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Archives for أغسطس 2022

Miko Peled: Israel Blames its Victims for the Violence it Causes

Palestinians are at a point where they can find no support anywhere, regardless of the severity of their conditions. Be they simply people who want to live their lives, fighters, activists or organizations dedicated to human rights, they will be killed and harassed.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled

Jerusalem, Palestine - The situation in Palestine can be summed up as follows: Rampant Settler violence and intimidation, state-sponsored racism and violence, modern, comfortable housing and living conditions for Jews only while Palestinians are denied basic services, killing of Palestinians across the board – activists, journalists, fighters,

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Israel’s Premature ‘Victory’ Celebration: The defining War in Gaza Is Yet to Be Fought

For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines and Israel’s three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality.

Ramzy Baroud
بواسطة Ramzy Baroud

For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality. Throughout its military operation, Israel has repeatedly underscored the point that the war was targeting the Islamic Jihad Movement only, not Hamas or anyone else. A

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Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing Have Been Missing In Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom

The novelist is championed by western liberals not because he’s bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.

Jonathan Cook
بواسطة Jonathan Cook
Rushdie Assange Feature photo

Nothing I am about to write should be read as diminishing in any way my sympathy for Salman Rushdie, or my outrage at the appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery. But my natural

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J-Street, Andy Levin, and Liberal Zionism 

Looking at it from Palestine, representative Andy Levine’s claims to be “pro-Palestinian,” are even more absurd than they are when seeing them from the U.S.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled

Jerusalem, Palestine - The liberal Zionist voice, which many people mistake for actual support for justice in Palestine, is toxic and dangerous and probably serves Israel and its brutal, racist agenda more than any other ideology. The most glaring example for this is of course J-Street and its followers. The following two statements are from the

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New Polls Show Almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore

Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Nowadays, they never keep it a secret that they run the media.

Lee Camp
بواسطة Lee Camp

The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the news behind the news. Camp both brings to light stories that are (intentionally) ignored by the corporate media and digs deeper when the mainstream media only reports on the surface-layer reality. Having been a

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Chris Hedges: We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last

The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.

Chris Hedges
بواسطة Chris Hedges

CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois (Scheerpost) -  I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of visitors. My shirt is matted with sweat. I look out from the

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