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Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Bolivian president condemn Israel, join Latin American boycott call
by Jimmy Johnson
Palestinians attend the funeral of Ahmed Al-Masri, 14, who was killed in an
Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, 10 August. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)
A group of high-profile political figures predominantly from Central America, South America and the Caribbean including Bolivian President Evo Morales, US author Alice Walker, deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (signed with his common name “Mel Zelaya”), former Cuban president Fidel Castro (who signed shortly after the statement’s initial release), Cuban musician Silvio Rodrígiuez, Ecuadoran author Eduardo Galeanoand others have signed onto a strongly worded statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people under the banner of the Network for the Defense of Humanity.
The statement titled “In Defense of Palestine” condemns Israeli colonial occupation of Palestine, the ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, and US imperialism and European complicity in Israel’s actions while calling for support for global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns.
Israel Murders Gazan Health Workers
by Stephen Lendman
Israel wages genocidal wars without mercy. Even doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other health workers are targeted.
Civilians are as vulnerable as combatants. It's longstanding Israeli policy.
On August 7, Amnesty International (AI) headlined "Mounting Evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army."
Former prime minister Ehud Barak once outrageously called it "the most moral army in the world." It's a lawless, ruthless killing machine.
As a former prime minister, defense minister, foreign minister, and chief of general staff, Barak was complicit in some of its worst crimes of war, against humanity and genocide.
Mass Murder in Gaza and Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
Washington bears responsibility for supporting Israel's genocidal war in Gaza and backing Kiev fascist forces against Southeastern Ukrainian freedom fighters.
Committing high crimes against peace is official US policy. So is partnering with rogue state allies doing the same thing.
Israel is a lawless, racist, apartheid terror state. Its Operation Protective Edge Gaza war is one of history's great crimes.
Another 72-hour ceasefire sham changes nothing. It bears repeating what previous articles stressed.
Israel is all take and no give. It demands unconditional acceptance of terms favoring its interests. It offers virtually nothing in return.
When concessions are made, they're not worth the paper they're written on. Multiple violations occur straightaway. Hellish status quo conditions remain.
Gaza is still besieged. Palestine remains occupied. Land theft continues. So do the worst of overall nightmarish conditions.
No relief is in sight. Long denied justice prevails. Last week, Israeli negotiators walked out of Cairo talks. On Monday they returned.
A sham process certain to fail resumed. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said new talks are "the last chance" for a deal.
Waging Genocidal War on Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
Doing so constitutes longstanding US and Israeli policy. The indisputable record speaks for itself.
Besides its genocidal native population genocide, every US post-WW II war was waged lawlessly.
So were all Israeli wars throughout its existence except for the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict.
Both nations prioritize violence and instability. They deplore peace. It's a non-starter.
Civilians are considered legitimate targets. Mass murder, destruction and genocide follow. The disturbing pattern repeats unaccountably.
Both countries partner in horrendous crimes against humanity. The world community yawns and does nothing to stop them.
Beware Child Protective Services: What Victims, Advocates, and Mandated Reporters Need to Know
By Women's Justice Center
Note: Throughout this text the terms Child Protective Services (CPS) and Child Welfare Agencies are used interchangeably.
Introduction
Probably no other public agency leaves victims and advocates more perplexed than Child Protective Services. On the one hand, people think of CPS with appreciation as they envision a selfless agency rescuing innocent children from horrific conditions. Indeed, CPS workers across the country do this routinely. The gratitude is deserved.
At the same time, the agency seems to be perpetually marred by a steady drumbeat of nightmare stories about CPS emanating from the very families CPS is supposed to serve. This text deals with just one of these problems; the CPS practice of removing or threatening to remove children from the nonviolent, non-offending parent in cases of family violence. This guide explains why this happens with such frequency, how to help prevent it from happening in your case, and what to do about it if you're already caught in its grip. (Since the non-offending, nonviolent parent in these cases is usually the mother, we often refer to this parent as 'the mother', though there are certainly cases where the non-offending parent is the father.)
Israeli Genocide and its Willing Accomplices
James Petras
Introduction
Outside of Israel and its organized supporters in the major Zionist organizations, world public opinion and most experts in international law see the Jewish State’s invasion of Gaza and its systematic attack on civilians and basic infrastructure as a crime against humanity.
The purpose of this essay is 4-fold: 1. To identify the nature of the crime – the genocidal character of the armed assault and the sequence leading up to it; 2. To identify the direct perpetrators of the war crimes and their domestic and international accomplices; 3. To explain the ties binding leaders, policymakers, propagandists, accomplices and followers, including their ideologies, material interests and organizational structure which make these crimes not only possible, but met so far with impunity and 4. To identify the larger imperial interests with which Israel allies with the US, and in pursuit of which, the Gaza assault is a horrifying dress rehearsal.
HIROSHIMA REMEMBERED AND UNDERSTOOD
Allen L Roland, Ph.D
The Clock Stopped at Hiroshima
At precisely 8:15 AM on August 6th, 1945 ~ 200,000 people eventually died from an Atomic Bomb dropped by the United States on Japan and our world permanently changed, for at that moment man had discovered the ultimate means to destroy ourselves but now, 69 years later, we are still learning the intellectual and soul based moral bearings needed to control the fearsome murderous beast we unleashed on Hiroshima and then three days later on Nagasaki. Perhaps now we are ready to fully experience the life sustaining choice of love, social cooperation and altruism which are the innate driving forces of evolution as well as our only choice for the survival of our species
The day will come, when, after mastering the ether, the winds, the tides, gravity, we shall master the energies of love, for God. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have made fire his servant: Teilhard de Chardin
Last year, I wrote a requiem for the children of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Gaza but today I write a note of warning ~ for the planet can no longer evolve without its moral conscience and bearings. See 2013 article ~
Abbas: Longtime Israeli Collaborator
by Stephen Lendman
Note: This article was written before my two month illness. It remained unsubmitted on my desktop.
It's appropriate now given Abbas' less than wholehearted condemnation of Israeli mass murder and destruction in Gaza.
It continues as this article is posted on my blog site and sent to web editors.
Abbas is a longtime Israeli co-conspirator and collaborator against his own people. He shames the office Israel arranged for him to hold. He governs illegitimately.
Israel rigged his 2005 election. It was payback for enforcer services rendered. For betraying his own people.
He profited greatly. He serves illegitimately. His term expired in January 2009. He refuses to call new elections.
We Have Had Enough of Elie Wiesel and His Ilk
By Gilad Atzmon
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the London Times refused to run an ad featuring Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ use of children as human shields.
The ad’s headline reads: “Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. Now it’s Hamas’ turn.” Wiesel’s statement is a blatant lie and the London Times knew it.
Jews have never stopped sacrificing their children. The Hannibal Protocol is an IDF directive that orders soldiers to take ‘necessary measures’ to prevent their comrades from being captured by enemy forces. ‘Necessary measures’ include risking the life of the Israeli soldier and anyone who happens to be in his vicinity. Similarly, the Kastner Affair shows that at the peak of the Shoah, Ben Gurion and the Zionist establishment were willing to sacrifice many Jewish lives on the altar of the Zionist goal.
The Battle for Ukraine's Soul
by Stephen Lendman
Many previous articles explained the geopolitical importance of crisis conditions in Ukraine.
The book Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III discusses its gravity and much more in detail.
Ukraine remains in the eye of the storm. Neocons infest Washington. They influence administration policy.
They want total unchallenged world dominance. Russia and China mainly stand in the way.
United they pose formidable opposition to Washington's imperial aims. At risk is a potential East/West confrontation.
July 28 marked WW I's 100th anniversary. WW II followed the war to end all wars.
US-led NATO bears full responsibility for perpetual wars through today's ongoing conflicts. It's a global killing machine.
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