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The pathetic State of our World: Greed, Corruption and the Genocide by
Mazin Qumsiyeh
posted at
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/02/pathetic-state-of-our-world.html
The UN Security counsil will try to pass a resolution calling for a
ceasefire (really should be called a resolution to end the genocide) but
the US is expected to veto it (thus violating its own laws again as wel as
the genocide convention)
What is happening in Palestine now? I see some 300 videos every week that
break my heart. Here are some of the less graphic ones.
Day 130 of the ongoing genocide: Total killed 28340 (+some 7,000 under the
rubble to be added) and injured 67984. 72% are women and children. This
also does not count the thousands dead from lack of food, clean water,
medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate
situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip. Meanwhile as you expect,
the news is mixed. Some groups speaking out and acting to end the genocide
while others work to accelerate it. For example while UNRWA (
https://www.unrwa.org/) tries to do its mandate of humanitarian aid,
Israeli authorities with support of the complicit puppet western
governments are shutting its operations and hobbling it. And yes the
Palestinian authority is permeated with corruption like the Israeli
authorities. Both are like this by design with no democracy or rule of
independent judiciary that serves everyone. In the case of Tel Aviv, the
"If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long," famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in an essay published in Z Magazine in October 1997.
The essay, entitled, 'What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream", appeared before social media took off to the point it became essential to the formation of our modern culture.
Facebook arrived in 2004. A year later, YouTube was launched, followed by Twitter, now X.
With time, what may have started as creative or even juvenile digital phenomena became defining elements in our perception of ourselves, each other and the world at large.
Before the exponential growth of social media, the internet had numerous, but understandable, challenges pertaining to access, rules and regulations, financial viability, copyrights, social inequality and the like.
In the first phase of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, it was clear that the Palestinian Authority was caught off guard. Its leadership neither anticipated that the Gaza Resistance would carry out such an operation nor did they expect that the Israeli war would quickly reach the point of genocide, in a matter of days.
This resulted in a dichotomy. While, early on, some PA officials strongly criticized Israel, others did so, but guardedly. The likes of Mahmoud al-Habbash, a close adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, actually blamed Hamas for the October 7 operation, bizarrely speaking about the PA’s intention of holding the Resistance accountable, of course to the delight of Israeli media.
We blitz at the beginning wIth MYLA RESON announcing job availability to run the upcoming election for the Pacifica Radio Network, confirming the democratic control of the nation’s oldest progressive media network.
We then open with PROF. MICHAEL ZWEIG, who checks in on the current progress of the Poor People’s Campaign.
TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, RAY MCCLENDON, JUSTIN LEBLANC, HEDY TRIPP and others fuel our deep dive into the tortured political realities of TAYLOR SWIFT & America’s number one professional sport right now.
JERRY ASHTON joins us to explain his amazingly successful campaign to retire medical debt, a cause now being considered by the states of Connecticut and New Jersey. Jerry’s work has retired $11 billion of medical debt among the general population, and is now moving heavily into retiring the medical debt of veterans.
As part of this critical discussion, DAVID SALTMAN reports on the astonishing ordeal of his sister, who has been crippled by a tree falling in San Francisco’s recent wind storm. Only her union medical coverage will save her from bankruptcy.
