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Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves



They Know That The WEST Will ALWAYS Protect Their Crimes!!!




 








Continue A Lamber O Cu Dos Racistas…








Zionism is Nazism!!!



 



 

Friday, July 5, 2024

"The Night Won't End": New Film Investigates Israel's Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Role in War

In a special broadcast, we feature part of our recent in-depth interview about _The Night Won't End_, a new documentary from Al Jazeera English which takes an in-depth look at attacks on civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the United States' role in the war. The film follows three Palestinian families as they recount the horrific experiences they have endured under relentless Israeli assault, including the family of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, the young Palestinian girl who made headlines when it emerged in January that she had been trapped in a car with family members killed by Israeli ground troops, and the Salem family, who first lost dozens of family members in an Israeli airstrike and then additional family members who were executed by Israeli soldiers. We play clips from the documentary and speak to journalists Kavitha Chekuru and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the director and correspondent on _The Night Won't End_, respectively. We also discuss the plight of journalists in Gaza and U.S. complicity in Israel's war. "There's no question that U.S. weapons have killed civilians in Gaza," says Kouddous. "This violates both international humanitarian law and domestic law."
Extended interview with scholar Norman Finkelstein, author of the new book, “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom.” The book has just been published as Israel is facing a possible International Criminal Court war crimes probe over its 2014 assault on Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, including over 500 children


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How come degenerates who do not know me can manipulate health workers, State clerks (including the Police and the Judiciary), and small and medium biz owners, deploy an armada of male and female prostitutes in an orchestrated and depravedly choreographed "aktions" sorely intended to influence me or in their utmost delirium to inflict pain? 

- The illusion of Superiority (proximity to "power”)?

- BlackMail?











Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Racists And their LIES!!! They Get Away With It Because Of your Racism!!!

 

A new al-Jazeera documentary finally offers the most definitive story of that fateful day - and I talk through the shocking claims of real atrocities and false claims with journalist Richard Sanders. 


Watch the documentary here: https://i-unit.io/October7 (youTube only)



Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Yellow fever: The 'gilets jaunes' and the mainstream media || Al Jazeera


via Al Jazeera English


Last Thursday, France's President Emmanuel Macron announced an array of reforms including $5.5bn-worth of tax cuts for those on lower and middle incomes.

The gesture, made during a specially convened live address from the Elysee Palace, was the latest attempt by the president to assuage the "gilets jaunes", "yellow vest" protesters, who first hit the streets almost six months ago, demonstrating over the price of fuel, the cost of living and tax fairness.

Macron had initially tried to appease the movement back in December last year by boosting the minimum wage.

Fast-forward five months to the fire that consumed part of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and, with the 'yellow vests' still turning out every Saturday in the tens of thousands, Macron's role leading the fundraising efforts for its reconstruction ended up playing right into their hands. The multimillion-dollar donations from billionaires, which happen to be tax deductible, underlined the issues of tax inequality and government priorities.

France's media have, since the beginning, been much more than a sub-plot in this story. Widespread among "yellow vests" has been that the coverage - while pouring over incidents of protester violence against police and private property - have under-reported incidents of police violence. The scale and severity of injuries inflicted by the French constabulary have indeed come as a shock to many observers.

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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Concealing The Truth Inflates The Illusion Of Superiority

The path to colonial reckoning is through archives, not museums



Returning colonial archives would allow Africans to begin constructing more accurate narratives of colonial experience.

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The colonial archive, the thousands of official records and documents that trace the history of subjugation, oppression and looting of the continent by the European powers is largely resident in Europe. And it is not a history that the Europeans have been eager to reveal, preferring to think of their time as overlords of the continent as something of a benevolent occupation. 

Yet, as Howard French noted in the New York Times two decades ago, "In the closing years of this century, though, historians, political scientists and other students of African affairs have begun a searching re-examination of the continent's recent past. Increasingly, they have concluded that many of its most persistent curses - from the plague of ethnic hatred widely known as tribalism to endemic official corruption - have powerful roots that are at least partly traceable to European subjugation and rule.


Yet, a more comprehensive re-examination of this history, especially by the Africans who daily endure its worst legacies, is made difficult by the fact that the documents on which it is inscribed are retained by the architects of the oppression. France, for example, has refused to return Algerian colonial records. 
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In the case of the British Empire, the re-evaluation of the impact of its policies has been made unnecessarily difficult by the UK government's illegal, widespread and systematic destruction, theft and concealment of colonial-era documents in an effort to cover up its crimes. In the last decade or so, however, some of these hidden archives have come to light, showing the scale of the second attempt at "appropriation and alienation" of African history. A 2015 article in Vice by Katie Engelhart details how in 2011, after repeated denials, the UK government owned up to possessing 20,000 files from 37 colonies in "Migrated Archives" hidden in a secret facility at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. Three years later, an audit discovered yet another 170,000 Colonial Office documents, some of them stamped "Top Secret". In fact, as late as the 1980s, the British were still destroying records on colonial Kenya.







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Telling the truth about Australia's past will be painful – but it will be liberating

Rather than engendering guilt, the focus should be on healing historical wounds threatening the nation’s future




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Guns kill faster, but Concealing The Truth IS as much dangerous.


Framing the big picture would require to TELL the TRUTH, to teach the truth in schools, about occupation, colonialism, countless holocausts, directly and indirectly perpetuated by the Europeans, the natives against each other. Just for the sake of fairness. After that, there will be NO need for the illusion of superiority.






Monday, December 17, 2018

Whitewashing George HW Bush's legacy || Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera




There is much wrong that Bush did and the media should not try to cover it up after his death. by Azeezah Kanji


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When luminary of the South African anti-apartheid struggle Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in April, Western media coverage rushed to highlight her alleged participation in acts of violence. The very first sentence of the New York Times' story about her death, for example, stated that Madikizela-Mandela's "hallowed place in the pantheon of South Africa's liberators was eroded by scandal over corruption, kidnapping, murder, and the implosion of her fabled marriage to Nelson Mandela," and the Times' original headline (subsequently revised following complaints) described her as a "tarnished leader of South Africa's liberation."

But for George Bush, who had the privilege of directing acts of mass violence from afar, the abuses and atrocities tarnishing his leadership have been treated as mere footnotes to the main story - if they are accorded any attention at all. While commentators have fawned over cartoons depicting Bush's projected arrival in heaven, they have erased the victims consigned to hell on Earth by his policies.

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Similar deficits of truth-telling are apparent in representations of Bush's military follow-up to Panama, the First Gulf War, almost universally depicted as a courageous confrontation against the evils of dictator Saddam Hussein. Inconvenient details - that Hussein's evils had been enabled by Bush, who facilitated sales of military equipment to the Iraqi leader and continued to protect him from sanctions even after he massacred thousands of Kurds with poison gas at Halabja in 1988; ...
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Cutting through the bush of media's posthumous propaganda is not about disrespecting George HW Bush in his death, but about respecting the lives of those victimised by his policies - and the lives of those who will continue to suffer as long as the structures of American imperial power he helped construct remain in place and immunised from critique.






Saturday, December 15, 2018

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India || Jason Hickel | Al Jazeera


And lied about it. 

by Jason Hickel




There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long - the story goes - was a gesture of Britain's benevolence. 
(I have heard lies of sort from some racists on a Portuguese TV, regarding the Portuguese occupation of African territories.)
New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik - just published by Columbia University Press - deals a crushing blow to this narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. 





Wednesday, December 12, 2018

"I just had to laugh, because I don't expect no better.” || Raheem Sterling




How the media and elites fuel racism in British football by Elliot Ross for Al Jazeera






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It was a perfect illustration of how racism is (mis)represented ... The victims are usually pushed to the foreground, scrutinised for any sign of dishonesty, aggression or culpability, while those who perpetuate racism through individual actions and at the structural level are shielded from scrutiny, and racism as a social problem is lazily attributed to the working class.

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Raheem Sterling described his personal reaction to Saturday's incident, writing: "I just had to laugh, because I don't expect no better.” ...





Sunday, September 16, 2018

Alternative museum tours explore colonial loot, biased narratives || Aditya Iyer | Al Jazeera




Alice Procter, an art historian, says she launched the Uncomfortable Art Tours in 2013 to ‘ onfront the official narratives we’re told’ [Aditya Iyer/Al Jazeera]

London, England - "The South Sea Company did not trade in fish,“ says Alice Procter, as she shows visitors around Queen’s House, a maritime museum in Greenwich, southeast London. “They traded in something far more valuable to the English monarchy - slaves.”
“Museums provide almost a Trojan horse type of space to confront the official narratives we’re told,” says Procter, who started the tours in 2013. 
“I started them out of a sense of frustration over the lack of self-awareness that white British people have over their pasts and history - and that lack of attention is part of the shadow of white supremacy and racism that’s hanging over our heads right now.”
Museums provide a biased view of the past, she claims.
“While museums continue to argue that they are neutral spaces, the fact is that they are not. There is always one side of the story that has been privileged over the other in these spaces, and we need to be more honest and open about that.”
This challenge to the official narrative comes at a time when Europe is facing a renewed debate over returning African art, much of which was acquired as colonial-era loot.




A brave woman, In a world full of cowards …





Saturday, September 15, 2018

France admits torture during Algeria’s war of independence || Al Jazeera


More than 1.5 million Algerians died during the 1954-62 war of independence against colonial-ruler France. (Al Jazeera)




Macron, the first president born after the conflict, sparked controversy on the campaign trail last year by declaring that France's colonisation of Algeria was a "crime against humanity".

He later walked back the comments calling for “neither denial nor repentance" over France's colonial history.










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