EDITOR—It matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Health Ministry’s undercount. It matters for elevating the urgency for a permanent cease-fire, and direct and massive humanitarian aid by the U.S. and other countries, bypassing the sadistic cruelty against innocent families of the Israeli siege. It matters for the columnists and editorial writers who have been self-censoring themselves, with some, like the Post’s Charles Lane, fictionally claiming that Israel’s military doesn’t “intentionally target civilians.” It matters for accountability under international law.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—Two, it is not clear what financial benefit, if any, accrued to Joe Biden from his son’s dealings with the Russians. While evidence that the president received funds from Hunter’s influence-peddling schemes would of course be highly significant, as in the Burisma case, it is not essential to the case for impeachment.
Abuse of office is an impeachable crime if the person under investigation has used the power of his office to the benefit of his family or any other person seeking to leverage his or her influence. This is all the House Oversight Committee must establish to put impeachment to a full House vote.
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Garland Nixon Fest: Talking politics, manufactured poverty, & Empire with Joti Brar and Dr Anthony Monteiro
8 minutes readEDITOR—In these videos Garland chats with Dr Tony Monteiro and Joti Brar about the state of the world, the nature of the current crisis (detonated by the reckless and criminal policies of Western imperialism and its incurable contradictions), and the posture of various parts of society that ultimately will determine the course of history. Garland and his guests discuss the tactics of the global ruling class, the betrayals of socialism by people who profess to be on the left (“democratic socialists”, Trotskyists, fake labor parties, fake unionists, fake progressive parties, and so on) and the implications of such betrayal. Garland, Joti and Dr Monteiro exchange rich commentary, definitions, and clarifications on the enormous opportunities presented by the present historical juncture, as the capitalist system, increasingly unable to overcome the digital revolution’s pressure to eliminate jobs, continues to oppress humanity through its colossal inequality, economic insecurity, push for global war, and alarming neglect of nature.
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Scott Ritter: GAME OVER for Victoria Nuland as Russia Destroys Neocon Agenda in Ukraine
7 minutes readEDITOR—Former US Marine Corps Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter reacts to Victoria Nuland’s retirement and how it represents an admission that US foreign policy toward Russia has been an abject failure.
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Neocon Queen Victoria Nuland Ends Her Reign: Reviewing a Catastrophic Career Fomenting Bipartisan Wars
7 minutes readEDITOR—Glenn wonders what prompted Nuland to retire at this point, conjecturing that it might be her impatience with the pace of “support” for Ukraine, or Biden’s trepidation toward Israel, a country she identifies with more than any other, including the US. Nuland, notes Glenn, of Ukrainian descent, has long sat at the core of one of US Neocons most powerful clans, the Kagans, a group connected to the Kristols, both prominent in promoting (sadly, successfully), the extension of US “democracy and freedom” to other lands frequently via coups, regime change ops, invasions, sanctions, bribes, and color revolutions.