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EDITORIAL

NATO’s Indo-Pacific Expansion Lacks Legality and Common Sense

South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand sent their defence ministers to a NATO meeting in Oct 2024, the first time these countries’ defence ministers joined. It signals that NATO is serious about its expansion into this region.

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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate

Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Psychopathy Incorporated

The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative structural analysis of capitalism to be defined as a “psychopathic system.” Its inherent structural dynamics violently centralize and concentrate wealth and ideological and political power in the hands of a “psychopathic ruling class.”

NOBEL LAUREATES

Han Kang’s Nobel Literature Prize Is a Cry for Palestine

14 Oct 2024 - A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang's unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Prof. Johan Galtung: Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)

Johan Galtung was a professor of Peace Studies worldwide who mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His unique imprint on the study of Conflict and Peace stems from scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics. His TRANSCEND motto: Peace by Peaceful Means.

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

We Must Purge Genocide from the Marrow of Our Bones

14 Oct 2024 - This was never about freeing hostages, getting rid of Hamas, Israel’s “right to defend itself,” mass rapes, beheaded babies, or babies cooked in ovens. It was always about stealing land from the indigenous people of Palestine.

NEWS

Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran

19 Oct 2024 - Leaked top secret documents from the Pentagon and the National Security Agency outline Israeli preparations for a major attack against Iran, CNN reported today, the leak coming from a US intelligence source.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

* Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence * LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 21 Oct 2024

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Enhancing Diplomatic Negotiations with Logical Connectives

21 Oct 2024 - The world is faced with an unprecedented array of conflicts that may escalate further increasing the fatalities and environmental degradation. Indicative reframing of intractable dialogues by AI: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, China-USA.

What Is Israel Doing in Lebanon? War with Iran? Expansionism? Deterrence by State Terror? Netanyahu’s CV

16 Oct 2024 - The regional spillover of violence linked to the Gaza Genocide and arousing concerns of starvation and disease. Major states in Europe are threatening Israel with an arms embargo if it does not accept a ceasefire.

The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria

19 Oct 2024 - Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.

On Sisters and Personal Reflection

I usually try to relay situations on the ground that are missing from the manipulated/controlled western “mainstream” media.

A Gaza Development Corporation

16 Oct 2024 - There is increasing discussion concerning the Gaza Strip, its relation to the West Bank, and "the day after" when there is a ceasefire, people return to their home area, and reconstruction begins.

REVIEWS

Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters

16 Oct 2024 - The West’s dominant media tell us little about Hamas' history or ideology, relying instead on “terrorist” clichés. This new book cuts through them to explain.

IN FOCUS

Israel’s War on the World

17 Oct 2024 - Israel's ever-expanding war to bomb its way to the promised land of Greater Israel, the world's efforts to enforce international law and restore peace, and the U.S. role in preventing a resolution and fueling the crisis.

War on Gaza and How the US and Israel Dehumanize Human Culture

Today’s Humanity Is Victim of Powerful Political Cults

ACTIVISM

Greek Piraeus Port Dockworkers Block 21 Tons of Ammunition Cargo to Israel

18 Oct 2024 - Dozens of Greek dockworkers blocked the loading of ammunition destined for Israel in protest against the Gaza genocide, coast guard and union officials said today.

ANGLO AMERICA

We Really Are the Bad Guys and This Really Is the Evil Empire

21 Oct 2024 - It takes some learning and insight to understand that Western civilization really is the absolute worst. Ours is the most savage and thuggish civilization on this planet, and it’s not even close.

Noam Chomsky on How the US Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

16 Oct 2024 - The Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of US Hegemonic Foreign Policy

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Gaza Burns as Wall Street Booms

15 Oct 2024 - Palestinians are being burned alive by Israeli bombs. U.S.-based defense contractors and big banks’ profits soar. Yesterday morning, 500 Jews and allies shut down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the U.S. stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.

The Ukraine War Becomes a Korean War

14 Oct 2024 - It is predicted that Ukraine War will last for decades--like the Korean War--without ending the ceasefire. This was first pointed out by Serbian pro-Russian President Alekandar Vucić last September.

BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE

Zelensky’s 5/8ths Victory Plan

18 Oct 2024 - What are the details of the Zelensky Victory Plan? Is it a roadmap to eventually winning the war militarily? The Victory Plan has five critical points Zelensky described in his speech but three of the plan’s key elements must remain a ‘secret’, he said.

Is Political West Bailing Out Due to ‘Real and Increasing Ukraine Fatigue’?

17 Oct 2024 - The term "Ukraine fatigue" is not new but its latest usage breaks off from the usual pattern and may indicate that the world's most aggressive power pole is looking for ways to leave the Neo-Nazi junta to fend for itself.

BRICS

BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Understanding Russia’s Proposal

20 Oct 2024 - The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.

Celebrating Multilateralism

17 Oct 2024 - In the run-up to the summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct 22 to 24, BRICS implement intra-BRICS cooperation under three pillars: political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Israel’s Proxy War with Iran Leaves Young Children in Gaza and Lebanon Burned from Head to Toe

17 Oct 2024 - Displaced Gazans in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital woke up Tue 15 Oct to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. Residents and rescue workers scrambled to rescue people from the flames, but they could not save Shaaban Al-Dalou, who was burned alive.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

Israel Is Turning Northern Gaza into a Killing Cage

14 Oct 2024 - With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.

Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation

15 Oct 2024 - "Everyone Is Malnourished, Everyone Is Immunocompromised"

USA-Israel-Palestine: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun

The Israelis are not at war with the Palestinians of Gaza, just as the Reich was not at war with the Jews of Europe. Genocide is something different. “The truth is like the sun.. It always comes out.”

Extermination Works. At First.

14 Oct 2024 - Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state.

A Window into a Fascist Engine: Arbitrary Abuse, Population Control, and Israel’s Impossible Destruction of Palestinians

14 Oct 2024 - Part of a multifaith human rights delegation to Palestine, I was refused entry to the West Bank by Israel, detained, questioned, my laptop and phone confiscated. I was screamed at, laughed at, not allowed to the bathroom, labelled a public security threat, fingerprinted and expelled to Jordan with my phone blocked and my bank card not working. I am now back home in London.

SPORTS

In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel

7 Oct 2024 - FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.

APPEALS

Urgent Joint Statement: Northern Gaza Is Being Erased – Global Leaders Must Act Now to End Israel’s Atrocities

15 Oct 2024 - Oxfam and 37 other humanitarian organisations are raising the alarm about the catastrophic situation in Northern Gaza.

UNITED NATIONS

ICJ Position Paper on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

18 Oct 2024 - Legal analysis and recommendations on implementation of the International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, Legal Consequences from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem

Israel Is a Rogue Nation–It Should Be Removed from the United Nations

15 Oct 2024 - One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it.

Israel’s War on the United Nations

15 Oct 2024 - The UN is an easy body to hate.  At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone.  It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and hatred briefly stemmed. 

Over 1.8 million in Gaza Face Extreme Hunger

17 Oct 2024 - More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed by the Israeli genocidal military offensive, a UN food security assessment released today has revealed.

The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform

19 Oct 2024 - I am one of the original signatories of the Earth Constitution, presented in Innsbruck, Austria in 1977 and proposed by the World Constitution and Parliament Association.

UN Troops to ‘Stay in All Positions’ Inside Lebanon Despite Israeli Threats

15 Oct 2024 - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations confirmed yesterday that the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon would “stay in all its positions” after Israeli attacks injured at least five blue helmets.

MEDIA

A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis

17 Oct 2024 - Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.

‘Slow Torture’: Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Journalists

"Female journalists, completely stripped, blindfolded, beaten, and tortured, with the sounds of dogs threatening to maul them on one side, while a male interrogator threatens them with rape on the other. What humanity can we speak of in the face of such horror?"

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) L’Islam e l’Occidente

Ci siamo già passati, molte volte. Per l'Occidente, invadere le terre islamiche era parte di un massiccio esercizio noto come colonialismo.

(Français) BRICS et Afrique: nouveau partenariat «win-win» ou «colonialisme newlook»?

8 octobre 2024 - Pour de larges segments du monde politique et de la société civile en Afrique, les BRICS+ constituent une alternative salutaire à la domination occidentale, en proposant de nouveaux partenariats plus équitables, plus respectueux des souverainetés nationales et davantage centrés sur les priorités de développement national.

(Italiano) “La Guerra È Una Pazzia”

19 Ottobre 2024 - Appello di Don Mimmo Battaglia ai Ministri della Difesa riuniti a Napoli in occasione della Presidenza Italiana del G7.

INSPIRATIONAL

Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil

In 1982, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and interviewer Bill Moyers traveled to Texas countryside to discuss the ugliest aspects of human nature at a conference titled Facing Evil.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Gandhi’s Quote on Western Civilization

“I think it would be a very good idea.” Like many of the best stories, alas, this one is probably apocryphal; but also, like many of the best stories, it has survived because it has the flavor of truth.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Down the Memory Hole

Meanwhile, in the evil empire...

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED

16 Oct 2024 - The Footage the BBC or CNN Won’t Show You

Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse

16 Oct 2024 - Medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza's hospitals are speaking out. "I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital’s emergency department. This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life."

Gabor Maté: Zionism Will Be Looked Upon as One of the Greatest Disasters in Jewish History

14 Oct 2024 - Frank Barat and Gabor Maté delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression, and the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror.

The Song Israel Doesn’t Want You to Hear (Music Video of the Week)

8 Oct 2024 - They Really Did All of This

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Investigating War Crimes in Gaza (MUST WATCH)

This investigation exposes Israeli war crimes in Gaza through photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers, illegal activities, wanton destruction and looting, demolition of entire neighborhoods and murder, exposing also the complicity of Western governments.