March 1, 2024

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Tossed-Aside Headlines

1. Palestine Update: Israel massacred at least 112 civilians queuing for flour near Gaza City. Children in the strip “are starving at the fastest rate that the world has ever known.” Palestinian Resistance’s defence in Jenin (West Bank) forced an Israeli retreat. Israel bombed residential areas of Syria and Lebanon. Hamas and Israel both denied Biden’s claim that a ceasefire is “close.” Western airstrikes on Yemen have led Ansar Allah to intensify its blockade of the Red Sea. Stuart Seldowitz, the halal food cart harasser and Obama’s ex-advisor, sits on the board of ZAKA, the atrocity propaganda group.

2. Kenya will send 1,000 policemen to Haiti under the pretext of “battling gangs” in a Western-funded mission to aid the unelected, Western-picked President Ariel Henry, who has ignored his own self-imposed deadline for elections. Meanwhile, declassified documents reveal the US’s role in freeing gangsters from jail, which led to the second Western-led coup against the democratically elected president Bertrand Aristide in 2004.

3. Ukraine Update: Russian troops attempt to gain as much ground West of Avdiivka before Ukraine sets a stable defensive line. After its summer counter-offensive failure, Ukraine changed “from an offensive to a defensive operation.

4. Fighting in eastern DRC has forced 15,000 Congolese to flee into Uganda since the start of the year. The UN expects another 35,000 to do the same by the end 2024.

5. An Informed Leftist analysis found that Canada’s bourgeois press conducted a media blackout on the country’s covert approval of CA$28.5 million in military exports to Israel since Oct 7. 

Non-Taught History

In 2004, the US, Canada and France overthrew Haiti’s democratically elected president—with the help of companies like Hanes, Levi’s and Fruit of the Loom—to block a minimum wage increase to US$0.62 per hour, among other progressive policies.

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