THE NEW ATLAS—Brian and Angelo are cautious regarding recent events in the Middle East. They believe the US Hegemon (with Israel’s conscious or objective assist) may be playing intricate and highly devious games to detonate a regionwide conflagration. Hamas, for one thing, may have been chosen by Israel and the US to play a divisive role among Palestinian factions, while maintaining the image of a fanatical anti-Israeli threat, eventually even allowing Oct. 7 attacks to permit Israel and the US to flatten Gaza, and provoke Iran and other members of the anti-Zionist/imperialist alliance to step in, thereby justifying, again a reasonable “response” that would destroy Iran and the forces resisting Western hegemony. In that sense, Oct 7 would be analogous to 9/11, a pretext to launch a vast imperialist campaign.
NATO GANGSTERISM
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GARLAND NIXON—Garland, outclassing Columbo, quickly sorts out the logic behind the moves of the perpetrators of the Moscow concert massacre, arguing that, far from being ISIS, as loudly proclaimed by the Western media, they are probably connected to Ukraine’s military and security services, currently chiefly under the command of Kyrylo Budanov. “Their escape route pointed toward Ukraine,” notes Garland. “Most criminals, after committing their crimes, tend to go home.”
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ROBERT INLAKESH—In 2002, during the Second Intifada, Israeli occupation soldiers took control of Palestinian TV networks in the West Bank city of Ramallah to broadcast pornography on several channels. Knowing that Palestinian society is a socially conservative one, it is clear that this was done with the intent of humiliation.
A prominent case of recent sexual humiliation in the West Bank occurred just last year near the city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) and was investigated in a joint Haaretz-B’Tselem report. On 10 July, between 25–30 Israeli soldiers burst into the Ajluni family’s home, forcing five Palestinian women to strip naked at gunpoint and threatening to unleash army attack dogs on them.
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EDITOR—An absorbing discussion of current events in the Middle East, and the world at large, with focus on Gaza and Lebanon, and the recent upset victory of George Galloway in the UK, as the Empire continues to escalate the conflict wile the axis of resistance weighs its own options.
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EDITOR—This video has quite a story, albeit, a typical story for a film that exposes the Empire in all its perfidy. It was first posted about a decade ago, on Cyrano’s Journal, when we first encountered this resource. It was soon the object of sabotage by technical means: the page mysteriously vanished and our server went down—for almost a full week. Further attempts met the same fate, so we gave up until circumstances became favorable to our side. Lately, we decided to try again and looked for the video all over the place, to no avail. It was certainly not on YouTube, a platform notorious for its aggressive participation in imperialist censorship of free speech exposés. But, we eventually found it on YouTube, again, of all places, although after posting it here a few days, it again vanished (see the black box below). Clicking on the link provided to supposedly see it on YouTube itself, as they promise, leads nowhere. So we conducted a new wide search and located an independent depot that had preserved this film.