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As RFK Jr. Shifts His 2024 Strategy, He’s Bad News for Progressives

27Jun

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Politics, USA

As RFK Jr. Shifts His 2024 Strategy, He’s Bad News for Progressives

BY JEFF COHEN - NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: Artaxerxes – CC BY-SA 4.0 If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows through on his apparent plans to run for president in the fall 2024 general election, that will make it all the more important for progressives to have a clear understanding of who Kennedy is and what he really stands for. In advance of announcing that he’ll run as an independent, according to Mediaite, the Kennedy campaign will deploy “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee for preventing an open primary process. The DNC’s shenanigans deserve to be condemned, and we’ve repeatedly done so, including here, here and here. Kennedy can be forceful in denouncing aspects of U.S. militarism – making valid points about hawki...

Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza Holocaust, Survey Finds

18Jun

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Media, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza Holocaust, Survey Finds

Posted by: John Phoenix An exterior view of the world headquarters for the Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta, Georgia, November 17, 2022. (photo) Cable news viewers are more supportive of Israel’s war effort, less likely to think Israel is committing war crimes, and less interested in the war in general… A tale of two Americas. by Ryan Grim, reposted from The Intercept, April 30 2024. (This article was originally published as a newsletter from Ryan Grim. Sign up to get the next one in your inbox.) AMERICANS WHO GET their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumpti...

British conference kicks off campaign calling for apology and reparations for the Balfour declaration

18Jun

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Politics, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

British conference kicks off campaign calling for apology and reparations for the Balfour declaration

Posted by: John Phoenix The land of Lord Balfour hosted a rare but much needed conference on his infamous 1917 declaration. The event was convened by the appropriately named organisation, the Palestine Return Centre (PRC) on the 19th January 2013 in London. The aim of the meeting was to inaugurate a campaign for British “mistakes” and to “make reparations to Palestinians who endured human rights abuses at British hands.” It is rare because not only is the ‘Balfour Declaration’ and its brutal ramifications greatly understudied but the entire period of British total military and political dominance of the Middle East between 1917 and 1948 is more or less whitewashed from contemporary discussion. Yet, if we are to fully understand today’s Middle East there is p...

17Jun

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Politics, USA, World

Unjust Wars and a Just Peace

BY WALDEN BELLO Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of the Israeli settler-colonial state is intertwined with the preservation of the global hegemony of the United States. In the war in Ukraine, a bloody war of attrition between two countries was provoked by Washington’s push to expand NATO to a country of the former Soviet Union. In the South China Sea, we are witnessing how disputes over territory and natural resources have been elevated to a global conflict by the U.S. effort to maintain its global hegemony against China, to which it is losing the geoeconomic competition ...

Is “Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself” Code for “We Are Killing the Geneva Conventions”?

17Jun

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Is “Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself” Code for “We Are Killing the Geneva Conventions”?

Posted by: John Phoenix POTUS tweet, October 18, 2023 "I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the situation on the ground, security assistance and humanitarian needs, and information on unaccounted Americans. I asked tough questions as a friend of Israel. We will continue to deter any actor wanting to widen this conflict." (photo) Using insider speak, officials can transmit one image to the public and a very different one to their colleagues. This sets up the legal construct for carnage… A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over territory it occupies and militarily attack that territory on the claim that it is “foreign” and poses an exogenous national security threat. In doing precisely that, A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over...

What media reports fail to tell you about October 7

14Jun

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What media reports fail to tell you about October 7

Posted by: John Phoenix BBC's Lucy Williamson is taken by the Israeli military to view kibbutz damage.regurgitating Israeli claims. (photo) It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day, including alleged Hamas atrocities that turned out to be fiction Media neglected to report much key information, e.g. Israeli military commanders had ordered the shelling of kibbutz houses in order to eliminate the “terrorists along with the hostages”… once Israeli special forces arrived: “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages” Are the images of charred bodies evidence that Israeli civilians and Hamas fighters burned alongside each other, after they were engulfed in flames caused by Israeli ...

Here’s what Pramila Patten’s UN report on Oct 7 sexual violence actually said

13Jun

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Here’s what Pramila Patten’s UN report on Oct 7 sexual violence actually said

Posted by: John Phoenix Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict (photo) The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility. Despite the fact that Patten’s report does not find any credible information supporting a pattern of rape on October 7, that it has no investigative powers, and that it sustains glaring gaps in credibility that it cannot address within its mandate, Western media has been following the lead of the Israeli government in framing the report as a vindication of Israel’s narrative that Hamas committed systematic sexual violence on Octobe...

Two reports debunk New York Times ‘investigative report’ of mass rape on October 7th

13Jun

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Media, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Two reports debunk New York Times ‘investigative report’ of mass rape on October 7th

Posted by: John Phoenix New York Times again bows to pro-Israel pressure (photo) Family of key case in New York Times October 7 sexual violence report renounces story, says reporters manipulated them… Members of human rights organizations & feminist groups “find the report profoundly disturbing for its lack of credible arguments, evidence and failure to engage with any of the alleged victims… A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses. by the Short String, reposted from Mondoweiss, January 3, 2024 On December 28, the New York Times published an...

Leaked New York Times Memo Tells Journalists To Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”

13Jun

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Media, Middle East, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Leaked New York Times Memo Tells Journalists To Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”

Posted by: John Phoenix Pro-Palestine protesters flood the lobby of the New York Times offices and block the security entrances during a demonstration against the newspaper’s coverage of Israel's war on Gaza on March 14, 2024, in New York City. (photo) The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” A previous study found that the Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once. The ratio for the use of “slaughter” was 22 to 1, even as the documented number of Palestinians killed climbed by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, reposted from The Intercept, April 15 2024 The New York Times instru...

Nazi propagandist behind Hamas ‘mass rape’ narrative exposed as grifter, fraud

13Jun

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Nazi propagandist behind Hamas ‘mass rape’ narrative exposed as grifter, fraud

Posted by: John Phoenix Cochav Elkayam-Levy (photo) Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the Israeli lawyer at the center of the campaign accusing Hamas of systematic sexual violence on October 7, now stands accused by Israeli media of scamming donors and spreading misinformation. The allegations appeared just days after Elkayam-Levy received the prestigious Israel Prize. Reposted from The Grayzone, March 25, 2024 As the founder of the so-called Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, Israel lawyer Cochav Elkayam Levy has been a go-to source for Western media organizations pushing the narrative that Palestinian militants carried out sexual assault on a massive and systematic basis when they attacked Israel. Elkayam-Levy has starred in ...