Wednesday, February 26, 2020
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
REVEALED: The British government’s covert propaganda campaign in Syria
REVEALED: The British government’s covert propaganda campaign in Syria: Documents obtained by MEE reveal how British contractors recruited Syrian citizen journalists - often without their knowledge - to promote 'moderate opposition'
Arab rulers and Israel's leaders: A long and secret history of cooperation
Arab rulers and Israel's leaders: A long and secret history of cooperation: The regimes of the Arab world have always put their own interests ahead of the Palestinian people
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
bribing his way into the election
https://yasha.substack.com/p/respectable-racism-only-backward?r=3d53c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
casual xenophobia towards Russians and Russia has become in liberal political and media circles.
As I’ve pointed out before, a lot of people think that racism comes from below — from the uneducated, from the “low-class.” But what this shows again is that racism comes from the very top of our media and political class — the very people who say they oppose Donald Trump and his bigotry.
America’s political elite helped create the Russian oligarchy — an oligarchy that they’re now trying to say comes from some sort of special barbaric gene that only Russians have
casual xenophobia towards Russians and Russia has become in liberal political and media circles.
As I’ve pointed out before, a lot of people think that racism comes from below — from the uneducated, from the “low-class.” But what this shows again is that racism comes from the very top of our media and political class — the very people who say they oppose Donald Trump and his bigotry.
America’s political elite helped create the Russian oligarchy — an oligarchy that they’re now trying to say comes from some sort of special barbaric gene that only Russians have
Saturday, February 15, 2020
"terrorism craze"--"dangerous because it consolidates the immense, unrestrained pseudopatriotic narcissism we are nourishing."
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/essential-terrorist/
staked on the premise that the Western democracies and their leaders are gullible, soft and stupid, a condition whose only remedy is that they abandon their “Western” essence and turn violent, hard and ruthless.
staked on the premise that the Western democracies and their leaders are gullible, soft and stupid, a condition whose only remedy is that they abandon their “Western” essence and turn violent, hard and ruthless.
Among the most important books written on terrorism
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism/Contemporary news accounts of the bombings claimed by the FLLF between
1980 and 1983 suggest that such attacks fit most commonly accepted
definitions of “terrorism,” as well as the one adopted at the Jerusalem
conference in 1979: “Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic killing
of civilians so as to inspire fear.”
The public discussion around Rise and Kill First has focused on the history, efficacy, legality and morality of Israel’s so-called “targeted assassinations” or “targeted killings” program. This program, and all Israeli uses of force, have been discussed solely in the context of this country’s fight against “terrorism.” Remarkably, and quite revealingly, this discussion has proceeded, in its entirety and without a single exception, as if the FLLF bombing campaign had never happened, as if the Palestinians had never been the victims of a widespread campaign of “terrorism,” as if this campaign hadn’t been directed by some of the most senior Israeli leaders of the last decades, that is to say as if the revelations contained in Rise and Kill First had simply never been published.
The public discussion around Rise and Kill First has focused on the history, efficacy, legality and morality of Israel’s so-called “targeted assassinations” or “targeted killings” program. This program, and all Israeli uses of force, have been discussed solely in the context of this country’s fight against “terrorism.” Remarkably, and quite revealingly, this discussion has proceeded, in its entirety and without a single exception, as if the FLLF bombing campaign had never happened, as if the Palestinians had never been the victims of a widespread campaign of “terrorism,” as if this campaign hadn’t been directed by some of the most senior Israeli leaders of the last decades, that is to say as if the revelations contained in Rise and Kill First had simply never been published.
NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence: New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel's high-tech intelligence apparatus.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Demanding Palestinian surrender
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-still-issue/29526
The US-led peace process has always been a means of ensuring Israeli dominance and Palestinian surrender, and never a sincere effort to bring about a just and lasting settlement.
Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah – and an astute and implacable foe of both Israel and US imperialism whom Habash once described as a “true revolutionary” – explained it in this way in 2015: “Imagine if America came to be weakened or expelled from the region or preoccupied by internal social and economic issues, what would Israel’s fate be? Is Israel viable in our region? Never. Israel is an American tool.”
It is the United States that bears primary responsibility for Israel’s crimes, according to Nasrallah, because without US support, Israel would not persist.
Demanding Palestinian surrender
It is clear, therefore – as has so often been the case during Trump’s presidency – that despite the Deal of the Century’s crudeness and unfathomable disdain for those it would impact, its essence is the continuation and intensification of the policies of all previous US administrations.The US-led peace process has always been a means of ensuring Israeli dominance and Palestinian surrender, and never a sincere effort to bring about a just and lasting settlement.
Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah – and an astute and implacable foe of both Israel and US imperialism whom Habash once described as a “true revolutionary” – explained it in this way in 2015: “Imagine if America came to be weakened or expelled from the region or preoccupied by internal social and economic issues, what would Israel’s fate be? Is Israel viable in our region? Never. Israel is an American tool.”
It is the United States that bears primary responsibility for Israel’s crimes, according to Nasrallah, because without US support, Israel would not persist.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Russians and Jews
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/our-fundamental-disagreement-about-wwii-hitler-jews-and-race/
- Russians from what would be considered Russia today, in other words, “Great-Russians” (here “great” does not indicate a superiority, but only a peripheral place of residence, meaning Russians who don’t live in central Russia). For our purposes I will from now on simply call them “Russians”.
- Russians from what would be considered the Ukraine today in other words, “Small-Russians” (meaning Russians living near the cradle of the Russian civilization, Kiev). For our purposes, I will from now on refer to them as “Ukrainians”, but only in a geographical sense, not a cultural one.
- Russian Jews (as opposed to Ukrainian Jews)
- Ukrainian Jews (as opposed to Russian Jews)
Friday, February 7, 2020
A Neoliberal Legacy: America’s Fascism Problem Runs Much Deeper Than Trump
A Neoliberal Legacy: America’s Fascism Problem Runs Much Deeper Than Trump: In recent years, the press reports of racist young whites attracted to far-right persuasions including flirting with fascism. But are they the cause or the consequence?