Senator Hawley falsely accuses us of taking money from China, but when we confront him about taking money from AIPAC, which is totally true, he calls us anti-Semitic and Holocaust supporters. What about the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza that you’re funding, Sen. Hawley? Shame on you. pic.twitter.com/nKNStf7SE4
The only upside to the horror of the last 11 months is that (hopefully) normal people can finally see that Zionist are shameless, soulless goblins who see no value in human life. In fact, they openly celebrate acts of terror and the slaughter of children. https://t.co/mj2qbVWXyg
MLA Jennifer Johnston (Albertan legislator) recently ran afoul of the "Queer Community" (🙄) and was kicked of caucus. As part of her re-education to be re-admited to the causus, she was forced to undergo these Struggle Sessions by… https://t.co/o40Sm99jof
Despite a meticulous process in place to ensure aid worker safety in
Gaza, the leading cause of death in the humanitarian sector over the
last 11 months has been Israeli airstrikes.....................
Fourteen times aid groups were attacked after giving the IDF their location
November 18, 2023: Israeli forces attacked a convoy of five clearly-marked
MSF vehicles, killing two MSF staff members. MSF had coordinated the
convoy’s movement with Israeli authorities and followed the route
prescribed by the Israeli military. MSF staff members saw no military
targets in the area when they were attacked. MSF requested an
explanation from the IDF but received no response.
December 8, 2023:
The Israeli Navy fired at facilities affiliated with the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah with
20mm cannon rounds, damaging the west side of the two buildings. UNRWA
officials had repeatedly shared the coordinates of the buildings with Israeli officials, including on the same day of the attack. Agency staff told
Human Rights Watch that they were unaware of any military targets in
the area. Afterwards, the Israeli military said the attack was carried
out by mistake.
December 16, 2023: An IDF tank fired several rounds
at the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Teresa (Missionaries of
Charity), part of the Holy Family Catholic Parish compound in Gaza. The
attack displaced the 54 disabled people sheltering there, leaving some
without the respirators “that some of them need to survive,” the Latin
Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.
An aid worker was reportedly injured in the attack. Later that day, an Israeli sniper killed two women sheltering at the church, shooting
one woman as she tried to carry the other to safety. When others in the
church ran toward the women, Israeli snipers shot them too, wounding
several, including two children. Pope Francis condemned the attack, calling it “terrorism.”
Emails between Catholic Relief Services and U.S. Senate staff obtained by Politico
show that Catholic Relief Services (one of the largest Christian aid
organizations operating in Gaza) had provided the coordinates of the two
buildings to Senate staffers, who then relayed that information to the
IDF. The IDF confirmed the location of the buildings that Catholic
Relief Services requested for protection. The aid group also provided
aerial photos of the facilities directly to Israeli authorities. The
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Church said they shared their GPS coordinates with the IDF several times before the attack.
December 28, 2023:
A convoy of U.N. aid vehicles were shot at by Israeli forces in central
Gaza as it was returning from delivering aid in the north. The vehicles
were clearly-marked with U.N. insignia, traveling along a route
designated by the Israeli military and had coordinated its plans with
Israeli authorities beforehand.
January 8, 2024: An Israeli tank fired at a clearly-marked MSF shelter in Khan Younis housing more than 100 staff and their family members, killing a five-year-old girl.
MSF had previously notified the IDF of the shelter’s location. Israeli
forces denied that they fired a round at the shelter, but remnants of an
Israeli-made tank shell were discovered right outside the building.
January 18, 2024:
An Israeli airstrike struck a residential compound housing staff from
the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for
Palestinians (MAP) in Al-Mawasi, an Israeli-designated
safe zone. The blast injured several workers and severely damaged the
building. As a result, six emergency medical workers had to leave their posts, and IRC and MAP surgeons suspended their work at Nasser hospital. Forensic evidence suggests the munition used in the attack was a U.S.-made 1,000-pound MK-83 bomb, reportedly
dropped by a U.S.-made F-16 aircraft. British officials had used
high-level diplomatic channels to ensure the compound was deconflicted
with the IDF. A month before the strike, the Israeli military explicitly
reassured
aid staff through text messages that they were safe. “We’re aware of
the location” of the compound, a message from an IDF official read. The
MAP employee then clarified whether the building is still safe. “Yes,”
replied the IDF official.
Israel provided six different — and
often conflicting — explanations for the attack. It said it wasn’t
operating in the area; it said it was attempting to hit a target next to
the MAP-IRC compound; it said it wasn’t actually a bomb but a piece of
the aircraft fuselage. The IDF told The New York Times that they didn’t strike the location at all.
January 31, 2024: Israeli forces bombed the offices of the Belgian development agency, Enabel, completelydestroying the building. Handicap International, an NGO, had offices in the same structure. Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said
that Israeli authorities “knew very well that Enabel’s offices were
located in this building.” Earlier that day, the Belgian government
announced it would not suspend funding for UNRWA, after the Israeli government claimed withoutevidence that UNRWA staff had participated in the October 7 massacre.
In mid-February, Israeli forces claimed
it had not bombed the Enabel building, but that it was destroyed when
they blew up the building next door for an unspecified military reason.
February 5, 2024:
Israeli ships shelled a clearly-marked UNRWA convoy, damaging one of
the aid trucks. The convoy was stopped at an Israeli-designated holding
point when it was shelled. UNRWA had coordinated the convoy’s movement
with Israeli authorities. As a result of the attack, UNRWA had to pause
its operations in northern Gaza for nearly three weeks, affecting
200,000 people. Israeli authorities later acknowledged the attack and
said it had put in place “prevention measures” to prevent another
incident. The next month, the Israeli government blocked UNRWA from providing any food assistance to northern Gaza.
February 20, 2024:
Two family members of MSF staff were killed when an Israeli tank fired a
shell at a MSF shelter. Seven others, mostly women and children, were
injured. A large MSF flag was clearly visible on the side of the building. Israeli forces provided MSF with no warning before the attack and no explanation afterwards.
March 9, 2024:
An Anera employee was killed in his home along with his six-year-old
son and several neighbors in an Israeli airstrike. The building was registered
with the Israeli military as a “sensitive site.” Email records show
that Anera had repeatedly shared coordinates and photos of the staff
shelter with the IDF, including days before the strike. A
precision-guided munition was likely used in the attack.
April 1, 2024: Multiple precision Israeli drone strikes on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy killed seven
aid workers, including an American citizen. The Washington, DC-based
group had coordinated its route with the IDF beforehand. The vehicles
were struck in a deconfliction zone controlled by the Israeli military.
WCK founder José Andrés said Israeli forces targeted his colleagues “systematically, car by car.” Forensic evidence
backs up Andrés’s claim. “This was not just a bad luck situation where
‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andrés said, pointing to
the fact that it was clearly-marked humanitarian convoy with colorful
WCK logos on the vehicle roofs, and the 1.8 kilometer distance between
the first and the third car in the convoy, each. It was “very clear who
we are and what we do,” he added.
IDF Spokesman Danial Hagari said
WCK had “coordinated everything correctly with the IDF in advance” and
blamed “internal failures.” President Joe Biden said he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the deaths, and called on Israel to investigate itself. But for WCK’s founder, “The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure,” Andrés said.
April 9, 2024: A clearly-marked UNICEF aid truck was reportedly hit by Israeli gunfire
south of the Salah Al-Din checkpoint. The vehicle was at a holding
point when it was struck by several bullets coming from the direction of
the Israeli checkpoint. The IDF had approved the convoy beforehand. The Israeli military denied that its troops had fired the shots.
August 27, 2024:
A U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under fire near an
Israeli checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza bridge. As the vehicles approached
the checkpoint after receiving multiple clearances to proceed, Israeli
troops opened fire, hitting one WFP vehicle at least ten times. Several
bullets struck the vehicle’s windows, just above the clearly-visible
U.N. insignia and WFP logo emblazoned on the side doors. Israeli
officials blamed a “communication error” for the attack.
August 29, 2024:
An Israeli airstrike on an Anera aid convoy killed four Palestinians as
it was en route to the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital. The route was
coordinated and approved by Israeli authorities. Israeli officials claim
the lead car the IDF struck was carrying many weapons, but there was no
indication that weapons were present. The IDF provided Anera no warning
before carrying out the attack...............
The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela uses new Cyber Tools, but cannot Break the Chavista Wall
by Stansfield Smith / September 13th, 2024
The
peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard
leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the
US. The US rulers operate as the inheritor of the European colonial
empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections,
and dictate who are the winners. No other country – save US underlings
in Europe, and Israel – dares to violate international law so brazenly.
The Venezuelan right-wing had no real plan to win a democratic election, but instead prepared for a coup d’etat
even before the polls closed. Working with the US government and
corporate media, they allege President Maduro stole the July 28
presidential election, then committed human rights abuses to crush
protests. This opposition declares it beat President Maduro 70% to 30%
but refuses to present their “evidence” to the National Electoral
Council (CNE) or Supreme Court. The opposition claimed fraud in every
election during the 25-year period of Chavista rule – except twice, when
they won.
The attempted coup bears much in common with recent US
coup attempts in Nicaragua (2018), Bolivia (2019) and Venezuela (2013,
2014, 2017, 2019). If the US-backed candidates lose, the election is
“fraudulent.” This scheme drove Evo Morales from power in Bolivia. The
US even appointed its own president for Venezuela after its 2018
presidential election, and then proceeded to steal tens of billions of
dollars of Venezuela’s resources held overseas.,....................
Putin: Supporting Long-Range Strikes on Russian Territory Would Put NATO ‘at War With Russia’
POLITICO reports the US is preparing to expand where Ukraine can hit inside Russia with US and British missiles
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday strongly warned the US
against allowing Ukraine to use NATO missiles in long-range strikes
inside Russian territory, saying the move would put the Western military alliance “at war with Russia.”
Putin’s comments came after POLITICO reported that
the White House was finalizing plans to expand the areas inside Russia
where Ukraine can use US and British-provided missiles.
“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict,” Putin told a TV reporter, according to AFP.
“It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at
war with Russia. If that’s the case, then taking into account the change
of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based
on the threats that we will face.”
He added that supporting long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russian
territory is “a decision on whether NATO countries are directly involved
in the military conflict or not.”...............
The
legendary Athenian historian and general, Thucydides, was a man who
believed in the supposed verities of war and conflict as a means by
which to settle the affairs of state.
It
is therefore no accident or surprise that his classic account of the
Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC
remains a staple of military academies throughout the West.
Therein
lies the problem, because unlike in the days of antiquity, when wars
between the great powers were fought with spears and swords, in our time
hypersonic missile technology and nuclear payloads have raised wars
between the great powers — or perhaps reduced it — to the status of a
zero sum game.
This
is the grim context in which must be viewed the latest escalatory
development when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine between Russia and
the West. Yes, you read that correctly. This is in truth a conflict
between Russia and the West, not per se Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine
in this regard is merely a convenient and bloodsoaked proxy — a cat’s
paw whose manhood has and is being sacrificed on the altar of U.S.-led
Western hegemony.
As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here),
the U.S. government is prosecuting members of a small political group
named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru”
movement. The trial is taking place in U.S. District Court in Tampa. The
group has been advocating socialism and opposing U.S. imperialism for
around 50 years. The feds are prosecuting them as part of their
anti-Russia crusade that U.S. officials have been waging since even
before the end of World War II. Specifically, the defendants are being
prosecuted for failing to register themselves as agents of the Russian
government and “sowing discord and conflict” within American voters,
especially by opposing the U.S. government’s foreign policy of
interventionism, including in Ukraine.
On Day 3 of the trial last week, the feds presented an
“expert witness” to establish Russia’s history of disinformation. That’s
rich, given that the U.S. government has long been one of the leaders
of disinformation............
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and
Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating
propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists
who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for failure to
comply with the Soviet Constitution of 1936, which guaranteed the
freedom of speech.
Their convictions sparked international outrage. Former U.S. Supreme
Court Justice, and then America’s U.N. ambassador, Arthur Goldberg
called the charges and the trial “an outrageous attempt to give the form
of legality to the suppression of a basic human right.” When a secret
transcript of the trial was circulated in the West, it became clear that
Daniel and Sinyavsky were convicted of using words and expressing ideas
contrary to what Soviet leaders wanted. They were sentenced to five and
seven years, respectively, of hard labor in Soviet prison camps.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Political Justice took a page from
the Soviets and charged Americans and Russians with disseminating
anti-Biden administration propaganda in Russia and here in the U.S. What
ever happened to the freedom of speech?
Here is the backstory.
The Framers who crafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, both
under the leadership and the pen of James Madison, were the same
generation that revolted violently against King George III and
Parliament and won the American Revolution. The revolution was more than
just six years of war in the colonies. It was a radical change in the
minds of men — elites like Thomas Jefferson and Madison, as well as
farmers and laborers generally untutored in political philosophy...........................
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Casey Means was a Stanford-educated surgeon. Her brother Calley was a lobbyist for pharma and the food industry. Both quit their jobs in horror when they realized how many people were being killed by the systems they participated in. This is an amazing story.
Casey Means was a Stanford-educated surgeon. Her brother Calley was a lobbyist for pharma and the food industry. Both quit their jobs in horror when they realized how many people were being killed by the systems they participated in. This is an amazing story.
Surprising many, legendary rapper and activist Chuck D appeared at the White House earlier this summer, announcing
that he was joining forces with YouTube and Antony Blinken’s State
Department to become one of Washington’s “global music ambassadors” – a
role directly modeled on Washington’s Cold War-era efforts to use the
arts to inspire U.S.-backed regime change in Eastern Europe, and to use
musical tours as covers that the CIA could use to assassinate foreign
leaders.
Among a crowd of artists that included Herbie Hancock, Armani White,
BRELAND, Denyce Graves, Grace Bowers, Jelly Roll, Justin Tranter, Kane
Brown, Lainey Wilson, and Teddy Swims, the Public Enemy frontman was
centerstage, standing directly on Blinken’s right-hand side, and was the
first artist in the room mentioned by the Secretary of State, earning a
round of applause from the journalists and dignitaries assembled. “I
would like to thank everybody in the U.S. State Department and also
YouTube for having me being invited to being a United States global
music ambassador,” he said.
All this is a far cry from Chuck D.’s beginnings and outward image.
The rapper and writer of such songs as “Fight the Power” and “Rebel
Without a Cause” used both the aesthetics and message of the Black
Panther Party in his performances and was seen as Malcolm X with a
microphone. He lists the Panthers and Malcolm X as influences during his
formative years. “I was in the Black Panther lunch program,” he told
the Historic.ly podcast. Thus, for an artist to go from
unapologetically demanding black power to now enthusiastically
supporting state power is a bitter pill to swallow for his millions of
fans......
Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel
The Guardian columnist has to twist the story of the
first Jew to escape Auschwitz because a true biography of Rudolf Vrba
would expose the Zionist movement’s collusion with the Nazis
Tony Greenstein offers an excoriating account
of how Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland distorted the historical
record in his biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape
Auschwitz.
One might wonder why Vrba’s incredible story has been buried for decades, given how keen Hollywood is to make Holocaust movies.
Greenstein explains. Vrba’s efforts in early 1944 to warn other Jews
of their coming fate in the Nazi death camps were betrayed by European
leaders of the Zionist movement, who silenced him.
That movement was prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Jews
in return for the Nazis escorting the Zionist elite out of danger in
Europe to Palestine. There the Zionist movement was already
well-advanced in its preparations to expel the native Palestinians and
build a self-declared Jewish state on the ruins of their homeland...................
Poorly trained recruits contribute to loss of Ukrainian territory on eastern front, commanders say
Ukrainian commanders and soldiers say some new troops refuse to fire at the enemy
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
August 22, 2024, 12:09 AM
KYIV, Ukraine -- Some
new Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire at the enemy. Others, according
to commanders and fellow fighters, struggle to assemble weapons or to
coordinate basic combat movements. A few have even walked away from
their posts, abandoning the battlefield altogether.
While Ukraine presses on with its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region,
its troops are still losing precious ground along the country's eastern
front — a grim erosion that military commanders blame in part on poorly
trained recruits drawn from a recent mobilization drive, as well as
Russia’s clear superiority in ammunition and air power.
“Some
people don’t want to shoot. They see the enemy in the firing position
in trenches but don’t open fire. ... That is why our men are dying,”
said a frustrated battalion commander in Ukraine’s 47th Brigade. “When
they don’t use the weapon, they are ineffective.”
The
accounts come from commanders and soldiers who spoke to The Associated
Press on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about sensitive
military matters. Others spoke on the condition that they be identified
only by their call signs in keeping with Ukrainian military protocol.
Commanders
say the recruits have contributed to a string of territorial losses
that enabled Russia’s army to advance, including near the city of Pokrovsk, a critical logistics hub. If it falls,
the defeat would imperil Ukraine’s defenses and bring Russia closer to
its stated aim of capturing the Donetsk region. Russian soldiers are now
just 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between real photographs and AI-generated images.
AI can create everything from stunning landscapes to lifelike portraits in a matter of moments—and at first glance, they may appear perfectly legitimate.
In this age of misinformation, how can you discern if the images you’re seeing are real or fabricated?
Fortunately, there are subtle clues that can help us tell the difference, including inconsistencies in texture, anomalies in human features, and garbled writing. By understanding these telltale signs, you can better navigate digital information and assess the authenticity of the images you encounter.
Sometime
before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden
secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to
kill persons in other countries, so long as the C.I.A. and its military
counterparts have “near certainty” that the target of the homicide is a
member of a terrorist organization. That standard was concocted by the
George W. Bush administration in 2002.
There
is no “near certainty” standard in the law, as the phrase is oxymoronic
and defies a rational definition — like “nearly pregnant.”
Just as one is either pregnant or not, one is either certain or not. There is no “near” there.
Yet, the creation of this standard underscores the lamentable absence of the rule of law in government today.
The
Biden administration and its three immediate predecessors have all
deployed drones to kill persons who were not engaged in acts of violence
at the time of their killing, irrespective of the near certainty of
their membership in any organizations..............