DANNY HAIPHONG—Journalist and founder of The Electronic Intifada (LINK: https://electronicintifada.net/) Ali Abunimah joins for special coverage of Palestine’s latest wave of resistance to Israeli occupation. Plus a text selection from Electronic Intifada on the same topic.
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Billy Bob’s Dispatches: The West & the Rest—the world situation discussed intelligently from every angle
12 minutes readEDITOR—Given the dimensions of this crisis, and with an increasingly enraged or clueless public clamoring for a restoration of some sort of tolerable normalcy that is in itself an illusion—the disease is too far advanced—we need lucidity, political sophistication, and honesty to guide our actions. People who can make sense of the myriad forces defining this new reality and who can sketch out the possible solutions and escape routes. Obviously such people will not come from the ranks that constitute the disease. The solutions won’t be found in the capitalist playbook. They won’t come from the liberal/globalist mob currently in control of the Democratic party, always a fraud, and currently the main tool for the Deep State’s antisocial machinations.
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ANDRE VLTCHEK—If you drive towards Petra and then Aqaba, it is all desert and misery, villages covered with dust and poverty on roughly the Yemeni level. You drive towards Syria and it is approximately the same: miserable towns, military airports and refugee camps.
But back in Amman, it is 8 of what is called ‘5-star malls’, while several new ones are being built. The country is totally grotesque, but it is actually not something unique – just a condensed reality of the Middle East, or at least of the client states of the West in this part of the world.