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  WATCH: The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein. A  new book by journalist  Antony Loewenstein ,  The Palestine Laboratory , (Scribe Publications) explores how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Presented in this video by journalist  Peter Cronau , Loewenstein’s co-editor at  Declassified Australia  and co-author of  A Secret Australia . Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected th

Annecy horror shows the disdain elites have for their own people CHRIS WALDBURGER When I lived in Switzerland, the French town of Annecy was just across the border, which was entirely open. Understandably so given the ties between France and Switzerland. Yesterday, a Syrian refugee, who had made his way to France from Sweden, stabbed four very young children in a playground in Annecy. I believe one of the children was Dutch and another was British. One child was stabbed in a stroller. All four are in hospital but are apparently in stable condition. I have written before on the surge of crime in European countries,  particularly Sweden , as borders remain open to the Middle East and Africa. This event should bring home the costs of attempting to continue the failed ‘experiment’ of multiculturalism in welfare states. Millions of people continue to surge into the US, Europe, and, of course, South Africa. Borders are open and there is no way of vetting who comes in. If you care to look, yo

A Tale of Three Cities Washington’s Hypocrisy on its “Rules Based International Order” PHILIP GIRALDI   One might actually be willing to consider that there might be some value in the “rules based international order” being promoted by the Joe Biden Administration if such a thing actually existed and was applied equally to all transgressors. Of course, in reality, the “rules” being referred to are neither agreed upon nor driven by any broad international consensus and are merely a trick that is exploited to further the interests of the United States and its closest allies. In fact, the “rules”, such as they are, are most frequently ignored to give a pass to the bad behavior being exhibited by the US and its friends. If the “rules” were actually intended to place limits on violent interactions among nations, consider for a moment the actual record of the United States in that regard. Recent opinion polls demonstrate that the US by a large margin is considered by other nations to be the