We're running short on time today, but three recent items caught our attention.

1, Biden's Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield seems to be conducting what journalist Jeremy Scahill calls a final "Shamelessness Tour." 

She vetoed numerous UN Security Council resolutions calling for ceasefires in Gaza, thus enabling Israel to carry out a deliberate policy of war through starvation. But she had the nerve to lecture a recent gathering on international "food insecurity."

"And let me be clear," she said, "every human being, everywhere, has a right to food..."

see  https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1866813988220310003

2. Since 2001,  nonprofit group called Airwars has been tracking deaths and other damage to civilians from aerial bombardment. Reporter Brett Wilkins notes that Airwars 

    "has meticulously and painstakingly documented civilian         casualties in            various campaigns of the U.S.-led so-        called War on Terror, Russia's            bombing of Ukraine         and Syria, Turkish attacks on Syria and Iraq, and         other     conflicts..."

They released a report very recently about the bombardment of Gaza by Israel after October 7, 2023...

The report concluded:

    "By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first         month of the     Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable         with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the                      most  intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians            that Airwars has ever documented."

See: https://www.commondreams.org/news/airwars-gaza

And: https://gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org/assets/Airwars%20Patterns%20of%20harm%20analysis%20-%20Gaza%20October%202023.pdf

3. You have to be some kind of psychopath (or is it sociopath) to be a high level player in the Empire. It's by no means confined to Linda Smith-Thomas or Joe Biden or Antony Blinken. Stephen Feinberg, Donald Trump's nominee for deputy Secretary of Defense, runs a private equity firm called Cerberus Capital Management. They have a subsidiary called Tier 1. Tier 1 "trained" some, maybe all, of the Saudi operatives who famously murdered journalist Jamal Kashoggi and then cut him into parts to smuggle his corpse out of the Saudi embassy.

As they say in mafia films, "hey it's all just business."

See:  https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/03/congress/trump-picks-billionaire-investor-pentagon-deputy-00192390

Also: https://theintercept.com/2021/06/24/khashoggi-trump-donor-saudi-arabia-tier-1/