Archives for mars 2021

Israel: Orthodox Religious Parties Shaken by Supreme Court Ruling on Law of Return

The Israeli Supreme Court ruling on the application of the Law of Return threatens ultimate dilution of the political power of Israel’s Orthodox religious parties, and thus has the potential to shake up the upcoming election’s dynamics.

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JERUSALEM -- In a groundbreaking eight-to-one decision, the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that the Law of Return, which grants citizenship to any Jewish person who comes to Israel, applies to anyone who converted to Judaism while in Israel through a non-orthodox conversion. This ruling has created a great deal of political turmoil and anger

Aurora Police Killed Without Consequence, Now Their Protestors Face 48 Years for « Kidnapping » Cops

The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this is what you risk when you stand up against them. – Lillian House, Aurora Activist and Defendant

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DENVER -- Elijah McClain would have turned 25 last week. However, in 2019, the introverted Black massage therapist was killed on the street by police in his native Aurora (a part of the Denver metropolitan area). None of the officers involved have faced charges for the incident. Yet the leaders of mass protests against the killing are now facing up

Emboldened by Trump and Netanyahu, Jewish Settler Terrorism is Spiking

“I saw a lot of settlers be proud of attacking Palestinians, be open about annexation and apartheid — all of this behavior came out during the Trump administration.” — Issa Amro, Founder Youths Against Settlements

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OCCUPIED WEST BANK -- On the night of Jan. 28, Alaa Sawafteh was driving back with his family to Tubas from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank when his car was attacked by around 30 Israeli settlers. The Israelis, from the nearby settlement of Beit El, smashed the car windows, opened the doors, and struck his three-year-old son’s face with a

The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients.

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LONDON -- According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, an economy is "the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made and used." For the last few centuries, this system has been dominated by the paradigm of capitalism, in which the private owners of capital, and not the state, control the trade of goods and

Engaging the World: The ‘Fascinating Story’ of Hamas’s Political Evolution

As Moscow continues to cement its presence in the Middle East, Hamas sees a rare opportunity to break away from US-Israel imposed isolation.

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On February 4, representatives from the Palestinian Movement, Hamas, visited Moscow to inform the Russian government of the latest development on the unity talks between the Islamic Movement and its Palestinian counterparts, especially Fatah. This was not the first time that Hamas’s officials traveled to Moscow on similar missions. In fact,

Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder

The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.

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Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) — The two million deaths that have resulted from the ruling elite's mishandling of the global pandemic will be dwarfed by what is to follow. The global catastrophe that awaits us, already baked into the ecosystem from the failure to curb the use of fossil fuels and animal agriculture, presage new, deadlier