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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

29 November was declared by the UN as an International Day of Solidarity
with the Palestinian People. The date was picked because in 1947 on that
date the UN General assembly under pressure from the US abrogated (in a
first of its kind) the UN Charter by voting to recommend partition of
Palestine to give 55% of the country to a "Jewish state" when Jews were
less than 30% of the population and most of them colonial settlers (5%
native Jews). This abrogated the right of self determination. But the
resolution specifically called for an economic union and NO ETHNIC
CLEANSING. Ethnic cleansing happened and continue to happen with US
support.. The Mossad and CIA agents are meeting in Qatar to try to save the
Israeli apartheid system from its deteriorating situation (on many levels
political, economic, social, military, and public relations). Thus, on this
day of solidarity, all Palestinains, Israelis and Internationals of
conscience call on all people not yet engaged in this global uprising
(intifada) to expand and accelerate action. Without YOUR collective

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For Media Elites, War Criminal Henry Kissinger Was a Great Man

For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their love for him. The media establishment kept swooning over one of the worst war criminals in modern history.

 After news of his death broke on Wednesday night, prominent coverage echoed the kind that had followed him ever since his years with President Richard Nixon, while they teamed up to oversee vast carnage in Southeast Asia.

 The headline over a Washington Post news bulletin summed up: “Henry Kissinger Dies at 100. The Noted Statesman and Scholar Had Unparalleled Power Over Foreign Policy.”

 But can a war criminal really be a “noted statesman”?

United for Gaza: Time Now for Palestinians to Protect Their Collective Sumud.

Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez and Alexander De Croo, appeared in a joint press conference at Rafah Crossing.

 While Sanchez described “what is happening (as) a disaster,” De Croo called for a “permanent cessation of hostilities” and for an end to the killing of children. 

 Equally significant, the two European leaders declared that “we may decide to recognize the State of Palestine, if the European Union does not”.

Redistricting in GA & OH; Recycling and Tritium in the Mississippi River; Ohio's Atomic Vortex and More Middle East Exploration

RAY MCCLENDON & RACHEL COYLE join us from Georgia and Ohio to parse out the grotesquely anti-democracy shenanigans from the MAGA right.

CAROLINA AMPUDIA fills us in on the struggles of Florida’s teachers' unions to sustain the public school system in the face of Ron DeSantis’s fascist attacks.

JOHN KEARNEY reports to us from Minneapolis on his new high-tech Recycling Electronics for Climate Action, aiming to re-use large quantities of rare metals that would otherwise require very dirty mining operations.

JOHN LAFORGE of NukeWatch reports on the insanely dangerous tritium links at the Monticello nuke which threatens the Mississippi River with deadly radiation.

HEDY TRIPP, LINDA SEALEY,  JUSTIN LEBLANC all chime in on the immense impacts of radioactive fallout.

MYLA RESON celebrates the return of our CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA show to KPFK/Pacifica radio in Los Angeles.

STEVE CARUSO and VINA COLLEY give us a devastating overview of the Portsmouth-Piketon recycling/enrichment facility in southern Ohio, the true vortex linking the commercial nuclear power industry to the real Death Star—the nuclear weapons complex.

TAKE ACTION: This toxic pesticide is too dangerous to be used on our food

Hands peeling an orange
 

Children and farmworker communities will yet again be in harm’s way, as a harmful pesticide is allowed to return to the market. For nearly half of a century, U.S. staple foods such as apples, cherries, peaches, and citrus were sprayed with chlorpyrifos (pronounced: klawr-pir-uh-fos), a dangerous pesticide that poisons farmworkers and in even smaller doses harms the developing brains of children. In 2021, thanks to a court win for farmworkers, civil rights, disability, and public health advocates in partnership with Earthjustice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned all food uses of chlorpyrifos.

How Buddhist Thailand Freed Its Hostages From Hamas

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Buddhist-majority Thailand gained the release of at least 23 Thai hostages from Hamas, the most foreigners freed as of November 30, after Bangkok boldly began direct negotiations with the Palestinian militant group's representatives in Iran nearly two months ago.

How did Thailand succeed while many of the other foreign hostages have still not been freed?

Thailand's quiet, bold, and direct diplomacy appeared to be a big key to their success.

This Southeast Asian nation had the most foreigners employed near the Israel-Gaza border, so the numbers were in their favor when Hamas decided to include foreign hostages in the releases.

Bangkok meanwhile also networked with United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and others for their freedom.

The October 7 assault into Israel by Hamas killed more than 1,400 Israelis and foreigners, including at least 33 impoverished Thai agricultural laborers contracted to desert zones along the Israel-Gaza border.

Additionally, Hamas seized about 250 hostages -- mostly Israelis -- and imprisoned them in Gaza at gunpoint including about 32 Thais.

Empathy for the Worst of Us

. Why do I feel the urge
to stroke the crime
as though it were my child,
to cup my hands
around the horror
and prevent it from going out?

   These words are a fragment of a poem I wrote a nearly a quarter of a century ago, after reading about the arrest of Marilyn Lemak, who had murdered her three children — ages 7, 6 and 3 — by overdosing them with prescription medication, then strangling them in their beds. The motive: Her husband was breaking up with her; he’d begun dating. After the killings, she also tried to commit suicide by overdosing and slashing her wrists, but the try failed. She called the police on herself. This was in 1999.

   Why do I feel the urge to stroke the crime as though it were my child?

Did a TV movie Save the World?

At a time when the world seems to be sleepwalking toward nuclear disaster, a new documentary aims to shake us into recognizing the danger - just as The Day After did 40 years ago. 

The director, producers and actors of The Day After will join at a theatrical grand premiere of the critically acclaimed, multi-award winning documentary Television Event in the small city where the original movie was filmed: Lawrence, Kansas -- at Liberty Hall on December 4th at 6:30 PM CT. This event will promote the forthcoming broadcasts on PBS stations coast-to-coast.

Television Event is a movie about a movie! It’s about the ABC broadcast of The Day After on November 20,1983 -- smack in the middle of the hottest period of the Cold War.

https://www.cnn.com/profiles/brian-lowry

Joe Motil’s historic Mayoral official election results

Joe Motil

Yesterday afternoon, the Franklin County Board of Elections certified the official results of the November 7, 2023 general election. As an unendorsed major party candidate who was outspent by incumbent corporate Democrat Andy Ginther by over a 60-1 margin, I collected 36 percent of the vote with 76,989 total votes.

My vote total was the highest number of votes that an unendorsed major party candidate has received in the city’s 57 Columbus mayoral elections from the year 1816 to present, and one of only two unendorsed major party candidates to run for mayor in Columbus. The other mayoral election took place 76 years ago in 1947 between insurgent Floyd Green and James Rhodes who were both Republicans.

As a losing candidate, my vote total was the third highest ever recorded. The two election losses with higher vote totals were Michael J. Dorrian’s 92,054 in 1983 and Ben Espy’s1991 loss to Greg Lashutka with 79,083. I also outvoted former mayor Michael Coleman in his 2003 unopposed election and 2007 win over Republican Bill Todd and Andy Ginther in his 2019 mayoral election that he ran unopposed in. 

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