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The People vs. Petrocracy
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

The People vs. Petrocracy

BY STAN COX On Time by Priti Gulati Cox. The United States is moving fast on climate change—in the wrong direction. The Energy Information Agency forecasts that by 2023, the nation will set a new annual record for oil extraction: 4.6 billion barrels. Plans to build more than 200 new natural gas power plants are in the works. More than 130 new oil and gas pipelines now under development will carry enough fuel to increase national emissions by 10 percent—560 million metric tons per year. Now, freaked out by high fuel prices, the Democratic majority in Congress is pushing to accelerate this fossil fuel rush while President Biden rushes, hat in hand, to Saudi Arabia, forgetting that the kingdom is supposed to be a pariah. Furthermore, as Robinson Meye...
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Julian Assange Is Enduring Unbearable Persecution for Exposing US War Crimes
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Human Rights, Media, United Kingdom, USA

Julian Assange Is Enduring Unbearable Persecution for Exposing US War Crimes

Stella Morris, wife of Julian Assange, speaks during a protest outside the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, England, on April 20, 2022. BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout Human Rights and Global Wrongs Ever since U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel formally ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. last week, press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing. Assange Defense, on whose advisory board I serve, is organizing a national and international campaign to pressure U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden to drop the extradition request and dismiss the charges against Assange. The stakes could not be higher. The charges, which include 17 counts under the infamous Espionage Act, could result in...
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The Age of Stupidity: From Johnson and Biden to Putin and Xi Jinping
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
China, Russia, United Kingdom, USA

The Age of Stupidity: From Johnson and Biden to Putin and Xi Jinping

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians. They neglect it as too crude and shallow a factor to be the cause of crucial events, preferring to unearth more sophisticated and intellectually respectable explanations. Calling a leader “a fool” may be pervasive as abuse, but is seldom accepted as the underlying reason for a calamitous decision. This is surely a mistake. “Never lose your sense of the superficial,” said the newspaper publisher Lord Northcliffe and his advice applies as much to historic trends as it does to daily news. Yet pundits like to feel that they are digging deeper than a personal failing, and seldom focus on plain and simple stupidity ...
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Electoral Victory of Colombians Petro and Marquez is Unprecedented
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Colombia

Electoral Victory of Colombians Petro and Marquez is Unprecedented

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: National Police of Colombia – CC BY-SA 2.0 The comment overflowed with enthusiasm: “June 19 will be remembered as a day of the people and will be a moment of celebration for democracy … Today was a day for changing history.” The reference was to the million-vote plurality achieved by Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and his vice-presidential running-mate Francia Márquez. The Historical Pact coalition they represent had gained 50.5 percent of the votes cast in a second round of elections. The loose-lipped, right-wing construction and real estate mogul Rodolfo Hernández, candidate of the recently-devised League of Anti-Corruption Governors Party, accounted for 47.2 percent. This was the third presidential campa...
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Free Assange? Yes, But That’s Not Nearly Enough
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Human Rights, Media, United Kingdom

Free Assange? Yes, But That’s Not Nearly Enough

BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, and 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. If convicted on all charges, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison. His final recourse is an appeal to the High Court of Justice where, if the history of his case is any indication, he’ll be told that they’re all out of justice and have none for him. If justice had anything to do with it, previous courts would have thrown out the US extradition request on grounds of both jurisdiction and treaty language. The “crimes” of which Assange is accused were not committed on...
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Senate reaches accord on insultingly weak gun reform bill
27Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Senate reaches accord on insultingly weak gun reform bill

Nicholas Stender Download PDF flyer Photo: Students in New York City hold a walkout to demands gun reform A gun reform bill arrived at by a negotiating team of Democrats and Republicans has cleared several key procedural votes in the Senate and appears set for final passage by the end of the week. The bill was drafted to garner the support of at least 10 Republican senators so it could pass the artificial hurdle of the filibuster – an undemocratic internal rule of the Senate that requires 60 votes to pass most laws. The Democratic Party has repeatedly refused to end the filibuster to pass urgently needed legislation in a clear sign of their disregard for the well being of the people The “gun reform” bill will do very little to address the crisis of violence in U.S. society...
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East European governments pledge loyalty to U.S. war drive
26Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Europe, USA

East European governments pledge loyalty to U.S. war drive

Patricia Gorky Download PDF flyer Photo: Armored unit participates in a NATO military drill. Credit: Sgt. Sebastien Frechette Presidents from nine east and central European countries recently met in Bucharest to lay the groundwork for exposing their countries to war and have wasted no time in implementing their strategy. All part of NATO’s “eastern flank”, the leaders pledged to increase alliance member states’ military presence in their countries, raise military spending to at least 2 percent of their GDP, and escalate the crisis with Russia. The meeting was held in advance of the NATO Summit in Madrid to be held later this month, where the alliance is expected to release its official policy on “the new security reality”. The declarations of the Bucharest 9 Group undersco...
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Biden’s Failed Summit: Latin America Resists
26Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Biden’s Failed Summit: Latin America Resists

The Socialist Program Download PDF flyer This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it, produced as part of BreakThrough News. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. https://www.youtube.com/embed/OfEA0rUgJ2M?feature=oembed Brian Becker interviews Roberto Lovato. Since the Monroe Doctrine, Latin America has resisted U.S. attempts to dominate the region. Another instance of resistance took place around the Summit of the Americas, which many heads of state boycotted over the Biden administration’s decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Brian and Roberto Lovato discuss this, the urgent need to end the blo...
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Building Revolutionary Solidarity Across the Americas Against the Failed “Summit of the Americas”
26Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Building Revolutionary Solidarity Across the Americas Against the Failed “Summit of the Americas”

The Socialist Program Download PDF flyer This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In a true show of intercontinental solidarity, words from Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel joined the speeches of Native activist and Co-Director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Jean Roach, National Director of BYP100 D’atra Jackson, and host of this show, Brian Becker, at the final plenary of the three-day-long People’s Summit for Democracy in early June. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1292747827&show_...
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Bolivia: Right wing, corporate media rush to defense of convicted dictator Añez
26Jun By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Bolivia

Bolivia: Right wing, corporate media rush to defense of convicted dictator Añez

Reem Zubaidi Download PDF flyer Photo: Nov. 11, 2019 demonstration against the coup in Washington, D.C. Credit — ANSWER Coalition Powerful U.S. figures are rushing to the defense of former Bolivian dictator Jeanine Añez after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her involvement in a 2019 U.S.-backed military coup. Añez declared herself “interim president” following the ouster of democratically-elected president Evo Morales by far-right paramilitary gangs and the armed forces.  Now, right wing political forces in Bolivia and around the world are outlandishly trying to portray her conviction as an act of political persecution. Major corporate media outlets are attempting to build sympathy for Añez, with the New York Times for instance reporting that her convictio...
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