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Nuland’s Policy Has Collapsed

Par : AHH

The Drang continues after Nuland. Biden fully implements ziocon projects. A mere change in tack: “This is not over yet. This debate is not finished…” (9:20)

Nuland’s Policy Has Collapsed as Ukraine Lost it – Netanyahu Will Lose | Chas Freeman

Huge Geopolitical Changes

Par : AHH

An old American of the disintegrated Old Order reviews the remains of the day.. How did preeminent retiree diplomats of the British Empire see the glass after the evacuation at Dunkirk? Time has been freed, irrevocably loosed

Chas Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc.

  • For more than four decades, Projects International has helped its partner enterprises and clients to create business ventures across borders. It facilitates their establishment of new businesses through the design, negotiation, capitalization, and implementation of greenfield investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, franchises, one-off transactions, sales and agencies in other countries. The firm operates on five continents.
  • Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China.
  • He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).
  • He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.
  • Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984).
  • He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981.
  • He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972.
  • In addition to his Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he had a tour of duty in India.

Zionism cannot be negotiated with – it must be defeated!

Par : AHH

The following article is a response to the scurrilous attacks on our party that have been printed in the Daily Telegraph and the Jewish Chronicle.

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Dr Ranjeet Brar is a lifelong campaigner against racism, against fascism and against zionism.

He has been arrested four times as a direct result of his support for the anti-zionist, anti-imperialist struggle of the Palestinian people. In singling him out again, Britain’s pro-zionist mainstream media are playing their part in a concerted attack on his professional status and medical practice – and therefore also upon the communities he serves.

The timing of these events is not accidental. Our rulers’ support for zionist Israel is coming under the greatest pressure it has ever faced, and their ability to shore up the economic, diplomatic and PR holes in their project is rapidly declining.

The crisis of legitimacy for British politicians and media has been markedly exacerbated by their unashamedly pro-Israel stance in recent months. When ‘democratic’ means of diverting and confusing the public have failed, repression is the only means left for silencing inconvenient truths.

The United Nations’ International Court of Justice recently ruled that Israel is likely to be committing genocide in Palestine. It has awarded provisional measures and ordered Israel to ensure that it stops the commissioning of genocide.

Israeli ‘defence’ minister Yoav Gallant, who famously justified the genocide in Gaza by stating on television that “we are fighting against human animals”, labelled the ICJ as “antisemitic”. Presumably the Israeli judge was also guilty of ‘antisemitism’?

Our party puts Israel’s current crimes in historical context, and Ranjeet has openly and publicly defended Palestine, the Palestinians and their right to exist.

Therefore also – in accordance with UN resolutions (Additional Protocol I to the Geneva conventions of 1949; resolution 2105 of 1965; resolution 2625 of 1970; 1974, resolution 3314 of the UNGA; resolution 37/43, dated 3 December 1982) – he has defended Palestine’s right to resist occupation and genocide. In so doing he is simply stating international law.

We note that zionism, as a genocidal ideology, cannot be accommodated. It must be challenged wherever it raises its head. It is given succour by our politicians and media precisely because it is a tool of Britain’s imperialist ruling class.

In the video above, Ranjeet outlines this position in a historical, factual and antiracist speech given recently at City University in London.

We note that the Daily Telegraph has launched a vicious attack upon Ranjeet and our party for having the temerity to continue speaking out against zionist genocide in a political climate that is increasingly repressive.

This attack on free speech is part of former home secretary Suella Braverman’s pro-genocide campaign to label the millions of working-class Britons who support Palestine as “hate marchers” and “terrorists”.

The Telegraph’s distorted article plays into this narrative, claiming that our party’s anti-zionist views are “racist”.

Compare the doctored quotations in its headlines with the whole speech and decide for yourself whether these allegations stand up to scrutiny. Speaking the truth is not a crime – yet!

We note also the tired trope of ‘vulnerable’ students who must be protected from ‘hurtful’ and ‘offensive’ truths. Where is the Telegraph or City University’s concern for the actual bodily harm being done to hundreds of Palestinian civilians every single day under zionist bombardment?

Why is the illegally occupying power (Israel) deemed to have all the rights and the occupied (the Palestinians) none? Why are those who stand with the oppressed demonised and silenced while those who stand with the oppressors are protected and promoted?

Landmark finding in David Miller tribunal

We note in this context the landmark ruling in the case of sacked history professor David Miller that anti-zionist beliefs are a protected characteristic under British discrimination law – further undermining the Telegraph’s really racist (anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and pro-genocide) and zionist campaign.

Prof Miller said: “I am extremely pleased that the tribunal has concluded that I was unfairly and wrongfully dismissed by the University of Bristol. I am also very proud that we have managed to establish that anti-zionist views qualify as a protected belief under the UK Equality Act.

“This was the most important reason for taking the case and I hope it will become a touchstone precedent in all the future battles that we face with the racist and genocidal ideology of zionism and the movement to which it is attached.

“The determination that I was sacked for my anti-zionist views is a huge vindication of my case all the way through this process. The University of Bristol maintained that I was sacked because zionist students were offended by my various remarks, but it was plain from the evidence of its own witnesses that this was untrue, and it was the anti-zionist nature of my comments which was the decisive factor.

“I also want to note that this verdict is a massive vindication of the approach I have taken throughout this period, which is to say that a genocidal and maximalist ideology like zionism can only be effectively confronted by a maximalist anti-zionism.

“Apologies, debate and defensiveness of the sort illustrated by many on the left, and even in the Palestine solidarity movement, will not work. The zionist movement cannot be negotiated with. It must be defeated.”

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What makes Palestine so important to the imperialists and why can’t the USA stop digging its own grave?

Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Palestine and Yemen, episode 2

In this second instalment of their regular series, Comrade Joti Brar and radio host Garland Nixon discuss Yemen and Palestine, touching on: the vigour of the Palestinian resistance despite apparently overwhelming odds; the role of Yemeni solidarity in the Red Sea; the importance of the zionist project to US imperialism; the degradation of the US military machine; the export of capital as part of Lenin’s thesis on imperialism; and finally finishing up with a broad overview of the Ukraine war.

Garland begins by asking for Joti’s thoughts on the importance of the debacle in the Red Sea – referring to Yemen’s capture of Israeli ships and the resulting redirection of global trade — a move that revealed the power of a state that is only ever presented as a poor victim in western media (if it is mentioned at all).

Putting the situation into a wider context, Joti points out that although different parts of the middle east are facing their own struggles, the various resistance forces have all “over the years increasingly come to realise that their struggle is centred in Palestine; because zionism is the main weapon that the imperialists use to control all of the middle east. They’re not there to control Palestine, they’re there to control the region.”

And so, the reason Palestine and other peoples in the middle east fight back? Oppression breeds resistance. And as the oppression faced by these countries is largely directed by US imperialism through the state of Israel, Palestine has logically become the centre of their struggle.

So why is the zionist project so critical to imperialism, Garland asks? To the onlooker it appears totally bizarre that the US government is willing to continue funding and arming Israel, staking its (albeit in tatters) international reputation, when public discontent at home grows by the day and workers all over the world are marching and acting against it?

Oil. This is the simple answer given by comrade Joti. The United States of America is the world’s biggest imperialist power, and the imperialist global economy (and its war machines) runs on oil.

Ever the insightful listener, Garland proceeds to describe the degraded state of the USA’s military, calling it “feckless and ridiculous” as compared to its cold war peak. Adeptly summarising the contradiction of the military-industrial complex – where profit-driven public contractors manufacturing the same equipment as its opponents at an infinitely dearer cost are rotting the system of US imperialism from the inside – Garland asks how the system can paradoxically weaken itself in this way?

The huge military power that is the USA is relying on private industry to provide an essential service. In this way, capitalism is shooting itself in the foot. Military contractors need to make a profit in order to survive, and every dime they make is a cost to the US government not borne by its opponents in the middle east, many of whose weapons are made underground, sometimes even without electricity.

In the end, of course, the decisive factor in any war is not weapons but people. The Koreans and Vietnamese long ago proved that a seemingly weak but motivated people, well organised and fighting for a just cause, will ultimately defeat the demoralised troops of an aggressive power far from home.

In these days when the USA fears to put boots on the ground for just this reason, preferring instead to bomb from skies where its planes meet no air defences, the resistant armies of the middle east have also learned the art of tunnel warfare pioneered by the Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese resistance forces in the mid-20th century.

Little by little, at great and painful cost, they have learned the strengths and found the weaknesses of their imperialist enemies. The successful blockading of the Red Sea to Israeli-aligned ships by Yemen’s Ansarullah government is just one indicator that the axis of middle-eastern resistance has not been wasting its time in the last 50 years.

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