Al Jazeera interview with Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Israeli genocide in Gaza

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https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/3/17/professor-jeffrey-sachs-us-is-complicit-in-israeli-genocide

Vladimir Putin’s 2024 Annual State of the Nation Address

Tyranny of inequality in Pakistan

Naeem Sadiq   Published February 26, 2024

Note by Fazal Rahman

This article truthfully and factually describes the extreme inequality and looting and plunder of resources by a tiny minority of rich and super-rich in Pakistan, as well as their drastic effects on the impoverishment of great masses of working, poor, and disadvantaged people there.  These conditions have drowned the country in huge external and internal debts, as well as enslaved it to the constant borrowing from the IMF and other multilateral and bilateral lenders.  Many critical policies are being dictated to the country of around 240 million people by the IMF now.  Inflation and prices of essentials for life are record high. Representatives of capitalist, feudal, and tribal classes – of which military is the most dominant force – continue to dominate political, economic, judicial, and social life of society.  Corruption and failure of capitalist-feudal-tribal “democracy” and electoral processes have reached zenith in Pakistan. No wonder that under these conditions so many people are involved in the activities of religious right and militant organizations. 

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Video of new Algerian resolution for ceasefire in Gaza in the UN Security Council vetoed by the US

Note by Fazal Rahman

As in case of previous resolutions for ceasefire in Gaza in the UN Security Council, US again vetoed the new Algerian resolution for that. All the other members supported the resolution, with the exception of UK, which abstained. The US ambassador to the UN, a Black woman with white mask ( borrowing Frantz Fanon’s terminology) again engaged in sinister hypocrisy and duplicity in support of her veto. Almost 30,000 Palestinians have been massacred by Israeli genocidal and ethnic cleansing war in Gaza since October 7, 2023 – two-thirds of them women and children – thousands burred under the rubbles, 70,000 wounded, innumerable children orphaned, and whole neighborhoods and cities reduced to rubble. It is indescribably demonic on part of the US to continue to support all that politically, economically, and militarily, and obstruct the ceasefire which will stop further devastations. Ambassadors of many countries, including those of Russia, Palestine, Algeria, and Guyana strongly condemned this new diabolical veto by the US. Nothing surprise me coming from the US. I expect the worst and almost always it happens.

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Slavery in the American Prison-Industrial-Complex in the 21st Century

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

 

Note by Fazal Rahman

This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC) in the US, which, as stated by many of its victims, is continuation of slavery in the 21^st Century.  As is the common and routine practice in all politico-economic matters here, law enforcement, government, and corporate officials – the beneficiaries of exploitation of such slave labor – not only try to cover it up, but justify, rationalize, and moralize it.  This is one of innumerable manifestations of the sinister reality of American capitalist-imperialist “democracy”, which has created hundreds of millions of clones thumping their chests about being free, democratic, advanced, and exceptional.  They are exceptional indeed, but not in the way they imagine.

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