Interview: "The West Serves as Israel's Police" "If they really want to, they can charge you for just saying a simple fact just because the fact is uncomfortable to the government... "or perhaps they can twist it into saying you're glorifying a group but it's not true." ~Richard Medhurst Israel's & its allies' attack against the press in the West escalate.
The West Serves as Israel's Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report
Richard Medhurst's persecution by both UK and Austrian authorities signifies a major escalation in Israel's and its allies' full throated attack ag...
 #GazaGenocideNotWar #usenablement #westerncomplicity #racism #islamophobia #@palestine #uspol #trump #bds .
How fascism unleashes the ignorant, racist, scared & revenge-filled men in our societies: Report: A mob chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ shoved & threw objects at a woman in NY. The men seemed to believe she was part of an anti-genocide protest, "but it’s been reported she was just a concerned resident."
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut, kills 50 in Gaza
Deadly Israeli attacks continue across Gaza as mediators say there has been some progress in truce talks.
 The mob kept up their attacks even as police tried to protect her (see video). Emboldened by US "leadership" #us #uspol #racism #islamophobia #bds #fascism . image
Interview: "We've been led by my profession [economists] to accept a fictional world that leads us to accept poor policy that actually damages the nation, the climate, & ourselves." "Mmt is about understanding the capacities of the currency issuing government." ~Prof Bill Mitchell Bill's mmt "laboratory" is Japan (see 54.57 min in): #mmt #japan #uspol #billmitchell #jobguarantee . ...2 why economists say it's ok to lie to we the people about how fed spending works
Report: Ami Ayalon, fmr chief of Shin Bet, has called for protesters in Tel Aviv to “take to the streets” & “stop the country”. “Non-violent civilian revolt is the civic duty of every citizen" He criticised the Netanyahu government for "surveilling citizens who wish to protest”.
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut, kills 50 in Gaza
Deadly Israeli attacks continue across Gaza as mediators say there has been some progress in truce talks.
 #israeliprotests #uspol #netanyahu #amiayalon . image
Report: "Israel must be stopped [along with] the states supplying it with weapons." "Seriously, how many children, along with their parents & grandparents, we must witness being starved, burned alive, or gathered into plastic bags after western-manufactured bombs have shattered them?” ~Francesca Albanese
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut, kills 50 in Gaza
Deadly Israeli attacks continue across Gaza as mediators say there has been some progress in truce talks.
 #FrancescaAlbanese #GazaGenocideNotWar #usenablement #bds #stoparmingisrael #westernenablement . image
Analysis: "US complicit in Israel’s starvation of Gaza population". In the last month alone, "child acute malnutrition increased by over 80 percent." "They are using children’s lives & the death of thousands in this negotiation process". ~Michael Fakhri, UN
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israel inflicts ‘man-made starvation’ on Gaza as attacks kill 45
These are the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Saturday, April 26.
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Analysis: "US Jews to Trump: Stop using Antisemitism Charges to Repress Dissent & Undermine Liberty" The Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) issued its objections to Trump's "false choice between confronting antisemitism & upholding democracy": Anti-democratic "actions do not make Jews—or any community—safer. Rather, they only make us less safe, as they bring additional sources of resentment against Jews."
Informed Comment
US Jews to Trump: Stop using Antisemitism Charges to Repress Dissent and Undermine Liberty
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) - On April 15, the venerable Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) issued an eloquent statem...
 #usjews #trump #resistfascism #uspol .
Analysis: "How Trump Exploits Working Class Pain" "Trump uses economic decline to win over voters & push rural America further to the right. "A lot of people in this group have felt that neither political party was offering an answer... & have turned instead to a kind of charismatic leader. "Trump played on their shame... about their downward mobility & used that to his political advantage." ~Arlie Hochschild
How Trump Exploits Working-Class Pain – Mother Jones
 #trump #workingclass #uspol .
Analysis: "US Jews to Trump: Stop using Antisemitism Charges to Repress Dissent & Undermine Liberty" The Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) issued its objections to Trump's "false choice between confronting antisemitism & upholding democracy": Anti-democratic "actions do not make Jews—or any community—safer. Rather, they only make us less safe, as they bring additional sources of resentment against Jews."
Informed Comment
US Jews to Trump: Stop using Antisemitism Charges to Repress Dissent and Undermine Liberty
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) - On April 15, the venerable Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) issued an eloquent statem...
 #usjews #trump #resistfascism #uspol .
Surprise... Analysis: DOGE firings cost, not save, public money Musk-led firings in the federal govt "may end up costing $135 billion this fiscal year alone." "It’s downsizing; it’s layoffs; it’s control by one annoying guy who for some reason is richer than you & is convinced that working the weekend is a superpower. It’s government run like a business - specifically a start-up". ~Mother Jones Costing figs:
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion thi...
 #trump #doge #resistfascism #musk #uspol .