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20Feb

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Flooded with Corruption: Pakistan’s Relief Effort

HASAN AGA A disheveled man stands in front of what used to be his home. (PHOTO BY HASAN AGA) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 44-46 Special Report By Hasan Aga AS THE MONSOON clouds congregated over Pakistan, people barely batted an eyelid. A country born out of conflict has grown accustomed to being tested in various ways and often without warning. Pakistanis are enduring a plummeting economy, skyrocketing inflation and serious political upheaval with the popular Prime Minister Imran Khan having been ousted in a controversial move in April 2022. So when the skies turned grey and the clouds rained down mercilessly, the Pakistanis just took it in stride. But as the days went by and the rain failed to relent, the wate...

19Feb

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Libya

Killed By NATO, Betrayed by Their Government: Libyan Survivors Look for Answers

MUSTAFA FETOURI A photo taken in April 2014, as the author, Mustafa Fetouri, inspected the Al-Gharai family’s home, east of Tripoli, hit by NATO in 2011. (PHOTO COURTESY M. FETOURI) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 36-37, 72 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri WHEN THE SO-CALLED “Arab Spring” reached Libya in February 2011, it turned into a civil war. The world witnessed massive protests of citizens demanding freedom in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but foreign military intervention played a critical and divisive role in Libya’s bloody spring. How did the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) get involved in what should have been an internal issue? Accusing Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi government of using heavy weapons to ...

Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

19Feb

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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...

19Feb

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Lebanon

A Sobering Visit to Beirut

CAT ESSOYANJORDAN-LEBANON-SYRIAPOSTED ON JANUARY 13, 2023 An old house on the corniche overlooking the sea. 1111111111 Votes 4.00 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 40-42 Special Report Photos and Article By Cat Essoyan I VISITED LEBANON in early November 2022 in my capacity as a board member for the UK and Belgium boards of the Near East Foundation. It was a sobering time to be in a place to which I still feel deeply attached. I stayed in the famed Hamra area, known for its shops and nightlife, but it had a beaten down, tired air to it, lacking the positive energy it exuded on previous visits. Instead, I saw lines of people waiting outside banks and encountered beggars on the streets. There were big trucks delive...

Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address: A Marxist Response

19Feb

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USA

Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address: A Marxist Response

BY PAUL STREET I have been told by liberals and progressives that the nation’s leading strikebreaker Joe Biden “knocked it out of the park” with his State of the Union Address last night. It was “Joe’s FDR moment,” marked by populist attacks on the under-taxed super-rich, a defense of Social Security and Medicare, a call-out of the Republicans for their abjectly partisan debt-ceiling hypocrisy, a call for police reform, and more to pull at the heart strings of decent people who still believe in democracy and the common good. I assume that the Republi-fascists are calling the speech socialist and “radical Left,” “Marxist” and the like. Of course they are. That’s one of the many terrible things fascists do: tar liberals and centrists with the supposed evil of socialism...

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

19Feb

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Russia, USA

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now By: Seymour Hersh The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road. The center has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldw...

The Once ‘Unbreakable’ U.S.-‘Israel’ Bond Is Under Strain

19Feb

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Once ‘Unbreakable’ U.S.-‘Israel’ Bond Is Under Strain

BY YASMEEN SERHAN When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken touched down in Tel Aviv on Monday, he arrived to a dangerous escalation of violence following days of tit-for-tat bloodshed in Israel and the occupied West Bank. Between Thursday’s deadly Israeli army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin and a shooting attack near an East Jerusalem synagogue on Friday, more than a dozen people have been killed. Analysts and observers fear that the situation, if not calmed, will only get worse. But the rise in violence is hardly the only matter on Blinken’s agenda. The Biden administration has grown increasingly concerned over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to limit the power of the judiciary and Israel’s expanding settlements in occupied Pal...

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

19Feb

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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. Ten days after the murder attempt against Argentinean vice-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK), the Clarin newspaper, owned by the country’s largest media conglomerate, wrote an article headlined: ‘Cristina, entre la bala que no salió y el...

Yemen v Ukraine: What makes a war newsworthy?

19Feb

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Ukraine, Yemen

Yemen v Ukraine: What makes a war newsworthy?

Posted by: John Phoenix Why are the crocodile tears of our leaders and their presstitutes reserved for some victims of war and denied to others? Proletarian writers The victims of the Yemen war number many millions and their condition is appalling, yet their plight is largely ignored by western news media, as is the criminality of the war being waged against them and the ultimate culpability of US and British imperialism for their suffering. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1274910112&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true With the Saudi/UAE war of aggression against Yemen now having reached its seventh year, it has been revealed that the Saudi/UAE coalition air force has dropp...

Even suspended sanctions cause suffering for Syrian earthquake victims

19Feb

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Human Rights, Syria, USA

Even suspended sanctions cause suffering for Syrian earthquake victims

After years of a US-led economic blockade, a short humanitarian break is not enough Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump's Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. @falasteen47 A Syrian man cries as he sits on the rubble of a collapsed building in the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 7, 2023, following a deadly quake. © AAREF WATAD / AFP The effects of the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake which hit both Türkiye and Syria earlier this month, are being compounded by US sanctions. But despite a temporary relaxation of restrictions on th...