GEORGE HAZIM—Each Israeli or US military operation that results in civilian casualties or the destruction of homes only strengthens the resolve of these resistance groups. The more Israel attempts to crush Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon, the more popular support they gain. The French Resistance grew in response to Nazi atrocities, and Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements are continuously bolstered by the ongoing repression they face…One of the most glaring problems the West faces is its profound ignorance of history. The assumption that military solutions can bring about lasting peace or victory ignores the lessons of past wars, where resistance movements have outlasted far superior military powers…
The US and Israel are repeating the mistakes of past empires, believing their military dominance will break the will of those fighting for their freedom. But as with the French Resistance during World War II, the spirit of resistance among Palestinians and Lebanese cannot be subdued.
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EDITORS—The panel discusses the multitude of hypocrisies underscoring the political class and media accusation of election meddling by Russia, China, and now even Iran, while ignoring the cancerous influence of the Israeli lobby, the long-time “pink elephant” in the room, which virtually “owns” the US Congress and much of the US political and media classes. This grotesque double standard pervading US policy is now manifest in the obviously hypocritical way the US government is treating genocidal Israel, while persecuting critics of Zionist crimes under the pretext of “anti-semitism”. Many of these huge defects in governance are proof, notes, Billy Bob, of the old Marxian insight about “parliamentarism” and “capitalist democracy”, which is only interested in fulfilling the needs and priorities of the ruling class.
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GODFREE ROBERTS—During his years in Beijing the young man had forgotten Tibet’s political realities, where the nobles and abbots had murdered the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Dalai Lamas for reformist tendencies. Drepung Monastery, the seat of fierce resistance to the Chinese, owned one-hundred-eighty-five manors and twenty-five-thousand serfs, and employed sixteen-thousand herdsmen. Its lamas forced boys into monastic slavery, pilfered the country’s wealth, and sold serfs along with the land. American journalist Anna Louise Strong10 found handcuffs of all sizes at Drepung, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs, hot brands, whips, and disembowelling implements.
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EDITOR—Jill Stein promises to stop Israel’s genocide on day one as president-elect.
No other candidate dares to make such a promise.
Dr. Jill Stein – 2024 Presidential Candidate: I’m running for president with the Green Party to offer a choice for the people outside the failed two-party system. We’ll put a pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda front and center in this election and on the ballot in November. -
EDITOR—George looks at the state of “democracy” in the Anglo world, especially the UK and USA, where the march to tyranny appears ever more obvious, and where economic and social inequality have become scandalous if not downright criminal. He’s particularly miffed by the official explanations for 9/11, and the irrefutable erosion of all vital democratic norms, something demonstrated in the establishment’s inability or unwillingness to offer the electorate anyone better than two toxic clowns like Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. This episode also includes the testimony of long-time pro-Palestine and human rights activist Sarah Wilkinson, recently subjected to an illegal and heavy-handed police raid designed to intimidate voices opposing the Zionist genocide in the Middle East, and the West’s wicked support for Israel, despite tons of evidence that enormous crimes are being committed daily.
