cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4692590

>>"Today I speak to a friend serving as a doctor serving in the European Gaza Hospital as IDF bombing nears closer and closer to his hospital and find out what it's been like to be a doctor on the ground during this war."

>"The moment the Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades handed over the fifth batch of Isr*eli female detainees"

>Update on US-backed fighting in Southeast Asia's Myanmar...

>- Myanmar's military ousted a US-installed government in 2021, the US has backed armed militancy and terrorism across Myanmar ever since;

>- Fighting has see-sawed, but has done so for decades as the US and British have backed armed ethnic groups since Myanmar gained independence following World War 2;

>- The US has built parallel institutions both inside and beyond Myanmar's borders to politically capture and compromise the nation;

>- US-backed militants have relied on public relations stunts including symbolic drone and rocket strikes on the capital and the temporary capture of frontier towns where government forces are spread thinnest;

>- The conflict is ultimately part of a wider agenda of encircling and containing China;

>- China's Belt and Road Initiative runs through Myanmar and has been repeatedly attacked by US-backed militant groups;

>- The conflict is just one part of a wider global conflict the US is waging in order to reassert its unipolar "international order;"

>"143 countries, representing the vast majority of the world, voted at the UN General Assembly to support giving Palestine full membership. They were opposed by the US, "Israel", and seven other small states, representing just 5% of the global population. Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitics."

>"While visiting Serbia, China's President Xi Jinping condemned the US and NATO for bombing Beijing's embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1999. Ben Norton discusses why Washington launched the attack, and lied about it. Then Ben analyzes China-Serbia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative."

>"US Senators sent a letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, threatening to impose sanctions and even invade the Hague if it issues arrest warrants for “Israel's” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration is also pressuring the ICC not to charge Israeli officials over their war crimes in Gaza. Ben Norton discusses Washington's deep hypocrisy."

>“China is reducing its holdings of US Treasury securities. Instead, the People's Bank of China is buying gold, and Beijing prioritizes imports of important commodities like oil and metals. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical impact of de-dollarization in the world's largest economy.”

>“Japan's currency the yen has fallen significantly against the dollar. It its economy in crisis? What is the role of US interest rates, inflation, debt, and deficits? What about China? Ben Norton explains the complex geoeconomic situation.”

>"Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance forces, have been fiercely confronting the “Israeli” army along its southern border in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. But while there have been tit-for-tat exchanges of fire, “Israel” ultimately does not want another war with Lebanon because they know Hezbollah is capable of defeating them. Ali Mortada, a South Lebanon-based journalist and host for Al-Mayadeen network, whose two colleagues were assassinated by “Israel” in December, explains why “Israel” cannot win: "They have been trying to kill us for 76 years now and we are still here and we are still fighting.""

>“US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war, aimed at protecting Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley.”