EI—More than eight months into this genocide, Israel is losing the war between its army and the resistance on the ground. Israel’s own economy is in shambles, as more and more Israelis leave abroad for good and as its high-tech sector collapses. “I think that what we’re seeing is, first of all, that this Israeli military doctrine has flown out the window,” political economist Shir Hever tells us on The Electronic Intifada Podcast. “There is no doctrine right now – what we have is a collapse of Israeli society. It is a social collapse. It’s also psychological collapse, [and] it has to do with the fact that Israelis have lost connection with reality,” he adds. Hever is the military embargo coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) and works on its #ShutDownNation campaign. Hever, who lives in Germany, is the author of The Privatization of Israeli Security and The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation.
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SL KANTHAN—The barefoot doctors integrated Chinese and Western medicine. Thanks to the Patriotic Health Campaigns and barefoot doctors, China eradicated or significantly controlled many diseases such as smallpox, plague, malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, parasitic infections etc. This revolutionary program was so successful that the UN’s World Health Organization and UNICEF considered recommending it for all developing nations.
Mao was also a feminist who emancipated Chinese women from many societal injustices. He famously said that “women hold up half the sky.” Mao got rid of child marriage, arranged marriage, prostitution, and concubines, while ensuring that girls had equal access to education and women had not only the right to work but with equal pay. By the time Mao died, the female labor force participation rate in China was 80%.
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ARI PAUL—Telling sociologists, historians, political scientists and anthropologists to refrain from “supporting a geopolitical viewpoint” is like telling a quarterback not to pass the football. Once again, this is the kind of directive that undoes the kind of open discourse McWhorter says he supports.
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EDITOR—Russell and Keaton discuss the appallingly low state of US government integrity, as lying by its highest officials about any policy—including foreign policy—seem to be the standard operating procedure. This is made manifest by the way Matthew Miller effectively shuts down Grayzone reporter Liam Cosgrove when he asks for an explanation about the Biden admin glaring double standard in the way it accuses other nations (China, Russia, Iran, etc.) of being rogue states led by dictators, while openly supporting—diplomatically and militarily— a horrid genocide in Palestine.
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EDITOR—Scott explains in detail the technical and political (and in the case of Iran, religious) questions at play in the current standoff between Israel and Iran, and the latter’s probable change of posture to produce nuclear weapons. The world has never been closer to a nuclear Armageddon.
