October 2024
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Episode 5 – Israel’s Quest for Wider War
In this episode, recorded a day after the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, Chelsey and Andrew discuss the escalating war and crisis in the Middle East, including the expanded war in Lebanon, the potential Israeli response to Iran, the views of Arab regimes, America’s interests in Israel as an outpost of… Continue reading
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How Zionists Invented ‘Terrorism’
Since the Zionist entity’s 21st century Holocaust in Gaza began, Israeli officials, pundits, journalists, and their Western opposite numbers have endlessly invoked the sinister spectre of “terrorism” to justify the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians. It is because of “terrorism”, twice-failed US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton representatively wrote for The Atlantic in November 2023, “Hamas must… Continue reading
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New reading on Palestine
Friday, 25 October 2024 — Verso Books Our Autumn publishing includes new editions of Ilan Pappe’s Ten Myths About Israel and Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land, a paperback edition of The Palestine Laboratory, new work from Gideon Levy and Adam Raz, and The Verso Palestine Pamphlets. Free Palestine: see all our reading here Continue reading
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Watch: The torture never stops (part II) – The Grayzone live
Jeremy Loffredo joins The Grayzone to discuss his disturbing and abusive detention by the Israeli police for the crime of journalism. Then Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate provide a war report from Gaza, where Israel embarks on a horrific plan to conquer the north, to Lebanon, where the Biden-Harris admin colludes with Israel to crush… Continue reading
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Why Brazil opposes Venezuela’s BRICS membership
This Monday, October 21, it became known that Brazil opposed Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group, in the context of the 16th Summit of the block in the city of Kazan, Russia, an event to which President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian President himself, Vladímir Putin, at the beginning of August. Continue reading
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CNN’s Sympathy Piece on Israeli Soldier Backfires After War Crime Allegations Surface
On October 21, CNN published an article focusing on the psychological trauma experienced by Israeli soldiers who participated in the invasion of the Gaza Strip. The piece did not mention that those it aimed to humanize had committed acts of murder, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and had even filmed themselves in the process. Continue reading
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Macron’s minions are still in love with Israel
As soon as the French president says something that upsets the Tel Aviv establishment, his entourage twists itself into various uncomfortable positions while trying to strike a different tone. Continue reading
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Israel decides not to attack Iran, it’s the leak’ what did it
Thursday, 24 October 2024 — The New Dark Age According to the London Times newspaper, Israel has called off its plan to attack Iran because, it alleges, of the ‘leak’ of the ‘secret’ attack plans. ‘Secret’? Oh really? Think about it; for weeks now, the US government has been ‘advising’ Israel that it would be Continue reading
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Our Revolutions Are for the Survival and Development of Human Civilisation: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2024)
Next year is the seventieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955 and attended by heads of government and state from twenty-nine African and Asian countries. Indonesia’s President Sukarno (1901–1970), who had led the freedom movement in Indonesia against Dutch colonialism, opened the conference with a speech entitled ‘Let a New… Continue reading
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Israel commits largest massacre yet in northern Gaza
The siege of north Gaza and Jabalia refugee camp enters its third week as Israel has cut off aid to some 200,000 people. On Saturday, Israeli forces bombed Beit Lahia, killing at least 80 Palestinians, in one of the largest massacres in months. Continue reading
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US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip
A private intelligence corporation billed as “Uber for war zones” is preparing to create what Israel hopes will be the model for supplanting Hamas rule in Gaza. Continue reading
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Let Cuba Live: Donate for Urgent Humanitarian Aid
Right now, Cuba is facing a severe moment of crisis. Amidst a devastating electrical blackout, a hurricane, and the ongoing brutal U.S. blockade, the Cuban people are facing urgent, life-threatening conditions. As neighbors, we have a responsibility to act and support the Cuban people in this moment of crisis. We aim to raise $100,000 to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 23, 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 — Black Agenda Report The U.S. Continues Its Terror Campaign Against Cuba Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The ongoing U.S./Israeli genocide has diverted attention away from other crimes. The electricity crisis in Cuba is but one example of how the U.S. determination to dominate has created suffering around the Continue reading
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After UK Police Raid, Journalist Asa Winstanley Focused On Stopping ‘Digital Strip-Search’ Of His Devices
London-based journalist Asa Winstanley says when British counter-terrorism police raided his home on October 17 they asked which electronic devices were personal and which were used for journalism. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 23 October 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 — GM Watch South Africa: Court ruling sets aside commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize A precedent-setting ruling by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal in favour of African Center for Biosafety (ACB) vs Monsanto/Bayer has set aside the commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize. ACB said: “South Africa’s Supreme Continue reading
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POEM: The Earth Is Closing On Us, Mahmoud Darwish, 1995
We are at a loss for words. We have lost all language. What words can describe the horrors and sorrows of a genocide, unremittingly live streamed, that has continued for more than a year? What language can convey the warped and barbaric white supremacist logics that justify the industrial massacre of more than 200,000 people,… Continue reading
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Controlling the narrative to hide Western Government complicity in the Israeli crime of genocide
Controlling the narrative to hide Western Government complicity in the Israeli crime of genocide. Continue reading
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“We are devastated – our son deserves better”
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer has this week been found not guilty of the murder of Chris Kaba. Continue reading
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AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Lebanon vs Israeli Savagery
Hezbollah has so far focused on military targets and deliberately avoided civilians. This could soon change if Israel continues to slaughter innocent people. Continue reading
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Zionism knows no borders
I know it’s bleak but there is an inescapable fact that, through my work, I have long been trying to explain: the war in the Levant has no borders, because Zionism has no borders. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 