EDITORS—The USSR did not have emission controls in the Stalin period, but neither did the West, anywhere. Not to mention that the private car did not exist under Lenin and Stalin to constitute a threat to nature. And prior to the 1960s (Stalin died in 1953), environmental law did not exist anywhere in the world. Typically, anti-communists have conveniently ignored all these facts in their unrelenting campaign to demonise Stalin, and communism in general.
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EDITOR—Martin Scorsese narrates his journey through his favourites in Italian cinema. Few people will be unmoved.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—US foreign and domestic policy is developed with think tanks funded by the most powerful corporate-financier interests across the West Policy papers published by these think tanks are turned into bills by lawyers, brought to Washington by lobbyists, and signed off by Congress and the White House regardless of political affiliation or supposed political agenda. Multipolarism has challenged US political, military, and economic power by creating alternatives to the corporate-financier monopolies in the West driving US policies at home and abroad. Americans can create a better balance of power by redirecting their monthly income, time, energy, and attention away from these corporate-financier interests and toward local and foreign alternatives.
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NASRALLAH—These four points must be detailed as they determine our stance. This was an act of aggression, but it was presented as a reaction, and it had been announced in the days leading up to the aggression that there would be an Israeli response, and that we should all await it. Various countries intervened, many hypocritical, stating that Israel had the right to respond. Respond to what? To the falsification I am about to address.
We completely reject this assessment and characterization: this was an act of aggression. It’s part of the ongoing battle since the creation of this entity, since the massacres of 1947 and 1948 in occupied Palestine, southern Lebanon, Hula, and other parts of southern Lebanon. It’s all part of the Israeli-Zionist-American war against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and the peoples of the region.
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EDITORS—Two huge topics draw the attention of the Blowback group: the US attempts at (again) regime change in Venezuela, the country with the world’s largest deposits of oil, and Netayanhu’s deranged scheme to complete his total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians with the full backing of the West, a project that is threatening now the actual dissolution of Israel for the first time since this criminal Zionist project saw light in 1948.
