Daily Archives: January 19, 2024

2024-01-19: News Headlines

CounterSpin (2024-01-19). Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide. fair.org CounterSpin240119.mp3 New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: US corporate news media's initial response to Israel's terror campaign against Palestinians, unleashed in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas, was characterized, broadly speaking, by legitimization, a rhetorical blank check for whatever Israel might do. Israel, the New York Times editorial board said, "is determined to break the power of Hamas, and in that effort it deserves the support of the United States and the rest of the world." | We're more than…

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (2024-01-19). US Congressional Resolution Calls For Annulling The Monroe Doctrine. popularresistance.org While the Monroe Doctrine ingenuously claimed to protect hemispheric independence from foreign interference, HR 943 charges that the policy has, in fact, been used as a "mandate" to give the US license to interfere in the internal affairs of other states to promote its own narrow interests. | The resolution forcefully begins with noting the "massive, forced displacement and genocide of Native peoples" by the North American colonialists. | The resolution goes on to enumerate the further progression of the US imperium on the hemisphere. Back in the 1840s, the US took 55% of Mexico.

Pressenza New York (2024-01-19). US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and Ending Sanctions. pressenza.com Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional By Roger D. Harris | Led by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) and cosponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Chuy García (D-AZ), and Greg Casar (D-TX…

Pressenza New York (2024-01-19). US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and Ending Sanctions. pressenza.com Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional By Roger D. Harris | Led by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) and cosponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Chuy García (D-AZ), and Greg Casar (D-TX…

Roger Harris (2024-01-19). US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and Ending Sanctions. counterpunch.org Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional resolution calls for annulling the Monroe Doctrine and replacing it with a "new good neighbor" policy. The intent is to "foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation" with our neighbor nations. Led by

Sean Mathews (2024-01-19). 'Playground of choice': Iran mobilises to drive US troops out of Iraq. middleeasteye.net 'Playground of choice': Iran mobilises to drive US troops out of Iraq | The US has the cudgel of the American dollar to prevent its expulsion from Iraq, but will the Biden administration use it? | Fri, 01/19/2024 – 15: 20 | Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) chant slogans ahead of a funeral of the group's slain members at PMF headquarters in Baghdad, on 4 January 2024 (AFP) | W…

Vijay Prashad (2024-01-19). The Global South takes Israel to court: The Third Newsletter (2024). mronline.org On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: 'Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts'.

Dania Akkad (2024-01-19). War on Gaza: UK's Cameron okayed arms sales to Israel despite Foreign Office legal concerns. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: UK's Cameron okayed arms sales to Israel despite Foreign Office legal concerns | Legal document shows unit advised foreign secretary of 'serious concerns' Israel had breached international law as early as 10 November | Fri, 01/19/2024 – 13: 36 | British Foreign Secretary David Cameron gives evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on (Parliamentary recording unit/AFP…

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