EDITOR—The people running the West, notes Medhurst, are the same people who are bombing Gaza and who put Julian Assange in prison. They are beholden to the Deep State and the CIA (arms of the global financial oligarchy). Same politicians, same corporations. More than 130 Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel so far, for exposing Israeli crimes. Julian Assange is being killed for exposing US war crimes. Little can be expected from them until there’s a much wider mobilisation…
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MIKE PRYSNER—So we know Aaron Bushnell had courage. Far, far more than the commanders who rise through the ranks—the ones who take us to war, who sell it on cable news or in the Pentagon press room. What courage is there in pretending, in myth-making? A force for good, for democracy, for human rights, for self-defense… what a lie. A story peddled by cowards who casually direct murder from the safety of command centers, who sell the weapons from their boardrooms, or who spin fantasies in Congress. People who are revered as our leaders. Those who will no-doubt call Aaron Bushnell crazy or disturbed or misguided, but who really only see those qualities in the mirror.
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EDITOR—British firebrand, truth-teller and Palestinian rights supporter George Galloway has won a by-election in the Rochdale district in Manchester, and the United Kingdom elite is flipping out. Even Prime Minister Rishi Sunak felt compelled to speak out against Galloway, who announced in his victory speech, “This is for Gaza!”
Jimmy and Due Dissidence hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss discuss just how much the UK establishment detests Galloway.
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ALI SALAAM—While there are large numbers of American people who are still in blissful slumber, hypnotized by propaganda from the latest live appearance of Taylor Swift who has been recruited to promote the re-election of Biden and the encouragement of people to take the untested Pfizer genetic vaccine, there are Americans who are waking up and are sick of the performance of the elite politicians, bankers, corporate heads, and other prominent figures, elected and unelected. When this awakening reaches the critical mass, it might signal some change in the US. The Zionist lobby is one of those special interest groups coming under fire from the left and right, as well as independents, as it offers zero benefit, or rather harm and detriment, to the average American.
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CHRIS HEDGES—Israel has given the Palestinians in Gaza two choices. Leave or die.
I covered the famine in Sudan in 1988 that took 250,000 lives. There are streaks in my lungs, scars from standing amid hundreds of Sudanese who were dying of tuberculosis. I was strong and healthy and fought off the contagion. They were weak and emaciated and did not. The international community, as in Gaza, did little to intervene.
The precursor to starvation – undernourishment – already affects most Palestinians in Gaza. Those who starve lack enough calories to sustain themselves. In desperation people begin to eat animal fodder, grass, leaves, insects, rodents, even dirt. They suffer from diarrhea and respiratory infections. They rip up tiny bits of food, often spoiled, and ration it.
