Norman Finkelstein on what’s happening in Israel and with HRW

What on earth is prompting Human Rights Watch, a historicaly centrist/corporatist organization with a demonstrable track record of active propaganda collaboration with the US empire in its hybrid war projects around the globe, to suddenly start denouncing Israel?  Is HRW belatedly discovering what everyone with an atom of decency has known for decades, that Israel is an outlaw state and Zionism an apartheid ideology? Given that Israel's crimes continue to mount and the nation appears more and more on a path of national insanity, maybe the US handlers decided it was time for HRW to come clean and recharge its depleted credibility to re-weaponise the organisation for service against the empire's much greater problems, China and Russia. At least that's what appears to make sense, even if neither Finkelstein nor Halper mention it as a probability. 

Since the overpaid corporate media whores will never risk their careers to report the truth, the world must rely on citizen journalists to provide the facts that explain reality. After systematically corrupting the entire media, thereby hijacking the mainstream narrative, corporate power, led by the US, has practically killed democracy wherever it managed to survive, including in the US itself, easily one of the most heavily propagandised nations in history. The consequences of this disgraceful situation can be seen everywhere, and that's why the fight for the truth has never been so vital. We stand on the edge of an ecological abyss precipitated by a cancerous industrial system devoid of any moral restraints. Furthermore, dripping hypocrisy, the West has unilaterally declared war on China, Russia and Iran, which threatens a nuclear confrontation, plus other nations like Venezuela or Cuba that also dare to resist the tyrannical diktats emanating from Washington. It's clear that war, ceaseless propaganda, and the immiseration of labor is the chosen solution of the empire managers to the capitalist system's incurable crisis, a crisis rendered all the more intractable by the computer revolution which has only deepened capital's legendary "overproduction" contradiction. 

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