What kind of ridiculous scenario is this?
- Trump and Putin — meeting up to determine the fate of Ukrainians who have been sacrificed to their proxy war 3.5 years — are both bloodthirsty open liars. A few examples.
- Putin importing Korean men into virtual slavery, locked into construction sites to work 18 hours a day, replacing men drafted into the military and sent to Ukraine.
- Trump ordering nuclear subs to move towards Russia a month after a murderous onslaught of Iran — as we are marking 80 years since the U.S. devastated Hiroshima & Nagasaki — and obsessed with using U.S. military to “clean up” Democratic (read majority Black) cities.
- And the Ukrainian government, notwithstanding its own legitimacy problems, is left out, to be ordered by Trump to agree to whatever is decided.
We can’t possibly keep up with all the crimes of U.S. imperialism, but Trump made it to our list of culprits on WarCriminalsWatch.org during his last presidency, is awaiting an update and we’ll be adding more members of his fascist adminstration. Pete “bring back the crusades and don’t let women vote” Hegseth ought to be next, no?
The towering, monstrous genocide of the people in Gaza has been funded and fought for by every modern U.S. administration, none as gleefully cheered on by a president as Trump. We condemn the deliberate destruction of the people, cultural institutions, infrastructure, the starvation and withholding of aid, and the IDF’s targeted killing of more than 200 journalists, most recently Anas Al-Sharif, killed in a bombing with five other reporters, four of whom also were from Al Jazeera.
It is heartening to see — at last — a bigger section of Israelis openly calling for an end to the war. And outrageous that the British government has criminalized protest against the genocide. Below, former Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg was arrested in London last week with more than 500 others for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” a statement which is now punishable by up to 14 years in prison, based on law passed last month.
We learned something important at this week’s Global Vigil to Close Guantanamo in NYC. These vigils have grown larger and we have connected the ongoing outrage of the U.S. torture prison still holding 15 men, despite international condemnation of its being “outside the law,” to Trump’s goal of deporting 11 million people. The exact number of detainees sent to Guantanamo, en route to prisons in countries the U.S.compels to imprison them, such as El Salvador and the Sudan, is unknown.
Our attorney friend, editor of “The Talking Dog,” reminded us that Bush/Cheney et al set up Guantanamo as a “demonstration project,” both to test what the U.S. could get away with in its quest to dominate the world and to warn others that they could be disappeared “outside the law.”
The fascist in the White House now is running his own demonstration project to cancel the rule of law altogether. As he told the governor of Maine earlier this year, “we are the law.” The levels to which that administration will go beyond deporting immigrants it calls “criminal” for coming here with out papers, separating families, de-naturalizing citizens, and rounding up and abusing citizens are as yet unknown.
As we said in forming World Can’t Wait 20 years ago, “The future is unwritten. Which one we get is up to us.”