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How Grassroots Organizing & Election Protection Will Define Saving Our Democracy

The hoopla surrounding Kamela Harris needs a cold dose of grassroots/election protection reality.  Amidst a prevailing aura of certain victory, Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election by 3 million votes.  But we still wound up with Donald Trump in the White House.

If that history repeats itself, we will never, as Trump promises, “need to vote again.”

So whatever her policy shortcomings---and there are many---Kamala Harris cannot win a 2024 election that is not conducted primarily with hand-marked and digitally scanned paper ballots…many millions of which must be sent out and back by a United States Postal Service that desperately needs a new boss.    

A Trump defeat also can’t happen without a massive grassroots campaign whose progressive donations will fund tens of thousands of dedicated organizers working at the local level, with community democracy centers and door-to-door relational campaigning.  To win, this kind of campaigning must divert much of the money the Democrats would otherwise squander on media buys.  

A Moment of Pride at the 2024 Paris Olympics

"We bow with respect and appreciation to the Tajik champion Nurali Emomali for refusing to shake hands with an 'Israeli' player whose hands may be stained with the blood of innocent victims in Gaza." It was a moment of pride at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
 
Some media outlets and social networking sites reported the Emomali withdrawal and defended the Israeli champion of Soviet origin, Baruch Shmulov. The Tajik player won and then he shouted happily "Allahu Akbar" and refused to shake the hand of the Israeli player.
 
Emomali refused to do so because he knows that the opposing player is a representative of the state of genocide, racism and apartheid and represents the international war criminals of "Israel". 
 
The Tajik player's behavior angered "Israel's" friends who demanded that Murali Emomali be punished for his behavior. The issue of the Tajik cha

When ‘Prophets’ Become Memes: Rise and Fall of Benjamin Netanyahu

Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth. It was an expression of his desperation, if not defeat, on all fronts. 

 This is not new. For years, Netanyahu has served the role of a social media meme. During his United Nations General Assembly speech in September 2012, the Israeli leader displayed a bomb diagram to fan the flames for another Middle East war. 

The Smearing of Cori Bush for Being Truthful About the Gaza War

Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Congresswoman Cori Bush under a headline declaring that “anti-Israel comments make her unfit for reelection.” The piece appeared in the newspaper with the second-largest readership in Missouri, the Kansas City Star. Multimillion-dollar attacks on Bush followed.

 Bush’s opponent, county prosecutor Wesley Bell, “is now the number-one recipient of AIPAC cash this election cycle,” according to Justice Democrats. “Almost two-thirds of all his donations came from the anti-Palestinian, far-right megadonor-funded lobby group.” The Intercept reports that “AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, has gone on to spend a total of $7 million so far to oust Bush” in the Aug. 6 Democratic primary in her St. Louis area district.

‘Beijing Declaration’ on Palestine - Can Chinese Diplomacy Replace the US?

Chinese diplomacy has done it again. 

 By hosting a historic signing of a unity agreement between 14 Palestinian political parties in Beijing on July 23, China has, once more, shown its ability to play a global role as a peace broker. 

 For years, China has attempted to play a role in Middle East politics, particularly in the region's most enduring crisis, the Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

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