GUEST: Sara Leah Whitson, former director of the Middle East and North African Human Rights Watch

[Frederick Nagel]

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Sara Leah Whitson, former director of the Middle East and North African Human Rights Watch, and current executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), talks about her new book on bringing peace to Palestine.
https://dawnmena.org/from-apartheid-to-democracy/

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Fred
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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.

The New York Times:
"The Rev. Numa Molina wields unusual power for a parish priest in a working-class commuter town near the Caribbean coast. The Venezuelan Jesuit is on a first-name basis with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. He conducts private Masses for Mr. Maduro’s family and advises his son, a ruling party lawmaker, on his outreach to the Roman Catholic Church, Venezuela’s dominant faith. ...

During his workweek, Father Molina traverses Venezuela with armed bodyguards in a white pickup truck with tinted windows, hosts a weekly television program and provides aid to poor Venezuelans.

Father Molina was an early backer of Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, who won a landslide victory in 1998 on a promise of redistributing Venezuela’s oil wealth. His support of the country’s ostensibly socialist government have led detractors to label him the 'Communist Priest.' ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/world/americas/numa-molina-maduro-catholic-church.html

-->Why, this is a story that has something good to say about Maduro and Hugo Chavez! After all these years of warmongering, The NYT casts doubts on a possible US military invasion. Is this the analysis of the Pentagon, which views such an attack as foolhardy and unwinnable? It is hard to tell, but something has changed in the ruling class.

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Common Dreams:
"Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers, and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. ...

With the 'narcoterrorism' accusations against Maduro and associates, Western journalists absolve US officials of the burden of proof (New York Times, 11/4/25; Financial Times, 10/6/25; Wall Street Journal, 11/5/25). There has never been any public evidence about Maduro, or other high-ranking Venezuelan officials indicted by the US, being involved in drug trafficking via the Cartel of the Suns, while a leaked US intelligence memo rejected the notion of government ties to Tren de Aragua. ...

True to form (FAIR.org, 2/9/17, 4/13/18, 7/3/20), many liberal establishment outlets have been more bellicose than the US president they have occasionally chided for murdering scores of civilians in the Caribbean (The Hill, 10/30/25; Foreign Policy, 11/7/25). The New York Times’ Bret Stephens (1/14/25, 10/10/25, 11/17/25) has advocated for a regime-changing military intervention for months (FAIR.org, 2/12/25). Quite tellingly, Stephens does not regret supporting the Iraq War (New York Times, 3/21/23)."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

-->Yes, the US media has been warmongering all along, cheerleading the grand entrance of US troops into yet another quagmire. Endless wars depend on our national media to champion war crimes.

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Aljazeera:
"At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says. Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl who was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier, as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave. 'This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,' Pires told reporters of the death toll since October 11, the first full day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.

'As we have repeated many times, these are not statistics: Each was a child with a family, a dream, a life – suddenly cut short by continued violence.' Palestinian children have borne the brunt of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with UNICEF estimating last month that 64,000 children have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/at-least-67-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-began-un

-->Is our media just sick of reporting Israel's war crimes? Leave it to Aljazeera to give US citizens a truer picture of the devastation and destruction of the Palestinian people.