SABBY SABS—Sabby talks about the admirable example of Dearborn’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, who embodies his [majority Arab-descent) constitutents’ commitment to principle over politicking and opportunistic power, in this case refusing to support Biden unless he promises a ceasefire in Gaza, with assurances that a Palestinian state will be negotiated soon afterward. And, most importantly, they will not wait. If Biden wants their vote in 2024, he will have to deliver in advance of the election.
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BILLY BOB—Episode 49 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline: John Steppling and Ian Kummer join the roundtable to discuss the biggest news of the past few days, starting with today’s ruling at the ICJ. Other topics include, understanding the Zionist mindset, the downing of the Russian IL-76 (carrying scores of Ukrainian prisoners), and the domestic political situation in the US.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Item 142 of the application may encapsulate the whole drama: “The entire population is facing starvation: 93 percent of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger, with more than one in four facing catastrophic condition” – with death imminent.
Against this backdrop, on 25 December – Christmas day – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his genocidal rhetoric, promising: ‘We are not stopping, we are continuing to fight and we are deepening the fighting in the coming days, and this will be a long battle and it is not close to being over.”
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—American television—especially when it comes to its “news programs”—is supremely insidious. Mind you, I use the word advisedly. The dictionary tells us that in·sid·i·ous is the equivalent of underhanded, sneaky, deceitful and dishonest. You get the point. This is their default mode, learned in over a century of promptly executing the desires of their masters, the shady billionaires whose cliques control the shaping of all US international policy. Because US foreign policy is imperialist, that is, it sees the world with malignity as only comprised of vassals or sovereign countries to conquer, the system’s mainstream media‚ in reality a gigantic machine of distraction and propaganda…
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INDRAJIT—American propaganda was based on repeating one big lie — that they were the ‘good guys’ — across news, entertainment, and media in general. They repeated that lie so often it felt like truth, but now they’ve lost control of the narrative completely. Whatever’s left of the American reputation is buried under Gaza now.
