EDITOR—Mehdi Hasan made the calculated decision that if he supported nazis in Ukraine, smeared Assad on behalf of the MIC, and did propaganda for Genocide Joe and the Democratic Party he would be safe. He thought they would allow him to tell the truth about a crucial issue if he pushed…
IMPERIALIST SICKNESS
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SOUTH AFRICA PRESENTS THE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA
19 minutes readEDITOR—The opening salvo of South Africa’s legal bid to hold Israel accountable for genocide in Gaza rang out this morning in a crowded courtroom in The Hague. The State of Israel has failed to prevent and is continuing to commit acts of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza, lawyers for the Republic of South Africa told the International Court of Justice, gathered in the ornate chambers of The Hague’s Peace Palace. Standing at a podium in front of the Court’s fifteen judges, supplemented by judges ad hoc Aharon Barak (Israel) and Dikgang Ernest Moseneke (South Africa), and in front of a battery of lawyers and scores of diplomatic observers, South African attorney Adila Hassim spelled out the acts Israel has committed against the Palestinian people of Gaza – acts defined as genocidal under Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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ERIC ZUESSE—China doesn’t just talk the talk against imperialism but embodies anti-imperialism in its actual policies. This is extremely in contrast against what has been and is the U.S. Government’s consistent policy ever since 25 July 1945, for the U.S. Government to become not only the world’s largest imperial power but the world’s ONLY surviving imperial power.
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OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—Trump understands that the governing structure of the USA is a criminal enterprise that works on behalf of the Neocon Plutocracy, the MICIMATT, AIPAC and the rest. The “ideas” that Trump proclaims will resolve this situation are vacuous nonsense that simply have to do with constructing another type of criminal enterprise that will be more openly fascist than that of the Democrat oligarchy and more profitable to the Trump family and its Court.
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Vanessa Beeley’s Xmas Remembrance: With Gaza on My Mind
13 minutes readVANESSA BEELEY—2023 will be etched in our memories forever – the year a genocide was carried out with the express endorsement of Western regimes intent on cleansing Palestine of Palestinians, slaughtering thousands of children in the process.