ANTIFASCISTS

EDITOR—Laith and Garland talk about the nature of heroism and self-sacrifice so well personified in the Western/Israeli vilified Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Laith points out that this was a man who was born in a concentration camp, and soon after, in his youth, he was imprisoned by Israel in one of its many horrid dungeons where he was to spend 20 years.  A “wanted man” for most of his adult life, the Israelis eventually located him and killed him while fighting with his men, on the frontlines, not hiding deep in a tunnel, an example to Palestinian resistance. Wounded horribly by a tank volley, virtually mutilated, bleeding to death, he gathered enough strength of purpose to throw an object to the drone sent in by the IDF to check if there was anyone still alive. Yahya Sinwar will live in the hearts of many people long after the names of Biden and Netanyahu have been forgotten. 

RON. UNZ—Although armies have committed war crimes from time immemorial, never before have these been so thoroughly documented, with much of the evidence drawn from the social media accounts of the Israeli troops who gleefully filmed and uploaded the clips, presumably doing so to impress their friends. I doubt that any other military in the world has ever been so eager to boast of its crimes as that of Israel, probably because decades of near-total political and media impunity have raised the arrogance of its government, military, and citizens to unprecedented heights.

MAIN EDITORS—Profs Michael Hudson and Richard D Wolff, both among the most original and articulate critics of globalism (aka Neoliberalism, Free Marketism, etc.), offer an incisive view of Western civilisation in its global imperial phase as the US Empire and its satellites struggle to keep the system’s hegemony afloat in the midst of incurable structural issues, and an indefensible foreign policy grounded in reckless chaos creation.

MAIN EDITORS—Garland and Scott talk about “Operation Dawn Brunch” (Sunday, Oct 27, 2024) in Tudor City (45 Tudor City Place, NY 10017), an event with many of today’s most articulate antiwar, free speech, anti-imperialist and pro (genuine) democracy activists. The brunch cum panel discussions will feature, among others, Garland Nixon, Scott Ritter, Russell Dobular, Jimmy Dore, Danny Haiphong, Dennis Fritz, Diane Sare, Jose Vega, and others of equal merit.
In this episode of Warrior Update with Scott Ritter (#78), Scott explains the plight in Ukraine as the war inexorably winds down to a huge defeat for the US-supported Kiev Banderista regime and its NATO sponsors. As the regime collapses, chaos and violence spread, and winter takes its toll, many Ukrainians may want to flee to the EU, creating an enormous refugee crisis in a continent already swamped with African and Middle Eastern immigrants, most of them product of the economic and social dislocations triggered by the US empire’s intrigues and regime change operations. Furthermore, notes, Scott, Ukrainian neo-Nazis may not be embraced by the rest of Europe. Ukrainians are not very well liked by many people in Europe, including in Germany. They will likely end up filling the bottom ranks of a highly stressed labour market, at a moment when the EU’s economy is rapidly tanking due (again) to America’s hegemonist policies. Many of the men, accustomed to violence and relative lawlessness, may end up choosing lives of crime, while many women may simply become prostitutes or be victimised by sex traffickers profiting from the chaos and the breakdown of civil society.

DEMOCRACY NOW!—As the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel’s war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza’s hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in The New York Times that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest. The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.” We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department. This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life,” says Musleh. “My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza.”