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Imperial Detritus: After the American Century

22Jul

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USA

Imperial Detritus: After the American Century

BY ANDREW BACEVICH Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “The American Century Is Over.” So claims the July 2022 cover of Harper’s Magazine, adding an all-too-pertinent question: “What’s Next?” What, indeed? Eighty years after the United States embarked upon the Great Crusade of World War II, a generation after it laid claim to the status of sole superpower following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two decades after the Global War on Terror was to remove any lingering doubts about who calls the shots on Planet Earth, the question could hardly be more timely. “Empire Burlesque,” Daniel Bessner’s Harper’s cover story, provides a useful, if preliminary, answer to a question most members of our political class, preoccupied with other matters, would prefer to i...

22Jul

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USA

Data Surveillance After Dobbs

BY CHARLES PIERSON Photograph by ev on Unsplash With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the US Supreme Court’s far-right majority has eliminated the constitutional right to abortion recognized in 1973’s Roe v. Wade. The country is now split roughly in half between pro-choice and antiabortion states. The legal landscape is in almost daily flux as state abortion bans are challenged in court. Trevor Noah, host of the satirical Daily Show, summarized the situation this way: Ever since the Supreme Court decided that having a child is a sacred choice between a woman and her state legislature, abortion laws have been chaos. Because, you see, some states banned abortion, some states are protecting abortion, and other states ...

Highland Park, Buffalo, and Fascism Denial in U.S. Media Culture

22Jul

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USA

Highland Park, Buffalo, and Fascism Denial in U.S. Media Culture

BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO - PAUL STREET Image by Jeremy Bishop. To deepen our sense of just how far the dominant United States media and political culture is prepared to go to deny and bury the fascitization process that is well underway in the world’s most powerful state, we have examined media coverage of two recent horrific mass shootings conducted by young white male fascists: Peyton Gedron’s murder of ten Black people in Buffalo, New York on May 14th and Robert Crimo’s murder of seven people, five of whom were Jewish, in the Chicago area suburb Highland Park on the 4th of July. It’s not a pretty story. The F-Word Taboo First, some background. “To speak of ‘fascism,’ in U.S. political discourse,” Carl Boggs noted four years ago, “has long been one of the gr...

Ideological Silos of Left and Right: Missing the Point in Ukraine

22Jul

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Ukraine

Ideological Silos of Left and Right: Missing the Point in Ukraine

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Jan Tik – CC BY 2.0 From the first day of the Russian aggression on February 24th, I have worried about the trajectories of the Ukraine Wars, the risks and effects of various policy moves by the engaged antagonistic political actors to achieve their ends. I have also felt that a better understanding emerges if we recognize the plural and complex character of four encounters—on the battlefields pitting Russian aggressors against Ukrainian resisters, inside Ukraine as various elements struggle for control and security; in the geopolitical matrix by which the U.S. is intent on humbling Russia by shattering its will and exposing its weaknesses as a challenger of U.S. global primacy, while Russia is determined to regain hegemony over its near a...

Westphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age

21Jul

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Russia, USA, World

Westphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media. Most commonly, the Ukraine War has been narrowly and reductively depicted as a simple matter of defending Ukraine against Russian aggression. Sometimes this standard portrayal is somewhat enlarged by demonizing Putin as criminally committed to the grandiose project of restoring the full spectrum of Soviet boundaries of post-1994 Russia by force as necessary. What tends to be excluded from almost all presentations of the Ukrainian struggle is the U.S. Government policy agenda of inflicting a humiliating defeat on Russia which is at once related to the defense of Ukraine y...

Shared Values and Fist Bump Geopolitics: Biden’s Blurred Vision of Human Rights

21Jul

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Saudi Arabia, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Shared Values and Fist Bump Geopolitics: Biden’s Blurred Vision of Human Rights

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Saudi Press Agency – CC BY 4.0 When the U.S. Government at the highest level criticized Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, because she went to China on a mission to develop opportunities for cooperation with respect to the protection of human rights. The mission had been carefully prepared months earlier by UN staff that had visited China and negotiated the itinerary of the visit, which took occurred in May of this year, it seemed a breakthrough in the sense of a major country opening itself up to this kind of scrutiny with respect to its human rights record. High officials in Washington let it be known in advance that they considered the trip ‘a mistake,’ and expressed consternation that its hyped allegatio...

The Worst is Yet to Come: When the Center Does Not Hold

21Jul

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USA, World

The Worst is Yet to Come: When the Center Does Not Hold

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph by Michał Mancewicz No lines of poetry are more resonant with our time than the celebrated lines of William Butler Yeats’ famous poem ‘The Second Coming’: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This is especially true here in the United States, as it was in post-World War I Germany’s nurturing the rise of Naziism and its demonic voice, Adolph Hitler, the consummate outsider who managed to crawl up the mountain to ascend its peak. The core disabling affliction of the United States in the 21st Century is an energized and armed extreme right-wing and a listless, passive center, a development lamented by liberals who would sell their souls long before parting with their stocks and bonds, ...

Palestinian Teenager Shot by Nazi army Succumbs to Wounds

21Jul

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

Palestinian Teenager Shot by Nazi army Succumbs to Wounds

Kamel Alawnah, 18, was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin. (Photo: via Social Media) A Palestinian teenager died on Sunday after being shot by Nazi army in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, The New Arab reported. The 18-year-old was identified as Kamel Alawnah by the Palestinian health ministry, which said he “succumbed to wounds from live fire by the Nazi occupation in the abdomen and hand in Jenin.” A Palestinian medical source told AFP that Alawnah was wounded in Jaba, a village in the Jenin governorate of the northern West Bank. Alawnah was a high school student about to finish his exams and wanted to be a journalist, his family told The New Arab. Forty-nine Palestinians have been killed since late March across the Nazi occupied Palestinian territories. Al...

21Jul

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Saudi Arabia

A Gratuitous Insult in Jeddah

US President Joe Biden photographed along Arab leaders in Jeddah. (Photo: White House, Public Domain) By John Whitbeck The most quoted words from the speech which US President Joe Biden read on July 16 while seated at a table in Jeddah with the leaders of eight autocracies (the six GCC monarchies, Egypt and Jordan) and the interim prime minister of one dysfunctional remnant of American regime change (Iraq) was: “We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran. And we’ll seek to build on this moment with active, principled American leadership. The United States is not going anywhere.” In light of all the chaos, death and destruction which the United States has wreaked on the region over the past two decades, many in the region — and even ...

Russia Moves to Permanently Shuts Down Russian Branch of Jewish Agency

21Jul

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Russia, ZIO-NAZI

Russia Moves to Permanently Shuts Down Russian Branch of Jewish Agency

Israeli Special Forces are said to be fighting against Russian troops in Ukraine. (Photo: video grab) By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Russian Ministry of Justice has reportedly requested the dissolution of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency, an organization that promotes immigration to Israel at a mass scale since its inception in 1929. Many historians recognize the significant role played by the agency in the colonization of Palestine, as it was established to be an important branch of the World Zionist Organization. The news was reported in Reuters, Israeli and international media. Bloomberg Russian authorities have asked a Moscow court to liquidate a prominent group handling the emigration of Jews to Israel in a move likely to raise tensions with Tel Av...