MAX PARRY—Whenever there is a flare-up in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the circumstances that led to the former’s 75-year occupation are inevitably revisited. Alas, it would be a disservice for this colossal misstep to remain neglected, especially since it is often used to discredit the legacy of the Soviet Union, which admittedly both voted for the 1947 UN partition of Palestine and was the first state to officially recognize the Zionist entity three days after it declared independence the following year. So how could the USSR at one moment have supported Israel, and why? While it may be far from the minds of those protesting genocide and seem like a rarefied question, it is a topic that is more relevant now than ever before.
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EDITOR—Episode 75 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Max Parry and John Steppling
A panel of leading independent-minded thinkers discusses recent events shaking global and domestic politics as the US hegemonic empire desperately tries to keep its mask of civility in the face of enormous crimes in Ukraine, the Middle East and other flashpoints across the world. -
British Doctor Trying to Save Lives of Gazan Civilians Severely Injured by Israeli Bombs
41 minutes readFELIX ABT—We also watch in disbelief as the last vestiges of moral decency are turned upside down: Those of us who oppose genocide are accused of condoning it. Those who commit genocide are exercising their right to self-defense! In September, before the paramilitary wing of Hamas overran the Israeli border on October 7, 2023 (a sober analysis can be found here), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map of the so-called New Middle East at a session of the UN General Assembly. The Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem had all been incorporated into a Greater Israel. Ironically, he insisted that Israel should extend “from the river to the sea.” Palestine had ceased to exist. Palestinians are forced to choose between death by bombing, disease, exposure, starvation or expulsion from their homeland.
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“K*** The Jews” Shouted By FALSE FLAG Hoaxster At Campus Protest
10 minutes readJIMMY DORE SHOW—Boston’s Northeastern University is among the dozens of schools that have recently experienced student protests over Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. University authorities recently had the campus “cleared” by police, however, after a shout of “Kill the Jews” was heard. The only problem? It was a pro-Israel counterprotester who shouted the offending phrase.
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British Communists criticise trade unions, offer excellent program to defeat the capitalist economic crisis
35 Mins readEDITOR—Many of the problems afflicting people living under finance capitalism are ridiculously easy to solve, provided you remove the artificial obstacles and deformations benefiting the big property owners. In the West, today’s citadel of world capitalism, these tiny elites, concentrated in the leading powers—US, UK, France, Germany, etc.—comprise no more than 0.00001% of the population. Yes, no more than one in 100,000 individuals is sitting at the top of the economic/political pyramid making decisions affecting the rest of the world. Think about it. How can this blatantly oligarchic system be called a democracy? How can this be? One answer is that they have an active, virulently committed level of the population—no more than 3-5%—subscribing to their values and, in practice, running the empire. These are the people we get to “see” as our “leaders” and various authority figures and cultural leaders. They are members of the political and media classes; the Hollywood “distraction industry”; the police and judiciary; the military; academia, the church; and the top PMCs (“professional-managerial class”).