Can Israel Be Cured?

On ‘Gassing the Arabs’ and Other Diseases: Is Israel a ‘Sick Society’?

by Ramzy Baroud - PalestineChronicle.com

December 7, 2021 

 For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive and even ‘pro-Palestinian’. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially Zionist and anti-Palestinian newspaper tells of a much bigger story of how confusing Israeli politics is, and how equally confused many of us are in understanding the Israeli political discourse.

 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog storms Ibrahimi Mosque accompanied by 

settler leaders and Knesset members. (Photo: via QNN)

 

On November 28, newly-elected Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) with hundreds of soldiers and many illegal Jewish settlers, including the who’s who of Israel’s extremists. 

 

OTF: Watching the Internet Freedom Watchers

OTF – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps – is Staffed Full of Spies

by Alan Macleod - MintPress News

December 6, 2021

While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington’s enemies. 

 

Map from 2018 OTF report shows regions where so-called “Internet freedom communities” applied for OTF assistance

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is one of the most influential and celebrated organizations in the hacking and internet freedom communities. Well over two billion people globally use OTF-produced software, including communications app Signal and web browser Tor, services that are specifically marketed to privacy-conscious consumers looking to circumvent government censorship and surveillance. Yet its close links to the U.S. national security state raise many worrying questions about whether the world is making a mistake by trusting the organization and its products.

Letting the Cat Out of the Sakwa: Russiagate's Nine Lives

A NEW RUSSIAGATE COMPENDIUM TURNS OUT TO BE A CAT IN A SAKWA

by John Helmer - Dances with Bears

  @bears_with

 

December 6, 2021

 

About the Russiagate operation that continues in the US, Richard Sakwa (lead image), a professor at the University of Kent, has gotten one thing right and one thing wrong. The wrong turns out to be the same thing as the right.

Russiagate, he says, defining that as the narrative of Russian interference in US politics in support of Donald Trump, “is one of the most mystifying yet consequential events of our time.” At the same time, Russiagate is a propaganda and deception operation aimed at achieving the political interests of the Democratic Party, their candidates and supporters.