2024-12-25: News Headlines

newarab (2024-12-25). London wall illuminates Covid's enduring pain at Christmas. newarab.com UK families of some As the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic approaches, emotions still run raw across the UK amid lingering accusations that the then government responded too slowly to the crisis. | Thousands of hearts have been

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2024-12-25). How Fascism Came. popularresistance.org President-elect Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism. He heralds the collapse of the veneer that masked the corruption within the ruling class and their pretense of democracy. He is the symptom, not the disease. The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. Deindustrialization, deregulation, austerity, unchecked predatory corporations, including the health-care industry, wholesale surveillance of every American, social inequality, an electoral system that is plagued by legalized bribery, endless and futile wars, the largest prison po…

newarab (2024-12-24). Mossad reveals details of Lebanon pager attacks in US interview. newarab.com Two recently retired senior The agents spoke with the US' CBS "60 Minutes" in a segment aired on Sunday night. They wore masks and spoke with altered voices to conceal their identit…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-12-24). Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group. counterpunch.org The NSO Group, Israel's darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn from that busiest of cyber outfits in the Israeli Defense Forces known as Unit 8200. Niv Carmi, Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, have certainly made an impression since they founded their technology company in 2010. The

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