And Albanese treats US mafia intimidation with contempt it deserves
Human rights expert and former United Nations director Craig Mokhiber has slammed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to impose sanctions on the UN’s top official for human rights in Palestine Francesca Albanese as ‘lawless’ and ‘vile’ – and a naked attempt to obstruct international law and the protection of human rights.
In a truly Orwellian announcement, Rubio had attacked Albanese, for carrying out her legal obligations under her UN mandate as Special Rapporteur, as “illegitimate and shameful” – Rubio is clearly outraged at the prospect of himself, other US government officials and the host of war criminals running Israel being held to the same standards as the rest of the world:
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives. Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense. The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare and protect our sovereignty and that of our allies.
Mokhiber responded directly to Rubio’s ‘X’ post of the announcement – and warned Rubio of his likely future, certain if there is to be any justice, on trial for his crimes domestically and internationally:
He later added, in a separate thread that the US is in clear breach of its legal obligations and called on the UN and all member states to face down the gangster Trump regime:
Albanese, for her part, did not deign to respond directly to Rubio’s mafia tactics. Instead, she quoted a post by Jewish international lawyer Itay Epshtain, in which he condemned the US for its thuggish attempts to bully the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its member states to stop – and she referred to her pride in Italy’s legal tradition and her determination to continue doing her job no matter what tactics the thugs use:
The members, or ‘States Parties’, of the ICC are debating an amendment to ensure that Israel’s previous tactics of attempting to avoid prosecution by claiming it is not subject to the court’s jurisdiction are dead in the water before they even try to present the false claim:
Other commenters on Rubio’s original post pointed out that Rubio has taken huge amounts of cash from the US Israel lobby – and that he and his boss have just lifted sanctions on the ISIS/al-Qaeda terrorist now running Syria:
But UK PM Keir Starmer and his lackeys have said not one word to even mention the US war on international law and its representatives, much less to condemn it, while they continue to wage their own war on anti-genocide journalism, protest, speech and activism to protect genocidal Israel as it murders hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians and tries to starve and bomb the survivors out of Gaza or out of existence.
The US is a rogue state protecting Israel, another rogue state. The world should be thankful for those who have the courage and morals to refuse to be intimidated by the Trump-Netanyahu mafia.
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As I keep saying. 99% of the problems facing the planet today can be traced directly back to ‘murrica.
Of the remaining 1% of the world’s problems 90% of that is taken up by zionist israel.
99.9% of problems, from just two countries.
Both less than 250 years old. Both with population majorities made up of the scum of europe. Both with their sense of entitlement and superiority. Both with their warmongering, genocidal history towards the natives.
Im in no doubt that the place’d be far better off today had both never existed.
Top comment, Toffee.
“Both less than 250 years old. Both with population majorities made up of the scum of europe. Both with their sense of entitlement and superiority. Both with their warmongering, genocidal history towards the natives”.
Absolutely nailed it!
Remember folks … These (America and Israel) are universally proclaimed as our allies by our captured politicians. If it wasn’t so sick it would be laughable. And our governments, especially the “Labour” government run by Starmer and his henchmen, give them every support possible against the proclaimed wishes of the vast majority of the population! Democracy? Never in a million years. If I could have one wish, it would be that they were all on trial at the Hague, desperately trying to save their own skin, knowing that their inevitable failure to do so was (a) just and (b) fully deserved.
Great vid with GG interviewing Judge Andrew Napolitano, well worth checking out, posted 18 hours ago:
INTERVIEW: ‘Client’ Trump and the Epstein Files
‘I think Trump’s name is on the list’ – the one that allegedly doesn’t exist – ‘and Mossad knows it.’ Judge Napolitano on rock bottom Trump with subterranea still to come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EaTOl2uO1o (18mins 43secs)
Careful now, Winteringham.
Those tax-evading, carpetbagging war profiteers, westminster careerist parasites and chinless wonders, along with their clients from the dead tree press, and wailing wireless lackeys will be questioning your loyalty…
Not that a single one if them or fheir issue would be sent out to fight. Not that a single one of their issue will ever be condemned to a life of drudgery, working all hours for a fucking pittance.
Not that any of their issue will ever be up to their arms in someone else’s piss, shit, puke, snot, ichor etc in some a&e dept in a large city, nor ever even have to wait 18 months for a doctors appointment.
Not that one of their isssue will be found dead in their squalid flat, 6 months after their deaths because they couldn’t afford to heat it and eat.
…“Serves the lazy, feckless bastards right”. The murdochs will trumpet.
…But when one of theirs is found dead because of a massive drugs overdose funded by a life of fraud, it’ll be a fucking Greek tragedy in the daily heil.
Rant over.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UXITQ-Zjnps
Just two days after we sat down with Francesca Albanese, the Trump Administration placed her under sanctions.
They accuse the UN Special Rapporteur of waging “economic warfare” on the United States. She says the sanctions are “mafia style intimidation techniques” and vows to continue her work to remind states of their obligations to “stop and punish genocide. And those who profit from it.”
So why has the US taken such a drastic move? That has a lot to do with a scathing report Albanese just published, titled the “economy of genocide”.
In it, she accuses more than 60 corporations of “sustaining and profiting off of Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide.”
Some of these companies include Google, Amazon, Hyundai Booking.com and the bank Barclays.
This week on the Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with Francesca Albanese to talk about what her explosive report exposes about the world’s richest companies, and how the rest of us are implicated in a system that exploits the pain of Palestinians for the sake of profit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H2UX5wIb3RE&t=319s
Francesca Albanese hits back at Trump sanctions over UN report
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf
Human Rights Council
Fifty-ninth session
16 June–11 July 2025
Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,
Francesca Albanese*
, **
Summary
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 investigates the corporate machinery sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and Governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now genocide. The complicity exposed by the report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the genocide and dismantle the
global system that has allowed it.
* The present report was submitted to the conference services for processing after the deadline so as to
include the most recent information.
** The annex to the present document is reproduced as received, in the language of submission only.
A/HRC/59/23
Advance edited version Distr.: General
30 June 2025
Original: English
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