MEE—On Wednesday 9th October 2024, The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), hosted a documentary screening of Al Jazeera’s documentary film titled Gaza, followed by a panel discussion featuring eyewitnesses of the war crimes. Among the attendees of the panel discussion were Youmna El Sayed, Al Jazeera’s English correspondent in Gaza, Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian writer and human rights activist, and Dr Victoria Rose, NHS plastic surgeon supporting trauma care services in Gaza since 2009. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposed 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 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 film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip.
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PRAJWAL SONU—In the latest episode of India’s Global Impulse, I spoke to Mark Sleboda, a US Navy veteran and an International Relations and Security Analyst based in Moscow.
We discussed the reasons behind the support of the Russian people for the war in Ukraine, Russia’s volunteer-based contract soldiers, the measures taken by the Ukrainian government to outlaw the Russian language, banning of parties in Eastern Ukraine. Additionally we discussed Ukraine’s forced conscription measures and the country’s demographic decline, the history behind it and the effects for the future.
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MARTIN C FREDERICKS IV—It’s true that a year and two days ago Hamas fighters killed Israelis in an attack. It’s equally true that even at the low end of death estimates, and using the inaccurate figure of 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas on that day, in the past year Israel has visited 35 October 7ths upon the people of Palestine. Factor in estimates of people trapped under the rubble and otherwise missing, and it’s more like 167 October 7ths. Finally, it’s true that Israel has been murdering Palestinians for 76 years now…Meanwhile, much of what we’ve been fed since Oct. 7, 2023 by the governments of Israel and the USA has been untrue.
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EDITOR—Thus, I came across this video from a channel called Inside China Business, by a guy named Kevin Walmsley, who has lived and worked in China since 2012 for a company called Direct Equipment. The video is entitled, bluntly, “The BRICS trading system is already wiping out US farmers, as global price discovery is destroyed” and it gives a concrete analysis, which surprised me, of how the BRICS system has already upended the global commodities trading system that was “for a hundred years” based on the U.S. dollar and essentially managed from Chicago. As he says, “This is one of the biggest stories in the world, and nobody is talking about it”—because few people know how. He knows how.
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EDITORS—One of Scott Ritter’s most compelling videos, admitting his ignorance about the Uhuru trial, thinking it was about “Black nationalism”, while it is about free speech, which affects us all, and the urgent work that needs to be done in America to disinfect the American mind, once and for all, of its age-old and highly dangerous Russophobia, a case of mass, manufactured hatred by the elites. As well, Scott provides a convincing picture of what is really going on in Ukraine, and how the war has been conclusively lost by the West, leaving Washington and its meddling only one sane option: fold the tent and go home.
