EDITOR—Garland and Laith discuss the semi-deranged ways Israel is lashing out in all directions, clearly provoking the chief regional members of the anti-imperialist alliance (Iran, Hezbollah, Yemen, Iraqi militias, and even Russia) into some escalation that might bring the US directly into the conflict. Moscow, of course, is furious with Israel’s attack on Iran’s Damascus embassy, and her repeated incursions, directly and by proxy, into Syria, with a view toward destabilizing Damascus. For the empire and its vassals, including Israel, have not given up on the idea of overthrowing Bashar al-Assad, and the empire sees benefit in overextending and distracting Russia.
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Gaza War Sit Rep Day 178: Al Shifa Hospital Aftermath and Iranian Commander Assassinated
8 minutes readEDITOR—The panel discusses the depravity of Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, al Shifa being the latest, now lying mostly in ashes, a cowardly act that did not go without some heavy cost to the IDF since Hamas fighters mounted a stubborn resistance that forced the Israelis to withdraw. A remarkable accomplishment in itself.
The examination of the remains of the building shows it was the stage for horrifying violence against captive unarmed civilians, including many women and children. This includes massacres, rape, and other crimes that, from a pure moral standpoint, should receive much wider coverage on the mainstream media, but surely will not.
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How Israel indoctrinates its people w/Miko Peled
90 Mins readCHRIS HEDGES—Three months into Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, the atrocities the IDF has committed against Palestinians are too numerous to name. Israel is staging a prolonged assault on the Palestinian people’s very means of existence—destroying homes, hospitals, sanitation infrastructure, food and water sources, schools, and more. To understand the genocidal campaign unfolding before our eyes, we must examine the roots of Israeli society. Israel is a settler colonial state whose existence depends on the elimination of Palestinians. Accordingly, Israel is a deeply militarized society whose citizens are raised in an environment of historical revisionism and indoctrination that whitewashes Israel’s crimes while cultivating a deep-seated racism against Palestinians.
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JAY JANSON—After government attorneys argued the court has no standing to decide on what they say is a matter of foreign policy, the federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Biden but implored his administration to reconsider its “unflagging support” for Israel’s war on Gaza.
U.S. Judge Found ‘U.S. Foreign Policy of Genocidal Bombing and Starvation Crime Unprosecuteable for the principle of Separation of Executive and Judicial Branches of Government. [Intercept, Feb. 1, 2024]So U.S. Genocide As Foreign Policy is ‘Above the Law?’
Starving a militarily occupied population is a crime against humanity as stipulated in the UN-adopted Nuremberg Principles of International Law first used to prosecute high officials of Nazi Germany,
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SCOTT RITTER—Western governments, analysts, and pundits have loudly proclaimed that the men who carried out the attack on the Crocus City Hall had nothing whatsoever to do with Ukraine, and instead have collectively embraced a narrative that paints the men as members of the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K). ISIS is an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI) which emerged in 2013 when core AQI members relocated to Syria. In 2014 ISIS declared itself to be a caliphate and began a series of operations which saw it take control on a third of Syria and a quarter of Iraq before being driven back and ultimately defeated by a coalition which included Iraq, the United States and Iran.