Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp interviews Khalil Sayegh about the plight of the Palestinian Christian community in Gaza. Sayegh, a Christian from Gaza, shares his personal experience, including the loss his family has suffered in this horrific conflict. He also discusses the situation for Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and the broader context of the Israeli occupation.
Nolan’s Oppenheimer Emerged One Year Ago: But What About First A-Bomb Movie?
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s substack Between Rock and a Hard Place.
On this weekend exactly one year ago, I was invited with a few dozen others to the first screening in New York City of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie Oppenheimer. Nolan sat on a panel afterward and later socialized in the lobby of the mini-theater (in the basement of a midtown hotel). I had just launched my newsletter devoted to the movie, the issues raised and ignored in it, and Oppenheimer and his legacy (this sibling Substack is still going, where you can subscribe for free). Here is a piece I wrote back then published elsewhere, at Mother Jones. It is adapted from my book on the horrific first Hollywood movie on the making and use of the atomic bomb.
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Conflicts of Interest: Netanyahu Fears Getting Arrested for War Crimes
On COI #634, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the NATO summit and Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
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Conflicts of Interest: American-Made F-16s Are Headed to Ukraine
On COI #633, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and Israel.
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Uproar Over Detention of Prominent French Scholar for Gaza Solidarity Posts
Academic freedom defenders around the world are rallying around a renowned French political scientist and Arabist who was detained by police Tuesday after voicing “respect and appreciation” for the militant Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
François Burgat, the 75-year-old research director emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research, was taken into custody Tuesday morning in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence as part of an investigation into “apology for terrorism,” his lawyer Rafik Chekkat said on social media.
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American Committee for US-Russia Accord Statement on NATO’s Washington Summit
NATO will mark its 75th year at a three day summit in Washington this week. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is scheduled to attend the proceedings, during which the alliance is expected to offer, in lieu of membership, what has been described by Biden administration officials as a “Bridge to NATO.”
In other words, a promise of accession, not unlike the one proffered by the alliance 16 years ago at the NATO summit in Bucharest.
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