EDITOR—The panel discusses the pathetic Biden-Trump debate, and how it reflects the extreme political decomposition of the United States as it flops around in its late imperial stage exhibiting pathetic leadership and rotten policies at home and throughout its client states in Europe, Asia and other corners of the globe. The main question right now for humanity is whether humanity can survive the fall of US imperialism without an economic implosion or, worse, a cataclysmic nuclear war.
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MARK TAYLOR—The humanitarian group Save the Children estimated Monday that around 21,000 kids are missing in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s military continues its assault on the enclave, reducing much of the Palestinian territory to rubble.
Roughly 4,000 kids are likely buried under that debris, according to Save the Children, while at least 17,000 are unaccompanied, an “unknown number” are in mass graves, and others have been “detained and forcibly transferred out of Gaza, their whereabouts unknown to their families amidst reports of ill-treatment and torture.”
A child protection specialist with Save the Children said that the group finds more unaccompanied children every day in Gaza, where parents and entire families have been wiped out by Israel’s relentless bombing campaign and ground invasion.
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EDITOR—Garland and Marouf discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, especially the way Israel may precipitate a major regional and possibly global conflagration with its planned attack on Lebanon. The situation does not look that promising for Israel, which has suffered heavy losses in its genocidal war against Palestinians, despite US/NATO support, as the Axis of Resistance (Lebanon/Hezbollah), Iraq militias, the Houthis, and Iran, will not accept defeat this time under any circumstances.
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CAITLIN 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.
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EDITOR—“Thirteen-and-a-half years and two extradition requests after he was first arrested, Julian Assange left the U.K. yesterday, following a bail hearing last Thursday, held in private at his request,” said Stephen Parkinson, the chief prosecutor for England and Wales.
The plea deal brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S. government’s yearslong pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among many press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing. U.S. prosecutors, in contrast, have repeatedly asserted that his actions broke the law and put the country’s national security at risk.
