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A Socialist Survival Tactic: Cuba’s Worker Parliaments

13Mar

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Cuba

A Socialist Survival Tactic: Cuba’s Worker Parliaments

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Keith Ruffles – CC BY 3.0 Defending itself from the extremely hostile bully to the north is old hat and a constant activity for Cuba. This was especially so, after the collapse of the USSR and European socialism roughly 35 years ago nearly crushed Cuba, which immediately lost its chief trading partners, while the U.S. blockade strangled it. Forced to turn inward, Cuba strove to improve its productivity and workforce, without damaging the twin foundations of the revolution, education and health care. That it did so, that this small, besieged nation turned a dangerous even deadly situation around, happened thanks to the efforts of committed revolutionaries like Pedro Ross, who helped found the workers’ parliaments – specifically to save the...

On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine

13Mar

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

On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine

BY RAMZY BAROUD Photo by Jakob Rubner Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Indeed, the Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour 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’ is a specific reference to a decision, on February 12, 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. Expectedly, Netanyahu was angered by the supposedly ‘very strong united messag...

DeSantis’s Educational Policies Come Right Out of the Fascist Playbook

13Mar

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USA

DeSantis’s Educational Policies Come Right Out of the Fascist Playbook

BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-5592-14A – CC BY-SA 3.0 DE “Whoever has the youth has the future.” –Hitler in Mein Kampf Fascism in its different forms has always thrived on attacking teachers, schools, critical ideas, democratic values, and allegedly unpatriotic groups while stifling dissent in the alleged name of freedom. Ron DeSantis is a religious, political, and ideological demagogue whose view of power is as ruthless as it is opportunistic. He views academic freedom and freedom of speech as liabilities to be stamped out, not unlike what happened in Nazi Germany. He has weaponized the government to punish industries such as Disney who challenged his “don’t say gay” bill. The dangerous nature of this precedent should be clear, part...

13Mar

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

BY JOSHUA FRANK Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine. The Nuclear “War” We Get in Ukraine May Not Be the One We Expect In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks. Even prior to Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, the threat of a nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia was intensifying. After all, in August 2019, President Donald Trump formally withdrew the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, long heralded as a pillar of arms control between the two superpowers. “Russia i...

Why there aren’t two sides to the Huwara pogrom

13Mar

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

Why there aren’t two sides to the Huwara pogrom

By: Haggai Matar On Sunday morning, a Palestinian man shot dead two Israeli settlers — the young brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv — as they drove through the Palestinian town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank. Later that day, hundreds of settlers went on an hours-long rampage through Huwara and several neighboring villages, burning dozens of cars and houses (some with people inside), throwing stones at ambulances, wounding Palestinians, and killing livestock. One Palestinian man, Sameh Aqtash, was shot dead, either by settlers or by soldiers who protected them.The attack on Huwara, which many are calling a pogrom, has generated a public outcry in Israel against the settlers who committed it. Thousands took to the streets in several cities on Monday night to protest against the occ...

Nazi Gestapo kills 11 Palestinians in daytime raid on Nablus

13Mar

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

Nazi Gestapo kills 11 Palestinians in daytime raid on Nablus

Israel kills 11 Palestinians in daytime raid on Nablus CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Palestinians mourn during a funeral for 10 people killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on 22 February 2023 (photo) Israeli forces targeted three Palestinian resistance activists in a massive assault in downtown Nablus, but managed to kill at least eight others as well, including a youth. Over 100 Palestinians were injured, many by live ammunition, others by an Israeli army jeep that rammed into a crowd. Israeli soldiers also blocked paramedics and damaged ambulances. A military correspondent for Israeli TV reported that Israeli forces had used the “pressure cooker” procedure… by Maureen Clare Murphy, reposted from Electronic Intifada, February 2...

Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While Supporting Apartheid

12Mar

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Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While Supporting Apartheid

WALTER L. HIXSON (L) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks onstage during the 37th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 16, 2023 in Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn Academy of Music). (ROY ROCHLIN/GETTY IMAGES FOR BAM); (R) U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 22-23 History’s Shadows By Walter L. Hixson THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. federal holiday presents an annual opportunity to celebrate the greatest champion of individual liberty and justice for all in American history. This past January, as always, through written and spoken wo...

Can a Conservative Movement for Palestine Emerge?

12Mar

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Palestine Affairs

Can a Conservative Movement for Palestine Emerge?

DALE SPRUSANSKY Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) moves through Statuary Hall after talking to reporters about switching his support for Speaker of the House to Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during the fourth day of elections at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan.6, 2023 in Washington, DC. He has called for a debate on U.S. aid to Ukraine. (TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 29-30 Special Report By Dale Sprusansky THE DRAMA SURROUNDING Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) election as Speaker of the House showcased the many ways the conservative movement has evolved (or fractured) over the past decade. While conservative rabble-rousers in Congress, many of them members of the far-right Freedom Caucus, largely cited...

Palestine is My Cause: Arabs Reaffirm Support For Palestinians, Rejection of the Occupation

12Mar

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Middle East, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Palestine is My Cause: Arabs Reaffirm Support For Palestinians, Rejection of the Occupation

DR. RAMZY BAROUD Palestinians inspect a burnt car next to their home on Jan. 30, 2023, after it was set on fire by Jewish settlers, in the village of Jalud, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers burned two cars belonging to a Palestinian family, assaulted them, threw stones at their house and destroyed their property. (NASSER ISHTAYEH/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 20-21 From the Diaspora By Dr. Ramzy Baroud THE LATEST ARAB OPINION INDEX 2022 (Arab Opinion Index) is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. ...

Nazi’s Far-Right Government Alienates Even American Zionists

12Mar

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi’s Far-Right Government Alienates Even American Zionists

Israel’s Far-Right Government Alienates Even American Zionists ALLAN C. BROWNFELD Will the signs and Israeli flags posted on some synagogues across the country begin to change? (STAFF PHOTO) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 15-17 Israel and Judaism By Allan C. Brownfeld ISRAEL’S FAR-RIGHT GOVERNMENT has made its goals clear. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Dec. 30, 2022: “These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel—in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria.” The government includes ...