RON UNZ—Propelled by the horrific images of dead babies in Gaza, this controversial phrase soon began trending among anti-Zionists on Twitter along with talk of “decolonizing” the Israeli settler-state. Wilting under intense Zionist attacks, owner Elon Musk—the world’s wealthiest man—declared that these rather vague and innocuous progressive slogans constituted incitement to “genocide,” with their use being grounds for an immediate ban from his platform. By contrast, I haven’t heard that Musk has banned any of the Israeli politicians or activists publicly calling for the total annihilation of all Palestinians.
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EDITOR—BAR executive editor Margaret Kimberley interviews Gerald A. Perreira, chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana. He joins us to discuss the long running territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region. Plus Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong on US War Propaganda and Billionaire Control of US Politics.
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The Algerian War: Cause Célèbre of Anticolonialism
25 Mins readEDITOR—The Evian agreements of March 18, 1962 and the cease-fire they instituted, ended the war between the French army and the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN) and began a “transitional period,” which ended with the referendum of self-determination on July 1, 1962. The resounding “yes” vote led to the transfer of sovereignty from the French to the Algerian authorities on July, 3 and to the official celebration of Independence on July 5. The date of July 5th had been deliberately chosen by the Algerian provisional Government as a historical reference to July 5, 1830, when the city of Algiers had surrendered to the French occupiers.
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EDITOR—“I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia… but I have never operated on so many injured children as I am now in the Gaza Strip. In the burns unit of the European Hospital we now have 78 patients, nearly two-fifths of them children under five. I have never seen anything like it. I have been in many war contexts where the type of wounds are the same but the number is huge. We never leave the hospital. We work round the clock. We do operations with minimal anaesthesia. If we run out, we can’t operate but there is no clear line. There are a lot of people crying, screaming with pain, but we don’t have enough analgesics. We keep them for the kids or very severe cases….”
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The Open Secret Of Israel’s Use Of Human Shields & The Deliberate Targeting Of Palestinian Civilians
180 Mins readEDITOR—The Israeli propaganda machine and the Western media have been making a big amount of noise about HAMAS using civilians or prisoners as “human shields”. While that accusation needs to be carefully examined before accepting it at face value, there’s no need to wait to see that the IDF routinely, and for a long time, has used Palestinians, usually kids, as human shields. There is a mountain of evidence proving that tragic fact.