Late last year, the Defense Department also issued its long-awaited “Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response,” which established the Pentagon’s “policies, responsibilities, and procedures for mitigating and responding to civilian harm.” The document, mandated under the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, and approved by Austin, directs the military to “acknowledge civilian harm resulting from U.S. military operations and respond to individuals and communities affected by U.S. military operations,” including “expressing condolences” and providing ex gratia payments to next of kin.
But despite $15 million allocated by Congress since 2020 to provide just such payments and despite members of Congress repeatedlycalling on the Pentagon to make amends for civilian harm, it has announced just one such payment in the years since.
In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs
and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.
This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have
them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons
of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every
means, including, of course, violence.
Harvard's grad students are with the UAW. The tension between faculty and admin boiling over could become a much bigger thing, with the UAW also organising grad students across the country. At least at my university the bulk of the courseload falls onto the grad students outside of lectures.
Because the [13] students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time. In coming to this determination, we note that the express provisions of the Harvard College Student Handbook state that students who are not in good standing are not eligible for degrees. We also considered the inequity of exempting a particular group of students who are not in good standing from established rules, while other seniors with similar status for matters unrelated to Monday’s faculty amendment would be unable to graduate.
Okay so, if this was your reason, why not have come forward about these than specifically targeting the group of people based on what side of an international conflict they picked?
If I understand it correctly, the 13 are not in good standing solely because they participated in the protests. So they are very much being penalised for their participation and nothing else.
I know this is an opinion piece but it kinda smells like propaganda. Of course paying for civilian casualty claims is dwarfed in cost by the entire military industrial complex. Truthout is also rated as extreme left as it gets with “mixed” factual reporting.
Please stop submitting antisemitic posts. It is fine that Israel is torturing these "people" because the Holocaust happened. Any critique of Israel is because you hate Jews. /s
Sarcasm clearly, but from a right-wing perspective everything that is going on in Israel is fantastic. The world is seeing that the Jewish state is a child-devouring monster. Not that it matters to conservatives, the bigger picture is that more people will dislike Jews, and hard right wingers are happy about this. Israel, driven by hate, is playing right into their hands and showing that they are the monsters that conspiracy theorists have rambled incoherently about for years.
In short, while this isn't antisemitism I have no doubt that antisemitism will rise in response to Israel's genocide.
I (unfortunately) have to agree. There's a risk that the (far right-wing) Netanyahu government is harming Israel politically in the long run, and right-wing extremists will try to take advantage of that. It's right-wingers against right-wingers.
The fact that many Israeli people and even some politicians (Israeli minister Benny Gantz openly threatens Netanyahu to leave the government over the PM's Gaza policy, for example) oppose their own government doesn't appear to matter, at least for now. People like Netanyahu or Ben-Gvir rule the country, and they are heading in the wrong direction.
I hope that changes, however, as politicians around the globe seem to reconsider their stance over the region. In Europe, Norway, Spain, and Ireland announced their recognition of a Palestinian state as of May 28.
It's so easy to forget that the colonial empires of France, UK, US, etc. live on to this day. In The Wretched of the Earth, psychiatrist Frantz Fanon recounts treating a French policeman in Algeria during the Algerian fight for independence from French colonial rule circa 1962:
"Sometimes," he went on to explain, "you feel like telling them that if they had any consideration for us, they'd cough up and not force us to spend hours on end squeezing the information out of them word by word. But you might as well talk to the wall. Every question gets the answer: 'I don't know.' Even when we ask for their names. If we ask them where they live, they answer, 'I don't know.' So of course we had to give them the works. But they scream too much. At first it made me laugh. But then it began to unnerve me. Today I can tell just which stage the interrogation has reached by the sound of the screams. The guy who has been punched twice and given a blow behind the ear has a certain way of talking, screaming, and saying that he is innocent. After he has been hanging by his wrists for two hours, his voice changes. After the bathtub, a different voice. And so on. But it's after the electricity that it becomes unbearable. You'd think he was going to die at any moment. Of course there are those who don't scream: those are the hardliners. But they imagine we are going to kill them immediately. But we're not interested in killing them. What we want is information. We first try and get them to scream, and sooner or later they give in. That's already a victory. Then we continue. Mind you, we'd prefer not to. But they don't make things easy for us. Now I can hear those screams even at home. Especially the screams of the ones who died at the police headquarters.
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