Ketaib Hezbollah (KH) finally got the picture. President Joe Biden’s statements about US plans for retaliation make it clear that the United States does not have an appetite for war with Iran. But the United States sure has an appetite for KH’s destruction. KH recognizes that the drone attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan on Sunday puts it squarely in US crosshairs. Oh the impending irony, after years of fighting to push US forces out of Iraq, to be obliterated just months before the United States voluntarily withdraws.
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Experts react: What the International Court of Justice said (and didn’t say) in the genocide case against Israel
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Celeste Kmiotek: The ICJ puts the countries supporting Israel on notice
Thomas S. Warrick: A blow to the argument that death and destruction are sufficient to establish genocide
Tuqa Nusairat: The ruling shows how isolated the US is in its support of Israel
Shalom Lipner: The ruling is unlikely to change Israel’s warfighting or narrative
Elise Baker: Israel’s continued failure to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza risks genocide
Gissou Nia: The ICJ’s decision pushes talk about ‘genocide’ from the rhetorical to the factual and legal
Lisandra Novo: The ICJ’s order to preserve evidence could impact war crimes cases elsewhere
Alexander Tripp: South Africa is putting its ideals on the world stage
Alyssa T. Yamamoto: The ICJ embraces another case brought by a state not directly affected by violations
Akila Radhakrishnan: It didn’t call for a cease-fire, but the ICJ did rule that Israel must drastically curtail its operations
Rayhan Asat: This case could have implications for a future genocide case against China
Riyadh crosses the Rubicon toward Russia
(October 11, 2022)
This decision stands in stark contrast to the careful, muted responses of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian President Narendra Modi to Putin’s accelerating aggression in Eastern Europe and mounting threats to unleash nuclear war on the continent. Apart from buying Russian oil (at major discounts, most recently about $25 below Brent prices), neither the Chinese nor the Indians have offered Putin much in the way of diplomatic cover, military materiel or other direct substantive support since the earliest weeks of the illegal Russian invasion.
Professionals purposely spreading misinformation are ‚criminals,‘ Pfizer CEO says: COVID-19 updates
But Bourla has less empathy or understanding for what he said are the “small” number of people who have knowingly circulated misinformation. Those people can’t be qualified just bad people, he said, adding: “They are criminals. They have literally cost millions of lives.”
The interview was live-streamed online and the replay is available to watch here.
„Alarming“: Facebook Teams Up With Think-Tank Funded by Saudi Arabia and Military Contractors to „Protect“ Democracy
(18.May) „This is alarming,“ independent journalist Rania Khalek concluded in a tweet on Thursday. „The Atlantic Council—which is funded by gulf monarchies, western governments, NATO, oil and weapons companies, etc.—will now assist Facebook in suppressing what they decide is disinformation.“