Simple fucking stuff: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Or: “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Paulo Kirk

Aug 16, 2026

2006 — Nearly 18 months after an uproar erupted over a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, the University of Colorado on Monday took its biggest step yet toward firing him.

The highest-ranking official at Colorado’s main campus called on the university to dismiss ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill for “a pattern of research misconduct committed over a period of time.”

Churchill did not immediately return telephone messages but has denied the allegations and dismissed the university’s investigation as a pretense to fire him. His attorney, David Lane, said Churchill will appeal and, if he loses, he will sue.

“I trust juries to make these decisions, not bureaucrats,” he said.

Churchill’s comparison of Sept. 11 victims to Nazis ultimately led to his speech being canceled at Eastern Washington University in April 2005. But he appeared on the Cheney campus anyway and drew 500 mostly enthusiastic spectators at an outdoor rally. He also addressed a class.

I was there, talked with Ward, and of course the journalists and fucking faculty I was associated with stated that Ward was bad mojo. Ward is gone now. I, of course, pushed back on Ward’s terrorists thesis around 9/11.

I would have liked to bring Ward to a campus in Spokane or out in Washington or Oregon, speaking about this great man’s questioning of the 9/11 narrative:

Filmed during the final year of his life, Dr. Graeme MacQueen reflects on his personal transformation from peace activist and academic to 9/11 researcher. As he revisits his involvement in the global peace movement and the controversial questions he raised about the events of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, MacQueen delivers a final message about truth, war, and the power of asking hard questions—even when they challenge the official narrative.

Peace, War, and 9/11 (2023) is a compelling documentary that centers on the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen, a Canadian peace scholar, author, and one of the most respected voices in the 9/11 truth movement. Filmed shortly before his passing in 2023, the documentary serves as both a reflection on his life’s work and a thought-provoking examination of the events surrounding September 11, 2001.

Dr. MacQueen—who held a Ph.D. in comparative religion from Harvard and taught religious studies at McMaster University for 30 years—was known for his deep commitment to nonviolence and his rigorous critique of official war narratives. He was the founding director of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster, where he also played a key role in peace-building initiatives in war-torn regions like Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.

Peace, War, and 9/11 combines his final in-depth interview with archival footage, personal reflections, and commentary from colleagues and researchers. The film challenges viewers to reconsider the implications of 9/11 on global policy, civil liberties, and the peace movement.

Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

The Politics of a Perpetrator Population

Meet the “Terrorists”

About Those Boys (and Girls) in the Bureau

On Matters of Proportion and Intent

The Makings of a Humanitarian Strategy

In the Alternative

When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously — and quite charitably, all things considered — replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming home to roost.”

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens — along with some half-million dead Iraqi children — came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.

The Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable — in fact, widely predicted — result of the 1991 US “surgical” bombing of their country’s water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other “infrastructural” targets upon which Iraq’s civilian population depends for its very survival. [See The Secret Behind the Sanctions — How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq’s Water Supply, by Thomas J. Nagy, The Progressive, September 2001.]

If the nature of the bombing were not already bad enough — and it should be noted that this sort of “aerial warfare” constitutes a Class I Crime Against Humanity, entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of “civilized” behavior [See Sanctions and War on Iraq: In 300 words, by Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq, 17 Aug 2002] — the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now [See Iraq Sanctions: Humanitarian Implications and Options for the Future, marking the 12^th anniversary of sanctions on Iraq, 8/6/02, and the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, a registered society at the University of Cambridge, England]. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims’ ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to save the lives of even their toddlers.

All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the rest have suffered — are still suffering — a combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated.

The reason for this holocaust was/is rather simple, and stated quite straightforwardly by President George Bush, the 41^st “freedom-loving” father of the freedom-lover currently filling the Oval Office, George the 43^rd: “The world must learn that what we say goes,” intoned George the Elder to the enthusiastic applause of freedom-loving Americans everywhere.

How Old George conveyed his message was certainly no mystery to the US public. One need only recall the 24-hour-per-day dissemination of bombardment videos on every available TV channel, and the exceedingly high ratings of these telecasts, to gain a sense of how much they knew.

In trying to affix a meaning to such things, we would do well to remember the wave of elation that swept America at reports of what was happening along the so-called Highway of Death: perhaps 100,000 “towel-heads” and “camel jockeys” — or was it “sand niggers” that week? — in full retreat, routed and effectively defenseless, many of them conscripted civilian laborers, slaughtered in a single day by jets firing the most hyper-lethal types of ordnance. It was a performance worthy of the Nazis during the early months of their drive into Russia. And it should be borne in mind that Good Germans gleefully cheered that butchery, too. Indeed, support for Hitler suffered no serious erosion among Germany’s “innocent civilians” until the defeat at Stalingrad in 1943. [See They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933–1945, by Milton Mayer (University of Chicago Press: 1966)]

There may be a real utility to reflecting further, this time upon the fact that it was pious Americans who led the way in assigning the onus of collective guilt to the German people as a whole, not for things they as individuals had done, but for what they had allowed — nay, empowered — their leaders and their soldiers to do in their name.

If the principle was valid then, it remains so now, as applicable to Good Americans as it was the Good Germans. And the price exacted from the Germans for the faultiness of their moral fiber was truly ghastly.

Returning now to the children, and to the effects of the post-Gulf War embargo — continued bull force by Bush the Elder’s successors in the Clinton administration as a gesture of its “resolve” to finalize what George himself had dubbed the “New World Order” of American military/economic domination — it should be noted that not one but two high United Nations officials attempting to coordinate delivery of humanitarian aid to Iraq resigned in succession as protests against US policy.

One of them, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday, repeatedly denounced what was happening as “a systematic program … of deliberate genocide.” His statements appeared in the New York Times and other papers during the fall of 1998, so it can hardly be contended that the American public was “unaware” of them. Shortly thereafter, Secretary of State Madeline Albright openly confirmed Halliday’s assessment. Asked during the widely viewed TV program Meet the Press to respond to his “allegations,” she calmly announced that she’d decided it was “worth the price” to see that U.S. objectives were achieved.

The Politics of a Perpetrator Population

As a whole, the American public greeted these revelations with yawns. There were, after all, far more pressing things than the unrelenting misery/death of a few hundred thousand Iraqi tikes to be concerned with. Getting “Jeremy” and “Ellington” to their weekly soccer game, for instance, or seeing to it that little “Tiffany” and “Ashley” had just the right roll-neck sweaters to go with their new cords. And, to be sure, there was the yuppie holy war against ashtrays — for “our kids,” no less — as an all-absorbing point of political focus.

In fairness, it must be admitted that there was an infinitesimally small segment of the body politic who expressed opposition to what was/is being done to the children of Iraq. It must also be conceded, however, that those involved, by and large, contented themselves with signing petitions and conducting candle-lit prayer vigils, bearing “moral witness” as vast legions of brown-skinned five-year-olds sat shivering in the dark, wide-eyed in horror, whimpering as they expired in the most agonizing ways imaginable.

Be it said as well, and this is really the crux of it, that the “resistance” expended the bulk of its time and energy harnessed to the systemically useful task of trying to ensure, as “a principle of moral virtue,” that nobody went further than waving signs as a means of “challenging” the patently exterminatory pursuit of Pax Americana. So pure of principle were these “dissidents,” in fact, that they began literally to supplant the police in protecting corporations profiting by the carnage against suffering such retaliatory “violence” as having their windows broken by persons less “enlightened” — or perhaps more outraged — than the self-anointed “peacekeepers.”

Property before people, it seems — or at least the equation of property to people — is a value by no means restricted to America’s boardrooms. And the sanctimony with which such putrid sentiments are enunciated turns out to be nauseatingly similar, whether mouthed by the CEO of Standard Oil or any of the swarm of comfort zone “pacifists” queuing up to condemn the black bloc after it ever so slightly disturbed the functioning of business-as-usual in Seattle.

Small wonder, all in all, that people elsewhere in the world — the Mideast, for instance — began to wonder where, exactly, aside from the streets of the US itself, one was to find the peace America’s purportedly oppositional peacekeepers claimed they were keeping.

The answer, surely, was plain enough to anyone unblinded by the kind of delusions engendered by sheer vanity and self-absorption. So, too, were the implications in terms of anything changing, out there, in America’s free-fire zones.

Tellingly, it was at precisely this point — with the genocide in Iraq officially admitted and a public response demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were virtually no Americans, including most of those professing otherwise, doing anything tangible to stop it — that the combat teams which eventually commandeered the aircraft used on September 11 began to infiltrate the United States.

Meet the “Terrorists”

Of the men who came, there are a few things demanding to be said in the face of the unending torrent of disinformational drivel unleashed by George Junior and the corporate “news” media immediately following their successful operation on September 11.

They did not, for starters, “initiate” a war with the US, much less commit “the first acts of war of the new millennium.”

A good case could be made that the war in which they were combatants has been waged more-or-less continuously by the “Christian West” — now proudly emblematized by the United States — against the “Islamic East” since the time of the First Crusade, about 1,000 years ago.

More recently, one could argue that the war began when Lyndon Johnson first lent significant support to Israel’s dispossession/displacement of Palestinians during the 1960s, or when George the Elder ordered “Desert Shield” in 1990, or at any of several points in between.

Any way you slice it, however, if what the combat teams did to the WTC and the Pentagon can be understood as acts of war — and they can — then the same is true of every US “overflight” of Iraqi territory since day one.

The first acts of war during the current millennium thus occurred on its very first day, and were carried out by U.S. aviators acting under orders from their then-commander-in-chief, Bill Clinton. The most that can honestly be said of those involved on September 11 is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people as a matter of course.

That they waited so long to do so is, notwithstanding the 1993 action at the WTC, more than anything a testament to their patience and restraint. They did not license themselves to “target innocent civilians.”

There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center.

Well, really. Let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire – the “mighty engine of profit” to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved –, and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to “ignorance” – a derivative, after all, of the word “ignore” – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind, and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it.

The men who flew the missions against the WTC and Pentagon were not “cowards.” That distinction properly belongs to the “firm-jawed lads” who delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of Baghdad, dropping payload after payload of bombs on anyone unfortunate enough to be below – including tens of thousands of genuinely innocent civilians – while themselves incurring all the risk one might expect during a visit to the local video arcade. Still more, the word describes all those “fighting men and women” who sat at computer consoles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled with random human beings. Whatever else can be said of them, the men who struck on September 11 manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expending their own lives in attaining their objectives.

Nor were they “fanatics” devoted to “Islamic fundamentalism.”

One might rightly describe their actions as “desperate.” Feelings of desperation, however, are a perfectly reasonable – one is tempted to say “normal” – emotional response among persons confronted by the mass murder of their children, particularly when it appears that nobody else really gives a damn (ask a Jewish survivor about this one, or, even more poignantly, for all the attention paid them, a Gypsy).

That desperate circumstances generate desperate responses is no mysterious or irrational principle, of the sort motivating fanatics. Less is it one peculiar to Islam. Indeed, even the FBI’s investigative reports on the combat teams’ activities during the months leading up to September 11 make it clear that the members were not fundamentalist Muslims. Rather, it’s pretty obvious at this point that they were secular activists – soldiers, really – who, while undoubtedly enjoying cordial relations with the clerics of their countries, were motivated far more by the grisly realities of the U.S. war against them than by a set of religious beliefs.

And still less were they/their acts “insane.”

Insanity is a condition readily associable with the very American idea that one – or one’s country – holds what amounts to a “divine right” to commit genocide, and thus to forever do so with impunity. The term might also be reasonably applied to anyone suffering genocide without attempting in some material way to bring the process to a halt. Sanity itself, in this frame of reference, might be defined by a willingness to try and destroy the perpetrators and/or the sources of their ability to commit their crimes. (Shall we now discuss the US “strategic bombing campaign” against Germany during World War II, and the mental health of those involved in it?)

Which takes us to official characterizations of the combat teams as an embodiment of “evil.”

Evil – for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept – was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she’d imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq. Evil was to be heard in that great American hero “Stormin’ Norman” Schwartzkopf’s utterly dehumanizing dismissal of their systematic torture and annihilation as mere “collateral damage.” Evil, moreover, is a term appropriate to describing the mentality of a public that finds such perspectives and the policies attending them acceptable, or even momentarily tolerable.

Had it not been for these evils, the counterattacks of September 11 would never have occurred. And unless “the world is rid of such evil,” to lift a line from George Junior, September 11 may well end up looking like a lark.

There is no reason, after all, to believe that the teams deployed in the assaults on the WTC and the Pentagon were the only such, that the others are composed of “Arabic-looking individuals” – America’s indiscriminately lethal arrogance and psychotic sense of self-entitlement have long since given the great majority of the world’s peoples ample cause to be at war with it – or that they are in any way dependent upon the seizure of civilian airliners to complete their missions.

To the contrary, there is every reason to expect that there are many other teams in place, tasked to employ altogether different tactics in executing operational plans at least as well-crafted as those evident on September 11, and very well equipped for their jobs. This is to say that, since the assaults on the WTC and Pentagon were acts of war – not “terrorist incidents” – they must be understood as components in a much broader strategy designed to achieve specific results. From this, it can only be adduced that there are plenty of other components ready to go, and that they will be used, should this become necessary in the eyes of the strategists. It also seems a safe bet that each component is calibrated to inflict damage at a level incrementally higher than the one before (during the 1960s, the Johnson administration employed a similar policy against Vietnam, referred to as “escalation”).

Since implementation of the overall plan began with the WTC/Pentagon assaults, it takes no rocket scientist to decipher what is likely to happen next, should the U.S. attempt a response of the inexcusable variety to which it has long entitled itself.

About Those Boys (and Girls) in the Bureau

There’s another matter begging for comment at this point. The idea that the FBI’s “counterterrorism task forces” can do a thing to prevent what will happen is yet another dimension of America’s delusional pathology.. The fact is that, for all its publicly-financed “image-building” exercises, the Bureau has never shown the least aptitude for anything of the sort.

Oh, yeah, FBI counterintelligence personnel have proven quite adept at framing anarchists, communists and Black Panthers, sometimes murdering them in their beds or the electric chair. The Bureau’s SWAT units have displayed their ability to combat child abuse in Waco by burning babies alive, and its vaunted Crime Lab has been shown to pad its “crime-fighting’ statistics by fabricating evidence against many an alleged car thief. But actual “heavy-duty bad guys” of the sort at issue now? This isn’t a Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris/Sly Stallone movie, after all.. And J. Edgar Hoover doesn’t get to approve either the script or the casting.

The number of spies, saboteurs and bona fide terrorists apprehended, or even detected by the FBI in the course of its long and slimy history could be counted on one’s fingers and toes. On occasion, its agents have even turned out to be the spies, and, in many instances, the terrorists as well.

To be fair once again, if the Bureau functions as at best a carnival of clowns where its “domestic security responsibilities” are concerned, this is because – regardless of official hype – it has none. It is now, as it’s always been, the national political police force, and instrument created and perfected to ensure that all Americans, not just the consenting mass, are “free” to do exactly as they’re told.

The FBI and “cooperating agencies” can thus be relied upon to set about “protecting freedom” by destroying whatever rights and liberties were left to U.S. citizens before September 11 (in fact, they’ve already received authorization to begin). Sheeplike, the great majority of Americans can also be counted upon to bleat their approval, at least in the short run, believing as they always do that the nasty implications of what they’re doing will pertain only to others.

Oh Yeah, and “The Company,” Too

A possibly even sicker joke is the notion, suddenly in vogue, that the CIA will be able to pinpoint “terrorist threats,” “rooting out their infrastructure” where it exists and/or “terminating” it before it can materialize, if only it’s allowed to beef up its “human intelligence gathering capacity” in an unrestrained manner (including full-bore operations inside the US, of course).

Yeah. Right.

Since America has a collective attention span of about 15 minutes, a little refresher seems in order: “The Company” had something like a quarter-million people serving as “intelligence assets” by feeding it information in Vietnam in 1968, and it couldn’t even predict the Tet Offensive. God knows how many spies it was fielding against the USSR at the height of Ronald Reagan’s version of the Cold War, and it was still caught flatfooted by the collapse of the Soviet Union. As to destroying “terrorist infrastructures,” one would do well to remember Operation Phoenix, another product of its open season in Vietnam. In that one, the CIA enlisted elite US units like the Navy Seals and Army Special Forces, as well as those of friendly countries – the South Vietnamese Rangers, for example, and Australian SAS – to run around “neutralizing” folks targeted by The Company’s legion of snitches as “guerrillas” (as those now known as “terrorists” were then called).

Sound familiar?

Upwards of 40,000 people – mostly bystanders, as it turns out – were murdered by Phoenix hit teams before the guerrillas, stronger than ever, ran the US and its collaborators out of their country altogether. And these are the guys who are gonna save the day, if unleashed to do their thing in North America?

The net impact of all this “counterterrorism” activity upon the combat teams’ ability to do what they came to do, of course, will be nil.

Instead, it’s likely to make it easier for them to operate (it’s worked that way in places like Northern Ireland). And, since denying Americans the luxury of reaping the benefits of genocide in comfort was self-evidently a key objective of the WTC/Pentagon assaults, it can be stated unequivocally that a more overt display of the police state mentality already pervading this country simply confirms the magnitude of their victory.

On Matters of Proportion and Intent

As things stand, including the 1993 detonation at the WTC, “Arab terrorists” have responded to the massive and sustained American terror bombing of Iraq with a total of four assaults by explosives inside the US. That’s about 1% of the 50,000 bombs the Pentagon announced were rained on Baghdad alone during the Gulf War (add in Oklahoma City, and you’ll get something nearer an actual 1%).

They’ve managed in the process to kill about 5,000 Americans, or roughly 1% of the dead Iraqi children (the percentage is far smaller if you factor in the killing of adult Iraqi civilians, not to mention troops butchered as/after they’d surrendered and/or after the “war-ending” ceasefire had been announced).

In terms undoubtedly more meaningful to the property/profit-minded American mainstream, they’ve knocked down a half-dozen buildings – albeit some very well-chosen ones – as opposed to the “strategic devastation” visited upon the whole of Iraq, and punched a $100 billion hole in the earnings outlook of major corporate shareholders, as opposed to the U.S. obliteration of Iraq’s entire economy.

With that, they’ve given Americans a tiny dose of their own medicine.. This might be seen as merely a matter of “vengeance” or “retribution,” and, unquestionably, America has earned it, even if it were to add up only to something so ultimately petty.

The problem is that vengeance is usually framed in terms of “getting even,” a concept which is plainly inapplicable in this instance. As the above data indicate, it would require another 49,996 detonations, killing 495,000 more Americans, for the “terrorists” to “break even” for the bombing of Baghdad/extermination of Iraqi children alone. And that’s to achieve “real number” parity. To attain an actual proportional parity of damage – the US is about 15 times as large as Iraq in terms of population, even more in terms of territory – they would, at a minimum, have to blow up about 300,000 more buildings and kill something on the order of 7.5 million people.

Were this the intent of those who’ve entered the US to wage war against it, it would remain no less true that America and Americans were only receiving the bill for what they’d already done. Payback, as they say, can be a real motherfucker (ask the Germans). There is, however, no reason to believe that retributive parity is necessarily an item on the agenda of those who planned the WTC/Pentagon operation. If it were, given the virtual certainty that they possessed the capacity to have inflicted far more damage than they did, there would be a lot more American bodies lying about right now.

Hence, it can be concluded that ravings carried by the “news” media since September 11 have contained at least one grain of truth: The peoples of the Mideast “aren’t like” Americans, not least because they don’t “value life’ in the same way. By this, it should be understood that Middle-Easterners, unlike Americans, have no history of exterminating others purely for profit, or on the basis of racial animus. Thus, we can appreciate the fact that they value life – all lives, not just their own – far more highly than do their U.S. counterparts.

The Makings of a Humanitarian Strategy

In sum, one can discern a certain optimism – it might even be called humanitarianism – embedded in the thinking of those who presided over the very limited actions conducted on September 11.

Their logic seems to have devolved upon the notion that the American people have condoned what has been/is being done in their name – indeed, are to a significant extent actively complicit in it – mainly because they have no idea what it feels like to be on the receiving end.

Now they do.

That was the “medicinal” aspect of the attacks.

To all appearances, the idea is now to give the tonic a little time to take effect, jolting Americans into the realization that the sort of pain they’re now experiencing first-hand is no different from – or the least bit more excruciating than – that which they’ve been so cavalier in causing others, and thus to respond appropriately.

More bluntly, the hope was – and maybe still is – that Americans, stripped of their presumed immunity from incurring any real consequences for their behavior, would comprehend and act upon a formulation as uncomplicated as “stop killing our kids, if you want your own to be safe.”

Either way, it’s a kind of “reality therapy” approach, designed to afford the American people a chance to finally “do the right thing” on their own, without further coaxing.

Were the opportunity acted upon in some reasonably good faith fashion – a sufficiently large number of Americans rising up and doing whatever is necessary to force an immediate lifting of the sanctions on Iraq, for instance, or maybe hanging a few of America’s abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) – there is every reason to expect that military operations against the US on its domestic front would be immediately suspended.

Whether they would remain so would of course be contingent upon follow-up. By that, it may be assumed that American acceptance of onsite inspections by international observers to verify destruction of its weapons of mass destruction (as well as dismantlement of all facilities in which more might be manufactured), Nuremberg-style trials in which a few thousand US military/corporate personnel could be properly adjudicated and punished for their Crimes Against humanity, and payment of reparations to the array of nations/peoples whose assets the US has plundered over the years, would suffice.

Since they’ve shown no sign of being unreasonable or vindictive, it may even be anticipated that, after a suitable period of adjustment and reeducation (mainly to allow them to acquire the skills necessary to living within their means), those restored to control over their own destinies by the gallant sacrifices of the combat teams the WTC and Pentagon will eventually (re)admit Americans to the global circle of civilized societies. Stranger things have happened.

In the Alternative

Unfortunately, noble as they may have been, such humanitarian aspirations were always doomed to remain unfulfilled. For it to have been otherwise, a far higher quality of character and intellect would have to prevail among average Americans than is actually the case. Perhaps the strategists underestimated the impact a couple of generations’ worth of media indoctrination can produce in terms of demolishing the capacity of human beings to form coherent thoughts. Maybe they forgot to factor in the mind-numbing effects of the indoctrination passed off as education in the US. Then, again, it’s entirely possible they were aware that a decisive majority of American adults have been reduced by this point to a level much closer to the kind of immediate self-gratification entailed in Pavlovian stimulus/response patterns than anything accessible by appeals to higher logic, and still felt morally obliged to offer the dolts an option to quit while they were ahead.

What the hell? It was worth a try.

But it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the dosage of medicine administered was entirely insufficient to accomplish its purpose.

Although there are undoubtedly exceptions, Americans for the most part still don’t get it.

Already, they’ve desecrated the temporary tomb of those killed in the WTC, staging a veritable pep rally atop the mangled remains of those they profess to honor, treating the whole affair as if it were some bizarre breed of contact sport. And, of course, there are the inevitable pom-poms shaped like American flags, the school colors worn as little red-white-and-blue ribbons affixed to labels, sportscasters in the form of “counterterrorism experts” drooling mindless color commentary during the pregame warm-up.

Refusing the realization that the world has suddenly shifted its axis, and that they are therefore no longer “in charge,” they have, by and large, reverted instantly to type, working themselves into their usual bloodlust on the now obsolete premise that the bloodletting will “naturally” occur elsewhere and to someone else.

“Patriotism,” a wise man once observed, “is the last refuge of scoundrels.”

And the braided, he might have added.

Braided Scoundrel-in-Chief, George Junior, lacking even the sense to be careful what he wished for, has teamed up with a gaggle of fundamentalist Christian clerics like Billy Graham to proclaim a “New Crusade” called “Infinite Justice” aimed at “ridding the world of evil.”

One could easily make light of such rhetoric, remarking upon how unseemly it is for a son to threaten his father in such fashion – or a president to so publicly contemplate the murder/suicide of himself and his cabinet – but the matter is deadly serious.

They are preparing once again to sally forth for the purpose of roasting brown-skinned children by the scores of thousands. Already, the B-1 bombers and the aircraft carriers and the missile frigates are en route, the airborne divisions are gearing up to go.

To where? Afghanistan?

The Sudan?

Iraq, again (or still)?

How about Grenada (that was fun)?

Any of them or all. It doesn’t matter.

The desire to pummel the helpless runs rabid as ever.

Only, this time it’s different.

The time the helpless aren’t, or at least are not so helpless as they were.

This time, somewhere, perhaps in an Afghani mountain cave, possibly in a Brooklyn basement, maybe another local altogether – but somewhere, all the same – there’s a grim-visaged (wo)man wearing a Clint Eastwood smile.

“Go ahead, punks,” s/he’s saying, “Make my day.”

And when they do, when they launch these airstrikes abroad – or may a little later; it will be at a time conforming to the “terrorists”’ own schedule, and at a place of their choosing – the next more intensive dose of medicine administered here “at home.”

Of what will it consist this time? Anthrax? Mustard gas? Sarin? A tactical nuclear device?

That, too, is their choice to make.

Looking back, it will seem to future generations inexplicable why Americans were unable on their own, and in time to save themselves, to accept a rule of nature so basic that it could be mouthed by an actor, Lawrence Fishburn, in a movie, The Cotton Club.

“You’ve got to learn, “ the line went, “that when you push people around, some people push back.”

As they should.

As they must.

And as they undoubtedly will.

There is justice in such symmetry.

That Counterpunch article is gone: Ward Churchill, RIP – CounterPunch.org

GONE!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/16/ward-churchill-rip

So bizarre! I accessed it today, 8/16, 9 am.

Yep. I saw him in 2005.

In April 2005, controversial speaker and former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill visited the Eastern Washington University campus near Spokane (in Cheney, WA) to deliver a speech, despite initial cancellation and security concerns raised by the university’s president. Churchill and student/faculty plaintiffs also briefly filed a civil rights lawsuit against university leadership in U.S. District Court in Spokane related to the speech dispute before it was dismissed.

Background & Context

• The Controversy: The visit occurred amid a national uproar over Churchill’s essay comparing some 9/11 victims to Nazi bureaucrats.
• EWU Canceled & Re-invited: EWU President Stephen Jordan initially canceled the appearance citing security and resource limits, but the campus Academic Senate subsequently reinvited him, leading Churchill to speak on campus in April 2005. [
• Legal Action: A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in Spokane (Churchill et al v. Eastern Washington University Board of Trustees) was voluntarily dismissed in June 2005

Before his Eichmann line, Churchill set up his case: “They [the 9/11 terrorists] did not license themselves to ‘target innocent civilians.’”

There you have it. Churchill was making the argument that the 9/11 terrorists did not target the WTC simply to kill innocent Americans. According to him, the 9/11 attackers went after the WTC because it was a legitimate military target in an act of war.

Of course, Churchill should have clarified his position in his original essay, which was sloppy given the weight of his argument and his tone (he defended and explained himself later, which we’ll get to in a moment). Unfortunately, his vagueness aroused a plethora of reactionary attacks, both from the right and left.

Churchill should have also emboldened this “little Eichmann” argument in his original piece by pointing out that CIA offices were housed in the WTC along with a large office of the cruise missile manufacturer, Raytheon. He could have also stressed the terrorists likely attacked the WTC in hopes of inflicting a massive fracture in the US economy, the driving force behind the violent US war machine. Instead, he left his readers to sit quietly with his “little Eichmanns” reference.

Even so, Marc Cooper and many others who criticized Churchill’s statement failed to point out that nowhere in his original essay did he argue that the WTC attacks were justified. In fact, he said it was an act of war, which he detests.

Churchill wrote that “if what the combat teams did to the WTC and the Pentagon can be understood as acts of war — ­and they can — then the same is true” for the US conduct in the Middle East.

He went on to compare the terrorists to Madeline Albright, who oversaw the US-imposed UN sanctions on Iraq, which killed tens of thousands, mostly elderly and small children. “Evil ­for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept ­was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she’d imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq.”

Does such a harsh critique of the US military actions, and Churchill’s comparison of these ventures to the WTC attacks imply that he was delighted people were killed on 9/11?

Not in the least.

In fact, Churchill argued that these were not individual acts of terror (unless you can also categorize US military activity as terror): “This is to say that since the assaults on the WTC and Pentagon were an act of war, not ‘terrorist incidents’ ­ they must be understood as components in a much broader strategy designed to achieve specific results.”

FACTORIES!!!! U/Cal Berkeley president Clark Kerr in his 1963 book, The Uses of the University. For those unfamiliar with the tract, Kerr likened what he preferred to call “multiversities” to governmentally/corporately-owned factories—albeit, “knowledge factories”—wherein managers such as himself employed to oversee a worker force—the faculty—whose job it was to convert raw material—that is, students—into the finished product or products desired by the owners, all with maximal efficiency. Sound familiar? Well, it didn’t at the time.

Rooted in ancient Greece, the earliest universities were single communities of “masters and students.” In 18th century Europe they were oligarchies of sorts, apart from society, serving the elite, averse to change. But a distinctly American institution emerged after President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, which gave the states federal lands to fund universities serving agriculture, industry, and the general public. American universities combined the British emphasis on undergraduate education in humanities and the German emphasis on graduate research in science, with a new emphasis on public service. The massive infusion of federal research funds during and after World War II further fueled the rise of what Kerr called the “multiversity.”

The university, he said, was no longer cloistered, but now central to society, “a prime instrument of national purpose.” Its job was to produce new knowledge, by which he meant information in all its forms. As Kerr declared, “New knowledge is the most important factor in economic and social growth.”

“What the railroads did for the second half of the last century, and the automobile for the first half of this century, may be done for the second half of this century by the knowledge industry: that is, to serve as the focal point for national growth.”

Here are some paragraphs from Ward I got before Counterpunch erased Joshua Frank’s article/interview of Ward:

Now, with respect to why anyone should even care about this stuff, let me put it this way: Like it or not, the universities have become a central component in the shaping of consciousness in the U.S., and stand to become ever more so over the foreseeable future. They can either fulfill their purported social function of inculcating critical consciousness, or they can do exactly the opposite. Absent a bona fide critical consciousness among a significant portion of the population, genuinely constructive socioeconomic and political transformation is impossible. What you end with instead is the ability of frauds like Barack Obama to pass himself off as a “progressive,” and a “left” discourse dominated by people on the order of Rachel Maddow, Ed Schulz, and the Rev [Al Sharpton: JF]. Or Michael Moore, for god’s sake. The superficiality and duplicity at issue were recently manifest in the Occupy movement.

That’s where we are, and it’s a long, long way from where we need to be. Hell, it’s a long way from the point we’d managed to reach forty-odd years ago. The decline has been dramatic, and it’s occurred at an ever more rapid rate since the ’90s. There are a number of reasons for this, most of them policy-driven. The steady withdrawal of public funding from higher ed over the past several decades is a really big one, correlated as it is to the twin evils of spiraling tuition costs and the growth of institutional dependence upon corporate subsidies.

It’s worth remembering that Reagan kicked off the tuition business at U/Cal back in 1970, mainly in retaliation for student activism in Berkeley and as a means of curbing an influx of black and Latino students. Once the barrier was breached—U/Cal, like most state university systems, used to be essentially tuition-free, the premise being that an increasingly better-educated electorate was a public good—the right quickly figured out how to use the situation to ever greater advantage. For example, raising tuition rates allowed decreasing levels of state funding, and that, in turn, helped with the lowering of corporate tax rates and the rates applicable to individuals in the uppermost income brackets.

In some ways more importantly, it didn’t take them long to realize that if rising tuition rates were coupled to making a degree the entry-level requirement for most jobs that had previously required a high school diploma, young people would be forced to go to college for that purpose rather than “the pursuit of higher learning,” per se, and they’d be compelled to incur significant personal debt in the process. This has not only been rather profitable for the banks and other entities that plunged into the business of making education loans—all of them federally guaranteed, of course—it’s provided corporate America with a labor force which, since federal law has been changed to preclude the retirement of student debt through bankruptcy, increasingly exists in a condition of veritable indentured servitude. The effect has essentially been that of a pacification program directed at students and workers alike.

Among the more insidious effects within the universities themselves has been that as students have been coerced into a trajectory of ever-greater preoccupation with making themselves more marketable to potential employers, the demand for courses designed for exactly that purpose has steadily mounted while demand for courses intended to broaden general knowledge and hone critical facility has correspondingly diminished. This has positioned corporations to specify the kinds of courses—mostly managerial and technical in nature—they prefer, and, in no small part utilizing the windfalls accruing from the earlier-mentioned reductions in corporate tax rates, to increasingly offset reductions in public funding by “sponsoring” certain curricula at the expense of others, not infrequently to the point of dictating content in preferred areas while proscribing it elsewhere within recipient institutions.

Were this not enough, the process is being rationalized and facilitated by a whole slew of lavishly-funded rightwing organizations, the objective of which—although each of them casts itself as a champion of academic freedom and “excellence”—is exactly the opposite. What they’re after is the complete elimination of critical studies from the curriculum, along with ethnic studies, women’s studies, and any other field serving to extend appreciations of cultural diversity into domains beyond those taught during the “good old days” of the 1950s. And that, of course, entails purging the professoriate of what David Horowitz characterizes as “dangerous professors,” or at least making a few prominent examples in order to chill the rest.

What you end up with, if they have their way, is universities that function as little more than glorified vo-techs. This is to say that emphasis will be placed upon the imparting of certain “useful” skill-sets, along with sufficient ideological indoctrination to blunt the potential of cognitive dissonance among most students with regard to the realities of American business as usual, and perhaps a basic grounding in triumphalist interpretations of Western culture. In substance, they’re demanding that the institutions be reconfigured in their entirety along the lines of what the corporations have taken to subsidizing and, by any estimation, they’re making considerable headway. All you have to do is listen for five minutes to Obama explaining why higher education is important to get the picture. You might as well be listening to a spokesperson for right-wing “university reform” outfits like ACTA.

Churchill and I talked briefly about the dual-use universities, about Monsanto U at Washington State University’s Ag program, or Walgreens’ sponsored pharmacy programs throughout the land. DARPA and colleges. He and I anticipated the complete groveling of colleges to the war “economy” — military ag mining chemical oil banking media surveillance physics math medicine culture congressional pharma insurance finance psychological marketing anthropology COMPLEX.

The second-largest weapons manufacturer on Earth wants your middle-schooler to love math. Raytheon (rebranded RTX) has been the title sponsor of the MATHCOUNTS competition since 2009, runs its own MathMovesU program, tours a MathAlive! exhibit through Gulf monarchies that happen to be its biggest customers, and maintains a long partnership with the Girl Scouts of the USA, for whom it launched a national computer science program and wrote many of the coding badges. A new MintPress News investigation by Alan Macleod maps this ecosystem, and it is bigger and stranger than you think.

Lockheed Martin hosts CYBERQUEST, an annual high-school competition steering teenagers toward careers in intelligence and cybersecurity, and runs internship pipelines it says convert 60 percent of participants into paid company roles. A $1.5 million donation to the University of Texas at Arlington bought its name onto the campus career center. Boeing’s Engineering is Elementary program starts on children in pre-K.

BAE Systems goes furthest of all. The maker of jets, missiles, howitzers and warships has published videos of its employees and British soldiers reading Rapunzel, Cinderella and Goldilocks to small children, complete with problem-solving worksheets. The Campaign Against the Arms Trade notes BAE claims to spend as much as 100 million pounds a year on educational activities, and argues the motive is not community spirit but recruitment and reputation-laundering aimed at people too young to know what an arms company is.

Set the fairytales against the product line. The Tomahawk cruise missile that destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Iran this February, killing at least 156 people, most of them pupils, is a Raytheon product; BAE subsystems supported the strike. The laser-guided bomb that hit a school bus in Dhahyan, Yemen in 2018, killing 40 children, was traced to Lockheed Martin. Human Rights Watch found that the GBU-39s dropped on the Khadija Girls’ School in Deir al-Balah in 2024 were built by Boeing. Some 97 percent of schools in Gaza have been hit, with US military aid to Israel running to $21.7 billion in two years, per Brown University researchers.

The symmetry is the story. In America, cash-starved school systems accept the arms industry’s money and its framing: empowerment, inclusion, girls in STEM. Abroad, children experience the same companies as the manufacturers of the things that fall on their schools. One set of kids gets the branded worksheets; the other gets the payload. The scouting movement was, after all, founded by a British general explicitly worried that boys weren’t fit enough for the next war. The pipeline has simply been modernized.

Long live the power of Ward:

Kirsten Bayes from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade was unimpressed by Raytheon’s attempts to improve their image and to train the next generation of weapons manufacturers. “Our view is that arms companies have no place in schools or colleges, and should certainly not be working with children’s educational charities. Schools and other places of education should be places where children learn, grow and develop their full potential. They should not be a recruiting ground where arms companies whitewash their activities.”

CAAT condemns the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran that began on 28th February, which is a flagrant violation of Article 2 of the UN Charter which prohibits the use of force against another state, except in self-defence or following authorisation by a UN Security Council resolution. There was no evidence of an imminent attack by Iran on either the US, Israel, or any other state, that would support a claim that this is a ‘preemptive’ attack. It is an illegal war of aggression, pure and simple.

The attacks were launched, moreover, in the middle of negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, supposedly one of the main reasons for the attack, which were apparently making progress, but where the US was clearly negotiating in bad faith.

CAAT likewise condemns Iranian attacks against civilian targets in Israel and the Gulf, and against states not involved in the attacks. International law allows for a defensive military response to armed aggression, but only against military targets. Iran has launched strikes on 27 American military bases, across Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as on Israeli military facilities, but also on civilian infrastructure and residential areas.

Already the US-Israeli attack has killed at least 787 Iranians including, most tragically, 165 civilians, mostly schoolgirls, in an attack on Saturday on a girls’ elementary school in Minab. At least 52 people have also been killed in Israel’s attack on Lebanon, and at least 27 have been killed in Israel and the Gulf region in Iran’s retaliatory strikes. The danger of even greater escalation is severe, and could lead to chaos in Iran and across the region. This war can only bring further death and destruction, and will do nothing to bring freedom to the people of Iran, who are now caught between US and Israeli bombs and regime bullets, or peace or stability to any country in the region.

American and Israeli foreign intervention is not about helping the people of Iran, but about gaining further neo-colonial control in the region. Significantly, this is motivated by Israel’s desire to continue its ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine with even further impunity.

UK involvement and arms supplies

Following the start of the war, our government has once again aligned itself with the deadly violence of American foreign policy. Despite Starmer’s earlier promises that British military bases would not be used by the United States in any escalatory aggression in the region, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper continues to defend the government’s decision to go against its word and allow the US to use British bases for its attacks.

With British military bases in use and British planes “in the sky”, it is hard to believe this is anything other than the UK being pulled back into another American war in the Middle East, no matter how much our government states any British involvement is for so-called “defensive purposes”.

British involvement in these attacks goes beyond allowing the use of its bases by the US. In particular, both US and Israeli forces have used F-35 fighter jets in their strikes on Iran, 15% of which are produced in the UK. Indeed, the F-35 has played a crucial role in the war owing to its stealth capabilities, making it the first line of attack in ‘contested’ air space. The F-35 also played a crucial role in Israel’s previous attack on Iran in June 2025. The F-35 was also used by the US in its illegal attack on Venezuela in January.

Key components for F-35s are produced across England and Scotland, including:

• the rear fuselage by BAE Systems in Samlesbury, Lancashire
• the active interceptor system by BAE Systems in Rochester, Kent
• the targeting lasers by Leonardo in Edinburgh
• the bomb release cables by L3 Harris in Brighton.

In allowing the continued supply of F-35 components to Israel (via the US), despite their use in the genocide in Gaza, the UK government claimed that these supplies could not be stopped without jeopardising the global supply chain for the F-35 programme as a whole, which it claimed was crucial for preserving “peace and security”. But instead of peace and security, we are seeing this aircraft used again and again for illegal aggression and untold death, destruction and instability.

This illegal war of aggression, with all its devastating consequences, should call into question not only the UK’s long-standing subservience to US foreign policy and support for military aggression, but also its deep military and military-industrial dependence on, and intertwining with the United States and its arms industry. The US’s overwhelmingly dominant military machine, far from being a guarantee of global peace and international law, is – along with Russia, Israel, the UAE, and many others – one of its primary destroyers.

CAAT calls upon the UK government to:

• Reverse its decision to allow the US to use UK military bases to attack Iran, issue a clear condemnation of the US-Israeli war as a violation of international law, and ensure that the UK plays no part in the war going forward.
• Withdraw from the F-35 programme, immediately halting all F-35 component supplies to the US and Israel
• Suspend all arms supplies to the US that can be used for illegal military action against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, or other countries that have been threatened militarily by the US
• Work to reduce UK arms imports from the US, and end UK military and arms industry dependence on the US, pursuing a foreign and defence policy based on collective security, human rights and respect for international law.

Thanks Alan: How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM

The most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering up with the U.S. military to fund STEM mathematics programs to propagandize children in the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and others.

Essays by Native American authors and activity on contemporary Native issues, including the quincentenary.

Table of Contents:

• Wind River / DeLinda Wunder
• The state of native North America / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
• Sand Creek: the morning after / M. Annette Jaimes
• Key Indian laws and cases / Ward Churchill and Glenn T. Morris
• The demography of native North America : a question of American Indian survival / Lenore A. Stiffarm with Phil Lane, Jr.
• International law and politics : toward a right to self-determination for indigenous peoples / Glenn T. Morris
• Self-determination and subordination : the past, present, and future of American Indian governance / Rebecca L. Robbins
• Federal Indian identification policy : a usurpation of indigenous sovereignty in North America / M. Annette Jaimes
• The earth is our mother : struggles for American Indian land and liberation in the contemporary United States / Ward Churchill
• American Indian water rights : the blood of life in native North America / Marianna Guerrero
• In usual and accustomed places : contemporary American Indian fishing rights struggles / The Institute for Natural Progress.
• (cont.) Native North America : the political economy of radioactive colonialism / Ward Churchill and Winona LaDuke
• Trouble in high places : erosion of American Indian rights to religious freedom in the United States / Vine Deloria, Jr.
• A warrior caged : the continuing struggle of Leonard Peltier / Jim Vander Wall
• American Indian women : at the center of indigenous resistance in contemporary North America / M. Annette Jaimes with Theresa Halsey
• Patriots and pawns : state use of American Indians in the military and the process of nativization in the United States / Tom Holm
• American Indian education in the United States : indoctrination for subordination to colonialism / by Jorge Noreiga
• The great pretenders : further reflections on whiteshamanism / by Wendy Rose
• Cowboys and … notes on art, literature, and American Indians in the modern American mind / by Jimmie Durham
• Looking for Columbus : thought on the past, present and future of humanity / John Mohawk.

You have to suspend reality to understand how we GOT to this fucking clown show, amateur high school follies moment in history

For as long as Saturday Night Live has been on the air, it’s been a whole lot of “Jewish.”

Jewish cast members. Jewish writers. Jewish creator and executive producer. Jewish characters and Jewish sketches.

The iconic late-night institution Saturday Night Live has served as a significant platform for Jews and Judaism since its inception, and SNL’s 50th Anniversary Special, which aired Feb. 16, featured several Jewish individuals who have made the show into what it is today.

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“By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump is showing that he could not care less about our students’ futures,” said NEA President Becky Pringle.

“Rather than working to strengthen public schools, expand learning opportunities for students, and support educators, McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students – and 95% of students with disabilities – learn, and give them to unaccountable and discriminatory private schools,” said Pringle.

• April 3, 2004 (Season 29): Trump hosted during his run with The Apprentice, appearing in several sketches alongside cast members like Darrell Hammond (who famously impersonated him).

• November 7, 2015 (Season 41): Trump hosted a second time while campaigning for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. This appearance drew significant protests outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza and considerable media controversy

Linda McMahon’s Only Qualification as Education Secretary Is a History of Spreading Hate

Even in Trump’s cabinet of hucksters, reality-show stars, and drunk white nationalists, Linda McMahon is a bizarre choice for education secretary.

The first Major League Baseball player to break the color line was Jack Roosevelt Robinson in 1947. The first Black man, in the restricted, country club world of golf, to play in the Masters was Lee Elder in 1975.

The first Black man’s win of the World Wrestling Federation championship was in 1997, when the biracial charisma-machine Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson took the belt. It would not happen again for another Black wrestler until 2019, when the title adorned the waist of Kofi Kingston. The longtime fan favorite was then squashed in eight seconds by German American Übermensch Brock Lesnar and never got a rematch. This backstage decision was widely perceived as humiliating to Kingston and a slap in the face to fans and Black wrestlers who were literally crying with joy when Kofi was crowned

In the world of sports entertainment, where outcomes are scripted, the most common role for Black wrestlers had always been minstrelsy: Ugandan headhunters, “voodoo practitioners” holding human skulls, and a Black woman named Sapphire. (The “Sapphire caricature” is a minstrel trope from the early 20th century, so none of this was subtle.)

SNL producers forbade him from discussing Gaza during his hosting appearances.

Dave Chappelle Says ‘SNL’ Producers Forbade Him From Talking About Gaza And Trans People.

Fifty years before President Donald Trump proposed that the U.S. should take over Gaza, Saturday Night Live — in its very first episode on Oct. 11, 1975 — introduced a land swap solution to Middle East peace: The state of Israel and the state of Georgia could switch places.

The swap was the subject of a short film by Albert Brooks that aired on SNL. The conceit: A news broadcast airs a press conference with an announcement. Several politicians are seated at a long table, flanked by flags.

“In an unprecedented move to ease world tensions,” a narrator declares, “the country of Israel and the state of Georgia have agreed to change places. “The entire state of Georgia — residents, businesses, all forms of commerce — will relocate in the Middle East on January 1st, 1977. No buildings will be moved. It will be an even property exchange.”

The camera cuts to the Israeli leader: “I hope that New Orleans will be easier to deal with than Cairo,” and the representative from Georgia adds, “I know that my entire state is looking forward to heat without humidity.”

Dirty mind washing, brain spinning, rinse and repeat:

From ‘Coffee Talk’ to ‘The Hanukkah Song,’ 36 standout Jewish moments from 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend.

What was he thinking to be mayor of Jew York City. Jew York Times keeps the industry of Holocaust crap going:

Oh, betrayal!

They fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now they worry about losing their green cards.

“When I came here, I thought that all my problems were solved, that now is the time to build my future right here,” Sasad said, adding that he is concerned about his ability to stay in school, have a career or even travel outside the U.S. in an emergency. “What now? I cannot focus on my long-term goals. Now all of my thoughts are ‘what if?’ situations. A lot of ‘what if?’ situations [are] giving me anxiety and depression.”

Jew World — Surveillance ….

Marion County employees say pattern of retaliation, surveillance keeps them quiet – Salem Reporter

Yeah, that fake social-ist cuntry….

Water companies could be allowed to raise bills for customers during periods of drought under proposals being considered by the sector’s regulator for England and Wales.

Suppliers would be permitted to factor “water scarcity” into bills as part of efforts to reduce consumption under Ofwat’s plans, which are being likened to surge pricing – the practice where private hire firms raise taxi fares at times of higher demand.

The proposals come just a few days after the prime minster, Andy Burnham, said he was angry with water companies and accused them of treating their customers like a “blank cheque” after more than a dozen firms were given the green light to raise water bills even higher.

It emerged last Thursday that five companies – Southern Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent, Wessex Water and South East Water – would be allowed to raise bills more than originally planned before the end of the decade to allow for billions of pounds of extra spending on repairs and infrastructure.

Anal rape: Public anger over the behaviour of water companies has soared in recent years as bills have continued to climb even while sewage has flowed into the nation’s waterways and firms have increased bosses’ pay and handed out millions of pounds in dividends to shareholders.

CAPITALISM, as in Chlamydia Capitalism!

US law to investigate foodborne illness outbreaks has been delayed for 15 years

Law was set to go into effect in January, months before cyclosporiasis outbreak, but now is set for 2028.

See that Lorne Michaels set, everywhere you fucking turn? ‘Godfather of AI’ says billionaires like Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way.

Crimes against humanity, just another day in the life of the Jews. ‘Water and salt’: Qusra residents trapped in Israeli settler siege

As the blockade enters its second week, Palestinians remain trapped by settlers and soldiers without water or power.

Expect Jew Lawyers getting in on the lawsuits against citizens.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – With many communities using what are often called Flock cameras in South Dakota, Aberdeen has decided against using the surveillance technology.

In a Friday post, Aberdeen Mayor Travis Schaunaman announced that the city does not plan to install license plate reader cameras in the Aberdeen area. The planned police work session involving the technology has also been canceled.

“For Aberdeen, this issue is settled,” Schaunaman said in his post.

The cameras are automated license plate readers or license plate readers. The Flock Safety company makes many of them.

More difficult to retain uniformed fucking mercenaries? That’s the position of this POS BIPOC?

More brown pieces of shit that need machetes to the head:

Humanoid robots capable of autonomously navigating rugged terrain and detecting people could eventually join federal agents patrolling the southern border, with one U.S. robotics company telling Fox News Digital it has already demonstrated the technology to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Sankaet Pathak, founder and CEO of Foundation, spoke with Fox News Digital to discuss the company’s development of humanoid robotics and their potential applications at the border.

Pathak said Foundation is in talks with several national security agencies.

How’s that working out, Brown Piece of Shit? AI and your killer robots going to solve this?

‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low

The “outrageous” handcuffing of a New Orleans journalist covering the indictment in July of Louisiana’s attorney general – a case that ultimately was dismissed – conveyed “a chilling message to members of the press and the public” for which there is no excuse, according to a prominent media rights advocacy organization.

An attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) made those assertions in a recent letter to the New Orleans criminal district courthouse where deputies temporarily detained WWL Louisiana investigative producer Danny Monteverde and outlet lawyer Elana Beiser in the course of their duties in early July.

Beiser and Monteverde, whose station is a Guardian reporting partner, were trying to object to judge Leon Roche’s closure of the courtroom where a grand jury had handed up an indictment against state attorney general, Liz Murrill, on accusations that she had threatened the jobs of Democratic New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul. A 5 August letter from RCFP attorney Virginia Hamrick to New Orleans criminal court chief judge contended that there were “no findings justifying closure” and urged the courthouse to “properly hear and consider objections of the public and the press before any … proceedings are closed”.

“Refrain from detaining reporters (or their counsel) who are simply exercising their constitutional rights,” which include the access to court proceedings, Hamrick’s letter continued. The missive added that such “outrageous actions send a chilling message to members of the press and the public who may seek to object to closure in the future”.

“Members of the public – including journalists – should not fear being hauled away in handcuffs merely for asserting these basic rights,” Hamrick went on, saying open access to court proceedings “informs the public, ensures an accurate portrayal of proceedings and promotes government accountability”.

The letter alluded to arguments from Roche that he closed the courtroom where the indictment had been handed up – and outside which Monteverde and Beiser were handcuffed – in order “to protect grand jurors’ safety and anonymity”.

“But such concerns do not warrant the closure of a courtroom without hearing objections to such closure,” Hamrick’s letter said. “Moreover, there is no excuse for deputies to handcuff reporters and counsel asking to be heard.”

Hamrick’s letter also offered the New Orleans criminal courthouse “comprehensive and collaborative training regarding the importance and legality of access to judicial proceedings” from the RCFP, whose steering committee members include highly regarded former Washington Post editor-in-chief Marty Baron and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

The Guardian reached out to Lombard, Roche and WWL for comment.

Prior to Monteverde and Beiser’s handcuffing, there had been months of political tensions between Louisiana Republicans and New Orleans Democrats over a law that eliminated a court clerk position won in an election by Calvin Duncan, who spent nearly three decades in prison in connection to a murder that he was exonerated of having committed.

SNL on crack: World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, said on Friday that its trust company has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank.

Upon final approval, World Liberty Trust will operate as a federally chartered national trust bank. The charter will allow World Liberty to issue, redeem and safeguard USD1, the dollar-backed stablecoin that World Liberty launched last year. The stablecoin, whose reserves are currently custodied with BitGo, has a market value of about $4 billion.

What might go wrong here? Special Operations Veterans Could Carry Concealed Guns in All 50 States Under New Bills

New bills would let qualified special operations veterans carry concealed guns nationwide, extending protections now given to retired police.

Our Special Operations Forces spend their careers protecting the American people with unmatched discipline, judgment, and professionalism, Sheehy said in announcing his legislation. This bill honors that reality by giving qualified special operators the same nationwide concealed carry privileges already afforded to retired law enforcement officers.

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom.

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday dismissed criticism over the Justice Department’s (DOJ) recent opinion on executive privilege over communications between the president and “private advisors” outside of government, saying that it is not “any novel legal concept.”

“Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream played a clip to Blanche of Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) telling MS NOW that the DOJ’s opinion is “about hiding corruption. “It’s about allowing the president to do whatever he wants to do.”

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You’re Thinking VD Vance or Some Other Fucking Hillbilly in the Democratic Party Will NOT Click Heels and Raise Straight Arm for the Tech Fascists?

Engineering consent, manufacturing dissent, controlled opposition and manufacturing CRIME…. Way Beyond Precrime

Paulo Kirk

Aug 15, 2026

Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) gives the FBI, IRS, DHS, and Treasury Department broad new powers to investigate “domestic terrorism” — defined so loosely it could effectively apply to more than half the country. Independent journalist Hannah Riley Fernandez joins Rania Khalek and guest host Amanda Yee to explain how the directive is already producing dystopian punishments for protesters: one Prairieland defendant was sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of zines, another got 70 years after being acquitted of violence.

Tracing NSPM-7’s roots back through decades of anti-left crackdowns — from COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act to Cop City — Fernandez explains what’s actually new: a surveillance tech infrastructure of Flock cameras, Clearview AI, and Ring doorbells that makes it cheaper and easier than ever to manufacture criminality out of belief and political conviction. It’s a threat we know firsthand: in light of Trump’s MAGA allies in Congress subpoenaing BreakThrough News, Fernandez explains exactly why independent media has become a critical target:

“We’re done pretending the quote-unquote ‘violence’ from the left is anything compared to what we’re seeing from the right, which is actual, literal, fascist authoritarian violence. And a free press that pushes back on that framing is incredibly threatening to a fascist regime.”

1. If you do not hate these, then you are a fucking lobotomized cunt:

• How can you NOT hate Christianity as spewed out and shit out by the USA?
• Don’t you hate the Jews of Occupied Palestine and ALL their fuciking backers?
• Fucking Military Mercenaries, you can’t wrap your arms around how dirty Gestapo they are?
• All the alphabet soup pigs — ICE, CIA, NSA, ATF, FBI, Secret Service, Sheriff Departments, city pig shops — ya gotta want them all fucking shot down like dirty rabid dogs?
• Bankers, Investors, Wall Street, Health Insurance Companies, 320 Jew Billionaires and the other fucking 3,500 Billionaires, you should of course want them DOA, any means necessary?

I want to Hate America. Really, I WANT TO HATE AMERIKKKA.

Puerto Rico
My heart’s devotion
Let it sink back in the ocean
Always the hurricanes blowing
Always the population growing
And the money owing
And the sunlight streaming
And the natives steaminghttps://youtu.be/lsVOAR7Y1N0?si=j6qv0m2G9Cz1bYpe

I HATE the island Manhattan (I know you do)
Smoke on your pipe and put that in

I like to be OUT of America
Okay by me in America
Everything is DIRTY and not free in America
For a BIG fee in America you will die

Buying on credit is so Jewish made
One look at us and they charge twice
I’ll have my own washing machine
It all breaks down . . . .

What will you have, though, to keep clean?

Skyscrapers come down in America
Cadillacs break down in America
Industry pollutes in America
Twelve in a room-van-trailer in America

Lots of new unaffordable housing
Lots of doors slamming in our face
I’ll get a terrace apartment
Better get rid of your accent

Life can be fucking criminal in America
If you can’t fight in America
Life is all smoke and mirors in America
If you’re all-white (Trumpy and Dirty Jew) in America

La, la, la, la, la, la
America
America
La, la, la, la, la, la
America
America

Here you are free to OD, you have zero pride
Long as you stay on your own side
Free to be not a thing you choose
Free to wait tables and shine shoes

Everywhere grime in America
Organized crime in America
Terrible time in America
You forget I’m in America

I think I go back to San Juan
I know a boat you can get on (bye-bye)
Everyone there will give big cheer (hey)
Everyone there will have been ICE-ed here

+—+

Here, Stills from Hedges’ Whitney Webb Interview. SHOOT these motherfockers on SIGHT.

Somehow we need to get to them ALL and shotgun blast them into eternity!

And judges, too: Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe’s reservation.

“It would fray the ties between O’odham communities and families on opposite sides of the border, interfere significantly with O’odham religious rituals and practices, and destroy plant and animal resources sacred to the O’odham,” the lawyers wrote.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation reserving a 60-foot strip of public land along the U.S.-Mexico border for a buffer zone called the “Roosevelt Reservation,” which was formed a decade before the reservation’s establishment.

Next Hillbilly POTUS:

Vance presses Justice Department to investigate hospitals over transgender care

The Trump administration alleges that some hospitals are incorrectly billing for gender-affirming care.

Your fucking kiddos and their techy terrorist lives: White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations

Vetted U.S. firms can now conduct surveillance and destructive cyber operations under federal supervision.

Jew Glosser-Miller and his NAZI aspirations.

ICE detained a Venezuelan soccer pro. His case shows the immigration backlog crisis

Confiscate them:

Senate Democratic appropriators are questioning Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the purchase of 12 new planes, including five “extravagant new luxury jets” that have been used by FBI Director Kash Patel and border czar Tom Homan.

“These jets were acquired and provided for officials’ use, even though no authorization was ever provided by Congress to buy any airplanes, much less to support executive travel,” Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote in a letter to Mullin with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

The letter demands all purchasing details, flight logs and cost analyses related to the planes.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been pushing to expand its fleet of jets since Mullin’s predecessor Kristi Noem pushed for a new pair of planes on behalf of the Coast Guard to shepherd herself and other officials.

Brown and Dirty.

Surprise has canceled its contract with Flock and requested that the company remove its automatic license plate reader cameras in the city.

Councilmember Jack Hastings, a proponent of public safety, confirmed the move in an Aug. 14 text message.

“They are Flock’s cameras, so (we) have requested that they take them down,” Hastings said.

Fucking vile MAGA cunts: Legal expert calls for Smithsonian leadership overhaul over ‘self-loathing’ portrayal of history: ‘It’s bile’

Cully Stimson says Director Anthea Hartig should have been fired after heated congressional hearings over DEI concerns.

“We should not have a museum dedicated to flagellation and self-loathing,” he said. “That is not how you celebrate your country.”

Many Democrats have also accused Republicans of trying to “whitewash” history, a claim Stimson rejected, saying that celebrating America does not mean ignoring the darker parts of its past.

“Celebrating doesn’t mean whitewashing history,” he said. “Every civilization throughout mankind has had slavery. That doesn’t make it right; it makes it reality.”

But Stimson said this approach to teaching history goes further than the museums and that the concern is “something you need to be aware of.”

“You see this in higher ed, you see this unfortunately in high school and even below in lower schools, and unfortunately at our premier national museums, including the American History Museum,” he said.

How’s this going down in the fucking Crayola History Books?

Deaths of 3 ICE Detainees Prompt Questions About Medical Care

Immigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere.

SHOULD be SHOT: Peeping Tom’s and House Invasion Gangs, FLOCK.

Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals

CEO announces steps after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortions.

DARPA honors drone teams for light copters that carry heavy loads

More fucking Jew News in LA, Jew City: How Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner’s Friendship Led Them to the Lakers

Bob Iger, the former chief executive of Disney, and Josh Kushner, the venture capitalist, are buying the Los Angeles Lakers. Their wives set them up.

Three Companies Built To Survive AI: Palantir, ServiceNow And Toast

Summary

The rapid evolution of AI prompts investors to question which companies will remain relevant. The article argues that durable AI businesses are those that connect intelligence to execution, rather than just generating answers. Palantir, ServiceNow, and Toast are presented as prime examples. Palantir transforms data into decisions for government and commercial clients, demonstrating exceptional growth. ServiceNow provides essential workflow and governance for enterprise operations, becoming critical for orchestrating AI agents. Toast offers an integrated operating system for restaurants, leveraging AI to enhance efficiency and growth in the physical economy. These companies are positioned for long-term relevance by owning the crucial link between AI insights and real-world action, embedding deeply into their customers’ operations.

At times, things go wrong even ..

Gas Pipeline for Proposed Oracle Data Center Delayed to 2027

A key New Mexico natural gas pipeline project that would supply fuel to power a planned Oracle Corp. artificial intelligence data center has been delayed by nearly six months.

The Green Chile Project pipeline now has an estimated in-service date of Feb. 1, 2027, pushing past its earlier targeted date of Aug. 15, pipeline operator Energy Transfer LP’s subsidiary Transwestern Pipeline said Friday in a regulatory filing.

FUCKING LIARS, man. Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification’ alerts over mercenary spyware attacks.

Nearly two months since JD Vance’s most recent memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, was released, and following sales of 64,000 copies in its first week, Vance’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio, has had time to take it in.

At the town library, administrators say there has been interest in the book among the wider public.

“It’s been one of our most popular [books]. It’s been No 2 in adult nonfiction since 9 June,” says Cari Hillman of the MidPointe Library System, noting that Mel Robbins’s The Let Them Theory, published in 2024, has kept Vance off the top spot. The local library system, which includes five branches and a bookmobile, has 20 copies of Vance’s book; as of 27 July, 11 were checked out.

Liar Liar, burn them all down with gasoline and fire!

Eyal Eshel, father of Roni Eshel, an IDF observer who was murdered at the Nahal Oz base on October 7, told Israel’s KAN News on Wednesday that some of the terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7 were speaking Farsi.

This claim, he told KAN, was uncovered recently and is based on witness testimony.

“We know much more than we did [before] about October 7,” Eshel said. “Every day we are learning new things [about it]. So here, we’ve learned this too.”

Collective Memory, Collective Agnotolgy, Collective Insanity, Collective ZioPsychopathy!

Paulo Kirk

Aug 15, 2026

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 specifically targeted ethnically Chinese laborers rather than all Asians. However, it laid the legal and racial groundwork for later federal legislation—such as the Immigration Act of 1917 and the Immigration Act of 1924—that ultimately expanded the ban to prohibit immigration and citizenship for all Asian groups.

Agents in a tank-like vehicle detained five people, including two teens, at a north side Tucson home Thursday — neighbors say officers wore no uniforms or ID and wouldn’t say what agency they were with.

See fucking Obama Stickers and Congressional Whores’ faces on this fucking urban terror vehicle? Obama signed Executive Order 13688 in May 2015 to restrict or ban certain tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft, grenade launchers, and bayonets from being given to police following intense scrutiny during protests in Ferguson, Missouri

The 1033 Program Overview

• Established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (building on a 1990 pilot program).
• Permits the Department of Defense to transfer excess, unneeded military property to state and local police agencies.
• Transferred billions of dollars worth of equipment, ranging from office supplies and basic utility trucks to tactical gear and armored vehicles over its lifetime.

Every fucking Jewish billionaire’s face and every fucking one of those 39,000,000 Millionaires’ ass I would like to see chopped off.

Before her 7:20 a.m. arrival at Bloom Elementary School on Tucson’s east side, Rebecca Vieira wakes up, preps three boys for the day and makes breakfasts and lunches.

Her day as a P.E. teacher will last until at least 3 p.m.

And her single-mom shifts are perpetual.

After the school day, it’s home to make dinner. Then, depending on the day of the week, Vieira coaches a swim team or heads to her job at The Gaslight Theatre by 4 p.m. She’s home by 10:30 p.m. on weeknights. And by 11:30 or midnight on weekends.

As summer began last May, Vieira stood under the fans in the Gaslight — part theater, part saloon — where the audience would soon dine and enjoy a show. The five-person band rehearsed Billy Joel’s “Movin’ Out.” As a manager, Vieira works about 30 hours a week at her second job.

“It’s so really tiring. I just keep going because you have to,” Vieira, 44 said. “But by the time I get in bed, my brain is still going. It takes a little while to relax. I feel like I can’t fully put my effort into anything because I’m being pulled and I really want that focus and I can’t have that. But I still try my best.”

As an elementary school teacher in her 21st year, a second and a third job are needed to support her family of four. Vieira is one of many educators who require that supplemental income. For some teachers, this solution to staying in the profession they love creates more challenges, like burnout.

Heroes: Ana fights. Priscila flees. Judith freezes.

All three are survivors of domestic violence and immigrants who will take the stage in Tucson to tell, in their own words, about the moment their lives changed forever.

In “The Myth of the Perfect Victim,” each one performs a monologue inspired by her own story. They challenge the idea that there is only one way to respond to violence and question the stereotypes that often turn survivors into objects of judgment.

“What we are trying to explain here is that when your body, your nervous system, is under threat, it automatically responds in three ways: fight, flight or freeze,” says Imelda Esquer, the creator of the play and a survivor of domestic violence. These responses can lead a person to fight back, flee from the threat or become unable to move or respond.

Read it, Luminaria, my old stomping and proving grounds.

Why mess with Mafia-encrusted Jew York City?

Have you had your oatmeal and melons yet? Fucking sick back alley carnival and back alley abortion society:

I love those fucking “miller” Jews, man:

Miller is the grandson of Samuel H. Miller, the former co-chair of Forest City Realty Trust, and son of Abe and Barb Miller.His grandmother, Ruth Miller, was a candidate for Ohio’s 22nd congressional district in 1980. His uncle is Aaron David Miller, a scholar of Middle East studies.[4] His cousin, Eli Miller, a senior member of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was later appointed chief of staff of the United States Department of the Treasury. He is Jewish.

As a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname, Miller comes from the Yiddish word miller (מיללער), which means “mill worker” or “one who grinds grain.” It is an occupational surname derived from the German Müller.

Linguistic and Historical Roots

• Yiddish Pronunciation: Yiddish does not use the German umlaut (ü), so the sound shifted from Müller to Miller.
• Adoption of Surnames: When laws in Central and Eastern Europe (such as the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and German empires) required Jewish families to take fixed hereditary surnames in the late 18th and 19th centuries, many chose or were assigned occupational names based on their trades or local environments.
• Geographic Spread: It became especially common among Ashkenazi Jewish families living in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Lithuania.

Dual Origins

• Coincidental Overlap: Because “miller” is a basic grain-grinding occupation, the exact same surname arose independently in English, Scottish, German, and other European Christian cultures.
• Distinction: A person named Miller is not automatically Jewish; it is one of several Yiddish surnames that happen to be identical to common non-Jewish surnames. However, it remains one of the most frequent Jewish surnames in the United States. [

Most common municipalities for the surname MILLER:

• Missouri City, United States(47,418 individuals)
• Pennsylvania, United States(21,109 individuals)
• New York, United States(14,640 individuals)
• Ohio City, United States(13,457 individuals)
• Washington DC, United States(12,953 individuals)
• San Francisco, United States(9,964 individuals)
• Indiana, United States(8,311 individuals)
• Chicago, United States(7,663 individuals)
• Virginia, United States(7,465 individuals)
• Baltimore, United States(6,355 individuals)
• New Philadelphia, United States(6,338 individuals)
• Paris, Paris, France(6,311 individuals)

ALL fucking JEWS lie.

The wordless show of dissent that cost Dr. Feras Hamdan his job, a $50,000 cash surety bond, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and the better part of his sanity lasted all of 24 seconds.

It was June 19, 2025, the seventh day of the so-called “Twelve-Day War” between Israel and Iran and the first day of summer vacation, so traffic was sparse on Hamdan’s morning commute along Interstate 90 near Rocky River, Ohio, when at around 9:20 a.m. he noticed a black Dodge Ram that looked like a colleague’s truck. So he pulled up on its left side to see if his hunch was correct.

It was not. In fact, the face in the driver’s-side window belonged to one of his least favorite politicians. He couldn’t believe it. He searched his phone for a photo of a Palestinian flag and held it up to his passenger-side window for a few seconds and honked the horn, a tiny act of rebellion. Then he hit record:

“This is the congressman, that piece of shit faggot congressman that’s against Filastin,” the physician narrated, using the Arabic word for Palestine, as he drove past a blurry-looking white guy. “That’s craaazy. This racist, Jewish … he can’t even look at me!”

As Hamdan posted the video in a group chat of close friends, he realized Miller was tailing him, hard. Traffic camera footage suggests the Ram was no more than five or ten feet behind the black Tesla Hamdan was driving. The doctor recorded a voice note to send to the chat, then—fatefully—deleted the whole thing a few minutes later, embarrassed about having used the F-slur in the video. This guy was chasing me through the streets, I’m pretty sure he called the cops on me and they’re looking for an Indian guy driving a black Tesla.

Indeed, at 9:20 a.m. and 42 seconds, the congressman had been connected with a 911 dispatcher:

“My name is Congressman Max Miller, I’m on the freeway and I have somebody who has cut me off, who is flipping me off, who is showing me a Palestinian flag and is yelling [and] threatening to kill me … and making gestures at me …” he said. “I am on 90 traveling past Wooster overpass … and I’m a little shaken now considering I have death threats. And I mean, he’s a pro-Palestinian guy now … this is insane … how do I know I’m safe later today with my daughter?”

Suddenly, his tale was drowned out by blaring horns and unspecified noise. “Here, here, listen to him, listen to him, listen to him!” the congressman yelled at the dispatcher, who can be heard advising her supervisor that indeed, the young congressman was being audibly harassed. Sounding genuinely shaken, Miller continued: “He said he wanted to kill me and my daughter, verbatim …” The dispatcher asked for his precise location, then apologized that she would need to transfer him to the neighboring municipality. Miller had started to lose patience. “Can you just track this guy down now?” To the other dispatcher, he said, “I was cut off by a man in a Tesla … [who] then rolled down his window and said that I’m going to cut your throat and your daughter’s. And he said you’re a dirty Jew. I’m going to fucking kill you all. And I know who you are and where you live. And I followed him, and he rolled down his window, and I rolled down my window, so I could hear what he was saying …”

A prosecutor told Elkhatib before his arraignment hearing that they were asking the judge to set the doctor’s bail at around $25,000. But Judge Joseph T. Burke had other ideas, and set bail at $500,000, an amount typically reserved for suspects charged with extremely violent felonies or considered serious flight risks. “You could just hear the air sucked out of the room when he said it,” Elkhatib remembers. It would take until the following Tuesday for Hamdan’s extended family to come up with $50,000 cash. But Juneteenth weekend in county jail wasn’t so bad, the doctor reported. The cops let his wife bring food and a pillow. They kept quiet when he needed to pray. When Hamdan was finally released, he took a brief tour of the jail and thanked everyone. “They were all so friendly,” he marveled to Elkhatib.

DID you say, “Fuck you and I hope you fucking die in a goddamn ditch bleeding out of your ass after being baton-fucked by a pig of your choice, MAGA cunt,” this morning?

Mistrust in the health care system has long been prevalent among African Americans: A 2024 Pew Research Center poll found that over half of Black adults believe that “the U.S. health care system was designed to hold Black people back a great deal or fair amount.”

For decades, medical schools, hospitals, and professional associations barred Black people from practicing or teaching medicine. During the late 1800s, when the American mainstream medical system, particularly its medical schools, was taking shape, Black people were prevented from becoming doctors and nurses. Eugenicists, for example, argued that Black people were less intelligent than whites—which closed off medicine as a career.

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These beliefs still permeate medicine today, says Harriet Washington, a bioethics professor at Columbia University: “Initially, there was no data offered to support that. But this had implications for how African Americans were viewed in medicine because the thought was that African Americans were constitutionally unsuitable for medicine. They weren’t intelligent enough. They weren’t moral enough. They weren’t disciplined enough.”

[Born as the sixth of nine children to Jewish parents.

• Flexner’s family strongly valued education, which helped him attend Johns Hopkins University.]

In 1910, the Flexner Report, one of the first reports on the state of medical education in the U.S., was published. Abraham Flexner, the white author, argued that most historically Black medical schools (many of which were established during Reconstruction) should be closed, Black doctors should only treat Black patients, and that they should be trained in “hygiene rather than surgery.” Black students were not admitted to most U.S. medical schools for the next half-century after the report was published. Those who were studying when the report was published were forced to leave medical school due to closures.

In 1910, a man — Flexner — who had never stepped foot inside a medical school shut down five Black medical schools and erased 35,000 Black doctors from existence. 😤 His name was Abraham Flexner… not a doctor, not a scientist, a prep school teacher with a bachelor’s degree. Today Black doctors make up less than 6 percent of physicians in America. Researchers trace that shortage directly back to him.

For the second episode of “Color Code,” we reflect upon the Flexner Report and examine the ripple effects it had on medical education that are still felt today, especially for Black doctors.

Jews and their lies about ZIONISM!

Did Zionism begin as a Christian project which was only later a Jewish movement?

This is what Ilan Pappé says in the book Lobbying for Zionism. In my review of the book, I show this is wrong.

David Miller [this Miller NOT being a JEW.]

Aug 15, 2026

First published in The Column No. 2 the new magazine published by UK Column.

Here is an excerpt:

The contribution of the first section of the book is to unearth the hidden history of the Christian Zionist movement. This is a fascinating and useful account of the contribution of a certain ­ fraction of practical British imperialism to the idea of the construction of a Jewish state in the historic territory of Palestine.

In the conclusion, Pappé mentions that ‘Christian fundamentalists, who, as I’ve shown, were the first Zionists in the modern era’. He also states that ‘Zionism began as a Christian project, and thus the early lobbyists were what we would call Christian
Zionists today.’ He goes on to criticise Mearsheimer and Walt, saying they ‘described this Christian lobby as a junior partner in the overall lobbying effort in the USA. This appeared to be the case in 2007 — but the picture was very different nearly a decade later during the Trump era.’

But of course, the picture was not very different either during Trump’s first or second presidency. Christian Zionists do have greater numbers of foot soldiers than do Jewish Zionists, but they have only a handful of representatives at the top of the Trump power matrix (for example, Pence and Pompeo in the first period, and Hegseth and Huckabee in the second). As reporting in the Forward, or JFeed, shows, it is Jews who dominate in terms of power players and finance.

Pappé’s conclusion is predicated on his analysis at the start. The opening words of the book are: ‘Zionism began as an evangelical Christian concept and later an active project.’

The main progenitors of the idea were, according to Pappé, Lord Shaftesbury, Colonel Henry Churchill, and Sir George Gawler from the 1830s onwards. Though Jewish Zionists of the time are mentioned, such as Sir Moses Montefiore, this all predates the moment when, as Pappé writes, ‘the first settlers arrived [in Palestine] on 6 July 1882’, a group of 14 Russian Jews who arrived at Jaffa Port.

But, as Pappé surely knows, Jewish settlement in Palestine long pre-dates 1882 (see below). Except for Montefiore, none of these figures are mentioned in Pappé’s index, and Pappé does not mention Montefiore’s numerous visits to Palestine, or his role in financing Jewish settlement.

In the end, then, the book appears to be advancing a case which is not supported either by the known facts on Jewish settlement in Palestine or by empirically grounded research on the activities of the Zionist movement.

A scan of the full review is below:

God, this fucking JEWISH Centric Cunt of a WORLD. Give me GAZA.

Well, my oatmeal went soggy:

The ADL wants to cancel Susan Abulhawa

Israel lobby demands Simon & Schuster stop publishing her novels.

Now, the Anti-Defamation League, one of the world’s most influential anti-Palestinian hate groups, is demanding a major publisher drop susan abulhawa, a leading Palestinian novelist.

Earlier in August, one of Simon & Schuster’s subsidiaries announced it would republish two of abulhawa’s novels. Since then the lobby has piled on the pressure to cancel the books, claiming the author has used “anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

Being a bestselling novelist has never stopped abulhawa from speaking out against the oppression of her people. She visited Gaza towards the start of the genocide, and has written essays and reports from on the ground for The Electronic Intifada.

Speaking to The Electronic Intifada on Thursday, abulhawa was defiant, angrily rejecting the Israel lobby’s claims.

“Only Zionism comes wrapped in some inherited claim to the world’s care and tenderness,” she said. “I refuse that. I reject it outright.”

“There was a time in my life when I had to be careful … it was this sort of internalized self-censorship… that version of me is buried somewhere between [the 1982 Israeli-backed] Sabra and Shatila [massacre in Lebanon] and Nasr Hospital, where they let five infants die of starvation alone in the dark, crying and crying and crying.”

FUCKING JEWS: Richard L. Simon, who came from a German-Jewish family, and Max Schuster, a Jewish immigrant from Austria-Hungary. They were part of a prominent wave of 20th-century Jewish entrepreneurs who shaped American book publishing.

RATS sticking together:

As examples of what it alleged was “anti-Semitism” in Abulhawa’s books, the ADL quoted her novel Mornings in Jenin, in which a character describes Israelis as having no historical connection to Palestine, calling them “lily-skinned foreigners with no attachment to the land” and a “foreign minority.”

The ADL did not contest the factual accuracy of this statement by a fictional character, but merely asserted that it was “anti-Semitic.”

“I reject that wholesale, that I’m an anti-Semite,” Abulhawa responded in her interview with The Electronic Intifada. “This is another layer of colonization … it’s colonization of language itself.”

In the same novel, the ADL complains, “one character tells a Jewish person, ‘you are no different from Nazis’ … another passage claims Palestinians ‘paid the price for the Jewish holocaust’ … a grotesque form of anti-Semitism.”

Once again, the ADL cites no evidence for its claims of “anti-Semitism.”

At the publisher, The Electronic Intifada understands from sources, the ADL has been lobbying hard for abulhawa’s books to be canceled. “The executives are discussing it” in closed-door sessions, this reporter was told earlier this week.

The lobby’s campaign led chief executive Greg Greeley to send out a company-wide email addressing “concerns” about “this important matter.” The email was obtained by The Electronic Intifada.

Greeley stood by the publication of Abulhawa’s “widely acclaimed” books and said the publisher would continue to print them. But he also condemned Abulhawa’s “comments on social media and elsewhere that have included harmful, dehumanizing, anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

He wrote that: “Being a publisher committed to a broad range of works and perspectives inevitably means that we will sometimes publish authors whose words or actions outside their books we strongly disagree with or even find offensive or hateful. Publishing a work is not an endorsement of every statement made by its author.”

Dirty fucking Jew — Posner also attacked X posts by Abulhawa and accused the publisher of “gross negligence” if it has failed to vet her posts. In one such post, he complained, Abulhawa stated that Israel is run by “Jewish supremacist demons.”

Posner works for the so-called “Jordan Peterson Academy,” an unaccredited online video streaming service founded by the eponymous manosphere influencer. The annual fee for the service is $499, Slate reported.

But as well as anti-Palestinian motives, Posner’s calls to boycott Simon & Schuster may also be motivated by the fact that the publisher no longer seems to be interested in his books anyway.

The president of PEN America resigned over the weekend in protest of a report on boycotts targeting Jewish and Israeli authors, part of yet another round of internal division over Israel at the literary free-speech institution.⁠
⁠
Dinaw Mengestu, an Ethiopian-American novelist and Bard College professor, told The Atlantic he was stepping down because he believed the PEN report, “A Silent Moratorium,” failed to defend the free-speech rights of participants in the movement to boycott Israel.⁠
⁠
“It’s the First Amendment that allows all of us to engage in boycotts, not PEN America,” Mengestu told the publication. “PEN America as a free expression organization is supposed to defend that right.” ⁠
⁠
The author did not respond to multiple Jewish Telegraphic Agency requests for comment, but in an Instagram post Monday alluded to an interest in creating a new organization to rival the prominent nonprofit, which defends the free expression rights of other writers. ⁠

In this episode of Fronts & Faultlines, Palestinian academic and writer Abdaljawad Omar traces the historical continuity between the Zionist movement, settler militias and Israeli state power. The discussion explores the expansionist logic of “Greater Israel,” the fragmentation of Palestinian resistance, the legacy of Oslo, and why Western sanctions against settlers may amount to little more than political theatre.

To understand the West Bank, he argues, we have to look beyond individual settlers and at the wider system of land expropriation, occupation, colonialism and political control.

Join Doctors Against Genocide for 1000 White Coats on the Hill on September 24 as we carry out our mission to educate elected officials and advocate for the protection of life and health at home and abroad, including in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and communities facing violence and injustice around the world.

As healthcare professionals, we come together in defense of our shared ethical commitment to protect life, safeguard health, and do no harm.

Our numbers matter. A thousand white coats on Capitol Hill will make a powerful impression and send an unmistakable message that healthcare professionals are united in defense of life and health.

They hate Asians, and Asian workers.

Was it Hong’s own vulnerabilities as a candidate? Hong was hammered in the final weeks over old “woke” tweets expressing support for abolishing the police, calling to “cancel Thanksgiving” and other beloved holidays, and discussing race in alienating ways that reflected the prevailing progressive style of the era but that have aged poorly now—particularly on public safety, as some socialists are beginning to argue for a “carceral minimalism” framework rather than “abolishing” prison or police. Hong attempted to do as other socialist candidates like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have done and parry these and other attacks by making explicit that she was charting a new course on criminal justice and public safety. But she was not as successful in persuading sceptical voters on it.

Was it the reluctance of leading socialist figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to lend their endorsement to Hong? They and a parade of other high-profile socialist candidates who had a week earlier rallied with El-Sayed declined to show up for Hong, reportedly because of private doubts about her effectiveness as a candidate. Opinion in the cold light of day is split between whether this could have moved the needle just enough to get Hong the few thousand more votes she needed, or whether Hong’s defeat showed socialist officials were right to stay away. This will likely be a matter of intense debate for some time.

“Fear won out last night, by a narrow margin,” says socialist State Assembly Member Ryan Clancy, who also won reelection last night to his third term. “It was the idea from the beginning to make a campaign based on character assassination and focused on the spectre of electability, instead of on what Wisconsin needs after a decade of Republican control.”

Hong is the first Asian American elected to the State Assembly and is running in a state that President Donald Trump won twice, but that also boasts a proud socialist history going back more than a century. Wisconsin is the state that produced the idea of ​“sewer socialism” which Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now harkening back to under his administration in New York City.

As the first open socialist in the Washington State Legislature since 1914, I wanted to learn more from Hong about how she views the power of state government to secure meaningful material wins for working people. I spoke with her in early August, when she explained to me, ​“I want working people to have a meaningful voice not only at the ballot box, but in their workplaces, their communities and the economy.” This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

As a democratic socialist, what problems did you seek to solve by running for public office, and why did you believe that the Wisconsin State Assembly would be the place to solve them?

I had spent my career in the service industry. I was a dishwasher, a line cook, a chef, a small business owner, and a single mom. When Covid-19 hit, I watched an entire industry shut down almost overnight. Workers who had spent years creating enormous value suddenly had no paycheck, no healthcare, and no support from the government that should be taking care of its people. Small businesses were fighting to survive while the largest corporations had access to resources the rest of us could only dream of.

People like me were left blaming themselves and feeling like failures, but it’s the system that was failing us. The situation we were in was the result of political choices. I ran for office to be part of the solution.

The Assembly was a great starting point because so many of these choices happen at the state level. States determine wages and worker protections. We fund public schools. We administer Medicaid. We decide how much power local governments have to raise revenue, build housing or invest in transit. We regulate utilities and corporations. We write the rules that determine whether working people have power in the workplace and whether families can afford the basic necessities of life.

I ran because I understood that government is one arena where working people have to build power, and because decisions were being made there every day that shaped whether my neighbors could live with dignity.

I know from personal experience that being a socialist in an American legislative body can be a lonely and difficult experience. What were some of the fights you took on as an assemblymember?

For the entirety of my time in office, I’ve served in a legislature controlled by Republicans, so I learned very quickly that you have to define success more broadly than whether leadership allows your bill to receive a vote.

I’ve introduced an Economic Justice Bill of Rights because I believe healthcare, housing, education, food and a dignified job should be understood as basic economic rights. I’ve fought to raise the minimum wage and advocated for paid family and medical leave. I’ve introduced legislation to provide healthy school meals for every child and restore the collective bargaining rights that were stripped from Wisconsin workers under Act 10.

Sometimes, the objective is shifting the conversation around an idea that people initially tell you is impossible. Sometimes it’s using the legislature to give organizers, workers and communities a platform. And sometimes you find openings to actually change the law. I was proud to help pass bipartisan legislation requiring Wisconsin schools to teach Asian American and Hmong American history, a victory that grew out of community organizing and building positive relationships with folks from across the aisle.

That experience has reinforced something I believe deeply: elected officials should not think of themselves as the movement. Our job is to open doors, bring organizing into the institution, use the power we have to shift material conditions and make it easier for people outside the Capitol to build power.

A socialist legislator without an organized constituency can be isolated. A socialist legislator connected to workers, unions and community organizations can make the institution much less comfortable with the status quo.

What would you say are some barriers to the achievement of democratic socialist policies in elected government?

The biggest barrier is institutional power. People sometimes talk about progressive policy as though the obstacle is simply finding the right data to back up your policy or persuading enough legislators that an idea makes sense. But many of the systems we’re trying to change are working exactly as intended for the people who benefit from them.

We are constantly told that universal programs are unrealistic while enormous subsidies, tax breaks, and giveaways to corporations are treated as the natural order of things.

Corporations have lobbyists in the Capitol every day. Wealthy interests provide financial backing for campaigns and organizations designed to shape the policy conversation. Legislative leaders can keep overwhelmingly popular proposals from ever receiving a hearing or vote. And in Wisconsin, years of gerrymandering allowed Republicans to maintain enormous legislative power even in a closely divided state.

There is also a political culture that treats scarcity as inevitable. We are constantly told that universal programs are unrealistic while enormous subsidies, tax breaks and giveaways to corporations are treated as the natural order of things.

That is why electoral politics can’t be separated from organizing. Winning a seat is not the end of the work. If you want to change who has power, you have to build durable organizations outside of government that can make demands of those inside it.

I think that’s particularly important for socialists serving in state legislatures. We should pass legislation wherever we can, but we should also use these offices to expose who benefits from the current system, raise expectations about what government can provide, and help build the working-class coalition capable of making change unavoidable.

You made the decision to join DSA during a difficult time in state and local politics, in 2020. What moved you to join the organization, and how long have you identified as a democratic socialist?

I joined DSA in 2020 because the organization was fighting for the things that had already come to define my politics: raising wages, racial justice, worker power and an economy that serves working people instead of an increasingly concentrated group of wealthy and corporate interests.

My politics grew out of lived experience and community organizing more than a particular label. I spent my adult life working alongside people who could work incredibly hard and still be one emergency away from losing everything. I watched service workers create thriving businesses and communities without receiving the stability, healthcare, or wages they deserved in return. I saw how race, class and gender shaped who had power and who was expected to bear the burden when things went wrong.

To me, democratic socialism is about democracy, fairness and human rights. Working people should have a real say in the decisions that shape their lives, not just in government, but in their workplaces and in the economy. Too often, the most essential parts of our lives, from what we’re paid to what we spend on healthcare, housing and utilities, are determined by corporations with far more power than the people they serve.

I want working people to have a meaningful voice not only at the ballot box, but in their workplaces, their communities and the economy. And I believe that government should guarantee the basic conditions people need to actually exercise that freedom: healthcare, housing, education, childcare, a living wage and the right to organize.

Versus, INSANITY in the form of Pedophilia:

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Over the weekend, right-wing media, including the Post Millennial and the Gateway Pundit, resurfaced a 2023 interview featuring Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, wherein Hong opened up about a hospitalization for a mental breakdown as a teenager and a previous bipolar disorder diagnosis.

“Wisconsin Dem candidate for governor Francesca Hong admitted to being diagnosed as mentally ill,” read the Post Millennial headline.

“In typical liberal fashion, Hong tried to paint herself as a victim in the interview, blaming the crisis on feeling like an outsider as the daughter of Korean immigrants,” blogger Patty McMurray wrote on the Gateway Pundit’s site.

Hong, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is arguably the frontrunner to win the Democratic primary for the Wisconsin gubernatorial election, which will take place on August 11. Hong’s campaign includes mental health policies that would coordinate social workers, nurses, community health workers, and peer counselors in more neighborhoods throughout Wisconsin.

“My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy and compassion,” Hong said in a statement to Mother Jones. “I’m a stronger leader because of the times that I struggled, and it’s important to talk openly so that others aren’t isolated and can take that first step to get help.”

“Mental healthcare is a basic need, and we have to invest in community resources, training, accessibility, and culturally-relevant care,” Hong continued in her statement.

Hong is currently in treatment for depression and takes antidepressants, Hong’s team said.

The current right-wing attacks on Hong’s mental health history—at a time when Republicans outlined their support for Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.)’s months-long, opaque absence for depression treatment—seem particularly cruel and partisan.

“Even if the authors of the articles disagree with Ms. Hong’s politics, the inclusion of her mental health history is a blatant attempt to ignite fear in readers by fanning the flames of stigma,” said California-based therapist Andrea B. Vassilev, who has bipolar disorder.

Hong’s statements about her mental health were incredibly vulnerable, particularly for someone already in public office at the time of the interview. But the remarks likely struck a relatable chord for many people who have struggled with mental illness.

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