EDITOR—Dmitry Orlov discusses with his usual calm the situation in the Middle East, and how Israel may be far closer to implosion or defeat than most observers would believe. Technically, suggests Orlov, in the middle and long run the days of Israel as a brutal apartheid state are numbered. The West is in decline, the BRICS powers are rising, and the Arab nation is finally bound to attain its freedom from colonization and US imperialism. Israel is simply not sustainable.
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BEN NORTON—Israel is bombing Lebanon, with staunch US support. An Israeli minister vowed that “Lebanon will be annihilated”. Ben Norton analyzes the colonial war, explains the origins of Hezbollah, and provides historical context.
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INDRAJIT—The colonizers of the Raj played political Jenga, corrupting local elites with imported goods, education for their children, and filthy lucre from the enslavement of their own people. Splinter colonization is still the policy of the day, divide and conquer the masses using local elites. It goes back to the great grand pappy of White Empire.
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EDITOR—In the fascinating interview below, Pappe brings historical reality, context and perspective to the current crime of the US/Israel genocide in Gaza. The interview is from early March, so some of the facts of the genocide have changed, but his overall observations are not only valid, they are being proven out in real time.
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EDITOR—A sharp dissection of the US Empire’s multitude of crimes, deceptions, and ineradicable evil by a witness who speaks through his own awakening. The US empire is not ruled by democracy—despite the constant refrain—but by a tiny, invisible oligarchy which also owns the political class, the judicial branch, the media and the repressive arms of the state (intelligence agencies, army, police, etc.). The US Empire seems formidable and unassailable, but, due to its incurable flaws—structural, economic, political, spiritual, and moral—it is now collapsing, bleeding its hegemony, due to its own over-reach, pathetic leadership, and, in the process, becoming ever more dangerous to its own citizens and humanity in general.
