In the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal influential promoters of western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They’re literally using that phrase, “ending the forever wars”, and then saying it’s a bad thing.
Science journalist Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter, just one day after a viral series of tweets spotlighting an Israeli preprint study which showed that natural immunity from a prior COVID-19 infection is 13 times more effective than vaccines against the delta variant.
This week on the New World Next Week: the FDA approves Comirnaty; even Nature is reporting how health research funders are suppressing inconvenient results; and Aussie truckies are preparing to block every highway in anti-lockdown strike.
Those who are profiting from death, suffering, and injustice have learned a valuable lesson as the world deals with various emergencies — many of which they helped create or made worse: No matter what they do, nobody is going to hold them accountable for their actions in a meaningful way.
With the CDC’s recent change in masking guidelines and its director, Rochelle Walensky,
making rounds on networks talking about the deadliness of the Delta variant, states around the US have taken to updating or reinstating their mask mandates. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), for example, is attempting to reverse a law he signed months ago against mask mandates in schools.
La prise de la Bastille va susciter une peur considérable dans la bourgeoisie.
II faut bien comprendre la signification du 14 juillet, de la prise de la Bastille. Elle va susciter une peur considérable dans la bourgeoisie. La terreur de la populace devient panique.
It’s not easy to shake hands with the people who declared a jihad on your country, helped turn it into the world’s largest heroin consumer, hosted your archenemies, and sicced a motley crew of Islamist militants on your allies.
But Moscow’s pragmatic approach to the Taliban’s stunning victories in Afghanistan bears testimony to its obsession with reclaiming its Soviet-era clout in the Middle East by any means necessary.
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Have our misadventures in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan finally shattered the myth of American exceptionalism? Where once that belief was the projection of a nation trying to lead by example, it morphed into the self-delusion of leading by having a bigger gun.
Les tribunaux italiens ont récemment emprisonné quatorze hommes pour leur rôle dans l’Opération Condor, la campagne de terreur latino-américaine soutenue par les États-Unis [dans les années 1970, NdT]. Mais de nombreux autres tortionnaires vivent une retraite paisible — refusant que justice soit rendue aux gauchistes qu’ils ont brutalisés et assassinés.
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2021-08-26_James_Evan_Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the FDA approves Comirnaty; even Nature is reporting how health research funders are suppressing inconvenient results; and Aussie truckies are preparing to block every highway in anti-lockdown strike.
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Along with a badge and a gun, more and more American police are issued body cameras as standard equipment.
Cameras have emerged as a solution to meet demands for better policing since a series of high-profile killings of unarmed Black civilians beginning in 2014 triggered a re-evaluation of law enforcement tactics and transparency.
It is Monday, August 16, 2021. Hassina Syed, who is 41, is in central Kabul when her mobile phone rings. Her friend screams, shouting into the receiver: “Take your bag and run! They are here and they will kill you.”
Hassina Syed acts quickly.
“I ran as fast as I could.”
She sees people around her doing the same, dressed in business suits, dresses, and office uniforms. The air is filled with fear and confusion.
Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. Now he’s back with his unique take on the 21st century
La réaction excessive des politiciens israéliens et de leurs soutiens transatlantiques à la décision de Ben&Jerry’s de mettre fin à ses ventes dans les territoires palestiniens (illégalement) occupés est aussi absurde qu’instructive.
Lorsque Papin puis Watt ont mis la machine à vapeur à disposition de l’humanité, l’atmosphère comportait 280 millilitres de CO2 par mètre cube d’air, soit 0,028% en volume, ou encore 280 ppm. Cette valeur n’avait quasiment pas varié depuis 10.000 ans, stabilité qui est allée de pair avec celle du climat, permettant ainsi l’émergence des civilisations sédentaires dont nous sommes les lointains descendants.
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Stephen Salter was working on an eggbeater-shaped wind turbine in his machine shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, when he got a curious call. On the other end of the line was the cloud physicist John Latham with an unusual observation: If seawater were injected into stratocumulus clouds — the low-level, puffy, often gray ones that can look like cauliflower — to make them just 2 percent brighter, they would reflect enough sunlight to keep the Earth’s temperature from rising. Latham had christened the concept marine cloud brightening.
Do you think the world is overpopulated? Are you worried that having a baby would contribute to climate change? Deep down, do you hate humanity? If so, then it's time to stop swallowing the propaganda of the anti-human death cult and to realize that creation is our ultimate act of rebellion agains the elitists and eugenicists.
L’ancien analyste des renseignements de l’armée de l’Air américaine est la première personne à être condamnée pour une infraction selon l’Espionage Act de l’administration du président Joe Biden.
Du 7 mai au 8 juillet, nous avons étudié de manière exhaustive les reportages et les directs que le 20h de France 2 a consacrés à la situation en Israël et dans les territoires palestiniens. De dépolitisation en désinformation, on y observe une couverture au rabais, usant quasi méthodiquement des biais traditionnels en la matière (auxquels nous avons consacré notre première émission sur Radio Cause Commune).
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“Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy.” That isn’t a line from Lindsey Graham, but a headline from The Atlantic. What about the infamy of not accepting the Taliban’s surrender in 2001 before all the death and destruction?
La prise de la Bastille, un épisode sanglant de la Révolution française.
Il était huit heures du matin à Versailles, le 15 juillet 1789 lorsque le duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt annonçait à Louis XVI que, la veille, les Parisiens avaient pris la Bastille. Surpris que l’on s’attaque à une prison qui n’avait plus que sept détenus (deux fous, quatre faussaires et un fils de famille enfermé à la demande de ses parents), Louis XVI, on le sait avait demandé si c’était une révolte. « Non, sire, lui répondit le duc, c’est une révolution. »
Dear Prof. Finkelstein,
Since you asked about myself, I am from Pakistan and currently live in the Hague the Netherlands, (which is where I believe your good friend Mouin Rabbani lives?)
My parents were both leftist journalists. My father (Ahfaz-ur-Rahman: you can click on his name for details) went to China as a young man in 1969 to work in the Foreign languages press in Beijing. This was before he had met my mother. He saw first hand many of the injustices of the cultural revolution and came back disillusioned.
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Everyone condemned it, competing with one another in volume, flashing angry looks and going overboard with their castigation.
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After reading your What Gandhi Says I bought and read Knowing Too Much, which I also found to be illuminating. I must confess I read the book looking more for insight into domestic American politics than in American policy toward Israel and Palestine. Jews in late 20th and early 21st century America have played an outsized role in politics, and changes in their political outlook and identification will have great influence on national affairs.
You note on page 12 that “American Jews have been weaned on, and bene
Break The Siege: Medical Relief for GazaWorld Premiere Saturday June 26Restream Sunday June 27, 2021 7pm CST Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms
An ad-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to call for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The organize
Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza
World Premiere Saturday June 26 and Re-Stream Sunday June 27, 2021
The same program will be shown two times
7pm CST
Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms
An an-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to c
Most readers have probably heard about the Israeli attempts to Judaize Sheikh Jarrah.For the past few months, the Palestinians residents of the East Jerusalem have been protesting against the impending supreme court order to expel them from their homes, which would be given to Jewish settlers.
Bari Bovine’s Second Tweet
The other day I went downstairs to purchase a package of Twinkies. But the grocer asked: Are you a Zionist? Then my toilet backed up and I called the plumber. But he asked: Are you a Zionist? Then I tried to board a bus. But the driver asked: Are you a Zionist?
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Former professor Norman Finkelstein is demanding DePaul issue him an apology, alleging the university ruined his academic career.
In 2007, former DePaul political science professor Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, hitherto Israel’s staunchest defender in the U.S. Congress, fell mute during Israel’s latest massacre. (He eventually signed onto a statement calling for a ceasefire.) In addition, there wasn’t a single major rally in support of Israel in New York City. In the past, Israel’s supporters were able to muster a million Jews and every local politician. It seems the tide has turned.
An eye-popping interview on Israeli TV. The host first calls for murdering Palestinian citizens, then berates and talks over a Palestinian guest who challenges his ugly incitement. It's the same pattern with BBC interviews, just with a little less fascism https://t.co/1ueKCsLSDi
Saudi Arabia recently purchased 1,000 Iron Dome batteries. In view of recent developments, it needs to check what are the terms of the warranty. Unfortunately, no one in the Royal Palace reads Hebrew (or, for that matter, any other language).
Here is Bari Bovine Weiss on Gaza:
The results of this mess, as always, are especially bad for the Palestinians who live under Hamas rule. Casualty reports are hard to verify because Hamas controls the media (even the international press) inside the Gaza Strip, but it appears that more than 50 Palestinians have been killed. Some of these people are entirely innocent non-combatants, including children. This is an unspeakable tragedy.