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Thinking Conflict

The USA has an immature, autistic approach to its conflicts, like a spoiled child. A leadership has to come to grips with the root of conflicts--not symptoms like hatred and hostility--the contradiction itself, a problem in search of a solution. And be a good team player as USians often are; the team being the world.

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How Germany’s Fight against Anti-Semitism Is Empowering the Far Right

11 Sep 2025 - Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the antisemitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.

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Memories of the Future

2 Oct 2025 - Monumental Heritage and Redefinition of Hopeful Public Space in Former Yugoslavia

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‘Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize’ 2025 to Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Peace Camps Empower Liberian Youth to Envision a Different Future

Peace camps have been empowering Liberian youth. In July 2025, 50 young people from Maryland and Grand Kru communities gathered in Monrovia for the ninth Annual Peace Through Fair Play Youth Camp organized by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.

NOBEL LAUREATES

Nobel ‘Peace’ Committee – A Prize for US Military Regime Change

10 Oct 2025 — 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.

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NEWS

A Joint Statement from Palestinian Resistance Factions

Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on 10 Oct 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.

Israel Attacks Another Group of Civilian Ships Bound for Gaza

8 Oct 2025 - In a new act of state terrorism, Israel has assaulted vessels from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative in international waters, abducting more than 140 crew members.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA, WEST BANK 13 Oct 2025

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights in a Divided & Dangerous World

4 Oct 2025 - Do human rights still matter in a divided and dangerous world? Does the fact that they are violated invalidate them as tools for making the world safer and fairer? Are there concrete ways to strengthen our understanding and commitment to human rights? 

Landmark Ruling Finally Brings Justice for Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in DRC

6 Oct 2025 - Women’s rights advocates have welcomed a landmark decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights holding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accountable for widespread sexual violence committed by its military forces. 

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Gaza as a Mirror for Personal Implication in a Reality Denied

What is to be learned from the extensive media exposure to the tragic events in Gaza and the nature of the global response to it? More to the point, what indeed could "I" be learning from that exposure and how "I" am called into question by it?

Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela

8 Oct 2025 - Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combating “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism.

Disinvite Trump

7 Oct 2025 - The International Movement for a Just World joins a host of Malaysian groups and individuals in appealing to PM Anwar Ibrahim to formally disinvite Trump to the forthcoming ASEAN Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 28 Oct 2025.

Western Media Is an Integral Component of the West’s Collective Genocide in Palestine

Is So Fxxking Criminal, Pathetic, Perverse - Stopping the US-Israel Joint Genocide Amidst Worldwide Condemnation Is Presented as "a Deal"

Denmark, Drones & Deception: Europe’s Staged Panic Over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?

6 Oct 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…

Transition to a Nonmilitary Earth Federation through the World Disarmament Agency

Civil law require enforcement by civilian police who are accountable to the principles of good government and trained in the protection of human rights and dignity. The first of these principles is that individuals are accountable to the law, not collectivities (like nation-states).

The Garden of Peace Memories: Revisiting Kashmir’s Cultural Past and Present, Odyssean Soul (Part 4)

“Can The Sacred Harmony in the Vale of Kashmir be Ever Restored?”

Eritrea in the Empire’s Crosshairs: Propaganda and Regime Change Operations

1 Oct 2025 - Western NGOs and media recently launched coordinated attacks on Eritrea, a longstanding US target for regime change.

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the US Federal Debt Crisis (Part I)

5 Oct 2025 - The Fed’s Hidden Drain

How Satanists Latched onto the 20th Century

Both Jack Parsons and Crowley would see themselves as ‘magickal children’ and Satanic heirs of their ‘father’s claims to the title of Anti-Christ and would continue Crowley’s agenda in their own peculiar ways after Aleister ‘Great Beast’ Crowley had died in 1947.

IN FOCUS

Albert Einstein and the Problem of War

Einstein was horrified by the onset of World War I and wondered whether “centuries of painstaking cultural effort” have “carried us no further than . . . the insanity of nationalism.” Today, as we face a violent, nuclear-armed world, his warnings about unrestrained nationalism and his proposals to control it are increasingly relevant.

A Ghost of Failed Diplomacy in Gaza: Tony Blair

12 Oct 2025 - Why Inviting This Warhawk to Gaza’s Table is a Recipe for Disaster

The Power of the Word

A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly - of crucial knowledge. Before the introduction of writing, it took oral form. The subjects covered matters temporal as well as sacred.

AFRICA

Africa Will Be Free When the IMF Stops Colluding to Steal Its Wealth

9 Oct 2025 - In countries like Senegal, the IMF has been complicit with irregular debt practices and fraudulent accounting in order to undermine sovereignty and favour multinational corporations.

ANGLO AMERICA

Interpreting the Trump (Netanyahu) Gaza Plan; Reactions to It and What Next

3 Oct 2025 - The juxtaposition between the evident and criminal flaws in the Trump Gaza plan (which, while thin on detail, makes grandiose claims, is cringeworthy and unlikely to be actualized), requires some explaining and unpacking; where it might lead and whether anything can be salvaged from this detritus.

Genocide Stalks the U.S.A.: Paul Robeson, 1952

Robeson’s essay “Genocide Stalks the U.S.A.,” published in New World Review in 1952, is worth returning to. It focuses on the efforts to present the UN with a petition charging the US with committing genocide against African Americans. Robeson offers us two things that help us understand the question of Palestine: a reminder, and a methodology.

Hamas’s Strategic Gamble

5 Oct 2025 - While President Trump enthusiastically welcomed Hamas’s response to his Gaza plan, the White House and Israel deal in deception.

JUSTICE

Bertrand Russell’s Historic War Crimes Tribunal against the US in Vietnam, 1964-1967

Oct 2025 - The audacity of Bertrand Russell and Ho Chi Minh to create a transnational war crimes tribunal to try the US government for crimes against the people of Vietnam and Laos through bombardment of civilians, schools, hospitals, and villages. The tribunal hearings in Sweden, Denmark and Japan signposts the continuing relevance of war crimes trials.

MILITARISM

U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, Oct 2023-Sep 2025

7 Oct 2025 - The US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide. Given the scale of current and future spending, the IDF could not have done the damage they have done in Gaza without U.S. financing, weapons, and political support.

ASIA--PACIFIC

PM Shigeru Ishiba on Japan’s Failure to Avoid War

10 Oct 2025 - Outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba today released a statement of personal reflections to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II by posing a tantalizing question: “Why couldn’t Japan avoid that war?”

EUROPE

Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza

9 Oct 2025 - More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on Oct 3 in a general strike in support of Gaza and against the genocide. The strike drew extraordinary participation from workers, students, families, and dozens of secular and religious associations.

The “Czech Trump” Rises to Power as European Leaders Seek to Continue the Ukraine War for Financial Gain

9 Oct 2025 - Reducing or suspending aid could pressure Ukraine to end the war. However, most European countries have decided to continue supporting it and have not pressured it to seek a ceasefire or peace.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Russian-Saudi Biological Partnership for Peace and Prosperity

7 Oct 2025 - Currently, one of the most politically and economically developing countries in the world is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It pursues an active foreign policy aimed at expanding multilateral cooperation with Russia and the BRICS countries.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire; Trump Confirms Deal Was Reached

8 Oct 2025 - Hamas and other Palestinian factions agreed to a framework for the Gaza ceasefire deal today, a senior Hamas official and a second source close to the Palestinian negotiating team told. “From our side, yes.”

Oxford Jewish Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist

27 Sep 2025 - Jewish Oxford University historian Prof. Avi Shlaim has openly condemned Israel’s policies and praised Palestinian resistance. In an interview with Haaretz, Shlaim repeatedly stressed that Palestinians, including Hamas, have the right to resist occupation.

Gaza and the Excuse of October 7: The Test of Our Humanity

7 Oct 2025 - October 7 marks the beginning of a genocide that had long been unfolding in silence — slowly, systematically, and with bureaucratic precision behind euphemisms: “security,” “counterterrorism,” “right to self-defence.” But on October 7, 2023, the mask fell. The genocide revealed its full, grotesque face — naked hatred toward everything Palestinian.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

10 Oct 2025 - There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

They Really Think They’ll Be Able to Propagandize the World into Liking Israel Again

6 Oct 2025 - Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

West Bank: Record Number of Demolitions over Building Permits as Israel Furthers Annexation Agenda

6 Oct 2025 - In less than nine months, Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over building permits than in the whole of last year.

Artificial Intelligence and Israeli Intelligence–The Planning of Genocide–“What Gaza Will Look Like in the Future”

10 Oct 2025 - What this entails is the admission that there was a detailed intelligence and military agenda to “Wipe Gaza off the Map”, planned well in advance to October 7, 2023.

CAPITALISM

Is Netanyahu Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ for Blackrock?

(MUST READ) An international group of investors is planning to create a state-of-the-art special economic zone in the Gaza Strip: Gaza 2035. “Gaza is described less as a society than as a distressed asset to be flipped. This is disaster capitalism at its sharpest. It is devastation reframed as the precondition for speculative profit.”

UNITED NATIONS

Is the UN Charter Worth the Paper It’s Written On?

8 Oct 2024 - In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the world’s most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again.

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN

8 Oct 2025 - What is wrong with Trump's Gaza plan and how an Emergency Special Session of the UNGA can pass a binding resolution to recognize Palestine and launch a UN-led arms embargo, economic boycott and other concrete measures to force Israel to end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.

ECONOMICS

Two-Thirds of Climate Funding for Global South Is Loans as Rich Countries Profiteer from Escalating Climate Crisis

6 Oct 2025 - Nearly two-thirds of climate finance was made as loans, often at standard rates of interest without concessions, research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Centre has found.

EDUCATION

Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace

Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace are so closely interconnected that none of them can truly exit when others disappear.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Essays: An Anthology on Nonkilling Literature

The Center for Global Nonkilling is aiming to compile a new anthology related to Nonkilling Literature to be published in late 2026. We are now inviting original essays that go beyond answering the question, 'Is nonkilling literature possible?'

REVIEWS

Across Mountains, Land and Sea

Sep 2025 - The book opens with a stunning scene of his mother giving birth to Mir in the freezing dark alone in a war torn village in Afghanistan. Mir’s birth circumstances made clear that he received a foundation in life from his mother that has sustained him ever since.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Robert Badinter : Le Saint-Seculier au Visage de Bronze, ou Comment un “Héros des Droits de l’Homme” Masqua ses Fantômes

12 octobre 2025 - Cette semaine, Emmanuel Macron, ce prestidigitateur élyséen aux tours usés jusqu’à la corde, a fait entrer Robert Badinter dans ce sanctuaire laïque, un cercueil vide glissant sur le marbre comme un mensonge poli.

(Castellano) Abolir el Mundial de fútbol

11 Oct 2025 - El fútbol es más popular que Jesús de Nazaret y John Lennon juntos. Y a simple vista, parece un pasatiempo poco dañino para el medioambiente: los jugadores solo necesitan una pelota, algo de espacio y ganas de correr. Pero los datos son estremecedores:

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Two Years of Genocide: On Social Media by Israeli Soldiers Themselves

5 Oct 2025 - On the second anniversary of the Oct 7 attack, here's our acclaimed short film ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’, featuring rare interviews with Israeli troops.

Why October 7 Happened in 3 Minutes

10 Oct 2025 - Max Blumenthal breaks it all down.

Drive (Music Video of the Week)

A Tribute to the Broken Palestinians of Gaza Undergoing an Evil Genocide (with lyrics)