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Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago calls the war in Gaza « genocidal »

The Democratic National Convention which is taking place this week in Chicago has placed the city’s mayor Brandon Johnson in a national spotlight.  Johnson, a former schoolteacher and activist in the Chicago Teacher’s Union, has prepared the city not only for this week’s Convention but also for a week of protests focusing on the war in Gaza and the Biden administration’s continuing diplomatic, financial, and military support for the war.

16 August: Ceasefire?

By Mouin Rabbani : I’ve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldn’t be taken particularly seriously. Initially, their primary purpose was to serve as a fig leaf for Israel to continue with its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. In other words, their purpose is process, and their objective has therefore been to avoid reaching a ceasefire agreement rather than concluding one.