BILLY BOB—The discussion focuses on the impending defeats currently faced by the ruling Western establishment, on both the Ukraine and Palestine fronts. The panel ponders the various ways in which these defeats will take shape in 2024 including the West’s betrayal of Volodymyr Zelensky, and the extent to which other Western proxies like Egypt’s Al Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah can maintain their regime given the universal disgust that is elicited by their complicity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS
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A Chinese documentary seeking to explain the slow-motion downfall of the USSR in terms of historical nihilism, basically a cultural disease eventually corroding politics. Obviously many forces and events contributed to this outcome, both internal and external. During its entire life the Soviet Union was subjected to the immense hostile pressures of world capitalism—economic (boycots, sanctions, sabotage); political, military (arms race), diplomatic (isolation, blockades), cultural (defamation) etc— all spearheaded by the US, which forced Moscow to alter its course and often adopt policies that proved more costly to its socialist construction than anticipated.
as later other socialist states,
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ERIC ZUESSE—74% of Americans think Hamas wants Genocide of Israelis; 31% think Israel wants genocide of Gazans (which Israel has actually wanted ever since Israel was founded in 1948). Americans also falsely believe that Hamas (which is supported by 88% of Palestinians) is rejected by Palestinians. How can a democracy exist in America if the public are so extremely deceived as this? It can’t (and doesn’t). So: these poll-findings are of wider significance than merely the Gazan war.
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Black People Won’t Be Silenced About Israel
14 minutes readEDITOR—Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and its defense of war crimes have created a sea change in international opinion. No one is tiptoeing around Schumer’s feelings. The sight of bombed out hospitals and a body count of more than 20,000 dead has awakened millions of people who once would have been silent. That time has passed and Israel and its supporters are not being afforded any special treatment.
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DAN COHEN/ MINTPRESS NEWS—Filmed during the attack and in the days following the ceasefire, the documentary tells the story of how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outwitted the vastly superior Israeli military and established their ability to intervene against Israeli ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and provocations at the al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The Palestinian military capabilities are not highly sophisticated and destructive, but it becomes so effective when it’s used by smart Palestinian youths who believe in their rights and freedom,” a masked al-Qassam commander says.