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A Turning Point in the Oppression of the Palestinians
Surprising revelation at a picnic. Talking with a person I met; rambling on about his interest in history, he suddenly exclaimed, “Look at what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians, and getting away with it for years.” At neighborhood social events I have attended, if anybody talked about foreign policy, it was usually about […]
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Why Modi’s India is Suddenly getting Washington’s Cold Shoulder
Modi’s narrow re-election this month was greeted in the U.S. media with petulant satisfaction that Indian voters had “woken up”, as an oped piece in the New York Times put it. The Washington Post’s editorial board rebuked Modi with the headline: “In India, the voters have spoken. They do not want autocracy.” The Post editors […]
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Citibank Finances the Colonization of Palestine
Financing Jewish settlements in Palestine is financing the usurpation of Palestine, the oppression of Palestinians, allying with apartheid, and prioritizing profit over people. The post Citibank Finances the Colonization of Palestine first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible
We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible. And yet we are expected to pretend we cannot see those strings. More astonishing still, many people really do seem blind to the puppet show. 1. The “leader of the free world”, […]
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Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of Slaughter
War always commands its own appeal. It has its own frazzled laurels, the calling of its own worn poets tenured in propaganda. In battle, the poets keep writing, and keep glorifying. The chattering diplomats are kept in the cooler, biding their time. The soldiers die, as do civilians. The politicians are permitted to behave badly. […]
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Israel is Dragging the World into Darkness
Israel must be held accountable for the suffering it is inflicting on Gaza (Omar Ashtawy APA images) Israel does not belong in the modern world. It is the child of European colonialism and Europe’s genocidal anti-Semitism, imposed by force and fire and Western guilt on a land already inhabited by an indigenous people. Israel is […]
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Did you donate to send food to Gaza? Think again
“HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA – DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps. “URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org. These and many other appeals from international relief organizations have motivated untold numbers of compassionate and generous souls to open their purses. You may be among them. If so, you may have thought that […]
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They’re Arresting the Wrong People Inside of Congress
[Photo by: Celâl Güneş] I was arrested again inside of Congress for speaking out against US-backed genocide. Myself and others were brutally tackled and carried out of the room by Capitol Police. I was charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding” for speaking out and holding a sign as the Secretary of State and the Secretary […]
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Diamonds and Cold Dust: Slaughter at Nuseirat
The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity’s gloomy archive. It was intended as a golden operation and had been months in the making. The rescue of four Israeli hostages, the killing of three others (bound to happen for […]
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Obama’s Guilt for Ukraine’s War
It was well-encapsulated in this 10-minute compilation video from 12 March 2014, “Ukraine Crisis – What You’re Not Being Told” (also archived here and here). That 10-minute documentary’s only error is at 22 seconds in, where its narrator said the year “two thousand thirteen” when he obviously meant to say “two thousand fourteen”; but, other […]
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