A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw "utterly convincing" evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict.
…In the book, Filiu describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting aid convoys. These permitted looters to seize huge quantities of food and other supplies destined for desperately needy Palestinians, he writes. Famine threatened parts of Gaza at the time, according to international humanitarian agencies…
…Surrendering 99 percent of your antiquities purchases because they were most probably looted makes it seem more like you went on a crime spree instead of just a shopping spree, no?…
As hundreds of thousands take to the streets to protest ruthless police killings of Black Americans and centuries of systemic racism, and Donald Trump and his enablers cast the protesters as violent “looters," former Labor Secretary Robert Reich exposes the real looters in America: Wall Street bankers in designer suits and corporate executives in lofty boardrooms.
While more than 10,000 people have already been arrested during the Black Lives Matter uprising, only 1 Wall Street banker was jailed for fraud after the 2008 financial crash, despite causing American households to lose a combined $19 trillion in wealth.
Today, even in the midst of a global pandemic, America's billionaires have seen their wealth soar by $434 billion — thanks to the bailouts and tax breaks they lobbied for.
The looting doesn't stop there: just think of the epidemic of wage theft in America — with employers stealing a combined $15 billion in income from their workers every year. Not to mention multibillion-dollar companies not paying a single dime in federal taxes, and predatory payday lenders that target communities of color and trap borrowers in a cycle of never-ending poverty.
This needs to end. .... https://youtu.be/42yF_ydXMXY
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