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IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation

December 17, 2023

Patrick Lawrence writes that Joe Biden, a.k.a. “the Big Guy,” will be formally investigated on accumulating evidence he participated and benefited from his son Hunter’s years of manifestly criminal conniving. 

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Analysis, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, War Crimes

Caitlin Johnstone: That Can’t Be True About Israel

December 17, 2023

Israel’s actions are so horrific and depraved I keep thinking I must be misinterpreting what I’m reading or disregarding a claim as over the top, only to find out it’s true, says Caitlin Johnstone.

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Analysis, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine

WATCH: ‘They Stole a Country in Full Bloom’

December 15, 2023

Pro-Palestinian Israeli activist Miko Peled explains to a Melbourne, Australia audience Thursday how Israel stole Palestinian cities and farmland in 1948 and has continued its ethnic cleansing until today’s brutal operation in Gaza.

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New Zealand Leaning to Controversial AUKUS Alliance

December 15, 2023

As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.

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War in Ukraine & the ‘Crisis of Western Civilization’

December 15, 2023

After the collapse of the U.S.S.R. many Ukrainians, including members of the Rada, had a new agenda, writes Edward Lozansky. But Washington wasn’t interested. 

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Craig Murray: Murder

December 15, 2023

It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed.

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Chris Hedges: The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets

December 14, 2023

The only language left is the language of death. It is how Israel speaks to the Palestinians. It is how the Palestinians are forced to speak back.

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A Master of Terror

December 14, 2023

Indonesian and Australian media are largely silent on Prabowo’s record in East Timor, writes Pat Walsh. This leaves voters in the dark about on an extended and revealing period of the likely next president of Indonesia.

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West Fears ‘Atrocity Upsurge’ While Ignoring Gaza

December 14, 2023

The problem isn’t “global inaction” to prevent mass atrocities, as The Guardian claims, writes Jonathan Cook. It’s intense U.S. and U.K. support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power.

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AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Zionism Has Lost Young America

December 13, 2023

Nobody really believes there’s a threat to Jewish students on campuses or that pro-Palestinian students are subjecting their Jewish classmates to abuse or harassment.

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Forcible Transfer of Gazans Is a Crime Against Humanity

December 13, 2023

The biased chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court condemns Hamas but ignores Israel’s atrocious crimes, writes Marjorie Cohn.

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US Losing Allies on Gaza

December 13, 2023

The U.S. again voted against a Gaza ceasefire on Tuesday, but this time a slew of U.S. allies abandoned Washington in the U.N. General Assembly, writes Joe Lauria.

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UN Honor, US Shame in Gaza

December 12, 2023

When Washington vetoed a ceasefire in Gaza Friday, it stood alone against international law as the U.K. — its tutor in imperial brutality — dutifully abstained, writes Jeffrey Sachs.

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Gaza & Confronting Power

December 12, 2023

The American state, broadly defined, is well on its way toward a form of apple-pie absolutism, forcing distorted meanings not merely on three university administrators but on all of us.

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WATCH: Anti-Genocide Protestors Arrested at US Capitol

December 12, 2023

U.S. Capitol police arrested demonstrators calling for the end of U.S. support for Israel’s genocide on Monday.

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Israel, Palestine

Caitlin Johnstone: I Will Not Look Away

December 11, 2023

It’s a paltry offering, really. Almost nothing. But it’s all I’ve got to offer: this simple, sacred vow to honor the victims by refusing to look away from what’s being inflicted upon them.

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Craig Murray: Stopping Genocide

December 11, 2023

Almost the entire political Establishment of the West have outed themselves as enthusiastic proponents of a racial supremacism, prepared to give active assistance to a genocide of indigenous people.

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Climate Change, Commentary

Liberalism’s Intimacy With the Far Right

December 11, 2023

Though liberal elites are horrified by the vulgarity of the far right, they are not opposed to diverting the masses from a politics of class to a politics of despair, as the far right has done, writes Vijay Prashad.

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Analysis, Britain, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, United Arab Emirates, United Nations

What US Got Most Crucially Wrong in UN Veto

December 10, 2023

The U.S. has again vetoed a Security Council resolution urging an immediate end to the killing in Gaza, in essence backing the ongoing genocide, writes Joe Lauria.

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Assange extradition, Australia, Britain, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Middle East, Palestine, WikiLeaks

WATCH: Assange on Human Rights Day

December 10, 2023

Julian Assange’s father John Shipton addressed a rally in Sydney, Australia on Human Rights Day Sunday, calling for his son’s immediate release. 

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