ERIC ZUESSE—I recently wrote to my member of the U.S. House of Representatives asking the Representative why that person’s name was not included among the 16 members of Congress from both Parties who had signed a letter to Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Antony Blinken, urging the U.S. to cease-and-desist its attempts over many years to get Julian Assange extradicted to the U.S. to face possibly up to 175 years of imprisonment after he has already spent over ten years in prisons in Britain and yet never been convicted, nor even charged, for any alleged crime.
FALSE DEMOCRACY
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Genocide in Gaza: John Mearsheimer Comes In From the Cold
36 minutes readJOHN MEARSHEIMER—I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.
Specifically, I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.1 It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” (1) That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.2
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A wide-ranging discussion by Garland Nixon and Joti Brar on the tasks ahead to save humanity from the collapse of imperialism, a process that connotes constant wars, increased repression, and the immiseration of the working class across the globe. Garland also dissects the Neocon’s “Narcissist” personality which suits the empire to a “T”, given the US empire’s pathological arrogance, criminality, and complete lack of empathy, among other narcissistic traits. Incidentally, even Google accepts that: “Marxist–Leninist states are commonly referred to as “communist states” by Western academics. Marxist–Leninists reject anarchism and left communism, as well as reformist socialism and social democracy. They oppose fascism and liberal democracy, and are anti-imperialists.”
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Who really rules you? Understanding the power game.
7 minutes readEDITOR—Garland Nixon and the inestimable Joti Brar, a leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CP-GB), clarify in a few minutes, in plain language, who really rules our lives. Forget about the party and election circus. Or what the President is up to in the White House. That’s NOT where power really resides in capitalist society. Instead, a huge machinery of distraction —the media, entertainment (films and sports), phony politicians, etc.—hides the actual ruling class [the billionaires and financial blocs who make all the big decisions behind closed doors, in practical anonymity and without any accountability, acting in fact as a dictatorship), while the charade of bourgeois democracy plays on for the masses…
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RON UNZ—A sort of frenzied blood-lust and megalomania seems rampant across Israeli society, with the leaders seemingly unaware of just how bizarre they may appear to most of the rest of the world. Not long after the Hamas attack, a top Israeli political figure interviewed on KremlinTV had denounced Russia for being insufficiently pro-Israel in the current conflict and therefore outrageously threatened the country possessing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. The Israeli government and organized Jewry have often stoked this sort of paranoia, with Israel’s national broadcaster releasing a propaganda video showing sweet young Israeli children singing a song calling for the total annihilation of Gaza and all of its inhabitants.