I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths
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Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide
Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to obscure Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s Genocide
Now the countless images of starving Palestinians — men, women, children, ordinary people, doctors, nurses, aid workers — have pushed matters to the point we can now call genocide by its proper name.
Genocide’s Hard When You’ve Got a PR War to Win
Israel’s quest to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians through expulsion or extermination keeps getting interrupted for photo ops of aid airlifts or a few aid trucks to satisfy feigned Western grievance, writes Joe Lauria.
Patrick Lawrence: World’s Most Dangerous Man & His Enabler
Netanyahu has craved this war with Iran for decades, always justifying his psychotic lust by way of endless lies and an apparently bottomless paranoia.
Propaganda Shapes the Past, Present & Future
Lawrence Davidson examines how indoctrination from previous eras is being resurrected around two crises — U.S. curricula and foreign policy — with debate raging around one and largely absent from the other.
Neocons Flack for Unsavory Saudis
Exclusive: Since Israel decided that Iran was its big enemy “and made Saudi Arabia its quiet ally” American neocons have fallen in line, demanding that the U.S. government punish Iran and coddle the Saudis whatever their unsavory behavior, notes Daniel Lazare.