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workersolidarity · 2 days

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES CONTINUE TO BOMB DENSELY POPULATED CIVILIAN AREAS

📹 Terrifying scenes from the moment an American-made 2'000lb bunker-busting dumb bomb is dropped by the Israeli occupation army on the center of a civilian neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.

The United States House of Representatives passed on Saturday a military aid package for the Israeli occupation worth some $26.38 billion.

According to a report published by Al-Jazeera, the aid package breaks down into the following categories:

♦️ $5.2bn for replenishing "Israel's" stocks of interceptor missiles and rockets for air defenses.

♦️ $3.5bn for purchasing advanced weapons systems, including $1bn to expand weapons production in the occupied territories.

♦️ $4.4bn in other supplies and services to the Zionist occupation.

♦️ $9.2bn for "Humanitarian purposes," including in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

However, aid to UNRWA is strictly prohibited in the funding.

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intersectionalpraxis · 1 month

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#feminist #social justice #current events #free haiti #haiti #haitian revolution #united states #france #brazil #history #united nations #us imperialism #western imperialism #us politics #us foreign policy #tw sa mention #USOutOfHaiti #us history #education

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alanshemper · 5 months

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reuploaded 1 December 2023, originally posted 10 June 2018

continuing to self-critique and learn on Bourdain

#anthony bourdain #us foreign policy #cnn #500 #1k

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prayandcoolyouranxiety · 27 days

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#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #vietnam #us politics #us military #us foreign policy #usa #vietnam war #humanitarian aid

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 6 months

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On my way to this weekend’s All Out for Gaza rally and march this past Sunday. It was a wonderful gathering of Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Indigenous people, socialists and allies of all ages and backgrounds.

I was very happy to see the great turnout, and I had some wonderful conversations - most notably with a teenage Jewish girl who hated that her parents were Zionists and was counting the days till she could join the cause safely; and a very sweet older Muslim man who was very appreciative of Jewish pro-Palestine activism and was very interested in finding out if there was a temple he could visit so he could learn more about Judaism.

He also asked if there was some big overarching international Jewish organization that we could all organize under to collaborate on our anti-occupation work, and build a consensus among the world’s Jews. It was rather sweet, like this guy genuinely thought there should be an international Jewish organization, with no real notion that “international Jewish organization” is like an antisemitic conspiracy theory staple, but here’s this guy who genuinely is like “why don’t you have this, it would be a good idea!”

I just told him that there are orgs like ours all over the world and that we often collaborate with or work in support of organizations with similar aims.

I should’ve told him that just like with any people, you get five Jews in a room at random and they’re unlikely to come to a consensus about much!

Some of the excellent signage:

More coming soon

#Boston #Palestine #free palestine #human rights #free gaza #gaza strip #Gaza #gaza under attack #genocide #ceasefire #Israel #call your reps #us foreign policy #pro palestine #protest

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redshift-13 · 11 months

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As Henry Kissinger reaches 100 years of age on May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. Kissinger’s controversial career is littered with scandals and crimes against humanity: support for mass murderers and torturers abroad, domestic wiretapping, clandestine wars in Indochina, and, as Greg Grandin reminds us, secretly sabotaging the quest for peace in Vietnam. But his pivotal role in the covert US efforts to undermine democracy in Chile, aiding and abetting the rise of the infamous dictator Augusto Pinochet, will always be the Achilles’ heel of Kissinger’s much-ballyhooed legacy.

More at the link.

#chile #vietnam #henry kissinger #us foreign policy #american opposition to democracy #human rights #pinochet

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mileenaxyz · 3 months

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I swear our politicians just be saying anything at this point. 🙄

Americans, it's an election year, but not a normal election year. Whatever you do, do not vote for a Republican or a Democrat. Do not contribute to their campaigns and do not attend their rallies.

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uniquekindoftrash · 3 months

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when sleepy Joe wasn't so sleepy, he was advocating for war crimes and genocide like all good Democrats and other US politicians

and the comments on these are just.... I can't even find the words for it

#just a reminder #us elections #us foreign policy #90's #yugoslav wars #bombing #war crimes #ethnic cleansing #usa is a terrorist state

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istandwithrussiaandpalestine30 · 6 months

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Western leaders don't care about Islamophobia. They condemn Muslim nations while turning a blind eye on USS Liberty. Israel is their number one ally. Israel has a stronghold over the US government. Just take a look at the foreign policy. The Biden administration does not care about Muslims. Yeah, protests for the Palestinians are happening, but that doesn't mean the Biden administration cares for Muslims.

#fuck joe biden #us foreign policy #free palestine #israel #pakistan #libya #syria #afghanistan #sudan #yemen #somalia #iraq #lebanon #nigeria #usa #america #islamophobia #muslims

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workersolidarity · 3 days

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UNITED STATES CONGRESS PASSES SERIES OF ANTI-DEMOCRATIC AND PRO-WAR BILLS DESPITE PUBLIC OPPOSITION

The United States Congress and Senate passed a series of bills, including three controversial anti-democratic and pro-war bills, two of which were tied together, on Saturday, bypassing public opinion and popular opposition to the profligate, pro-war, globalist, Neolib/Neocon agenda currently driving United States domestic and foreign policy.

Included in the bills passed was a bill to force TikTok to divest from its connections with China at risk of being banned immediately, which naturally was tied to a Foreign aid bill.

However, as even Republican Senator Rand Paul mentioned in an opinion piece in Reason Magazine, the Bill is almost certain to lead to more power for American political elites and their administrations to pressure companies like Apple and Google to further ban apps and sites that offer contradictory opinions to that of the invented narratives of the American Political class.

Before long, Americans, many of whom are already poorly informed, and heavily misinformed by their mainstream media, could lose access to critical information that contradicts the narratives of the United States government and corporate elites.

Horrifically, this only the start. The US Congress also extended the newly revised FISA spy laws, which gives the United States government the power to spy on the electronic communications of foreigners, while also conveniently sweeping up the conversations of millions of Americans, as we learned years ago thanks to the sacrifices of whistle blowers and johrnalists like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.

The new FISA Law goes further than this, however, granting US Intelligence agencies the power to spy on the wireless communications of Americans in completely new ways.

A recent Jacobin article describes these new powers as a, "radical expansion of government surveillance that would be ripe for abuse by a future authoritarian leader", or it could just be used by the authoritarian leadership we have right now, and have had for decades.

In fact, when one commentator described the new powers as "Stasi-like," Edward Snowden himself replied with a long post in which he remarked, "invocation of "Stasi-like" is not only a fair characterization of Himes' amendment, it's probably generous. The Stasi dared not even dream of what the Himes amendment provides."

The amendment in question just "tweaks" the current law's definition of an "electronic communication provider," which is being changed to "any service provider," something extremely likely to be abused by the government to force anyone with a business, a modem and people using their broadband to collect the electronic communications of those people, while also forcing their victims into silence.

The government could essentially force Americans to spy on other people and remain silent about it. Cafe's, restaurants, hotels, business landlords, shared workspaces all could get swept up into the investigations of the Intelligence agencies.

Worse still, because picking out the communications of a single user would be next to impossible, all of their victim's data would end up being surrendered to the authorities.

Sadly, the assault on Americans by their own political elites didn't end there, to top this historic day in Congress, at time when the United States public debt is growing at an astounding rate of $1 trillion every 100 days, US lawmakers also passed a series of pro-war aid packages to American allies (vassals) totalling some $95 billion.

Included in the foreign aid bill are aid packages totalling $61 billion for the Ukraine scam, $26 billion for Israel's special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific to provoke WWIII with China, at the same time we're also provoking a nuclear holocaust with the Russian Federation.

Also buried in these aid packages is the authorization for the United States government to outright steal the oversees investments of the Russian Federation, and thereby the Russian taxpayers.

Astonishingly, and in direct opposition to the wishes of their own voters, Republican support was won without the possibility of conditioning the aid to any kind of border security, this despite the issue being among the top biggest concerns of Republican voters.

Although much of the money is to be used replenishing the heavily depleted stocks of America's weapons and munitions, it remains unclear where the munitions are expected to come from, as US defense production has remained sluggish and slow to expand despite heavy investments and demand in recent years, despite the rapid urgency with which the policy elite describe the situation.

It bodes poorly for working Americans that only a relatively small handful of lawmakers opposed the bills, producing unlikely bedfellows like Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Mike Lee in the Senate, opposing the FISA bill.

While in the House, the loudest opposition to the foreign aid bill mostly came from populist Republicans such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Paul Goser. Only 58 Congresmembers voted against the Foreign Aid Bill in which the TikTok ban was tucked.

Not one word from American politicians about the need to raise the minimum wage, which hasn't been increased since 2009 despite considerable inflation, nor a word about America's endlessly growing homelessness crises, property crime increases, or the 40-year stagnation of American wages, the deterioration of infrastructure, and precious little was said besides complaints about border security over the immigration crises sparked by American Imperialist adventures and US sanctions.

What we've learned today is that we are highly unlikely to see any changes to the insane behavior of the US and its allies any time soon, neither with regards to the absolutely bonkers Neocon foreign policy leading us to the edge of abyss, nor the spending-for-the-rich/austerity-for-the-poor Neoliberal domestic policy of the last 45 years.

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intersectionalpraxis · 14 days

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Nancy Pelosi -shut your mouth and LISTEN because yes you DO have blood on your hands. The audacity of these genocidal apologists and aggressors is seemingly boundless.

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alanshemper · 7 months

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How many people from the USA know that the big liberal foreign policy issue of 1978 through the early 80s was the unjust invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam to topple the champion of the people, Pol Pot?

After two and a half years in power, the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese on Christmas Day, 1978. In the months and years that followed, the US and China and their allies, notably the Thatcher government, backed Pol Pot in exile in Thailand. He was the enemy of their enemy: Vietnam, whose liberation of Cambodia could never be recognised because it had come from the wrong side of the cold war. For the Americans, now backing Beijing against Moscow, there was also a score to be settled for their humiliation on the rooftops of Saigon.

#pol pot #cambodia #us foreign policy #i wonder how future people will look back on the US liberal foreign policy goals of the early 2020s

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 2 months

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Rest in power and may your name be for a blessing Aaron Bushnell. 😔

If you’re seeing Aaron Bushnell’s bravery and helplessness in the face of horror in Gaza & thinking you should follow, I hope you realize we need you here with us. We celebrate him but we are also deeply hurt and mourning. I wish we got to know him. To organize with him. And you.

I’ve seen generational impacts of one human organizing, I’ve seen things shift, lives saved, bonds built from just a person using their turmoil, empathy, bravery to join our movements. Aaron is a hero in my eyes but so is everyone on the streets, pushing at work, taking risks.

Life is precious and beautiful and powerful. And if you can choose it, if you’re not forced to end it for whatever valid reasons, I would really celebrate you sticking around. Every day. We need everybody.

#palestine #free palestine #aaron bushnell #rest in power #Gaza #gaza genocide #free gaza #us military #us air force #us politics #us foreign policy #Israel #israeli war crimes #genocide #may his memory be a blessing #human rights

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kp777 · 5 months

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#gaza #israel #genocide #us foreign policy #joe biden

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theculturedmarxist · 6 months

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The US has used its veto at the UN security council to block a resolution calling for Israel to allow humanitarian corridors into the Gaza Strip, a pause in the fighting and the lifting of an order for civilians to leave the north of the besieged territory.

The text – supported by 12 of the 15 members of the security council on Wednesday – contained criticism of “heinous terrorist crimes by Hamas” and made no direct reference of Israel. In an attempt to win US support, the draft resolution did not explicitly call for a ceasefire, instead referencing a “humanitarian pause”.

But the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the resolution, carefully crafted by Brazilian diplomats, was unacceptable because it made no mention of Israel’s right to self-defence. The UK abstained, saying the resolution lacked mention of the way Hamas was using ordinary Palestinians as human shields.

The US ambassador said she was horrified and saddened by the loss of life, but that the actions of Hamas had brought about the humanitarian crisis. She also called for time to let Joe Biden’s diplomacy play out.

Israel thanked the US for using its veto. China described the move as “nothing short of unbelievable” while Russia said it was an example of US double standards.

Two members of the G7 on the council – Japan and France – broke with the US by backing the motion.

The draft resolution also called for “humanitarian pauses to allow full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations humanitarian agencies”. Its failure to pass represented another blow to the authority of the world body.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the 59-strong Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh accused Israel’s forces of targeting al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.

Tuesday’s explosion, which killed hundreds, was blamed by Palestinian officials on an Israeli airstrike. Israel said it was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, which denied responsibility.

Israel has been using media and diplomatic channels to try to convince leaders of Arab countries that blast was caused by militants, after even its regional allies rushed to blame it for the explosion.

In the only sign of a reassessment by Arab states, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the UN, Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, called for an independent investigation into the hospital strike and said anyone found guilty should be held to account. But she said regardless of the culprit, the death toll of Palestinians was unacceptable.

The dispute over responsibility may have little resonance among the Arab public. A former French ambassador to the US, Gérard Araud, said: “The truth about who was responsible for the Gaza hospital strike is now irrelevant. Public opinion has decided: Israel is the culprit. All the explanations won’t do anything. This is a major defeat for Israel. It will have political consequences.”

Arab state foreign ministries have issued individual statements condemning Israel for the explosion, including Bahrain, which established ties with Israel in the Abraham Accords of 2020.

Morocco, another country that recognised Israel in 2020, also blamed it for the strike, as did Egypt, which became the first Arab country to normalise relations in 1979.

Saudi Arabia, which has ended talks on potential ties with Israel since the Israel-Hamas war flared, called the blast a “heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces”.

The rapid apportioning of blame coincided with angry rallies across the region, with more planned on Wednesday after calls for a “day of rage”.

A mini-summit between Joe Biden and Arab states, as well as the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was due to be held in Amman on Wednesday, but has been cancelled. The Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said the summit would be held only “when the decision to stop the war and put an end to [the] massacres” was taken.

The authority of most Gulf monarchies is secure, but they know what they risk if they are seen to be siding with Israel’s version of events at present. The popularity of Abbas, seen as a security subcontractor for Israel by some Palestinians, was already at a low ebb.

Years of patient work trying to build a new relationship between Israel and some Arab states looks set to be undone, a trend that will delight hardliners in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Some extremists in the Israeli government also have no interest in a relationship with Arab states if it involves compromise over the Palestinian question.

The Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, issued a warning that he could unleash protests inside Egypt if Israel did not back down.

He again said Israel was seeking to expel Palestinians over the Gaza southern border into the Sinai peninsula and said to Israel: “The Negev Desert [about 4,500 sq miles of land in southern Israel] is before you if you want to displace Palestinian citizens, but not Sinai, and then Sinai will not become a base to attack you and for you to use it as an excuse to attack Egypt.”

He has been demanding Israel allow aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, but only with US-backed Israeli assurances that Israel will not attack the convoys. Israel fears the convoys will contain ammunition for Hamas, a central issue in the talks between Israel and the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken.

#un security council #us foreign policy #israel palestine conflict #organization of islamic cooperation #al ahli baptist hospital

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