PATRICE GREANVILLE—What on earth is prompting Human Rights Watch, a historicaly centrist/corporatist organization with a demonstrable track record of active propaganda collaboration with the US empire in its hybrid war projects around the globe, to suddenly start denouncing Israel? Is HRW belatedly discovering what everyone with an atom of decency has known for decades, that Israel is an outlaw state and Zionism an apartheid ideology? Given that Israel’s crimes continue to mount and the nation appears more and more on a path of national insanity, maybe the US handlers decided it was time for HRW to come clean and recharge its depleted credibility to re-weaponise the organisation for service against the empire’s much greater problems, China and Russia. At least that’s what appears to make sense, even if neither Finkelstein nor Halper mention it as a probability.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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China did it! A quick blog post on the latest recycling of the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
23 minutes readCHRIS KANTHAN—A lot of even smart people say that, “Since the virus was first found in Wuhan, the virus must have originated in Wuhan.” They usually go on to say, “If the virus had started elsewhere, other countries would have detected it.”
Really? Look around the world. Country after country remains clueless until the pandemic explodes in their face. For example, in the middle of April, India proudly announced that COVID-19 had been contained. Two weeks later, they were registering 300,000 cases! India was totally oblivious to the double/triple mutant that caused the colossal second wave.
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CHRIS KANTHAN—Since 2007, U.S. corporations have spent trillions of dollars on stock buybacks. In 2018 alone, they will spend $800 billion on this financial engineering tool (which has also led to a massive stock market bubble). They won’t use the billions to hire Americans, boost wages or innovate new products. Instead, the CEOs will buy yachts and tell you that Chinese or Mexicans stole your jobs.
Do the low-wage employees of Disneyland get any shares or stock options? A silly question, indeed.
Thus we have a situation where American employers ruthlessly exploit American workers. This isn’t a good model for a country. China and Mexico don’t make us poor. Corporate greed does.
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YASHA LEVINE—This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them — a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren’t religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them.
I’m not against people trying to forge a new identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. People have to cope somehow, I guess. But this new identity of theirs is predicated on Israel violently displacing an entire people — because they think that Palestinians aren’t of the right kind of blood and weren’t chosen by their God. Israel belongs to Jews, they say. That’s just how it is. And they see resistance to this plan as aggression and terrorism — to be quashed with overwhelming force.
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PALESTINIANS V. UYGHURS — NAKED WESTERN HYPOCRISY
21 minutes readCHRIS KANTHAN—While the U.S., U.K. and other Western sensationally describe China’s re-education camps as “genocide” and write thousands of tear-jerking articles, the Western attitude shifts completely when it comes to Palestine. U.S. politicians, who cannot stop crying about Muslims in China, suddenly flip 180 degrees. The rationale here is that these Israeli attacks are “self defense.” And the media describes these bombings as “clashes.” No mainstream media would show the victims of these barbarous attacks.