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EDITOR—George discusses the Gaza situation with Miko Peled, a distinguished veteran anti-zionist activist, and himself the son of a prominent Israeli general, and former member of an IDF special forces company. Peled is critical about the current resistance strategy. The people who wish to help Palestinians must make CLEAR demands. Asking for a ceasefire, he notes, is not a clear demand; asking to stop the genocide is NOT a clear demand. The Pro-Palestinian movement and international community must demand and impose specific objectives on Israel and its Western supporters, including an immediate embargo to the supply of weapons, fuel and munitions to Israel, without which Tel Aviv could not prosecute the war; perhaps impose a blockade on the country; kick Israel out of all international organisations, from the FIFA to the UNO—which Tel Avid clearly has never respected, anyhow; and it’s time to demand the unconditional release of all Palestinians held in Israeli jails, and perhaps the most obvious, a no-fly zone over Gaza. 

PETER KOENIG—For all those who still believe in the mainstream’s vilification of Vladimir Putin, but are ever-more doubtful and would like to know the truth, President Putin tells an extraordinary story of reality about Russia, the country’s history, all the way back to the 8th Century, laying out very clearly that not only eastern but also western Ukraine – Kiev – is historically a part of Russia.

If comparing this Russia knowledge of history with the Zionist claim over Palestine – you know who is telling the truth and who is lying through their teeth, just for grandeur, dominance, and power – all to achieve a Greater Israel – stamped out of nowhere – to present themselves to the world as “the Chosen People”. 

DANNY HAIPHONG—Former US Marine Corps Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson discuss the broader implications of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Will NATO be fully demilitarized? What does this mean for Ukraine’s future and the larger world order? All these answers and more in a wide-ranging segment from a late December 2023 livestream which is more relevant than ever.

MICHAEL ROBERTS—All the Indonesian presidential candidates are promising upwards of 15 million new jobs in the next five years, in a country where about 3 million people enter the job market annually. But most estimates reckon that Indonesia needs 7% economic growth annually to churn out enough jobs for its young population and the growth forecast for the next two years is closer to 4% a year.  Around 1,000 jobs were created for every trillion rupiah of investment in 2022, compared with 4,500 jobs in 2013.

These jobs are supposed to be generated by moving away from an economy based on mining, oil production and single crop agro exports (palm oil), which are mainly capital intensive to a more broad-based manufacturing and hi-tech economy like China or Vietnam. 

PEPE ESCOBAR—As we keep searching for light in the darkness of insanity – complete with a genocide running 24/7 – we may visualize the pedestal standing in the middle of a vast desert, painted by Shelley with a couple of sublime alliterations, “boundless and bare” and “lone and level.”

This is all about a vast empty space mirroring a political black void: the only thing that matters is the blind obsession for Total Power, the “sneer of cold command” asserting the perpetuity of a hazy “rules-based international order”.