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Now That Democrats Will Leave The White House (And Republicans Are Coming In), It's OK to Say that There's a Genocide in Palestine.
What a difference an election makes; the party the America media liked is leaving and the party (or more honestly, the person leading said party) is coming back into power, so things once ignored are now highlighted. Like calling the genocide in Gaza "genocide." Interestingly enough, Scheerpost covered not one , but two of these instances: an opinion piece for the Guardian and a story about the Saudi Crown Prince in the Middle East Monitor : Even pro-Israeli news outlet Haaretz is coming around a bit . At this pace, Mainstream media could be outright adversarial in a year, two tops. Then again: AIPAC.
Meanwhile, In Cuba...
Via Black Agenda Report : All eyes have quite rightly been on Palestine for the past year. Joe Biden’s maniacal pact with Israel has killed an estimated 200,000 people, and Israel is poised to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and Lebanon. Their war crimes range from starvation, destruction of hospitals, shooting children in the head, rape and torture, attacking United Nations peacekeeping forces, assassinating Palestinian leaders, and burning hospital patients to death. All the atrocities have been documented, often by the perpetrators themselves, and have been defended vociferously. The genocide is a joint project with the U.S. and has more bipartisan support than any initiative which directly impacts people in this country. The horror makes it easy to forget that U.S. crimes continue unabated around the world even when we don’t have to look very far to find them. Just 90 miles away from Florida, the people of Cuba are suffering in darkness, denied the ability to access electricity, a...
Does The United States Host Foreign Military Bases?
Not Really : The U.S. is not home to any independent foreign military bases. However, some U.S. military bases host detachments of foreign militaries, and many are used to train foreign military personnel—predominantly pilots. One of the most prominent locations for foreign military training is Texas’ Sheppard Air Force Base, which hosts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program (ENJJPT). First opened in 1981, the ENJJPT program provides pilot training for 14 NATO member nations, such as Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey, with the goal of improving the standardization and interoperability of the treaty organization’s air forces. Upon graduation from the program’s 55-week course, pilots undergo country-specific training in either their home countries or at other bases in the U.S.
The Duran, Jeffrey Sachs Talk About The Quagmire That Is The Russia-Ukraine War
Learn about the Russian who staved off WW3, why Jimmy Carter had a more negative impact on the Doomsday Clock than Richard Nixon, and more:
Black Alliance For Peace Talks to Democracy Now! About Haiti
Jemima Pierre also spoke with Democracy Now! earlier about the impact of coups in Haiti:
The United States of America's Capacity To Actually Sustain a Multi-Front War, Told In Two Graphics
For the moment: the weapons, the technology, the so-called allies. Let's look are the numbers and the locations. First, here's the largest armies in the world: Next. let's look at breakdown of US military bases, so we know how many troops are where: Just going by the numbers as a lay person I can say that the United States does not have enough personnel to have a sustained conflict with China, Iran and Russia. It would take too long to move troops around, and there's not enough to fight abroad and protect at home. If you factor in technology, all three of those countries have the tech to match or exceed what the US has. Allies? Their number, while certainly appreciated, are negligible Lastly, there's experience: China may be rusty, but Iran has been living in an area of constant tension and Russia has the most experience army in terms of modern warfare (#2 would be the dwindling forces of Ukraine). America, meanwhile has not fought a real war since WWII; everything...
Was the Drone Attack That Killed 3 US Soldiers On An "Illegal Base?"
Everything seems to be about how Biden should respond to an attack on a US military base in Jordan. But according to this AP story : The attack hit a U.S. military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan known as Tower 22. The installation sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the DMZ’s southern edge . The Iraqi border is only 10 kilometers (6 miles) away. Scott Ritter was on Danny Haiphong's YouTube Channel said that if the base is actually in Syria, then it's there illegally: Doesn't justify the deaths, but they could have been prevented.
Escalation In The Middle East?
From a PR, military and economic perspective: Israel's campaign against Hamas (which has become a campaign against virtually all of Palestine) is not going as planned. Hezbollah's leader has just finished giving his first speech since the 10/7 Hamas attack, and it boiled down to: if the West wants to play stupid games, they will win stupid prizes. One prevailing theme is that despite their bravado, the Israeli military cannot survive with out Western (read: United States) aid. Of course, Israel issued a pre-speech warning to Hezbollah . With the speech still cooling off and this conflict touching many sensitive nerves, it may take some time to link to more credible stories. UPDATE: here's at least one .
Compare & Contrast
Lee Camp shows us how America's National Security spokesperson feels about the loss of Ukrainian lives versus the loss of Palestinian lives:
Richard Medhurst: Biden's Out of Ammo
How can the Biden Administration even think about fighting China or Russia directly when they don't have enough to win a proxy war?
