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Jan 11, 2025 | 
defenddemocracy.press | Tom Carter
By Tom CarterHan 10, 2024The multiple fires currently raging out of control in Los Angeles, California, represent a catastrophe of staggering proportions. Communities, the size of small cities in themselves, have been erased from the map as numerous separate fires, accelerated by high winds and dry conditions, have rapidly overwhelmed what inadequate or nonexistent countermeasures were in place. Los Angeles, the seat of the American entertainment industry, is a city known for creating illusions.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Eric London |Tom Carter |Thom Hartmann |Thomas Klikauer
by Eric London and Tom CarterThe US Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. United States fundamentally alters the character of the American government as it has existed since the American Revolution, placing the president above the law and effectively transforming the “Commander-in-Chief” into a dictator, who can commit crimes with impunity.
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May 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Ramzy Baroud |Gideon Polya |Tom Carter
The Israeli war on Gaza is moving full-blast ahead despite international pressure to have it stopped. The Israeli government is neither listening to the International Court of Justice nor to the World Criminal Court to end the bloody conflict on Gaza that long passed genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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May 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Ramzy Baroud |Gideon Polya |Tom Carter
The latest barrage of missiles on Tel Aviv from Rafah, the first since January, sends many messages to Israel from Hamas that the Palestinian resistance will not be beaten. The launch of the 12 rockets, Sunday, by the Izz Al Din Al Qassam Brigade and which landed on different towns and cities of greater Tel Aviv comes at a time when the Israeli army is preparing to militarily intervene in Rafah and on a large scale under its slogan of eradicating Hamas and its armed wing.
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May 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Marwan Asmar |Gideon Polya |Tom Carter
The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations. The conclusions in the report were based on the views of over 62 thousand respondents from 53 countries – roughly representing 75 percent of the world’s total population.
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May 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Gideon Polya |Tom Carter |Binoy Kampmark
Ten martyrs were killed and 17 others injured when Israeli warplanes launched another deadly attack on the Al Nazla School in Al Saftawi in north Gaza. تغطية صحفية | ارتقاء 10 شهـ.ـداء وإصابة 17 فلسطينيا، في قصف الاحتـ.ـلال مدرسة «النزلة» بمنطقة «الصفطاوي» شمال قطاع غزة pic.twitter.com/cdUJ7NxzQH— شبكة رصد (@RassdNewsN) May 25, 2024This is another massacre carried under the eyes of the world.
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May 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Tom Carter |Marwan Asmar |Binoy Kampmark
War crimes are indefensible and war criminals must be punished to make the world safe for decent Humanity. Particularly awful crimes are the mass murder of prisoners by their captors. “People killed per day per million of relevant prisoner population” was 22.9 (Japanese killing of Australian prisoners of war in WW2) versus for Jewish Israeli killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp 86.2 (total population), 132.3 (men), 66.7 (children), and 76.3 (women).
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May 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Carter |Marwan Asmar |Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra
On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an emergency order against Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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May 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Priti Gulati Cox |Amir Nour |Phil Pasquini |Tom Carter
by Priti Gulati Cox with Stan CoxOne of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early 2000 was, “Oh, you speak our language so well.” To which I would reply politely that it was one of the things that the British left behind, but would think to myself that well, actually, I learnt it from the same imperialists you did. Then 9/11 happened.
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May 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Amir Nour |Phil Pasquini |Tom Carter |Marwan Asmar
“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.” (Samuel Phillips Huntington)[1] Often misattributed to Albert Einstein, the famous adage that “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” has rarely been more apt than in the case of the traditionally biased Western governments’ position vis-à-vis the...
