the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Baby killers… pic.twitter.com/x9XbziA0rb — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) July 25, 2024

BreakThrough News   While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received 50 standing ovations from Congress, his address was a “ total failure ” in the eyes of the rest of the world. “ Not just in terms of the substance but also what it did for the political establishment, ” says Miriam Osman from the Palestinian Youth Movement. As Netanyahu defended the genocide and asked for more military support to expand a regional war, antiwar protesters outside the Capitol were chemically attacked by swarms of police who were enforcing what many have called ‘Fort Netanyahu.’  “ The violence of the political class was barefaced, ” explains Osman to host Eugene Puryear. 

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Geopolitical Economy Report   While the US and Europe have invaded and colonized countries around the world, China and Russia have helped the Global South develop and resist Western imperialism, argues Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista Revolution. Ben Norton reports.  

failed evolution   Completely ignoring the American popular will, the decision by the International Court (and even a part of the Democratic party), a wide majority of US Congress warmly welcomed and applauded Benjamin Netanyahu. The top war criminal of 21st century, responsible for the genocide of Palestinians.   The US imperialist empire destroys the last pretexts in its frenzy decline course. So, naturally, the top war criminal was welcomed in the biggest factory of war criminals.   We will never forgive, never forget.  

Genocide Joe to be replaced by Kamala Harris   globinfo freexchange   Genocide Joe was originally the convenient pick of the liberal capitalists and his election was just a victorious battle for them in the ongoing capitalist civil war . Yet, everybody knew (and it was more than obvious), that old-Joe has now become a lost case for the corporate Democrats and their liberal wealthy donors.   After four years, the time has come for the liberal capitalists to test Kamala Harris against Trump.  The timing couldn't be more convenient. Especially after the Trump assassination attempt, it was certain that Genocide Joe was finished. The greatest demagogue and popular manipulator wouldn't let the opportunity go wasted. From the first moment, he took advantage of the incident and boosted his image as a political "anti-establishment" hero in the eyes of the conservative Americans. And after Biden's disastrous performances in various debates and public appearances, everyone k

The Electronic Intifada   The team discusses Israel’s shortage of tanks and ammunition, as well as headlines about tens of thousands of businesses closing in Israel. Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Abdaljawad Omar live from the occupied West Bank, on the day 285 livestream. 

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk. by Chris Bing and Joel Schectman  Part 6 - U.S. propaganda machine   In spring 2020, special-ops commander Braga turned to a cadre of psychological-warfare soldiers and contractors in Tampa to counter Beijing’s COVID efforts. Colleagues say Braga was a longtime advocate of increasing the use of propaganda operations in global competition. In trailers and squat buildings at a facility on Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base, U.S. military personnel and contractors would use anonymous accounts on X, Facebook and other social media to spread what became an anti-vax message. The facility remains the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda factory. Psychological warfare has played a role in U.S. military operation

Owen Jones   The blood of thousands of Palestinians stains this man's hands.

BreakThrough News   Despite the request for a warrant to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court, the US Congress has invited him to Washington to address a joint session on July 24.    Activists with the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition will be mobilizing against his visit, which they say is a bold-faced betrayal of the will of the majority of Americans who demand a ceasefire. Layan Fuleihan, Education Director at The People’s Forum and part of the coalition, joins the show to explain why supporters of Palestine must take action. 

by Kit Klarenberg   Part 1   On July 10, it was announced that social media giant Meta would broaden the scope of its censorship and suppression of content related to the Gaza genocide. Under the new policy, Facebook and Instagram posts containing “ derogatory or threatening references to ‘Zionists’ in cases where the term is used to refer to Jews or Israelis ” will be proscribed. Unsurprisingly, a welter of Zionist lobby organizations – many of which aggressively lobbied Meta to adopt these changes – cheered the move. Emboldened, the same entities are now calling for all social media platforms to follow suit. The Times of Israel noted that “ nearly 150 advocacy groups and experts provided input that led to Meta’s policy update. ” This prominently included Tel Aviv-based CyberWell, mundanely described by the outlet as “ a nonprofit that has been documenting the swell of online antisemitism and Holocaust denial since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza .”

As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law   by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson   Part 5 - Knesset members to continue financial support for campaigns related to US policy and campus discourse   While the full extent of Israeli government influence on US institutions is not known, Knesset debate provides a window into Israeli strategy and interactions with US advocacy groups. The Knesset has held several hearings with American Jewish organizations to discuss coordination. Margarita Spichko, an official from Chikli’s ministry of diaspora affairs, testified in December that her office issues a weekly report based on information gathered from partners in the US, including Hillel. Hadas Lorber, then working as an aide to Israel’s national security council, noted during the same hearing that the prime minister’s office had met regularly with DC-based groups as part of “ an honest attempt to see how we can combat antisemitism, how we

Biden ends election campaign and endorses Kamala Harris to be new nominee.   In the last 90 minutes, President Joe Biden has announced he's ending his campaign for re-election to the White House. It follows weeks of pressure from within his party, sparked by a faltering debate performance against Donald Trump in late June.   Updates:   https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cv2gryx1yx1t

When students head back to school in the fall, some will get an unusual crash course in taxes and personal finance. In class lessons and explainer videos, they’ll be taught that workers are the ones “ who bear the burden ” of corporate income taxes, and that when big companies dodge taxes, it helps “ protect employment and job creation. ” Through a new curriculum project called TaxEDU, corporations are pushing these pro-business messages in hundreds of high school and college classrooms across the country. The effort is being led by the Tax Foundation, a right-wing tax policy nonprofit that also helped shape Project 2025, the nine-hundred-page plan for a second Donald Trump presidency to dismantle the federal government. As states have considered new policies like “ mansion taxes ” to levy on the wealthy and the IRS is beefing up its infrastructure and enforcement, TaxEDU has been expanding its reach, instructing more and more students that the last thing they want to do is make sure t

The Grayzone  Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the high and lowlights of the RNC, the Democratic Party elite's push for Joe Biden to drop out of the race, the CrowdStrike IT disaster, Max Boot-gate, and the latest from Gaza

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “ as rapidly as possible ”. Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ in The Hague, read out the nonbinding advisory opinion issued by the 15-judge panel on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory on Friday.   The judges pointed to a wide list of policies – including the building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, use of the area’s natural resources, the annexation and imposition of permanent control over lands and discriminatory policies against Palestinians – all of which it said violated international law. The court said Israel has no right to sovereignty of the territories, is violating international laws against acquiring territory by force and is impeding Palestinians’ right to self-determination. It said other nations were obliged not to “ render aid or assistance in maintaining ” Israe

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk. by Chris Bing and Joel Schectman  Part 5 - Military trumped diplomats   U.S. military leaders feared that China’s COVID diplomacy and propaganda could draw other Southeast Asian countries, such as Cambodia and Malaysia, closer to Beijing, furthering its regional ambitions. A senior U.S. military commander responsible for Southeast Asia, Special Operations Command Pacific General Jonathan Braga, pressed his bosses in Washington to fight back in the so-called information space, according to three former Pentagon officials. The commander initially wanted to punch back at Beijing in Southeast Asia. The goal: to ensure the region understood the origin of COVID while promoting skepticism toward what wer

The slide of the "extreme center" towards fascism becomes increasingly visible throughout the West   by system failure   Part 5 - The support of genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state   At the time of writing, a massive crime against humanity is being committed. The fascist Netanyahu regime has literally leveled Gaza to the ground and according to some latest estimates, the dead Palestinians may exceed 200,000!  This unimaginable crime is carried out with the tolerance and help of the West, while the main suppliers of weapons to the killer-Zionists are of course the United States and from Europe, Germany. Both these countries are under the leadership of the extreme center.   It is no coincidence that in the US, an extensive repression operation was attempted against students who organized forms of protests in many American universities. However, in addition to the direct repression by police forces, methods of provocation were also employed. These mainly involve

Forty-six thousand Israeli businesses have been forced to shut as a result of the ongoing war and its devastating effect on the economy, Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on 10 July, referring to Israel as a “ country in collapse. ” “ This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have been closed since the beginning of the war, which make up about 35,000 businesses, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy ,” Yoel Amir, CEO of Israeli information services and credit risk management firm, CofaceBdi, told Maariv. The report adds that “ the most vulnerable industries are the construction industry, and as a result also the entire ecosystem that operates around it: ceramics, air conditioning, aluminum, building materials, and more – All of these were significantly damaged, ” according to CofaceBdi’s risk ratings.   The trade sector has also been severely affected. This includes the service

Nothing succeeds like failure in today's Europe. The genocide cheerleader, the epitome of incompetence, the former German defence minister who left Berlin under a cloud of corruption, has been re-appointed President of the European Commission. https://t.co/JbIbSDHDmG — Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) July 18, 2024

The Grayzone  Journalist Jeremy Loffredo travels to the Dheishe Refugee Camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank to meet Rawda Abu Ajamieh, a woman who was jailed for her activism, and released in exchange for Israeli captives as part of the December 2023 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel. Ajamieh describes the harrowing conditions prisoners experienced after October 7, when their Israeli jailers embarked on a revenge spree of beatings and sadistic punishments, and the jubilation of experiencing freedom. Loffredo also speaks to Tala Nasser of the Addameer Prisoner Support NGO, which has been blacklisted by the Israeli government as a "terrorist organization." Nasser details testimony collected by Addameer of horrific abuses, including sexual assault, by Israeli prison authorities. 

As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law   by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson   Part 4 - Antisemitism as a cudgel to penalize critics of Israeli policy   Much of what was previously known about Concert was initially reported by the Forward , a Jewish American outlet, and the Seventh Eye , an independent investigative news site based in Israel. The history of Concert traces back to 2017, when the ministry of strategic affairs began developing a program to conduct secretive campaigns designed to shift public opinion. The officials envisioned an “ outside the government ” vehicle to “ provide a rapid and coordinated response against the attempts to tarnish the image of Israel around the world ”. Then minister Gilad Erdan envisioned in Concert a “ PR commando unit ” capable of covertly launching widespread social media condemnations of celebrities who criticized Israel’s government. Internal documents obtained by the Seventh Eye

globinfo freexchange   The biggest crime of our century, that is, the genocide of Palestinians by the Zionists has been almost forgotten. And while everyone is distracted by the war in Ukraine and the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, a development of historic proportions took place. The development either escaped from the corporate media radars in the West, or, deliberately ignored.   The integration of Russia's and India's payment systems marks the definite rejection of the Western SWIFT system, dominated by the US dollar, and the complete detachment of BRICS from this system.   As Kitco News reported recently:   The trend of de-dollarization continues to gain traction despite many analysts saying the threat is overblown as India and Russia have announced a new partnership that will see their respective payment systems – India’s RuPay and Russia’s MIR – integrated to allow for seamless cross-border transactions without the need for U.S. dollars.  The partner

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Kit Klarenberg examines the history of new British PM Keir Starmer's involvement in British intelligence operations, and his role in the prosecution of Julian Assange. 

Al Jazeera English   Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Several Palestinians were killed or wounded in the attack, health officials said. The Gaza media office put the initial death toll at 15. The school has been housing hundreds of displaced people. The injured have been rushed to the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital. 

Al Jazeera English   A horrific massacre, that's how Palestinians are describing one of the worst Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began.   Fighter jets and drones armed with missiles bombed tents where thousands of displaced families were sheltering.   At least 90 people were killed in al-Mawasi, an area Israel had designated as a safe-zone. 

Former US President Donald Trump was rushed off stage after gunshots erupted at a rally in Pennsylvania in an apparent assassination attempt. Footage showed him grimace and raise a hand to his right ear, before ducking as sharp cracks - a series of shots - broke out. He was quickly swarmed by US Secret Service agents and dragged off stage to a waiting vehicle. He raised a fist as he was bundled into the car. In a post to his Truth Social network, Trump said a bullet pierced the "upper part" of his right ear. Earlier, his spokesperson said he was "fine" and receiving treatment at a local medical centre. Full report: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1d31jeyzlo   Update:   The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the "subject involved" in the attempted assassination, opens new tab of former President Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.   https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-identifies-thomas-matthe

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk. by Chris Bing and Joel Schectman  Part 4 - A new disinformation war In uncovering the secret U.S. military operation, Reuters interviewed more than two dozen current and former U.S officials, military contractors, social media analysts and academic researchers. Reporters also reviewed Facebook, X and Instagram posts, technical data and documents about a set of fake social media accounts used by the U.S. military. Some were active for more than five years. Clandestine psychological operations are among the government’s most highly sensitive programs. Knowledge of their existence is limited to a small group of people within U.S. intelligence and military agencies. Such programs are treated with spe

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss plans announced by NATO at its Washington DC summit to escalate conflicts across the globe and its expand its ranks, the vindication of their reporting on Israel's scandalous Hannibal Directive, the ongoing meltdown over Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and much more.  

Geopolitical Economy Report   In response to the NATO summit in Washington, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss how Western governments are losing elections and ignoring their own people in order to expand the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and beyond, while seeking to impose control over the majority of humanity in the Global South.  

On Wednesday, July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, will address a joint session of Congress. The invitation is yet another demonstration of the US government’s unlimited solidarity with the Israeli state. Netanyahu will be speaking in Washington not only as the leader of the fascistic cabal that rules Israel but as the political agent of US imperialism in the Middle East. He will stand before and receive the applause of Congress as the leader of a government that is engaged in mass murder and the systematic destruction of Gazan society. The number of Palestinian deaths during the last nine months, according to the Gazan Health Ministry, had reached 37,396 people as of June 19.  However, a more intensive analysis of the scale of destruction, published on July 5 by The Lancet , among the most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, states that the official figure is a vast underestimate

Double Down News   Lowkey releases his new track 'Genocide Joe' featuring Mai Khalil.

As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law   by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson   Part 3 - Substantial Israeli government involvement in American politics   Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers. The firm used hundreds of fake accounts posting pro-Israel or anti-Muslim content on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. (The diaspora affairs ministry denied involvement in the campaign, which reportedly provided about $2m to an Israeli firm for the social media posts.) But that effort is only one of many such campaigns coordinated by the ministry, which has received limited news coverage. The ministry of diaspora affairs and its partners compile weekly reports based on tips from pro-Israel US student groups, some of which receive funding from Israeli government sources . For example, Hillel International, a co-foun

Geopolitical Economy Report   How did Western governments get to the point where major decisions are made by and for large corporate monopolies? Ben Norton is joined by political economist Radhika Desai to discuss neoliberalism and the myth of the free market.  

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failed evolution   The capitalist factions in France will agree on a temporary ceasefire in order to stop the Leftist "threat", after the unexpected victory of the Leftist coalition in France.    Macron gambled heavily as he didn't expect to see the Left winning in the second round. Now, his bosses - that is, the financial capital - will order him to form a coalition with Le Pen. That's because the last thing they want to see, is the radical Left and the Communists coming to power in any way.

Democracy Now!   Keir Starmer is Britain's new prime minister after the Labour Party won a landslide in Thursday's election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was reelected as an independent, says the party now needs to offer meaningful change to the public, including on demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. " Whilst Labour has this huge parliamentary majority, their national share of the vote was only around a third of all votes cast. It's a very low mandate, " says Corbyn.