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Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18.
The first was a most comprehensive ‘advisory opinion’ by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which reiterated that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is illegal and must come to an immediate end.
The second, by the United Nations General Assembly, two months later, set, for the first time in history, an exact time frame of when the Israeli occupation of Palestine must end.
The tragic arrogance & greed behind re-opening this 50-year-old nuke is beyond staggering.
See KILLING OUR OWN: THE DISASTER OF AMERICA'S EXPERIENCE WITH ATOMIC RADIATION to grasp nuke power's long-term threat to human existence.
I was at TMI in January, 1980, interviewing the victims. It was horrifying
( https://www.nytimes.com/1980/03/27/archives/ongoing-fallout-fear.html ) and will be again if this madness persists.
I first met James Earl Jones backstage at the Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway (we were both there because we had been asked to speak at Gore Vidal’s memorial some 12 years ago). I was over the moon that within minutes I was going to get to meet him. I walked up and introduced myself.
We had a nice talk, remembering our funny and poignant moments with Gore Vidal. Jones, who was born in Mississippi, grew up south of Traverse City, Michigan in Manistee County. Moving to northern Michigan, he said, was a culture shock, and the trauma he experienced from the treatment he received as one of the few Black kids in the area, and the ridicule he endured for having a serious stutter, caused him to go silent at the age of 5, to become “mute,” and he did not use his voice until he was in high school.
I told him that I now live in Traverse City — “near where you grew up!”
He paused and looked intently at me.
“Traverse City is racist,” he said to me, quietly. He then told me what happened to him there. I’ll let him explain it in his own words in these paragraphs from his autobiography:
Our scheduled talks are now taking shape. for Ireland, the UK, and the US.
You can check this document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WsvxIHdZDk7sT4RyIyt5BUhBWQcxtld1lyKkSImoHGA/edit
Mr. Mahmoud Abbas presented an eloquent speech at the UNGA and got
applauded. Thanks to whoever is his speech writer. By contrast, war
criminal and genocide lord Netanyahu was almost a persona non grata at the
UN. Most delegates of countries chose not to attend or walked out as he
walked in (he had brought a few racist Zionists to attend as audience and
to cheer him). But these are side shows to an ongoing GENOCIDE. We live ina
world where only strength seems understood and the UN has become a hollow
chamber where politicians meet to state their positions and the US and
Its title is Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change, is now in its third edition and can be accessed—for free— online. It was put together by “an international coalition of organization and activists,” relates the “Hoodwinked Collaborative” that “was convened to produce and distribute the groundbreaking publication on false solutions to the climate crisis.”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. All things fall apart. The center cannot hold.” -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
As of May 2024, the United States has committed over $175 (borrowed) billion to escalating the proxy war against Russia, and, as in the case of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with little regard for accountability pertaining to tracking military hardware, equipment, funding, or fraud prevention.
One of the most grotesque moments in this bloody global Punch and Judy show preliminary to nuclear war, was the recent arrival of Vladimir Zelenskyy, former president of Ukraine, making a campaign stop at an ammunition factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where some of the three million 155mm artillery shells the US has given Ukraine are produced.
