EDITOR—Barakat is a Palestinian activist and thinker currently based in Canada. A leftist and revolutionary voice on Palestine, he has been the target of numerous smear campaigns in the West, aimed at silencing and criminalizing him and others like him fighting for Palestinian rights in the diaspora. In 2019, he was deported from Germany for his activism. In Canada also, he has been a target of threats and harassment coming from various quarters, including the parliament.
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EDITOR—Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism. Israel even has laws penalizing the commemoration of the pre-planned expulsion and flight of 800,000 Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948.
But when speaking to each other – or to Palestinians – Israelis habitually celebrate the Nakba or threaten to repeat it. Avi Dichter, a government minister, just went a step further.
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EDITOR—Across the globe millions of people have hit the streets asking their “leaders” to stop the Palestinian massacres and implement an immediate ceasefire. So far, except for evasions and tons of hypocrisy defying the obvious, the US empire and its satrapies seem to be holding firm in their support for Israel. The problem is that the truth has finally gotten out to the public, and now everyone not utterly brainwashed can see in plain sight the depraved criminality of the West and its imperial outpost in the Middle East. Their propaganda machinery is not working. The masses are also quickly learning they do not live in a democracy, and that they simply lack genuine political representation. At this point, too much has happened, so it would be foolish to think the world and the Palestinians can accept the status quo ante. Nothing short of a complete and guaranteed Palestinian independence will do to attain a lasting peace. Else, a major war can consume the region and even the world.
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EDITOR—President al-Assad: Gaza has never just been a cause… Palestine is the Cause, and Gaza is the embodiment of its essence. Assad, like many Arabs, sees Gaza as a symbol of Arab oppression by the combined West, which naturally includes their enclave in the Middle East, Israel.
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EDITOR—Two distinguished intellectual heavyweights join the Blowback roundtable to discuss current events and to help expose the many examples of imperial decline that are currently taking place. Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a life long activist and founding member of the Saturday Free School. He highlights the need for institutions like the Saturday Free School and provides a crash course on the life of Henry Winston in the run up to this weekend’s symposium celebrating 50 years of Winston’s “Strategy for a Black Agenda”. John Steppling is a lifelong activist, artist, and playwright currently residing in Norway. He runs his own educational outreach podcast called Aesthetic Resistance. He details the dearth of genuine education in the West and underscores the need for alternative grass-roots education systems to help the masses to better understand the reality that the ruling establishment seeks to obfuscate.
