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Arrogant Narcissism: The Essence of U.S. Foreign Policy
Ted Galen Carpenter - American Conservative
U.S. leaders routinely intone that the United States stands for a “rules-based international order,” and that Washington has always tried to play its role as benevolent global leader. The reality is decidedly less savory and far more self-centered. Washington’s actual attitude since World War II is one of arrogant national narcissism, and the problem persists in our own era. Perhaps the most succinct expression of that perspective was Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright’s comment during a February 1998 interview on NBC’s “Today” show. She stated that “we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.” But that sentiment existed before Albright, and it has continued long after her departure from office.
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Mike Gravel, Former Anti-War US Senator, Dies at 91
The Associated Press
Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91. Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday [June 26] … Gravel’s Senate tenure also was notable for his anti-war activity … Gravel reentered national politics decades after his time in the Senate to twice run for president … He said the Democratic Party “no longer represents my vision for our great country.” “It is a party that continues to sustain war, the military-industrial complex and imperialism — all of which I find anathema to my views,” he said.
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“Juneteenth,” the new federal holiday, is an artificial, media-driven commemoration, says IHR director Mark Weber in this session of “The Political Cesspool” radio show. He joins host James Edwards in this stimulating 51-minute session. The overwhelmingly support by the US Congress for this fashionable but absurd holiday is one more example of the utter lack of principle that Americans have come to expect from their politicians. “Juneteenth” is also part of the ongoing effort to dismantle traditional America, say Weber and Edwards. The two cite recent remarks by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who spoke of a US campaign of “aggression against white people, [and] white U.S. citizens.” US-Russia relations are also discussed, as well as the recent meeting between US president Biden and Russian president Putin.
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Critical Race Theory as a Jewish Weapon
Edmund Connelly, Ph.D.
… For me, CRT [“Critical Race Theory”] fits squarely into the mold of Kevin MacDonald’s “Culture of Critique” category in which Jewish “gurus” concoct a Talmudic verbal assault whose main goal is the further destruction of Gentiles — literally. I know because I had a ringside seat to the introduction of CRT in the graduate schools of the 1990s, with one of the most vicious practitioners of the “art” as one of my required professors … So, while Black studies, women’s studies, Chicano studies etc. all aim to develop and nurture their relative identities and social agendas, ‘Whiteness Studies’ aims to utterly extinguish any sense of identity and awareness of group interests,” a very important distinction indeed … We’ve reached the point where some are stepping forward to point out the obvious truth that CRT is in fact “anti-White racism.”
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German lawmakers have approved changes that will make it easier for descendants of those who fled Nazi persecution to obtain citizenship. Under German law, people stripped of their citizenship on political, racial or religious grounds can have it restored, and so can their descendants. But legal loopholes had prevented many people from benefiting … While Germany’s post-war constitution allows citizenship to be restored, the lack of a legal framework meant many people had their applications rejected. Some were denied because their ancestors had taken another nationality before their citizenship was revoked … The new law also bars the naturalisation of people convicted of racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic acts. “This is not just about putting things right, it is about apologising in profound shame,” said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer …
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Just like its abandonment of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, another unilateral move by the United States once more promises to affect life in Iran for the worse, this time in terms of internet freedom, analysts say. In a surprise move on Wednesday, the US Justice Department seized 36 websites with links to the Iranian state for engaging in “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations” … The move drew swift criticism from Iranian officials and restricted outlets, chief among them Press TV, the Iranian state-run television’s main English broadcasting channel … While the US may have given itself the ability to exert influence over vast sections of the internet, its actions could have far-reaching ramifications beyond its control.
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Poland drew the ire of the U.S. government and Jewish groups for draft legislation that would make it more difficult for survivors of the Holocaust to recover property seized by the Nazis on Polish soil. The nationalist Law & Justice Party, which has rejected calls for Poland to pay damages for the historic wrongs of World War II that began with an invasion by Germany, approved a law late Thursday in the lower house that establishes a 30-year limit for restitution claims … Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, called on the U.S. government to reevaluate its relationship with Poland in the wake of the bill’s passage.
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The US Senate this week passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the recent rise in antisemitism in the US and around the world … The resolution urges President Biden to establish an Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, to advance accurate Holocaust education and counter Holocaust denial and distortion by fully implementing the Never Again Education Act, and to ensure the physical security of Jewish institutions and organizations. The Senate passed the resolution on Monday by voice vote.
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The United States and Germany are partnering to counter Holocaust denial and antisemitism, an effort U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said will “ensure that current and future generations learn about the Holocaust and also learn from it.” Speaking Thursday at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Blinken said Holocaust denial and antisemitism go hand in hand with homophobia, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination, and have become “a rallying cry for those who seek to tear down our democracies.” “That’s why we have to find innovative ways to bring the history of the Holocaust to life, not only to understand the past, but also to guide our present and to shape our future,” Blinken said.
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Who Is Really Killing American Democracy?
Patrick J. Buchanan
… The point: If we Americans cannot even agree on which heroes and holidays are to be celebrated together, does that not tell us something about whether we are really, any longer, one country and one people? … Not only do Americans’ views on religion and morality collide, but we also seem ever more rancorously divided now on matters of history and race. Was Christopher Columbus a heroic navigator and explorer who “discovered” America — or a genocidal racist? Was the colonization of America a great leap forward for civilization and mankind, or the monstrous crime of technically superior European peoples who came to brutally impose their religion, race and rule upon indigenous peoples? Three of the six Founding Fathers and most of the presidents of the first 60 years of our republic were slave owners …
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A new statue of George Floyd is now on display in Brooklyn. The six-foot sculpture was unveiled in Flatbush early Saturday morning as many across the city celebrate Juneteenth, now a federally recognized holiday … The statue will remain at the Flatbush Junction for several weeks before moving to Union Square in Manhattan. Saturday’s unveiling comes a few days after Newark debuted its own statue of Floyd on Wednesday outside of City Hall. A 700-pound bronze statue of George Floyd was unveiled at Newark City Hall Wednesday.
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Juneteenth Is a Fraud
Paul du Quenoy - Newsmax
… As history, Juneteenth is nonsense. General Granger’s order only applied to Texas. Legal slavery continued in the Civil War border states of Delaware and Kentucky, which were left out of the Emancipation Proclamation for wartime political reasons, until the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery as a matter of national constitutional law was ratified on December 6, 1865. Confederate-aligned Native American tribes maintained slavery in their territories until the following year … According to a Gallup poll published last month, 62 percent of Americans report having little or no knowledge of what the new holiday is or means. A nearly corresponding 65 percent – including 43 percent of Democrats and even 32 percent of blacks – either oppose adopting Juneteenth as a federal holiday or (more often) are too unfamiliar with it to voice an opinion.
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'Juneteenth' Now a US Federal Holiday
Alana Wise - NPR
President Biden on Thursday signed a bill to recognize Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the United States — as a federal holiday. Federal employees will observe the holiday for the first time on Friday … Biden’s signature comes after the measure cruised through both chambers of Congress earlier this week, facing no opposing votes in the Senate and only minor Republican dissent in the House of Representatives.
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Eleven U.S. Mayors Commit to Develop Reparations Pilot Projects
Associated Press
Eleven U.S. mayors — from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma — have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in their cities, saying their aim is to set an example for the federal government on how a nationwide program could work. The mayors had no details on how much it would cost, who would pay for it or how people would be chosen. All of those details would be worked out with the help of local commissions comprised of representatives from Black-led organizations set up to advise the mayor of each city. But the mayors say they are committed to paying reparations instead of just talking about them.
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Black Slaveowners
Robert M. Grooms
… The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves … These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned ten or more slaves … Of the blacks residing in the South [in 1860], 261,988 were not slaves … In New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city … This 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.
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Did Black People Own Slaves?
Henry Louis Gates Jr - The Root
One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War … And for a time, free black people could even “own” the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote.
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Black People Owned Slaves, Too
K. Downey, Jr. - PJ Media
… Black people owned black people in all 13 original colonies and in every state that allowed slavery. Frequently, freed black people would go on to own more slaves than their white neighbors. In 1830, nearly a fourth of the free black slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves, and several owned more than 30, far surpassing their white slave-owning neighbors. Yes, black people, frequently former slaves themselves, owned slaves … Roughly 3,000 free black people in New Orleans [in 1860] alone owned slaves.
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The U.S. has seized three dozen Iranian websites, according to a U.S. official, in a move likely to inflame tensions ahead of nuclear talks in Vienna expected to resume next month. A message appeared on several Iranian state-run news websites claiming they were “Seized by the United States Government” in a joint law enforcement action between the FBI and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. The Justice Department said in a statement on Tuesday night that the seizures were in “response to the Iranian regime targeting the United States’ electoral process with brazen attempts to sow discord among the voting populace by spreading disinformation online and executing malign influence operations aimed at misleading U.S. voters.”
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The Great Sedition Trial of 1944: A Personal Memoir
David Baxter – Institute for Historical Review
I have the honor to discuss an historical event in which I played a personal role, the notorious Sedition Trial of 1944 … Some of what I have to tell is merely personal recollection while some is indisputable fact. Historians must make these distinctions. I write here as a witness to history … I have no regrets about the Sedition Trial … For the sake of the historical record I would still like to see the U.S. Congress acknowledge that an injustice was done against 30 American citizens in the Sedition Case. Not one of us ever received a penny in compensation for our mistreatment and expenses, much less any official acknowledgment that our government made a serious mistake.
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More than four times as many troops and veterans of the wars since 9/11 [Sept. 2001] are believed to have died by suicide than were killed in the wars themselves, a new study from Brown University has found. In a paper released Monday as part of its Costs of War series, Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs estimates that 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their own lives over the last nearly 20 years. That is far greater than the 7,057 service members who died in war operations since 9/11, the institute said in the report … The military’s rising suicide rates have caught up to the growing problem across the U.S. population, the institute said.
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Tech Giants Help Israel Muzzle Palestinians
Jonathan Cook
Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to shut down all use of the popular video-sharing app TikTok in Israel last month. The attempt to censor TikTok, details of which emerged last weekend, is one of a number of reported attempts by Israel to control social media content during last month’s military assault on the Gaza Strip … Adalah, a legal rights group in Israel, said a shadowy Israeli government “cyber unit” – which works hand in hand with tech giants like Facebook and Twitter – had been given “a blank check” to police social media and muzzle online dissent … Israeli officials have previously boasted that the tech giants almost always agree to remove whatever content Israel demands.
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Historical Revisionism: The World Wars, Israel, and The Gulf of Tonkin
Video – Libertarian Institute
Mark Weber joins host Keith Knight of The Libertarian Institute in this two-hour session to talk about “historical revisionism,” why history matters, and a range of specific historical topics of relevance for our times. The IHR director speaks with Knight about the origins of the First World War, Israel’s attack on a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, the Vietnam War and the “Gulf of Tonkin” resolution, and more. The two also discuss the outlook and role of Murray Rothbard, the influential libertarian scholar
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Fifty years ago the Pentagon Papers exploded politically in a nation weary of the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg worked on a Defense Department study about Washington’s involvement in Vietnam. He was so appalled with the findings that he leaked the document to the New York Times … The debate surrounding the Vietnam War was dishonest in two ways. The first was the false narrative of past progress. The second was the false narrative of future disaster — if US military efforts failed. Vietnam‐era hawks repaired to the famed “domino theory,” which predicted that not supporting the Republic of Vietnam would undermine America’s Asian allies and devastate Washington’s regional influence.
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Time to Face the Truth About World War II
Eric Margolis
… Stalin knew that Germany’s invasion of Poland would cause Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Stalin expected to pick up the pieces after Germany, Britain and France had exhausted themselves and were ripe for invasion and Communist revolution … Soviet propaganda later tried to cover up Stalin’s plan to attack Europe, claiming his forces were outmoded and unprepared, and generals incompetent … But, contends Suvorov, had Hitler not attacked first in 1941, Stalin’s 30-million man army, backed by mammoth industrial production, would have overwhelmed all of Europe in a 1941 surprise blitz. Suvorov’s unstated conclusion: Hitler saved Western Europe from Stalin … Hitler, in his own warped thinking, believed he was actually doing good for mankind. Stalin had no such illusions. His only interest was raw power.
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Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe
Daniel Michaels – Institute for Historical Review
… Thus, when German forces struck [the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941], the bulk of Red ground and air forces were concentrated along the Soviet western borders facing contiguous European countries, especially the German Reich and Romania, in final readiness for an assault on Europe. In his second book on the origins of the war, “M Day” (for “Mobilization Day”), Suvorov details how, between late 1939 and the summer of 1941, Stalin methodically and systematically built up the best armed, most powerful military force in the world — actually the world’s first superpower — for his planned conquest of Europe. Suvorov explains how Stalin’s drastic conversion of the country’s economy for war actually made war inevitable.
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NATO, the Dangerous `Defensive’ Alliance Trying to Run the World
Jon Schwarz - The Intercept
… The North Atlantic Treaty is also known as the Washington Treaty, which tells you most of what you need to know about it. It was written in 1949, a time when U.S. power was so overweening that it could simply dictate terms to its allies … Then came the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1980s. If NATO’s champions were correct, it would have similarly been disbanded, its purported purpose now moot. But NATO’s more skeptical critics, who claimed that it was largely an aggressive instrument of U.S. power, have clearly been proven right by time … Oddly, it turns out that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s “Atlantic security” now is largely about China, a country famously located on the Pacific.
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Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and played a major role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam War. In this interview, he says he acted like a “war criminal.” He also speaks critically of the killings of hundreds of thousands of civilians during World War II, as part of the US campaign to destroy Japan’s cities. He talks about the role of General Curtis LeMay, who organized the bombing campaign. If the US had lost the war, LeMay would have been considered a war criminal, says McNamara. Both he and LeMay “were behaving as war criminals,” he adds. After quoting LeMay as saying, “If we had lost the war, we all would have been prosecuted as war criminals,” McNamara remarks: “I think he’s right.” He goes on say: “What makes it immoral if you lose, and not if you win?” Runtime: 2:59 mins.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ralph Raico
The most spectacular episode of Truman’s presidency will never be forgotten, but will be forever linked to his name: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later. Probably around two hundred thousand persons were killed in the attacks and through radiation poisoning; the vast majority were civilians …
By early summer 1945, the Japanese fully realized that they were beaten. Why did they nonetheless fight on? As Anscombe wrote: “It was the insistence on unconditional surrender that was the root of all evil.” That mad formula was coined by Roosevelt at the Casablanca conference, and, with Churchill’s enthusiastic concurrence, it became the Allied shibboleth. -
Five Myths About the Atomic Bomb
G. Herken - The Washington Post
… The notion that the atomic bombs caused the Japanese surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, has been, for many Americans and virtually all U.S. history textbooks, the default understanding of how and why the war ended. But minutes of the meetings of the Japanese government reveal a more complex story. The latest and best scholarship on the surrender, based on Japanese records, concludes that the Soviet Union’s unexpected entry into the war against Japan on Aug. 8 was probably an even greater shock to Tokyo than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima two days earlier … As historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa writes in his book “Racing the Enemy,” “Indeed, Soviet attack, not the Hiroshima bomb, convinced political leaders to end the war.”
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Il Duce’s Overreach
N. Pinkoski - Law and Liberty
A history of Italy’s involvement in the Second World War is a case study in how a lesser power ought not to wage war … If Mussolini’s decision to go to war in June 1940 was risky, then his decision to fight on nearly half a dozen fronts — so that by autumn 1942 Italians were in Yugoslavia, Greece, Libya, Russia, and even occupying parts of France — was lunacy … Mussolini’s impromptu decision to invade Greece in the spring of 1941 was to counterbalance German advances into Romania. Until the last moment, Mussolini concealed these plans from the Germans. The invasion was a disaster, and the Germans had to step in — as they had to do everywhere else the Italians fought.
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America’s image today of Benito Mussolini and his Italian Fascist regime is, to a considerable extent, a product of Second World War propaganda. The wartime image of the Duce (leader) as a clownish bully remains largely intact to this day. But this was not always so. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Mussolini and Fascist Italy were generally well regarded in the United States.
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The Death and Life of the Mafia in Italy: From Suppression by Mussolini to Revival by `Liberation’
James J. Martin
… One of the consequences of the destruction of Mussolini and his regime was a prodigious rise in criminal activities in Italy … Dominating this development was the revivified Mafia, effectively subdued for over a decade before the arrival in 1943-44 of the Anglo-American armies, and suddenly back in business everywhere with the achievement of “liberation.” … Allied military and occupation leaders were soon emptying the prisons and labor camps of the Mussolini regime, eventually turning loose upon Sicily and southern Italy a legion of convicted murderers, robbers and extortionists, as well as setting them up in business as the mayors of a long string of Sicilian communities – “Mafiosi to a man” …
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The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder
Review by R. Clive – Journal of Historical Review
… Despite the [April 1941] armistice, a Yugoslav government-in-exile was recognized and operated out of London throughout the rest of the war. It called upon all Yugoslavs to take up arms. This challenge was most effectively supported by the Serbian royalist Gen. Draza Mihailovic … Throughout most of 1942, Mihailovic enjoyed the unqualified support of the Western Allies, who lionized him in their press as the greatest resistance leader in Axis-occupied Europe. Early in 1943, the mood in London began to shift toward support for Joseph Broz Tito, head of a small Communist-led movement … How it came to pass that the West turned their backs on Mihailovic is a question that has troubled David Martin for over four decades … Churchill, who reveled in the dramatic, eagerly boosted Tito’s reputation as a resistance leader.
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Inconvenient Facts About World War II
David Gordon
The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke [by Nicholson Baker] … Where, then, lies Baker’s offense? Rather than write a standard historical narrative, he presents on each page a separate fact, often taken from contemporary newspaper accounts. A number of these facts show Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in less than a favorable light, and this has proved too much not only for Pryce-Jones but for John Lukacs as well … Franklin Roosevelt rivaled his British counterpart in his disregard for the rules of civilized warfare.
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Israel is undergoing a change of management, with reliably hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being replaced by extreme nationalist Naftali Bennett. Bennett has at intervals favored the disenfranchisement of non-Jewish Israeli citizens and the ethnic cleansing of all non-Jews from historic Palestine, killing them if necessary. He opposes the creation of any Palestinian state and routinely describes Palestinian protesters as terrorists while stating his belief that they should be shot on sight … All of which means that there will be no respite from the brutal Netanyahu reign of terror which has been prevailing on the West Bank, in Gaza and also in Jerusalem itself. If anything, the pressure on Arabs forcing them to leave will intensify.
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Thomas Friedman’s Last Gasp
Jonathan Cook
Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism … In recent years, Israel’s naked settler-colonial actions have imperiled that Western paradigm. It has become increasingly evident that Israel is incapable of making peace with the Palestinians because its state ideology – Zionism – is based on their removal or eradication … Friedman’s promotion of the two-state model offers a three-layered deception. First, he writes that the two-state solution would bring ‘peace’, without acknowledging that the condition for that peace is the Palestinians’ permanent ghettoization and subjugation … The Western model of ‘peace-making’ was always about preserving Jewish supremacy. Now, at least, the illusions are gone.
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Mark Weber joins host Fróði Midjord in this lively “Guide to Kulchur” session. It begins with a discussion of how and why “the Jewish question” played such an important role in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, and why it remains relevant today. Weber speaks about Zionism, and why this influential Jewish nationalist ideology is important – for both Jews and non-Jews. Much of the session deal with Julius Streicher, publisher of the notorious anti-Jewish weekly, “Der Stürmer.” Weber makes a number of striking observations about the Jewish role in prewar Third Reich Germany. He also discusses the Nuremberg “International Military Tribunal” established by the victorious Allied powers in the aftermath of World War II. The Tribunal sentenced Streicher to death. Runtime: one hour, 45 mins.
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… A North Korean defector fears the United States’ future “is as bleak as North Korea” after she attended one of the country’s most prestigious universities … One of several hundred North Korean defectors settled in the United States, [Yeonmi] Park, 27, transferred to Columbia University from a South Korean university in 2016 and was deeply disturbed by what she found … In an interview with Fox News. “I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.” Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness … “Even North Korea is not this nuts,” she admitted … “You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,” she said.
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Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?
Patrick J. Buchanan
… The terms “racist” and “racism” are now commonplace accusations in political discourse and a public square where whites are expected to ritually denounce the “white privilege” into which they were born. In the year since the death of George Floyd … the shootings and killings of cops and citizens in our great cities have skyrocketed. In March, and again in April, 167,000 immigrants were caught crossing our southern border illegally. The invaders are now coming not only from Central and South America but also from Africa, the Islamic world and the largest and most populous continent, Asia. And their destiny may be to replace us … Is there no limit to the racial, religious, ideological, political, cultural and ethnic diversity the nation can accommodate before it splinters into its component parts?
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The Russian President talks about the crisis of the liberal-democratic ideology and social-political system, and about Russia’s relations with the US and other countries. In the US and in western Europe, says Vladimir Putin, “The ruling elites have broken away from the people. There is also the so-called liberal idea, which has outlived its purpose. Our western partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea, such as multiculturalism, are no longer tenable.” Putin also talks about Russia’s role and Syria and its support for the Syrian government, and Moscow’s steadily closer relations with China. In this interview in the Kremlin, he responds to questions from an editor of The Financial Times. Runtime: 6:42 mins.
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The U.S. and U.K. pledged to agree on a new “Atlantic Charter” to cement trade, travel and tech ties between the two nations. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Joe Biden [agreed] … on a new charter, modeled on the policy statement made by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, which set out their goals for the postwar world. The original Atlantic Charter included agreements to promote democracy and free trade. In a statement released late Wednesday, the U.K. government said the 1941 charter was “one of the greatest triumphs of U.K. and U.S. relations” that “did more than any other agreement to shape the world order, leading directly to the creation of the UN and NATO.”
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The Atlantic Charter Smokescreen
Charles Lutton - Institute for Historical Review
During both the First and Second World Wars, the nations warring against Germany and her allies portrayed their fight as a “world war for humanity.” Despite the opening of hitherto closed government archives and the testimony of political participants, the general public, with rare exceptions, still believes in these wartime propaganda images of “the good guys” versus “the bad guys.” … Although the Allies, including Stalin’s Russia, continued throughout the war to invoke the principles embodied in the Atlantic Charter, those principles were in practice ignored …
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‘Death to Arabs’: Nationalist Jerusalem Flag March Held Under Ramped Up Security
The Times of Israel
Thousands of right-wing [Jewish] nationalists marched through parts of Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, with some chanting racist slogans, as Israel was said to have warned Hamas, via Egyptian mediators, of a tough and immediate response to any rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Police estimated turnout in Jerusalem at 5,000 participants and some 2,000 officers were deployed across the city for the event. Footage posted to social media showed the right-wing marchers chanting “Death to Arabs” as well as “Shuafat is on fire,” referring to the East Jerusalem neighborhood, and “Jerusalem is ours.” While voicing support for the decision to approve the march, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid immediately denounced the chants of “Death to Arabs.”
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In the 1980s, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s violent anti-Arab ideology was considered so repugnant that Israel banned him from parliament, and the U.S. listed his party as a terrorist group. Today, his disciples march through the streets by the hundreds, chanting “Death to Arabs” and assaulting any they come across. This week, they took part in a wave of communal violence in Jerusalem and mixed cities across Israel in which Arabs and Jews viciously attacked people and torched cars … Admirers of Kahane were elected to parliament in March as allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and one of the most prominent has become a fixture on Israeli TV. Their resurgence has injected another element of volatility to the conflict.
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The San Francisco public school enrollment is plummeting as mostly white families are fleeing the district, a report at the San Francisco Chronicle said Wednesday. According to the news report, more than 1,700 public school students have left the city’s district over the past year, with possibly a continued exodus into the start of the next academic year in the fall … The Chronicle noted a school budget report released Wednesday that found enrollment in the district at the end of the current year was 50,955, the lowest in decades … A drop of 299 white students, or four percent, was the largest loss to enrollment … The Chronicle reported kindergarten applications have experienced a 55 percent drop from white families … The district has experienced a turbulent year in a city that has seen a rise in crime and drug overdoses …
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The Army Disabled Comments on New Recruiting Commercials Amid Criticism It’s Too ‘Woke’
Task & Purpose
The Army has disabled comments on a series of new recruiting commercials meant to reach potential recruits from all backgrounds after being bombarded by criticism that the service is “woke.” The new series called “The Calling,” posted to YouTube on May 4, showcases real soldiers and their stories in an animated format. One video features a corporal who discusses her “fairly typical childhood” in which she took ballet and played the violin, and also “marched for equality” with her two moms … Another video features a first lieutenant who immigrated to Florida from Haiti with his family as a child … “It is important that the soldiers featured in the campaign reflect the incredible diversity of both the Army and the American public – and not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of influences, upbringings, and experiences,” she continued.
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Christians Are White Supremacist Extremists
Philip Giraldi
… Equally unsurprising, [the Pentagon’s] DEOMI has included in its mission the assertion that those who deny the so-called holocaust are a threat to national security. A 20-page booklet entitled Holocaust Revisionism published by DEOMI’s “Research Directorate” as an education resource was written by one Captain Carlos C. Huerta, an orthodox Jewish rabbi … The booklet is intended to send the message to American military service personnel that skepticism about the standard history taught in schools regarding what happened to Europe’s Jews during World War 2 is not permissible for those in uniform.
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Croatia’s Football Team Refuses to Kneel for BLM During Euro 2020, Backs Hungary’s Position
Remix News
Following the example of the Hungarian national team, Croats also announced that they will not kneel before the matches of the Euro 2020 Championship, which kicks off Friday evening … The players of the Croatian national football team said they will certainly not kneel in their opening match against England. The reasoning on the part of the Croatian federation is the same as the Hungarian position, which points to European Football Association (UEFA), which prohibits players making political gestures. It is common practice in England for players to kneel before matches, who are campaigning for the controversial Black Lives Matter political movement.
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Former British Minister: ‘Israelis Think They Control the Foreign Office. And They Do!’
Matt Kennard
The recently published diaries of former foreign minister Sir Alan Duncan provide an unprecedented window into the influence the Israeli government and affiliated pro-Israel lobby groups have over the UK Foreign Office. / From revelations about Israeli efforts to “destroy” him, to attempts by a powerful pro-Israel lobby group to stop him becoming a minister for the Middle East, Sir Alan Duncan saw up close the power of the Israeli state in British politics during his time at the heart of the UK government. Duncan served as British foreign minister from 2016-19 … His new book, In The Thick Of It, reveals much about UK government policy that has been missed by the British press and broadcasters … “We are supposed to be Great Britain, but I fear we are too willing to let others pull our strings.”
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Correcting the Zionist Narrative of Israel
Garry Leech - CounterPunch
The Zionist narrative exists to justify the existence of the state of Israel. It is the narrative that dominates the perspectives of the US and Canadian governments as well as the mainstream media in North America. This narrative accepts as its starting point the right of a Jewish state to exist based on the fact that Jews lived in the biblical lands 2,000 years ago, and that these lands belong to God’s chosen people: the Jews … The Zionists have effectively re-written the history of Israel, and it is this misrepresentation of the past and present that has dominated the Israel-Palestine narrative.
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‘What Should Israel Do? Stop Committing War Crimes’ – Kristof’s Bold Step in The New York Times
J. North, P. Weiss – Mondoweiss
As we keep saying, Palestinian solidarity reached a new benchmark in American media/ politics during the May assault, and it would be remiss not to laud Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times two days ago [June 4], “Were My Criticisms of Israel Fair?” It represents a great new position for a mainstream columnist: Hamas hitting Israel with rockets does not justify Israeli war crimes against Gaza … Kristof blows the argument out of the water, saying that this is a political dispute that will not be solved by “war crimes” by Israel and Hamas … He concludes by saying that Israel and Hamas should “stop committing war crimes.” That’s the only way to end an intractable problem.
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Israel and Palestine: What Else is New?
Taki Theodoracopulos
… Two years later, as a freelance photographer for Newsweek and Paris Match, I was in Jordan covering the aftermath of that famous victory, and what I saw made me ashamed to have ever contemplated fighting for Israel … The irony in my case is that I am a man of the right siding with a pro-leftist cause, that of the Palestinians … When American media denounce terrorist attacks by Palestinians, I’d like to know what Americans would have done if they had been under a similar occupation since 1948 and 1967 … My problem is that the people who condemn Israel and root for the Palestinians, like myself, stand for everything I loathe in this world. I suppose nothing to do with Israel is easy — even condemning its policies puts one in Satan’s camp.
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The New Deal and the International Monetary System
Murray N. Rothbard
…. No longer on gold, and unable to devalue the mark, [Third Reich] Germany was obliged to engage in strict exchange control. In this economic climate, Dr. Schacht was particularly successful in making bilateral trade agreements with individual countries, agreements which amounted to direct “barter” arrangements that angered the United States and other Western countries in totally bypassing gold and other international banking or financial arrangements … May not Western anger at successful German competition through bilateral agreements, and Western desire to liquidate such competition, have been an important factor in the Western drive for war against Germany? … By 1935, American officials were calling Germany an “aggressor” because of its successful bilateral trade competition …
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An array of Jewish groups has called on President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants. In a letter sent Wednesday addressed to Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the groups said such a pathway should be included in “in any economic recovery or infrastructure legislation.” … Organizations representing the [Jewish] Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements signed on along with a number of major mainstream groups, including HIAS, the main Jewish immigration advocacy group. Others included the Anti-Defamation League, the National Council for Jewish Women, Jewish Women International and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs …
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The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative program “Uvda” in a segment aired Thursday night, offered an extraordinary debriefing by the head of the typically secretive agency in what appears to be the final days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule. It also gave a clear warning to other scientists in Iran’s nuclear program that they too could become targets for assassination even as diplomats in Vienna try to negotiate terms to try to salvage its atomic accord with world powers.
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Research Article in Medical Journal Describes Whiteness as 'Malignant, Parasitic-Like Condition'
Newsweek
A reseach article published last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness “a malignant, parasitic-like condition.” That description, along with other language in the article, has caused public anger, and the backlash against the author was evident on social media. The article, titled On Having Whiteness, was written by Dr. Donald Moss, a white man who is a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. In the article, Moss wrote that “‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility” to the “parasitic” condition, which he claims “renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”
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There Is Still Time to Stop the $735 Million Arms Sale to Israel
William Hartung – Responsible Statecraft
The Biden administration sparked vocal protests at home and abroad with last month’s decision to go full speed ahead on a sale of $735 million of precision-guided bombs to Israel. The sale moved forward even as Israel was in the midst of a devastating bombing campaign in Gaza … As with all Israeli military actions, the attacks relied heavily on U.S.-supplied weaponry, including precision-guided bombs and Lockheed Martin F-16 combat aircraft. The new bomb sale is just the latest installment in a U.S. policy of supporting Israel’s military that goes back decades — over $236 billion (adjusted for inflation in 2018 dollars) in assistance since the founding of the Israeli state, more than three-quarters of it in the form of military aid.
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Who Elected America To Rule the World?
Doug Bandow
One aspect of American exceptionalism is undoubtedly true. American policymakers believe that they have been anointed by heaven to rule the world … That is reflected in a foreign policy which essentially has turned the Monroe Doctrine into a global strategy: the US, and only the US, is entitled to intervene everywhere on earth … No one imagined that Washington was empowered to unilaterally regulate global commerce and punish anyone anywhere who defied American dictates … Given America’s global economic dominance, Washington now can make other nations and businesses enforce US policies … In this way Washington seeks to force the entire world to implement American policy. This has caused allied states, most notably in Europe, to follow US policy even when contrary to their own interests.
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The Child Soldiers of Portland
Christopher F. Rufo - City Journal
… Famously the “whitest city in America,” Portland has become the unlikely headquarters of race radicalism in the United States. The city has elevated white guilt into a civic religion; its citizens have developed rituals, devotions, and self-criticisms to fight “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” The culminating expression of this orthodoxy is violence: street militias, calling themselves “antiracists” and “antifascists,” smash windows and torch the property of anyone transgressing the new moral law.
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An author who recently published a book exposing Antifa said he was beaten and chased by the left-wing militant group while covering ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon. “Antifa tried to kill me again,” Andy Ngo tweeted late Wednesday, sharing photos of injuries he said were inflicted in the attack last Friday at a rally marking the anniversary of the first protest in the troubled city after George Floyd’s murder. “I was chased, attacked and beaten by a masked mob, baying for my blood.”
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… The full dimensions of Europe’s current surge in antisemitic activity are not yet clear, but by some measures, including those by the British Jewish community, the extent is unprecedented. Meanwhile, the range and density of incidents are unusual. Local Jewish leaders are responding with sometimes uncharacteristic pessimism. Antisemitic incidents were already rising in Europe before the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that ended with more than 230 Palestinian and 12 Israeli fatalities. …. That dynamic was prominently on display during an escalation in 2014. But this time, some prominent Jewish community leaders and longtime fighters against antisemitism are issuing unusually dour warnings that the battle may be lost.
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Defamation
Documentary film / Video
What is anti-Semitism today? In this provocative hour-and-a-half documentary, Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir travels widely in search of modern manifestations of the “oldest hatred.” In this irreverent quest, he talks with professional anti-anti-Semites, and joins a group of young Israelis on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz. His implicit point: Anti-Semitism, at least in Israel and the U.S., is more smoke than fire. Conditioned to see Nazis in every shadow and behind every corner, Shamir suggests, Jews in the U.S. and Israel often manufacture an anti-Semitism that they perversely want to find.
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Now It’s ‘Antisemitic’ to Say that Israel Practices ‘Apartheid’
J. North, P. Weiss – Mondoweiss
As you are surely aware, advocates for Israel are using an apparent surge in antisemitic attacks to try to delegitimize pro-Palestine advocacy. Part of that effort is a move to characterize the charge that Israel is practicing apartheid as antisemitic. Four pro-Israel congresspeople sent a letter to President Biden yesterday taking aim at fellow Democrats who are critical of Israel. The four — Josh Gottheimer, Elaine Luria, Dean Phillips, and Kathy Manning, all of whom are Jewish — say Israel protects Jews, so criticisms of Israel over “apartheid” or “terrorism” are “antisemitic at their core.” … That reference to other House members is to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, who have charged Israel with “apartheid.” … The idea that it is antisemitic to say Israel practices apartheid is patently absurd.
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French publisher Fayard releases a new translation of Mein Kampf on Wednesday [June 2) after years of delay due to the controversy over publishing Adolf Hitler’s racist, anti-Semitic screed. But historians behind the project say it will perform a valuable service in elucidating – and thereby disarming – the Nazi ideology for French readers. Fayard were so keen to emphasise the edition’s scholarly nature that Hitler’s name does not even appear on the tome’s bare, white cover … Most of the text is in fact historians’ commentary on Hitler’s writing … Bookshops will not stock the edition on their shelves: it is available by special order only. Its price tag, 100 euros, also makes it inaccessible to many readers. Fayard will not make a profit on the book, either. All proceeds will go to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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Teacher, Principal Placed on Paid Administrative Leave Following Student’s Controversial Project on Hitler
News 12 Westchester
A Tenafly [New Jersey] principal and teacher have been placed on paid administrative leave following a controversial assignment where a student reported on what he called the accomplishments of Adolf Hitler. The project was displayed in the hallway at Maugham Elementary School, and a parent posted about it on social media. That’s when the investigation into the fifth grader’s assignment, which was approved by the teacher, began. After initially defending the teacher by saying things were taken out of context, things have changed, from the superintendent’s perspective. Shauna DeMarco, who is the superintendent of schools, says the assignment violated the district’s curriculum, and she wants to know why it was displayed after some of the community asked whether it was appropriate.
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Higher Education Is About to Implode
Alexander Zubatov - Imaginative Conservative
Our current system of higher education has reached a tipping point. My prediction is that within 20 years’ time, we will be living in a very different reality as far as university education is concerned. Higher education is about to implode / … Higher education has capitulated to the know-nothing mob and abandoned its commitment to the aristocratic principle of excellence as a counterweight to the democratic principle … Our current system of higher education is an unsustainable, cumbersome relic of another era … Finding themselves increasingly displaced from that familiar role, universities have flailed about and, in a desperate quest to remain relevant, plunged headlong into rococo excesses: lavish student centers, dormitories and football stadiums, grotesque course offerings and majors and, with these, exorbitant tuition fees.
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Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?
Patrick J. Buchanan
… While the service and sacrifice were always honorable and often heroic, never to be forgotten, were the wars these soldiers were sent to fight and die in wise? Were they necessary? What became of the causes for which these Americans were sent to fight in the new century, with thousands to die and tens of thousands to come home with permanent wounds? And what became of the causes for which they were sent to fight? … The stories of Memorial Day should make us think long and hard before we launch any more unnecessary, unwise, or unwinnable wars.
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Remembering the Fallen: Lies and Deceit in America’s Wars
Mark Weber - Podcast
On Memorial Day we remember all those who have suffered, sacrificed and died while serving in our country’s armed forces. But time and again, American political leaders, supported by much of the media, have sent young people to their deaths, and have ruined the lives of many more, in foreign wars that were promoted and justified on the basis of deceit and lies. A good example is the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, which has cost more than four thousand American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, and has brought death to many tens of thousands of Iraqis.
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… The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats on June 8, 1967, has almost faded from memory, with a younger generation completely unaware that a United States naval vessel was once deliberately attacked and nearly sunk by America’s “greatest friend and ally” Israel … So the treatment of the U.S.S. Liberty should surprise no one in a country whose governing class has been for decades doing the bidding of the powerful lobby of a tiny client state that has been nothing but trouble and expense for the United States of America. Will it ever end? As the Israel Lobby currently controls the relevant parts of the federal government and much of the media change is not likely to happen overnight, but there are some positive signs.
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Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
Joan Mellen - Book Available from IHR
In this startling work, an eminent author presents evidence of collusion between US and Israeli intelligence in the murderous 1967 attack against the USS Liberty, a US naval surveillance vessel, and in maintaining a cover-up that has endured for more than 50 years. So intense and sustained was the attack – it lasted for nearly an hour and a half – and so specific was the aiming for the antennae and satellite dish on deck, that it was scarcely credible that Israel’s aggression was not deliberate. Based on interviews with more than 40 survivors, knowledgeable political insiders, and Soviet archives of the period, investigative writer Joan Mellen presents disturbing evidence of complicity between US and Israeli intelligence in the attack, and in maintaining the decades-old cover-up.
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The USS Liberty: America’s Most Shameful Secret
Eric Margolis
… Far more shocking was Washington’s response. Writes Bamford: ‘Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel attacked the ship and killed American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson Administration and Congress covered up the entire incident.’ Why? Domestic politics. Johnson, a man never noted for high moral values, preferred to cover up the attack rather than anger a key constituency and major financial backer of the Democratic Party. Congress was even less eager to touch this ‘third rail’ issue.
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USS Liberty: Dead In The Water
BBC Television (Video)
British television documentary about the June 1967 attack by Israel against the USS Liberty. Shows that US and Israel authorities continue to suppress important facts about the murderous attack. Also includes revelations about the still secret Israel-US “Operation Cyanide” project, in which the US military deceitfully aided the Zionist state in its devastating “preemptive” assault against Egypt. Runtime: one hour, nine minutes.
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… In betraying one of its own, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, which was chartered by Congress in 1958, aids and abets the most disgraceful cover-up in American military history … While under attack [in June 1967], which lasted hours, the [American Navy ship USS] Liberty got a distress call out to the Sixth Fleet because the Israelis had to stop jamming during strafing runs. Immediately the Sixth Fleet launched jets to assist our people. President Lyndon Baines Johnson ordered those jets to return to their carriers without helping the Liberty. The fleet Admirals, not believing they were to abandon their shipmates, launched a second wave. Johnson ordered them back a second time. Not only that, Johnson — in Washington, DC — apparently knew the attackers bombing the Liberty were Israelis before Captain McGonagle did.
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With deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations, the Israel lobby has manufactured an antisemitism epidemic to turn the media’s gaze away from dead children in Gaza … Led by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Israel lobbyists have portrayed a series of street scuffles between supporters of Palestine and pro-Israel activists as anti-Jewish pogroms … There is ample proof of deception, however, as video and photographic evidence reveals pro-Israel elements provoking demonstrators, initiating violence and falsifying or embellishing their testimonies … This version of events fits a pattern in which Israel sympathizers provoke Palestinian demonstrators, and even initiate violence, then mislead the media about the circumstances of the fighting to portray themselves as blameless victims of antisemitic hate crimes.
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How Israel Censors the Internet
If Americans Knew - Video
An exposé on Israel’s detailed projects – some public, some covert – to influence what people see on the Internet, and what they don’t. Numerous well-funded, organized projects by and for Israel work to flood social media with pro-Israel propaganda, while blocking facts Israel dislikes. The projects utilize Israeli soldiers, students, American teens and others, and range from infiltrating Wikipedia to influencing YouTube. Some operate out of Jewish Community Centers in the US. Israel and Israeli institutions employ armies of Internet warriors. They work to promote the Israel narrative and block facts about Palestine, the Israel lobby, and other subject matter they wish covered up. They post comments, flag content, accuse critics of “antisemitism,” and disseminate misinformation about Palestine and Palestine solidarity activists. Runtime: 14 mins.
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How Israeli Spies Are Flooding Facebook and Twitter
Asa Winstanley
Israel secretly operates a troll army of thousands, partly funded by a government department. The Ministry of Strategic Affairs is dedicated to a global “war” against BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. To conceal its involvement, the ministry has admitted to working through front groups that “do not want to expose their connection with the state.” The troll army Act.IL is one of many such groups. It focuses on spreading Israeli propaganda online … Act.IL is run by a former Israeli spy who has argued that his outfit is involved in “a new kind of war.” … The group’s chief executive has admitted in Hebrew to working closely with Israeli ministries, and in English that his staff are mostly former Israeli spies … Ben Yosef explained that “controlling the online media discussion became our top priority.”
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Ireland’s parliament has passed a motion describing Israeli settlements and other policies in the West Bank as “de facto annexation’’ — some of the strongest language ever offered by a European Union nation on the issue. The motion passed Wednesday by the Dail, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, condemned the “recent and ongoing forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the occupied Palestinian territory.” Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the motion conveys Ireland’s concern that Israel’s actions are undermining prospects for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “We need to speak the truth,’’ Coveney tweeted Thursday. “The scale, pace & strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlements, demolitions & evictions is de facto annexation.’’
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Voters Are More Likely to Sympathize With Israel Than Palestine, Though Many Feel for Both Sides
Morning Consult
There is no unified position among U.S. voters on the escalating fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militants, according to a new Morning Consult/ Politico survey. The survey, conducted May 14-17 as the conflict was entering its second week, found 28 percent of voters said they were more sympathetic toward the Israelis, compared with 11 percent who aligned themselves with the Palestinians. Another 29 percent of voters said they sympathized with both sides equally, while a third said they did not know or had no opinion on the issue. Support for Israel is driven largely by Republicans and older voters, while Democrats and younger voters are more likely to back the Palestinian cause in the decades-long Middle Eastern conflict.
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Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, published a blog post this month declaring that the online encyclopedia’s “neutral point of view” policy is “dead” due to the rampant left-wing bias of the site. Noting the article on President Donald Trump, Sanger contrasted its extensive coverage of presidential scandals with the largely scandal-free article on former President Barack Obama. Sanger also criticized Wikipedia’s coverage of religion and other controversial topics … On May 14, Sanger published a blog piece titled “Wikipedia Is Badly Biased,” and started by declaring Wikipedia’s “Neutral Point of View” policy dead. Having founded the online encyclopedia with Jimmy Wales and having been involved in the original drafting of the policy, Sanger offered particular insight into its development and its practice in recent years.
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The Extraordinary Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans During World War II
Diana Morita Cole - Scheer Post
… On board were Germans, Italians, and Japanese, the jetsam discarded by South America. As it sailed northward, The Etolin made two more stops: one in Ecuador to pick up Germans and Japanese, and the second in Colombia to pick up Germans and Italians … Also imprisoned in the Crystal City [Texas] family camp were resident immigrants of German and Italian ancestry and their American-citizen children, along with Japanese Americans expelled from the West Coast and Hawaii. The United States government orchestrated the mass abduction of more than 6,000 Japanese, Germans, Italians, and Jews with the collaboration of 18 Latin American countries in exchange for trade agreements, military aid, and loans. Of these, 2,264 were ethnic Japanese — the vast majority citizens or legal immigrant residents of Peru.
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Google has removed its head of diversity over a 2007 blog post that said Jewish people had “an insatiable appetite for war and killing”. In a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resurfaced this week, Kamau Bobb also claimed Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering. The post has now been deleted. On Thursday, a spokesperson for Google told the BBC that Mr Bobb would “no longer be part of our diversity team going forward”. “We unequivocally condemn the past writings by a member of our diversity team that are causing deep offence and pain to members of our Jewish community,” they said. “These writings are unquestionably hurtful. The author acknowledges this and has apologised. He will no longer be part of our diversity team” …
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A public Dutch university removed a series of banners about Israel made by resident artists, including one reading “from the river to the sea,” after protests by local Jews. The State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam was “not aware of some of the meanings of the phrase and have decided, with the resident artists who displayed banners on the subject, to remove them,” Emily Pethick, the Academy’s director, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tuesday. “We deeply regret it.” The slogan is an abbreviation of the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which refers to the area between Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — a region comprising the West Bank and Gaza and Israel.