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Zionist Facebook’s attempt to gag Gaza’s Father Manuel Musallam is bound to fail

5Feb

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Gaza, Human Rights, Media, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist Facebook’s attempt to gag Gaza’s Father Manuel Musallam is bound to fail

“Jerusalem, instead of becoming the key to the doors of heaven, has become a key to war and blood.” By Stuart Littlewood Facebook has, without warning, suspended Father Manuel Musallam’s account. Could it be because he recently called on Christians in Jerusalem and across historic Palestine “to stand side-by-side along with Muslim brothers, defending Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israeli aggression”? Or because he said that “protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque means protecting the Church of Holy Sepulchre and the Church of Nativity, as well as the Islamic and Christian existence in Palestine”? Fr Manuel retired in 2010 at the age of 71 after serving as parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza for 14 years. For most of that time the Israelis wouldn’t allow him to visit his own ...

Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders

5Feb

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Health, USA

Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders

BY RALPH NADER Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described “democratic socialist” from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a “Pay or Die” industry coddled by Congress that provides huge tax credits, free government-developed medicines, and free, with few exceptions, unbridled power to charge what their monopoly markets can’t bear. Americans are charged the highest drug prices in the world. U.S. drug companies feed off taxpayer subsidies yet are under no reasonable price controls even for those new drugs they get free from the National Institutes of Hea...

A State for Some of Its Citizens: Captured Black Soldier’s Saga Highlights Racism in ‘Israel’

5Feb

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

A State for Some of Its Citizens: Captured Black Soldier’s Saga Highlights Racism in ‘Israel’

A State for Some of Its Citizens: Captured Black Soldier’s Saga Highlights Racism in Israel BY RAMZY BAROUD Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcoming Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit at Tel Nof after his release from Hamas captivity. Photograph Source: Israel Defense Forces – CC BY-SA 2.0 “For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?” These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014. Footage of Mengistu, looking nervous but also somewhat defiant, calling on his countrymen to end his 9-year incarceration, mostly ended speculation in Israel on whether the soldier was a...

A Costly and Prolonged Cold War Now Seems a Certainty

5Feb

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

A Costly and Prolonged Cold War Now Seems a Certainty

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photo by Kevin James Shay No one knows how the war in Ukraine will end, but there is one post-war certainty: there will be a prolonged and costly Cold War between the United States and Russia. In an interview with David Ignatius of the Washington Post, who has been doing the bidding of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency for several decades, Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized the importance of a “long-term goal of deterrence.” Ignatius took this to mean that the Biden administration will make sure that Russia “should not be able to rest, regroup and reattack.” Ignatius is joining the likes of such Cold Warriors as former secretary of state Condi Rice, former secretary of defense Bob Gates, journalists such as...

5Feb

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USA

Kill Capitalism Before It Kills Us

BY PAUL STREET Biomass plant near Boardman, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and then of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism” – Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 1994 What kind of culture is it which pushes distraction, in its ordinary selection even of news, to the point where there is hardly any sustained discussion of the central and interlocking issues of human survival? – Raymond Williams, The Year 2000, 1983 Radicals seek to go to the root of current problems, taking on the main currents beneath the melting ice brought to us by capitalist “modernity.” Liberals and progressives prefer to skate around on the liquifying surface. Take the (just-suggeste...

Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again), as Workers Die on the Job

4Feb

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USA

Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again), as Workers Die on the Job

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step that the current supreme court, composed of reactionaries who protest too much that they aren’t partisan hacks, has now taken several times. As Martin Niemoller said of the Nazis : “Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because was not a trade unionist.” Well, for those of us who support trade unionists, it’s time to speak out. Fascists know that their organic enemy is the labor movement, and their first effort wh...

Bad Faith Liberalism and the Politics of False Equivalency

4Feb

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USA

Bad Faith Liberalism and the Politics of False Equivalency

BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: woodleywonderworks – CC BY 2.0 “The past one would like to evade is very much alive.” – Theodor Adorno The Liberal Mantra of False Equivalency Right-wing violence, racial cleansing, and the repression of dissent in the United States are deeply embedded in a history that is being erased by far-right politicians such as Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, various propaganda outlets such as Fox News (the Pravda of America), and anti-public pundits such as Tucker Carlson. There is also a refusal by many liberals such as Jonathan Chait, Mark Lilla, Ross Douthat, David Urban, Scott Jennings, Andrew Sullivan, and others to work through the past in order to recognize that “the spirit of the old fascism had never been truly vanquished” and...

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate, But It Might Blow Up the World

4Feb

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USA

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate, But It Might Blow Up the World

BY JOSHUA FRANK Image by Braňo. I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public health crisis. Instead, as the New York Times and CNN alerted me that morning, at stake was a new technology that could potentially solve the worst dilemma humanity faces: climate change and the desperate overheating of our planet. Net-energy-gain fusion, a long-sought-after panacea for all that’s wrong with traditional nuclear-fission energy (read: accidents, radioactive waste), had finally been achieved at the Lawrence Livermore National Laborator...

Peru Sees Possible Transformative Change, and US Intervention

4Feb

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Peru

Peru Sees Possible Transformative Change, and US Intervention

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Mayimbú – CC BY-SA 4.0 Critics of U.S. interference in Latin America and the Caribbean may soon realize, is such is not the case now, that Peru has a compelling claim on their attention. The massive popular resistance emerging now amid political crisis looks to be sustainable into the future. Meanwhile, a reactionary political class obstinately defends its privileges, and the U.S. government is aroused. This new mobilization of Peru’s long-oppressed majority population manifested initially as the force behind left-leaning presidential candidate Pedro Castillo’s surprise second-round election victory on June 6, 2021. It exploded again following the coup that removed Castillo on December 7, 2022. The politically inexperienced Castillo...

Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders?

4Feb

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South America

Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders?

BY JOHN CAVANAGH Protestors demanding the release of the five water defenders. Credit: Association of Economic and Social Development (ADES). Human rights and environmental activists across the globe are mobilizing in support of five men detained in El Salvador on charges that appear aimed at silencing opposition to mining. The arrestees — Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega — were among the leaders of a campaign to block mining activities in El Salvador that would’ve enriched a few while endangering the nation’s water supply. In 2017, their campaign shook the rapacious global extractives industry to its core by winning the world’s first ban on metals mining. Robin Broad and I chron...