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Calling us mosquitoes seems needlessly mean.
"Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes." - Alex Toussaint, founder and hardware engineer specializing in robotics and micro-drones
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Calling us mosquitoes seems needlessly mean.
"Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes." - Alex Toussaint, founder and hardware engineer specializing in robotics and micro-drones
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Lindsey Graham: Manufacturing Consent for Genocide.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | July 14, 2026
[Editor’s note: This post features an article by University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole and a surprisingly-revealing video produced (2019) by world-famous Russian phone pranksters Vovan and Lexus, speaking to the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham about United States-Turkey (now Turkiye, as of 2022) relations. Please share this information far and wide. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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Lindsey Graham and the Manufacturing of Consent for Genocide
Juan Cole Informed Comment
The sudden death of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, 71, has been greeted with the full spectrum of reactions. Many of them were personal in character. I never met or testified before Sen. Graham, and I’m not under the illusion that the persona politicians project on television gives much insight into them as persons. This maxim is especially true for a politician, who typically tacks with the wind, as Graham often did. Nor is my interest here personal. People depict him as a nice guy to colleagues who was capable of praising rivals such as Joe Biden. That sort of senatorial bonhomie is irrelevant to the issue I want to address.
Genocides in the past 50 years have not always been easy to recognize in real time. The Khmer Rouge polished off a fifth of Cambodia’s population, but isolated journalistic reports of what was going on were dismissed in Washington. Likewise, the Clinton administration was slow to understand the mass killings in Rwanda.
It was not until April 23, 2005, that the first video was successfully posted to the World Wide Web. It was that breakthrough that made the Gaza genocide that began in October 2023 the first televised such mass atrocity. The Israeli policy of systematic killing of innocent noncombatants was live-streamed on smartphones on a daily basis throughout the world. There was no doubt about what we were seeing.
And yet, the Israeli leadership has suffered almost no repercussions for having disregarded the value of civilian life, adopting a monstrous Rules of Engagement allowing for as many as a hundred women, children, and noncombatant men to be killed for each militant targeted. NATO has ceased joint military exercises with Israel because its army violated its RoE so egregiously.
Lindsey Graham is part of the answer to the question of how a genocide could be pursued in plain sight with impunity.
When the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, prepared in April 2024 to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, former Prime Minister David Cameron shouted angrily at him that Britain would withdraw from and defund the ICC if the indictment went forward. Cameron was not in office at that time, and may have been used by the Tory government to express its displeasure without intervening officially. Labour promised to do better when it came back to power. It didn’t.
There is an old adage among lawyers, that “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.”
Israel’s lawyers, like Cameron and the Conservative Party in general, had neither the facts nor the law on their side, so they pounded the table. In fact, they threatened to dismantle the judge’s bench, strip his clothing off, and shoot him in the head.
Sen. Graham then joined a conference call with Khan in April, 2024, in which he lambasted the prosecutor, saying that ICC indictments are for “Africa and thugs like Putin,” not for the United States and its allies such as Israel.
If Khan’s report of this conversation is correct, it casts the late senator in an extremely poor light. It is hard to see the reference to Africa as anything but racism.
South Carolina had for centuries had one law for white people and another one for African Americans, who were kidnapped in Africa and brought to the low country. Until 1863 they were held as chattel, property rather than persons. After a brief period of emancipation, they were gradually denied the right to vote or hold office, until the mid-1960s Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. The point of the Trump administration, of which Graham became a pillar, is to repeal those laws and to again disenfranchise African Americans, with outrageous racial gerrymanders and measures such as limiting the number of polling stations in heavily African American districts.
While it is controversial whether Graham was personally a racist, what he said about the ICC being for Africans was certainly a racist comment, and it unfortunately replicated the long history of white sentiment in South Carolina that some laws do not pertain to white people, which is a way of saying that whites have impunity. He clearly coded Israelis as “white.” Such categorizations are worthless and arbitrary, however. Whiteness has no stable meaning. Most Israelis couldn’t have gotten served at a diner in South Carolina in the 1950s, though. What is important is that Graham so categorized them, and the significance he attached to that categorization.
That he threw Putin (and who could be more pasty?) into the mix might tell against this analysis. Yet obviously even under slavery and Jim Crow there were white criminals who harmed propertied white gentry and who did not share in impunity as a result. An example was Ian Gale, the cat burglar who robbed a hundred homes of valuables totaling as much as half a million dollars. Putin became a “thug” by attacking other white people in Ukraine, and so deserves to be dealt with as though he were an African.
It is still a racist comment.
Graham’s angry attack on Khan showed the Nixonian logic of genocide denial. It isn’t a crime if the United States or Israel does it.
Ironically, Graham was a law school graduate and served in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than thirty years while in the Air National Guard and Reserves. He rose to hold the rank of colonel.
The JAG Corps of the Air Force admitted in 2020, “The statistics show that black male Airmen under the age of 25 and with less than 5 years of service receive NJP [nonjudicial punishment] and courts-martial actions at a higher rate than similarly situated white male Airmen.”
You give the white guy a break but throw the book at the black guy. That was how Graham’s second institution often behaved during the decades he served in it. While for some JAG officers, this outcome may have resulted from an unconscious prejudice, Sen. Graham made his invidious view explicit in the conference call with Khan.
He also once said that it would be “terrible” if he took a DNA test and it showed he had Iranian ancestry. In retrospect I think he may have meant that such a bloodline might have made him partially brown and so would have denied him the benefits of being above the law enjoyed by white people. (Persian is an Indo-European language and Iran comes from the same root as “Aryan,” and a lot of Iranian Americans identify as white, but Graham was too incurious to have known all that.)
We have to revise the old saying. If you have neither the law nor the facts on your side, pound racist superiority and inherent lack of accountability.
And that is how Graham, in his guise as master prestidigitator, made the elephant of genocide disappear.
(Source: ScheerPost.com)
[Editor’s note: A prestidigitator is a person skilled in sleight of hand, often performing tricks and illusions for entertainment. This term is commonly associated with magicians and illusionists.]
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In 2019 Senator Lindsey Graham received a prank phone call from Vovan and Lexus, and proceeded to “talk Turkey” in a very interesting back-and-forth which clearly illustrates the immense perpetual power and global influence of the American Military Industrial Complex.
https://youtu.be/TsHl_LkM1qY?si=6PEAlWdOOE8HztB-
#DonaldTrump #History #SouthCarolina #Turkiye #UniversityOfMichigan #VovanAndLexus #WeaponsIndustry -
Lindsey Graham: Manufacturing Consent for Genocide.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | July 14, 2026
[Editor’s note: This post features an article by University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole and a surprisingly-revealing video produced (2019) by world-famous Russian phone pranksters Vovan and Lexus, speaking to the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham about United States-Turkey (now Turkiye, as of 2022) relations. Please share this information far and wide. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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Lindsey Graham and the Manufacturing of Consent for Genocide
Juan Cole Informed Comment
The sudden death of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, 71, has been greeted with the full spectrum of reactions. Many of them were personal in character. I never met or testified before Sen. Graham, and I’m not under the illusion that the persona politicians project on television gives much insight into them as persons. This maxim is especially true for a politician, who typically tacks with the wind, as Graham often did. Nor is my interest here personal. People depict him as a nice guy to colleagues who was capable of praising rivals such as Joe Biden. That sort of senatorial bonhomie is irrelevant to the issue I want to address.
Genocides in the past 50 years have not always been easy to recognize in real time. The Khmer Rouge polished off a fifth of Cambodia’s population, but isolated journalistic reports of what was going on were dismissed in Washington. Likewise, the Clinton administration was slow to understand the mass killings in Rwanda.
It was not until April 23, 2005, that the first video was successfully posted to the World Wide Web. It was that breakthrough that made the Gaza genocide that began in October 2023 the first televised such mass atrocity. The Israeli policy of systematic killing of innocent noncombatants was live-streamed on smartphones on a daily basis throughout the world. There was no doubt about what we were seeing.
And yet, the Israeli leadership has suffered almost no repercussions for having disregarded the value of civilian life, adopting a monstrous Rules of Engagement allowing for as many as a hundred women, children, and noncombatant men to be killed for each militant targeted. NATO has ceased joint military exercises with Israel because its army violated its RoE so egregiously.
Lindsey Graham is part of the answer to the question of how a genocide could be pursued in plain sight with impunity.
When the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, prepared in April 2024 to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, former Prime Minister David Cameron shouted angrily at him that Britain would withdraw from and defund the ICC if the indictment went forward. Cameron was not in office at that time, and may have been used by the Tory government to express its displeasure without intervening officially. Labour promised to do better when it came back to power. It didn’t.
There is an old adage among lawyers, that “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.”
Israel’s lawyers, like Cameron and the Conservative Party in general, had neither the facts nor the law on their side, so they pounded the table. In fact, they threatened to dismantle the judge’s bench, strip his clothing off, and shoot him in the head.
Sen. Graham then joined a conference call with Khan in April, 2024, in which he lambasted the prosecutor, saying that ICC indictments are for “Africa and thugs like Putin,” not for the United States and its allies such as Israel.
If Khan’s report of this conversation is correct, it casts the late senator in an extremely poor light. It is hard to see the reference to Africa as anything but racism.
South Carolina had for centuries had one law for white people and another one for African Americans, who were kidnapped in Africa and brought to the low country. Until 1863 they were held as chattel, property rather than persons. After a brief period of emancipation, they were gradually denied the right to vote or hold office, until the mid-1960s Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. The point of the Trump administration, of which Graham became a pillar, is to repeal those laws and to again disenfranchise African Americans, with outrageous racial gerrymanders and measures such as limiting the number of polling stations in heavily African American districts.
While it is controversial whether Graham was personally a racist, what he said about the ICC being for Africans was certainly a racist comment, and it unfortunately replicated the long history of white sentiment in South Carolina that some laws do not pertain to white people, which is a way of saying that whites have impunity. He clearly coded Israelis as “white.” Such categorizations are worthless and arbitrary, however. Whiteness has no stable meaning. Most Israelis couldn’t have gotten served at a diner in South Carolina in the 1950s, though. What is important is that Graham so categorized them, and the significance he attached to that categorization.
That he threw Putin (and who could be more pasty?) into the mix might tell against this analysis. Yet obviously even under slavery and Jim Crow there were white criminals who harmed propertied white gentry and who did not share in impunity as a result. An example was Ian Gale, the cat burglar who robbed a hundred homes of valuables totaling as much as half a million dollars. Putin became a “thug” by attacking other white people in Ukraine, and so deserves to be dealt with as though he were an African.
It is still a racist comment.
Graham’s angry attack on Khan showed the Nixonian logic of genocide denial. It isn’t a crime if the United States or Israel does it.
Ironically, Graham was a law school graduate and served in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than thirty years while in the Air National Guard and Reserves. He rose to hold the rank of colonel.
The JAG Corps of the Air Force admitted in 2020, “The statistics show that black male Airmen under the age of 25 and with less than 5 years of service receive NJP [nonjudicial punishment] and courts-martial actions at a higher rate than similarly situated white male Airmen.”
You give the white guy a break but throw the book at the black guy. That was how Graham’s second institution often behaved during the decades he served in it. While for some JAG officers, this outcome may have resulted from an unconscious prejudice, Sen. Graham made his invidious view explicit in the conference call with Khan.
He also once said that it would be “terrible” if he took a DNA test and it showed he had Iranian ancestry. In retrospect I think he may have meant that such a bloodline might have made him partially brown and so would have denied him the benefits of being above the law enjoyed by white people. (Persian is an Indo-European language and Iran comes from the same root as “Aryan,” and a lot of Iranian Americans identify as white, but Graham was too incurious to have known all that.)
We have to revise the old saying. If you have neither the law nor the facts on your side, pound racist superiority and inherent lack of accountability.
And that is how Graham, in his guise as master prestidigitator, made the elephant of genocide disappear.
(Source: ScheerPost.com)
[Editor’s note: A prestidigitator is a person skilled in sleight of hand, often performing tricks and illusions for entertainment. This term is commonly associated with magicians and illusionists.]
***
In 2019 Senator Lindsey Graham received a prank phone call from Vovan and Lexus, and proceeded to “talk Turkey” in a very interesting back-and-forth which clearly illustrates the immense perpetual power and global influence of the American Military Industrial Complex.
https://youtu.be/TsHl_LkM1qY?si=6PEAlWdOOE8HztB-
#DonaldTrump #History #SouthCarolina #Turkiye #UniversityOfMichigan #VovanAndLexus #WeaponsIndustry -
Lindsey Graham: Manufacturing Consent for Genocide.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | July 14, 2026
[Editor’s note: This post features an article by University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole and a surprisingly-revealing video produced (2019) by world-famous Russian phone pranksters Vovan and Lexus, speaking to the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham about United States-Turkey (now Turkiye, as of 2022) relations. Please share this information far and wide. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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Lindsey Graham and the Manufacturing of Consent for Genocide
Juan Cole Informed Comment
The sudden death of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, 71, has been greeted with the full spectrum of reactions. Many of them were personal in character. I never met or testified before Sen. Graham, and I’m not under the illusion that the persona politicians project on television gives much insight into them as persons. This maxim is especially true for a politician, who typically tacks with the wind, as Graham often did. Nor is my interest here personal. People depict him as a nice guy to colleagues who was capable of praising rivals such as Joe Biden. That sort of senatorial bonhomie is irrelevant to the issue I want to address.
Genocides in the past 50 years have not always been easy to recognize in real time. The Khmer Rouge polished off a fifth of Cambodia’s population, but isolated journalistic reports of what was going on were dismissed in Washington. Likewise, the Clinton administration was slow to understand the mass killings in Rwanda.
It was not until April 23, 2005, that the first video was successfully posted to the World Wide Web. It was that breakthrough that made the Gaza genocide that began in October 2023 the first televised such mass atrocity. The Israeli policy of systematic killing of innocent noncombatants was live-streamed on smartphones on a daily basis throughout the world. There was no doubt about what we were seeing.
And yet, the Israeli leadership has suffered almost no repercussions for having disregarded the value of civilian life, adopting a monstrous Rules of Engagement allowing for as many as a hundred women, children, and noncombatant men to be killed for each militant targeted. NATO has ceased joint military exercises with Israel because its army violated its RoE so egregiously.
Lindsey Graham is part of the answer to the question of how a genocide could be pursued in plain sight with impunity.
When the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, prepared in April 2024 to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, former Prime Minister David Cameron shouted angrily at him that Britain would withdraw from and defund the ICC if the indictment went forward. Cameron was not in office at that time, and may have been used by the Tory government to express its displeasure without intervening officially. Labour promised to do better when it came back to power. It didn’t.
There is an old adage among lawyers, that “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.”
Israel’s lawyers, like Cameron and the Conservative Party in general, had neither the facts nor the law on their side, so they pounded the table. In fact, they threatened to dismantle the judge’s bench, strip his clothing off, and shoot him in the head.
Sen. Graham then joined a conference call with Khan in April, 2024, in which he lambasted the prosecutor, saying that ICC indictments are for “Africa and thugs like Putin,” not for the United States and its allies such as Israel.
If Khan’s report of this conversation is correct, it casts the late senator in an extremely poor light. It is hard to see the reference to Africa as anything but racism.
South Carolina had for centuries had one law for white people and another one for African Americans, who were kidnapped in Africa and brought to the low country. Until 1863 they were held as chattel, property rather than persons. After a brief period of emancipation, they were gradually denied the right to vote or hold office, until the mid-1960s Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. The point of the Trump administration, of which Graham became a pillar, is to repeal those laws and to again disenfranchise African Americans, with outrageous racial gerrymanders and measures such as limiting the number of polling stations in heavily African American districts.
While it is controversial whether Graham was personally a racist, what he said about the ICC being for Africans was certainly a racist comment, and it unfortunately replicated the long history of white sentiment in South Carolina that some laws do not pertain to white people, which is a way of saying that whites have impunity. He clearly coded Israelis as “white.” Such categorizations are worthless and arbitrary, however. Whiteness has no stable meaning. Most Israelis couldn’t have gotten served at a diner in South Carolina in the 1950s, though. What is important is that Graham so categorized them, and the significance he attached to that categorization.
That he threw Putin (and who could be more pasty?) into the mix might tell against this analysis. Yet obviously even under slavery and Jim Crow there were white criminals who harmed propertied white gentry and who did not share in impunity as a result. An example was Ian Gale, the cat burglar who robbed a hundred homes of valuables totaling as much as half a million dollars. Putin became a “thug” by attacking other white people in Ukraine, and so deserves to be dealt with as though he were an African.
It is still a racist comment.
Graham’s angry attack on Khan showed the Nixonian logic of genocide denial. It isn’t a crime if the United States or Israel does it.
Ironically, Graham was a law school graduate and served in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than thirty years while in the Air National Guard and Reserves. He rose to hold the rank of colonel.
The JAG Corps of the Air Force admitted in 2020, “The statistics show that black male Airmen under the age of 25 and with less than 5 years of service receive NJP [nonjudicial punishment] and courts-martial actions at a higher rate than similarly situated white male Airmen.”
You give the white guy a break but throw the book at the black guy. That was how Graham’s second institution often behaved during the decades he served in it. While for some JAG officers, this outcome may have resulted from an unconscious prejudice, Sen. Graham made his invidious view explicit in the conference call with Khan.
He also once said that it would be “terrible” if he took a DNA test and it showed he had Iranian ancestry. In retrospect I think he may have meant that such a bloodline might have made him partially brown and so would have denied him the benefits of being above the law enjoyed by white people. (Persian is an Indo-European language and Iran comes from the same root as “Aryan,” and a lot of Iranian Americans identify as white, but Graham was too incurious to have known all that.)
We have to revise the old saying. If you have neither the law nor the facts on your side, pound racist superiority and inherent lack of accountability.
And that is how Graham, in his guise as master prestidigitator, made the elephant of genocide disappear.
(Source: ScheerPost.com)
[Editor’s note: A prestidigitator is a person skilled in sleight of hand, often performing tricks and illusions for entertainment. This term is commonly associated with magicians and illusionists.]
***
In 2019 Senator Lindsey Graham received a prank phone call from Vovan and Lexus, and proceeded to “talk Turkey” in a very interesting back-and-forth which clearly illustrates the immense perpetual power and global influence of the American Military Industrial Complex.
https://youtu.be/TsHl_LkM1qY?si=6PEAlWdOOE8HztB-
#DonaldTrump #History #SouthCarolina #Turkiye #UniversityOfMichigan #VovanAndLexus #WeaponsIndustry -
Actionists spray red paint over the Florida residence of Donnelly Bohan, a senior executive of Israel's biggest arms firm, Elbit Systems.
Bohan is the President of Elbit's Sparton Corporation and Vice President of Elbit America's Maritime Division.
C: @Pal_action_glbl
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Actionists spray red paint over the Florida residence of Donnelly Bohan, a senior executive of Israel's biggest arms firm, Elbit Systems.
Bohan is the President of Elbit's Sparton Corporation and Vice President of Elbit America's Maritime Division.
C: @Pal_action_glbl
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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
#HackerNews #SouthKorea #WeaponsIndustry #DefenseInnovation #MilitaryGrowth
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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
#HackerNews #SouthKorea #WeaponsIndustry #DefenseInnovation #MilitaryGrowth
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/83993/ SAFE: A Weapon for Brussels and Berlin to Blackmail EU Member States #ArmsProcurement #Belgium #berlin #Brussels #BrusselsConditionality #BuyEuropean #ConstitutionalLaw #DefenseSpending #DonaldTusk #EuDefenseLoan #EuropeanPolitics #EuropeanPreference #EuropeanUnion #GeopoliticalImpact #JointProcurement #ManfredWeber #MILITARYINDUSTRY #NationalSovereignty #Poland #Rheinmetall #SAFEProgram #SovereignDebt #Trending #UkraineMilitaryAid #UsPolandRelations #WeaponsIndustry
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Promises Made, Corruption Given
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Promises Made, Corruption Given
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Promises Made, Corruption Given
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Promises Made, Corruption Given
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Promises Made, Corruption Given
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The Zap Gun https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/02/the-zap-gun/ #ArmesIndustrieRomansNouvellesEtc #ArmsRace #ArmsRaceFiction #book #CourseAuxArmementsRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FictionLiterary #FictionPolitical #FictionScienceFictionAlienContact #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #FictionSatire #HumorEntertainment #literaryFiction #philipKDick #PopularFiction #PsychologicalFiction #review #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionCrimeMystery #ScienceFictionShortStories #TPolyphilus #WeaponsIndustry #WeaponsIndustryFiction -
#JonathanCook | Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry
"But I want to add a point of criticism, in particular, about one scene from the first half. An interview with Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, included a truly cringe-inducing request that she condemn Hamas over its October 7 2023 attack.
We should have long moved past the point where Palestinians – more than two years into a genocide of their people – are expected to make such ritual denunciations before they can be heard.
If that isn't obvious, consider another interview during the programme – this one with Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The CAA is a virulently pro-Israel organisation that was recently excoriated by a judge for repeatedly misleading him – lying – in an antisemitism case it brought before the court.
Why did the programme makers not ask Falter, who actually is an apologist for Israeli violence, whether he would condemn Israel for its two-year slaughter of children in Gaza? Presumably they shied away from that confrontation because it would have suggested that they were holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government."
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#JonathanCook | Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry
"But I want to add a point of criticism, in particular, about one scene from the first half. An interview with Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, included a truly cringe-inducing request that she condemn Hamas over its October 7 2023 attack.
We should have long moved past the point where Palestinians – more than two years into a genocide of their people – are expected to make such ritual denunciations before they can be heard.
If that isn't obvious, consider another interview during the programme – this one with Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The CAA is a virulently pro-Israel organisation that was recently excoriated by a judge for repeatedly misleading him – lying – in an antisemitism case it brought before the court.
Why did the programme makers not ask Falter, who actually is an apologist for Israeli violence, whether he would condemn Israel for its two-year slaughter of children in Gaza? Presumably they shied away from that confrontation because it would have suggested that they were holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government."
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#CraigMurray | Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action
"The jury were shown the notebook but were specifically not allowed to see the first ten pages. Throughout the trial anything that referred to the crimes of Elbit, their role in the mass killing and mutilation of women and children, and their cosy relationship with the British government, was excluded from the jury. The judge continually stopped the defence lawyers from asking or saying anything about who ELbit are or why their property was being attacked."
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#CraigMurray | Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action
"The jury were shown the notebook but were specifically not allowed to see the first ten pages. Throughout the trial anything that referred to the crimes of Elbit, their role in the mass killing and mutilation of women and children, and their cosy relationship with the British government, was excluded from the jury. The judge continually stopped the defence lawyers from asking or saying anything about who ELbit are or why their property was being attacked."
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#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry
"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."
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#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry
"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."
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#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry
"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."
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#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry
"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."
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#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry
"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."
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#ChrisHedges | The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
"Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-palestine-laboratory-exporting
#Hebron #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #AI #Gaza #TheIsrael #Surveillance #SocialMedia
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#ChrisHedges | The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
"Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-palestine-laboratory-exporting
#Hebron #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #AI #Gaza #TheIsrael #Surveillance #SocialMedia
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#ChrisHedges | The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporations are — according to multiple reports by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese — either directly or indirectly involved in Israel’s economic proliferation.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-member-states-complicit-in-genocide
#FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #WeaponsTech
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#ChrisHedges | The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporations are — according to multiple reports by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese — either directly or indirectly involved in Israel’s economic proliferation.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-member-states-complicit-in-genocide
#FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #WeaponsTech
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"To itemise any number of foolish ventures and items being pursued by the Australian defence department would be injurious to one’s well being." #australia #vassalstate #auspol #weaponsindustry #AUKUS #USA #Israel #warmongers #crimesgainsthumanity https://theaimn.net/a-question-of-needlessness-selling-iron-dome-to-australia/
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Fuck off, Starmer!
#DeclassifiedUK | The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam
"Keir Starmer’s plan to buy American fighter jets armed with nuclear bombs whose use will be entirely under the US president’s control makes no military sense"
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-billion-thank-you-to-uncle-sam/
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Fuck off, Starmer!
#DeclassifiedUK | The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam
"Keir Starmer’s plan to buy American fighter jets armed with nuclear bombs whose use will be entirely under the US president’s control makes no military sense"
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-billion-thank-you-to-uncle-sam/
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#DeclassifiedUK | ‘Buried alive under the sand’: how British weapons killed Palestinians
https://www.declassifieduk.org/buried-alive-under-the-sand-how-british-weapons-killed-palestinians/
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#DeclassifiedUK | ‘Buried alive under the sand’: how British weapons killed Palestinians
https://www.declassifieduk.org/buried-alive-under-the-sand-how-british-weapons-killed-palestinians/
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We were warned about this, over 60 years ago.
https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Yhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/pentagon-military-spending
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We were warned about this, over 60 years ago.
https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Yhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/pentagon-military-spending
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Arms firms supplying Israel have continued to receive taxpayers’ money from the Scottish Government despite allegations of genocide in Gaza, prompting criticism its human rights due diligence is “not fit for purpose”.
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Arms firms supplying Israel have continued to receive taxpayers’ money from the Scottish Government despite allegations of genocide in Gaza, prompting criticism its human rights due diligence is “not fit for purpose”.
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#CraigMurray | Starmer and Lammy are Terrified
"So why did the UK, and the UK alone, say that it is not responsible for ensuring that other parties comply with international law, adding later a specific reference to the Geneva Conventions?
It is perfectly simple. #Starmer and #Lammy are terrified about future charges of complicity in Israeli war crimes. So the UK, only, feels it necessary to emphasise that they do not bear legal responsibility for Israel’s actions."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified/
#GenevaConventions #Gaza #Genocide #TheIsrael #UK #UN #weaponsIndustry
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#CraigMurray | Starmer and Lammy are Terrified
"So why did the UK, and the UK alone, say that it is not responsible for ensuring that other parties comply with international law, adding later a specific reference to the Geneva Conventions?
It is perfectly simple. #Starmer and #Lammy are terrified about future charges of complicity in Israeli war crimes. So the UK, only, feels it necessary to emphasise that they do not bear legal responsibility for Israel’s actions."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified/
#GenevaConventions #Gaza #Genocide #TheIsrael #UK #UN #weaponsIndustry
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#Skwawkbox | UK firm RCV Engines cancels supply of drone engines to Israel after exposure
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#Skwawkbox | UK firm RCV Engines cancels supply of drone engines to Israel after exposure
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#Skwawkbox | Met police to use Israeli armoured vehicles ‘battle-tested in Gaza’
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/06/07/met-police-to-use-armoured-vehicles-battle-tested-in-gaza/
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#Skwawkbox | Met police to use Israeli armoured vehicles ‘battle-tested in Gaza’
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/06/07/met-police-to-use-armoured-vehicles-battle-tested-in-gaza/
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#DeclassifiedUK | The blood of Gaza will never wash from Keir Starmer’s hands
"The Labour government has thus paused negotiations on a potential future deal, while pre-existing trade agreements with Israel remain in place, and the “2030 roadmap for UK-Israel bilateral relations” has merely been put under “review”."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-blood-will-never-wash-from-keir-starmers-hands/
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#DeclassifiedUK | The blood of Gaza will never wash from Keir Starmer’s hands
"The Labour government has thus paused negotiations on a potential future deal, while pre-existing trade agreements with Israel remain in place, and the “2030 roadmap for UK-Israel bilateral relations” has merely been put under “review”."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-blood-will-never-wash-from-keir-starmers-hands/
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please sign this important petition to put pressure on the #OpenUniversity to divest from the #WeaponsIndustry among which #BAE, #Cisco, #Alphabet & #Microsoft who the #OU is partnering with.
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#Skwawkbox | ‘Disgusted’ E Sussex parents demand schools cut ties with arms co supplying Israel
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#Skwawkbox | ‘Disgusted’ E Sussex parents demand schools cut ties with arms co supplying Israel
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#DeclassifiedUK | Whitehall cover-up of Prince Andrew files exposed
https://www.declassifieduk.org/whitehall-cover-up-of-prince-andrew-files-exposed/