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EDITORS—Aug 31, 2024 Massive, maybe even wilful, ignorance underlies the attitudes of many colonialist setters, suggests this interview with a true believer in the cause of Israel ...

ED CURTIN—When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a presidential aspirant, folded his cards and conceded the current pot to Donald Trump – what he euphemistically called suspending his campaign for the presidency – he let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him.  His trust in Trump is naïve in the ...

ERIC ZUESSE—America’s version of capitalism is this, corrupt capitalism; and another name for it is fascism. But America’s version of it is the worst type of that: it is imperialistic fascism. And this is the reason why honest political discussion of America’s imperialism, and even merely referring to “the U.S. empire,” is prohibited throughout all of the billionaires’ ‘news’-media. So, here, from a news-medium that ...

EDITOR—Garland discusses the place of nonconformist thinking—including "conspiracy theorists"— has in a healthy society, especially as it relates to the questioning of narratives and concepts bolstering a particular social arrangement or ruling class, and the reasons why the term has become a way for the establishment to denigrate and contain such individuals, thereby preserving the status quo and normalcy. Examined questions: who has the right ...

DANNY HAIPHONG—Journalist and founder of The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah discusses Israel's precarious situation as it finds itself bogged down by regional opposition from Iran to Hezbollah. Israel must stop its genocidal war now, says Abunimah, or face dire consequences, perhaps even its own eventual dissolution. Abunimah explains the rationale for the "Axis of Resistance", which is currently rolling back US and European imperialism out ...

JOE LAURIA—Cassuto says Kostakidis should have made clear in her retweet of Nasrallah’s video that she did not agree or endorse it. He says Nasrallah was calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.  In the retweeted video, the Hezbollah leader says: “Here, you don’t have a future, and from the river to the sea, the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people ...