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If Only Some Lives Matter, No Lives Matter

Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East to Western Europe to the United States to India and God knows where else. And it can be profitable as hell, at least for the right industries.

Be afraid. Be very afraid!

This is true especially if you belong to a wealthy, heavily armed nation – because your enemies are everywhere, clustering at your borders or, even worse, daring to claim possession of their ancestral land and inconveniencing your possession of it.

A Year of Genocide - Despite the Unbelievable Pain, Palestinians Emerge Stronger

No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe, would, once again rally for Palestinian freedom. 

 The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness. 

 It is not the enormity of the Israeli war, but the degree of the Palestinian sumud that has challenged what once seemed to be a foregone conclusion to the Palestinian struggle. 

Israel is engaged in targeted assassinations in Lebanon

Don't be fooled by Netanyahu. Israel is targeting all Lebanese, not just Hezbullah, Shiia, Sunni, Christians, Druze, Alwis, and Syrian and Palestinian refugees who live in Lebanon, Crime Minister Netanyahu acts as if he lives by the law of jungle. Why is that not making news? There are currently 250,000 Palestinian living in Lebanon. Mostly, they are living in 12 refugee camps that have been run by UNRWA since 1948. Lebanon is also home to around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, many of whom are now being forced to flee again. The IOF is now bombing many residential buildings in Lebanon without warning the civilian population. Just like in Gaza, whenever Israel gets hammered by Hamas on the ground, they bomb civilians from the sky. Lebanese political commentator said, " Israel is telling Lebanese civilians to evacuate their buildings in Beirut in the middle of the night they are sleeping before bombing them 10 minutes later. And then they say, "We warned civilians." Fearing to face resistance fighters on the ground in Palestine and Lebanon, The IOF is now resorting to what they do best.

Highway Robbery: How Bad Trade Policies Make Life Unaffordable

Many of us know the pain of paying steep tolls, especially when a turnpike is taken over by a private company.

Now imagine you live in one of our hemisphere’s most impoverished countries. Do that and you’ll get a glimpse into how unfair trade deals help make life unlivable in many countries — and force countless people to seek a living in countries like the United States.

When a private company suddenly put up toll booths in the middle of a taxpayer-funded highway, local residents in El Progreso, Honduras were furious.

They knew the new fees would also hike the price of food, bus fares, and their daily commutes — and that making it in their country, where roughly half of the population lives below the poverty line, was going to become unbearable.

Kill More A-Rabs

New York - I was with the Israeli army in 1982 when it invaded Lebanon and battled a new resistance militia, Hezbollah. Ten years later, I was in Afghanistan with a new Muslim resistance movement, Taliban.Both groups have been demonized by western and Israeli media and governments as “terrorists” a meaningless but effective propaganda label that reduced both movements to the status of mad dogs and criminals. The term “terrorist” implies that the object of this libel can have no legitimate political or moral rights. Dropping 2,000 lb bombs on apartment buildings, as Israel is doing in Gaza and Lebanon, is “anti-terrorism” to the biased western media.Today, many Americans have been fooled into believing that anyone who opposes US imperial policies abroad is a terrorist - a mad dog that must be destroyed on sight. In US media, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iranian are usually accompanied by the attached term “terrorist”.
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