News and Opinions from journalists ......... mid Feb to Feb 28, 2025

 

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/24/with-troops-and-tanks-israel-gives-the-gaza-treatment-to-west-bank-camps-expelling-40000-palestinians/

Juan Cole: Israel Gives the Gaza Treatment to West Bank Camps, Expelling 40,000 Palestinians

February 24, 2025

 

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that Israeli forces have invaded three Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian West Bank — Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams — and expelled their inhabitants. The ghost towns will be occupied by the Israeli military for the next year, according to Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the residents would not be allowed to return.

The Israeli operation against the camps began January 21, virtually as soon as Trump was inaugurated.

I suppose there isn’t any point in bringing it up, given the determination of United States and other major powers to bestow impunity on the extremist Netanyahu government, but article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 says, “Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.”

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli tanks rumbled their way into the Jenin camp Sunday evening, in the biggest escalation of Israeli military violence against Palestinians since 2002 during the second Intifada or uprising.

Operations in the camps at Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas left 61 Palestinians dead according to the Pelestinian ministry of health, in addition to the displacement of tens of thousands and the broad destruction of property, houses and infrastructure.

 

 

 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/17/milei-impeach-crypto-scam/

Argentina’s Milei faces impeachment for promoting crypto scam

 Wyatt Reed and Oscar León·February 17, 2025

The Argentinean president branded himself as an edgy economic genius to ride a wave of financial discontent to power. Now he’s implicated in one of the biggest scams in history, wiping out over $4 billion in market cap in a few hours, leaving Argentineans wondering if they’ve also been rugged.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has been accused of fraud, and is likely to face impeachment charges, after he promoted a sham cryptocurrency token which allowed a handful of con artists to dupe crypto owners out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day. The scam is believed to be the first cryptocurrency “rug-pull” to have been orchestrated with the help of a sitting president. While the exact number of victims is unknown, around 75,000 people are suspected to have been swindled, and a judge has been appointed to investigate after at least 100 criminal complaints were filed against Milei in Argentina in the days since...........

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

 

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/02/17/ron-paul-on-bibi-to-rubio-lets-attack-iran/

Ron Paul on Bibi To Rubio: ‘Let’s Attack Iran!’

by Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2025

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, long-known for his attachment to Israel, was in the country over the weekend for a visit with Israeli PM Netanyahu. Perhaps buoyed by Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, Bibi decided to push one step further, announcing that the US and Israel need to “finish the job” against Iran. Will Trump’s pledge of “no new wars” be able to withstand Bibi’s demands?................................

 

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/fiendish-experiments-trumps-guantanamo-bay-migrant-detentions/

Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions

by Binoy Kampmark / February 28th, 2025

Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been the site and location for the cruelties of paranoia and empire, a place where such laws as due process are subverted, and the presumption to innocence soiled. In this contorted way, the civilian and military branches have mingled and corrupted, the result proving a nightmare for legal authorities keen to ensure that such a facility does, at the very least, observe that sad, dusty relic known as the rule of law.

Legal sharpshooters have been baffled by the latest experiment with the facility, this time from the Trump administration and its efforts to use it as a detention centre for unwanted migrants.................

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

https://corbettreport.com/how-to-get-eggs-for-free/

How to Get Eggs for Free!!! – #SolutionsWatch

by Corbett | Feb 26, 2025 | Solutions Watch, Videos

Are you concerned with the price of eggs? Well, as I see it, there are two options. Either you could participate in the slave suggestion ritual known as voting for a political candidate in the hopes that your preferred candidate will take office so that they can start pressuring the central bank (that shouldn’t exist) to tighten the money supply in the hopes of curbing monetary inflation while simultaneously easing regulatory burden on corporate farmers (who we shouldn’t be buying food from) so that they will be  .......................

 

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/27/caitlin-johnstone-an-empire-being-honest/

Caitlin Johnstone: An Empire Being Honest

February 27, 2025

 Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning Gaza as an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties as Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.

 

President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.

The video is intended to reflect Trump’s plans for a Gaza Strip that has been permanently ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.

If you haven’t watched it yet you definitely should, because words can’t do justice to just how terrible it is...........................

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////