F-35s Bombing Gaza

Reflections on Al-Nakba that Deserve Remembering

By Jack Dresser, May 19, 2021

May 15 marked Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) Day, Palestinians’ annual mourning of British withdrawal in 1948 leaving them helpless – having been disarmed by the British in the late 1930s – against a blitzkrieg of ethnic cleansing by Zionist terrorism with mass expulsions, property seizures and over 30 massacres.

R2P “Humanitarian Interventions” and “Regime Change”: Not Applicable to Israel By Gavin OReilly, May 19, 2021 Over the past two weeks, the world has looked on in ominous horror as the military might of Israel, fully supported by both the US and Britain, has waged a relentless onslaught on the citizens of the besieged Gaza Strip; with what had initially begun as protests against the eviction of six Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and the subsequent storming of the al-Asqa Mosque by Israeli police the following day, soon escalating into a full-fledged military assault on Gaza, one which has already drawn comparisons with the 2014 war which resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Palestinians in the space of 7 weeks.

Video: The Carrot but No Stick in US Policy Towards Israel By South Front, May 19, 2021

#NATO at 70, #Disband NATO

NATO at 70: Global Enforcers of Western Imperialism
By Michael Welch, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, and Andre Vltchek
Formed in the years immediately following World War II, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), then comprised of Canada, the United States, and ten European powers, was presented to the world as a defensive pact, wherein an attack on one member is an attack on all. The Encyclopedia Britannica explains that NATO was established and conceived as “a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II.” Read more...

NATO – 70th Anniversary of the Most Murderous – and Legal – Organization on our Planet
By Peter Koenig
Estimates have it, that NATO and its ‘allies’, cronies, proxies and mercenaries killed more than 20 million people since NATO’s existence, basically since the end of WWII. Read more...

The NATO War of 1999 and the Impotence of International Law

#MediaDisinformation and The #ProtestMovement

In Pictures: The Largest Strike in History Is Happening in India Right Now
By Ben Cowles
Around 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Labour and anti-trade union policies in India. Read more...

A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The media has NEVER EXAMINED the evidence or explained the analysis provided by scientists, architects, engineers, pilots, and the first responders who experienced the explosions of the World Trade Center twin towers. Read more...

Everything the Western Mainstream Media Outlets Get Wrong When Covering Poor Countries
By Tamara Pearson
From de-prioritizing the lives of locals in poor countries, to downplaying global inequality, racism, and condescension, the way Western news agencies do international news is deeply harmful. Read more...

#AmericasWars, #Coups and #Sanctions in 2019

The New Year Past and Future. Multiple Wars, Coups, Sanctions and Trade Disputes
By Prof. James Petras
Multiple wars, coups, sanctions and trade disputes dominated the US political agenda. War budgets grew, military sales increased and frictions between the US and Saudi Arabia bubbled to the surface . . . and dissipated. Read more...

The Decade-Long U.S. Campaign to Foment Syria’s “Revolution” and Unseat Assad
By Sarah Abed
The fingerprints of U.S. imperialism can be found all over the manufactured insurrection in Syria, in keeping with the ultimate goal of destabilization and eventual “regime change” through fomenting a sectarian civil war. Former NATO commander Wesley Clark has gone on record as stating that Syria was on a list of targeted nations to be toppled by the U.S. as early as 2001. Read more...

President Trump’s Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Says Do Not Prosecute Julian Assange
By Adam Dick

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World War I Centenary: “War Is a Racket”. Unlimited Imperialism
By Prof. Francis Boyle
Ten Million People died for nothing. Smedley D. Butler had it right. War is a Racket. And Woodrow Wilson murdered 116,000+ Americans in that war. The American People and Congress did not want to fight in that God-forsaken war. Wilson lied, tricked, deceived, maneuvered and finagled us into that war. Read more...

Bitter US-European Tensions Mark Centenary of World War I Armistice in Paris

#NarcoState #Terrorist Wins #NobelPeacePrize

Stephen Lendman

Notable peace activists needn’t apply. Despicable war criminals time and again become Nobel Peace Prize honorees.

This year was no exception, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos the latest recipient for negotiating dubious peace with FARC-EP freedom fighters.

James Petras earlier called them “the longest standing, largest peasant-based guerrilla movement in the world…founded in 1964…legitimate resistance” against ruthless Colombian repression.

He described years of Uribe/Santos state terror against “over 2 million mostly rural poor…forcibly uprooted and driven from their homes and land and displaced across frontiers into neighboring countries, or to urban slums.”

Regime military forces aided by paramilitary death squads “kill(ed) and terrorize(d) entire population centers…”

Santos became Colombia’s 32nd president in August 2010, earlier serving from July 2006 - May 2009, as President Alvaro Uribe’s defense minister.

Both men were involved in narco-terrorism, responsible for murdering thousands of trade unionists, campesinos, human rights workers, journalists, and others opposing ruthless regime policies, along with maintaining close ties to US imperialism.

Former UN Human Rights Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya called Colombia under Uribe/Santos a sinkhole of “illegal surveillance…arbitrary arrests and detentions…judicial harassment,” extrajudicial assassinations, and other ruthless practices against anyone resisting regime ruthlessness.

In announcing its award, the Nobel Committee praised Santos, a major human rights violating serial killer, citing “his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, (taking) at least 220,000 (lives) and displacing (around) six million people.”

Most Colombian voters rejected ceasefire terms Santos and FARC-EP leader Rodrigo Londono agreed to by referendum. Longstanding state-terrorism remains a weapon to be used by Santos or his eventual successors any time at their discretion.

Peace may turn out more illusory than real. Regardless what lies ahead, rewarding Santos’ involvement in years of state terror is more evidence of deplorable Nobel hypocrisy.

War criminals aren’t peace champions, yet repeatedly win Nobel honors - Committee members making a mockery of their highest award, again this year like so many previous ones.