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Saturday, October 7, 2023
Palestine Deep Dive on X: "BREAKING | Israeli PM Netanyahu makes GENOCIDAL declaration: Israel's PM tells Palestinians in Gaza to "LEAVE NOW" as Israeli forces will "act everywhere" w/ "all the force". A declaration that must be recognised as one of GENOCIDE & ERASURE. 2.4 million Pal's cannot escape… https://t.co/YP4g8sfpUy" / X
(79) INTERVIEW: Ukrainians are Nato’s cannon fodder - YouTube
(79) INTERVIEW: Ukrainians are Nato’s cannon fodder - YouTube: INTERVIEW: The propaganda about this war is evaporating and the true face of Nato and its proxy war with Russia is showingFollow MOATS on YouTube #Ukraine #N...
Resource realism: The geopolitics of critical mineral supply chains
Resource realism: The geopolitics of critical mineral supply chains: Resource realism: The geopolitics of critical mineral supply chains
Russia and China are ‘engine’ of new world order – Junge Welt editor-in-chief — RT Business News
Russia and China are ‘engine’ of new world order – Junge Welt editor-in-chief — RT Business News: The forming new world order will be driven by growing Russia-China cooperation, Junge Welt’s editor-in-chief tells RT
Climate Change and AI Threaten to Upend Everything
Climate Change and AI Threaten to Upend Everything: This is a seminal year, meaning nothing will be the same again. This is the year when two monumentally new forces began to shape how we live, where we reside and the work we do. Think of the invent…
Friday, October 6, 2023
The War Party Rules Washington - by Bill Astore
The War Party Rules Washington - by Bill Astore: Guess What's a High Priority for Democrats in Congress?
Thursday, October 5, 2023
How the Big Chip Makers Are Pushing Back on Biden’s China Agenda - The New York Times
How the Big Chip Makers Are Pushing Back on Biden’s China Agenda - The New York Times: Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm are campaigning to protect their businesses before further crackdowns on the sale of semiconductor technology to Beijing.
Pfizer/BioNTech's "Bait-and-Switch"
Pfizer/BioNTech's "Bait-and-Switch"
A Further Investigation into the Leaked EMA Emails & Confidential Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Related Docs
https://soniaelijah.substack.com/p/a-further-investigation-into-the
What the Leaked EMA Emails & Docs Reveal: Major Concerns with Pfizer C-19 Vaccine Batch Integrity and The Race to Authorize
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/what-the-leaked-ema-emails-docs-reveal-major-concerns-with-pfizer-c-19-vaccine-batch-integrity-and-the-race-to-authorise-cdda0ba2
US-China 'tech war': AI sparks first battle in Middle East – DW – 10/02/2023
US-China 'tech war': AI sparks first battle in Middle East – DW – 10/02/2023: The US has restricted exports of some computer chips to the Middle East, to stop AI-enabling chips from getting to China. But there's no information on which countries are affected, or how chips would get to China.
UAE and Turkiye in talks to build railway across Bosphorus Strait
UAE and Turkiye in talks to build railway across Bosphorus Strait: The two nations are eyeing a potential Silk Road-esque revival linking Istanbul’s European and Asian sides
Closing Guantánamo? - TomDispatch.com
Closing Guantánamo? - TomDispatch.com
Karen Greenberg, The Last Prisoners?
Posted on October 5, 2023
In September 2007, Karen Greenberg ominously titled her third report for TomDispatch “Guantanamo Forever.” Give her credit. So many years ago, she grasped all too clearly the nightmarish nature of that bastion of injustice. Sixteen years and three presidencies later, 21 years after that offshore prison from hell was founded by President George W. Bush and crew, it’s hard (as you’ll see with today’s piece) not to simply use that title again.
As I wrote in my introduction to her piece then,
“As the presidential election season heats up, Republican candidates have opted for ‘Guantanamo-forever’ policy positions. Retiring Republican Senator Chuck Hagel recently complained that the notorious detention facility — once the proud public face of the President’s attempt to move incarceration and mistreatment offshore and beyond the reach of American courts — has bizarrely enough become ‘a Republican litmus test.’ At the same time, at Guantanamo itself, anger and factionalism are on the rise, not among prisoners but warders, while the attempt to set up what Wall Street Journal reporter Jess Bravin calls ‘a free-standing court system to try alleged foreign terrorists’ founders for the nine hundredth time. More than five years after being inaugurated, the prison complex has so far adjudicated exactly one case to the point of conviction — a simple plea bargain (essentially negotiated between President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard) that transferred small-fry Taliban follower David Hicks back to Australia where he is to be freed at the end of this year.”
It’s true, as Greenberg notes, that those offshore military commission trials of leftover Gitmo prisoners are finally proceeding in their forever fashion and perhaps someday that prison will indeed be no more. But when it comes to the fallout from this country’s endless war on terror, which turned into an endless war of terror, some things never seem to end. After all, only now is Congress even considering the possibility of taking back from the president the power to make war globally, thanks to that Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF, it passed three days after the 9/11 attacks (with but a single negative vote, that of the remarkable Barbara Lee), and the one it passed in 2002 before the invasion of Iraq and never rescinded. And don’t count on that happening either!
The question of whether those forever wars and the forever prison that went with them will ever be truly ended still remains up for grabs, but let TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg explain so many years (and articles) later. Tom
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