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The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making. August 21, 2024 Nina Burleigh The New Republic The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers and Frauds Hijacked American ConservatismJoe ConasonSt. Martin’s PressISBN: 9781250621160 Pick your metaphor for the last eight years of American politics. Sewer or garbage truck? Practically every day a […]

US: THE CON AT THE CORE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is not popular. He may have won an election but he did it with fewer votes than his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn won in either 2017 or 2019, because he was lucky enough to be challenging a deeply unpopular government. And now we see that he has presided over a vertiginous drop in […]

Labour admits super-rich are propping it up as member numbers collapse again | SKWAWKBOX

Yesterday Moscow was bombarded with nearly a dozen drones – the biggest, although not the first, Ukrainian attack on Russia’s capital city.  These excerpts from an Axios news service report tell the story. Driving the news: The drone attack on Moscow was part of a broader series of overnight strikes on Russian soil. Russian air […]

Ukraine’s attack on Moscow risks wider war

El fallo también ordena la publicación de los resultados definitivos del comicio en la Gaceta Electoral. El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) de Venezuela convalidó este jueves los resultados de los comicios presidenciales emitidos por el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), tras las votaciones del pasado 28 de julio.

Supremo de Venezuela convalida la reelección de Nicolás Maduro tras peritaje electoral

Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News With political campaigns in full swing now as the Democrats are currently holding their convention in Chicago, it is important to remember that national politics in the United States is a closely scripted arm of the entertainment industry, and has almost no bearing on real life, […]

Whoever is (S)Elected as the Next U.S. President, Jeffrey Epstein will be the Real Winner

Didi Rankovic In Germany, the current authorities seem willing to dramatically depart from what have until now been Western democratic traditions, where law enforcement must have a crime to investigate, and a warrant to do so before it engages in searches and surveillance. However, the government in Berlin plans to allow the Federal Criminal Police […]

Berlin’s Brave New World: Would Permit Secret Police Break-Ins

“The Israeli occupation army blocks the Rafah Crossing between Palestine and Egypt for over 100 days after burning and bulldozing it”

from thefreeonline on August 22, 2024 AlethoNews. by Palestinian Information Center ( thefree now on telegram //t.me/thefreeonline )

..Rafah crossing, Gazans’ last hope to escape the war…

GAZA – Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) has said that the Israeli occupation army’s closure of the Rafah border crossing over the past 100 days has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 children, patients and wounded civilians, warning that the humanitarian disaster in the war-ravaged coastal enclave has deepened.

Criminal Israeli Rafah massacre toll rises: 70 bodies found in Rafah

“The occupation army continues to close the Rafah border crossing between Palestine and Egypt for the 100th day running after burning and bulldozing it and putting it out of service,” GMO said in a statement on Wednesday.

Video shows Israeli destruction of Gaza’s Rafah crossing A video released by an Israeli journalist shows Gaza’s Rafah crossing burnt and destroyed, just over a month since Israel captured it. The crossing had been a vital route for aid. 21 Jun 2024 …

“This Israeli closure of the crossing continues to take place as the humanitarian tragedy has deepened at all levels and affected all aspects of life,” GMO added.

Israel Cuts Off Rafah Refugee Camp

GMO condemned the ongoing closure of the crossing as a “crime” and an “obvious legal violation of the international law, the international humanitarian law and all international conventions.”

GMO accused the Israeli occupation of preventing the entry of all sorts of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including vital medical needs, which seriously worsened the health and humanitarian situation.

GMO also accused the Israeli occupation of seeking to destroy Gaza’s health system in its entirety and using the starvation policy as a tool for political pressure.