GUEST: Larry Wittner, American author and historian

[Frederick Nagel]

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Larry Wittner, American author and historian who has written extensively on peace movements, foreign policy, and economic inequality, talks about how this age of billionaires paves the way for fascism.
https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/profile

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Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine. News that the people in charge, the corporations and your government want to keep from the public eye.

Common Dreams:
"US-Israeli Bombs Strike ‘The Fourth School in 6 Days’ in Iran: Report: 'There are straight lines between what Israel has attempted to do… in Gaza, to completely decimate and collapse the systems that existed there, to what we are seeing in Iran,' said one expert.

US and Israeli missiles have hit a school in Iran for the fourth time in six days, according to videos shared on social media by a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), at least 192 children have been killed across the Middle East since the US and Israel launched a regime change war this past Saturday.

Most of them were girls ages 7-12 who were killed on Saturday during an attack at a girls’ school in the southern Iranian town of Minab. At least 175 people were reported to have been killed in the attack, which unnamed officials have said was 'likely' carried out by the United States, according to Reuters. HuffPost reported that Pentagon officials have briefed Congress that the US 'was most likely responsible.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fourth-iran-school-bombed

-->The NYT has a different take. It puts forth a narrative of confusing the building to a nearby navel base. For all our grand technology, do we have to keep slaughtering school children? These are crimes against humanity, and the rest of the world knows it.

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Common Dreams:
" ‘Beyond Evil’: Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike. 'The second bomb hit,' said one paramedic. 'Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.'

As the US and Israel continued to wage war on Iran Wednesday, paramedics and victims’ relatives said last weekend’s bombing of an elementary school in southern Iran was a so-called 'double-tap' airstrike—a common tactic used by US, Israeli, and Russian forces by which attackers bomb a target and then follow up with a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders. Iranian officials said that around 175 people—most of them young children—were killed when the girls’ elementary school in Minab was hit Saturday by what they said was a US-Israeli attack.

'When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,' said one of two Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) paramedics who spoke to Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

'The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children,' the paramedic added. 'But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived... Some parents recognized their children only because of the gold bracelets they were wearing.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-school-double-tap

-->Was it a double strike, a type of attack that waits for medics and families to gather around before they are all blown up? Israel has been using that tactic in Gaza, where it was given its proper name: "crimes against humanity."

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Common Dreams:
"Outspoken Pro-Palestinian Pastor Wins Primary to Replace Crockett in House
A group that tracks pro-Israel lobbying said his victory 'proves that the AIPAC era is over.' A pro-Palestine pastor has won the Democratic primary to fill the House seat in Texas that will be left behind by the pro-Israel Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who was a congregant at his church for years.

Frederick Haynes III, who has led the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas for more than 40 years and was chosen by the late Rev. Jesse Jackson to lead his famed Rainbow PUSH coalition, won the primary for the seat now held by the two-term congresswoman with 72% of the vote.

But where Crockett has faced heat from the Democratic base over her statements and votes in support of Israel amid its genocide in Gaza and her backing by pro-Israel megadonors, Haynes’s credibility was bolstered by his willingness to call out Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians when few other Democrats would."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/haynes-wins-crockett-seat

-->The NYT story omitted Crockett's pro-Israel megadonors. Support of Israel probably cost her the election. Will it ever come down to challenging candidates who are fed bribes by AIPAC? You have to read alternative news sources like Common Dreams to get the full story.