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Economic Terrorism: U.S. “Caesar” Act Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians

23Jun

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Middle East, Politics, Syria, USA

Economic Terrorism: U.S. “Caesar” Act Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians

By: Rick Sterling Since 2011, the US and allies have promoted, trained and supplied militants trying to bring about “regime change” in Damascus. Having failed in that effort, they have tried to strangle Syria economically. The goal has always been the same: to force Syria to change politically. This month, June 2020, the aggression reaches a new level with extreme sanctions known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. The new law is fraudulent on two counts. It is called “Caesar” in reference to a 2014 propaganda stunt involving an anonymous Syrian who was alleged to be a military photographer. He claimed to have 55,000 photos showing about eleven thousand victims of Syrian government torture. As the Christian Science Monitor said at the time, the “Ca...

“How the High Death Rate in Care Homes Was Created on Purpose” 'Video'

23Jun

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Health, Politics

“How the High Death Rate in Care Homes Was Created on Purpose” 'Video'

By: James Corbett, Rosemary Frei, and Mark Taliano Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology. She has been a freelance medical writer and journalist for twenty-two years, and is now an independent investigative journalist. In the following interview with James Corbett, she explains that at the beginning of the declared pandemic in the UK, the “sniffles” were deemed sufficient to warrant a Covid diagnosis. In Canada, the “sniffles and a cough” were sufficient. Furthermore, if one person with one symptom was deemed to have Covid in a Long Term Care facility, then everyone in the facility (with similar symptomatology) was deemed to have it as well. These “broadened definitions” she argues, necessarily inflated “Covid” numbers. Triage guidelines also changed. People...

22Jun

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Politics, USA

We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It's Happening Before Our Very Eyes

The man in the White House has taken all the necessary steps toward achieving the despot's dream of dominance. by: Bill Moyers Police stand guard outside the White House as people gather to protest the killing of George Floyd on May 31, 2020. (Photo: Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images) At 98, historian Bernard Weisberger has seen it all. Born in 1922, he grew up watching newsreels of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler as they rose to power in Europe. He vividly remembers Mussolini posturing to crowds from his balcony in Rome, chin outthrust, right arm extended. Nor has he forgotten Der Fuehrer’s raspy voice on radio, interrupted by cheers of “Heil Hitler,” full of menace even without pictures. Fascist bullies and threats anger Bernie, and when America went to war to confront them...

22Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

We Interrupt This Pandemic… With Demands for Justice and Healing

The call to "reopen" society isn't just about stores and bars; it's about reopening ourselves to the reality of a system that is built on racism, violence, and injustice. by: Randall Amster A protester wears a face mask displaying the words "I can't breathe" during a Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park on June 3, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The death of an African-American man, George Floyd, while in the custody of Minneapolis police has sparked protests across the United States, as well as demonstrations of solidarity in many countries around the world. (Photo: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) Remember the coronavirus? It dominated the news for three months, redefined every aspect of our daily lives, and killed over a hundred thousand in the US alone. It also further exp...

22Jun

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Health, Human Rights, Politics, UN, World

Global issues require united action and a reinvigorated UN

Graham Peebles writes: Whatever corner of the world one happens to live in, the most pressing issues of the day affect everyone. Pandemics/epidemics and the environmental emergency; war and terrorism; poverty and food insecurity; overpopulation and the displacement of persons – these affect us all. Such crises cannot be limited by borders or controlled by nation states; no government or corporate power can manage them. They are interconnected global issues and they require a coordinated global response. Drawn together by economic interest or shared geopolitical concerns various allied groupings and regional alliances exist in the world. While such assemblies present the possibility of nations unifying, self-interest, ideology and partisanship dominate the approach of many gove...

22Jun

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Europe, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

EU’s aviation deal with Israel “the pinnacle of hypocrisy”

By Stuart Littlewood Brussels’s halfwits, like London’s and Washington’s, never stop rewarding the racist Israeli regime even when it’s poised to grab more Palestinian territory I had barely finished my rant against the British government for showering new rewards on the Israelis (see “Do Palestinians’ lives matter?”) when the European Union voted to do the same. The UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement, signed last year, comes into force next January. The government says it loves this relationship and is committed to strengthening it. “We will seek to work with counterparts in the new Israeli government t...

How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington

21Jun

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Politics, Saudi Arabia, USA

How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington

by: MORGAN PALUMBO – JESSICE DRAPER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It was a bare-knuckle brawl of the first order. It took place in Washington, D.C., and it resulted in a KO. The winners? Lobbyists and the defense industry. The losers? Us. And odds on, you didn’t even know that it happened. Few Americans did, which is why it’s worth telling the story of how Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari money flooded the nation’s capital and, in the process, American policy went down for the count. The fight began three years ago this month. Sure, the pugilists hadn’t really liked each other that much before then, but what happened in 2017 was the foreign-policy equivalent of a sucker punch. On the morning of June 5th, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, and Bahrain announced tha...

350 Action: It's Time for Trump to Resign

21Jun

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Politics, USA

350 Action: It's Time for Trump to Resign

WASHINGTON - This week, Donald Trump deployed military forces to cities across the country against those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd and ongoing anti-Black police violence. 350 Action’s North America director Tamara Toles O’Laughlin gave the following statement in response: “When a president uses the military against people exercising basic human rights to protest, it is state terror. Every day that passes, communities turn out in growing numbers courageously demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to anti-Black violence, yet they are met with rubber bullets, tear gas, intimidation and beatings. Trump is emboldening white supremacy and the tearing down of the democracy for his own gain, and encouraging state-sanctioned brutality against thos...

20Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Showdown on 16th Street

by: JEFFERSON MORLEY Photograph Source: Frypie – CC BY-SA 4.0 The zone of incomprehension was about a foot wide. That was the distance separating a boisterous but peaceful crowd of several hundred protesters and a silent line of several dozen uniformed Airborne Rangers in downtown Washington DC on Wednesday night. A young black woman in long braids patrolled the zone with a bullhorn, alternately telling the protesters to stand back and addressing the soldiers herself. “We are trying to humanize you,” she said. “You can humanize us.” The distance between the two groups was about a foot but it could have been a thousand miles. On one side, a multicultural throng of men and women of carrying signs like “Racism is a pandemic” and “End the carceral state” and “We’re not trying to...

19Jun

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, UN, ZIO-NAZI

Arabs, U.N. Must Move to Swiftly Protect the Status of Palestinian Refugees

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 90 percent of all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have lost their jobs. A volunteer from the Palestinian Association for Human Rights sprays disinfectant in a home in the Shatila camp for Palestinian refugees, on the southern outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, March 24. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2020, pp. 18-19 From the Diaspora By Ramzy Baroud “HEINOUS RACISM,” is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon’s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of Palestinian refugees is nothing new. However, this event is particularly alarming as ...