CARA MARIANNA—Settlers appear to enjoy playing at being soldiers. In another common bullying tactic, settlers dress as soldiers and order shepherds off of their land. But just as commonly settlers remain dressed in civilian clothing as they bully shepherds. When these illegal incidents are later reported, the same settlers don military uniforms and, in a sadistic cat-and-mouse game, mockingly “investigate” their own crimes. The villagers, who recognize their victimizers, are powerless to do anything and have no legal recourse.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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AL JAZEERA—This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict. The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts.
Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder. The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza. “The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.
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AJAMU BARAKA—With all of the crimes that have occurred in human history, especially over the last five hundred years of European colonial/capitalist hegemony, nothing compares to the vicious assault on the concentration camp called Gaza. Not because of its scale or even viciousness, it should be remembered that the assault on Libya during the Obama administration resulted in estimates of up to 50,000 deaths in just over seven months. But of course, images of that attack were carefully curated and disseminated by the mainstream press to support the narrative of the NATO mission as a mission to save the Libyan people.
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Jose Vega SHUTS DOWN Smug NY Times Liberals!
7 minutes readEDITOR—New York Congressional candidate Jose Vega is at it again, interrupting the rich and powerful at high-end, elite symposia to drop truth on the panelists and attendees alike. This time Jose stood up to tell Paul Krugman and his fellow CUNY panelists that their high-minded discussion of our ostensibly booming economy ignores the very real economic pain being experienced by a large swath of the public. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how necessary Jose Vega’s disruptive events are to confronting establishment narratives.
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VITAL JOURNALISM: Orinoco Tribune – Laith Marouf on the Zionist Genocide in West Asia
9 minutes readORINOCO TRIBUNE—Laith Marouf is an award-winning journalist and political commentator based in Beirut, Lebanon, who has been working in media since 1999. He regularly appears on television and radio, including The Critical Hour, Press TV, Al Mayadeen, Garland Nixon, and many other news outlets. He is one of the creators and producers of the new and important volunteer TV station and news outlet Free Palestine TV, which is based in Lebanon. On September 20, Marouf gave an interview to Orinoco Tribune in which he discussed several topics, including the current war situation in Lebanon, the work of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, the role of the Axis of Resistance in confronting the Zionist entity, and the role of Resistance media in the age of information warfare. Lebanese people’s mindset towards the Palestinian Resistance