EDITOR—Dana’s father also recalled that day with a shudder. “I had to try to identify my daughter, searching through torn clothes and severed limbs,” Hassan recalled. “Is this Dana’s? Is this Dana’s foot? I found nothing.” The other doctors informed him however that there was a body in a hospital morgue that might be Dana’s. It was indeed her, as confirmed by her brother, Ali. “My father and brother brought Dana’s body home for farewell, but we still can’t grasp the pain of losing her. Neither I nor my siblings abroad can comprehend it,” Luna said.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—Telling the tale [about the Iran missile attack] properly the day after is the work known as “journalism”: journalism is the history of yesterday, after all. It’s not easy, but are Western journalists not doing the work here, or are they wilfully lying?
That’s a real question, because any decent journalist today (and any average citizen who wishes to be well-informed) knows the modern media landscape requires examining three areas where news can now be found: the MSM, the alternative media and social media.
On social media there’s no lack of videos which show Iranian missiles striking land time and time again.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Having run the great, open-air prison of Gaza for so long with relatively little difficulty, Zionists had relaxed into their role as brutal jailers, and convinced themselves that Palestinians had finally accepted their status as prostrate prisoners, so the breakout of 10/7 last year came as a violent shock to them.
Injuries that strike hard at our self-esteem hurt worst, and the Hamas attack did that. It exposed to the world the astounding degree of arrogant inhumanity that is the core characteristic of Nazi Israel, in both the fact that it could not prevent it, and the decision to commit genocide against a whole people in revenge.
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BRUCE LERRO—My father never liked the kids I played ball with. He grew up very poor. His mother raised seven kids and they were “on the dole”. He was an artist who rose out of poverty to become a commercial artist. We lived in a middle class neighborhood (one square block) and he was afraid my baseball friends would be a bad influence on me. He was always trying to get me to play for church teams as an alternative. I never gave up my friends but I did play on one church team in grammar school.
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EDITORS—HIGHLIGHT: Given the huge size and number of the “bunker busters” used to flatten a whole residential area in Beirut to kill Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, the general supposition is now that this attack was made possible by the participation of US/NATO warplanes. The Western media has kept almost totally mum about this story.
Garland and Laith dissect the literally explosive situation in the Middle East, and how the rise of an increasingly well armed resistance impacts and complicates the global politics of US imperialism. Laith and Garland concur that this will likely be a long war, similar to the Algerian war of liberation, or the Vietnam War. Liberation wars don’t come cheap in terms of lives and infrastructure lost. As well, the team discusses how a Mideast war may affect the politics throughout the West, precipitating huge economic and political shifts in Europe, the US and Japan. As a result of a war in the ME pushing oil prices sky-high, Laith and Garland visualise the possibility of enormous disruptions in the imperial core itself, obligating (or providing the opportunity to) the ruling establishment to declare Martial Law, suspend elections, assassinate Trump, or implement other shifts and extreme policies across the globe.