To everyone who's already voted or is planning on voting Stein/Ware, salute to you!
I'm so glad I did with early voting and will NEVER APOLOGIZE for it.
'F' the Dems and Repubs. Both parties work for Israel, the war machine and Wall Street.
The media is run by the CIA.
It's a bad day when Dick Cheney is supporting Harris! He is a war criminal.
Time to overturn the corporate war machine.
Bruce
Students, staff, and community members at the University of Manchester (UK) disrupted a controversial event accused of trying to portray anti-Zionism as antisemitism.
Organised as what the university says was a debate between Abdullah Al-Andalusi from the Muslim Debate Initiative and Zionist advocate Raphi Bloom, the event faced strong opposition from protesters demanding its cancellation.
Tensions escalated as protesters interrupted the discussion, resulting in confrontations with pro-Israel attendees and security removing several speakers, including a Palestinian.
Students and staff condemned the university for hosting a harmful platform, and called instead for an end to institutional ties with Israel and defence contractors.
What is happening in Gaza shatters all standards and violates all international law, UNICEF spokesperson Kazem Abu-Khalaf told Al Mayadeen on Monday, emphasizing that the Israeli ban on UNRWA will certainly impact its operations in the Strip as an international humanitarian organization.
Abu-Khalaf underlined that UNRWA is the backbone of all humanitarian responses in the Gaza Strip, affirming that the bombardment in Lebanon and Gaza does not differentiate civilian targets from military ones, and disregards the provisions of international law.
The UN official revealed that one in
every five children in Gaza suffers from malnutrition, stressing that
some children have reached the stage of emaciation.
“I don’t know how anybody can live with that.”
Three days out from a divisive US election, hundreds marched through New York City calling for a boycott of both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump over their support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
The rally, organised by Pro-Palestine activists, comes amid growing calls for the Joe Biden administration to impose an embargo on Israel’s and to call for an immediate ceasefire.
More than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed over the last year, with the US supplying more than $20 billion worth of military equipment, including bombs, despite mounting evidence of war crimes being committed by Israel’s military.
Both Trump and Harris have pledged support for Israel’s war, while vowing to work to bring about a ceasefire. Despite softening her stance on the suffering of Palestinians, Harris has rejected pressure to push for an arms embargo.
The Biden-Harris duo have done nothing real to make a ceasefire happen. They are in the zionists pocket.
I often share the story (from the excellent book above) about Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and the military-industrial complex that existed in the late 1800s. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull had been brought onto the reservation in South Dakota. They only surrendered to the U.S. Army because their people were starving. Washington had sent snipers on trains to ride across the western plains and shoot any buffalo they came in contact with. The army decimated the herds. The hearts of the native people were broken – they saw the evil enemy they were facing in the flesh.
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| Piles of buffalo bones |
The U.S. Civil War ended in
1865 and the Indian Wars soon after. The military-industrial complex was
worried about its future. They had artists make renderings of Crazy
Horse supposedly back on the warpath.
Newspapers in the big
east coast cities across the U.S. printed stories about Crazy Horse raping white
women and killing children. Soon the public was led to express their
outrage and “the people demanded something be done”. Doesn’t that sound
familiar? The Congress in Washington immediately swung into action and
appropriated more funds for the Indian Wars – while Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull were sitting on the reservation in South Dakota without a
gun to their name.
This story has been repeated legions of times since –in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine and Lebanon. And the public relations script coming from Washington is always so familiar.
Writer and humorist Mark Twain became an
anti-imperialist during the U.S. occupation of the Philippines
(1898-1946). You might check out his writings.
The citizens of the U.S. could have full employment, a clean environment, Medicare for All, real social justice, and much more, except the U.S. has long been a fascist nation. Italy’s WW2 leader Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the “wedding of corporations and government”. That definition fits the United States of America.
America’s original sin was the genocide of the native people and the institution of slavery. The only way out of this 'forever war cycle' is to confront this addiction.
“Hello, my name is America and I am addicted to lies, violence, greed, and endless war”.
Where is the leadership to make a real change in this wretched nation?
Bruce
It's taken almost a month to get the final clarifications from the court in New Hampshire. The paperwork arrived this week. Here is the final update from our sentencing hearing by the judge:
After being found guilty for blocking the worker entrance to Israel-owned Elbit Systems weapons facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire we were sentenced by the judge on October 7.
The eight of us involved in the trial were all found guilty of trespassing and 5 of the 8 defendants were found guilty of Resisting Arrest (RA). I was one of the three who had the RA charges dropped by the judge during our October 1 trial.
At the October 7 sentencing the judge called on us to make any statement that we wished. I was the first to go and this is what I said:
Obviously, I understood that we very likely might be arrested. The way I see it now is as follows:
My understanding that Nuremberg Law, after the unforgivable genocide of Jews across Europe by Hitler's army during WW2, makes clear that we all have a legal right and a duty to intervene to prevent such crimes. It is pretty clear to me.
Elbit Systems, with weapons production facilities in dozens of nations, must be challenged, thus I felt compelled by conscience to participate in the non-violent action.
During the Iraq war I was watching CSPAN TV one evening and heard a speaker introduced as then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's 'strategy guy'. The speaker was Thomas Barnett, then a professor at the Navy War College. He told the audience that America's role in the world in the coming years would be 'Security Export'. It is no coincidence today that America's #1 industrial export is weapons.
I invite you judge to yourself give something to the current international movement to help stop this genocide in Palestine and Lebanon.
After all the defendants had made their statements the judge heard our attorney argue for community service rather than steep fines. There was much back-and-forth between the prosecutor, the judge and our attorney.
In the end the judge has decided that whose with two charges should have to pay $620 in fines or do 42 hours of community service.
Those like myself with just one charge would either have to pay $310 in fines or do 21 hours of community service.
All of us also have a two-year 'keep out of trouble' requirement which means if we get arrested again heavier charges will kick back in against us.
So I have chosen to do the 21 hours of community service and will perform this at a local church that has a weekly supper for people on the margins of life.
In the end I was proud to have been involved in the action at Elbit Systems. In the meantime I will still keep protesting just as I have been doing.
Bruce
One year ago Brazil's President
ascension
Lula has made several recent moves toward a policy of deep friendship with the West. Cutting ties with Nicaragua, not recognizing Maduro’s [re-election] victory, and condemning the Russian special military operation in Ukraine were just some of these moves. More recently, Lula even suggested that he would disapprove of Venezuela’s candidacy for the BRICS, which shows how aligned he is with Western interests, acting irresponsibly in the emerging nations forum.
On the one hand, it is possible to say that Lula has “changed”, since he is clearly no longer the same energetic leader in favor of emerging countries who won the sympathy of the people during his first terms. However, on a deeper analysis, it is also possible to say that he remains the “same”: a multi-lateralist without any deep geopolitical ambitions – and, therefore, uninterested in the creation of a multi-polar world.
Lula is aligned with a way of thinking typical of the so-called “Global South” in the early 2000s, when expectations of “change” on the world stage were limited to cooperation projects to combat poverty, expand economic multi-lateralism and achieve joint development among emerging countries. At the time, there was no hope of changing the geopolitical arena and the global balance of power, except to create a multi-lateral order with relations between states being measured by international organizations.
Lula is still tied to this type of thinking typical of the 2000s. He has not been able to properly understand recent events and the profound changes in the structures of world geopolitics. Therefore, Brazil under his government has not yet understood the real nature of the BRICS and continues to think of the bloc along the lines of the projects of the bankers of Goldman Sachs. This naivety and ignorance explain why Lula gives little or no value to the BRICS [recent] Summit.
Venezuela interpreted the veto as a continuation of the far-right foreign policy of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. “The Brazilian foreign ministry has decided to maintain the veto that [past president] Jair Bolsonaro imposed on Venezuela for years, reproducing the hatred, exclusion, and intolerance promoted by Western centers of power,” said Venezuela’s foreign ministry.
President Putin expressed opposition to Brazil’s decision and called for further dialogue between Lula and Maduro. “We understand Brazil’s position, but we disagree. Venezuela is fighting for its survival. I know President Lula; he is a very decent and honest man. I’m sure he’ll address the situation from that standpoint. He asked me to speak with Maduro, and I hope the situation can be resolved,” stated the Russian president.
Saudi Arabia has been invited to join the group, but has not yet taken up membership. Likely due to enormous pressure from the US and the UK.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE): "And then the Russians say to me, 'You keep expanding NATO; we're going to make friends with China.' I almost laughed; I could barely contain myself, and I said, Good luck to you guys. If you fail with China, try Iran."
This was part of deep-state Atlantic Council presentation in 1997 on topic of NATO Expansion.
Biden talked about the possibility of NATO expansion and what it could mean for the future of foreign diplomacy. He outlined his support for enlargement of NATO and gave his predictions for the Senate’s position on the issue.
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were the United States' choices for membership in NATO at that time.
Biden turned out to be dead wrong....forgive the pun.
So today Russia's top allies are China, Iran....and now North Korea.
Just goes to show how the arrogant and not so smart western leaders keep tossing their countries into a deep dark hole.
But hey, they are the 'exceptional' ones after all....
And what about NATO now? It's 'going global' but in trouble as the EU nations can't afford to pay their dues to the metastasizing military war mongering alliance.
