Interesting Articles: late October 2023
What good editors can do; Bob Scheer
[Image: Yet more fanstastic work by Mr. Fish. This from the Hedges article.]
Published: 2023-10-25
Introduction
I threw a few props Joe Lauria's way in the last IA article. Here's the same for Bob Scheer from ScheerPost and his 'stable' of writers.
“Articles”
Let Them Eat Cement, Chris Hedges, ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
First up is Chris Hedges, who like many writers of his age and experience must be sick and f*cking tired or writing articles on this. The whole damn thing is black and white divide and conquer repression, genocide and apartheid crap to generate some pathetic response so you can ply the media with 'defend our poor selves' emotional feces and run the whole thing again.
Needless to say, Hedges does a far better job that I, expressing his outrage with cold steel and references like lasers.
Read this article. Here's his concluding paragraph:
Israel will not halt its genocidal campaign in Gaza against the Palestinians until there is a U.S. arms embargo on Israel. Our weapons systems, munitions and attack aircraft sustain the slaughter. We must terminate the $3.8 billion in military aid that the U.S. gives to Israel each year. We must support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and demand suspension of all free trade and other agreements between the U.S. and Israel. Only when these props are knocked out from under Israel will the Israeli leadership be forced, as was the apartheid regime in South Africa, to integrate Palestinians into one state with equal rights. As long as these props remain, the Palestinians are doomed.
Hamas Israel's Useful Enemy, Max Jones, ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
While the conclusion which Max Jones draws in "Hamas, Israel's Useful Enemy" could be argued with, the level of detail in the research he brings to bear to support it, cannot. Jones explores the role that Israel played in supporting Hamas as a counter-weight to Arafat's Fatah party, the heart of the PLO.
Jones' provides extensive cited quotations to lay clear the Israeli support of Hamas to divide Palestinian and Muslim Arab support for the PLO, and thus assist Israelis in ensuring that a two state solution remained an aspiration while they continued to conquer and settle the land of Palestine, dividing the Palestinian people into security gate enclosed enclaves, literally walled off from the invading settlers.
Navigating Through the Media's Propaganda on Palestine (w/ Alan MacLeod), Jones and Ramos interview MacLeod, Journalists For Sale/ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
Max Jones' and Diego Ramos' "Journalists for Sale" show hosts Alan MacLeod, Senior Staff writter for MintPress News (MPN). This is a repeat acknowledgement of the great work being done by MPN following Scheer's publication of MPN Editor Adley's article mentioned in this newsletter's recent "Ongoing Report".
MacLeod is a fantastic young journalist. With Jones and Ramos he examines modern, aka 'social', media to examine the different methods used by Israel to manipulate opinion. The precise dissection demostrates the deep understanding of the three in how modern media is used to disseminate propaganda and shape public opinion.
Amira Hass Speaks on Gaza Slaughter, ScheerPost, Jewish Voice for Labour, 2023-10-21
Scheer gives a hat tip to Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow! for hosting the amazing Amira Hass. The articles provides links to two interviews hosted by Goodman with the multi-award winning Israeli journalist who lived in Gaza for years before moving to Ramalah in the West Bank where she continues to live with Palestinian people.
The cyborgs at YouTube have age-gated both of the DemocracyNow! shows for some mysterious reason which rhymes with derail. Below are both the distribution limited references and uploads to this channel of the interviews, extracted from their corresponding daily show. As with the previous uploaded video (that time for The Grayzone) all credit to the original producer, in this case DemocracyNow!(*).
Israeli Journalist Amira Hass, Daughter of Holocaust Survivors, Calls for Gaza Ceasefire Now, DemocracyNow!, 2023-10-19
DemocracyNow!, 2023-10-19
(*) Actually, DemocracyNow! went past the U-bend about 5 or 6 years ago when happy philantropist/societal influencer "Open Society Foundations" enforcer George Soros bought the show with donations. The interviews remained its strength but the news section became social commentary tripe. My opinion. Do with it as you will.
The Atlantic Magazine, Covering Palestine Without Palestinians, Adam Johnson, ScheerPost (orginally The Real News Network), 2023-10-23
Johnson performs a simple and thorough analysis of the horseshit being shoveled onto the heads of its partisan readers. Having reached the obvious conclusion, Johnson looks a little further back in time to see, Shock and Horror, a crap tonne more of the same misleading offal.
Go figure.
Good job, Johnson.
Europe-Jews-Muslims, Michael Brenner, ScheerPost, 2023-10-21
Brenner takes psychological aim at Europe, the scars of its subordination to Uncle Sam and its lingering imperial conception of 'the others', the brown, the Arabs and thus also Muslims as "almost human". The road is not entirely linear but does cross taboo territory.
He also takes aim at the US describing a few unique quirks which distinguish his fellow citizens from their NATO counterparts.
Quizzically, he fails to name the dangerous but fake anti-semitic tar-brushing of European political leaders. Corbyn gets a mention, but the cause of his ouster from the British Labour party is left unspoken. The Israel Lobby remains invisible. (See sources for part 1 of the 4 part series "The Lobby" on Israel's political influence operations).
So, there you have it. A collection of excellent articles or video pieces assembled and published by Bob Scheer at ScheerPost. That is why I read/visit the excellent publication.
Sources
Let Them Eat Cement, Chris Hedges, ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
Navigating Through the Media's Propaganda on Palestine (w/ Alan MacLeod), Jones and Ramos interview MacLeod, Journalists For Sale/ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
Amira Hass Speaks on Gaza Slaughter, ScheerPost, Jewish Voice for Labour, 2023-10-21
Hamas Israel's Useful Enemy, Max Jones, ScheerPost, 2023-10-22
The Atlantic Magazine, Covering Palestine Without Palestinians, Adam Johnson, ScheerPost (orginally The Real News Network), 2023-10-23
Europe-Jews-Muslims, Michael Brenner, ScheerPost, 2023-10-21
Extra
The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel l Al Jazeera Investigations, Al Jazeera English, 2017-01-10