Anti-War
The date is November 6, 2023 at 3:55 pm. The background is a home of an older Palestinian located west of Gaza City. The setting is a group of 6 Nazi fascist Israeli soldiers raiding a home in Gaza.
The narration goes like this: “stay away, we are going to request the bombing of the top floor. Go ahead and fire towards the top floor.
“Did you see anyone? Yes, one. He was waiving his hands like this -showing that he has nothing. And what did you do? I shot him with 4 bullets. Killing was fantastic.
Did he have anything? Nope, nothing. Respect my man, congratulations.”
“Had we have the artillery we could’ve finished the job easily.
Then these Nazis go back again. They see the old man lying next to the bed, motionless and dead. They fire at him again.
The outcome? The summary execution of Uncle Atta, a 73-year old deaf man who was waiving to these Nazis not to shoot. Outside his home, these Nazi members of the Israel Death Forces (IDF) went into a rampage of executing 50 more innocent civilians.
All this was recorded by a camera of one of these Nazis fascist members of the IDF.
Jeffrey Sachs interviews Norman Solomon about War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
Although Americans may have largely forgotten about Georges Méliès, every moviegoer owes this French motion picture pioneer an immense debt of gratitude. Along with a handful of other film forerunners – including the Lumiere Brothers (for whom a cinema in Beverly Hills is named after), Thomas Edison, Edwin S. Porter, D.W. Griffith (whose creative contribution to the cinematic syntax and art form was as great as his despicable, rancid racism was odiously egregious), etc. – Méliès tremendously enriched the nascent silver screen’s aesthetic and experience. French composer Jean-François Alcoléa and two other musicians are doing film lovers a fabulous service by reviving 11 Méliès shorts set to a scintillating score that is arguably as aurally inventive as Méliès’ original silent films were visually innovative, with the trio’s delightful program Right in the Eye, Live Movie-Concert of George Méliès Films.
“By the way, there’s also been slaughter in Israel. So, there’s a lot of pain on both sides. So, we don’t really need a lecture on the problem. I’m not talking about the politics of this tonight.” That was Anderson Cooper’s response before shutting Nina Turner down.
Bakari Sellers interject by saying that “prior to October 7 there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.”
Nina Turner was describing the ongoing genocide as taking place in Gaza in realtime. Turner’s comments. were spot on. “While this president was in the ice cream shop saying, ‘I think there’s going to be a ceasefire,’ 30,000 people have been slaughtered,” Turner said. “People are living in famine. They can’t get medical care. So, it can’t come soon enough for them.”
That was part of the exchange during CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s Michigan primary, as reported by NY Post.
Seriously Anderson? Are you being stupid or just working hard. Is this how much Israel has a grip on you? That is what is called moral flexibility. Let me share with you today’s statistics.
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom.
In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through ‘unconditional negotiations’.
This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip service to the ‘peace process’ and other US-originated fantasies. Back then, he spoke about his readiness to hold unconditional negotiations, though constantly arguing that Israel does not have a peace partner.
All of this was, of course, ‘doublespeak’. What Netanyahu and other Israelis were, in fact, saying is that Israel should be freed from any commitment to international law, let alone international pressure. Worse, by declaring that Israel has no Palestinian peace partner, the Israeli government has essentially canceled the hypothetical and ‘unconditional negotiations’ before they even took place.
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself.
It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern.
As the gateway between two continents and two worlds, Rafah has been at the forefront of many wars and foreign invasions, from ancient Egyptians to the Romans, to Napoleon and his eventually vanquished army.
Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.
Heather Phipps is being represented in court by civil rights attorney Walter Riley. She allegedly splashed washable red paint on Pelosi’s garage door last week. A few drops of the paint accidentally got on a policeman’s uniform. The Pelosis are claiming that the damage to their garage door exceeds $400, and thus Heather committed a felony. The drops of paint on the policeman’s uniform are being used to also charge her with battery. Meanwhile Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator for CODEPINK in the Bay Area, is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly leaving red handprints on the garage door. The washable paint was completely washed off by evening.
The “Doomsday Clock” of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was kept at 90 seconds to midnight this week—the closest to midnight that the clock has been set since it was created in 1947. Midnight is defined by The Bulletin as “nuclear annihilation.”
The hands of the clock were initially moved forward to 90 seconds to midnight last year. In moving the clock forward in 2023, The Bulletin, founded by Albert Einstein and scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, issued a statement declaring it was: “A time of unprecedented danger.”