EDWARD J CURTIN—Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In doing so, it sowed the bitter fruit that is poisoning us today. Without understanding the long-standing effects of those years, it is impossible to grasp the deepest dimensions of our current nightmare. Chapter One of the documentary series, Four Died Trying, directed by John Kirby and produced by Libby Handros, appropriately subtitled: “To see where we are, look where we’ve been,” does that brilliantly.
CRIMINAL FOREIGN POLICY
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THIERRY MEYSSAN—The Biden Administration has therefore invited General Benny Gantz, the former alternative Prime Minister and since October 12 Minister without Portfolio, to consult in the United States, despite the opposition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s a kind of backlash to the way the latter was invited to deliver a speech before Congress against the advice of President Barack Obama, in 2015. The United States is keen to show that it is in charge and no one else.
The United States feels compelled to act. Russia has invited sixty Palestinian political organizations to Moscow. It urged them to unite and convinced Hamas to accept the PLO charter, i.e. to recognize the State of Israel.
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EDITOR—ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE—HAITI IN CRISIS – WITH KIM IVES – EDITOR OF HAITILIBERTE.COM
Kim Ives, editor of Haitiliberte.com (English edition) describes, vividly, how he came to know the much maligned Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, and chronicles his evolution from fearless police leader to people’s champion. At the more personal level, Ives also describes how a protégé, Karine Jean-Pierre, currently Biden press secretary, after starting as an anti-imperialist communicator, due to her obvious careerist ambitions, was sucked up by the Democratic Party machine, and is now shamelessly serving the goals of US imperialism. -
The War on Consciousness: Manufacturing Stupidity
51 minutes readERIC ARNOW—Seems like Blinken has a selective or defective memory. Blinken told his stepfather’s story as a tale of one-sided U.S. beneficence, but Samuel Pisar remembers it differently: “I was saved by the Battle of Stalingrad, which was the turning point of the war, and the Red Army offensive,” he said in a 2010 interview with Russian media outlet RIA Novosti. “For me, during the Second World War, Russia was a savior. I consider my saviors to be the Russian and American armies. You can criticize Stalin, the Gulag, and other things that happened in Russia from 1920 to 1930, but the heroism, sacrifice, and victory of Russia in the war against Fascism cannot be questioned. It’s sacred.”
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Breaking news and analysis on Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast
14 minutes readNORA BARROWS FRIEDMAN—01:16 News update from Nora Barrows-Friedman
15:27 Pediatric specialist Dr. Arham Ali on working at the NICU in a Gaza hospital
34:26 Bryce Greene on how the media launders Israel’s lies
01:23:00 Jon Elmer on Palestinian resistance in Gaza