EDITOR—Streamed live on May 8, 2024 #richardmedhurst #israelhamas #rafahborder. British journalist Richard Medhurst reports on the Israeli invasion of Rafah, and the Gaza-Egypt border. Medhurst also conducts an interview with student protestors in America (one happens to be Egyptian, the other Jewish-Palestinian) who have setup encampments in support of Gaza.
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EDITOR—The rules of war continue to change rapidly in the Ukraine battlefield, notes Scott Ritter, as drone and missile (and other new or revised) technologies redraw the battlefield. Ukraine has definitely lost the war, notes Ritter, and the West will have to adapt to this reality as Moscow sets the term for the peace and the future of the region.
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GEORGE GALLOWAY—Inadequate, late-hour opportunistic moves to palliate some of the horrors of Israel’s genocide of Gazans, and their full-throttle complicity in that crime, will not allow the Democrats (or Republicans) to restore their frayed respectability any time soon or ever. The wounds are now too deep. People in the US now understand that people in Palestine need justice, says Garland Nixon. ‘I’ve lost count of the number of Democrats who tell me they’ve changed their minds on Gaza’.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Paul Edwards is a genuine Renaissance man, gifted with many talents and participant in many events and struggles of our tormented times. Our colleague Jeff Brown, who did a fine interview with him, sums it up thusly: “Paul’s life story is worthy of a biography: a rebel youth growing up, traveling and working around the world and then a long career as a Hollywood writer. Through it all, he has never lost his lifelong wrath against US imperialism and global capitalism, while seeking social and economic justice for humanity’s 99%…”
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BILLY BOB—The inculcated conceptualization of autonomous terrorist groups existing and violently pursuing their radical agendas while the West tirelessly works to track them and protect innocent people (you know, the basic understanding of “terrorism” as spread by Hollywood and the State Department on a daily basis) is absolutely false and entirely detached from objective reality. Terrorism is the tool of the elites. Those that the West calls “terrorists” but do not actually control (like Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Houthis) of course are not terrorists at all. They are popular groups that resist Western imperialism and who fight against Western backed terrorists (like AL Qaeda and IS).
