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The American Empire: What is in a name?

When I write about American foreign policy, I never refer to America or to the United States, but rather always use the term “American Empire” or simply “the Empire”. I suspect many readers find this to be uncomfortable or even offensive terminology. Once upon a time, when writing I would use the term “we” or “our” when referring to the behavior of “our” government towards other nations. But as “our” government became more obnoxious and aggressive, I could no longer take any ownership to that behavior. I could no longer use pronouns indicating possession as I reject this behavior. For example, the coup in Ukraine in 2014 could not be described as something that “we” did, when “we” indicates that the American people and myself were supportive of that action.

Growing Up Means Claiming Your Own Mind

Dig, ponder, dig some more.

A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories but profound moments of awareness; flickers, you might say, of becoming who I am. I was 77 at the time. Now I’m . . . oh yeah, 78. Can you believe it? Another year is almost over. Holiday season shimmers, the smell of pine is in the air. It’s Christmas: a perfect time to open, once again, the stocking known as memory.

Who Let The Flying Dogs Out?

An Appeal to Biden to Free LEONARD PELTIER; MLK Day Coming; Back to the Founders

TATANKA BRICCA opens with a report on LEONARD PELTIER and the desperate need to get him out of prison alive.
Petition: https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier

MYLA RESON follows up with a key point of information on how, hopefully, to do that.

Our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives our GREEP Zoom #204 a perfect opening poem.

MIKE HERSH hearkens back to the formation of the US republic with a warning on the horrors of fascism.

DAVID SALTMAN explains Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, banning insurrectionists from holding public office.

From western Massachusetts, ANNA GYORGY reminds us (https://www.traprock.org) that Inauguration Day, 2025, (Jan. 18 event Poster at bottom) will be Martin Luther King Day.

BARBARA HARRISON adds a plea to fight for democracy

MELISSA HALL asks about calling the White House to help free Leonard.

CATHERINE STEARNS lets us in on resistance organizations in Oregon….including the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

It’s Time for another Christmas Truce: Ceasefire Now!

Details about event

At Christmas during World War I, soldiers spontaneously laid down their arms during the historic Christmas Truce, cau

Eugenics – “It was the rage of the age”

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long
Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long
Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.”
The book, by Mark A. Torres, an attorney as well as an author, will be released by The
History Press on January 21st. Torres also wrote the 2021 book “Long Island Migrant Labor
Camps: Dust for Blood,” an examination of the plight of migrant farmworkers on Long Island,
published, too, by The History Press.
Torres is general counsel of Teamsters Local 810, a union that covers Long Island, and as
an attorney has long specialized in labor and employment law in federal and state courts. He is
also a professor at Hofstra University.
As an author, he excels at in-depth research. Earlier this year the Association of Public
Historians of New York awarded Torres its Joseph F. Meany Award (named for former New York
State Historian Joseph F. Meany, Jr.) for his book on migrant farmworker camps on Long Island.

Giggity Entendre

The West Bank's Men of the CIA - Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin?

Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. 

 The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by the Israeli occupation forces in their routine attacks on the area. 

 The camp, which is a mere half a square kilometer in size, hosts an ever-growing population of 24 thousand refugees, mostly the descendants of Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias during the great catastrophe, or Nakba, of 1948. 

Free Speech: For Nazis, not you

OSU student enampment

At the Ohio Statehouse December 17, a gathering of Pro-Palestine advocates demonstrated against the codifying of the IHRA (International Holocaust Reembrance Alliance) definitions in the Ohio Revised Code. The IHRA definition states that to criticize the State of Israel for its actions in the genocidal murdering of over 45,000 people or its decades of apartheid, is an act of anti-semitism. 

A second point on the definition is that “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” is also an act of anti-semitism. If criticizing Israel is anti-semetic, then by conflating the global jewish population with Israel, the definition itself is anti-semetic and therefore self-contradictory. The only way out of this quagmire of blind accusation of hate is to do what many politicians in the west have done, deny the reality of what Israel is doing, eradicating a people and their culture from the face of the planet.

Palestinian Christians are having unmerry Christmas

I hope this letter finds you well. Although we come from different cultures and traditions, I have always admired the spirit of giving and kindness that you represent.
 
As a Palestinian Muslim living in the good old USA, I do not celebrate Christmas. However, I am writing to you on behalf of the approximately 3,000 Christian Palestinians living in Gaza. 
 
Given that over 51% of the population is under the age of 15. Among those people are solid 3,000 Christians also. Statistically speaking, there should be about 1,500 of their Christian children who will have unmerry Christmas this year for lack of basic necessities to survive such as food, water, fuel, and medicine.
 
The children in Gaza face unimaginable pain and suffering. Many lack basic necessities like food, water, and medicine. They live in constant fear, unsure if they will see another day. Over 50,000 children have lost one or both limbs, making Gaza home to the highest number of amputees in the world.

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