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Black Robes: White Straight Christian Male Justice

12Dec

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USA

Black Robes: White Straight Christian Male Justice

BY STANLEY L. COHEN The Sum of All Memories With Which We Were Born by Joni Sarah White. It has been barely six months since the Supreme Court of the United States ordered women to return to their original intended role as mere dutiful chattel to cook and clean and to be subservient to the demands and “needs” of largely white Christian men under the controlling watch of the politics of a given state. Not satisfied with smashing the clock of gender equality, the Supreme Court, state legislatures, and persons of dark voice and determined malevolent agenda, have moved on in a palpable effort to bully and batter communities that do not reflect their color, faith, sexual identity or voice. Domestically, we live in times of all-too convenient self-righteous indignation. With nearly...

New Portland Police Oversight Board, Could be Strongest in the Nation and Create a National Model

11Dec

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Human Rights, USA

New Portland Police Oversight Board, Could be Strongest in the Nation and Create a National Model

BY PATRICK MAZZA Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In the Black Lives Matter uprising of summer 2020, no city was more nationally prominent than Portland. Nightly protests drew thousands to the blocks around police headquarters, city hall and the federal courthouse. Donald Trump called Portland “a beehive of anarchists” and dispatched federal troops to the city, only fueling protest numbers. Attorney General Bill Barr designated Portland, along with Seattle and New York, as “anarchist jurisdictions.” Through the protests, Portland police engaged protesters with batons, rubber bullets, other impact weapons and tear gas. Over 6,000 excessive force complaints were filed with the city. The visible brutality against largely peaceful demonstrators inflamed public opinion against th...

Zapatistas Versus the “Neoliberal War Against Humanity”

11Dec

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Mexico

Zapatistas Versus the “Neoliberal War Against Humanity”

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: (Jose Villa) at VillaPhotography – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the betrayals of Mexican presidents and crushing poverty. “They don’t care that we have nothing,” the Zapatistas said of Mexico’s elite at the start of their first uprising, “absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads, no land, no work, no healthcare, no food, no education, not the right to freely and democratically elect our political representatives nor independence from foreigners.” This specter of destitution loomed over the Zapatistas, and indeed millions of indigenous people because of NAFTA. After a 12-day war ag...

11Dec

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Behind the Balfour Declaration

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain's Great War Pledge To Lord Rothschild By Robert John Acknowledgements To Benjamin H. Freedman, who committed himself to finding and telling the facts about Zionism and Communism. and encouraged others to do the same. The son of one of the founders of the American Jewish Committee, which for many years was anti-Zionist, Ben Freedman founded the League for Peace with Justice in Palestine in 1946. He gave me copies of materials on the Balfour Declaration which I might never have found on my own and encouraged my own research. (He died in April 1984.) The Institute for Historical Review is providing means for the better understanding of the events of our time. Attempts to review historical records impartially often reveal that blame, culp...

US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today

11Dec

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Haiti, USA

US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today

BY SETH DONNELLY Photo courtesy of the Committee to Protect Journalists. On October 7th, in the face of massive and ever-growing demonstrations all across Haiti demanding the uprooting of the right-wing Haitian Tét Kale Party (PHTK) dictatorship, Prime Minister Ariel Henry exploited the fiction of a war between his regime and “gangs” to call for the intervention of foreign troops to expand the colonial occupation of Haiti. In doing so, he was echoing the tweet made the day before by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro. Within days, the Biden Administration proceeded to draft a UN Security Council resolution calling for the expanded deployment of foreign troops in Haiti. To date, the UN Security Council has not yet passed this resolution, due to ...

11Dec

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France

Macron’s French Nuclear Farce

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER (Image: EPR design, Framatome ANP/Wikimedia Commons) French president, Emmanuel Macron, is still trying to sell the EPR, a reactor that ended up mostly on paper. I’ve been searching for the equivalent word in French for ‘chutzpah’ but so far ‘insolence’ or ‘audace’ just doesn’t quite cover President Emmanuel Macron’s renewed pitch to sell French nuclear technology to the United States. Nevertheless, that was a central purpose of Macron’s state visit to the nation’s capital last week. In a mise-en-scène worthy of a Feydeau farce, he even brought a whole atomic entourage with him including representatives from the state regulator (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire) as well as cabinet members and the (bankrupt) French nuclear power industry. ...

As the World Fixates on Ukraine, Another War is Brewing in the Middle East

11Dec

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Middle East

As the World Fixates on Ukraine, Another War is Brewing in the Middle East

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Darafsh – CC BY-SA 4.0 As war rages in Ukraine, another conflict is ready to explode in the Middle East as the US and its allies confront Iran over its nuclear programme, supply of drones to Russia, and repression of anti-government protests. If the US or Israel were to attack the main Iranian nuclear facility producing weapons-grade nuclear fuel, Iran would most likely retaliate by using its drone and missile arsenal to close the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf, through which tankers daily carry almost a fifth of the world’s oil and gas. The confrontation escalated sharply this week when Iran announced that it intended to make near bomb-grade nuclear fuel at its Fordow plant, located inside a mountain to protect i...

11Dec

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Literature

Mother of Strangers: A Novel

By Suad Amiry, Pantheon Books, 2022, hardcover, 344 pp. MEB $27 Reviewed by Ida Audeh SUAD AMIRY’S first work of fiction is nominally a story of thwarted teenage romance told against the backdrop of the fall of Jaffa and the surrounding villages in 1948, when Israel was created and Palestine was violently dismembered. The narrative covers a four-year period beginning in June 1947, as tensions were building in the period before the end of the British Mandate, and ending in 1951, with the Palestinians who remained in Jaffa corralled into a ghetto trying to find their way as an unwanted minority in a triumphalist Jewish state. Mother of Strangers describes graphically one of the consequences of forcible exile during war—not only the (obvious) loss of home and town...

Will Protests Topple the Iranian Regime?

11Dec

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Iran

Will Protests Topple the Iranian Regime?

ELAINE PASQUINI Protesters express their solidarity with Iranian revolutionaries at a rally in Washington, DC, on Nov. 5, 2022. (STAFF PHOTO PHIL PASQUINI). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. xx-xx Waging Peace WASHINGTON, DC’S Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a panel on Oct. 18 to discuss Iran’s future in light of the wave of protests currently engulfing the country. “In the 43-year history of the Islamic Republic there have always been protests, always been people pushing back,” noted Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, a non-resident senior associate at CSIS’ Middle East Program. “But what is different right now is the coalescing of disparate groups demanding fundamental change and...

Nazi’s Increased Presence in North Africa is Widening Gap Between Algeria and Morocco

11Dec

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Africa, Algeria, Morocco, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi’s Increased Presence in North Africa is Widening Gap Between Algeria and Morocco

Israel’s Increased Presence in North Africa is Widening Gap Between Algeria and Morocco MUSTAFA FETOURI Algerian players are pictured during a football match with Guinea on Sept. 23, 2022 in Oran, Algeria. Morocco has asked German sportswear giant Adidas to cancel newly designed football tops for arch‐rival Algeria, accusing it of appropriating “Moroccan cultural heritage.” The geometrical design pattern known as zellige is common in Morocco’s ceramic mosaics. (PHOTO BY AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2022, p. 30-32 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri TROUBLE IN ALGERIAN-MOROCCAN relations is always lurking just beneath the surface, waiting for a trigger to flare up into a sprawling diplomatic and political crisis...