Paul Haeder, Author

And the headlines on these “alternative” sites speak VOLUMES around equivocation and disorientation of the lite left leaning media . . .

Is Donald Trump actually trying to unwind and reorient American empire? by Ryan Grimm, Intercept or Drop-Site?

In case you missed it: In the wake of our exposé of Microsoft’s work supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza, tech workers have organized a letter-writing campaign to pressure the company to back off. If you have a moment, please add your name to the effort here.

Here in Washington, the unmistakable scent of dirty laundry hangs in the air outside the Watergate, and that can only mean one thing: Benjamin Netanyahu is back. The Israeli prime minister arrived on Sunday for pivotal meetings this week with President Donald Trump and his top aides, and was welcomed immediately with not just free laundry services but a congressional request for a new arms package.

Netanyahu meets Monday with Mideast envoy and real-estate tycoon Steve Witkoff, who recently pressured Netanyahu into agreeing to a multistage ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu has spent the time since brazenly declaring his intention to blow up the deal and restart his attack, while his allies have launched a PR campaign against Witkoff, accusing him of being a stooge of Qatar.

That campaign has also targeted a number of Trump appointees who count themselves among the growing faction of realists inside the Trump administration. They are trying to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from hegemony—what they call “primacy”—and toward a recognition that we are in a multipolar world where diplomacy should come before armed conflict. The fulcrum for both this camp and for its opponents, the neocons, is war with Iran. Where you stand on the question of war with Iran situates you on the spectrum within the Trump administration, with war opponents so far dominating the fight for position.

Netanyahu, of course, is squarely in the war camp. He will do whatever he can to blow up the ceasefire, and is hoping to win Trump’s approval for that strategy, Amir Tibon reported Sunday in Ha’aretz. He appeared on Breaking Points this morning and fleshed out his reporting, noting that Trump desperately wants a Saudi-Israel normalization deal, which requires the ceasefire to hold.

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Jonathan Cook, buying the millions killed in one death camp, and here it is, the UnUnited QueenDom:

An entirely mendacious message lay at the heart of this week’s coverage by the BBC of the 80th Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.

The British state broadcaster asserted throughout the day that the voices of the few remaining survivors of the Nazi extermination programme were still being heard “loud and clear” in western capitals. Those survivors – now in their 80s and 90s – warned that the genocide of a people must “never again” be allowed to take place.

As if to bolster its claim, the BBC showed western leaders – from Britain’s King Charles III, to Germany’s Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron of France – prominently in attendance at the main ceremony at Auschwitz, the most notorious of the death camps, where more than a million Jews, Roma and other stigmatised groups were burned in ovens.

As a counterpoint, the BBC highlighted the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been excluded from the ceremony for ordering the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Steve Rosenberg, the corporation’s Moscow correspondent, underscored the irony that Russia, so visibly absent, was responsible for liberating Auschwitz on 27 January 1945 – the date that eventually came to be marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day.

But hanging over the proceedings – and the coverage – was a heavy cloud of unreality. Had those western leaders really heard the message of “never again”? Had media outlets like the BBC?

There was an unwanted ghost at the commemorations. In fact, tens of thousands of ghosts.

Those ghosts included the children shredded by US-supplied bombs; the children who slowly suffocated under the rubble of their destroyed homes; the children whose bodies were left to rot, picked apart by feral dogs, because snipers shot at anyone who tried to retrieve them; the children who starved to death because they were seen as “human animals”, denied all food and water; the homeless babies who froze to death in plunging winter temperatures; and the premature babies left to die in their incubators after soldiers invaded hospitals and cut off the power.

It was entirely of a piece that US President Donald Trump, who at least stayed away from the orgy of western hypocrisy at Auschwitz, called at the weekend for a programme to “clean out” the destitute, the maimed, the scarred from Gaza – as if this was just a matter of good hygiene, of eradicating an ants’ nest.

Read up. A good one: Polarization and control

Part 1: Introductory remarks + Who is Elon Musk

It’s a bit surprising that people who witnessed the media spectacle around something like Musk’s Nazi salute at the inauguration, coupled with his bizarre appearances in support of European radical right parties such as the German AfD, do not now realize that all of this is part of a quite intentional public relations process towards distraction and polarization.

I mean, look at the authoritarian theatrics seemingly taken from Michael Radford’s 1984 at the event of a de facto Neo-Nazi organization, where Musk emphasizes how “past guilt” for historical misdeeds should no longer be on the minds of those present.

These are not random, off-the-cuff ramblings of a confused crypto-fascist. They’re highly intentional acts of communication that are also heavily publicized and highlighted by the major news agencies, such as Reuters and AFP.

But neither are they indications that the US power structure has now suddenly been usurped by a rogue fascist contingent that will transform the benevolent republic into a totalitarian and expansionist ethnostate. Some of you might remember the US Patriot Act, and why we were opposed to it. It was pushed through congress almost 25 years ago, and its sweeping surveillance measures are still mostly in place. The resultant infrastructure is deeply entrenched across all “liberal democracies” in the West, and joined at the hip to the emerging new model of digitized governance through surveillance and propaganda.

The purpose of the new actors on stage is to help you forget facts like these, and to play the foil for the deeper layers of the power structure to enact such measures of control and governance that couldn’t be plausibly sold as the policies of an ostensibly enlightened and liberal administration.

Their role is also to foment polarization, and to get the hoi polloi and the self-styled public intellectuals of the “content creator” proletariat to argue the finer points of what precise angle of an outstretched right arm is necessary for the gesture to constitute a Hitler salute.

These people have always been on the same team, since the crucial factor here is class and very little else.

With that said, what’s really the background of this peculiar figure, Elon Musk?

He’s from Pretoria, South Africa, born in the early 70s into the wealthy Musk family. His grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a leading figure in the Canada-based Technocracy Movement during the 1930s, which included early proponents of the “World Machine” as detailed by Jacob Nordangård. N. M. Butler, Julian Huxley and early peak oil proponent M. King Hubbert are other prominent names in this circle.

Musk moved to the US in the early 1990s and enrolled at Stanford around 1995, where he encountered Peter Thiel and became inducted into the “PayPal Mafia”, which more or less is the corporate foundation of today’s US tech sector. German-born, radical transhumanist activist investor and Bilderberg steering committé member Peter Thiel is another chapter all on his own, but we can leave that aside for now.

Musk funded SpaceX in 2002, with money from the sale of PayPal to eBay, with the stated goal of colonizing Mars. This process officially began with Musk joining up with Robert Zubrin and his Mars Society. Zubrin is an investor and engineer with deep ties to the US military-industrial-techological complex, presumably through which Musk soon was came in touch with Michael Griffin of the CIA:s venture capital arm which bankrolled and later supported SpaceX through handing the company significant government contracts when Griffin later became NASA admin.

In 2008, Musk was anointed as one of the “young global leaders” by the WEF, where many of the above-mentioned PayPal clique are also entrenched. The same year, Musk was appointed CEO of Tesla, having bought his way in with the money raised from selling PayPal to eBay back in 2002.

SpaceX launched the Starlink project in 2019, which has been instrumental in supporting Ukraine in the Ukraine war, and whose military branch, Starshield, is currently developing a state-of-the-art satellite surveillance network.

The Wall Street Journal reported in February the existence of a $1.8 billion classified Starshield contract with an unknown intelligence agency without detailing the purposes of the program.

Reuters reporting discloses for the first time that the SpaceX contract is for a powerful new spy system with hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits, and that the spy agency that Musk’s company is working with is the NRO.

Reuters.

But the media gives you two options when it comes to figuring out who Musk is. He’s either this loose cannon, zany, radical capitalist, free speech advocate who bought Twitter just for the hell of it and who sided with Trump to drain the swamp and stick it to the man — or he’s a crypto-fascist of a fringe white supremacist group which inexplicably wrested contol of the US regime through some miraculous confluence of events.

And neither of these seems to square all that well with the basic facts.

And alas, US Patriot Act is so so expanded now with digital dungeons and big data and Total Access and Control vis-a-vis the WWW and all our social media things and our records, all of them, now all of them digitized even as scanned PDF’s.

Right! So, the goal isn’t total global control by, well, the USA through a Kraut and an Apartheid South African and all the Racist Supremacists called Jews.

Forty-eight days into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) crackdown on the resistance in the occupied West Bank, followed by roughly two weeks of Israeli military operations and a concurrent siege by PA security forces, the northern occupied West Bank remains engulfed in an intensifying joint military-security offensive.

This campaign, which began on 5 December 2024 with the PA’s assault on the Jenin refugee camp, saw a shift on 21 January 2025, when Israeli occupation forces took over. By 27 January, the campaign expanded to Tulkarem and its two camps, with further incursions into Tubas, Al-Faraa camp, and Tammun.

In reality, these two offensives – by the PA and the occupation state – are deeply intertwined. During the PA’s operation, Israel provided intelligence via continuous drone surveillance over Jenin before executing airstrikes that resulted in the martyrdom of 12 Palestinians.

Once the Israeli military operation commenced, the PA withdrew, but not before reinforcing the siege alongside occupation troops, leading to the martyrdom and arrest of numerous resistance fighters.

Despite PA claims – specifically from Anwar Rajab, its National Security Agency’s spokesperson – that their forces retreated due to Israel’s attack and were unaware of the impending invasion, this narrative strains credibility.

The scale of the PA deployment – hundreds, at times nearly a thousand security personnel – would have made a sudden, uncoordinated withdrawal amid an Israeli assault highly improbable. The PA’s presence, including snipers, roadblocks, and security patrols, suggests a level of coordination rather than a hasty retreat.

A coordinated effort against the resistance

Eyewitnesses and sources within the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) tell The Cradle a different account. The Jenin Brigade of the PIJ’s military wing, the Quds Brigades, has faced an unprecedented double-pronged attack aimed at eradicating the battalion.

According to the sources, the Jenin Brigade previously ensured their survival by relocating key commanders and fighters to surrounding villages, mountainous hideouts, and other resistance strongholds in Nablus, Tulkarem, Tubas, and the Jordan Valley upon detecting incoming Israeli special forces.

“This time, the PA ambushed the retreating fighters and arrested dozens of them, and those who tried to flee or resist were shot and wounded or killed,” the sources say, adding that hospitals also became battlegrounds, with the PA reportedly lying in wait to detain and torture wounded resistance fighters. Even medical personnel suspected of aiding injured fighters faced persecution.

Fucking Holocaust Remembrance Day? A fireball rises after the Israeli army targeted a vehicle traveling from southern to northern Gaza on Rashid Street in Gaza City, Gaza on February 02, 2025

Gaza death toll updated to 61,700, with 38,000 orphans – Ceasefire Day 14

Never again my ass, Jews: An aerial view of the destruction in the Jabalia region in the north of the Gaza Strip, on January 30, 2025

Yeah, the Jewish State of Holocaust Times THree: Palestinian prisoners were brought to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah in south of Gaza as a result of the torture inflicted upon them during detention by Israeli forces in inhumane conditions.

Celebrate the Nazi Experimentation and Extermination in Israel (sic)

Ahh, the corruption trial, my ass: The office of Israel’s state attorney says a criminal probe has been launched into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister.

“A criminal investigation was opened” into suspected criminal offenses, the office said in a letter to an Israeli opposition politician who had accused her of tampering in her husband’s corruption trial after the broadcast in December of a television news investigation, according to AFP.

Human stain:

A woman walks along a path through rubble with her children in northern Gaza, on January 28, 2025, in Gaza, Palestine.

Israel is accelerating its annexation of the West Bank through legal maneuvers that grant settlers direct ownership of Palestinian land.

There are multiple methods and tools Israel employs for annexing West Bank lands, including legal and judicial amendments that facilitate the annexation process.

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation recently approved a draft law allowing settlers to purchase and own lands in the occupied West Bank, signaling an acceleration of efforts to annex the territory.

The bill, supported by the Religious Zionism Party led by extremist Minister Bezalel Smotrich, is set to be put to a vote in the Knesset General Assembly.

The Israeli movement “Peace Now” warned in a statement last week that the draft law represents another step toward annexation initiated by the right-wing government.

Goddamn the Nazified Jews

And what is Rapist in Chief Trump doing? Uh, ending emppire? Hegenomy? Crack Cocaine these fucking lite-left-sort-of-alternative-media-sources are on?

Right!

The CEO of Anthropic, a US AI company backed by Amazon and Google, argued that the government must impose heavy restrictions on China in order to maintain a monopoly on artificial intelligence technology.

If the US government can block China from getting advanced semiconductors, we will “live in a unipolar world, where only the US and its allies have these models”, wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Calling for more aggressive sanctions on China, Amodei warned, “Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world”.

This mindset, which is common in Silicon Valley, explains why US Big Tech corporations have been so afraid of emerging competitors in China.

It is widely assumed that capitalism is based on competition, but powerful US tech billionaire Peter Thiel argues the opposite. “Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites”, he wrote back in 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.

And so here we are: Genocide! And Trump! And AI monopolies.

Humanitarian losses

• The martyrdom toll from this war has exceeded 61,709 martyrs, including 47,487 martyrs whose bodies have reached hospitals, while 14,222 martyrs remain missing under the rubble or on the roads.
• The number of injured has reached 111,588.
• More than 6,000 detainees have been arrested by the occupation, subjected to the most horrific forms of abuse and torture, with dozens martyred under torture.
• Forced displacement has affected more than two million people, some displaced over 25 times, in conditions devoid of essential services.
• This means that 8 percent of Gaza’s population has been direct victims of the genocide war — an unprecedented percentage in history’s worst wars and massacres. To put this into perspective, applying this percentage to the global population would mean 640 million people affected.
• The occupation committed 9,268 massacres against families, leading to the complete erasure of 2,092 families from civil records.
• It killed 4,889 families, leaving only a single survivor in each to bear the agony of loss and separation

A genocide whose prominent features included the targeting of children and women:

• Among the martyrs were 17,881 children, including 214 infants born and killed during the aggression.
• Over 38,000 children were orphaned, including 17,000 who lost both parents.
• The occupation killed 12,316 women.

Destruction of humanitarian service providers in the genocide:

• 1,155 medical personnel were martyred.
• 205 journalists were killed by the occupation.
• 194 civil defense workers were killed by the occupation.
• 736 aid workers were killed by the occupation.
• More than 3,500 government employees were also martyred.

Economic and infrastructure losses:

The war of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity carried out by the occupation army, under direct instructions from its political leadership and with the approval and supervision of Biden’s administration, have resulted in over $50 billion in direct damages and losses across various sectors. These preliminary estimates are based on field assessments:

Housing sector:

• 450,000 housing units were damaged
• 170,000 units completely destroyed
• 80,000 severely damaged
• 200,000 partially damaged
• Estimated losses exceed $25 billion

Health sector:

• 34 hospitals were put out of service, including Al-Shifa Medical Complex, depriving all residents of the Gaza Strip of even the most basic healthcare services.
• 80 health centers, 212 medical institutions, and 191 ambulances were damaged.
• Losses exceed $3 billion.

Education sector:

• 1,661 educational institutions were damaged
• 927 schools, universities, kindergartens, and educational centers completely destroyed
• 734 partially damaged
• The occupation killed 12,800 students and about 800 educational staff
• 785,000 students have been deprived of education
• Estimated losses exceed $2 billion

Government institutions:

• 216 government headquarters and facilities were completely destroyed
• 60 government offices were heavily damaged
• Estimated losses exceed $1 billion

Public services and infrastructure:

• 3,680 km of electricity networks damaged
• 2,105 electricity transformers destroyed
• 350,000 electricity meters, 538 generators, and 16,266 solar projects damaged
• 335 km of water networks, 496 desalination plants, 111 central water tanks, and 1,698 wells damaged (717 completely out of service)
• 655 km of sewage networks and 65 treatment plants damaged
• 3,916 km² of roads and streets destroyed
• Estimated losses exceed $4 billion

Agricultural, economic, and industrial sectors

• 185,000 m² of farmland destroyed
• 49 agricultural warehouses, 6,000 livestock, 1,000 poultry farms, and extensive irrigation networks damaged
• 3,725 industrial facilities damaged, 2,000 completely destroyed
• 23,000 commercial establishments affected, 12,583 completely destroyed
• Total estimated losses exceed $6 billion

Tourism and heritage sector:

• 229 tourist facilities damaged, 111 completely destroyed
• 291 archaeological and heritage sites damaged
• Total estimated losses exceed 0.5 billion

Transportation sector:

Over 30,000 vehicles and means of transport damaged

• 25,000 cars
• 1,000 fishing boats
• 1,000 municipal and civil defense vehicles
• Total estimated losses $1.5 billion

Telecommunications sector:

• 579 km of communication networks and lines damaged
• Total losses reaching $1.5 billion

Social sector:

• 1,129 mosques damaged, 983 completely destroyed
• 3 churches damaged, one completely demolished
• 19 cemeteries destroyed, with the occupation looting hundreds of remains and the bodies of martyrs
• 1,062 charitable, sports, and cultural institutions damaged, 488 completely demolished
• Total estimated losses $2 billion

Media sector:

• 262 media institutions were affected, including 182 that were completely destroyed, encompassing television channels, radio stations, and media production companies.
• Total estimated losses $600 million.