There are indications Israel may return to the negotiating table, but Netanyahu is still operating from his well-worn sabotage playbook to maintain his war of annihilation
Like all Palestinian journalists in Gaza, Rasha Abou Jalal is continuing to report under the most difficult and extraordinary conditions imaginable. Originally from Gaza City, she was displaced with her family to Deir El-Balah once the war started. They managed to return to Gaza City during the “ceasefire” that went into effect in January. They were almost killed on March 18, when Israel resumed its mass aerial bombardment campaign—their neighbor’s house was targeted, causing the room where she and her husband and five children usually sleep to collapse. You can read her harrowing account of what happened here.
Rasha is now displaced again, staying with relatives in Gaza City, where she continues her work. Her latest dispatch documents the desperate conditions people in Gaza City are being forced to endure amid Israel’s massive bombing and a total siege.
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar joins the program from inside the most country currently leading the way in standing up for human rights and peace worldwide: Yemen. In this must-watch stream, we discuss the truth about how the people of this war-torn country have been able to remain steadfast in their support of Gaza with ongoing ballistic missile strikes and a red sea blockade that has the US and Israel in total panic.
Michael Gove has sparked outrage by calling for the Israeli Occupation Forces to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, despite the genocide and the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Israel’s ongoing military campaign has resulted in the deaths of over 50,000 Palestinians and additionally, the ministry reported that 113,274 Palestinians have been injured during the genocide.
The 18 activists stand accused of destroying millions of pounds worth of equipment used to build quadcopter drones, made by Israel’s top weapons company Elbit Systems, which are used against civilians in Gaza. In response hundreds of protesters blocked a road leading to the Filton weapons factory in solidarity with the human rights activists and also protested in their favour outside the Old Bailey.
Evidence suggests that the Royal Air Force (RAF) is continuing to deploy reconnaissance aircraft over Gaza. It has been well established that UK shares intelligence information with Israel. Despite London condemning Israeli actions in restarting the war, it appears as if it is actively surveilling the Gaza Strip, indicating that it is directly assisting in Israeli targeting.
Over the past nine days since Israel resumed its full scale genocidal war on the Palestinians of Gaza, more than 300 children have been killed in Israeli bombing and other attacks. Their names have been added to those of nearly 16,000 other children killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, largely with weapons provided to the Israeli military by the United States and other Western powers.
On an evening in September 2024, Argentina’s President Javier Milei stood before a large crowd in Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires. He wore his signature dark leather jacket and barked out his speech, the crowd devouring every word. ‘Here you have the trolls’, he said, ‘corrupt journalists, shady characters. These are the trolls’. Then, he pointed at the people in the crowd and said that they were invisible because the journalists had ‘the monopoly on microphones’. It was harsh language, a replica of Donald Trump’s statement that journalists are the ‘enemy of the people’ (which is itself an echo of US President Richard Nixon’s statement to his advisor Henry Kissinger in 1972: ‘The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on the blackboard 100 times and never forget it’). These statements do not come without cost. Since Milei came to office in December 2023, attacks on journalists have increased.
On 25 March, Lavrov provided information about the negotiations with Team Trump in an interview with Channel One, Moscow. The Kremlin followed later in the day with two press releases that provided additional details. We’ll begin with Lavrov:
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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trying to re-engage disaffected voters who are rightly disengaged from the Democratic Party. Big rallies can’t hide the fact that the Fighting Oligarchy Tour leads misguided people right back to oligarchy.
The UK government’s Spring statement on spending was as expected – really awful. First, Chancellor Rachel Reeves had to accept that the 2025 real GDP growth estimate will be half the rate previously forecast, halved to 1% from 2% by the government’s official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). In addition, Reeves had to admit that the government’s inflation target rate of 2% a year would not be met until 2027 – and that assumes that Trump’s tariff measures don’t drive up costs in the meantime.
US Vice President JD Vance made it clear that the West wants to keep poor Global South countries trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.
US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that Washington’s goal is to keep formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain.
“What this has evoked is a deep questioning amongst people who must ask themselves, where do they stand on the question of evil? Because I believe that what we’ve seen in Gaza is evil. You cannot describe it in any other way.”
Esteemed Palestinian author and academic, Dr Ghada Karmi, calls on the world to rise up to end Israel’s genocide and systematic oppression of the Palestinian people—to end its apartheid, ethnic cleansing and colonialism once and for all.
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
Amid Zionist genocide and war crimes in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, the “Israeli” regime is publicly allying itself with Nazis and fascists, making clear the nature of the “state” and the Zionist movement. This public and visible alliance is leading to even more cracks inside the Zionist project, as leading Zionist organizations and figures pull out of a conference being hosted this week in occupied Palestine by the so-called “Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Confronting Antisemitism.”
Israeli forces openly admitted to carrying out an attack against the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The strike assassinated Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who had nothing to do with armed activities. In order to kill him, which could have been carried out at any time as he has never been in hiding, Israel chose to bomb a hospital. The BBC made this story seem as if what happened was a legitimate targeting.
I had a conversation with Michael von der Schulenburg, a German member of the EU Parliament who was previously a UN diplomat for 34 years in positions that included Assistant Secretary General of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
Michael von der Schulenburg warns his colleagues in the EU Parliament that the reluctance to embrace diplomacy and accept a negotiated settlement to the war is resulting in economic decline, possible war with Russia, and alienating the US. The EU and Zelensky may end up going against the US and Russia. The militarization of Germany would eventually fuel concerns among other European states. The EU’s decline can be reversed, but then it is necessary to end the proxy war against Russia that started in 2014.
Although there is now a growing set of legal challenges to the ongoing assault on First Amendment rights, the campaign to stifle free speech is manifesting itself in so many ways beyond deportations and propaganda.
Lord of the Flies – by Mr. Fish
The New Dark Age 