Last week, billionaire former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg released Screams Before Silence, which is being promoted as “a documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas” on 7 October 2023.
But it is a total fraud. Seven months after that day, Israel has still not identified a single survivor of the alleged mass rapes on 7 October, nor a single credible eyewitness.
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has reported that there is likely to be almost a million tonnes of asbestos contained amongst the rubble of Gaza. Asbestos is a carcinogenic material used in building.
Mnar Adley
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the International Criminal Court’s rumored plans to indict Israeli officials for war crimes by claiming that for the ICC to do so would be an “antisemitic hate crime”.
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid that dislodged them from campus.
BY WYATT REED AND MAX BLUMENTHAL
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TheGrayzone.com https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
As our calendar of racism and resistance shows, within days of the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act, which received Royal Assent last week, and days before local elections in England, the Home Office began detaining asylum seekers as they arrived for routine immigration bail appointments and rounding them up nationwide in immigration raids, as if they were public enemies – which the government tries to pretend they are – and protesters against the Act, demonstrating outside immigration centres are being arrested too. No wonder increasing numbers of terrified asylum seekers are fleeing from Britain to Ireland, whose supreme court has ruled that since the Rwanda deal, the UK is no longer a safe country to which asylum seekers can be returned.
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Recent weeks have seen maps such as this becoming increasingly familiar. As the fortresses of the Donbass fall, so do the fortunes of the Ukrainian Army. Photo ©️ SlavyangradRecent weeks have seen accelerated progress by Russian forces in the Donbass region, the Ukrainians being on the back foot time and again. This short article shall examine why this is happening.
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Askhat Akhmedyarov (Kazakhstan), Autumn Purge, 2012.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
It was inevitable that the Global North governments’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians would result in furious retribution from their citizenry. That this retribution began in the United States is also not a surprise, given the ongoing cycle of protests that, since October 2023, have contested the US government’s blank cheque to the Israeli government. The US bankrolling of Israel’s extermination campaign against Palestinians includes over one hundred weapons shipments to Israel since 7 October and billions of dollars of aid.
Repression of Campus Palestine Solidarity Reveals the Nature of the State
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been met with brute police force and condemnation of the participants. Their mobilization is a threat to the political system, which cannot operate as the ruling class would like if large numbers of people engage in active dissent.
According to Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the future of the world is being decided in Ukraine.
During his speech at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, the President of the Republic of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, showed deep geopolitical knowledge when he said that the future of the world is being decided in Ukraine. In fact, Russia’s special military operation is proving to be the main global event of recent decades, being a central point for changes in the international scenario.
The great and the good have just finished attending a special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The theme of the conference for the over 1000 delegates from corporations, governments and international agencies was global cooperation and inclusive growth. In other words, how to reverse the growing international trade wars and rising inequality of income and wealth with policies of cooperation and inclusive economic measures.
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“Zionism is a false idol”
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
It is called the military-entertainment-complex. The Pentagon is deeply involved in the production of pop culture, from spy shows and war movies, to light entertainment like “The Price is Right” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the military has had a hand in shaping them all.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff
Staying Power – by Mr. FishIn the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them are unknown.
Caitlin Johnstone
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Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.
Vanessa Beeley
The New Dark Age 