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Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilitiesbetween the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The spate of mutual denunciations is catnip for mass media and fuel for hardliners in both countries. But for the world at large, under the doomsday shadow of nuclear arsenals brandished by the United States and Russia, the latest developments are terribly ominous.

A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

When a lost soul attempts to reclaim himself in the American way, it becomes, far too often . . . we all know this . . . another mass murder.

In the past week or so, there have been two more of them.

“This cannot be our new normal. We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. We should be able to feel safe in our schools, in our movie theaters and in our communities. We need to see a change.”

When I first saw this quote by U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, Colorado, site of one of the shootings, I initially misread that last sentence and thought, oh my God, he’s right. We need a sea change!

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The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern immigrants.

The lone shooter in Boulder was a 21-year-old Syrian-born man named Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. He hasadmitted to the shooting.

A week earlier Alissa had legally purchased the murder weapon, a semiautomatic AK-15-style Ruger assault pistol.

Six years ago, on March 26, 2015, the US green-lighted and provided logistical support for the Saudi bombing of Yemen that continues on a daily basis. The US/Saudi war, which includes as allies the several members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, is an undeclared war, illegal under international law, and an endless crime against humanity. The US and the Saudis have dropped cluster bombs on Yemen since 2009. Yemen has no air force and no significant air defenses. Two years ago, even the US Congress voted to end US involvement in the war, but President Trump vetoed the resolution.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen received
his AstraZeneca vaccination shot, he suddenly felt invulnerable and
vowed to rule indefinitely.

Hun Sen is already one of the world's longest ruling prime ministers,
confident his successor will be his son Hun Manet who is a West Point
graduate, or Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth.

A vaccination shot against COVID-19 on March 4 may delay those plans.

"I will not die anytime soon. And now that my body is vaccinated, I
will not easily die," Hun Sen, 68, announced after receiving an
AstraZeneca injection at Calmette Hospital in the capital Phnom Penh.

"I will rule until a point that I feel I no longer want to rule."

The U.S. perceives Hun Sen as dangerously pro-China because he allows
major Chinese investment and infrastructure projects, enabling Beijing
to extend its reach into Southeast Asia.

Cambodia is simultaneously embroiled in a harsh crackdown against Hun
Sen's political opponents, enforced by prison sentences and fueled by
allegations of coup plots.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Homeland Security helped Thailand confiscate
"numerous infants," including Caucasian and Chinese, and arrest an
American woman and others who allegedly paid Thai females to be
artificially inseminated for customers in foreign countries.

At least one baby, born premature in Thailand four months ago, was
suffering a brain hemorrhage requiring hospitalization in Bangkok,
officials said.

"An investigative lead on an American citizen, with numerous infants
in her care, turned into a large-scale transnational organized crime
investigation," the U.S. Embassy in Thailand's Homeland Security
Investigations Country Attache Leonard Mancuso said on February 26,
responding to a request for details.

"In a coordinated effort between Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI), the Thailand Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the
Royal Thai Police (RTP), and other government and non-governmental
organizations, Thai authorities arrested an American citizen and her
employees in connection to an ongoing investigation of alleged illegal

Witness For Peace Southwest Invites You To Join The:   COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION

A Day of Education, Testimonials & Action

Come Spend The Day While We Put: “THE COLD WAR ON TRIAL” 

Sunday, March 21st - 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)

Here Are The Speakers We Have So Far:

Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg, Kathy Kelly, S. Brian Willson, David Swanson, Norman Solomon, Peter Phillips, Jeff Cohen,

Ann Wright, Peter Kuznick,  Roy Bourgeois, Bruce Gagnon, Joel Andreas, Gerald Horne, Matthew Hoh,

David Vine, Mickey Huff, Eric Mann, Jodie Evans, Gerry Condon, Carl Boggs, Jim Lafferty, John Parker 

Marcy Winograd, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Alice Slater, Michael Novick, Carley Towne, Ed Rampell & Others.

A much anticipated American foreign policy move under the Biden Administration on how to counter China’s unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual summit on March 12, linking, aside from the United States, India, Australia and Japan. 

Is it possible that the country is truly rebuilding itself . . . from the soul up?

Deb Haaland has been confirmed as head of the Department of the Interior. A Native American congresswoman and, as she describes herself, 35th-generation New Mexican, has been given the reins of the department that has essentially been at war, not simply with her people but with the planet itself and, therefore, all of us, pretty much since its inception. That is to say, the department’s values are those the European colonialists brought with them to the new continent: steal the land from those who live there, then proceed to exploit it.