by John Konrad (gCaptain) The Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest and most strategically vital waterways, has become so hazardous that even the German Navy is steering clear. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’s decision to redirect the frigate Baden-Württemberg and support vessel Frankfurt am Main around the Cape of Good Hope on their return from an Indo-Pacific deployment speaks volumes. The Red Sea is now deemed too perilous, underscoring just how ineffective current U.S. and EU naval protections are in this region.
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The broader question is even more stark: If NATO cannot send warships to face the Houthis, how will it possibly survive in a war against a larger adversary like China?
Red Sea Is Now So Dangerous Even NATO Warships Are Avoiding It
Tag: Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Journalist Ramzy Baroud Mourns His Sister Killed Today By Israeli Bombs
Early this evening, Israel killed, or more accurately assassinated, my sister Dr. Soma Baroud, by bombing her taxi in the Khan Yunis area, killing her and six other innocent people.
Journalist Ramzy Baroud Mourns His Sister Killed Today By Israeli Bombs
September 1, 2024:
‘Houses Have Souls’ – A Gazan Doctor and Her Son Reflect on the Loss of a Father, and a Home
What separates the pro-Palestinian ‘Uncommitted’ and ‘Abandon Harris’ movements?
Uncommitted tied itself to the Democrats. Abandon Harris is looking for a new path to stop unconditional support for Israel
What separates the pro-Palestinian ‘Uncommitted’ and ‘Abandon Harris’ movements?
Houthis undeterred despite US action to protect Red Sea shipping
August 08, 2024, Voice of America —
U.S.-led efforts to thwart attacks on international shipping by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen are nothing more than a “shock absorber” and are unlikely to lead to stability or safer seas, according to a senior U.S. commander.
Houthis undeterred despite US action to protect Red Sea shipping
I have an idea, end the slaughter in Gaza!
Aides in Congress Create Dissent Channel to Protest Support for Israel
An anonymous group of junior staff members has modeled its effort on an internal State Department messaging system, hoping to create an outlet for calls for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza.
Aides in Congress Create Dissent Channel to Protest Support for Israel
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Türkiye blocks Instagram after Hamas ‘censorship’ claims
Turkiye has blocked access to Instagram for the estimated 50 million of its citizens with accounts on the image sharing platform, for failing to comply with the country’s “laws and rules,” a government minister said.
Israel is now killing Palestinians in Gaza by starvation–media downplaying this are complicit in these preventable deaths.
March 10, 2024, RT.com
*(blog title updated from original published; blog version slightly longer)
-Eva Karene Bartlett
Following the February 29 Israeli slaughter of at least 115 starving Palestinians lined up for food aid, there was little or no outrage by the same Western media which would have howled if the perpetrator were Russia or Syria.
Trump’s ear injury grabs more headlines than murder of 90 Palestinians in Gaza
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, days ahead of his confirmation as the Republican presidential nominee for the third time, Donald Trump survived what appeared to be an assassination bid.
Trump’s ear injury grabs more headlines than murder of 90 Palestinians in Gaza
On the Record with Hamas
The past nine months of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza have spurred an unprecedented global awakening to the plight of the Palestinian people. At no point in the 76 years since the formation of the state of Israel and the unleashing of the Nakba has there been such sustained and open anger at Israel and such widespread solidarity with the Palestinians. The massive demonstrations in cities across the globe, the severing of diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, the recalling of ambassadors, rulings from world courts against Israel, and mounting demands for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state—none of this would have taken place without the impetus of Hamas’s armed insurrection on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war of annihilation in Gaza.
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