a group of settlers attacked and rioted the town and set vehicles, trees and houses on fire. Ahistorical and impractical because half-truths, or watered-down truths, never lead to justice and never affect a lasting change. RAMZY BAROUD On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediatel...

False hopes and broken promises litter the ground behind the UN Statement on Palestine

16Mar

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Palestine Affairs, UN

False hopes and broken promises litter the ground behind the UN Statement on Palestine

Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour at the UN in New York City on 24 July 2018 [Drew Angerer/Getty Images] Dr Ramzy Baroud Rarely does the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN make an official comment expressing happiness over any official proceedings concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Ambassador Riyad Mansour, though, is "very happy that there was a very strong united message from the Security Council against the illegal, unilateral measure" undertaken by the Israeli government. The "measure" in question is a decision, on 12 February, by the far-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to construct 10,000 new housing units in nine illegal Jewish settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Predicta...

The Ukraine war: What happens afterwards (if we’re all still here)?

16Mar

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Ukraine, USA

The Ukraine war: What happens afterwards (if we’re all still here)?

Stuart Littlewood writes: The West has made known its intention to prolong the war and pile on the agony through their proxy, Ukraine, until Russia is defeated and humiliated. That has been the aim behind NATO’s huge investment of money and effort over the last decade: to bring about regime change, then train and equip Ukrainian troops for battle. Yes, war is a wonderful thing and thanks to this carefully created Ukraine ‘opportunity’ the arms industry is enjoying a bonanza. Britain’s largest engineering company, BAE Systems, has an order backlog of £59 billions as demand for its weapons, ammunition and military equipment soar in the rush by countries to bolster their defences. And think how brilliantly the American military-industrial complex is doing – that’s what really ...

Urgent – Help get anti-Zionist Rabbi Weiss into the UK: Don’t let the Zionist terror networks get away with bullying and blackmail

16Mar

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United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

Urgent – Help get anti-Zionist Rabbi Weiss into the UK: Don’t let the Zionist terror networks get away with bullying and blackmail

Dear Redress Information & Analysis readers, The Zionist lobby group, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), has called upon Home Secretary Suella Braverman to exclude Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss from the UK. It wants to prevent him from speaking at the “Muslim and Jew: Beyond Israel” tour, due to begin on 24 April, where he would accompany author and broadcaster Dr Azzam Tamimi visiting 15 cities around the UK. He is scheduled to explain why many Orthodox Jews don’t recognise Israel and what should stand in its place. One state, a Palestine for all its peoples, Muslims, Christians and Jews? UKLFI is notorious for getting textbooks rewritten, people fired or exhibitions closed for having the temerity to support Palestinian voices – it recently forced a London ho...

Nazi illegal occupation: When ‘de-escalate’ means ‘ramp up’

15Mar

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

Nazi illegal occupation: When ‘de-escalate’ means ‘ramp up’

Israel’s illegal occupation: When ‘de-escalate’ means ‘ramp up’ – and ‘good faith, mutual trust’ mean ‘knife in the back’ By Stuart Littlewood Here’s a classic example of the false and self-deluding nonsense that passes for peace efforts in the Holy Land. On 26 February Jordan hosted a meeting at Aqaba between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The meeting was called to de-escalate the sharp increase in violence in the occupied Palestinian territories. Afterwards the Jordanian foreign ministry published an Aqaba Joint Communique in which Israel and the PNA “confirmed their joint readiness and commitment to immediately work to end unilateral measures for a period of three to six months”. This included an Israeli commitment to cease an...

15Mar

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China, USA

US arrests Chinese billionaire

Guo Wengui is suspected of scamming thousands of individuals out of $1 billion through investment schemes FILE PHOTO: Guo Wengui in 2018. © DON EMMERT / AFP The US government has charged fugitive Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with conspiracy to defraud investors. The tycoon allegedly scammed hundreds of thousands of online followers by luring them with his anti-Beijing rhetoric into investing money in his businesses, US officials say. The indictments against the entrepreneur and business partner Kin Ming Je were unsealed on Wednesday. He was identified in legal papers under the name Ho Wan Kwok and five aliases, including ‘Brother Seven’, ‘The Principal’, but is best-known as Guo Wengui. Both men were charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, ba...

15Mar

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USA

Dow drops as banking stocks sink

US markets were down on Friday, to end the worst week for the sector in over a decade © Getty Images / Jon Hicks Bank stocks led US markets lower on Friday as investors' concerns over the health of the financial sector continued to grow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down over 400 points, or 1.3%, as of 16:10 GMT. The S&P 500 fell 1.15%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 0.9%. The slide was driven by financials, with First Republic Bank stock nosediving 20% in early trading after the bank suspended its dividend payout and analysts announced that it was facing a “dire” outlook. On Thursday, big US banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, threw a $30 billion lifeline to the troubled regional lender. The banking sector’...

China dumping American debt – US Treasury data

15Mar

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China, USA

China dumping American debt – US Treasury data

Beijing’s holdings of securities have dropped to their lowest since May 2009 © Getty Images / PM Images China has continued to slash its holdings of US treasury securities amid the growing threat of economic sanctions from Washington, according to data released by the US Treasury on Wednesday. The figures show that Beijing's holdings slid to $859.4 billion in January from $867.1 billion in December. The decline in January was more than double the $3.1 billion cut the month before, though less than the $7.8 billion reduction in November. China is the second largest foreign holder of US government debt but has reduced its holdings for six consecutive months, with the figure dropping below the symbolic $1 trillion mark in April 2022. The decrease c...

After Brutal Assault, Yanis Varoufakis Urges Progressives to Focus on ‘What Really Matters’

15Mar

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Greece

After Brutal Assault, Yanis Varoufakis Urges Progressives to Focus on ‘What Really Matters’

Former Greek Finance Minister and MeRA25 party leader Yanis Varoufakis speaks to the media in Athens on March 14, 2023. (Photo: Dimitris Kapantais/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images) "I will recover," the Greek leftist said. "But those 57 from the train accident in Tempi won't, and their families' pain cannot be treated." BRETT WILKINS Recovering from a brutal assault that left him with a broken nose and cheekbone, leftist Greek lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis on Tuesday urged progressives "not get distracted" from the railway accident that killed 57 people last month or the neoliberal "privatize everything doctrine" he blames for the disaster. Appearing on ANT1's "Kallimera Ellada" (Good Morning, Greece) on Tuesday, Varoufakis—the parliamentary leader of the left-wing MeRA25 pa...