Israel has dramatically escalated violent attacks on the West Bank. Ten Palestinians were murdered last night, and AT LEAST 652 people since Oct. 7.
This is what both our political parties here in the US call “Israel defending itself”.
ARMS EMBARGO NOW.
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The Israeli military has launched its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades, with hundreds of troops, backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers, fighter jets and drones, conducting simultaneous raids in the northern cities of Jenin and Tulkarm.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed overnight, with an additional 11 injured. In total, at least 652 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October — nearly 150 of them children — most of them during near-daily raids by the Israeli military.
Israeli officials have indicated that the raids are just the first stage of an even larger operation in the West Bank.
The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
There’s been an astonishingly brazen propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine as Kyiv coordinates with the arms industry and western governments to convert the war-ravaged nation into a major domestic weapons manufacturer, thereby turning Ukrainians into proxies of the military industrial complex as well as the Pentagon.
The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In…
This #WorkerWednesday, we’re spending the day with an employee of the Ballistics Lab at the Indiana Ordnance Works. This photograph was taken in 1941, when the works first began manufacturing military explosives, propellants, and smokeless powder.
The Indiana Ordnance Works was built near Charlestown, Indiana by DuPont to fulfill World War II contracts for the U.S. government. The Works continued to manufacture ordnance for military use throughout the ensuing decades, though it was operated by a variety of corporate entities. In 1964, its name was changed to the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. In 1992, it was deactivated, and the property was converted to other uses, including an industrial commerce center and a state park.
This photograph is part of the Hagley Library’s collection of Indiana Ordnance Works, Ballistics Lab photographs (Accession 2001.209). To view this collection online now, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.
Everything under Bolsonaro should proceed under the unmitigated reign of a Hobbesian “free” market. Forget about any possibility of a moderating state intervention in the complex relations between Capital and Labor. This is the apex of a complex process unleashed years ago in Brazil via think tanks such as the Atlas Network, loads of money and, last but not least, an evangelical/neo-pentecostal tsunami. The pillars of the Brazilian carnage are powerful agro-business and mineral exploitation interests, toxic Brazilian mainstream media, evangelicals, a financial sector totally subservient to Wall Street, the weapons industry, the completely politicized judiciary, the police, intel services, and the armed forces.
Pepe Escobar, 'Welcome to the G-20 from Hell', Asia Times
Palestine Action believes it is being targeted by the National Security Bill.
Palestine Action has proven that the merchants of death are not invincible.
Just this week, it was confirmed that Israel’s top weapons exporter Elbit Systems is closing down its offices in London.
The decision follows numerous protests against Elbit and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), the letting agent for those offices.
It is the second time that Palestine Action, the group organizing the protests, has compelled Elbit to quit a site in Britain – a country identified by the firm as a priority for sales and investment.
Earlier this year, Elbit confirmed it had sold Ferranti, its subsidiary based in Oldham, near Manchester.
Palestine Action’s protests – which often involve smashing up weapons facilities – have angered Israel and its supporters.
One of Israel’s most influential backers in Britain is Priti Patel, the home secretary.
She has effectively declared war on Palestinian solidarity activists by claiming that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is racist – without presenting any evidence.
Patel has proposed new legislation which targets the kind of protests Palestine Action has undertaken.
The National Security Bill – as the legislation is called – gives the police powers to designate as “prohibited places” areas where an “aircraft, or a part of an aircraft, used for military purposes” or “equipment relating to such an aircraft” is located.
Little opposition
Following the sale of its plant in Oldham and the closure of its London offices, Elbit now operates out of eight sites in Britain.
Elbit-owned plants – which make engines for drones among other components – could conceivably be given a protected status once the legislation comes into effect.
Introduced to Britain’s Parliament in May, the bill has so far encountered little opposition.
Most elected representatives appear to either welcome how it would penalize direct action against the arms trade or have no concern about its likely implications.
The bill’s stated objective is to replace “existing counter-espionage laws with a comprehensive framework for countering hostile state activity.”
The approach being taken is so “comprehensive” that it is questionable whether the bill is really focused on spying in the conventional sense of that term. Many of its provisions could be used against ordinary people seeking to disrupt the weapons business.
The bill enables life imprisonment for anyone who obtains or discloses “protected information” and behaves in a way deemed “prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom.”
Elbit describes itself as an “established supplier to the UK Armed Forces” and was recently awarded a contract to deliver surveillance drones to the British Army.
The Staggering Cost of Losing Europe’s Arms Market Part 2
A few weeks ago, we released a video on how America’s potential loss of Europe’s arms market could hit US society, jobs, and taxes – and it nearly broke 500,000 views in record time! Many of you asked for a follow-up covering the equipment we couldn’t get to last time, so here it is. In this video, we dive deep into the shifting dynamics between US and European military equipment and how political moves (including Trump’s threats to close NATO allies) are driving wedges into future US military-industrial income, putting 2.2 million American jobs at risk(..)
P.S. Europe first..., and European money must stay in Europe...!!!
