Shireen she was a martyr She died for our sins Some people want the dirt so bad That’s how it all begins One side says to the other I need what you got If you don’t give it up I’ll shoot you on the spot If we don’t learn nothin’ We will never stop the rain If we don’t...
Pittsburgh Speech on the Israel-Palestine Crisis
Last Friday night I gave a speech to the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about conflict in Israel-Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlFBflw7bU Correction: I misspoke at 9:00~ when I said they sank the Liberty. They only damaged it...
Israeli Sadists Mock Dying Boy
"Die you son of a whore!" "Faggot!" the Israelis scream at Ahmad Salih Manasra, 14, as he lays gasping for breath after being shot by an Israeli colonist. Charlotte Silver reports he is still alive, in critical condition. His cousin was killed. The killers claim the...
The Gaza Strip: “It’s just that dystopian”
Max Blumenthal tells Glenn Greenwald: “And for all I knew about the Israel-Palestine crisis, I was not prepared to come in to such intimate contact with so much human destruction. And to really come to grips with the fact that the Gaza Strip is an open-air prison, and...
Back to Black and Back to the Stone Age
You know how sometimes a cop will turn off his dash cam (often "mistakenly," or it "malfunctions") right before he brutalizes or executes a victim? That's what Israel did yesterday, when it knocked out Gaza's only power plant, killing the power for most of the...
The New York Times Soft-Pedals Israel’s Slaughter of Children, Shifts Blame to Victims
This was what the original The New York Times report of the Israeli military bombing to death four children while they were playing soccer on an otherwise generally empty beach. They have since made the URL for this article redirect to a different one, that...
Bombing a Prison Camp for Children
Even the shameless Israeli state seems momentarily shamed, as it has announced a five-hour ceasefire in their bombardment of Gaza after having shelled to death four Palestinian children who had been playing soccer on a beach, thereby presumably serving as "human...
Exchange of Projectiles?
Numerous headlines in mainstream American coverage of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip feature language about Israelis and Palestinians "exchanging rocket fire," which conveys to the American public the sense that it is a matter of a "battle" between two neighboring...
Playing With Fire, Both Israel and Ukraine Say, “No Truce for You”
The empire is in a particularly testy and truculent mood. Two of its appendages have, virtually simultaneously, eschewed ceasefires in their respective campaigns of aggression. Both have bombarded civilian centers with airstrikes, and Ukraine has been rolling in...
PR Advice to the Palestinians
I've heard a certain criticism countless times over the years, but after seeing it three times in two days on the same site, I decided to do a little research. From that vast repository of respectable opinion, The Atlantic, here are Jeffrey Goldberg, Andrew Sullivan,...
