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Voting against Genocide – How #Palestine Has Become a Domestic US Political Issue
from #ThePalestineChronicle

November 13, 2024
By Ramzy Baroud
#RamzyBaroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak out”. Dr. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/voting-against-genocide-how-palestine-has-become-a-domestic-us-political-issue/

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty #Biden
#media #news #press @palestine @israel


"The fight for control over the Israel-Palestine narrative has been as intense as the war on the ground itself. U.S. media have been widely criticized for displaying a distinct bias towards the Israeli perspective. However, a new investigation from MintPress News reveals that not only is the press skewed in favor of Israel, but it is also written and produced by Israeli lobbyists themselves. This investigation unearths a network of hundreds of former members of the Israel lobby working at some of America’s most influential news organizations, helping to shape the public’s understanding of events in the Middle East. In the process, it helps whitewash Israeli crimes and manufacture consent for continued U.S. participation in what a wide range of international organizations have described as a genocide."

https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-the-israel-lobbyists-writing-americas-news/288575/

#USA #Israel #News Journalism #Propaganda #Palestine #Lobbying #Gaza #Media #MiddleEast


"Don’t judge a book by its cover – how a technology is named doesn’t tell you how it is used. This is the case with Data Clean Rooms (“DCRs”), which are not rooms, do not clean data, and have complicated implications for user privacy, despite their squeaky-clean name.

Data Clean Rooms are cloud data processing services that let companies exchange and analyze data, restrained by rules that limit data use. They are typically used when two companies want to exchange limited information about their customers. For example, a newspaper and a grocery store might use a DCR to evaluate the efficacy of an advertisement by identifying grocery sales made to newspaper subscribers. However, a close examination of DCRs yields an evergreen lesson: even if privacy enhancing technologies alone can’t protect privacy and even if they address some privacy risks, they can contribute to others.

In some cases, DCRs can add privacy protections to the handling of consumer data. In others, disclosure of consumer data via DCRs presents the same privacy risks as disclosure through other means like tracking pixels. DCRs, like other technologies that claim to protect privacy, can also be used to obfuscate privacy harms."

https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/11/data-clean-rooms-separating-fact-fiction

#USA #FTC #DataCleanRooms #DCRs #Privacy #DataProtection


Ei yllätä!

"US ‘unequivocally disagrees’ with UN finding on Israel’s genocide in Gaza"

#Israel #kansanmurha #USA #tuki #osallinen


"Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022

54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level

45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order (highest to lowest).

The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest)."

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023

#USA #Literacy #Illiteracy


#News #Comedy #Satire #JohnOliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU2atCWyAos

PS He and John Stewart are the only #USA comedians that did not fear to spoke about #Israel atrocities!


"PERA would not only revive these dangerous technology patents, but also expand patenting of human genes—a type of patent the Supreme Court essentially blocked in 2013.

The Senate Judiciary is also scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act (S. 2220) that seeks to severely limit the public’s ability to challenge bad patents at the patent office. These challenges are among the most effective tools for eliminating patents that never should have been granted in the first place.

Passing these bills would sell out the public interest to a narrow group of patent holders. EFF stands together with a broad coalition of patients rights groups, consumer rights organizations, think tanks, startups, and business organizations to oppose these harmful bills.

This week, we need to show Congress that everyday users and creators won’t support laws that foster more patent abuse. Help us send a clear message to your representatives in Congress today."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-congress-stop-these-last-minute-bills-help-patent-trolls

#USA #Patents #IP


How many times did Musk promote just one of these Kremlin agents?

ALOT.

Neo-Nazi Elon promotes Russian Kremlin agents and nazi propaganda.

Also paid Russian Liar Benny: I'm shocked that the clearly Russian disinfo I've been peddling came from Russians who paid me to peddle it.

#election #election2024 #vote #USA





#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #protest / #armsindustry / #elbit/ #repression

„Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis and Calla Walsh approached the Elbit factory, chained the doors shut, broke windows, marked graffiti & ascended to the roof of the building. Standing on the roof, they poured red paint down the front wall & held aloft colorful theatrical smoke flares (…).
“Our action was to show solidarity with the people of Gaza in a material, not abstract, way (…).“

http://www.nukeresister.org/2024/11/13/60-days-for-new-hampshire-direct-action-at-arms-factory/


"Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on smartphones, with some arguing that citizens have agreed to be tracked with such data by accepting app terms of service, despite those apps often not saying their data may end up with the authorities, according to hundreds of pages of internal Secret Service emails obtained by 404 Media.

The emails provide deeper insight into the agency’s use of Locate X, a powerful surveillance capability that allows law enforcement officials to follow a phone, and person’s, precise movements over time at the click of a mouse. In 2023, a government oversight body found that the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement all used their access to such location data illegally. The Secret Service told 404 Media in an email last week it is no longer using the tool."

https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#USA #LocationData #Geolocation #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #Intelligence #LocateX


If the Democratic Party *actually* stood for the rights of women and minorities, for support of unions and working people, for quality public education and public healthcare, for a healthy climate and for the safety of our biosphere – If they actually stood up for all these things instead of just *pretending* to do so, then the Republican Party would have no chance of achieving electoral majority in the United States.

But that’s not who the Democratic Party is. It’s not who they have been for at least 40 years. Rather, they are a party standing up for the military-industrial complex, for the police state, for neoliberalism, for capitalism, and for corporate ascendancy.

This election was NOT a victory for the Republican Party. It was instead a total failure of leadership by the Democratic Party, and a well-earned defeat.

Four years from now, if there is another election, we should expect nothing different from them.

We need system change.

#USA #Politics #History #Economics


A few excerpts here from a beautifully written, deeply insightful, and ultimately inspiring essay by Chris Hedges…
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In the end, the election was about despair.

Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.

Donald Trump is a symptom of our diseased society. He is not its cause. He is what is vomited up out of decay.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13% approval rating.

The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic, and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.

The American dream has become an American nightmare.
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FULL ESSAY ➡️ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair

#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Israel #Gaza
Political cartoon by Mr. Fish. A drawing of several people, men and women, frowning as they gather around a laptop, looking intently at the screen, apparently trying to understand what happened. Caption says: "Democratic strategists trying to figure out how a brown and pink campaign lightly scented with Joe Biden that promoted an inspiring message of equality, civility, democracy, and genocide, failed to get them the keys to the White (Power) House."


#Trump nominiert pro-israelische Politiker auf wichtige Posten

In der Regierung Trump scheinen sich die prowestlichen Kräfte durchgesetzt zu haben. Ein Rückschlag für die #Isolationisten und den #Iran

https://www.audiatur-online.ch/2024/11/12/trump-nominiert-pro-israelische-politiker-auf-wichtige-posten/

#USA #Israel


Dealing with the pain from last week’s disastrous election and trying to understand it all, our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl (@gdeihl) takes a look back at our nation’s sordid history…
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America has always been a violent, racist country. Little wonder, being built on slavery and genocide, spawn of the brutal British Empire.

Our war for independence was no romantic story about a fight for freedom and justice. It was a revolt against a king not playing nice with his colonists. Some were fleeing religious persecution, but many were here to get rich. They had no compunction about murdering the indigenous people who saved them from starving in their first winter on these shores.

Native Americans were slaughtered, the survivors driven across the land to reservations, their resources stolen. Texas was annexed in 1845 from the brown people of Mexico under the newly invented guise of “Manifest Destiny” which argued we have moral virtue, and a divine right to that destiny.

Through this time and well before, Africans were packed into the holds of dank, leaking ships for weeks-long voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The fifty percent that survived disease outbreaks from these barbaric conditions were sold as if animals. Eventually, slavery ripped families apart in the Civil War. The emancipation of blacks led to the Jim Crow laws in the south not overturned until 1965.

To understand what happened on November 5, we must consider history.
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Geoff has written a long, angry, and well-informed essay about our shameful past and present — and near the end, he also offers several good suggestions on how to organize and take action to build a better future. I hope you’ll read the whole thing.

➡️ https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/descent-into-madness

#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange


#Biden -Administration wird kein Waffenembargo gegen #Israel verhängen

US-Außenminister Antony #Blinken hat die Schritte erläutert, die Israel zur Verbesserung der „humanitären Situation im Gazastreifen“ unternommen hat.

https://www.israelheute.com/erfahren/biden-administration-wird-kein-waffenembargo-gegen-israel-verhaengen/

#USA #Gaza


Sich abzeichnendes #Libanon -Abkommen:
#IDF soll auf Verstöße reagieren dürfen

Die #Hisbollah wird sich nördlich des Litani zurückziehen, die libanesische Armee wird die verbleibende Terrorinfrastruktur zerstören und die Vereinigten Staaten und Russland werden Garantien gegen eine Wiederbewaffnung der Hisbollah geben.

https://www.israelheute.com/erfahren/sich-abzeichnendes-libanon-abkommen-idf-soll-auf-verstoesse-reagieren-duerfen/

#israel #USA #Russland


'White House endorses Israel’s deliberate starvation policy in Gaza'
'The world’s leading self-proclaimed “democracies” are openly embracing the deliberate starvation of civilian populations as a method of war, setting a precedent not only for the waging of future wars, but also for domestic repression against internal political opposition among broad sections of their own populations.'
https://countercurrents.org/2024/11/white-house-endorses-israels-deliberate-starvation-policy-in-gaza/
#gaza #palestine #zionist #usa #warcrimes #genocide #starvation


Die USA drohten mit einem Stopp der Militärhilfe für Israel, sollte sich die humanitäre Lage im Gazastreifen nicht bessern. Das ist nun vom Tisch. Derweil gibt es nach israelischen Luftangriffen offenbar erneut Dutzende Tote.#Israel-Gaza-Krieg #Israel #USA #Waffenlieferungen


#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #uscompany

„The company is believed to have judged that it would be difficult to continue business there amid the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.“

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/13/companies/seven-i-israel-close/


#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #usforeignpolicy

„Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be ambassador to Israel, has long rejected a Palestinian state in territory previously seized by Israel and has repeatedly signaled his staunch support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/mike-huckabee-trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-israel-has-long-called-himself-a-zionist/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all


#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #starvation / #usforeignpolicy / #humanitarianaid

„The Biden administration sidestepped its own 30-day deadline for Israel to provide significantly more humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip or face a weapons cut-off, saying that progress has been made despite aid groups warning of a looming famine.“

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3286330/us-sidesteps-own-30-day-deadline-israel-improve-gaza-aid?utm_source=rss_feed


US deadline threat expires: Pressure lifts on Israel to abide by humanitarian law - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy5Cd1oVaHA

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA
@palestine


Ya, not the first time The Land Of The Free™ backs a Genocide

#Guatemala #USA #Palestine #Israel #Genocide


https://t.me/liveukraine_media/26207
⚠️🇺🇦Russian TV is delivering nice news from the Kursk zone claiming that Ukrainian forces have been knocked out of the village of Glushkovo. The problem is, Ukrainian forces never entered it in the first place. Today, Russian newspapers also reported on alleged 'looting by (VIDEO and more) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine
#SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine


US bans flights to Haiti after airliner hit by gunfire

The move comes after a Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire and had to reroute to the Dominican Republic. Haiti was cut off from the rest of the world a result of spiralling gang violence.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-bans-flights-to-haiti-after-airliner-hit-by-gunfire/a-70770300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

#Haiti #HaitiNews #USA #USANews #News


Trump picks former governor Huckabee as Israel ambassador

US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is nominating former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as the next US ambassador to Israel.

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2024/1112/1480592-huckabee-trump-israel/

#Israel #IsraelNews #USA #USANews #News