February 15, 2024

Informed Leftist

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Tossed-Aside Headlines

Israel continues its US-approved terror on Palestinians (28,956+ killed since Oct. 7), bombing the Israeli-designated “safe zone” Rafah refugee camp (67 killed) in preparation for its touted ground invasion there, besieging (21 killed) then storming (1 killed) Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and conducting raids across the West Bank, as reports of Egypt preparing a walled-in isolated “buffer zone” in the Sinai Desert emerge.

A six-party alliance takes shape in the Pakistani parliament following egregious election fraud designed to keep the banned PTI party and its jailed leader Imran Khan out. Large protests have erupted, which included the shutting down of the city of Quetta.

Israeli officials testify that their country is “unprepared” for a full-scale invasion by Hezbollah. The 130-page report, signed by 100 Israeli senior military and government officials, emerges as Israel and Hezbollah intensify their bombing campaigns against each other.

Russia’s extradition request for Nazi celebrated in Ottawa last September was denied. Canadian authorities cited the absence of an extradition treaty to protect the SS Waffen volunteer veteran Jaroslav Hunka from prosecution of war crimes.

Indonesia’s corrupt government paves the way for Prabowo in upcoming election. The candidate, current Minister of Defence, was a military general under dictator Suharto, the dictator who committed genocide in East Timor.

 

Non-Taught History

The US-backed and funded East Timor Genocide was waged by the Indonesian dictatorship of Suharto when it invaded the Portuguese colony of East Timor, on the island of Timor, south of Indonesia, under the guise of a “pacification campaign,” killing an estimated 300,000 from 1975 to 1999 (though most of the killing happened in the first half of the occupation).

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