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Gazans Face ‘Double Crisis’, Need International Support

26Aug

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Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Gazans Face ‘Double Crisis’, Need International Support

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face a “double crisis” as they struggle with an acute electricity shortage just as the coronavirus has spread into the community among the vulnerable population, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. “The population of Gaza is under terrible strain,” said Ignacio Casares Garcia, head of the ICRC’s Gaza Sub-delegation. “People are stressed: not only are they coping with just four hours of electricity a day; their worries over the virus have been hugely compounded and they are now under lockdown.” “We want to reaffirm our commitment to doing all we can to support the Gaza population as they face the virus,” said Casares Garcia. “They can’t do this alone. They need all the international assistance the...

25Aug

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Politics, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

This is the bogus anti-Semitism report that sank Jeremy Corbyn

Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada Michael Rubin at Labour’s annual conference in 2016. Al Jazeera The road to Jeremy Corbyn’s political downfall began at Oxford University Labour Club in February 2016. A rogue inquiry by a Labour staffer with close ties to the Israeli embassy included fabricated allegations of anti-Semitism. It destroyed the lives of several pro-Corbyn students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. It also triggered Labour’s “anti-Semitism crisis” in earnest. The manufactured crisis continues today, even with Corbyn now marginalized. After an internal Labour disciplinary investigation, some of the accused were cleared of anti-Semitism the following year. But by that time the damage had been done. Afte...

Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite

25Aug

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Politics, USA

Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite

Protestors form a human chain during a protest, organized by Charlotte Uprising in uptown Charlotte near the site of the 2020 Republican National Convention in North Carolina on August 22, 2020. BYJustin Vassallo, Truthout There’s a tendency in U.S. progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that would update the embedded liberalism of the postwar era for the twenty-first century. Think tanks and public intellectuals likewise emphasize antitrust as a means to improve the welfare of consumers and workers while giving smaller firms a better chance to succeed. Even during a global pandemic, the underlying concern is tha...

24Aug

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Middle East, Palestine Affairs, Politics, UAE, ZIO-NAZI

UAE recognition of 'Israel': Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?

By James M. Dorsey An agreement to establish diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel and a Saudi-Pakistani spat over Kashmir coupled with feuds among Gulf states and between Turkey, the kingdom, and the Emirates drive nails into the notion that the Arab and Islamic world by definition share common geopolitical interests on the basis of ethnicity or religion and embrace kinship solidarity. The UAE-Israel agreement weakens the Palestinians’ efforts to create a state of their own but their criticism of the UAE’s move to become the third Arab country after Egypt and Jordan to officially recognise the Jewish state is based on a moral rather than a legal claim. Pleasing the American far right, targeting Iran The UAE and Israel see their relations with th...

23Aug

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Politics, United Kingdom

Statues and the crimes of imperialism

It is widely accepted that the imperial powers committed terrible crimes in the past, but is the past really so different from the present? Proletarian writers While workers are arguing amongst themselves over the rights and wrongs of slavers from history, the present-day slave-masters continue to loot the world’s wealth unhindered. Protests that have sprung up across the western world recently directed a lot of energy towards the destruction of statues and memorials celebrating various slave owners and colonial statesmen. While their removal is not to be lamented, we cannot but note that capitalist imperialism and all the filth it drags in its train – slavery, mass poverty, inequality, hunger and destitution – are not at all things of the past, the memories of which can...

Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

23Aug

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Literature, Politics, United Kingdom

Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’? Proletarian writers Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Preorder a copy from our shop. Jeremy Corbyn was only included on the Labour party’s 2015 leadership election ballot to liven up the contest a little, but his insistence on championing the needs of workers and the marginalised at a time of deepening austerity, widening inequality and war sent a message of hope to the disenfranchised. A burst of socialist enthusiasm attracted a mass influx of members into his declining party and swept him to a thumping victory on a wave of ‘Corbynmania’. Initially struck dumb at this unexpected turn of events, the Labour party grandee...

Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings

22Aug

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Politics, USA

Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings

by TALLI NAUMAN Image Source: Chipermc – CC BY-SA 4.0 Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favoring indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump. The highest court in the land ruled in favor of the exercise of Native American rights when it determined in a long-awaited July 9 decision that the Muskogee (Creek) Nation retains jurisdiction over its 19th Century treaty lands. In a separate ruling, it also blocked construction of the Canadian TC Energy Corp.’s Keystone XL Pipeline across unceded 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty territory in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska in a July 6 ruling. Simultaneously...

21Aug

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France, Lebanon, Politics

هل حقاً عاد غورو؟ هل حقاً أن فرنسا تعد لانتداب جديد على لبنان؟ (Has General Gouraud really returned to Lebanon? Will France reimpose its mandate over Lebanon?)

بقلم منذر هنداوي تم التوقيع في لبنان على عريضة للمطالبة بعودة الانتداب الفرنسي. هذه العريضة أثارت حفيظة كثير من الناس. بعض التخوف من هذه العريضة محق لأسباب وطنية تتعلق بالسيادة. لكن أغلب التخويف والتهويل من مخاطر عودة الاستعمار له مآرب لا علاقة لها بالوطنية و لا بالسيادة ولكن باستمرار التركيبة الحالية للأنظمة الراهنة. فجأة ظهر التخويف المفاجئ من عودة الجنرال الفرنسي غورو و كأنه يقف الآن على أبواب بيروت! وفجأة تثار الشبهات حول زيارة الرئيس ماكرون وكأنها بداية العودة للاستعمار الفرنسي الاستعمار أو الانتداب الأجنبي لن يعود، ليس لأننا نرفضه في بلادنا وحسب بل لأنه مرفوض من القوى الأجنبية ذاتها. فمن له مصلحة وقدرة على حكم مجتمعات تنتشر فيها الميليشيات والمافيات بكل أنواعها وكذلك الأسلحة والقدرة على تصنيعها محليا. لو وقع مليوني شخص في لبنان على العريضة وليس فقط ٣٦ ألف لرفضت فرنسا العودة ل...

Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World

21Aug

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Health, Politics, USA, World

Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle the questions of what lessons we can learn from this pandemic and how society may organize moving forward. BYC.J. Polychroniou, TruthoutPUBLISHEDApril 10, 2020SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caught the world unprepared, and the economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic are expected to be dramatic, in spite of recent pledges by leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies to inject $5 trillion into the global economy in order to spur economic recovery. But what lessons can we learn from this pandemic? Will the coronavirus crisis lead to a new way of organizing society — one that conceives of a social and po...

13Aug

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Muslim woman files discrimination charge after she says a Target Starbucks barista wrote 'ISIS' on her cup

Now PlayingMuslim woman says...Muslim woman says Starbucks barista wrote 'ISIS' on her cup 01:11 (CNN)A Muslim woman has filed a discrimination charge against Target after she said she received a drink from a Target Starbucks barista with "ISIS" written on the cup instead of her name at one of the retail corporation's Minnesota locations.Aishah, who asked to be identified only by her first name out of fear for her safety, is being represented by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN), which filed a charge to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights on Monday. The 19-year-old, who wears a hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women, told CNN she felt singled out for her religious beliefs after seeing "ISIS" -- the acronym for the Islamic State ...