SAMIR (2024-01-25). Standing Together: Serving Apartheid Israel's Propaganda. bdsmovement.net

WSWS (2024-01-24). Columbia University blames student victims hospitalized after Zionist chemical attack. wsws.org The attempt by the university to victim blame pro-Palestinian students is part of the broader state-led propaganda campaign aimed at falsely equating all opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza as "antisemitic."

Andy Kroll (2024-01-25). Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror. tomdispatch.com In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag wrote, "Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen." Sontag's desire to contextualize the 9/11 attacks was an instant challenge to the narratives that President George W. Bush would soon deploy, painting the United States as a country of peace and, most importantly, innocent of any wrongdoing. While the rhetorical strategies he developed…

Robert Inlakesh (2024-01-24). Is Israel Dragging Biden Into War With Iran, How Close Are We? thelastamericanvagabond.com Despite the rhetoric coming from Washington, which suggests its opposition to a direct confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran and its allies throughout the region, the actions taken by the Biden administration tell another story. Although it does not appear that the US seeks a direct confrontation with Iran, the role it is playing

Pawe…´ Wargan (2024-01-24). Germany backs Netanyahu for the same reason it created Hitler. electronicintifada.net Gaza is a dress rehearsal for violence that threatens workers and the oppressed everywhere.

Michael Zoosman (2024-01-24). Gassing Execution Horrifies Jewish Groups. counterpunch.org Let there be no doubt: lethal injection itself also is another direct Nazi legacy. It was first implemented in this world by the Third Reich as part of its infamous Aktion T4 protocol used to kill other such cognitively impaired individuals deemed "unworthy of life." That protocol was brought to fruition by Dr. Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler, who personally signed off on it. It is precisely this T4 protocol that is among those monstrosities condemned on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-25). Germany backs Netanyahu for the same reason it created Hitler. electronicintifada.net

ecns.cn (2024-01-23). Accusation on counterterrorism slammed. ecns.cn Groundlessly accusing China of using counterterrorism measures to carry out so-called "genocide" in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will severely hamper global efforts to fight terrorism, experts said.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-24). How fact-checkers and anti-disinformation campaigns restrict freedom of speech in the "Global Boiling Era" expose-news.com Historically, freedom of speech has been restricted through direct coercion. But today, this is being done in more subtle ways: "fact-checkers," governments pressurising social media companies to censor, anti-disinformation campaigns and "hate …

Staff (2024-01-25). 'The Country Is Not for Sale': General Strike In Argentina Against Milei. orinocotribune.com Thousands of people marched this Wednesday in Argentina to join the national strike called by the main unions in repudiation of the policies implemented by President Javier Milei. | "The country is not for sale," "No to the adjustment," and "No to the labor reform," were some of the main slogans of the demonstration that filled the Plaza del Congreso in the city of Buenos Aires. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took part in the massive general strike against Milei and his "libertarian" policies. Milei took office on December 10. Some outlets, such as Left Voice and Progressive International, reported that o…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-25). Is NASA's 'Temperatures Are Rising' graph evidence of global warming or evidence of widespread fraud? expose-news.com "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair This statement holds particularly true in the field of climate …

Brett Forester, CBC. (2024-01-24). Advocates Denounce Bid To Weaken UN Indigenous Rights Declaration. popularresistance.org Indigenous leaders always suspected certain countries of colluding behind closed doors to undermine their rights at the United Nations. | But now, after newly released Australian cabinet papers showed Canada led efforts to weaken the original draft declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples at the UN, secretly crafting a state-friendly substitute with Australia in 2002 and 2003, they have some evidence to prove it. | And they're far from shocked. | "We all knew that Canada was in the back rooms trying to counter everything," said Pam Palmater, a Mi'kmaw lawyer and chair in Indigenous governance at Toronto Me…

Eve Andrews, Grist. (2024-01-24). Is East Palestine Safe One Year After The Ohio Train Derailment? popularresistance.org If there hadn't been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they'd seen in the creek in weeks. | A backhoe had hoisted a chunk of earth from the bank of the creek, leaving a pool about eight feet across and deep enough to come up to the knees of Tsai's rubber fishing waders. What it also left, in Tsai's words, was an opportunity for a sort of "geological sample" — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the cre…

infobrics (2024-01-24). CIA's openly declared spy war on Russia not going so well. infobrics.org Somewhat schizophrenically, the CIA calls for Russians to "end betrayal" by actually committing it, all for "family values" and "the future of Russia", which is quite strange given the fact that Washington DC ideologues are obsessed with every anti-family idea in the book. The so-called "woke" extremist, ultra-liberal ideology is at an all-time high in the US, while solid evidence suggests that the troubled Biden administration is even involved in the massive child trafficking in Ukraine and elsewhere. So much for America's "focus on family values".

Hassan Diab Support Committee (2024-01-25). Six Years On, Hassan Diab Recounts His Release from a French Prison in January 2018. dissidentvoice.org Dr. Hassan Diab was wrongfully extradited from Canada to France in 2014, for alleged involvement in a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980. He spent more than three years in a French prison before investigative judges determined that there was no evidence linking him to the crime, and ordered his immediate and unconditional release. …

Open Letter (2024-01-24). The Hypocrisy Oath: The double standards of American health institutions on Gaza. mondoweiss.net American health institutions were quick to condemn the October 7 attacks, but those same institutions remain silent over Israel's genocide in Gaza after 105 days.

WSWS (2024-01-24). "We just got to be adults about the situation": Ocasio-Cortez calls for vote for "Genocide Joe" Biden. wsws.org Appearing on the "I've Had It" podcast earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America Democrat said the decision to vote for Biden in the upcoming election "is not a difficult one for me."

WSWS (2024-01-25). United Auto Workers backs reelection of warmonger Biden. wsws.org With its endorsement, the UAW bureaucracy is backing a war criminal who is overseeing Israel's genocide in Gaza and a rapid expansion of American imperialism's wars of global conquest.

MEE staff (2024-01-24). American oil trader sues UAE and its president over public relations 'smear campaign'. middleeasteye.net American oil trader sues UAE and its president over public relations 'smear campaign' | Hazim Nada is seeking $2.77bn in damages, accusing the UAE of damaging his reputation and falsely linking him to terrorism | Wed, 01/24/2024 – 21: 03 | UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan attending a meeting with Russia's president in Abu Dhabi, on 6 December 2023 (Sergei Savostyanov/AFP) | A lawsuit was filed…

Barry Healy, People's Dispatch. (2024-01-24). US War Drive Against China Undeterred By Taiwanese Election Setback. popularresistance.org On January 13 the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the Taiwanese presidential election. The result is important because of Taiwan's frontline status in the US war drive against China. | The New York Times describes newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, as "a staunch separatist". | The DPP, which is generally considered to be more aligned with US interests and plays with the idea of Taiwanese independence from China, was opposed by two other parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). | For the current US anti-China war drive, the results were mixed, and bring to the surface many of t…

WSWS (2024-01-24). Israel plans to demolish all buildings in "buffer zone" in Gaza. wsws.org The New York Times reported Tuesday that Israel intends to fully demolish all buildings in a 1,000-meter "buffer zone" along Gaza's border with Israel, citing Israeli officials.

MEE staff (2024-01-24). US billionaire who led campaign against Ivy League schools invests $25m in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. middleeasteye.net US billionaire who led campaign against Ivy League schools invests $25m in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange | Israel's stock market has clawed back all of its losses since 7 October, shrugging off economic concerns about the ongoing war in Gaza | Wed, 01/24/2024 – 19: 31 | Billionaire investor Bill Ackman speaks at The New York Times DealBook conference at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, on 10 November…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2024-01-24). Livestream roundtable: Regional resistance to genocide. electronicintifada.net Day 110 with guest Helena Cobban on geopolitics (13: 26); Gaza news with Nora Barrows-Friedman (: 39); new revelations about 7 October with Asa Winstanley (44: 38); Ali Abunimah responds to Washington Post's lies (1: 02: 27); and Jon Elmer with the latest on the resistance (1: 27: 15).