Jonathan Cook – The West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it
Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net. Picture by Zoriah Nowhere safe Attacking peacekeepers Operating in the shadows ‘Mowing the lawn’ ‘House of darkness’ Zero evidence The Generals’ Plan ‘Starve or surrender’ Time of monsters2024-10-21 | Geopolitics, Article, Gaza
Gabriela Cabaña – Hydrogen: Green Solution or Energy Colonialism?
Gabriela Cabaña is a Chilean PhD candidate at the LSE anthropology department interested in the interplay between energy, bureaucracy, value, and degrowth. Her ethnographic work is focused on energy transitions in southern Chile. She participates in the Centro de Análisis Socioambiental. Picture by alec boreham Chile: prioritising export Infringed rights and compromised ecosystems Energy hoarding Alternative models2024-10-21 | Climate Crisis, DeGrowth, Energy
‘Exiled in My Own Land’ – Enduring Displacement and War in Gaza
What we have endured during these long months is beyond comprehension. It genuinely feels like a horror movie, from which I emerge as just one of the endless list of victims. Hardship and Disease Feels like Exile – Noor Abu Mariam is a 20-year-old Business Administration student at the Al-Azhar University in Gaza, specializing in English. As Gazan, she is currently focused on2024-10-21 | Articles, Features, gaza
Belarusian tennis star Arina Sobolenko back in top place of WTA Rankings
The Belarusian player, who competes at the international tournaments under a neutral status, returned to the top of the WTA Rankings for the second time in her career after she reigned the list of the world’s best female players last year for eight weeks - between September 11 and November 5, 20232024-10-21 | Sports
LIVE BLOG: Israeli Maj. Gen. Killed | Trying to Kill Netanyahu | Gaza Civilians Executed – Day 379
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that at least a drone launched from Lebanon directly hit Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea. According to the office, Netanyahu and his wife were not in their residence, but military censorship is banning the publication of news. The Director of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir al-Barsh, said that the situation in northern Gaza is catastrophic2024-10-19 | Blog, News, Slider
LIVE BLOG: Hamas Announces Sinwar’s Martyrdom | Rambam: More Casualties | Massacres in Besieged Jabaliya – Day 378
Israeli occupation forces have been besieging Jabaliya and northern Gaza for the 14th day, with continuous artillery shelling of the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz attacked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying that he “ id not welcome the liquidation of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and did not consider Hamas a terrorist organization after October 7”. Three Israeli soldiers, injured2024-10-18 | Blog, News, Slider
Jonathan Cook – Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism
All my posts are freely accessible, but my journalism is possible only because of the support of readers. If you liked this article or any of the others, please consider sharing it with friends and making a donation to support my work. You can do so by becoming a paid Substack subscriber, or donate via Paypal or my bank account, or alternatively2024-10-18 | Media, Media Influence, National Politics
France and Germany cut aid to Ukraine due to budget problems
The West has been cutting its funding for Ukraine. Next year loans remain doubtful. European heavyweights have announced a reduction in funding for Ukraine. France, which promised 3 billion euros in aid to Ukraine this year, has cut it by 1 billion, or by one-third. This is due to budget problems — budget deficit for 2024 may amount to about six percent2024-10-17 | World
“Text Me You Haven’t Died” – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
Dr. Soma Baroud and her niece visit the grave of a loved one. Photo | X | @ZarefahBaroud Soma’s son found this childhood photo of Ramzy on Soma’s shoulders amid the rubble of thier family home Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with2024-10-17 | Foreign Affairs, Opinion & Analysis
MERICS Forum: Chinese EV investments in Europe
MERICS Forum: Chinese EV investments in Europe H.Seidl Thu, 10/17/2024 - 09:58 picture alliance / CFOTO Comment Oct 17, 2024 9 min read MERICS Forum: Chinese EV investments in Europe Are Chinese EV investments in Europe an essential boost or a brewing risk? Jörg Wuttke Ágnes Szunomar Jakub Jakóbowski Gregor Sebastian Wendy Chang Alexander Brown Related content about EU-China The new European2024-10-17 |
After Pushing False Election Claims, Right-Wing Activists Recruit Poll Workers
‘Stand up. We’re going to induct you.’ Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, answers a question in a town hall with Pastor Jason Howard, which was hosted by the Lance Wallnau Show, at the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville, Pa., on Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) The worry is not disruption but distrust2024-10-16 | Activism, Belief & Religion, Courts & Law
Localization in Zimbabwe: A Critical Look at the Grand Bargain and Charter for Change
Localization refers to the process of empowering local actors—NGOs, community-based organizations and local governments—to lead in humanitarian and development responses. The idea is to shift control from international actors to local ones, ensuring that aid is more sustainable, context-specific and effective Frameworks such as the Grand Bargain and Charter for Change have played a crucial role in shaping the narrative2024-10-16 | Africa, Aid, Development & Aid
Qana Massacre 3 – Israel’s History of Civilian Massacres in Lebanon
What is remarkable is that Israel has now murdered more than double the number of people in Lebanon than it had in 2006, inflicting countless massacres across the country – Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.2024-10-16 | Articles, Features, israel
World Food Day 2024: DG Highlights Joint IAEA and FAO Atoms4Food Initiative to Reduce Global Hunger
Speaking on World Food Day at the opening session of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum in Rome, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, marked the day with Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Director General highlighted the IAEA and FAO’s long-standing partnership and the importance of their joint Atoms4Food initiative.2024-10-16 | News Story
Benefit of AU data policy relies on harmonised legal frameworks
Can the AU Data Policy Framework (DPF) support Digital Trade in SACU? Approach: The DPF’s overemphasis on legal frameworks such as FRAND, and regulatory sandboxes as only positive aspects needs to be recalibrated with a more balanced approach to better support digital trade in Africa. CBDF should be prioritized alongside data sovereignty and mutual recognition agreements – greater flexibility and policy space2024-10-16 |
Caitlin Johnstone – The Media When IDF Soldiers Get Killed Vs When A Hospital Patient Is Burned Alive In Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. https://x.com/miqdaad/status/ https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/ https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/ https://x.com/SanaSaeed/status/ My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Go here2024-10-15 | Fake News, Geopolitics, Media
Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell (New Transcript!)
This month we are re-publishing our conversation with Steven Attewell along with a new written transcript and episode graphic. Attewell is author of the incredible book, People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America from FDR to Reagan, published in 2018 by University of Pennsylvania Press. The book examines the history of job creation programs in the United States2024-10-15 | Money on the Left Episodes, Featured
Three weeks before the US elections: The political issues confronting the working class
The closeness of the race does not mean that tens of millions of American workers are in favor of a fascist dictatorship. Instead, it reflects a deep and widespread hostility toward the Democratic Party, which is both opposed to and incapable of advancing policies that address the needs of the broad mass of the population.2024-10-14 |
From Turtle Island to Palestine: Indigenous People’s Day and Palestine Solidarity
Both Israel and North America share similar rhetoric that justifies their origins. Infused with biblical references to “salvation, redemption, and destiny,” settlers in both countries believed that they had reached the Promised Land. – Benay Blend earned her doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her scholarly works include Douglas Vakoch and Sam Mickey, Eds. (2017), “’Neither Homeland2024-10-13 | Articles, Commentary, Colonialism
Caitlin Johnstone – It’s So, So Bad, And It’s About To Get A Whole Lot Worse
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. https://x.com/SanaSaeed/status/ https://x.com/OmarBaddar/status/ https://x.com/MsJamshidi/status/ My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Go here to find video versions of2024-10-13 | Geopolitics, Article, Caitlin Johnstone
New BBC ‘fight for truth’ self-promotion video breaks irony meters
State broadcaster’s record on disinformation is a mockery covered for the Tory government’s failure to achieve its covid testing promises during the pandemic and kept repeating the Tories’ claims about covid deaths among NHS workers even after they were shown to be false replaced footage of a dishevelled Boris Johnson at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday with footage of an earlier2024-10-12 | Analysis, Breaking, abuse
Criminalizing Opposition – Biggest Terrorists Seek to Put Anti-Terrorists on Terror List
Canada’s terrorist list targets those opposing Israeli terror. In a stark example of our upside-down world those promoting Israel’s endless crimes are on the offensive seeking to criminalize opposition to Israel’s holocaust. No one claims Samidoun has engaged in any violence. If Samidoun is a terrorist organization what is the Israeli military? Mossad? Likud? Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party? Sar-El? HESEG Foundation for2024-10-12 | Articles, Commentary, Activism
Imperialism’s striving for expansion
The further development of the centralisation of capital, leading to its consolidation, has on the one hand muted inter-imperialist rivalry, since capital now wants the entire world, not broken up into spheres of influence of rival powers, as the domain for its unrestricted movement; on the other hand it has also led to an attempt on the part of now-united2024-10-12 | Newswire
Craig Mokhiber – The beginning of the end of Israel
Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response, and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights, and international law A formula for disaster Maintaining Western support Expedited2024-10-11 | Geopolitics, Article, Craig Mokhiber
Starmer, Lammy silent as Spain, Italy, France, Ireland condemn Israel’s attacks on UN peacekeepers
Foreign ministers of other countries summon embassies, condemn lawbreaking – but Starmer and Lammy stay silent on attacks and even spokesperson refuses to say Israel breaking international law Lammy and Starmer found time for this, but not to condemn yet more Israeli war crimes Make a one-time donation DonateMake a monthly donation Donate monthlyMake a yearly donation Donate yearly2024-10-11 | Analysis, aggression, ambassador
Heavy quadcopter Berdysh: A new chapter in Russian unmanned aviation
Uraldrone Plant presented the new Berdysh quadcopter for supporting assault troops. The new drone is designed to support assault troops, capable of using a grenade launcher and a flamethrower, Vladimir Tkachuk, Uraldrone Plant CEO said. The Berdysh is the latest development of Russian engineers. This is a heavy combat drone designed to support assault troops. This vehicle is a combination of impressive2024-10-11 | Incidents
Dubai Unlocked: The Politically Exposed Kenyans Investing in Dubai’s Luxe Landscape
Key Findings Dubai Unlocked, an investigation by Africa Uncensored, OCCRP, and more than 70 other media outlets globally, reveals how the emirate’s status as a global financial hub has made it an attractive destination for investment, particularly in real estate. While much of the investment appears to be above board, lax regulations, transactions conducted in cash and cryptocurrency, and a reputation for2024-10-11 | General, Dubai, Emirates
LIVE BLOG: Rockets, Missiles from Lebanon | No Decision regarding Iran | Gaza ‘Second Battlefield’ – Day 371
At least one Israeli was killed and another seriously injured as a result of an anti-tank missile fired toward the Yar’on area in northern Israel. According to Israeli media, no decision was taken by the Israeli security cabinet regarding a possible response to Iran. Meanwhile, Gaza was classified as a ‘secondary battlefield’ for the first time since October 7, 2023. More resources2024-10-11 | Blog, News, Slider
Brett Wilkins – Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers
Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams Destruction of civilian infrastructure: Targeted attacks on homes, hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, and other civilian infrastructure. Illegal occupation and looting: Soldiers were documented occupying civilian homes, looting personal belongings, and exploiting occupied properties. Participation in the Gaza blockade: The soldiers played an active role in enforcing a blockade that deprived civilians of essential goods2024-10-11 | Geopolitics, Article, Brett Wilkins
Caitlin Johnstone – Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids In The Head
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. https://x.com/DoctorVive/status/ https://x.com/DecampDave/status/ https://x.com/tparsi/status/ My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Go here to find video versions of2024-10-10 | Geopolitics, Article, Caitlin Johnstone
Azerbaijan Turns into a “Massive Open-Air Prison” before UN Climate Change Conference
The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) will take place from November 11 to 22 in Baku. "Baku seeks to silence any dissenting voice in what was supposed to be a great year for Azerbaijan," concludes Mustafayeva “We investigated the contracts awarded for reconstruction in the area and discovered that many companies belonged to high-ranking government officials,” explains the2024-10-10 | Climate Change, Democracy, Environment
Streeting advertises for £45kpa campaign manager 5 years before next GE – frit much?
Starmer mini-me held seat by only 528 votes in July against British Palestinian Leanne Mohamad To develop and be responsible for delivering a constituency campaign plan making sure we have the infrastructure to run successful election campaigns. To recruit, develop and train teams of volunteers to deliver effective year round campaigning and organising using all available campaign methods. To organise regular campaigning sessions2024-10-10 | Analysis, abuse, appalling
Gideon Levy – War on Gaza: Israel has lost its humanity as it celebrates its power to kill
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor. He was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel2024-10-09 | Geopolitics, Article, Gideon Levy
Corporate Europe Observatory – The little-known ‘forum’ locking Europe into a fossil fuelled future
including CCUS in the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs), making CO2transport and storage infrastructure eligible for massive public money from Member States’ budgets; promising to use the EU’s “participatory approach” (a euphemism for having the same industry that benefits from it designing it) towards gas network planning as a model for designing “EU-wide CO2 transport infrastructure”. Even though this approach in the2024-10-09 | Climate Crisis, Corruption, EU politics
Peter Thiel: From Gaza AI War Criminal To White House Puppet Master
Shadow President AI War Criminal Perhaps most controversially, Lavender also gave children a score of 1-100 and recommended many for execution. Israel was delighted with Lavender’s performance, with one commander explaining that human targeting produced “bottlenecks” that limited the IDF’s capacity for violence. “We [humans] cannot process so much information. It doesn’t matter how many people you have tasked to produce targets2024-10-09 | Daily Digest, Investigations, National
Jeffrey Sachs – Here’s the truth: it is the lack of a two-state solution that most threatens Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently2024-10-08 | Geopolitics, Article, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Israel and US to invade Iran not to let it build nuclear bomb
Did Iran conduct an underground nuclear test on October 5? Iran will build a nuclear bomb anyway, and the US and Israel will have to occupy it not to let it happen. Iran May Have Conducted an Underground Nuclear Explosion An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was recorded in the desert of Iran's Semnan province at 10:45 a. m.2024-10-08 | World
CIS leaders see their duty in protecting world from new war
"Our common duty is to sacredly honor the memory of those who died for freedom and peace on Earth, to defend with all our might the just cause for which they fought and gave their lives, and to strengthen in every possible way the unity of all people of good will in the fight against any manifestations of Nazism and2024-10-08 | Military & Defense
Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup
The military, which has repeatedly been accused of indiscriminate aerial bombardments, launched at least seven airstrikes in four days between 3 and 6 September. According to Unicef, 10 children were among those killed. A pregnant woman also lost her unborn child. A camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Pekhon township, southern Shan state, was one of the seven locations2024-10-08 | Global development, Myanmar, Conflict and arms
LIVE BLOG: Israeli Soldiers Killed, Wounded | Israel Bombs Beirut | 100 Rockets Target Haifa – Day 368
A first sergeant was killed and a soldier was seriously injured in battles in the northern Gaza Strip while another soldier was seriously injured during fighting in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces continued to bomb the Lebanese capital Beirut and other southern towns. Iranian Foreign Minister said that Iran can reach all targets and that it will not hesitate to respond in the2024-10-08 | Blog, News, Slider
Back to the Start – Resistance Roundup – Day 367
Israeli authorities knew that the resistance fronts in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, were preparing to escalate their attacks on Israel today, to mark the first-year-anniversary of October 7. Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) Al-Quds Brigades (Islamic Jihad) Hezbollah At 00:05, the Nimra base (one of the main bases in the northern region) west of Tabariya, was targeted with a rocket barrage, in response to Israel’s2024-10-07 | Blog, News, Videos
A Very Democratic Genocide – Terror Intrinsic to Israel’s Survival
“Israel is a democracy and not run by a terrorist organization.” Thus spoke Peter Dutton, the leader of the Australian opposition Liberal Party. ‘International Law Means Nothing’ ‘Custodian of Absentee Property’ ‘Grand Larceny’ ‘Normative’ Violence Invading and Occupying ‘Child Could See the Logic’ Genocide Convention Enough is Enough – Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many2024-10-07 | Articles, Commentary, Australia
X overtakes WeChat in spreading Chinese disinformation about the 2024 US presidential elections
1. Trump is the only savior of the US, and today’s problems are because he is not in charge 2. The “extreme left” policies of Biden, Harris, and the Democratic Party are destroying the US and bringing it closer to communism 3. The Biden administration opened the border to allow undocumented immigrants to vote for Democrats in the 2024 election This narrative is2024-10-07 | Advocacy, China, Disinformation
‘Turning Point in Our Struggle’ – Resistance Groups Mark One Year since October 7
October 7 marks the day one year ago when the Palestinian Resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in its ongoing campaign to resist Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands including the siege on the Gaza Strip. ‘Unwavering Faith, Determination’ – Hamas ‘Steadfastness’ ‘Sacrifices’ Boycotts and Solidarity Israel a ‘Cancerous Tumor’ – Hezbollah ‘Allies and Tools’ of US Israel ‘Backed by America, Britain and Supportive West’ – Ansarallah ‘Sequence of Aggression’ Lebanese2024-10-07 | Blog, News, Ansarallah
The Electronic Intifada: Asa Winstanley – How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate editor with The Electronic Intifada. He is author of the book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (OR Books, 2023). Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own2024-10-07 | Fake News, Geopolitics, Media
Jonathan Cook – Why is the ‘liberal’ media peddling the vilest genocide apologism?
Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net All my posts are freely accessible, but my journalism is possible only because of the support of readers. If you liked this article or any of the others,2024-10-06 | Fake News, Media, Media Influence
On ‘Closures and Continuities’ – Reflections on October 7
On October 25, 2013, Angela Davis delivered a speech at Birbeck University in London. Entitled “Closures and Continuities,” her talk drew from a freedom song that was popular in the American South during the 20th Century freedom movement. – Benay Blend earned her doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her scholarly works include Douglas Vakoch and Sam2024-10-06 | Articles, Commentary, gaza genocide
Sharon Graham ‘to announce early Unite GS election’
Graham said to be ‘going political’, calling election to try to stem outrage over Gaza betrayals – and allegedly to have result over before police announce no wrongdoing in conference centre deal Sharon Graham with Keir Starmer that she attempted to have evidence destroyed in bullying and misogyny complaints about her husband, whom she now employs in her office despite a final warning from2024-10-06 | Analysis, Breaking, Exclusive