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Cooption of the Jewish People
by Dan Lieberman / October 9th, 2025
I often wondered at the bewildering manner in which fellow Jews embrace a foreign nation and act against their own and their native country’s interests. Growing up in the Bronx, New York, in one of the largest and most homogeneous Jewish neighborhoods in the world, I encountered minor attachment to Zionism, even after Israel became an entity, and little mention of the Holocaust. We lost much of my father’s family to the World War II violence, which I described in a book, “Not Until They Were Gone.” The book’s title reflected the realization that it was not until many years …
by Joseph Essertier / October 9th, 2025
Given the massive changes in geopolitics brought about by the isolationist and bizarre behavior of the Trump administration, activists and scholars have a major role to play in drawing attention to the dangers and possibilities for peace of this embryonic new world order. It is very unfortunate then, that one of the most crucial components in this situation (Korea) continues to be portrayed with an over-simplified banal narrative. North Korea is portrayed as a place where devils rule over freedom haters, and South Korea as little more than an exporter of K-Pop and …
No More Non-Zionist Social Media Left. We Have a Problem.
by Paul Haeder / October 9th, 2025
Note: So, the Newport News Times, AKA, Lincoln County Leader, has my op-ed below in the on-line version. So disappointed to see the print hardcopy version is missing this important Two Years going into the current genocide.
I did reference the local politician, the representative, David Gomberg, Jewish, who got an all-expenses paid trip to Israel by Adolph Bibi. Jewish, and he wrote an op-ed travel piece for the same rag two weeks ago.
Here, my DV piece: Two Men, an Evil Empire, Evil Jews of Genocide Legacy, and the Mowing of the World’s Compassion and AGENCY
Now, the editor will not …
by Barbara G. Ellis / October 9th, 2025
As president Trump tears up the U.S. Constitution he twice swore to uphold, fierce backlash from an aroused John and Jane Public is not far off. Contempt for that document and Americans’ baked-in characteristic of feistiness when pushed too far is one of the four key factors preventing him and his regime from turning democracy into a dictatorial dynasty.
Three of the four historic factors buttressing America’s form of democracy against Trump’s autocracy were recently listed by Politico contributor Jonathan Schlefer. They should lift the spirits of the fearful and depressed a notch or two:
A careful comparison with countries that …
The Factory of Perceptions
by Binoy Kampmark / October 9th, 2025
Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time. Instead of gloatingly cresting the wave of success after securing British Labour a resounding, decisive victory in July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer is schooling us in precipitous decline. John Gray, that most erratic, protean of prophets, was already suggesting last year that the prime minister and his party were overseeing less “the rise of an all-powerful machine” than “another chapter in the story of Britain’s failing state.” Not a week goes by without some sniping at the dull technocrat’s limp performances …
The Civilizing Racist Outpost
by Amel-Ba’al / October 8th, 2025
Newspaper: The Rights of the Palestinian People
“The only way to stop this evil [loss of land], is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.” —Chief Tecumseh. Esarey, Logan, ed. Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison, Vol. 1. Indiana Historical Commission, 1922, pp. 463-466.
“The white men are not friends to …
by Dan Brook / October 8th, 2025
The story of humanity is a story of struggle, not just between classes, but against all forms of oppression. We face a rigged system where the powerful exploit us as workers and consumers, as well as based on our differences of identity. Further, the cultural parts of our political economic system socialize us to internalize greed, selfishness, hierarchies, authoritarianism, oppression, and violence, directing them at others and ourselves, thereby increasing alienation, antagonism, low self-esteem, and loneliness. Our society experiences many forms of poverty.
The super-rich get richer while wages for most of us stagnate and prices increase. The elite maintain …
by J.S. O’Keefe / October 8th, 2025
My aunt Maria from Valparaiso is here for the holidays. Likes to be busy, the day after her arrival she made Leche Asada, which is Spanish for custard.
Yesterday afternoon when the doorbell rang, Maria went to open. She exclaimed, “El Belcebú mismo [Belzebub himself]!” and slammed it in the face of the visitor. I rushed over there and looked through the peephole. The city councilman I’d invited to explain the Notice to Condemnee stood on the other side, quite bewildered. I apologized and let him in.
We sat down for tea and custard.
Notice to Condemnee, I’d heard about these things before …
by Nicolas J.S. Davies / October 8th, 2025
As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine.
Trump’s White House meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyah on September 29 coincided with the last day of the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, where Trump had met with eight Arab and Muslim leaders at the UN …
Estranged Realities
by Binoy Kampmark / October 8th, 2025
Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse and violent affair. Having been intercepted in international waters on route to Gaza to break the Israeli-imposed blockade, the 470 or so activists, hailing from some fifty countries travelling on 40 boats, were duly taken to the Ketziot prison complex in the Negev desert in southern Israel. According to GSF, the endeavour was intended to “break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of …
by Black Alliance for Peace / October 7th, 2025
Two years after Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians Continue Their Fight for National Liberation and the Right to Exist!
Today, October 7th, 2025, marks two years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood changed the present and future of resistance not only in Palestine, but throughout the world. As we have stated previously, “the Black Alliance for Peace views the Al-Aqsa Flood as a legitimate resistance operation by the besieged Palestinians – the only party with an internationally recognized right of resistance. We support Palestinian resistance against the violent military domination by white supremacist imperialism and colonialism that began, first in the …
by Stuart Littlewood / October 7th, 2025
Trump, impatient to claim a Nobel Peace prize, bullies everyone into accepting a madcap peace plan that gives little or no consideration to the Palestinians’ future.
Who gave him authority to decide such matters, and where are the United Nations in all this? And what about international law and the raft of UN resolutions on these matters that are waiting to be implemented? This looks like an attempt to bury them.
The other day we saw Trump and Netanyahu holding hands and smirking as they launched their 20-point so-called peace plan which the war criminal and pro-Israel freak Tony Blair also had a hand …
Fuhrer fascism
by John Helmer / October 7th, 2025
For the first time, the White House has issued a piece of paper (lead image, top), signed by the President, attempting to install a form of fuhrer fascism to deter, arrest, and if need be shoot to kill any form of expression which amounts to disloyalty to the President and to his MAGA doctrine.
The paper defined that as “targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society.” This includes public expression of the terms “fascist” …
An Insidious Intelligence Operation
by Michel Chossudovsky / October 7th, 2025
Confirmed by Israeli media, not fake news. Bibi has been giving money to Hamas.
“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and which was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.” (Times of Israel, October 8, 2023, emphasis added)
According to Netanyahu:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the …
by Bruce Lerro / October 7th, 2025
Catholic Hysteria Against Pagans
What is wrong with a sacred tradition that attempts to predict the future? What dangers lurk for those who host feasts are not under Church approved? What is wrong with making images of gods and goddesses? What will happen to you? Why not use chemical hallucinogens to heal and create altered states? Why is it so terrible to leave food and clothing for those who died in case they need them? Why not plot and scheme with elves, dwarfs, giants and trolls? Why must there …
Denmark, Drones & Deception
by Jan Oberg / October 6th, 2025
Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…
Drones over Denmark. No damage. No trace. No answers. Yet the headlines scream “Russian threat,” and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks with a certainty that defies logic: “We don’t know they were Russian—but we know Russia is the biggest threat to Europe.” It could be nobody else – unless you make an interest …
by Sammy Attoh / October 6th, 2025
There comes a time in history when silence becomes complicity, and diplomacy becomes theater. That time is now. As European leaders escalate their crusade to demonize President Vladimir Putin and provoke Russia into confrontation, they betray not only the principles of peace but the sacred memory of war’s devastation. This is not statesmanship—it is spiritual amnesia.
President Putin, for all the West’s caricatures, has not colonized nations, nor has Russia built its legacy on the plunder of continents. Unlike the empires that carved up Africa, Asia, and the Middle East with blood-stained treaties and bayonets,Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle-L’Ouverture …
Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain
by Ellen Brown / October 6th, 2025
The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independent of Congress and the Treasury. Its independence was formalized only in 1951, with a Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord that was not a law but a policy agreement redefining the relationship of the parties. In the 1930s and 1940s, before the Fed officially became “independent,” it worked with the federal government to fund the most productive period in our country’s history. We can and should do that again.
In a Sept. 1 Substack post titled “Fed Faces Biggest Direct Challenge by a …
by Caitlin Johnstone / October 6th, 2025
Who would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies?
The Guardian reports the following:
“In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a …
More than 55 spread around what is now Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua
by Paul Haeder / October 6th, 2025
Sky Islands are isolated mountain ranges separated from other mountains by a vast distance and surrounded by lowlands of a dramatically different environment. This results in habitat “islands” such as a high-elevation forest surrounded by desert or grassland. In southern Arizona, part of New Mexico, and northern Sonora, six ecosystems blend to comprise the Sky Island region, supporting a wealth of biodiversity and many species found here and nowhere else….
by Kim Petersen / October 5th, 2025
Poetry is a written form that through eloquence and wordmanship engages the senses to produce a vivid experience and stir emotions that differ from reading straight-on prose. As such, poetry can be a powerful method to speak truth to power and evoke consciousness that fillips protest and resistance in opposition to horrific crimes and in support of social justice and peace.
Buff Whitman-Bradley has compiled a collection of his poems, Broken Stars: Gaza Poems (Fomite Press, 2025) that is sure to raise consciousness and pull on readers’ heart strings
Genocide is the …
Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising 'community tensions'. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind.
by Jonathan Cook / October 5th, 2025
1. Rowley demands supporters of Palestine Action cancel or delay their protest today, after the Manchester synagogue attack, because the timing appears “antisemitic”.
How to untangle this nonsense?
a) The only possible way to interpret Rowley’s argument is that he believes every British Jew identifies and supports Israel’s mass slaughter of children in Gaza and therefore, out of respect for their grief at the Manchester attack, we ought not to protest against the slaughter in Gaza. That undoubtedly makes Rowley the antisemitic one.
b) Even were his deeply antisemitic idea true – that British …
by B.R. Gowani / October 4th, 2025
How not to set up a Palestinian state, and ensure eternal strife
by Stuart Littlewood / October 4th, 2025
There can be no peace without justice, yet this simple truth still hasn’t penetrated at UKgov and USgov levels. Or is it ignored because it squelches the West’s lawless policies in the Middle East?
Statehood means self-determination with no outside interference. In Palestine’s case international law and relevant UN resolutions must finally be implemented and no longer contemptuously waved aside. Justice must be done and seen to be done. A UN commission of inquiry now confirms what many already knew – that Israel seeks to establish permanent control over Gaza and a Jewish majority in the occupied West Bank. UKGov and …
by Eros Salvatore and Ali Lubbad / October 4th, 2025
On the evening of October 6, 2023 Ali Lubbad, 33, was daydreaming about his new life in Germany. He had just completed his nursing exams and passed the language tests. Once his paperwork had been processed he would settle there with his wife Aya, his autistic daughter Alma, and his rambunctious son Hossam. There Alma would have other children like her who she could play with and they could afford the best autistic therapy the world had to offer. Ali had made it in life against all the odds that …
by Black Alliance for Peace / October 3rd, 2025
On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) to invade Haiti. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favor and 3 abstentions (China, Russia, and Pakistan). The Black Alliance for Peace unequivocally condemns the adoption of this resolution. We see the GSF as a further step in the destruction of Haitian popular sovereignty, pushing the country into militarized, neocolonial servitude.
The resolution for the “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) authorizes …
by David Swanson / October 3rd, 2025
“Abolition” isn’t just a fun word to say.
“I want to abolish prisons” doesn’t just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. “Abolish the police” isn’t just a hip way to say “I’m angry at abuse by police.” Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently.
Entirely means every last speck.
Abolishing war, and preparations for war, and weapons of war, and militaries means working for a world in which there exists not a single member of a single military or a single weapon. To …
7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. At least 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during this time – 30 out of every 1,000 people.
by Vijay Prashad / October 3rd, 2025
Sliman Mansour (Palestine), The Sea Is Mine, 2016.
7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years – 30 out of every 1,000 people who were living in Gaza (these numbers, however may be too low, as the ministry has often admitted that it has …
by Binoy Kampmark / October 3rd, 2025
It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdom and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This tendency endears the dim rascals to you, showing an ignorance that remains, for the most part, unblemished. If we get democracy, as H. L. Mencken would put it, we are going to get it most deservingly hard. But that hardness will be veiled in fully fledged ignorance.
The issue of how universities in Australia are governed is a case in point. A system corrupt, riven, and sundered by rapacious bureaucratic arrangements, governed by a smug white collar criminal class that deserves …
by Eric Walberg / October 3rd, 2025
Matt Haig’s The Humans (2013) uses sci fi, ‘speculative fiction’, for what it does best: reveal to us how lethal human beings are and how we need to control technology before it turns us into monsters and reduces planet Earth to … Gaza. This time it’s a simple tale of the seductiveness of ‘going native’ faced with totalitarian alienation, and genocide by the latter against those oh-so seductive natives.
‘Going native’ was a big problem for settler-colonial imperialism over the past 4 centuries. Too many settlers, especially in New England, refused the near-starvation …
