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9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation

Archives for septembre 2021

Why Israel’s Gilboa Prison Break has Palestinians Celebrating

Opportunities for Palestinians to celebrate as a nation are few and far between, so when news broke of the escape of six high-profile Palestinian prisoners from one of Israel’s most notorious prisons, people took to the streets in triumph.

Miko Peled
Par Miko Peled
Gilboa Prison Break Feature photo

GILBOA PRISON, PALESTINE -- It is said that Palestinians are the most incarcerated people in the world. Rarely does one find a Palestinian who has not been a victim of the Israeli prison system and when one does find one such person, he or she will have a sibling, parent or another close relative who serves or has served time in an Israeli prison.

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How the US Government Stokes Racial Tensions in Cuba and Around the World

In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States to support American intervention.

Alan Macleod
Par Alan Macleod
Cuba Black Lives Matter Feature photo

HAVANA -- “A Black uprising is shaking Cuba’s Communist regime,” read The Washington Post’s headline on the recent unrest on the Caribbean island. “Afro-Cubans Come Out In Droves To Protest Government,” wrote NPR. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal went with “Cuba’s Black Communities Bear the Brunt of Regime’s Crackdown” as a title. These were

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How Chevron Used the Law and the FBI to Target Whistle-Blowing Lawyer Steven Donziger

« I’m being prosecuted by a Chevron law firm that has locked me up, deprived me of my liberty, » Donziger says.

Lee Camp
Par Lee Camp
Chevron Steven Donziger Feature photo

 Human rights attorney Steven Donziger has now been under house arrest in his New York City apartment for two years. The reason for his detainment, as Lee Camp puts it in this clip from “Redacted Tonight,” is that Donziger made it his business to hold Chevron accountable for how the Big Oil megacorp “harmed, sickened and killed tens of

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Revealed: Mercer Street’s Parent Shipping Company a Front for Israeli Intelligence

Zodiac Maritime, the Mercer Street’s operator, has a long history of working closely with both the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Israeli intelligence unit Mossad, using its ships to ferry arms and operatives around the region for covert operations, including assassinations. 

Alan Macleod
Par Alan Macleod

GULF OF OMAN -- Earlier this summer, the Israeli-operated oil tanker Mercer Street was attacked by drones, allegedly emanating from Iran, disabling the ship and killing two people on board. The incident, portrayed as an unprovoked attack on a civilian vessel, caused worldwide outrage, and marked a new low in Iranian relations with Israel and its

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Privatizing the Occupation: How Israeli Corporations Came to Police the Palestinians

“The options for these retired [Israeli] generals are narrowing and they either become arms dealers or they set up security companies.” — Dr. Shir Hever, author of “The Privatisation of Israeli Security”

Jessica Buxbaum
Par Jessica Buxbaum
corporations occupation Feature photo

OCCUPIED WEST BANK — On any given morning, masses of Palestinians are packed like sardines at the Qalandiya checkpoint at the edge of Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank. Here, the Israeli army, border police, and Israeli police are all on patrol. But another group of officers -- nearly indistinguishable from the state authorities -- also stands

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How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen To Produce War Propaganda

Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen explains a little known effort to train Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in propaganda, and how that effort created a blueprint for the White Helmets in Syria.

Dan Cohen
Par Dan Cohen
Afghan War Propaganda Feature photo

By now, everyone knows about the White Helmets – the State Department’s propaganda operation to manufacture consent for the U.S.’s dirty war on Syria. But long before the White Helmets were the Afghan mujahideen. Quick review: The White Helmets were presented as laudable rescue teams who operated in opposition-held territory in Syria. They

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