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War Drum Conundrums: The Overkill Calamity 

In an attempt to make genocide look humanitarian, the Israeli government has been issuing press statements that it is attacking targets in Gaza and Lebanon only after issuing "evacuation warnings." 

The resulting flood of terrified civilians—in vans, on mule-drawn carts, and on foot—seems to suggest that the tactic is working—as though the human tide of fugitives is a sign of "war done right." 

But wait! At the same time that Netanyahu boasts of issuing evacuation warnings, he is also claiming that it is necessary to reduce urban neighborhoods to smoking rubble in order to kill the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists hiding among civilian homes and high-rises. If noncombatants die, it's because they are being used as "human shields." The use of the phrase "human shield" is an ingeniously evil turn-of-phrase that works to transform actual killers into "victims" who are "forced" to shoot innocent bystanders—be they men, women, children, or captive Israeli hostages. 

But wait! If the IDF is concerned about the body count of innocent civilians, why are their tactics designed to maximize "overkill"? 

As Al Jazeera reported on October 3: "When Israel struck an underground Hezbollah command centre in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh last Friday, killing its longtime [Hezbollah] Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, the damage to civilian life was huge. 

"Reportedly, Israeli jets dropped more than 80, 2000-pound 'bunker-busting' bombs that have a destruction radius of 35 meters (115 feet) on their target." The US-made bombs that killed Nasrallah also demolished six neighboring residential high-rises. 

But wait! If the IDF is dropping bombs on Gaza neighborhoods to kill villainous enemy troops and leaders, why would they be forfeiting the "element of surprise"? Wouldn't issuing "evacuation orders" give both innocent civilians and enemy targets an equal opportunity to flee to safer quarters? The claim of issuing actual evacuation orders would seem to be untenable. 

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And Here's to Barbara Dane, Who Fought Injustice Through Song 

Singer/activist Barbara Dane died on Sunday at her home in Oakland at the age of 97. 

According to the New York Times, "She established her bona fides as a folky of the first order while still in her teens, performing with Pete Seeger." 

Over the course of her long career, Dane "was one of the few white women to perform with Black male musicians in the 1950s and ’60s, including the blues luminaries Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins, the jazz pianist Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong." One of Dane's trademark songs was "I Hate the Capitalist System!" In a 1958 Time magazine interview, Armstrong offered a memorable tribute to Dane: “Did you get that chick? She’s a gasser!” 

According to the Times, "Ms. Dane chose to terminate her life under California’s End of Life Option Act." 

She left her life as she lived it: On her own terms.
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