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It’s Almost Palestinian Hunting Season, Again

September 15, 2016 By Yoav Litvin 24 Comments

May 2017 will mark fifty years of Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, characterized by institutionalized inequality and injustice toward Palestinians.

At the bidding of the government, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) routinely and violently confronts Palestinians, but also Israeli and international dissidents who dare challenge the continued expansion and entrenchment of the illegal settlements in the West Bank and the blockade of the Gaza strip. Protesters run the risk of getting cursed, spat on, detained, beaten up, stoned, stabbed, shot, kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured or any combination thereof. Moreover, in an unfortunate yet predictable move, the Israeli government has recently declared war on the nonviolent boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

Like clockwork, every few years a cycle of violence disproportionately bathes Palestinian society in blood and tears and serves to further fortify the occupation (see “Israeli Occupation for Dummies”). According to renowned scholar Ilan Pappe, Israeli society needs a regular dose of war not only as a means to justify its excessive military budget and lucrative arms industry, but as a tool to reaffirm itself as a cohesive settler-colonialist entity faced with an existential threat.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Benjamin Netanyahu, election 2016, foreign policy, Israel, Palestine

Bernie Sanders, Foreign Policy & The Nuclear Disarmament Option

August 21, 2015 By Dennis Riches 6 Comments

While Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination has once again made some Americans audacious enough to hope for progressive change, there has been a conspicuous absence in Sanders’ platform of any intention to revise foreign policy and connect it to the concern with domestic issues that has dominated his platform so far. Sanders is yet to tell the American public where he stands on a number of fundamental foreign policy questions, issues related not only to the use of the military but also to human rights and independence movements. It may not be readily apparent to the American public, but domestic problems are all deeply connected to the US role on the foreign stage over the last seventy years.

This weakness in Sanders’ campaign is evident if we compare it to one that is similar in many respects. In 1968, Senator Eugene McCarthy launched a campaign for the Democratic Party nomination, and like Bernie, he surprised the nation when his campaign turned into an insurgency that startled the presumptive hares in the race into panic mode.

Robert Kennedy was assassinated during the primary race, and President Johnson decided not to run for re-election when he noticed the level of opposition to his Vietnam policy. At the convention, the favorite of the party leadership, vice president Hubert Humphrey, faced a serious challenge from the dark horse candidate McCarthy who had risen from obscurity in a matter of months.

Filed Under: Elections, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, election 2016, foreign policy, nuclear, oligarchy

Corporations Are The New Conquistadors: Haiti

February 11, 2015 By Andrey Panevin 8 Comments

On the 12th of January 2010, Haiti was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. An estimated 3 million people were affected, with upwards of 160,000 to 316,000 people killed. In the wake of this disaster a massive aid-campaign was initiated, with the United States leading the charge.

However the allotted funds have not been used to help the people of Haiti, instead they have been funneled towards programs managed by USAID and Monsanto. The goals of these programs are to fundamentally restructure the Haitian economy, particularly the agricultural sectors. This is being done in order to maintain a corporate monopoly on both the import of food products into Haiti, as well as the means of food production within the country.

At the head of the post-earthquake aid effort was the the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which reported that in 2013 alone it had spent over $270m in Haiti. From this significant figure, American non-profits received 40% and a further 50% went to US-based corporations. One such company is Chemonics International, which was allotted more than $58m. Chemonics claimed this would be dedicated to further “promoting recovery and laying the foundation for long term development in Haiti.” Unfortunately Haiti’s recovery is not being pursued and the only long term foundations that are being laid are for the total corporate annexation of Haiti’s economy.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: agriculture, American imperialism, Barbados nut, biodiversity, capitalism, Carl Bildt, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, Chemonics International, Corporate America, corruption, earthquakes, Environmental Instability in Haiti, food, food safety, foreign aid, foreign policy, George Soros, Global capitalism, green capitalism, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Haiti: Saving the Environment Preventing Instability and Conflict, ICG, imperialism, International Crisis Group, Jatropha curcas, local food, locavore, Monsanto, Mouvement Paysan Papaye, multinational corporations, NATO, Peasant Movement of Papaye, pesticides, poverty, The Grand Chessboard, United States Agency for International Development, US Inspector General, USAID, Watershed Initiative for National Natural Environmental Resources, Wesley Clark, WINNER, Zbigniew Brzezinski

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