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  • October 14, 2024
    No comments on Zigzags of fate—the life of a Russian national in Africa

    Zigzags of fate—the life of a Russian national in Africa

    Monday, 14 October 2024 — New Eastern Outlook

    Yuriy Zinin

    “Cossack in the Saharan Wilds,” “adventuress” and “gifted writer”—different authors have applied various epithets to Isabel Eberhard, in whose unusual fate there is much that remains intriguing and mysterious.

    Isabel Eberhard

    120 years ago, on October 21, 1904, an unprecedented downpour hit the oasis of Aïn Séfra in the Algerian Sahara. Its torrents swept away the mud huts and claimed the lives of many villagers. Among them was a Russian national, 27-year-old Isabelle Eberhardt, who was buried in a Muslim cemetery.

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    Africa

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on Gaza – 42,227 murdered

    Gaza – 42,227 murdered

    Sunday, 13 October 2024 — Al Mayadeen English

    By day 373 of “Israel’s” war on Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) indiscriminate and deliberate, bombing has risen to 42,227, in addition to 98,464 injuries, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its daily report.

    In 24 hours, the IOF committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 52 and injuring 128, reported the Ministry.

    In a statement, the Government Media Office in Gaza said the occupation forces are preventing medical and Civil Defense teams from recovering the bodies of dozens of martyrs from the streets and roads. Needless to say, the IOF are still actively working to completely destroy Gaza’s healthcare system and hospitals in a deliberate, calculated, and systematic manner.

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    Palestine

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on Leaked: How MI6 Exploits Palestinian Refugees

    Leaked: How MI6 Exploits Palestinian Refugees

    Sunday, 13 October 2024 — Global Delinquents

    Kit Klarenberg

    Leaked files expose the intensive interest taken in Palestinians by British intelligence operatives, and Foreign Office-funded and directed cutouts, over many years. Collectively, the material leaves little room for doubt that the British government has long sought to covertly surveil, infiltrate, and manipulate Palestinians within and without their homeland for malign ends, while exploiting their suffering to serve London’s geopolitical objectives.

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    National Security State, Palestine, UK

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on Israel kills 300+ people in 9 days

    Israel kills 300+ people in 9 days

    Sunday, 13 October 2024 — Al Mayadeen English

    The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that more than 300 people have been killed in northern Gaza by Israeli forces over the past nine days. The office accused “Israel” of executing a large-scale forced displacement plan, describing it as “the largest and most dangerous American-Israeli plot of the 21st century.”

    The office further said that the displacement of Palestinians from northern Gaza is part of a coordinated American-Israeli agenda, labeling it a “criminal war of extermination.”

    The Media Office also called on the international community, particularly Russia and China, to intervene to put an end to the ongoing “crimes of the occupation.”

    The situation in the northern Gaza Strip continues to escalate, with the Media Office warning of further massacres as Israeli aggression intensifies.

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    Palestine

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on Israel: Simply No Red Lines At All

    Israel: Simply No Red Lines At All

    Friday, 11 October 2024 — Craig Murray


    There is literally no act so vile that the UK, US and Germany will not support if perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel.Yesterday Israel:

    • deliberately attacked UN peacekeepers in three separate bases;
    • bombed residential central Beirut killing and maiming hundreds;
    • abducted, beat up and held an American journalist;
    • slaughtered 30 Palestinian refugees in an UNRWA school;
    • was found by an official UN Commission Report to be guilty of the crime against humanity of “extermination” in Gaza.

    Any single one of these outrages would be roundly condemned if committed by any country at all except Israel, and would lead to repercussions.

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    Lebanon, Palestine

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on NATO: No expansion east?

    NATO: No expansion east?

    Sunday, 13 October 2024 — The New Dark Age

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    NATO, Russia, USA

  • October 13, 2024
    No comments on Imperialism’s Striving for Expansion

    Imperialism’s Striving for Expansion

    Sunday, 13 October 2024 — Peoples Democracy

    Prabhat Patnaik

    THE “inevitable striving of finance capital”, Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) “to enlarge its spheres of influence and even its actual territory”. He was writing of course in a world marked by inter-imperialist rivalry, where this striving took the form of a competitive struggle between rival finance capitals that speedily completed the partitioning of the world, leaving no “empty spaces”; only a repartitioning of the world was thenceforth possible, through wars among rival financial oligarchies. The wars that were actually unleashed however led to a weakening of imperialism and the splitting off of parts of the world from its hegemony, through socialist revolutions and the process of decolonisation that socialism helped to usher in.

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  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on The US is unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe

    The US is unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe

    Saturday, 12 October 2024 — New Atlas

    Like many other US missile systems, production of THAAD missiles is low. Produced from 2008 to present, Lockheed Martin has produced 800 missiles, approximately 50 a year.

    It is likely not enough launchers exist to even launch the quantity of missiles required to defend against the type of missile barrage Iran launched in early October which easily overwhelmed Israel’s existing anti-ballistic missile systems.

    But even if they did, the 180 missiles Iran reportedly launched, requiring up to 2 interceptors each, would have exhausted nearly half of all THAAD missiles ever produced.

    The US is unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe.

     

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    Iran, USA

  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on The Puppet Masters: How MI6 regularly mastermind state crises

    The Puppet Masters: How MI6 regularly mastermind state crises

    Thursday, 10 October 2024 — Strategic Culture Foundation


    By Declan Hayes

    David Burke’s book is relevant to all those interested in how MI6 have instigated terrorism in arenas as diverse as Russia, Armenia, Iraq and Syria.

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    Books, Ireland, National Security State, UK

  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on An Israeli sniper shot a newborn baby in the head in northern Gaza

    An Israeli sniper shot a newborn baby in the head in northern Gaza

    Saturday, 12 October 2024 — MintPress News

    Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif released video evidence of a baby that was newly born in Gaza and was shot in the head the same day, during Israel’s ongoing massacres in the north of the territory, where Jabalia Refugee Camp’s remaining residents are surrounded and are unable to escape. Israeli forces have killed over 2,100 infants and toddlers in Gaza over the last 12-months.

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    Palestine

  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on Jason Hickel: Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism

    Jason Hickel: Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism

    10 October 2024 — Jason Hickel

    Jason Hickel: Why is Palestine at the center of the climate and colonial struggle? How are capitalism and the ecological crisis linked? Who really benefits from the exploitation of resources in the Global South? At the Transnational Institute’s Ignite Festival in 2024, Jason Hickel argues that the Global North—the “Imperial Core”—is responsible for the excess emissions and resource extraction driving the climate breakdown. He believes that achieving economic democracy and sovereignty in the South is essential to dismantling the colonial power structures at the root of both climate change and imperial exploitation.

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    Capitalism, Palestine, Videos

  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on The west was silent while journalist killers arrested an American journalist

    The west was silent while journalist killers arrested an American journalist

    Saturday, 12 October 2024 — Anti-Imperialist News

    This could have easily gone horribly wrong

    We know what Israel thinks of journalists in Palestine because it’s killed something like 175 of them, and now we know what it would do to western journalists who report the facts because it caught one of them. I’m talking about Jeremy Loffredo here. Now before I go any further, I would like to point out Jeremy has been released, but only because the legal case against him fell apart. I’ll get to that later, but make no mistake, the IDF and Israeli police would have happily handed out a lengthy prison sentence or worse.

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    Media, Palestine

  • October 12, 2024
    No comments on The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war

    The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war

    Saturday, 12 October 2024 — Indian Punchline

    Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Crown Prince, (R), received Iranian  Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Riyadh, Oct. 9, 2024

    Reuters reported on Friday quoting three sources in the Persian Gulf that the regional states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites as “part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire.” The exclusive Reuters report singled out Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as also refusing to let Israel fly over their airspace for any attack on Iran.

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    Asia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia

  • October 12, 2024
    1 comment on Social Media Beyond Corporate Control

    Social Media Beyond Corporate Control

    9 October 2024 — Black Agenda Report

    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
     
    Mastodon
    Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.

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    Capitalism, Internet

  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on We’re submitting evidence to the Home Office

    We’re submitting evidence to the Home Office

    Friday, 11 October 2024 — Goodlaw Project

    Boris Johnson appointed Lord Walney as an “independent” adviser on political violence and disruption.

    Walney’s 2024 report urged the government to focus on what he calls the “extreme left” – mostly people campaigning on the climate crisis and standing up for Palestine.

    But Walney may not have been so “independent” after all. While he was putting together this report, he was being paid by lobbying organisations whose clients include oil and gas companies and those selling weapons to Israel.

    We believe we deserve more from our politicians, especially those advising the government.

    Do you agree Walney should be removed from his post and his potential conflicts of interest should be investigated?

    I’ll sign

    The Home Office says it’s reviewing Walney’s appointment, so we’ve been working with the cross-party group Compassion in Politics to submit a dossier of evidence to inform their decision.

    Labour promised to restore trust in politics. It’s time to root out politicians who could be undermining our democracy.

    Add your name and show the Home Office that we demand better.

    Sign the petition

    Thank you for showing your support.

    Hannah, Good Law Project

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  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on Restore International Law. Expell the United States and Israel from the United Nations!

    Restore International Law. Expell the United States and Israel from the United Nations!

    Friday, 11 October 2024 —  Internationalist 360°

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    United Nations

  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation

    Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation

    Friday, 11 October 2024 — The Grayzone

    Wyatt Reed·October 11, 2024

    The criminal case against the American reporter fell apart after an Israeli journalist testified that his own article containing Loffredo’s full video report had cleared military censorship. Yet Israel refuses to let Loffredo leave the country.

    On October 11, journalist Jeremy Loffredo was ordered released from Israeli jail.

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    Liberties, Media

  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on They Now Know What Real Bombing Means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)

    They Now Know What Real Bombing Means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)

    Thursday, 10 October 2024 — The Tricontinental

    Ayman Baalbaki (Lebanon), Untitled, 2020.

    Dear friends,

    Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

    On 1 October, US Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement urging US President Joe Biden to ‘place maximum pressure on Iran and its proxies, rather than pressure Israel for a ceasefire. We need to expedite arms transfers to Israel that this administration has delayed for months, including 2,000-pound bombs, to ensure Israel has all the tools to deter these threats’. McCaul’s belligerent call came days after Israel used over eighty US-made 2,000-pound bombs and other munitions on 27 September, to strike a residential neighbourhood in Beirut and kill – amongst hundreds of civilians – Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1960–2024), the leader of Hezbollah. In this one bombing raid, Israel dropped more of these ‘bunker buster’ bombs than the United States military used in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on Barbarism of Capitalism

    Barbarism of Capitalism

    Friday, 11 October 2024 — CounterCurrents

    by Bhabani Shankar Nayak

    Lenin characterised capitalism in France and Britain as “civilised barbarism,” and referred to the so-called Western civilisation as “capitalist barbarism,” driven by the “stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires” who converted people as “slaves of wealth” during the early twentieth century. He further argued that “civilisation, freedom and wealth under capitalism call to mind the rich glutton who is rotting alive but will not let what is young live on”. The realities of imperialist wars, conflicts, the cost-of-living crisis, diminishing welfare, wage stagnation, unemployment, child poverty, growing reliance on food banks, and rising homelessness in advanced capitalist countries today echo Lenin’s analysis and observations from the early twentieth century.

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    Capitalism, Climate Change

  • October 11, 2024
    No comments on CNN Lies

    CNN Lies

    Friday, 11 October 2024 — Legitimate Targets

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    Lebanon, Media

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