Video and transcipt at link
https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/18/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein-the-chris-hedges-report/
Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandonded their principles in servitude to the Zionist agenda.
Finkelstein makes clear the gravity of Israel’s unprecedented actions: “If you take any metric—number of UN workers killed, number of medics killed, number of journalists killed, proportion of civilians to combatants killed, proportion of children killed, proportion of women and children killed—if you take any metric, Israel for the 21st century is in a class all its own.”
Israel’s use of propaganda and strategically timed attacks—often lining up with other major world events so as to avoid media scrutiny—has muddied political outlook of the genocide into one of war and defense rather than ethnic cleansing. The American media has done its part to feed these narratives as well.b
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpSMLTx-pjs
Lawyers accuse British Israelis of Gaza war crimes
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Trump Again Threatens Attack on Iran, Suggests Israel Could Lead It
On Wednesday, President Trump again threatened the possibility of the US taking military action against Iran and suggested Israel might “lead” the attack.
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if the US would attack if a nuclear deal isn’t reached with Iran.
“Israel will obviously be very much involved in that — it’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do,” he added.
Trump’s latest threat comes ahead of negotiations between the US and Iran that will be held in Oman this Saturday. The talks will be attended by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.
Trump has insisted the talks will be direct negotiations, while Aragchi has said they will be indirect, meaning Omani mediators will pass messages between the two sides. Reports have said that Iran would need a goodwill gesture from the US to hold direct talks, such as the removal of some sanctions. But the Trump administration continues to impose sanctions and added new ones on Wednesday..............
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/trumps-market-whiplash-continues.html
Trump's Market Whiplash Continues
Yesterday's piece had warned about the curious drop in Treasurys and rise of interest rates. It was a dire sign that the global economy and markets far beyond Wall Street were going bad.
The Trump administration recognized the danger and, just fifteen minutes after I had published my post, pulled back (archived):
The economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused Mr. Trump to blink on Wednesday afternoon and pause his “reciprocal” tariffs for most countries for the next 90 days, according to four people with direct knowledge of the president’s decision.Asked to explain the decision, Mr. Trump told reporters: “Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.”
Behind the scenes, senior members of Mr. Trump’s team had feared a financial panic that could spiral out of control and potentially devastate the economy. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and others on the president’s team, including Vice President JD Vance, had been pushing for a more structured approach to the trade conflict that would focus on isolating China as the worst actor while still sending a broader message that Mr. Trump was serious.
This does not mean that the trouble has ended.
Who is going to invest, into what, while any day, at any moment, the most basic economic conditions may change in completely unpredictable directions:
Asked on Wednesday how he would decide on any further exemptions, Mr. Trump said: “Instinctively, more than anything else. I mean, you almost can’t take a pencil to paper. It’s really more of an instinct, I think, than anything else.”
By admitting that Trump acknowledges that he is the real problem.............
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https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/09/aipac-access-trump-natsec-officials-leaked/
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/13/israel-bombs-christian-run-hospital-in-gaza-city-on-palm-sunday/
Israel Bombs Christian-Run Hospital in Gaza City on Palm Sunday
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which manages the hospital, strongly condemned the attackEarly Sunday morning, the Israeli military bombed the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, putting the medical facility out of service.
According to Middle East Eye, Gaza’s Civil Defense said the bombing caused “the destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units.” The strike damaged other buildings, including the adjoining St. Phillip’s Church.
The Civil Defense said the strike hit the hospital “minutes” after the Israeli military ordered the hospital to be evacuated. Eyewitnesses told MEE that they only had 18 minutes to leave the hospital.
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Video and transcription at link below.
https://corbettreport.com/what-i-learned-from-the-jfk-files/
Episode 474 – What I Learned From The JFK Files
In case you haven’t heard, the JFK files just dropped recently. So, what are these documents? Where did they come from? What do they contain? And, most important of all, why have they been hidden from us for over 60 years? James has the answers in this deep dive edition of The Corbett Report podcast.........
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https://www.rt.com/news/615719-us-teen-trump-assassination-ukraine/
US teen plotted to kill Trump and flee to Ukraine – FBI
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Casap, 17, was charged last month with first-degree murder after police found the bodies of his mother and stepfather, both shot in the head, inside their Waukesha home. He was arrested in Kansas after fleeing in a stolen vehicle with $14,000 in cash, passports, and the family dog. Officers also recovered an unloaded revolver, boxes of ammunition, and two cell phones during the traffic stop.
“Casap appears to have written a manifesto calling for the assassination of the President of the United States. He was in touch with other parties about his plan to kill the President and overthrow the government of the United States,” the unsealed warrant stated. “The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carry out his plan.”............
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-supreme-court-equality-act-ruling-1.7511411
British Supreme Court unanimously rules legal definition of a 'woman' excludes trans women's identities
Five justices say language in Equality Act refers to person's assigned sex at birth
The United Kingdom's top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal by the campaign group For Women Scotland on whether transgender women are legally women under equality legislation, but it said trans people would not be disadvantaged by its landmark decision.
The unanimous judgment from five Supreme Court justices related to whether a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate (GRC), a formal document that gives legal recognition of someone's new gender, is protected from discrimination as a woman under Britain's Equality Act.
For Women Scotland had argued rights under the Equality Act should only apply based on a person's assigned sex at birth. It had challenged guidance issued by the devolved Scottish government that accompanied a 2018 law designed to increase the proportion of women on public sector boards..............
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