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This week @KamalaHarris sat down for her first longform interview since entering the race for president – and it’s safe to say that she met our expectations. Harris has now fully revealed herself as an unabashed, militant right-winger who will carry on the proud tradition of… pic.twitter.com/1aH1wfRvlM — Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 30, 2024

Democracy Now!   Democracy Now! turns to Kamala Harris's position on Israel's war on Gaza, which many are calling a genocide. After she was asked about calls to condition U.S. arms shipments to Israel by CNN reporter Dana Bash, Harris refused to consider halting the flow of weapons and instead affirmed her support of Israel. This position violates both federal and international law, argues Palestinian American political analyst Yousef Munayyer, and, coupled with her campaign's denial of a requested Palestinian American speaking spot from "uncommitted" voters at the DNC, he warns that " Harris could be worse than Biden " when it comes to U.S. support for Israel.      Related:   Genocide Kamala thinks progressives are stupid

The US strategic Early Warning Radar system to monitor the threat of ballistic missile thermonuclear attack is plagued by a lack of spare parts, outdated technology, much more maintenance work than anticipated and other problems, the Pentagon Inspector General admitted in a public statement about a highly classified report.  " We found that Space Force took actions to sustain the Upgraded Early Warning Radar, but that a lack of spare parts, obsolescence, unscheduled system maintenance, and delayed modernization continue to be a problem, " the DOD IG acknowledged on a single, brief X statement. The DOD IG carried out an investigation and produced a report a entited “Evaluation of Sustaining Engineering Actions for the Space Force’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar,” the office explained.  " The objective of this evaluation was to determine the extent to which the Space Force implemented sustaining engineering actions to ensure that the Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) was ...

Updated findings from Data Desk, commissioned by Oil Change International, Behind the Barrel: New Insights into the Countries and Companies Behind Israel’s Fuel Supply, reveal continued and expanded oil supply fueling Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Building on data released in March, countries and companies continue to fuel Israel’s war machine, despite the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) opinion from January, stating Israel is plausibly committing genocide and Palestinians in Gaza have plausible rights under the Genocide Convention and from July, stating the occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful. This updated analysis highlights the ongoing complicity of these countries and companies. As more and more Palestinians are killed in bombings and pressure intensifies on global leaders, including US presidential candidates, to end the genocide, these suppliers continue to enable the violence.   by Valentina Stackl   Key Findings :   ...

The death toll from Israel’s major assault on the occupied West Bank, which started on Wednesday, rose to at least 18, Palestinian official Wafa news agency reported on Thursday. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that a Palestinian man lost his life in eastern Jenin early Thursday. It came shortly after five Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire inside a mosque in Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern city of Tulkarem. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 12 Palestinians were killed on the first day of the raids and assaults. Israel began coordinated raids in the early hours of Wednesday. Columns of Israeli armored vehicles backed by troops and warplanes were sent in before soldiers encircled refugee camps in Tubas and Tulkarem, as well as Jenin. The situation in the occupied West Bank is deteriorating dramatically.   Full report:   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/29/732299/Palestine-West-Bank-Tulkarem,-Gaza-Israel--  

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Owen Jones   I realise how desperate people are to stop Donald Trump - but that doesn't mean you should bend reality. 

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Fastepo  Over the past month, BRICS has seen substantial developments that underscore its growing influence on the global stage, from financial banking system to group expansion. As of August 2024, around 40 to 47 countries from various regions, including Africa, Asia, and South America, have expressed their desire to join BRICS. This interest is fueled largely by the bloc's potential to challenge the current global economic order, which is heavily dominated by Western institutions like the IMF and World Bank. Many of these nations are seeking to diversify away from reliance on the U.S. dollar, as they perceive this dependency to pose significant risks to their economies, especially considering potential U.S. economic downturns. In parallel to its membership expansion, BRICS is advancing initiatives to create alternative financial systems. For example, the BRICS New Development Bank has approved 98 infrastructure projects totaling $33 billion since its inception, positioning itself...

Democracy Now!   Democracy Now! spoke with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization's new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons.    HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse.    The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers.    The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers.    " We're really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities, " says Ansari, ...

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The Electronic Intifada   Take a look at the Democrats’ newly released platform, and the hardline pro-Israel stances it sets out in defiance of the views of the party’s base. Harris claims she is different from her Republican rival Donald Trump, but the contrast the Democrats are drawing is not what you might expect.    

Status Coup News   Jordan Chariton interviewed Kshama Sawant, former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember and now founder of Workers Strike Back, about the Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Sawant's criticism's of the UAW's endorsement of President Biden, and more.  

Glenn Greenwald     Related:   In an absolutely repulsive show, the DNC clowns of horror, ignore genocide, bow to billionaires

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The Jimmy Dore Show   Longtime Satruday Night Live performer Kenan Thompson was at this year’s DNC to throw his weight behind the candidacy of Kamala Harris. What he wasn’t there to do, clearly, is answer questions about why he would support a ticket that’s actively funding a genocide in Gaza. And that’s what The Grayzone ’s Max Blumenthal discovered when he tried to ask Thompson questions about his endorsing Harris rather than joining the protesters calling out the genocide. 

Jakarta has been engulfed in fiery unrest in recent days , as thousands of protesters attempted to storm parliament in response to controversial changes to election laws. In September 2023, MintPress News revealed leaked files from the National Endowment for Democracy, suggesting that this CIA-linked organization has built an extensive network of political, media, and civil society infrastructure in Indonesia aimed at facilitating regime change. After years of fostering insurrectionary fervor in the country, has the NED’s influence finally reached a boiling point?    Read again the groundbreaking investigation by Kit Klarenberg and MintPress News as events in Indonesia once again come to the fore.   https://www.failedevolution.net/2023/09/leaked-cia-front-preparing-color.html

by Kit Klarenberg  Part 4 - ‘Going Undercover’ In the EDL, Robinson and Moore were not alone in having deep and cohering ties to Israel and a pronounced affinity for Zionism. One of the group’s key founders, “Paul Ray,” whose blogging on race was cited in the manifesto of Norwegian Islamophobic mass murderer Anders Breivik, had a highly dubious history indeed as an infiltrator of Palestine solidarity movements in Britain. Whether he was a volunteer or state agent remains unclear today, but he evidently inflicted enormous damage on his targets. In September 2006, Islamophobic U.S. website FrontPageMag published an “exposeé” on how one of its British “volunteers” had infiltrated the International Solidarity Movement’s London wing a year prior. ISM is a pro-Palestinian campaign group dedicated to nonviolent protests, with chapters around the world. It trains and dispatches volunteers to the Occupied Territories to assist with nonviolent protest activities. Despite this, in 2003, two ...

The wiretapping case had a “happy ending” for the National Security Service and the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, since the Supreme Court announced that it will only prosecute four private persons for misdemeanours. Here are all the steps that the investigation failed to take.   by Eliza Triantafillou / Tasos Telloglou   Part 6 - The Predator programmer who knows everything but was never asked anything   In March 2017, along with six other Israeli businessmen, Rotem Farkas founded Cytrox, the company that developed the infamous Predator spy software, in Skopje. In 2018, Cytrox was acquired by Intellexa, a company owned by Tal Dillian, a former commander of a select technology unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, with Rotem Farkas remaining in the group. In the second half of 2020, Rotem Farkas' professional obligations on behalf of Intellexa lead him to decide to move to Paleo Faliro, a suburb of Athens. According to people who met with Rotem Farkas during the months ...

Geopolitical Economy Report   While EU leaders push to escalate the proxy war on Russia, and Ukraine invades Kursk region, polls show many Europeans want peace talks for a negotiated settlement, and oppose sending more weapons. Ben Norton looks at the evidence.  

globinfo freexchange   The absolute moral bankruptcy of the Democratic Party was depicted perfectly during the recent DNC convention . As the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank is still taking place, the DNC clowns of horror demonstrated their complete lack of morality, beyond any doubt.   The gathering of immoral supporters and billionaires, supposedly representing the "progressive" America, was nothing more than a confirmation that the big money and the Zionist agendas will never change to the slightest.  The DNC clowns put the LGBTQ  masks for a while, to give something to progressive voters against the alt-right Orange Clown of the Republicans. But nothing more beyond that. No planning to fight inequality and poverty. No promise to end disastrous wars. Nothing about any thought on the termination of the biggest crime of our century: the genocide of the Palestinian people.   One of the most disgusting moments was Genocide Joe's tears, not for th...

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Owen Jones   Amidst genocide, Palestinians have been barred from speaking from the stage of the Democratic National Convention. Tariq Habash is a Palestinian-American and the first Biden political appointee to resign over Israel's genocidal war - and speaks about the Democrats' behaviour, whether Kamala Harris has shifted, and what happens next. 

Revolutionary Communist Party   The national question is one of the most complex questions that Marxists must be able to answer, and has a renewed importance today, as the crisis of capitalism inflames national questions that were once considered fully resolved. In this talk, Jack Tye Wilson outlines Lenin and the Bolsheviks' approach and how it developed, the colonial revolutions, and the national question today. 

Owen Jones   Prof. Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview - one which explains why now he's changed his view, and believes Israel is committing genocide. 

Democracy Now!   Democracy Now! spoke with former Michigan Congressmember Andy Levin, a former synagogue president, who lost his 2022 Democratic primary in a race that saw millions spent by pro-Israel groups to unseat the progressive Jewish lawmaker.    AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and other lobby groups have used the same playbook over the years to defeat members of Congress who do not toe the line, and Levin says the Democratic Party has to act to stop such "dark money" from deciding elections and push for a new policy on Israel-Palestine that brings peace. " We need to all get along there, and we need to work together here to make that happen, " he says. 

The Jimmy Dore Show     Related : Since already June, 2019 we pointed out that it appears Kamala Harris is establishment's most preferable candidate because she has all the characteristics that could revive identity politics and drive the electorate away from the substance of politics and towards the neoliberal center. Although she appeared to be rather an unpopular candidate with no chance to beat the most popular Democrats during the race for party's leadership, Harris has those features that could help the establishment take identity politics to the next level. In short, she is a woman of color.

The wiretapping case had a “happy ending” for the National Security Service and the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, since the Supreme Court announced that it will only prosecute four private persons for misdemeanours. Here are all the steps that the investigation failed to take.   by Eliza Triantafillou / Tasos Telloglou   Part 5 - The money trail that no one followed   On October 23, 2023, the day on which the Prosecutors of First Instance were suddenly removed from the investigation, the Tax Police Department of the Financial Police delivered the findings of the preliminary investigation of the bank accounts of individuals and legal entities involved; it was the investigation which had been requested by the Prosecutor's Office in December 2022. The findings of the Financial Police show that Intellexa paid a company of an Israeli-born Czech national EUR 165,494 in 2020, EUR 299,905 in 2021 and EUR 91,050 in 2022. Intellexa's affiliate Apollo Technologies paid another ...

by Kit Klarenberg  Part 3 - ‘Foreign Pressure’ The EDL burst onto British streets in June 2009. Describing itself as a “ human rights organization ”  and touting the slogan “not racist, not violent, just no longer silent,” Robinson and his confederates consistently claimed to be simply standing up for white working-class citizens and raising legitimate concerns about extremist Islam. However, the behavior and chants of its members on regular EDL marches through British towns and cities told a very different story. Still, the League was ever-keen to flaunt its non-racist, diverse credentials. From its inception, the EDL had dedicated divisions for its Cypriot, Greek, Hindu, Jewish, LGBT and Pakistani Christian supporters and other minority groups present on marches besides. The League’s “Jewish” wing was always the movement’s most visible, even if barely acknowledged by the mainstream media. The profusion of Israel flags routinely found in EDL protests also went largely unremar...

Status Coup News   Live in Chicago outside the Democratic National Convention as Free Palestine protesters gather to march against the genocide in Gaza and demand a ceasefire. This follows in the wake of growing police aggression against the protesters as the crowd inside the DNC tries to ignore them.  

NEWS9 Live   Thousands of protesters marched near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday (August 19), calling for Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to end American support for Israel amid the war in Gaza. Protesters traveled from across the country to wave signs reading “Peace Now,” “Stand with Palestine” and “End U.S. aid to Israel,” among other messages.  Bob Hausladen, a 64-year-old teacher from Boulder, Colorado, said the Biden administration’s handling of the conflict has influenced his vote in the upcoming election. “ Unless Harris and Walz show something that, to me, is tangible, I cannot vote for Harris, ” Hausladen said. “ And I certainly won't vote for Trump. ” For Lila Zegar, a 61-year-old retired insurance broker and Muslim woman from Orland Park, Illinois, said she plans to cast a vote for Green party candidate Jill Stein. “ If they're not going to change their policy on…Israel and supporting them with all arms and...

Democracy Now!   During President Biden’s speech on the first night of the DNC, protesters briefly unfurled a banner that read “Stop Arming Israel,” before it was wrested away by convention staff.    Democracy Now! spoke to three members of the group Delegates Against Genocide who organized and carried out the action: Esam Boraey, a human rights activist and delegate from Connecticut; Florida DNC member Nadia Ahmad; and progressive Jewish activist Liano Sharon, an elected delegate from Michigan.    “ We were there specifically to confront President Joe Biden, ” says Ahmad, explaining why the protesters chose to disrupt Biden’s speech. “ He’s the one who can stop this genocide by picking up the phone and making a phone call, and he has chosen not to do that. ”

Geopolitical Economy Report   US Big Tech corporations are like the feudal landlords of Medieval Europe. These Silicon Valley monopolies own the digital land that the global economy is built on, and are charging higher and higher rents to use their privatized infrastructure. Ben Norton explains. 

In a significant moment for nuclear energy development, China plans to set up the world’s first molten salt nuclear power station in the Gobi Desert. The innovative facility, which China claims will start operating by 2025, intends to reshape global energy with its high-end technology and prospects for a safer and greener nuclear power industry. Instead of uranium, this plant uses thorium as its fuel. Its reactor does not need water for cooling because it utilizes liquid salt or carbon dioxide to transfer heat and make electricity.   One advantage of using thorium as a primary fuel lies in eliminating fears over possible shortage resulting from running out of uranium, which is normally used in reactors; this is due to thorium being more plentiful than uranium.   Full report:   https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-world-first-molten-salt  

BreakThrough News   To discuss Israel’s intensifying atrocities in Gaza, including its weaponization of rape, Rania Khalek was joined by Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general and the head of the newly established Palestine House of Freedom in Washington, D.C. Peled is the author of “The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.” 

Cyrus Janssen   The Ukraine Invasion of Russia is major news, but what does it mean? Does Ukraine actually have a chance at victory? Or is this invasion an effort to drum up more support from Western countries? What will Putin do in response to this invasion? Also what will Trump or Kamala Harris do as President to end this war? 

by Alan Macleod   Part 5 - Fighting US Imperialism   Venezuela has been a target because it offers an alternative vision of how society should be organized. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela nationalized its vast oil industry and used the profits to fund massive social welfare programs, including free healthcare, education and housing. Under Chavez, poverty was reduced by half, and extreme poverty was reduced by three-quarters. Illiteracy was eradicated, and the student population grew to become the fourth largest in the world. Venezuela became an inspiration around the globe, especially as it led the movement for a more multipolar world, offered unqualified support for Palestinian liberation, and gave its oil away for free to poor countries and communities, including black and Native American populations in the U.S. who had their homes heated for free or at heavily discounted rates courtesy of the Venezuelan government. U.S. sanctions have devastated the country. But the Madu...

by Kit Klarenberg  Part 2 - ‘Get Them Gone’ For all the flurry of claims and counter-claims about how and why the riots started, there is no dispute they ignited on July 29 following a savage knife attack at a children’s yoga and dance workshop. Three children were killed and eight others injured, with five still in critical condition. Two adults present were also severely harmed. News of the shocking event rapidly spread far and wide, promptly followed by wildly incorrect conjecture and disinformation about the suspect’s identity. Within mere hours, a popular anti-lockdown account posted on ‘X’ that the attacker was named “ Ali al Shakati ” – “ an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year…on an MI6 watch list. ” While this false information was deleted within an hour, the damage was thoroughly done. Multiple far-right influencers instantly leaped upon these claims, adding further groundless, incriminating details of their own to the mix. Among them was Robinson – aka Step...

Geopolitical Economy Report   The US government supported protests that overthrew Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. New interim leader Muhammad Yunus has been cultivated by Washington for decades. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical reasons for the regime change; the roles of India, China, and Russia; and the Pentagon's desire to build a strategic military base on Saint Martin's Island.

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The wiretapping case had a “happy ending” for the National Security Service and the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, since the Supreme Court announced that it will only prosecute four private persons for misdemeanours. Here are all the steps that the investigation failed to take.   by Eliza Triantafillou / Tasos Telloglou   Part 4 - The baton is passed to the Supreme Court   In the course of his nine-month investigation into the wiretapping case, the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Achilleas Zisis, limited himself to taking 44 witness statements. He issued only one order, in June 2024, to cross-check Predator targets identified by the Privacy Authority against the privacy waiver orders issued for national security reasons by the NIS – that is, not including those issued by the Anti-Terrorism Agency. As we wrote recently, the experts appointed by Achilleas Zisis, making their own calculations and several logical leaps, concluded that the fact that 27 people (out ...

JUST IN: 🇵🇸 BRICS invites Palestine to BRICS+ Summit in October. https://t.co/7UqkF7fqce — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) August 16, 2024

The slide of the "extreme center" towards fascism becomes increasingly visible throughout the West   by system failure   Part 6 - The totalitarianism of the extreme center in politics and media   The slide of the extreme center towards fascism, made even more apparent the uniformity of liberal media propaganda and mass manipulation operations throughout the West.  One of the most characteristic examples was the composition of TV panels during the pandemic and the attempt to completely isolate and de-legitimize those who deviated, even slightly (as already mentioned above), from the imposed view that everyone should be vaccinated immediately. The similarities (regarding the setting up of the panels and the conduct of the debates) on major American television networks and the corresponding ones across the West, are more than obvious. Another example, is the publication of an article by the veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Seymour Hersh, on the i...

Owen Jones   This is a devastating interview with Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 

Democracy Now!   The United States, Qatar and Egypt are urging Israel and Hamas to hold a new round of negotiations to finalize a ceasefire deal in Gaza. However, Hamas is urging mediators to enforce the ceasefire terms proposed by President Biden in May that Hamas already agreed to and that Israel rejected.    Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, says U.S.-led efforts for a ceasefire are likely to fail as long as the Biden administration remains unwilling to pressure Israel. " It's quite clear Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire deal, " says Levy, who adds that the Washington playbook of unlimited support for Israel and threats to keep other regional actors in line could pull the U.S. into a wider Middle East war. " America is playing the role as a member of the axis of Zionist extremism. "  

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil question the motives behind Elon Musk's obsessive barrage of misleading tweets about the election in Venezuela.    

by Alan Macleod   Part 4 - An Economic, Political and Psychological War   Nicolas Maduro came to power in 2013 in a similarly heavily-monitored election. The results were endorsed globally, almost without exception; the United States was the only country to refuse to recognize his victory. Since his rise to power, Washington has waged a relentless economic war on Venezuela in an attempt to strangle his administration. There are currently over 900 U.S. sanctions against the country. The effect has been devastating: under the weight of the American blockade, Venezuela’s oil industry collapsed, causing it to lose 99% of its international income. Under threats of secondary sanctions, countries and businesses refused to trade with Venezuela, causing massive shortages of food and other necessary goods. A report published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a D.C. think tank, found that, between 2017 and 2018, the U.S. blockade had killed more than 40,000 people. One...

by Kit Klarenberg  Part 1 Ever since July 29, Britain has been plunged into crisis, with incendiary far-riot rights sending towns and cities across the country spiraling into states of emergency. Vast mobs of armed, angry thugs, motivated by racist, Islamophobic animus, have vandalized homes, property and places of worship, violently clashed with police, and targeted hotels housing refugees with arson attacks in apparent stabs at mass murder. Hundreds of arrests have been made, and counter-protesters have taken to the streets in profusion to counter the upsurge of hatred. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged those responsible will face the “ full force of the law ” for their actions, and several perpetrators have already been sentenced to years in prison. Still, the situation remains gravely tense. Furthermore, in keeping with so many prior explosive, unanticipated episodes in modern British history, a vicious mainstream blame game has erupted, with ultimate responsibility for t...