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.
AFRICA
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Palestine is in Africa, and Arabic Peoples are Africans
15 minutes readLAITH MAROUF—Thousands of years of cultural exchange and intermarriage exists between East African peoples, and Arabic peoples and their ancestors. For one, there is not one Somali family that is not intermarried to a Yemeni family; thousands of years of sailing back and forth between what is now Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and Hijaz. The cultural exchange, trade and intermarriage along the Nile basin from Egypt to Ethiopia was as significant as the movement across the Red Sea. Finally, we can not forget the failed invasion of Mecca by the King of Abyssinia on the day of the birth of Prophet Mohammad, and the complete opposite 40 years later, the granting of asylum by the Christian King of Abyssinia to the first Muslims who were escaping assassins.
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SABBY SABS—Sabby talks about the admirable example of Dearborn’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, who embodies his [majority Arab-descent) constitutents’ commitment to principle over politicking and opportunistic power, in this case refusing to support Biden unless he promises a ceasefire in Gaza, with assurances that a Palestinian state will be negotiated soon afterward. And, most importantly, they will not wait. If Biden wants their vote in 2024, he will have to deliver in advance of the election.
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BILLY BOB—Episode 49 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline: John Steppling and Ian Kummer join the roundtable to discuss the biggest news of the past few days, starting with today’s ruling at the ICJ. Other topics include, understanding the Zionist mindset, the downing of the Russian IL-76 (carrying scores of Ukrainian prisoners), and the domestic political situation in the US.
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BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court
17 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—Item 142 of the application may encapsulate the whole drama: “The entire population is facing starvation: 93 percent of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger, with more than one in four facing catastrophic condition” – with death imminent.
Against this backdrop, on 25 December – Christmas day – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his genocidal rhetoric, promising: ‘We are not stopping, we are continuing to fight and we are deepening the fighting in the coming days, and this will be a long battle and it is not close to being over.”