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Challenging the 'Israeli' attorney general’s conception of sovereignty:

9Feb

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Challenging the 'Israeli' attorney general’s conception of sovereignty:

Challenging the Israeli attorney general’s conception of sovereignty: The issue of jurisdiction concerning the ‘Situation of Palestine’ before the International Criminal Court, June 2020 In this report, Adalah exposes the flaws in the attorney general's position that the ICC cannot exercise jurisdiction in this case, which is based on an outmoded, formalistic interpretation of state sovereignty. CLICK HERE or on the below image for the full-length report [PDF format] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this report, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel responds to the Israeli Attorney General’s (AG) memorandum opposing the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) exercise of jurisdiction on the ‘Situation in Palestine’, dated 20 December 2019. Adalah is a leading human righ...

Following Adalah legal action, 'Israel' expands eligibility for emergency COVID-19 food stamps program

9Feb

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Following Adalah legal action, 'Israel' expands eligibility for emergency COVID-19 food stamps program

Following Adalah legal action, Israel expands eligibility for emergency COVID-19 food stamps program Interior Ministry revises policy that excluded at-risk populations – notably Bedouin citizens from unrecognized Naqab (Negev) villages – from receiving COVID-19 food security grants. Israel’s Interior Ministry responded to urgent requests made by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel to change its policy of conditioning eligibility for food security aid on payment of municipal property tax (arnona). Adalah sent letters to Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on 8 October and 15 November 2020 demanding that he revise a policy that excludes at-risk populations – notably Bedouin citizens of Israel living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab (Negev) –...

With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear

9Feb

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Politics, Russia, USA

With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear

THE SAKER First, a clarification. When I speak of “Biden” I don’t mean the fungus (to use Tom Luongo’s apt expression) which was recently planted in the White House, I am referring to the “collective Biden” which I defined here https://thesaker.is/terminology/ . With this caveat, now let’s see why Russia might want to change gears in 2021. First, let’s begin by the basics: Russians often say that US politicians change, but US policies don’t. There is much truth to that, we saw that very clearly with Obama and Trump: both promised sweeping changes and both pretty much continued the policies of their predecessors, at least on the foreign policy front. In a way, you could argue that this is normal and even desirable. A shill for the regime would say something along th...

Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

9Feb

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

PHILIP GIRALDI Pandering to Israel as part of the political process in the United States has become part of the DNA of both major parties. The job of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must have some kind of curse on it as it seems to attract a type of woman who seeks to prove her suitability by running up a tally of how many wars she can start and how many people she can kill. One recalls fondly Bill Clinton’s monstrous Madeleine Albright, who famously declared the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as “worth it” due to the sanctions that Washington had imposed and enforced. And then there was Barack Obama’s darling Samantha Power, who was the spokesperson for the completely unnecessary slaughter of Syrians and Libyans to bring them democracy. And, most recently, we have had Nik...

9Feb

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Human Rights, Politics, United Kingdom

Vaccines and Trust: Shortages

JAMES THOMPSON In the continuing story of coronavirus, this week brings two stories about limitations. The first is that production of both Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in Europe is faltering, and from Monday supplies will be reduced for the next few weeks. There have been production problems, of the sort which happen in all manufacturing. It should get better later, but it means that some vaccination centres will lie idle for a while. This is a public health problem, since the gains which have been made in vaccinating, and which will have reduced the population at risk, may be overwhelmed by new cases in the unvaccinated, particularly as numbers increase, thus increasing the probability of new variants. Nonetheless, by the time you read this, 6 million will have been given t...

Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial CapitalismThe rentier resurgence and takeover

8Feb

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Literature, Politics

Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial CapitalismThe rentier resurgence and takeover

MICHAEL HUDSON Summary[1a] Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism – the landlords, bankers and monopolists extracting economic rent without producing real value. But that reform movement failed. Today, the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector has regained control of government, creating neo-rentier economies. The aim of this post-industrial finance capitalism is the opposite of that of industrial capitalism as known to 19th-century economists: It seeks wealth primarily through the extraction of economic rent not industrial capital formation. Tax favoritism for real estate, privatization of oil and mineral extraction, banking and infrastructure monopol...

Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe

8Feb

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe

Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe Jewish Control, Zionist Subversion and the “Contradictions” of Anti-Semitism TOBIAS LANGDON Parasite’s grin: Bibi Netanyahu greets Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish spy who did huge harm to his “own nation” of America on behalf of Israel Like all decent people, I stand unshakably with the powerless Jewish community against the vile scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish racism. And in order to better defend cowering Jews against their hugely powerful enemies, I’ve often asked myself: What is the most anti-Semitic nation on earth? Is it Iran, perhaps? Well, no. Not by a long way. The citizens of Iran have never loudly celebrated a disgusting anti-Semitic stereotype, nor has the prime minister of Iran been photographed with a smug gr...

8Feb

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Health, Politics, United Kingdom

Vaccination Side Effects

JAMES THOMPSON In this part of the world, the first side effect of vaccines has been political. Europe’s nations are now competing to get vaccinated, and the ructions have been considerable. From the start, the UK took a vaccine friendly stance. Early on it decided that vaccination was the long-term solution, and all else was merely a grim holding pattern. By March 2020 Kate Bingham (a scientist and venture capitalist with a long track record in pharma research and development) had begun discussions with what she and her team saw as the front runners, having done a careful calculation about which were likely to work, and time has proved them right. They identified the best candidates in each of four platform types, and engaged them all with a winning formula: we will buy in advance...

6Feb

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Politics, United Kingdom

Starmer is failing to unite Britain's Labour Party

Nasim Ahmed The UN's International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People — commemorated on 29 November every year since 1977 to remind the world that the question of Palestine remains unresolved — could have been an occasion for Britain's Labour Party leader Sir Kier Starmer to unite his party. But it wasn't. Instead, it was another source of division. There is something about Starmer's leadership style that blinds him to the obvious. The 58 year old opted to add insult to injury by spending the day with deputy leader Angela Rayner at a conference organised by two of Britain's most prominent pro-Israel lobby groups, the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). It couldn't have looked any worse, but there was a way for Starmer to redeem the situation a...

6Feb

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Palestine Affairs, Politics

Palestine and the election game (Part 1)

Officials count ballots after Palestinians living in Israel-occupied West Bank voted in the local election, which is boycotted by several Palestinian groups, at the Banat Qasm High School in Ramallah, West Bank on May 13, 2017 [Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency] Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh Read part 2 here The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas was adamant that he was cancelling security coordination with the occupation state, pulling out of the Oslo Accords and returning to national struggle and resistance to liberate Palestine. Then Joe Biden became the likely winner of the US presidential election, and suddenly Abbas had to climb down, especially on security coordination. His other threats were left in abeyance, buying him time until Biden's victory was confirmed a...