sexta-feira, 31 de maio de 2024

36 Case Reports of Cancers After Covid Vaccination

 


May 09, 2024

As I was collecting a new round of case reports for the compilation, I noticed a bunch mentioning cancers, which surprised me.

Cancers are probably pound for pound the least documented side effect of the genetic covid vaccines in the case report literature.

Firstly, the nexus between covid vaccines and cancer is inherently far murkier and harder to spot on an individual basis, for two reasons:

  1. On the whole, there’s going to be a substantial time gap between vaccination and clinical manifestation of the cancer

  2. Partly because of #1, and also because of the uncharted pathological territory for the novel mRNA platform, doctors are less likely to think there may be a connection between their patient’s cancer and vaccination.

Secondly, even if a doctor thinks that there might be a connection between some aspect of a cancer’s pathology and the patient’s covid vaccines, it is not the sort of thing that lends itself to being written up as a case report:

  1. Because of the time gap and lack of direct pathological evidence, it is intrinsically more speculative and less grounded in discrete evidence that you can identify, and so less likely to be written up as a case study

  2. The censorship regime, and the culture of golden calving the covid vaccines more generally, regards criticism of the covid vaccines with a very wary eye, something that is especially intense when it comes to the potential genotoxicity of the covid vaccines which is a very big deal.

Thus doctors and clinicians are less likely to even entertain a possible relationship between a cancer and the vaccination status of a covid patient, and much less submit a study with their name attached claiming the possibility of a covid vaccine-induced cancer.

Conversely, there is substantial evidence both anecdotally and in population and economic data that there is ongoing widespread excess cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality especially in highly vaccinated countries.

 

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1786115396870746541

There are also multiple well-grounded hypotheses for the mechanistic plausibility that the covid vaccines possess substantial oncogenicity, including the likelihood of reverse transcription of mRNA or contaminant DNA into cellular DNA, the interference of the spike protein with the P53 tumor suppression gene, and the dysregulation of critical TLR’s critical for cancer surveillance, among others.

(Both of these points I presume anyone reading this are already quite familiar with so we needn’t belabor the point further here.)

So I decided to check how many case reports were there that I could identify as documenting a cancer case possibly related to vaccination, which resulted in the list below:

  • 29 case reports that documented a cancer whose genesis and/or metastasis was potentially attributable at least in part to vaccination.

  • Seven additional case reports documented a cancer, but framed it as an incidental or background phenomenon. I included these because while it may be that these cancers were truly “with” vaccination and not “because” of vaccination (like the with/because of covid dichotomy that created hundreds of thousands of phantom covid deaths and millions of phantom cases), it may also very well be the case that these cancers were impacted by vaccination. The fact that the case report authors did not think so is immaterial, because of the widespread ignorance about the carcinogenic potential of the covid vaccines and that doctors are heavily biased to avoid drawing such a connection.

  • Three case reports I found documented benign tumors that were judged possibly attributable to a covid vaccine. These are significant because the ability to cause benign tumors - especially in light of the broader evidence base here - implies the potential to cause malignant tumors, plus benign tumors can sometimes turn malignant.

  • Finally, there are two case reports where the covid vaccine led to a spontaneous and unexpected regression of the cancer. Although superficially these case reports might seem to reflect favorably upon the covid vaccines, the fact that the covid vaccines can spur tumor regression points to something far more ominous - that the covid vaccines interfere with or reprogram the immune system in unanticipated ways, including the mechanics of how the immune system deals with cancers. There’s an old medical adage “a cure for one is poison for another”. The fact that the covid vaccines can interfere with the immune system’s cancer-fighting ability in a positive way suggests an ability to do so in a deleterious manner as well in others.

I also included a quote from each case report discussing the potential causal role of the covid vaccine if there was one that was written in clear enough language inside the study.

So without further ado….

1. A Case of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia Unmasked After Receiving J&J COVID-19 Vaccine (Veerballi et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35865440/

"Our case suggests the possibility of developing CMML associated with limited scleroderma after receiving the J&J COVID vaccine."

2. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma at the SARS-CoV2 vaccine injection site (Revenga-Porcel et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36166359/

*paywall*

3. Bell's palsy or an aggressive infiltrating basaloid carcinoma post-mRNA vaccination for COVID-19? A case report and review of the literature (Kyriakopoulos AM et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37927346/

"Overall, the short time frame and extremely invasive characteristics of BCC metastases in our patient suggest that immune system disturbances by the mRNA anti-COVID-19 vaccination may have led to the accelerated progression of the disease."

"A serious limitation in the case we report is the refusal of the hospital that performed the biopsy to provide the histopathological images or perform immunohistochemical staining for the spike protein."

4. COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Expansion of Pituitary Adenoma: A Case Report (Srimanan W & Panyakorn S)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38229808/

"Pituitary gland tumors are slowly growing, primarily asymptomatic, with incidental findings. Early detection, reduced aggravating factors, and specific treatment are essential. The COVID-19 vaccine represents a novel potential contributor to the enlargement of the pituitary gland. Individuals with preexisting pituitary adenomas should be particularly vigilant regarding the possible side effects associated with this vaccine."

5. Development of High-Grade Sarcoma After Second Dose of Moderna Vaccine (Bae E et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37197108/

"Based on an extensive search, we describe the first case of rapidly progressive, high-grade undifferentiated sarcoma that seems to have a strong association with the Moderna vaccination."

[Bonus: "It is well-documented in the literature for over 20 years that high-grade sarcomas have been linked to vaccine administration in felines."]

6. Newly diagnosed extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type, at the injected left arm after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Tachita et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093551/

"Although the lymphoma lesions of previous reports were not observed at the vaccine injection sites, our case had a lymphoma lesion in the skin and muscle at the BNT162b2 mRNA-vaccine injection site. It is possible that our case is of different pathogenesis from previous reports, in that the disease occurred relatively late after vaccination and at the site of vaccine injection." "There was no evidence of causal relationship between BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination and ENKL in this case, but we speculated that vaccination might lead to the development of ENKL in a manner similar to severe mosquito bite allergy (SMBA)."

7. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Developed Shortly after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature (Cavanna et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36676781/

8. Ph-Positive B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Occurring after Receipt of Bivalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Booster: A Case Report (Ang SY et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36984629/

"Therefore, this case report might present a possible correlation between the development of Ph–positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and bivalent mRNA vaccinations."

9. Primary Cutaneous Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in a Rare Location With an Immune Response to a BNT162b2 Vaccine: A Case Report (Yilmaz A et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608126/

"The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine has been associated with a multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-V). A comparable immune reaction could potentially enhance tumor growth rate." [paywall]

10. Rapid Progression of Angioimmunoblastic T Cell Lymphoma Following BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Booster Shot: A Case Report (Goldman S et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34901098/

"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation suggesting that administration of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine might induce AITL progression. Several arguments support this possibility. First, the dramatic speed and magnitude of the progression manifested on two 18F-FDG PET-CT performed 22 days apart. Such a rapid evolution would be highly unexpected in the natural course in the disease. "

11. Rapid progression of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma after COVID-19 vaccination (BNT162b2): A case report (Sekizawa et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35979213/

"In our case, the same mechanism by which T-cell lymphomas are induced by the COVID-19 vaccine could be considered for the pathogenesis of MZL. mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are reported to induce T follicular helper cells with a Th1 functional profile, which is associated with selective generation of neutralizing antibodies, and stimulate germinal center B-cells, long-lived plasma cells, and memory B-cells. Therefore, these vaccines induce a stronger germinal center reaction than recombinant protein vaccines (11). However, the continuous stimulation of T- and B-cells by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can trigger aberrant inflammatory responses, leading to lymphoma or accelerating its progression."

12. Recurrence of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma post viral vector COVID-19 vaccination (Panou et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34628691/

"The question which is raised in these cases is whether and via which pathway the vaccine has caused the MF CD30+ LCT and the reappearance of primary cutaneous CD30+ lymphoprolipherative disorder.

According to the literature, the education of CD4+ T, CD8+ T and B cells against SARS‐CoV‐2 S protein appears to be the most feasible way for COVID‐19 vaccine production. Both cancers and coronavirus provide a persistent and chronic antigenic load, amongst which PD‐1, resulting in T‐cell exhaustion. Therefore, it is important to assure the vaccination would not cause a further T‐cell exhaustion state which may have already been induced by tumour cells."

13. Recurrence of primary cutaneous CD30-positive lymphoproliferative disorder following COVID-19 vaccination (Brumfiel et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33974494/

*paywall*

14. Solitary Eruptive Keratoacanthoma Developing at Site of COVID-19 Vaccine Injection (Yumeen S et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38015786/

"Our case report adds to the literature by describing development of a malignant lesion that may occur following COVID-19 vaccination, and warrants prompt recognition and treatment."

15. Two cases of axillary lymphadenopathy diagnosed as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma developed shortly after BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination (Mizutani et al)

https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc9114986

"Thus, it might be conceivable that pre‐existing or subclinical DLBCL may rapidly grow in a specific condition induced by BNT162b2 vaccination." "In conclusion, DLBCL may rapidly grow after BNT162b2 vaccination. Dermatologists should pay attention to enlarging LNs or mass near the injection site of BNT162b2 vaccine."

16. Unilateral conjunctival Classic Kaposi Sarcoma following a COVID 19 booster (White E et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38601193/

"In that the vaccine booster preceded the cancer, it appears etiologic to the appearance of Kaposi's sarcoma. The patient's monocular vision and glaucoma complicated her treatment. This case expands on current concepts of cofactors needed for the development of Kaposi's sarcoma in that vaccine booster administration was relevant to tumor progression and both clinical and mechanistic evidence is presented to support this hypothesis." "In this particular case, it appears that COVID19 vaccination acted as one of the additional co-factors necessary to induce KS in that there was no other clear cause other than the temporal relationship between booster vaccine and development of KS."

17. A Case Report of Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder After AstraZeneca Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine in a Heart Transplant Recipient (Tang WR et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34702598/

"In summary, we hypothesize that the vaccine may contribute to B lymphocyte tumorigenesis via the reactivation of latent EBV." "We report a case of PTLD after COVID-19 vaccination in a heart transplant recipient, which might show a possible pathogenic link. Although we are not able to exclude the coincidence of COVID-19 vaccination and the development of PTLD in this case, transplant surgeons should be aware of the immunomodulatory effect after COVID-19 vaccination and always think the worst until proven otherwise."

18. Case report: A case of metastatic BRAFV600-mutated melanoma with heart failure treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and BRAF/MEK inhibitors (Nishizawa A et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38529375/

"In the present case, the vaccine might have elicited a strong immune response, leading to the spontaneous resolution of the primary tumor while simultaneously promoting the axillary lymph node metastasis."

19. Fatal hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma following coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: an intertwined case (Ueda Y et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38619098/

"We  speculate  that  the  COVID-19  vaccination  and    our    patient’s    autoimmune    condition,    which    predisposes   her   to   develop   lymphoma,   may   have   contributed  to  IVLBCL  development.  The  activation  of  the  B  cell  activating  factor  belonging  to  the  tumor  necrosis  factor  family  (BAFF)  pathway  was  seen  in  aggressive  B  cell  lymphoma"

20. Hematologic Malignancies Diagnosed in the Context of the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign: A Report of Two Cases (Zamfir et al)

https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/58/7/874

"To our knowledge, this is the first report of a severe post-vaccination oral manifestation, immunohistochemically confirmed as T/NK-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, emerging within days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination."

21. Hematopoietic Adverse Events Associated with BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine (Erdogdu B et al)

https://avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr/yayin/64667112-eb73-4bd3-b8c5-d5df96cc4e09/hematopoietic-adverse-events-associated-with-bnt162b2-mrna-covid-19-vaccine

22. Indolent cutaneous lymphoma with gamma/delta expression after COVID-19 vaccination (Hobayan CG & Chung CG)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36530557/

"Our patient’s presentation is unusual as it arose at the site of a COVID-19 vaccination several days after vaccination." "Since this presentation and course are not typical of PCGDTCL, it is unclear if his lesions represent an indolent variant of PCGDTCL or other lymphoma with gamma/delta expression. It is unknown if the COVID-19 vaccine directly contributed to his presentation or disease course. One additional case report shows an atypical lymphoproliferative lesion with features mimicking lymphoma following the vaccine booster, monotypic proliferation of B-cells was found histologically."

23. Primary cardiac mesothelioma presenting with fulminant recurrent pericarditis: a case report (Schwartzenberg et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36937239/

"To the best of our knowledge, this is the only second case of pathologically confirmed pericarditis that transformed into mesothelioma,17 in this case within only 4 months. It is unlikely that an earlier correct diagnosis would have made a clinical difference in this case in view of the accelerated disease course."

24. Sporadic Kaposi Sarcoma Following a COVID-19 Vaccine: Mere Coincidence or Something More? (Martínez-Ortega JI et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38465101/

"KSHV is an absolute requirement of oncogenesis and is a direct carcinogen, so when we are looking into the relationship between the AstraZeneca vaccine and Kaposi sarcoma, we may focus on the reactivation of KSHV [1].

Studies have shown that spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 can reactivate the lytic phase of KSHV. The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine contains DNA eDNA-encoding proteins. If these spike proteins encounter HHV8-infected cells, it could potentially trigger the reactivation of the virus, leading to the lytic phase." "While more research is needed to establish a definitive connection, the evidence discussed in this report points to potential mechanisms involving KSHV reactivation, the influence of adenovirus-induced inflammation, and spike protein-related effects."

25. Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma after COVID-19 vaccination (Kreher et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35966352/

"In this manuscript, we present a case of SPTCL that developed following the Ad26 viral vector–based COVID-19 vaccine (Janssen Pharmaceuticals). Although causation cannot be established in this single case, this case supports the understanding that certain immunologic triggers, such as a modified adenovirus vaccine, may contribute to the development or exacerbation of SPTCL. Aberrant immune function or lymphocyte hyperstimulation may also be responsible. For example, an association has been established between SPTCL and systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis."

26. Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma post-mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccination (Ukishima et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37035606/

"Overall, more research is needed to examine possible associations between COVID‐19 vaccination and SPTCL. In this case, COVID‐19 vaccines may cause SPTCL, and skin biopsy at an early stage may help in the diagnosis of erythema nodosum."

27. The case of T-ALL presenting with NK phenotype after COVID-19 vaccination (Yanagida E et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36706586/

"Although the presence of a direct causal relationship between T-ALL and COVID-19 vaccination is unclear, the immunization could be directly related to the immune response of the host." "Although the relationship between vaccination and the onset of this case is unclear, we have reported that careful observation of similar cases is required in order to elucidate the pathophysiology."

28. The first autopsy case of Epstein-Barr virus-positive marginal zone lymphoma that deteriorated after COVID-19 vaccination (Wang Z et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38116849/

*paywall*

29. Unusual Clinical Presentation of Clear Cell Sarcoma in a Young Woman (Asif S et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37877807/

Documented as Incidental/Background in the Case Report

30. Axillary lymphadenopathy in a high-risk breast screening patient following the COVID-19 vaccine: a diagnostic conundrum (Musaddaq et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35300233/

31. Breast Cancer Screening and Axillary Adenopathy in the Era of COVID-19 Vaccination (Wolfson & Kim)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36219117/

32. Hypermetabolic lymphadenopathy following the administration of COVID-19 vaccine and immunotherapy in a lung cancer patient: a case report (Tripathy et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36434709/

33. Lymphedema of the Arm after COVID-19 Vaccination in a Patient with Hidden Breast Cancer and Paraneoplastic Dermatomyositis (Aimo et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36016107/

34. Metastatic melanoma in the breast and axilla: A case report (Barnett C et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35255441/

35. Metastatic prostatic adenocarcinoma presenting as generalized lymphadenopathy unmasked by a COVID booster vaccine (Bharathidasan K et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38033690/

36. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia after COVID-19 vaccination, complicated with COVID-19 and mucormycosis: a case report (Amirifard H et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38704555/

Benign Tumors

37. Pilomatricoma Growing at the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination Site (Erkayman MH et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38099131/

38. Reactive Angioendotheliomatosis Following Ad26.COV2.S Vaccination (Faulkner C et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38290076/

39. Development of Pilomatrixoma at the Vaccination Site: A Rare Complication of COVID-19 Vaccination - A Case Report (Yang Z et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38055654/

Vaccine Cured Cancer

40. Primary cutaneous anaplastic large-cell lymphoma with marked spontaneous regression of organ manifestation after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (Gambicher et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34228815/

41. Spontaneous tumor regression following COVID-19 vaccination (de Sousa LG et al)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35241495/

 

Source: https://ashmedai.substack.com/p/36-case-reports-of-cancers-after/comment/55997983

quinta-feira, 30 de maio de 2024

When Israel murdered a Brazilian nuclear scientist


 

Raphael Machado
March 16, 2024

In recent weeks we have seen Lula's Brazil move from its traditional international neutrality, the result of a historic effort to position the country as an international mediator, to a more explicit anti-Zionism - something which generated over-the-top reactions against the government's position.

In a more concrete sense, President Lula declared that there is a genocide being committed in Gaza against the Palestinians by the State of Israel, comparing the event to the extermination of Jews by the Germans during the Second World War, the “Holocaust”. He echoed the sentiment in several other statements made in recent days.

Various reactions ensued amongst our inaptly named “civil society”. The mass media unanimously declared that Lula was exaggerating. Spokespeople for the Zionist lobby and representatives of the Israeli government categorically accused Lula of anti-Semitism, and there were many online influencers who tried to dub Lula a “Holocaust denier”. 

After these events, the Brazilian ambassador to Israel was humiliated at Israel's Holocaust Museum and, as a consequence, Lula withdrew the ambassador from Tel-Aviv. Brazil's president was then declared “persona non grata” in the Zionist entity.

There is no evidence that Israeli-Brazilian relations are about to improve, as Lula continues his accusations of genocide and his criticism of both the conduct of Israeli operations and the Israeli blockade of Palestinian access to water and food.

These disagreements represent the lowest point in Israel-Palestine relations since the 1970s, when Brazil, still a military regime, was governed by Ernesto Geisel.

As in other Ibero-American countries, the Brazilian military regime had been installed in the context of the Cold War due to an arrangement between a part of the Brazilian military and business elites on the one hand and the US State Department and its supporting institutions on the other.

After the coup of 64, Brazil adopted a stance of automatic alignment with US Atlanticist projects, playing the role of one of its main partners in the region. This unconditional “courtship” between Brazil and the USA, however, only lasted a few years and gradually the military began to tire of its absolute submission across all spheres.

But it is only during the the government of Ernesto Geisel, between 1974 and 1979, that we can say that Brazil assumed a sovereignist and non-aligned stance. It is enough to remember that Brazil recognised the People's Republic of China and established normal relations with it, just as it did with the USSR and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. It also recognised and supported the socialist government of Angola and the independence of Guinea-Bissau.

But what really put Brazil on a collision course with the USA and Israel
during that period was the government's stance on nuclear issues and the Middle East.

During this period, Brazil embarked on a major anti-Zionist campaign. In 1975 we recognised the Palestinian Authority and undertook normal diplomatic relations, defending the construction of a Palestinian State according to the 1967 borders. In the same year, Brazil joined the UN efforts to condemn Zionism as a form of racism, which took shape in Resolution No. 3379. It should be noted that almost all countries on the Ibero-American continent, most of them pro-Yankee dictatorships established by the CIA, voted against the anti-Zionist resolution.

But even greater concern seems to have been caused by the sudden rapprochement between Brazil and Iraq. Between 1974 and 1978, Iraq became the largest supplier of oil to Brazil, and from 1978 onwards Brazil became the main supplier of weapons and war material in general to the country governed by Saddam Hussein.

With shipments of enriched uranium for the Iraqi nuclear program as an important addition. And with the Iraqis, in turn, apparently intending to make use of some of our nuclear facilities and leaving us some of their scientific knowledge in the nuclear field. All this came in the context of the so-called “Parallel Program”, a project that also included technological transfer from West Germany (without IAEA supervision) after a rupture in the nuclear agreement that Brazil had with the USA (and which did not involve technology transfer).

As we know from the Oded Yinon Plan, for example, at this time Israel considered its main regional enemy to be Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Anti-Zionism in foreign policy and active collaboration with Israel's main enemy naturally placed Brazil on the radar of the Zionist entity's intelligence agencies.

This is where the figure of Lieutenant-Colonel José Alberto Albano do Amarante comes into play.
Amarante was a brilliant physicist and engineer who commanded Brazil's secret nuclear program, which developed in the context of the aforementioned partnership with Iraq and West Germany.

In September 1981, however, 3 months after the Israeli attack on the “Osirak” nuclear plant, near Baghdad, Albano do Amarante suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. He died 1 week later.

At the time of his sudden death, at the age of 45, Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante, founder of the Advanced Studies Laboratory, was working on developing a technique for enriching uranium using laser beams, the rudiments of which Iraqi scientists knew and which the Brazilians intended to improve. This technique is of special interest to countries interested in nuclear development beyond the limitations imposed by transnational nuclear authorities, as it appears to be less easily detectable, more efficient and technologically more accessible.

But where does Israel fit into this death? B
efore his death, Amarante reported that he had been followed for weeks whenever he moved between Brazilian states. Days after the mysterious death of Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante, a man named “Samuel Giliad” escaped from Brazil. Giliad was positively identified by Brazilian security forces as a Mossad agent.

It could just be a coincidence if it weren't for the circumstances surrounding this character. Giliad, who claimed to be a Polish WW II veteran, arrived in Brazil in 1979 to take over management of the Eldorado Hotel, one of the main hotels in São José dos Campos, and frequented by Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante. On several occasions, Giliad tried to become friends with Amarante. He also began to frequent the same places, and he acquired the same dentist to whom he posed questions about the activities of the Brazilian Air Force in the region.

“Curiosity” led to Giliad being monitored by Brazilian intelligence services. At the same time, however, in 1981, the international media reported secret shipments of uranium from Brazil to Iraq. Shortly afterwards, the attack on the Iraqi nuclear complex occurred and, subsequent to this, the death of the head of the Brazilian nuclear program.

Historical evidence indicates, therefore, not only the ease with which Israeli intelligence could infiltrate and undermine Brazil, but also the fact that there are precedents for reprisals against sovereignist and anti-Zionist stances taken by our country.

In this sense, with the current president of Brazil's decision to harden his position against Israel and to favor Palestine, he must take all necessary precautions, not only for his personal safety, but also for the safety of the Brazilian nuclear industry and our projects in this sector.

 


Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/16/quando-israel-assassinou-um-cientista-nuclear-brasileiro/

Ralph Nader: "Real Gaza Death Toll at Least 200,000"



Yves Smith 
March 6, 2024 

Yves here. Ralph Nader’s estimate of the actual fatalities in Gaza is important in and of itself, for its political and humanitarian implications, but also as a critical thinking example. I have to admit to partly turning off my brain on this particular issue because this topic (the death count in various types of humanitarian crises) is so remote from my field of knowledge. Yours truly did point out that the official count was clearly understated due to the inability to count bodies under the rubble, and the Gaza health authority not attempting to make estimates, based say on reports of the missing.

I fell for Israel asserting that the Gaza health authority being an interested party and exaggerating the body count. That sounded wrong given the care they seemed to be taking. But what I completely overlooked, and Nader describes below, that the Gaza officials also have incentive to understate the fatality level, and appear to be doing so by not tallying the many deaths from disease and starvation.

                                                           ***

By Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate and the author of “The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future” (2012). His new book is, “Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All” (2020, co-authored with Mark Green).. Originally published at Common Dreams

With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000?

Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.

The extreme right-wing Netanyahu regime has enforced its declared siege of, in its genocidal words, “no food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no medicine.”

The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains—just about everything.

The U.S.-equipped Israeli war machine has even uprooted agricultural fields, including thousands of olive trees on one farm; bulldozed many cemeteries; and bombed civilians fleeing on Israeli orders, while obstructing the few trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt.

With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? With 5,000 babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine, and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas, which he helped over the years, have a common interest in lowballing the death and injury toll. But for different reasons. Hamas keeps the figures low to reduce being accused by its own people of not protecting them, and not building shelters. Hamas grossly underestimated the savage war crimes by the vengeful, occupying Israeli military superpower fully and unconditionally backed by the U.S. military superpower.

The Health Ministry is intentionally conservative, citing that its death toll came from reports only of named deceased by hospitals and morgues. But as the weeks turned into months, blasted, disabled hospitals and morgues cannot keep up with the bodies, or cannot count those slain laying on roadsides in allies and beneath building debris. Yet the Health Ministry remains conservative and the “official” rising civilian fatality and injury count continues to be uncritically reported by both friend and foe of this devastating Israeli state terrorism.

It was especially astonishing to see the most progressive groups and writers routinely use the same Hamas Health Ministry figures as did the governments and outside groups backing the one-sided war on Gaza. All this despite predictions of a human catastrophe in the Gaza Strip almost every day since October 7, 2023 by arms of the United Nations, other besieged international relief agencies on the ground, eyewitness accounts by medical personnel, and many Israeli human rights groups and brave local journalists in that strip, the geographic size of Philadelphia. (Unguided Western and Israeli reporters and journalists are not allowed to enter Gaza by the Israeli government.) (See the open letter, titled “Stop the Humanitarian Catastrophe,” to President Joe Biden on December 13, 2023 by 16 Israeli human rights groups that also appeared as a paid notice in TheNew York Times.)

Then came the December 29, 2023 opinion piece in The Guardian by the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Devi Sridhar. She predicted half a million deaths in 2024 if conditions continue unabated.

In recent days, the situation has become more dire. In the March 2, 2024 Washington Post, reporter, Ishaan Tharoor writes:

The bulk of Gaza’s more than 2 million people face the prospect of famine—a state of affairs that constitutes the fastest decline in a population’s nutrition status ever recorded, according to aid workers. Children are starving at the fastest rate the world has ever known. Aid groups have been pointing to Israel restricting the flow of assistance into the territory as a major driver of the crisis. Some prominent Israeli officials openly champion stymying these transfers of aid.

Tharoor quotes Jan Egeland, chief of the Norwegian Refugee Council: “We must be clear: civilians in Gaza are falling sick from hunger and thirst because of Israel’s entry restrictions,” and “Life-saving supplies are being intentionally blocked, and women and children are paying the price.”

Martin Griffiths, the United Nations lead humanitarian officer, said “Life is draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed.”

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, according to the Post, warned of an “‘unknown number of people’—believed to be in the tens of thousands—lying under the rubble of buildings brought down by Israeli strikes.”

Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said, “All people in Gaza are at imminent risk of famine. Almost all are drinking salty and contaminated water. Healthcare across the territory is barely functioning,” and “Just imagine what this means for the wounded, and people suffering infectious-disease outbreaks… many are already believed to be starving.”

UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, the Palestinian Red Crescent, and Doctors Without Borders are all relating that the same catastrophic conditions are getting worse fast.

Yet, and get this, in this article, the Post still stuck with the “more than 30,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the ongoing war began.”

Just like the entire mass media, many governments, even the independent media and critics of the war would have us accept that between 98% and 99% of Gaza’s entire population has survived—albeit the sick, injured, and more Palestinians about to die. This is lethally improbable!

From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, plus the resultant mortalities from blocking or smashing the crucial necessities of life, a more likely estimate, in my appraisal, is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour.

Imagine Americans, if this powerful U.S.-made weaponry was fired on the besieged, homeless, trapped people of Philadelphia, do you think that only 30,000 of that city’s 1.5 million people would have been killed?

Daily circumstantial evidence of the deliberate Israeli targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructures requires more reliable epidemiological estimates of casualties.

It matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Health Ministry’s undercount. It matters for elevating the urgency for a permanent cease-fire, and direct and massive humanitarian aid by the U.S. and other countries, bypassing the sadistic cruelty against innocent families of the Israeli siege. It matters for the columnists and editorial writers who have been self-censoring themselves, with some, like the Post’s Charles Lane, fictionally claiming that Israel’s military doesn’t “intentionally target civilians.” It matters for accountability under international law.

Above all, it lets weak Secretary of State Antony Blinken and duplicitous President Biden be less servile when Netanyahu dismisses the low death toll by taunting them: What about Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki?

As a percentage of the total population being killed, Gaza can expose the Israeli ruling racist extremists to a stronger rebuttal for ending U.S. co-belligerent complicity in this never-to-be-forgotten slaughter of mostly children and women. (The terrifying PTSD on civilians, especially children, will continue for years.)

Respecting the more accurate casualty toll of Palestinian children, mothers, and fathers presses harder for permanent cease-fires and the process of recovery and reparations for the survivors of their holocaust.


Source: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/ralph-nader-real-gaza-death-toll-at-least-200000.html

segunda-feira, 27 de maio de 2024

Headless child, charred bodies: Survivors recount Israel’s Rafah camp massacre


 

May 27, 2024

After sunrise, survivors of the Israeli bombing of a Rafah displacement camp returned to assess the damage. 

Children peeked through the window of a hollowed-out car, men searched the burnt debris, and journalists took photos of the blackened food cans.

Around 12 hours earlier, Palestinian families were inside these tents, which were set ablaze after the Israeli military bombed the encampment, located in northwestern Rafah. 

Many had just finished night prayers, some were asleep and others were simply gathered with their families. 

“We were sitting down in peace when we suddenly heard the explosion,” said Layan al-Fayoum, a survivor of the attack.

“It was so sudden. The bombs came down without a warning.”

The young teenager went out of her tent to see what happened and was shocked by the large inferno that had engulfed the site. 

“The flames were huge,” she told Middle East Eye. 

“We saw tents on fire and then had to recover dismembered limbs and dead children.”



The attack took place around 10 pm local time. Israeli jets dropped bombs on the makeshift camp, causing a fire that burned some 14 tents, according to one eyewitness. 

The camp is located in the Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone” near a UN storage facility, according to analysis by Al Jazeera Arabic. 

The Palestinian health minister said 45 people were killed in the attack. Another 249 were wounded, some seriously, including people with severe burns and severed limbs. 

Health officials said they are overwhelmed by the volume and type of injuries, as only one hospital is operational in Rafah due to Israel’s destruction of the health system across Gaza. 

First responders described similar challenges as 80 percent of the Palestinian civil defence capabilities have been destroyed since 7 October. 

This was all evident after the bombing, as firefighters, paramedics, and residents struggled to contain the fire. 

Chaotic scenes ensued, with panicked survivors running for safety amidst the charred bodies as one man held a headless child and a medic carried another with his brains blown out.

“I came out of my tent and saw fire everywhere,” said Mohammad Abo Sebah, an eyewitness. 

“A young girl was screaming, so we helped her and her adult brother. When we returned, the encampment was totally destroyed.” 

It took around 11 fire trucks between one and two hours to finally stop the fire, according to al-Fayoum. 

The teenager said her family were planning to relocate to another camp on Monday morning as the Israeli attacks in Rafah had increased in recent weeks.  

But they have lost their money in the fire, meaning they can’t go anywhere now and have no tent to shelter in. 

“They said these were safe zones,” Abo Sebah told MEE. 

“This occupation is despicable and criminal.”

 


'Destruction, corpses, and killings'

The Israeli military said it used “precise ammunition” in the attack, allegedly to kill two members of Hamas’ armed wing.

It added the incident was “under review” and that it regrets “any harm to non-combatants during the war”. 

Abo Sebah, who fled central Gaza to this encampment in January, said he did not buy the Israeli claims.

“What else do you expect them to say?” he told MEE. 

“We have never seen any resistance fighters here. The fighters are in the combat zones in eastern Rafah. 

“The Israelis just say these things to justify their actions. They want to kill the Palestinian people, forcibly expel them, and destroy their homes.”

Abo Sebah lost his home in November when it was bombed by Israeli warplanes in an attack that killed two of his sons, his daughter, and her two-year-old infant. 

He came to Rafah seeking safety, as Israel told Palestinians to come to the southern city earlier in the war to avoid dangerous areas elsewhere. 

“There’s no safe place here. No one is safe. Not even the dead who are buried underground are safe,” Abo Sebah said. 

“Destruction, corpses, and killings. This is our life.”

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp area for internally displaced people in Rafah on 27 May 2024 (Eyad Baba/AFP)
 
The bombing prompted global condemnations of Israel.

Several Arab states decried it, including Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. 

Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, called it “horrifying”. 

"There is no safe place in Gaza. These attacks must stop immediately,” he said on social media platform X. 

Similarly, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was "outraged" by the strikes. 

"These operations must stop. There are no safe areas in Rafah for Palestinian civilians," he said on X.

The massacres came two days after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must halt its Rafah offensive in the ongoing case accusing Israel of genocide in its war on Gaza. 

Israel rejected the ruling and said its offensive in Gaza was in line with international law.