The latest incident with the Madleen vessel, pictured as a relief measure by celebrity activists and sundry accompaniments to supply civilians with a modest assortment of humanitarian aid, is merely one of multiple previous efforts to break the Gaza blockade. It is...
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Cellphone Correlates
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Israeli Commandos and Crew Swoop in on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat Madleen
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. Photo from camera onboard the Madleen. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew...
Thank You for Your (Safe) Service
As we have those great warriors leading our nation, let’s look at their military service. You know, the important things that so many love to thank them for. Let’s see, we have Donnie Trump, who supported the Vietnam War but just could not serve, due to 4 student...
The Fraudulence of Economic Theory
Ever since the economic crash in 2008, it has been clear that the foundation of standard or “neoclassical” economic theory — which extends the standard microeconomic theory into national economies (macroeconomics) — fails at the macroeconomic level, and therefore that...
Erasing Gaza: Genocide, Denial and “the Very Bedrock of Imperial Attitudes”
Noam Chomsky offered a rule of thumb for predicting the ‘mainstream’ response to crimes against humanity: ‘There is a way to calibrate reaction. If it’s a crime of somebody else, particularly an enemy, then we’re utterly outraged. If it’s our own crime, either...
Nation-Building Requires Taking up the Aim of Satisfying the Collective Interests of Society
It is noteworthy that those in the U.S. fighting for their rights against the oligarchs have as one of their slogans “No Kings” and here Carney is going in the opposite direction. It is another indication of the anti-people, anti-democratic aims of this government. No...
The Pragmatic-Demolition of Techno-Feudalism
One of the greatest tricks capitalism ever played on the global intelligentsia was convincing some of them that it no longer exists, that it is dead and gone, having vanished in plain sight from the face of the earth. And in the last few years, a branch of political...
Attitude and Health
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Piers Morgan Just Can’t Stop Himself Inciting against the Palestinian People
Through his dehumanisation of Palestinians, his racist incitement and mindless conflation of “Israelis” and “Jews”, Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire of genocide. I already had a very low opinion of Piers Morgan. But I was stunned by his display of racist...
Don’t Fund the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: It’s a Genocidal Smokescreen
Chaos at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site in Rafah. Photo: AP Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an “aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, that might sound...
Listening to a Mother’s Horror with US Marshals: Perpetual Vicarious Trauma
The U.S. Marshals always get their kill shot — and a young man, young woman, and two five-year-old children swarmed by SOG, special operations group/gang, in Michigan, and the man bleeds out, the kids are in the house traumatized, and the mother is swarmed in the town...