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The #UN’s humanitarian agency says #Israel has denied or impeded all of its attempts this month to provide #food and #healthcare to tens of thousands of people trapped in northern #Gaza. The #US, after the expiry of a 30-day deadline for #TelAviv to address the situation, says Israel is not blocking aid.

#Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #Palestinians #Lebanon #PalestinianLivesMatter #Politics
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/13/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-us-finds-israel-is-not-impeding-gaza-aid


Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays foundation for AIIMS Darbhanga, launches development projects across Bihar.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_pm_modi_lays_foundation_aiims_projects_bihar

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #politics #aiims #medical #education #doctor #bjp #pmmodi #nitishkumar #governance

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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."


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


David Dayen: "Dave Min (a Democrat) survived AIPAC, survived $10 million in outside spending, survived the Trump swing, and was elected to Congress." #israel #politics


Stephen Semler: "I wonder what explains the Democrats' poor showing among young people ..."

Headline: "Cops Arrested over 3,500 pro-Gaza Campus Protesters." #politics #israel


Skyrocketing income inequality over the last few decades has turned the industries tasked with accountability—politics, law, and media, to name a few—into pay-to-play fields that require expensive credentials and inherited wealth to enter. This has changed who can participate and whom these industries seek to protect.
—Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
#politics #law #media


Charles Lister on X: “Just now – acclaimed British surgeon testifies to #UK Parliament, detailing how #IDF “quadcopters” would arrive at the scene of airstrikes in #Gaza & “pick-off” / “shoot” the injured, including children. https://t.co/onpyNnpjhp” / X

#politics #Gaza #genocide #Israel #WarCrime
https://xcancel.com/Charles_Lister/status/1856370874644893838

@palestine group @israel group


Window to the World of Truth


https://substack.com/@simplicius76
Long subscribed to Simplicius, as I wish you to do as well.

“The real truth always looks implausible.”
F.M. Dostoyevsky

#politics #Russia #ukraine #US #britain #deepstate #capitalism #NATO #europe #vassalage and other.


#DonaldTrump is nominating former #Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who has led paid tour group visits to #Israel for years, as ambassador to Israel.

#Palestine #Gaza #MiddleEast #Genocide #Palestinians #Lebanon #PalestinianLivesMatter #Politics
https://apnews.com/article/trump-transition-white-house-staff-huckabee-f51121db5b18814bbab014e872c2a736


https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10480-i-nuovi-falchi-del-presidente.html

#news #press #politics


Darbhanga AIIMS is a Major Step in Healthcare: Dr. Dilip Jaiswal.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_darbhanga_aiims_major_step_jaiswal

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #politics #aiims #medical #education #doctor #bjp #pmmodi

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It’s obvious that a second Trump administration will be worse in almost every conceivable way from what a Harris administration might have been.

But let's not fool ourselves into believing that a Harris victory would have been *good* for our climate and environment. We've been going in the wrong direction for at least 20 years under Presidents from both parties — and there's no reason to think that Kamala Harris would have charted a different course.

SEE ➡️ https://archive.ph/VnlWF

When it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.

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#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "Why no president has slowed the U.S. oil boom." Below this is a photo of numerous oil wells in California.


You may not agree with everything in the essay linked below, but I expect it will make you think. Sarah Miller (@sarahmiller_22747) presents some “hard truths” about where we are now, how we got here, and what the future might bring…
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For liberal America, this election season has not been fun. It has not been honest. It did not turn out well. And now that it’s over, the time has arrived for a dose of brutal honesty. Forget about Donald Trump’s real and perceived lies. We have lied to ourselves for too long.

Our country and our world are in a dire state. That state has everything to do with the climate crisis, species extinction (possibly including our own), wars with no end in sight, dysfunctional geopolitics and domestic politics, and worst of all, irrational devotion to economic growth that is literally killing us.

The energy transition demanded by the climate crisis is an area where facing up to hard truths is particularly vital. It is also the area of our misguided American experience of the last half century that I know most about. A long career of writing about the energy industry tells me that recovery from our binge of self-deception must start with admitting:

1. Trump’s presidency will not bring the great change for the worse in US energy policy that establishment environmentalists claim it will. Not, tragically, because Trump is better than they say, but because the Biden/Harris administration was much, much worse than hoped.

2. The US is not a leader in positive climate action. It has not been under Biden, and it will not be for the foreseeable future. On the contrary, both political parties seem determined — in practice, if not in words — to lead a reactionary defense of fossil fuels.

3. Climate breakdown is much more advanced than widely admitted. There’s no time left for a carefully designed transition, or even a thought-out, gradually implemented shift away from the devastating paradigm of economic growth. An economic collapse is the only evident path to slower climate destabilization.
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There's a lot more in the full essay, including some suggestions of books to read, along with action steps for those of us who are ready to start off in a new direction.

➡️ https://medium.com/the-new-climate/post-us-election-the-contrarian-take-on-climate-2ba24101b2c9

#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Graphic from the Washington Post, which shows that "America's crude oil output has increased under Democratic and Republican administrations." A bar graph charts the increase in US crude oil production in millions of barrels per day from 2005 through 2023. After staying roughly level through about 2012, oil production has since then steadily grown.


Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel #Smotrich announced yesterday that 2025 would be the year to fully annex the West Bank and eliminate “the danger” of a Palestinian state, stressing that #Trump's victory in the U.S. election will be an asset to achieve this goal.


“The only way to remove the danger of a Palestinian terror state from the agenda is to apply Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlement in the entire Judea and Samaria,” he added.

Last month, Smotrich called for the full annexation of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip asserting the need to establish illegal Israeli settlements in the heart of Palestinian territories and the expulsion of Palestinians seeking statehood.

#WestBank #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine group @israel group


In 2001, I swore to defend the Constitution and the freedom of The People of the United States. 9/11 happened a month after I started basic training, and in 2003 I spent 5 months in the middle east doing my duty.

22 years later, The People thanked the service of veterans like me by voting in a draft dodging insurrectionist who has threatened to suspend the Constitution and who just loves to cozy up with our enemies.

You know what? You can keep your thanks.

#uspol #politics #veteransday


Shame of the world...

Specially Americans, Britts and Germans funding and arming the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine @israel
Gaza is the home of the cohort of children amputees in history.


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#journalism #europe #theeuropeancorrespondent #EuropeanCorrespondent #media #eupol #politics #future #hope #truthseeker


https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10479-israele-la-strategia-dello-sterminio.html

#news #press #politics


from #Mondoweiss
The role of the #Gaza genocide in Kamala #Harris’s loss

The cause of #KamalaHarris’ disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.

By Mitchell Plitnick
November 9, 2024

#MitchellPlitnick is the co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Mitchell’s previous positions include Director of the US Office of B’Tselem, and Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-role-of-the-gaza-genocide-in-kamala-harriss-loss/

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


🇸🇦 'Israël doit respecter la souveraineté territoriale de l’Iran', estime le prince héritier de l’Arabie saoudite https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M

#VuDansLaPresse #newspaper #politique #politics #international #MBS #ArabieSaoudite #SaudiArabia #Israel #Iran


WHOA! Major #MAGA #Media Personality Explodes & Storms Off Set!

PS: Yep, weak, flaccid tools, as we knew. They had enough propaganda to bs ppl into thinking otherwise, but can't even take what they dish out w/out wussing-out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJo7ZKstnI #press #news #usa #politics #ukraine #russia #podcast #video #election #election2024 #us


🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇱 Incident diplomatique à Jérusalem: l’ambassadeur d’Israël convoqué ce mardi au Quai d’Orsay https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M

#VuDansLaPresse #newspaper #politique #politics #international #France #Israel #crise


#israel #politics #press #news #palestine #ceasefire

"Die schweren Kampfhandlungen müssen endlich eingestellt und ernsthaft an einem #Waffenstillstand gearbeitet werden. Denn ohne Waffenstillstand wird das Sterben nicht aufhören, wird das Leid kein Ende nehmen – das Leid der nach wie vor über 100 Geiseln und ihrer Familien. Und ebenso das Leid der Familien in #Gaza."

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/humanitaere-lage-gaza/2683906?pk_campaign=newsletter_Pressemitteilung_2024_11_11&pk_kwd=link_Au%C3%9Fenministerin+Baerbock+zur+humanit%C3%A4ren+Lage+in+Gaza


Across the world its becoming clear that both inflation itself & wages that have not kept up with price rises are key issues for voters & are causing major problems for incumbent Govt.s

Some of this pressure is being deflected into blame politics & the use of identity as a political weapon of division.... but, of course, ironically the very appeal to identity, reveals the continuing importance to voters of their material standard of living.

As such a failure of 'identity politics'?

#politics