By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – After more than 90 days of war in Gaza, in which at least 22,000 Palestinians are reported to have been killed, Israeli officials have shifted their attention to what happens once the fighting has ceased. There has been considerable controversy over proposals from far-right members of […]
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Archives for 2024
Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks
( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks, subjecting at least some of them to inhumane and degrading conditions, Human Rights Watch said. Thousands more remain stranded in the occupied West Bank without valid legal status and […]
Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden Administration continues to run a scam on the US public and the world by running interference for the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The smarmy and duplicitous spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, responded to the South African complaint against Israel to the International […]
We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
By Les Leopold | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The United States health care system—more costly than any on earth—will become ever more so as Wall Street increasingly extracts money from it. Private equity funds own approximately 9% of all private hospitals and 30% of all proprietary for-profit hospitals, including 34% that serve rural populations. […]
Renewables now Generate more of Britain’s Electricity than Fossil Fuels
By Will de Freitas, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – At the start of 2016, in an article noting some exciting changes in British energy, The Conversation published the following paragraph: Wind, solar and hydro – the weather-dependent renewables – together generated 14.6% of Great Britain’s electrical energy in 2015, the highest ever annual […]
Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The responsibility for the bombing in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284, has been claimed by the ISIL (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group. The worst terrorist bombing in Iran since the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) blew up the Iranian leadership in 1981 struck at […]
Double Threat: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
( Tomdispatch.com ) — Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.) I mean, give us credit as the new year begins. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about humanity isn’t our literature, our theater, our […]
Israel in discussions with Congo to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, Recalling Nazi Madagascar Plan for Jews
( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli government is increasingly adopting the “voluntary” resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza as official policy, with a high-ranking official disclosing that it has engaged in discussions with multiple countries regarding the potential for such moves. According to the Times of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is discreetly […]
How Long can Israel Defy the World?
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times more have been wounded. Some experts qualify it as genocide, others as massacre. Two million people have been displaced, many more than during the entire history of displacement of the […]
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