JEREMY KUZMAROV—a British commission uncovered that the Lusitania—carrying more than 100 American passengers from the U.S. to Europe (over 1,000 died overall)—was rigged with explosives, though the destruction of the ship was blamed on Germany.
Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, withheld rescue boats to maximize the number of deaths. The aim was to generate enough outrage for the U.S. public to want to go to war against Germany.[5]
PATRICK LAWRENCE—Meta’s accusations of [The Cradle] “praising terrorist organizations” and engaging in “incitement to violence” largely stem from posts and videos that relay information or quotes from West Asian resistance movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah — blacklisted by many western governments — who are an essential part of the news stories unfolding in a region on the precipice of a major war.
It is also essential to recognize that these are major West Asian political organizations that have deep institutional and civic roots within Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen and are part of the very fabric of these societies. They are represented in governance, run schools, hospitals, and utilities, and disperse salaries to millions of civilian workers.
EDITOR—Keaton and Russell dissect the demagogic contortions being used by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrats, as crystallised by AOC’s answer regarding the question of Palestine. Given the stakes and the corrupt nature of US politics, presenting ever more rotten politicians as “choices”, the American electorate is continually faced with the dilemma of the duopoly, whose cynicism has reached new heights in the current period of imperial decay. It is noted that AOC, like the rest of the Democrats —from leaders to rank and file—are so conditioned by now to speak only or mostly of identitarian issues, that their election discourse now rarely or never refers to economic or foreign policy issues, and much less to class questions, making cultural matters such as abortion and transgender problems the putative central issues of the nation (and the world). This in the midst of a blatant systematic genocide and as the world continues to slide toward a nuclear clash.
Two leading critics of global imperialism, Profs. Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff, analyse the present political/economic situation shaping events across the world, and the behaviour of the US empire in this historical phase characterised by the decay of US hegemony, and the rise of powerful independent powers determined to build a new order grounded in sovereignty, peace, international solidarity, and multipolarism. The guests focus on the Kursk invasion supported by NATO, which is being presented in diametrically opposite ways by the mass media. Those in the West are advancing a complete lie, suggesting that the invasion is a huge victory for Ukraine that could end up destroying Russia’s armies and the much hated “Putin regime”. The reality media used by the West’s opponents describes a Ukrainian incursion that can easily become Kiev’s last “Hail Mary”, their desperate “Last Hurrah!”. Dr Wolff concludes that we may be witnessing (from Ukraine to the Middle East) a lot of theatrics. Dr Hudson speaks about the creation of a Nazi Ukraine, via the Anglo-American persistent exploitation of regional hatreds and prejudices, especially in Western Ukraine (Galizia, etc.), all of which has created a monster in Eastern Europe, just as the West has created a similar monster in Israel (occupied Palestine). The experts are in agreement that the likelihood of the Ukraine war ending through negotiations is next to nil, as Putin has frequently suggested, since there’s no Kiev government capable of such an agreement, and the West, especially the US, is not agreement capable.
MARK TAYLOR—Israelis are learning no matter how racist and entitled one may be, you cannot create a safe haven by creating a catastrophe for other people. • One thing the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza — and now the West Bank — has shown is just how lied to we have been about the true fascistic nature of Israel and the death grip the big money Zionist lobby has on the government we finance. It’s time for Americans to step up and learn the true history about the truly evil nature of the foreign fascist government that now runs the White House, Congress, State and War departments.