Nero’s Guests

Chris Hedges

June 19, 2024

Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that is even more savage than that of apartheid South Africa.

 

Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7, 2023. (Ali Hamad, Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa for APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam

Alfred de Zayas

June 19, 2024

In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony. Placing a country in the US list of countries sponsors for terrorism is intended to lend some phony legitimacy to UCMs imposed against targeted States.

America's Notorious 'Cancer Alley' Is Even More Toxic Than We Thought

Naveena Sadasivam, Grist

June 11, 2024

Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The name stems from the fact that the area’s residents have a 95% greater chance of developing cancer than the average American. A big reason for this is the concentration of industrial facilities along the corridor — particularly petrochemical manufacturing plants, many of which emit ethylene oxide, an extremely potent toxin that is considered a carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency and has been linked to breast and lung cancers.

Exxon Mobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.