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by Philip A. Farruggio / October 13th, 2025
Signe Wilkinson
Ask yourself this: Knowing what horrific genocidal revenge that Israel has dished out since October 2023, why have both the Biden and now Trump 2 regimes enabled it? I mean it is one thing to simply look-the-other-way to remain somewhat neutral, but to continually allow billions of dollars and millions of weaponry into Israel is something else. Look at how many members of both political parties continued to vote YES to whatever Israel has chosen to do to Gaza. Cui Bono?
This writer has read from …
by Michel Luc Bellemare / October 13th, 2025
Introduction
All rigged markets, all rigged financial-mechanisms, and, as well as, all the rigged authoritarian-structures of techno-capitalist-feudalism, indeed, did achieve their maturity in the early 21st century, through rampant surveillance, social conditioning, and data-collection. Which did prompt some political-economists to announce the effective end of capitalism in favor of a new economic system that is closer to medieval feudalism; whereupon, a centralized consortium of economic power is now firmly localized in big-tech firms, namely, those big-tech firms strewn throughout the globe and ideologically-concentrated in Silicon Valley, California.
Notwithstanding, all the way back to the early writings of the political-economists of the late 18th …
Complicity, Citizenship, and the Genocide in Palestine
by Amel-Ba’al / October 13th, 2025
Newspaper: Democracy.
The case of death is not at all the cause of the dead, it’s the cause of the living.
— Ghassan Kanafani, from the novel Men Under the Sun
My people are fearless and the gallows to each person among us is the instance that precedes the dawn of a new day for all of us … Prosecutor! Understand that when one of us enters the nation’s battle of destiny, he takes into consideration all possible results. But above all, he places his confidence in …
by Ted Glick / October 13th, 2025
I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little things it makes big change. That’s the main message of Roots and Shoots.
Above all, I want you to think about the fact that we are part—when we’re on Planet Earth—we are part of Mother Nature. We depend on Mother Nature for clean air, for water, for food, for clothing, …
by Jan Oberg / October 12th, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Rewards Militarism, Defies Alfred Nobel’s Will
The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) strongly condemns the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again violated Alfred Nobel’s original mandate by honouring a figure who openly advocates foreign military intervention.
In a CBS News interview, Machado declared:
“The only way to stop the suppression is by force—U.S. force.”
She has also appealed directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to use …
Don’t Help Demonize Maduro
by Gary Olson / October 11th, 2025
Steve Ellner, one of my go-to sources on Venezuela, cautions that although the Maduro government has unquestionable shortcomings and is not above criticism, the left’s priority today shouldn’t be purity tests. It should be about the struggle against US imperialism, as it invokes the Monroe Doctrine and evidence-free, “narco-terrorist” narratives on behalf of regime change in Venezuela. There is a relentless effort to demonize Maduro, and some on the putative left fail to recognize the need for a strong state and how difficult it is to construct socialism when your country “has been singled out by Washington for special attack, …
by Binoy Kampmark / October 11th, 2025
The fuss about the Nobel Peace Prize has always been excessively outsized to its relevance. Like most prizes, the panel is bound to have its treasure trove of prejudices and eccentricities in reaching any decision. Thin resumes have swayed the Norwegian committee to acts of dottiness. Surprising moments of dark humor have made an appearance in the awarding of the prize to warmongers and those antithetical to peace. And those on the Nobel Prize peace panel would barely cause a murmur of acknowledgment outside the spine-like length of that country of only 5.6 million inhabitants. (The current membership of five …
by Paul Haeder / October 11th, 2025
No More Deaths is about stopping the Sacrifice Zones of La Frontera…
by Bill Berkowitz / October 11th, 2025
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The historian and author Gore Vidal once called the United States the “United States of Amnesia.” Nowhere is that amnesia more weaponized than in the Trump-era battle over American history. Among the many fronts in Trump’s culture …
by Yves Engler / October 11th, 2025
A rightist columnist just labeled me “repellent,” while a left establishment commentator publicly proclaimed, “fuck Yves Engler”. Canada’s ideological apparatus is whipped into a frenzy over my multilayered challenge of Canadian foreign policy and my NDP leadership campaign’s activist anti-capitalism.
On Friday, the ever-reliable Israel-no-matter-what supporter Rosie Dimanno labeled me “the repellent Yves Engler”. The longtime Toronto Star columnist complained that in August, I wrote, “Over the past century, Canada’s ties to the US and British empires, its interest in geopolitical control of the region, Protestant Zionism, anti-Muslim sentiment, and settler-colonial solidarity have all shaped Canadian policy [towards Israel] to varying …
by Roger D. Harris / October 10th, 2025
Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution out from its roots has a quarter-century pedigree. Stick around to the end of the article for an assessment of the likelihood of an overt military attack inside Venezuela. But first a little historical context.
Regime change has failed…so far
In 2002, a US-backed military coup temporarily ousted Hugo Chávez. A mere 47 hours later, the people of Venezuela spontaneously arose and …
by Caitlin Johnstone / October 10th, 2025
Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
Israel always does this. When normal people get a ceasefire agreement, they think, “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing.” Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement, they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect.”
But it does appear that the killing and abuse will at least diminish for a time, which is an objectively good thing no matter …
by David Swanson / October 10th, 2025
The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and victims of the Western empire. But it has never given the prize to open advocates of war and fascistic government. Trump was never going to be given the prize directly.
Trump is not the right type of warmonger. Nobody could do it with a straight face. Zelensky was saying he’d support Trump for the peace prize if Trump were to send …
The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’
by Media Lens / October 10th, 2025
On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?’
An honest, insightful analyst would have addressed the issue differently. First and foremost, the narrative framing of a ‘war’ would have been replaced by the reality: ‘genocide’. In fact, nowhere in his 1800-word article does Bowen even mention the word. The omission is both glaring and shameful.
Recall that it is now accepted by the UN Commission of Inquiry …
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
UPDATED: 9 October 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 Netanyahu on September 29th 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 …
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 …
