AMARYNTH—In October the US announced the temporary suspension of unilateral coercive measures after the signing of an agreement, known as the Barbados Accords, between the government and the US-backed opposition establishing certain conditions for the elections. The Biden administration later reintroduced wide-reaching economic coercive measures against Venezuela’s oil industry.
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Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
35 minutes readPalestinians are highly intelligent, highly educated – and their education did not include being “taught to hate Jews.” They didn’t need to be taught to hate their occupier – each boy and girl from Gaza to the West Bank, from East Jerusalem to Israel, figured out all by themselves that the ones shooting their family members and withholding blankets and baby food are despicable. Nor is the distinction between “Jew” and “Zionist” too hard for Palestinians to comprehend.
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EDITOR—Garland discusses the tragicomic debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, one a semi-demented war criminal and crook barely able to remain coherent for a few minutes, and the other a narcissistic, massively ignorant buffoon who in his own bombastic way personalizes the appalling state of the US empire. Garland opines that the current Democrat runners of the empire are a sorry incompetent and sociopathic lot who seem utterly unable to extricate themselves and the country from the idiocies they have shoved the US in, from a growing spate of unwinnable wars, from Ukraine to Israel to China, to an election almost certain to lose, no matter who represents them—whether Biden, Kamala Harris, or another similarly unappealing candidate in the wings. From the latest pathetic selection of presidential candidates to the no-win, reckless and stupid policies pursued by the US across the globe, it’s clear the American Empire is fast approaching collapse. Such collapse, warns Garland, cannot be avoided by the injection of ever bigger lies into the social dialog, from the insane idea that Ukraine is winning the war, or that China and Russia are dangerous and evil players in international affairs, to the manufactured notion that anti-semitism (as opposed to anti-zionism) is on the rise, and that Israel, in the name of “self-defense”, is perfectly justified in using genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
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MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The political system in this country rewards mediocrity, mendacity, and treachery. Black elected officials either go along to get along and are fully on board with acting against the interests of their people, or think they can preen for the cameras like Bowman and pretend they are different when they are not.
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Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done
23 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Justice would look like a hero’s welcome and a hero’s honors from Australia upon his arrival, and a serious revision of Canberra’s obsequious relationship with Washington.
Justice would look like formal apologies to Assange and his family from the editorial boards of all the mainstream press outlets which manufactured consent for his vicious persecution — including and especially The Guardian — and the complete destruction of the reputations of every unscrupulous presstitute who helped smear him over the years.