The Israeli massacre in Gaza is a catastrophe, and not just for the city’s tortured inmates, languishing for decades under a merciless occupation. The United States in particular, but also Germany, will forever be closely associated with this unrelenting slaughter of thousands of innocent men, women and children, a slaughter that both countries continue to underwrite materially and diplomatically. Two-and-a-half months into the mass killing, the US vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have restored some hope of survival to those Gazans still remaining after the hell of continual bombing and shelling. By that time, following the Hamas breakout and the murderous attack on kibbutzim close to the Gaza wall, more than 20,000 Gazans had been killed, 8,700 of them children and 4,400 women, and 50,000 wounded, compared to 121 dead Israeli soldiers, one fifth of them victims of friendly fire or traffic accidents. Since the beginning of the war, the Israeli air force claims to have bombed 22,000 ‘terrorist’ targets: more than 300 a day, every day, in an area the size of Munich.
Corruption
San Francisco Chronicle – Appeals court upholds $86 million award to Livermore cancer survivors who sued Monsanto over Roundup
Monsanto could, as in the EU, cheat and lobby its way to government approval for its herbicide Round up, but courts in the US have looked at the facts and found Round Up to be […]
Finance
Ben Wray: Working With Delivery Platforms to Harass Migrants
Keir Starmer’s government is to provide firms like Uber Eats data on where asylum seekers are staying to help find out if they are working illegally as delivery riders. It’s a pathetic bid to get […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Production in January 2023: -1.6% year on year
Output rose 3.5 per cent in January from the previous month, although this mostly was a rebound from December’s fall. But DeStatis always selects the positive numbers. That is what happens when your paymaster is […]
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