“The IDF has an affirmative responsibility to know what it is dropping bombs on,” said former Biden official Jeremy Konyndyk. “Kirby confirms they ignored that.”

JULIA CONLEY

Apr 03, 2024

A former official of the Biden and Obama administrations was among those expressing shock late Tuesday at the Biden administration’s comments on Israel’s conduct in its continued bombardment of Gaza, in which a U.S.-Canadian citizen is now among the tens of thousands of victims.

STUTTGART, Germany — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other leaders this week will review a proposal to make NATO the planning hub for arming Ukraine as the alliance looks for ways to shake up an effort that’s been spearheaded by the United States at Ramstein Air Base for the past two years.

NATO mulls $100 billion allied fund for arming Ukraine, takeover of US-led planning

By JOHN VANDIVER

Rami Abou Jamous writes his diary for Orient XXI. This founder of GazaPress, an office which provided assistance and translation to Western journalists, had to leave his apartment in Gaza City with his wife and his two-and-a-half-year-old son Walid. He now shares a two-bedroom apartment with another family. He recounts his daily life and that of the Gazans of Rafah, stuck in this poverty-stricken and overpopulated enclave. This space is dedicated to him.

Rami Abou Jamous

Sunday March 31, 2024.

The purchase of nuclear submarines via AUKUS is turning into an open–ended nightmare in terms of cost that will deliver nothing positive for Australia’s security. Meanwhile, the need for action both on disarmament and on nuclear risk reduction has never been more pressing. Even at the height of the Cold War, the metaphorical hands of the Doomsday Clock have never been at 90 seconds to ‘midnight’, writes John Hallam in an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Dear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Defence Minister Richard Marles:

AMERICA HAS BEEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY BECAUSE IT IS THAT WHICH HAS PRACTICED DECEIT THE BEST — OFTEN USING STOOGES LIKE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY... FOR THOSE BORN IN THE LAST SHOWER, HERE IS A REMINDER ON HOW THE EMPIRE OPERATES... WHAT IS HAPPENING IN UKRAINE IS MASSIVE DECEIT FROM THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, TO SERVE ITS PURPOSE: CONQUER THE WORLD... ALWAYS WITH THE HELP, ONCE MORE, OF A SYCOPHANT MEDIA EAGER TO PROPAGATE THE PROPAGANDA LIKE WEEDS....

Over and above industrial-scale mass murder of individual people—Israel is engaged in the eradication of Gazans as a People ~ilana

Inarguably, to condemn Israel’s industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza ought to be ethically straightforward. Basic really.

That Israel is committing the “the crime of all crimes” against the Palestinians of Gaza is not within the realm of opinion.

That the Global North is standing stock-still in the face of this meticulously documented holocaust is not in dispute.

"Until a certain day, Germany was the largest and most powerful military force in the world War. For an instant the colossus touched the ground; but the mortal wound did not come from outside, it came from within. (Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna March 26, 1919).” Austrian postcard against democracy that some consider Jewish.

THEN WW2 AND THE HOLOCAUST BECAME SOMEWHAT INEVITABLE...

THE CARTOON ABOVE TELLS OF THE END OF WWI... SINCE LUTHER, THE JEWS HAD BEEN VILIFIED IN GERMANY. 

AS ISRAEL BOMBED THE IRANIAN CONSULATE IN DAMASCUS, WE CAN SEE MORE ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE HORIZON... IT'S A BIT AS IF THE JEWS WERE "ASKING FOR IT".

West helping Ukraine attack deep inside Russia – CNN
Kiev’s foreign backers are coordinating the flight paths of kamikaze drones, a report says

Western countries are helping Ukraine to fly kamikaze drones deep inside Russian territory, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing a Ukrainian source close to Kiev’s drone program. 

An unnamed official who spoke to CNN described how Kiev uses UAVs with longer ranges and “more advanced capabilities” to strike targets located more than 1,000 km (621 miles) from the border. 

“The flights are determined in advance with our allies, and the aircraft follow the flight plan to enable us to strike targets with meters of precision,” the source said.

Dmitry Trenin: Russia is undergoing a new, invisible revolution
The US-led bloc has pushed the country to develop a new awareness of itself and its place in the world

When President Vladimir Putin, back in February 2022, launched Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, he had specific, but limited objectives in mind. It was essentially about assuring Russia’s security vis-à-vis NATO.

Millennials, also known as Generation Y (often shortened to Gen Y), are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday Russian and Belarusian athletes "were not welcome" at the Olympics being staged in the French capital this year.

"I want to tell Russian and Belarusian athletes that they are not welcome in Paris and to tell Ukrainian athletes and all the Ukrainian people that we support them very strongly," Hidalgo said in a video posted by Ukrainian YouTube channel, United News.

Hidalgo made her comments on a trip to Kyiv where she visited a training centre for Ukrainian athletes.

Russian athletes can compete in the Paris Olympics, which run from July 26 until August 11 but only as neutrals.

Russia and Belarus have been banned from taking part in the opening ceremony which will be staged on the River Seine in the heart of the city.

Mainline industrial confinement livestock producers routinely feeding subtherapeutic antibiotics to their animals have been desperate for an alternative for many years. As superbugs like cDiff and MRSA developed, consumer backlash against ubiquitous antibiotic use increased.

by Joel Salatin

Global Economy Collapse: Banking Crisis Is Only Just Getting Started - Brian Rose & James Rickards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-zyrQwiQF0

MEANWHILE: AFTERWORD...

Nearly two decades have passed [GUS: 2004 EDITION AFTERWORD] since Hot Money first appeared in print [1983 EDITION]. Since then much has happened, yet little has changed, except perhaps for the worse [THINGS HAVE GOTTEN FAR WORSE SINCE 2004]. To do even partial justice to the panorama of sleaze that has formed the core of recent world financial history would require a small encyclopedia - maybe not so small. However, most of that history consists of variations, grand and petty, on a few larcenous themes already developed in the original text. Those themes were fourfold.

The failure of Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive against Russia was “easily predictable,” according to US tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Sacks, who has suggested that the Washington elite should be held accountable for talking up the doomed operation. 

Sacks’ comments came in response to a post on Saturday by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who condemned the unnecessary loss of life suffered by Kiev’s forces as they attempted to “attack a larger army” that had superior defenses. 

The failed Ukrainian counteroffensive was “one of the biggest debacles in the history of modern warfare,”Sacks said in agreement, adding that Kiev’s soldiers and tanks had effectively run “headlong into minefields while Russian artillery rained down on them from heavily fortified positions.”  

US President Joe Biden is facing an angry backlash from conservative and religious critics after he made his annual proclamation of March 31 as Transgender Visibility Day – a date which this year coincides with Easter Sunday.

According to the White House, the celebration is designed to “honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union.”

“Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration, and I have your back,” Biden wrote in his proclamation on Friday.