JEWISH QUESTIONS

EDITOR—Content like this, featuring images of terrible suffering by Palestinians in the latest clash between Gaza and Israel highlights the shameless hypocrisy of the West as it applies selective empathy to the media coverage assigned to this immense tragedy. We don’t see ppl crying on the mainstream media when it’s Palestinians. We don’t see Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper and their ilk tearing up over these images.  What we do see is how effectively they bury such material.

JAMES KAVANAGH—The purpose of these “Do you condemn Nat Turner?” interrogations is not to engage in a good-faith discussion of the ethics of anti-slavery/colonialism vs. slaveholding/colonialist violence, but to get people first and foremost to renounce the anti-slavery/colonial fight—i.e., to defend and reinforce the framework of the slave/colonial system. As we all understand in the context of American history, but many pretend they don’t see in the context of Zionist colonialism.

EDITOR—Brian Berletic, editor of The New Atlas, has spent decades studying not just the ugly manifestations of the Western imperialist disease, but also its anatomy, especially its colossal machinery of soft power, comprising a multitude of mutually reinforcing institutions: powerful legacy media, new social media, think tanks, Hollywood movies and the rest of pop culture, television, false flag events, human rights outfits playing propaganda roles, intel disinfo experts, and even supposedly incorruptible places like international criminal courts.  Covering the whole world, this is a formidable tool of empire to bend people and countries to its will. In this outstanding video, Brian applies his insights into this topic to the tragic events in Palestine.