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Speech to the United Nations Relief Works Agency’s Human Rights Graduation in Gaza

10Mar

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Gaza, Human Rights, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Speech to the United Nations Relief Works Agency’s Human Rights Graduation in Gaza

By Jimmy Carter DIRECTOR of UNRWA operations John Ging, thank you for inviting me to Gaza. Distinguished guests, children of Gaza, I am grateful for your warm reception. I first visited Gaza 36 years ago and returned during the 1980s and later for the very successful Palestinian elections. Although under occupation, this community was relatively peaceful and prosperous. Now, the aftermath of bombs, missiles, tanks, bulldozers and the continuing economic siege have brought death, destruction, pain, and suffering to the people here. Tragically, the international community largely ignores the cries for help, while the citizens of Gaza are being treated more like animals than human beings. Last week, a group of Israelis and Americans tried to cross into Gaza through Erez, bringin...

10Mar

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ZIO-NAZI

The Coup in ‘Israel’

The Coup in Israel BY MEL GURTOV Israel has always been touted as America’s most reliable friend in the Middle East, a bastion of democracy in a region dominated by autocracies. Now that picture is fraying as the far-right coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes power. Beholden to the bloc called Religious Zionism, Netanyahu is pursuing a far-right agenda on two fronts: further chipping away at the Palestinians’ fundamental rights of citizenship and property, and pushing for so-called judicial reform. Let’s look more closely at the latter issue, the most dangerous threat today to Israel as a democracy. Judicial Dismemberment Arguing that Israel’s Supreme Court is “the most activist court on the planet,” Netanyahu is targeting the judiciary in a way that pro...

The Nemesis of the Bomb in the Hanford Nuclear Wasteland

10Mar

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Environment

The Nemesis of the Bomb in the Hanford Nuclear Wasteland

BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS The “Trinity” atomic bomb exploding in Trinity, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. US Department of Energy. Public Domain The Bomb The PBS documentary on the history of atomic and nuclear weapons, The bomb, is unforgettable. It brings to light the megalomania for absolute power. We learn that from the “accidental” splitting of the nucleus of the Uranium atom in the late 1930s by German chemists, and the armies of physicists pursuing atomic fission for the development of a powerful bomb, we ended with the real McCoy. This was the atomic bomb “Trinity” the Americans dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, incinerating the Japanese by the tens of thousands and smashing the cities into dust – in 1945. The PBS documentary concluded that “The Bomb” “started as a...

When Seymour Hersh Strained to Keep Up With CounterPunch

10Mar

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Media, USA

When Seymour Hersh Strained to Keep Up With CounterPunch

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN Photograph Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy – CC BY-SA 2.0 Late last week (June 29, 2008) the New Yorker released a 6,000 word story by Seymour Hersh under the vague title, “Preparing the Battlefield”. The lead paragraph ran as follows: “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups a...

START or Stop: Do Nuclear Weapons Treaties Matter?

10Mar

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USA

START or Stop: Do Nuclear Weapons Treaties Matter?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER One nuclear bomb can destroy a city and kill most of its people. (Photo: US Air Force/Wikimedia Commons) After writing an initial quick reaction piece about Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to suspend his country’s participation in the New START Treaty, there has been time for some logic to set in. In other words, I have thought more about this and something doesn’t add up. What doesn’t make sense is the inherent contradiction of, on the one hand, condemning Putin’s decision to step back from the last treaty that limits the US and Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenals, but on the other, espousing a conviction that there can never be few enough nuclear weapons unless that number is zero. Why does it matter, then, whether the two nucle...

A National Divorce? Separating the Red and Blue

10Mar

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USA

A National Divorce? Separating the Red and Blue

BY PATRICK MAZZA Photograph Source: Tiffany Von Arnim from Seattle – CC BY 2.0 When Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted, “We need a national divorce,” she set off a furor. “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this,” the Georgia congressional representative said. Subsequent tweets clarified she was not calling for a new civil war or creation of two separate nations, but a radical devolution of federal power that would leave states in control of domestic policy and retain a common national defense. While her statements might seem extreme, they represent a substantial element of the political right that even has reflections on the left. The sense we no longer have much in common as a country, but a...

Lawfare in Latin America: the case of Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner

9Mar

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Argentina

Lawfare in Latin America: the case of Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner

Corruption of a nominally-independent country’s justice system is a major tool in the arsenal of imperialist control. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel In order to control Latin America’s abundant resources, US imperialism needs corrupt politicians ready to serve its interests. The removal of progressive leaders from the political arena via ‘lawfare’ is one of its tried and tested methods, but the case of Brazil’s Lula shows clearly that the people will always have the last word. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1468096018%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-ikjZJtZaCIu&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Ten days after the murder attempt against Argentinean vice-president C...

Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

9Mar

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USA

Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

The spectre of communism haunts the US Congress 175 years later. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel If Marxism is truly dead, why do our rulers feel the need to keep on trying to kill it? The following article is reproduced from the Marx Engels Institute, with thanks. ***** “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police-spies. “Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced oppositi...

Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

9Mar

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USA

Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

A broad coalition of those who really want to stop the US war machine faces silence from the media and insults from the ‘left’. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Information about the ‘Rage against the war machine’ demonstration was systematically suppressed by US mainstream and social media platforms before, during and after the event. The nineteenth of February witnessed a massive antiwar demonstration in Washington, right in the belly of the imperialist beast. Thousands gathered to “rage against the war machine”, sweeping aside labels of ‘left’ and ‘right’ to express their raw anger at a system which simultaneously conducts wars of oppression against the poor abroad and austerity at home. Unlike other self-identifying (and s...

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

9Mar

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Europe, Iraq, Middle East, USA

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now? Joti Brar Subscribe to our channel The biggest demonstration ever seen in the streets of Britain palpably failed to achieve its declared aim, or anything approaching it. The question no one seems to be asking is: why? https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1468827586%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-4vPBgmRt2bj&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war 20 years ago today was not a success of the antiwar movement, but a symptom of its rottenness and failure. That demonstration’s total impotence was a clear sign ...