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.”
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.”
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, Millercomes 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.
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.
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, Slatereported.
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.
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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:
GUTS:
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.
Becoming more of an international pariah, Israel has been quietly but rapidly expanding its influence across South America, hoping to use it as its new base of international influence and diplomatic protection.
The Israeli newspaper Ynet late last year quoted Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar saying that “2026 will be ‘the year of Latin America’” for Israel.
The article quoted Amir Ofek, deputy director general for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign Ministry of Israel, saying, “We hope and believe that 2026 will be the year of Latin America, a year that will look different diplomatically, one in which we see a positive change in the relations of the continent’s countries with Israel”.
Under the new U.S. backed president Rodrigo Paz, Ynet noted, “ Bolivia announced it was canceling its visa requirement for Israelis, a move expected to put the country back on the map for Israeli travelers in the region. After intensive talks … the two foreign ministries agreed on the text of an accord and a joint statement.”
This is just a part of a far larger U.S. backed Israeli plan to turn every South American government into Israeli puppet states.
A win, and calling a Jew a Jew is, well, NOT antisemitic:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on buying specialized gloves that pulse with electrical energy, which make it easier for agents to subdue people, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
A user manual for G.L.O.V.E, or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, sold by a company called Compliant Technologies, provides more specifics on how the gloves are supposed to work and allegedly be used.
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“No more than two (one pair or equivalent) of G.L.O.V.E. devices should be applied at one time to a single Subject,” the manual reads. 404 Media found multiple copies of the manual online and archived a version here.
Look at this fucking sadist:
Hassner is a realist, and the reality is that torture is always an option. He’s not saying that it’s just, or justified. Rather, he’s saying that the argument that torture does not work is weak — too weak to prevent its use.
“There is a moral hazard in studying any form of political violence,” he said in the interview, “but there is an even greater danger in making bad policy based on wishful thinking. As political scientists, we’re obligated to study nuclear weapons, assassination or genocide carefully and dispassionately. We don’t claim that these things are immoral because they don’t work. We know they are immoral regardless of how well they work.”
This, he says, is the argument torture opponents should be making: Torture is so cruel, it is so dehumanizing to both the tortured and the torturer, that it is always wrong, unconditionally.
“If torture is evil,” he writes, “its efficacy is irrelevant. Those who know it to be evil should reject torture outright, regardless of how efficacious it may or may not be.”
Even in a world shaped by brutal power competition and extreme conflict, this argument is forceful because it speaks to our common humanity and our shared moral values. Similar arguments have almost always been sufficient to prevent ethnic cleansing, genocide and nuclear war.
In our imperfect world, Hassner says, that is the strongest argument against torture. But it leaves us to live on a knife’s edge, hoping the argument holds in times of challenge.
Ahh, torture by another name, the Jews: They will hound you into bankruptcy, termination, and eventual heart attack, if not just messing with the brake lines.
The persecution of the British anti-fascist, anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony Greenstein, is more than a personal trial for him and his supporters. It is a lesson in how Israel works to defeat the Palestinians at every turn.
Greenstein has a long history of outspoken, fearless opposition to Zionism and the State of Israel. His support for the Palestine cause has been equally bold and vehement. Given that position, it was only a matter of time before the Zionists got to him. He will stand trial at Kingston Crown Court in London for the second time in eight months, charged under the Terrorism Act. Anything more absurd and unjust can hardly be imagined.
He was born in Liverpool, the son of an orthodox Jewish family, who grew up to be an atheist and activist for left-wing causes. A founder member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the 1980s, he has long viewed Zionism as a racist, Jewish supremacist ideology which he has fought against most of his life.
As an activist for the Palestine cause, he soon attracted the attention of the Zionists in Britain and their backers in government. They consistently accused him of ‘antisemitism’ – which is the same as anti-Zionism in their lexicon. In 2018, he was driven to sue the Campaign Against Antisemitism, a British pro-Israel charity, for libel along these lines. The same charge of antisemitism got him expelled from the British Labour Party, and most recently from the Green Party.
But the most devastating accusation he has faced is the charge of terrorism. It started after October 7, 2023, when anti-Hamas hysteria was at its height in Israel and the western world. Police broke into Greenstein’s home in Brighton in late December 2023 and arrested him for supporting Hamas. This was on the basis of a tweet he previously posted saying he backed the Palestinian group’s resistance against the Israeli army.
At a time when Hamas has been demonised beyond reason in Israel and all over the West, Greenstein had committed an unforgivable crime. Hamas’s military wing was first proscribed in Britain in 2001 under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Its political wing was proscribed in 2021, after which it became prohibited to show even the slightest support for the organisation. In 2025, I myself was interrogated under caution by the police after I gave a talk at a literary festival in Lewes, a town in the south of England. I had tried to explain what Hamas was in simple factual terms to clarify matters for the audience. It didn’t help me, but at least I was spared the charge of terrorism.
Not so for Tony Greenstein, who is being prosecuted under section 12 of the Terrorism Act, 2000. If convicted, he faces up to 14 years in prison. Meanwhile, his life has been difficult, de-banked without explanation by five banks since 2024. No bank will take him on, and he has been forced into the cash economy. He now lives under the shadow of possible prosecution at the forthcoming four-day trial at Kingston Crown Court.
That this decent, principled man will be in the dock for expressing his verbal support for the Palestinian right to resist genocide is a travesty of justice. But, at its basis, it represents the success of a pernicious Israeli policy of presenting Palestinian resistance against oppression as a form of terrorism.
This conflation began in the 1970s when terrorism changed its definition from being a method of using violence to attain political ends to an identity. You were a terrorist if you were Muslim, or Arab, but especially Palestinian. The idea inexorably grew that ‘Islamic terrorism’ was a threat to Western civilisation and its values. You were a threat by virtue of simply existing as a Muslim.
Israel played a key role in transferring these ideas to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression, in which Palestinian fighters were presented as mindless ‘terrorists’, intent on destroying Israel for unknown, psychotic reasons of their own. The plane hijackings in the early 1970s were another example of mysterious evil. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), established in 1967 and recognised by the world community, was dubbed a terrorist organisation by Israel. The twinning of terrorism with the Palestine struggle reached its apex on 7 October 2023 and has increased exponentially ever since. Thus, according to this conflation, Gaza’s population, including small children, are all terrorists and it justifies their murder.
Criminalising Palestinian solidarity as supporting terrorism is a triumph of Israeli framing. Israel has made terrorism the central issue in its dealings with the Palestinians. As terrorists, they have no right of resistance, no right to protection against attack, and do not deserve the right to self-determination. Who would support the creation of a terrorist state inside their borders? The extensive ramifications of this framing would form the subject of a separate article.
An eager Western world has accepted Israel’s framing, and hence the punitive acts against all forms of Palestinians solidarity in Europe and the US. In this context, the trial of Tony Greenstein is not only about one man and his fight for justice. More importantly, it is about ensuring the defeat of a pernicious Israeli campaign to discredit the right of Palestinians to resist their Zionist occupier, and the unhindered right of decent people everywhere to support them in that righteous struggle.
The court in Tone Greenstein’s trial must put an end to his ordeal, set aside Israel’s chicanery, and act with justice and honour.
Fucking rats these settlers, who are Jewish Rats:
What’s happening in Qusra right now is exactly the kind of shit Western media loves to ignore: settler thieves terrorizing Palestinian families, the Israeli terrorist army pretending to “intervene” while doing jack‑shit, and an American Palestinian family trapped in their own home while the thieves cut their water, electricity, food, and medical access. And yes — there’s a two‑year‑old who needed medical attention while these parasites physically blocked the ambulance.
Let me spell out the fucking insanity.
Terrorist thieves have besieged multiple Palestinian homes since August 10.
They set up tents in the families’ front yards, blocked every entrance, cut water and electricity, threw stones, vandalized property, screamed obscenities all night, and prevented anyone from entering or leaving. It’s a coordinated “settler” terror campaign.
It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza.
During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: “Israel rejects the 15-point document published by the Board of Peace for Gaza”.
In a previous conversation with lead envoy Nickolay Mladenov, Netanyahu set conditions—such as demanding unilateral operational freedom for the Israeli military to strike inside Gaza at will—that render a genuine peace agreement structurally impossible.
The Israeli army leadership, under Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, reinforced this posture by outlining three uncompromising “red lines” to the political establishment: complete operational freedom to eliminate perceived threats anywhere in the Strip, strict control over all weapons entering or exiting Gaza, and zero military withdrawal unless Hamas is completely disarmed.
It’s fucking disgusting. UNICEF — the agency that’s supposed to protect children, especially the ones being blown apart in Gaza — has handed one of its most sensitive posts to someone who was already investigated for allegedly feeding UN intel to Israeli diplomats. Yahav Lichner, accused of acting like an Israeli mole inside UNFPA, is now running UNICEF’s Washington office. And the UN has said jackshit about this.
The UN has a long, filthy habit of burying internal investigations, shielding insiders, and promoting people who should be nowhere near positions of trust. Lichner was accused — by his own colleagues — of leaking confidential UN documents, internal strategies, and diplomatic communications to Israeli officials. According to reporting from The Intercept, staff said he openly aligned herself with Israeli government interests while holding a UN badge. Instead of getting fired and ostracized, they gave her a promotion.
Now he’s in Washington, the center of UNICEF’s relationship with the U.S. government, Congress, and the agencies that control billions in global child‑protection funding. This isn’t some local office. This is where all the lobbying happens, where narratives are shaped, where the UN bends or stands. And they put her there. Take a gander at who owns the UN huh?
It’s disgusting because UNICEF works in Gaza. UNICEF counts dead children. UNICEF documents starvation, trauma, amputations, bombed schools, shattered families. And while Gaza’s children are being killed by Israeli airstrikes, UNICEF hands a top job to a zionist accused of funneling UN intel to the same government responsible for those deaths. How do they expect anyone to trust them after this?
UN staff are furious — but only off the record, because speaking publicly gets you punished. They say the appointment feels like a slap in the face, a reminder that the UN’s internal justice system is a joke. Whistleblowers get crushed. Insiders get protected. Investigations disappear. Promotions happen quietly. And the public never hears a word.
UNICEF hasn’t explained anything. No statement. No reassurance. No acknowledgment of the investigation. Just silence — another institution that is above any international scrutiny, obviously.
UNICEF’s credibility depends on neutrality, on trust, on the belief that its leaders aren’t serving any government’s agenda. Putting a zionist with these allegations in charge of the Washington office tells the world exactly how little the UN thinks of its own standards.
It’s disgusting. It’s reckless. It’s deplorable. It’s maddening. Just more proof international law is a damn farce.
It looks more and more likely that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Democratic New York representative, will run for president in 2028.
She recently stated that she “hasn’t ruled out the possibility” of running for president in 2028.
If AOC runs for president, the most important question to ask is what will an AOC presidency’s foreign policy look like? It is the most important focus of a United States president.
All indications show that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would govern as a liberal imperialist, supporting liberal Zionism, propping up the CIA’s meddling machines such as USAID and NED, supporting militaristic alliances like NATO, and supporting imperialist wars in the name of Democracy and humanitarianism…
A civil rights icon, he was also a dedicated anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist. He openly spoke about the combined evils of capitalism, racism, and American imperialism. We still feel these today, from Palestine to Minneapolis, and in our own city of Cleveland.
We as socialists celebrate and help reclaim his message of hope and revolutionary change to the nation. A better world is possible.
Solidarity forever!
V. I. Lenin’s pamphlet, Imperialism, remains the leading elaboration of the concept of imperialism for Marxists. It is the starting point for any discussion of the global dynamics of capitalism from the late nineteenth century until today.
While capitalism has taken twists, turns, and even detours since Lenin’s time, the destination remains the same– the exploitation of labor for profit, wherever workers and resources can be found. Capitalism’s evolution, concentration, growth, and uneven development are the necessary conditions for imperialism. Imperialism respects no social or political borders.
The pamphlet, Imperialism, captures the features of modern– monopoly– capitalism. Yet, many seemingly fail to read Lenin’s subtitle: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (International Publishers, 2004). They fail to grasp that Lenin is writing about, elaborating on, explaining a particular stage of capitalism, not characteristics of individual states. He is describing an historically bound period, a period in which capital in its mature, financially organized, monopoly form comes to dominate the entire world through the conquests of the “great powers.” In Lenin’s words:
…we must say that the characteristic feature of this period [imperialism] is the final partition of the globe – not in the sense that a new partition is impossible – on the contrary, new partitions are possible and inevitable – but in the sense that the colonial policy of the capitalist countries has completed the seizure of the unoccupied territories on our planet… in the future only redivision is possible… (p. 76)
As Marx’s method demands, Lenin is addressing processes, tendencies – in this case, a tendency for capital to not merely dominate nation–states, even regions, but the entire world. It is the completing or redividing that defines imperialism as an historical era, a process that – through competition – creates ever-changing alliances and blocs. In the final analysis, it is intense competition carried beyond national borders that may ultimately be settled with arms, by wars.
These processes that Lenin associates with imperialism occur unevenly and in different forms. After the Bolshevik revolution, monopoly capitalism’s domination of the entire world was interrupted by the existence of the Soviet Union. An anti-Communist crusade on the part of the great capitalist powers ensued, but the underlying process remained the same: delivering every worker and peasant into the arms of monopoly and finance capital.
Again, after World War II, the growing power and influence of a socialist community proved decisive in the liberation of nearly all of what were once colonies of the great powers. New “independent” countries sprang up in Asia and Africa. But the underlying tendency identified by Lenin expressed itself again through a new expression of imperialism: neo-colonialism.
Neo-colonialism maintained the old economic advantages for the dominating great powers, but without the burden of occupation and administration. “Spheres of influence,” a more benign term coined in the nineteenth century, captured the tendency for capital to penetrate every nook and cranny of the world, while masking the raw subjugation implied by “colonies.” Thus, a dependent “independence” was born, cemented more by economic necessity than naked coercion.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the most viable economic scaffold for independent development outside of the imperialist system was eliminated. Western commentators vigorously celebrated the prospect of unimpeded capitalist penetration to all countries without exception. Huge labor markets entered the capitalist system from Eastern Europe and from Asia, dramatically lowering the costs of goods, services, and most importantly, labor.
Capitalism got a second wind, enjoying higher, more stable growth and profit rates.
Capitalists scurried to pry open new markets, remove impediments to trade, accelerate foreign investments, secure mutuality in a manner unseen since the early decades of modern imperialism. Indeed, the later decades of the twentieth century resembled that earlier period of classical imperialism to many Marxists.
Ironically, capitalist triumphalism served to underscore the timelessness of Lenin’s theory of imperialism. Once again, the global economy was dominated by the mobilization of great powers, seeking economic advantage (exploitation) and spheres of influence.
With the US, like Great Britain in its nineteenth-century glory, claiming the right to determine the terms of economic activity and trade for the world, a period of cooperation and peace was foreseen. On this view, the capitalist economic links and mutual dependency would serve to cement social and political relations and ensure stability in international relations. A new world order would be welcomed by all and guaranteed by the US.
Those few in the West familiar with early-twentieth-century Marxist revisionism noted that this fiction was remarkably similar to Karl Kautsky’s theory of “ultra-imperialism,” a theory that the big powers would divide the world and settle the matter between themselves without friction or conflict.
Lenin, much earlier, mocked this idea. When he wrote Imperialism in 1916, he saw the catastrophe of World War I as the decisive refutation of the idea of stable imperialism or imperialist equilibrium.
Most of the Western, non-Communist left, alienated from Leninism and blind to historical parallels, scrambled to make sense of the “new” post-Soviet era, failing to connect it with the classical imperialism described by Lenin and his adherents. At a loss for a theory, they cryptically coined the vacuous term “globalization” to describe monopoly capital’s celebratory lap.
Post-Marxist, post-Fordist, Postmodernist theories abounded. Some academic “Marxists” thought the late twentieth century ushered in an era of the withering of the nation-state. Others thought we were seeing the rise of a supra-state, Empire, a totalizing entity sprung on the world like an alien invader.
The celebration of capitalist triumphalism came soon to an abrupt end with the return of constant, near-endless wars and frequent political and economic crises. Along with the exit of “benign” imperialism, leftist theoretical fantasies faded.
Global trade shrank in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 crisis and tensions between capitalist countries grew over who would gain and who would bear the burden of a sluggish or stagnant global economy. Centrifugal forces in the EU split the EU from north to south.
Germany dominates EU policies, imposing one-size-fits-all austerity on diverse, unevenly developed states.
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) impressive entry into the global capitalist economy and subsequent remarkable growth threatens US hegemony, creating intensified competition and tensions.
The US has sought to quell independent development outside of the global hierarchies, using surrogates, war-by-other-means: sanctions, boycotts, and tariffs. And with exceedingly obstinate resistance, the US engages its coup-fomenting apparatus or unleashes its military to shepherd those who dare to escape from the US constructed imperialist corral.
“New” great powers replaced or changed places with the line-up active in Lenin’s time. The EU, despite its member differences, scraped together an imperialist agenda under the US stewardship of NATO, as witnessed by its participation in the dismantling of Yugoslavia and its wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
Saudi Arabia, infused with petro-dollars, seeks to enforce its influence over its neighbors, demonstrated most recently by its bloody war in Yemen.
Even tiny Israel participates in the imperialist scramble by annexing territory from its neighbors and from the Palestinian people.
Where there is capitalism, there is a drive for territory, resources, labor, or influence.
As in Lenin’s time, countries fit into this chaotic, unstable cauldron in different ways – sometimes as greater powers, sometimes as lesser powers or victims. Competition – promotion or protection of economic interests – stirs this cauldron.
In Imperialism, Lenin does not identify countries as “imperialist,” without qualification. It would violate his steadfast recognition of uneven development to do so. In Chapter VI, The Division of the World Among the Great Powers, he simply identifies those countries (the big six!) that have been most active between 1876 and 1914 in acquiring colonies.
He can be viewed as establishing an imperialist hierarchy, but this too can be misleading. Lenin, always attentive to historical contingency and shifting social forces, goes to some length to describe the variety within the “great powers”:
… great differences still remain; and among the six powers, we see, firstly, young capitalist powers (America, Germany, Japan) which progressed very rapidly; secondly, countries with an old capitalist development (France and Great Britain) … and, thirdly, a country (Russia) which is economically most backward, in which modern capitalist imperialism is enmeshed, so to speak, in a particularly close network of pre-capitalist relations. (p.81) [my emphasis]
Lenin leaves no doubt that a country (czarist Russia) can be a big player in the imperialist scramble for colonies (or spheres of influence) while remaining a less-than-robust capitalist country with remnants or foretells of other (non-capitalist) economic formations or features. In other words, their place in the imperialist system is not strictly determined by their place in the capitalist hierarchy – they can be a bright young capitalist star or a decadent, old star clinging to a brilliant past, while still playing a decisive role in the empire games.
It would be wrong, as some have argued, to mechanically take Lenin’s “five essential features” found in Chapter VII as giving a criterion for admission into some kind of imperialist club. It could not be clearer that Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism is not about the status of individual countries in the imperialist system, but about imperialism as a whole.
Capital concentration, the merging of financial capital with industrial capital, the export of capital, international monopolies, and the territorial division of the world (spheres of interest) are features of the imperialist stage of capitalism, and not necessarily any individual country in the imperial project.
Countries – small or large, developed or backward, endowed or impoverished -play different roles at different times in the march of imperialism.
Whether it is czarist Russia (a mix of emerging capitalist relations in urban areas and only weakly existent feudal relations in rural areas) or Putin’s Russia (a stunted industrial capitalist economy, but with enormous essential resources), the capacity to participate in great power activity, to enlarge or protect spheres of interest, to confront other great powers is an unquestionable reality. To hide this reality – this active participation in the conflict with other capitalist countries – behind the facade that Russia does not meet the “five essential features” characterizing the imperialist era is sheer sophistry.
Lenin is clear. Apart from the “great powers” are a host of countries whose “participation” in the imperialist system is complex. The dialectics of uneven development produces no ideal types.
Lenin speaks of smaller players in the imperialist system that have diverse relations with imperialism. Some have their own colonies but “retain their colonies only because of the conflicting interests, frictions etc., among the big powers…” They risk losing their colonies to a new colonial “share-out” to the big powers (page 81).
He also recognizes “semi-colonies” like Persia, China, and Turkey which were, in his time, nominally independent, but exploited profoundly by the big powers. He refers to them as “examples of transitional forms which are to be found in all spheres of nature and society”; they are in “a middle stage” (page 81). Today, all three have transitioned into bigger players in the capitalist firmament.
In his discussion of Argentina and Portugal, Lenin anticipates the mid-twentieth-century Marxist concept of neo-colonialism, discussing how independent countries can be tied into the imperialist nexus as financially dependent or as a protectorate (page 85-86).
Thus, Lenin shows, with great nuance, that imperialism is a dynamic global system, constantly in motion, and that countries participate in the system in many ways. The imperatives of monopoly capital enjoin all capitalist countries to seek advantage in the competition for resources, markets, and labor. In this struggle, there are those that become the biggest powers and dominate others through the exercise of their power. Lesser powers lose to the most powerful, but may aspire to challenge, nonetheless, or exercise their power over the less powerful. The system tends to engage all economies in relations of dominance and dependence. Competition breeds aggression and war.
Lenin derisively notes the petty-bourgeois reformist tendency to separate imperialism from capitalism, to deny “the indissoluble bond between imperialism and the trusts, and, therefore, between imperialism and the very foundations of capitalism…” Without recognizing capitalism as the source of imperialism and war, anti-imperialism remains “a ‘pious wish’”. (page 111).
It might be useful to summarize this discussion by showing how a closer read of Imperialism might shed light on twenty-first-century imperialism.
Twenty-first-century imperialism shares more features with the imperialism of Lenin’s time than differences.
Imperialism constitutes a system of global competition for resources, markets, and labor-power that pits capitalist countries against one another to establish spheres of interest and a better field of operation for its monopolies. The struggle instigated by the US for dominance of Ukraine involves monopolies in the energy sector and the weapons industry, as well as an attempt to secure and expand existing spheres of interest. While the US is the more powerful great power and the instigator, Russia is an aspiring great power drawn into invading a “transitional” country – Ukraine. With successive corrupt governments, Ukraine has, since its independence, longed to be a protectorate of a great power, whoever offers the best bargain. At stake are the interests of the various ruling classes.
The argument popular among Western leftists over whether Russia is an imperialist country or an anti-imperialist country opposing US and EU imperialism is a sterile, scholastic debate. From a Leninist perspective, today’s Russia, like czarist Russia, is a nascent capitalist country vying for a position as a leading force in the scramble for markets and spheres of interest. Russia’s engagements in defiance of US imperialism – in Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. – is just that: defiance of a rival. That powerful rivals are aggressively threatening Russia’s ambitions is notable, but of little bearing on the interests of the Russian, Ukrainian, US, or EU working class.
In fact, the Ukraine war’s “progress” has– as a Leninist perspective would predict– dramatically and negatively affected the fate of workers globally. Millions of lives have been disrupted, harmed, or ended.
The demise of the Soviet Union has freed the hand of imperialism, producing a world substantially congruent with early-twentieth-century imperialism. Some of the players have changed or assumed different roles, but the logic of great-power imperialism is intact. Those of us who defend the historical role of the Soviet Union must dispel any remaining romantic attachment to today’s Russia. It participates in the global system of imperialism as a great power.
As Lenin warns, the attempt to separate imperialism from its capitalist roots destines anti-imperialism to ineffectuality – “petty-bourgeois reformism.” Moralistic anti-imperialism, what Lenin calls “the last of the Mohicans of bourgeois democracy,” collapses into pacifism – a posture good for the soul, but impotent against the schemes of the great powers. Today’s leftist celebration of a projected “multipolar” capitalist world is a further attempt to separate great-power rivalries from their roots in capitalist – specifically, monopoly – interests. Multipolarity was a feature of imperialism in the prelude to World War I. In fact, the attempt to impose multipolarity upon a world saddled with the domination of the British Empire was a critical factor leading to World War I.
The retreat from Leninism is essentially a retreat from socialism. Desperate, unfounded faith in (a) the efficacy of multipolarity, in (b) the hope of finding a principled anti-imperialist rallying point around an eviscerated, ravaged former socialist state now owned by mega-billionaires, in (c) the miraculous transformation of the existing money-driven, elite-led Western bourgeois parties, and in (d) the belief that the splintered, self-absorbed, multi-interest, multi-identity left can magically coalesce into a force for radical change are all products of a loss of confidence in the socialist project.
The lessons of history and history’s most brilliant teachers are the best guides for the future we want. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Greg Godels
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[Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, from right, looks at food at Old San Juan Cafe with restaurant owner Diana de La Rosa, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro during a campaign stop in Reading, Pa.]
The big field in the race for the 2028 presidential sweepstakes is already off and running. Two of the top Democrats vying for the job are former Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The election of either one would address the urgency of putting a woman in the White House for the first time.
Were the great Jewish directors helping the Jewish State of Rape and Murder and Thieving?
Hollywood Legends & Masters
Steven Spielberg: Directed massive cultural touchstones like Schindler’s List, Jaws, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Stanley Kubrick: Visionary director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Dr. Strangelove.
Billy Wilder: Master of classic Hollywood comedy and drama, directing The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard.
Sidney Lumet: Renowned for intense, grounded dramas like 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon
Joel and Ethan Coen: Distinctive sibling duo behind unique cinematic masterpieces like Fargo and No Country for Old Men.
Woody Allen: Prolific creator of neurotic urban comedies and dramas like Annie Hall and Midnight in Paris.
Darren Aronofsky: Known for psychological and visceral features like Black Swan and The Whale.
Greta Gerwig: Acclaimed modern director of Barbie and Little Women.
They celebrate their circumcisions and bar and bat mitzvahs and dirty Books of Genocide. [Don’t look at these faces below — just placeholders for the rats.]
A clip from the documentary film “Defamation,” released in 2009, about the ADL’s strong ties to the Israel lobby, contains a clip that seems deeply relevant to current developments in Venezuela.
In the film Isaac Herzog, the current Israeli president, who was then the Israeli “Minister in Charge of Anti-Semitic Affairs,” is filmed meeting with Abraham Foxman, then National Director of the Israel lobby group ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
The conversation goes as follows:
Isaac Herzog: I wanted to ask, since we met last about the issue of Venezuela, because I heard voices kind of saying it’s not so bad and Latin America is not so bad, but I’m not convinced.
Abraham Foxman: You have good reason not to be convinced. It is getting, and little by little, as long as oil money …
Isaac Herzog: I’m told that by our experts it’s the only- except for Iran- it’s the only government propagating anti-Semitism today around the world … so are you pressing in any way?
Abraham Foxman: We’ve talked to Jesse Jackson, who has a relationship, but it’s not for camera, but there are other plans we’ll talk about it in a minute.
This discussion was likely in the context of then Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez breaking off ties with Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza after Israel slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians civilians during “Operation Cast Lead”.
The oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil had pushed for regime change in Venezuela since 2001, after Hugo Chavez “passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law, which asserted state ownership over all oil and gas reserves, held upstream activities of exploration and extraction for the state-controlled companies, but allowed private firms – including foreign firms – to participate in downstream activities (such as refining and sale)” which “deeply angered the US-owned oil companies – particularly ExxonMobil and Chevron – which put pressure on the government of US President George W. Bush to act against Chávez.”
This resulted in extensive CIA interference in Venezuela, including a short-lived U.S. backed coup against him in 2002.
But the clip shown in “Defamation” shows that since 2009, the Israel lobby, including the ADL, joined the oil lobby in pushing the U.S. towards regime change in Venezuela.
Years later, Israel made connections to María Corina Machado, a U.S. puppet in the Venezuelan opposition, to further the regime change goal in Venezuela.
This included her signing an “Inter-Party Agreement” with the ruling Israeli Likud party in 2020, which promised to“forge an alliance between our two parties to cooperate on political, ideological, and social matters, as well as advancing cooperation on issues related to strategy, geopolitics and security, among others, in order to create an operational partnership”.
“We rely on Israel’s support in dismantling Maduro’s crime regime and in the transition to democracy”, Maria Corina Machado admitted to Israel Hayom, implying Israeli involvement in the regime change operations.
While the Trump administration ended up deciding that interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez would be an acceptable puppet leader rather than Maria Corina Machado, she seems to have made the same deal with Israel that Machado did.
The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the State of Israel announce that, following the visit of the Israeli humanitarian delegation to Venezuela in response to the double earthquake that occurred on June 24, and in follow-up to discussions held between high-ranking officials of both countries, the two nations have agreed to allow the continuation of bilateral technical cooperation stemming from the emergency and recovery efforts following the double earthquake. Furthermore, the two nations agree to establish a coordination mechanism to facilitate the provision of consular services to their respective citizens residing in the other country, as needed. Both governments recognize the importance of the bond between the State of Israel and the Jewish community residing in Venezuela, which constitutes a significant historical bridge of friendship between the two countries.
The apparent involvement from the Israel lobby in pushing for regime change in Venezuela seems to have paid off and reversed the country’s support for Palestine.
You can call it Judification of the world, or Gazafication of our communities or Israelified globe or Zionism’s Greatest Feat, but fucking no, Palestine Should be Free from the River to the Sea
Caracas additionally underlined that the ties between Israel and the Venezuelan Jewish community “constitute an important and historic friendship bridge between both countries.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hailed the renewal of consular relations as “good news.” He added that the decision was agreed to in “conversations” with Venezuelan counterpart Félix Plasencia, creating “an official coordination channel” for the first time since 2009.
The announcement also followed a meeting Sunday between Plasencia and Orthodox Rabbi Isaac Cohen in which the latter formally requested that Venezuela reestablish diplomatic ties with Israel.
According to the Foreign Ministry, Cohen delivered a letter addressed to Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, arguing that normalizing relations with Tel Aviv is necessary to “tend to the needs of the Jewish community” in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s top diplomat thanked Cohen, on behalf of the Rodríguez administration and the Venezuelan people, for Israeli “assistance” following the June 24 double earthquake.
Cohen, a rabbi from the Venezuelan Jewish Association (AIV), was reportedly one of the intermediaries for the arrival of an Israeli diplomatic and military mission one week after the earthquake. The delegation included IDF officers and weapons contractors, while several Tel Aviv-aligned organizations likewise deployed on-the-ground teams.
Rodríguez held multiple meetings with the Israeli team, praising its members as “highly trained and professional” and thanking them for their work. IDF spokesman Roni Kaplan stated that the Israeli team had created a “dashboard” for Venezuelan authorities to evaluate damaged buildings, while Brigadier General Elad Edri was pictured presenting a “Project for Future Reconstruction” slideshow.
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Former Mossad chief alleges spies repeatedly visited Fordow nuclear site: Yossi Cohen, who led Mossad from 2015 to 2021, claimed that Israeli spies “toured” Iran’s Fordow nuclear site “many times” to understand the facility, at a conference on Tuesday.
Cohen did not specify when the visits occurred or who carried them out, and offered no further evidence.
He added that the American bombing of Fordow was “the fulfillment of all my dreams,” a reference to U.S. strikes on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan during the 12-day war Washington and Israel launched against Iran in June 2025.
Fucking more dashboards, man… For good cataloguing, but to no avail.
Over 50 people have died in ICE custody since the start of the current administration, an alarming number that is currently increasing at the rate of one roughly every 9 days. I write about these deaths because I want the public to understand the context and consequences of the U.S.’s growing immigrant detention system and I believe in making this work legible to as much of the public as possible. While new headlines often focus on a single case, as a researcher, I believe in putting individual cases within a larger geographic and historical arc to encourage deeper critical thought.
Like so much of my work, writing about these tragedies requires rigorous behind-the-scenes information management to ensure that I’m working with a validated data set of cases with preserved links, archived materials, and carefully structured metadata that facilitates independent, non-partisan analysis. I am a researcher, first and foremost. But my identity as a researcher is enabled by another core identity: I am a systems-builder. These systems, most of which are invisible, help me find patterns and write quickly for a broad audience.
But sometimes, in the course of building systems for my own work, I stumble onto something I realize would be valuable to make public, too. This is a principle best articulated in Austin Kleon’s book Show Your Work!, which I highly recommend.
The Detention Mortality Dashboard is an example of this. Launching today, the Detention Mortality Dashboard is a repository of official ICE custodial deaths from 2018 until now, with searchable case-level information, source materials, and an interactive map. What started out as a simple spreadsheet with a few fields is now a more robust public tool.
Much of the credit goes to my amazing colleague Bishal Timsina for doing the heavy lifting to make this project possible. Bishal is one of the developers on the team at Relevant Research, the same team behind Detention Reports, the Enforcement Dashboard, Relevant Football, and Paradarsita — as well as the migration of ImmProf Blog, the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Detention Pregnancy Tracker, and American Families United’s Collateral Damage Report. Huge thanks to everyone else on the team who provided support and feedback.
Where can I see the Detention Mortality Dashboard?
The Guardian has been tracking everyone who died in custody this year. These are their stories.
23 January
Genry Ruiz Guillén, 29, of Honduras, died in a hospital in Hialeah, Florida.
Guillén had come to the United States from Honduras in 2023. He worked in construction.
In October 2024, he was apprehendedby local law enforcement, and then transferred to the Krome immigrant detention center in South Florida. His mother told Univision that in December, Guillén called her from detention and told her he wasn’t feeling well, and that he was experiencing fainting spells. It was the last time she spoke with him, she said.
According to ICE, Guillén “had difficulty breathing, prompting a medical emergency” before he died.
“I never thought my son would come to this country to die like this, nor did I ever think I would receive that news,” his mother told Univision.
29 January
Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, 45, of Ethiopia, died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.
He had come to the US in August 2024, and was apprehendedby the border patrol, which transferred him to the Eloy detention center. He had cleared the initial steps to apply for asylum according to ICE.
In December 2024, he reported to staff at the detention center that he had an elevated heart rate and fatigue, and was seen by healthcare providers who said he had a possible lymphoma diagnosis, according to ICE.
20 February
Maksym Chernyak.
Maksym Chernyak, a Ukrainian citizen, died of an apparent stroke at a hospital in Miami.
Chernyak, 44, fled Kyiv with his long term-partner during the Russia-Ukraine war and came to the US on humanitarian parole, according to the Miami Herald.
Chernyak was arrested on 26 January over a domestic violence claim. His partner described the incident as a “family misunderstanding” exacerbated by a language barrier, according to the Miami Herald. He was “kind and warm-hearted”, she told the outlet. Chernyak was then transferred to the Krome detention center in Miami.
While in custody, he experienced “vomiting and seizure activity”, according to ICE. Chernyak was then transferred to a hospital on 18 February, where staff “established a stroke alert due to an unresponsive state”, according to ICE. A preliminary cause of death was listed as “bleeding from the brain”.
An investigation by the Miami Herald said that medical experts who reviewed his case have raised concerns about whether Chernyak received adequate care due to the length of time that elapsed before Krome staff called 911. ICE denied allegations that Chernyak did not receive proper medical attention.
23 February
Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, 44, of the Dominican Republic, died at the Centro Medico hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He was taken into custody by US Customs and Border Protection air and marine operations two days prior to his death, according to ICE.
Agents contacted local 911 after Tineo-Martinez said he was experiencing leg pain, according to the agency, and he was transferred to the hospital for evaluation. The Dominican embassy in Puerto Rico did not respond to the Guardian’s query about Tineo-Martinez’s cause of death.
8 April
Brayan Garzón-Rayo, 27, of Colombia, died at the Phelps County jail in Rolla, Missouri.
Garzón-Rayo’s mother, Lucy Garzón, told St Louis Public Radio that she and her family came to the US in November 2023, fleeing growing threats of violence and harassment from law enforcement in Bogotá.
In March Garzón-Rayo was charged with a misdemeanor for credit card fraud, and then transferred to ICE custody. He spoke to his mother a few days before he died, Lucy Garzón told SLPR, and complained about stomach pains and the poor quality of the jail’s food.
Lucy Garzón told SLPR that officials told her that her son appeared to have died by suicide. ICE has not confirmed an official cause of death.
His mother said that Garzón-Rayo loved riding his motorcycle, watching soccer and sledding after fresh snowfall.
16 April
Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, 55, died at a hospital in El Paso, Texas.
He was apprehended in February in Albuquerque, according to his family’s lawyer, Tin Nguyen, and his partner and friends couldn’t locate him for days. Eventually, they realised he was being held at the El Paso processing center in Texas. Tin Nguyen said that Nhon Ngoc had been showing early signs of dementia and possible side effects from a head injury prior to his detention.
Shortly after his detention, he began experiencing health complications, Tin Nguyen told the Guardian. ICE eventually offered to release him, so long as his family was able to provide him with round-the-clock acute care, the attorney said – but he didn’t have health insurance and his family was unable to pay for such care. In the meantime, Nhon Ngoc’s condition began rapidly worsening. He died of acute pneumonia, according to ICE.
Nhon Ngoc had come to the US in 1983 and became a legal resident as part of the Refugee Act of 1980. In 1991, he was convicted of second-degree murder and served time at San Quentin prison in California. After his sentence, in 2013, ICE opened a deportation case against him. While it was pending, he moved to Albuquerque and began rebuilding his life.
He had a loving partner and a huge community of friends, Tin Nguyen said: “He was kind.”
25 April
Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti, died at the Broward transitional center in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Blaise entered the US on an unknown date and location, according to ICE. She was apprehended by Customs and Border Protection on 12 February while attempting to board a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, according to authorities.
ICE has not released an official cause of death. According to reporting by WLRN Public Media on the medical examiner’s report about her death, Blaise spoke to her son hours before she died. “She complained of having chest pains and abdominal cramps, and when she asked the detention staff to see a physician, they refused her,” her son told investigators, according to WLRN Public Media. According to the outlet, ICE offered a conflicting account, saying that Blaise did not take blood pressure medication she was offered.
5 May
Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado.
Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, 68, died while in transit from a local jail to a federal detention center, the first detainee to die in this manner in at least a decade.
Delgado was originally from El Huariche, Mexico. During his nearly 40 years in the US, he raised a large family and worked on tobacco and vegetable farms, according to previous Guardian reporting.
Delgado, who did not have legal status, was apprehended in Statenville, Georgia, on a parole violation on 9 April. His family told the Guardian they grew alarmed by his deterioration in jail, and worried about the medications he was being given.
Eventually, Delgado was transferred from the jail to Georgia’s Stewart detention center. But he never made it. Instead, he became “unresponsive” in the transport van with highly elevated blood pressure; the driver called 911, but Delgado died on the scene.
ICE has said the cause of death is under investigation and his family said they are still waiting for answers. “It bothers me,” his son, Junior, told the Guardian in June. “He was a great-grandfather.”
7 June
Jesus Molina-Veya, a 45-year-old citizen of Mexico, died at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
Molina-Veya entered the country without authorization on numerous occasions, starting in 1999, according to authorities. During his time in the US, Molina-Veya was arrested on charges including child molestation, a hit-and-run, and possession of controlled substances, ICE said.
On 7 June, Molina-Veya was found unresponsive in his cell. While an official cause of death has not been released, an ICE spokesperson has called the death “an apparent suicide”. His death was the second reported in Georgia within a month, a state with one of the highest numbers of detainees in the US.
23 June
Johnny Noviello was found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons’ federal detention center in Miami.
Noviello moved with family from Quebec to Florida in 1988 and became a lawful permanent resident in 1991. His father, Angelo, told the Guardian that Johnny was diagnosed with epilepsy shortly after he was born, and would often become ill during the winter. So the family settled in Daytona Beach, seeking a warmer climate.
Noviello, 49, spent most of his life in Florida. He worked at a Dollar Tree and loved going to the beach and playing pool in his spare time, his father said. He maintained close ties to Canada, making regular trips to see family in Montreal.
He spent time in prison for selling drugs, including hydrocodone and oxycodone, but was released early on good behavior. He was apprehended by ICE agents on 15 May at the Florida Department of Corrections probation office. Noviello’s cause of death is under investigation.
Noviello’s father said the family has not received an autopsy report. “We’re in limbo, we don’t know what happened,” he said. “I don’t know why they didn’t send him to Canada right away.”
26 June
Isidro Pérez, 75, of Cuba died at a Florida hospital of undetermined causes.
According to the Miami Herald, Pérez was a mechanic and fisher from Cuba, and arrived in the US in 1966 at the age of 16.
He was convicted of marijuana possession in the 1980s and served time in prison. His stepdaughter told the Herald that, during his time behind bars, Pérez studied to become a mechanic, and that when he got out of prison, he began rescuing animals. “We’re all humans, you know, we make mistakes, but we remake ourselves,” she told the outlet.
On 5 June, five immigration officers apprehended Pérez at a community center. Officers took him to the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami. Three weeks later, Pérez died in ICE custody.
19 July
Tien Xuan Phan, 55, died at the Methodist Hospital North East in Live Oak, Texas.
Phan was detained earlier in June for failing to leave the US after a removal order, and held at the Karnes County immigration processing center in Karnes City. He was transferred to a hospital for evaluation after experiencing seizures and vomiting, and becoming unresponsive, according to ICE. His cause of death remains under investigation.
5 August
Chaofeng Ge.
Chaofeng Ge, 32, of China, died four days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania.
Ge was born in 1992 in Luoyang, Henan province, China, and worked in construction. He arrived in the US via the southern border in 2023, when he was detained for unlawful entry. According to an attorney for his family, he spent his time while incarcerated trying to learn English, practicing by writing out scripture and short stories.
He was eventually released and settled in Queens, New York, where he worked as a delivery driver, according to his attorney. In 2025, he was arrested for possessing several stolen credit card numbers in his cell phone and for unauthorized access to a device, and was eventually detained by ICE. ICE and the Pennsylvania state police said that he died by suicide while detained.
His family filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security in the southern district of New York, requesting more information about his death. “I am devastated by the loss of my brother and by the knowledge that he was suffering so greatly in that detention center,” said Yaofeng Ge in a public statement. “He did not deserve to be treated that way. I want justice for my brother, answers as to how this could have happened, and accountability for those responsible for his death.”
Ge is survived by four siblings and his parents, who live in China.
31 August
Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, died after he was detained at the Central Arizona Florence correctional complex.
Known as “Lenchito” by friends and family, Batrez Vargas was a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who was brought to the US from Mexico as a five-year-old. He was arrested by police in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 2 August, and charged with possession and use of drug paraphernalia. Immigration enforcement agents said they took Batrez Vargas into custody in Phoenix before transferring him to the detention center in Florence, where his family believes he contracted Covid-19, according to media reports.
ICE said that his cause of death was unknown and remained under investigation.
“We want justice. We want this to never happen to anyone else, especially not to undocumented immigrants,” Jaime Vargas, Batrez Vargas’s uncle, told Univision.
8 September
Oscar Rascon Duarte, of Mexico, died at a long-term medical facility while in ICE custody.
Duarte, 58, had first come to the US in 1976, was deported in 2004 and then re-entered via the southern border. He served a 20-year sentence in prison for attempted sexual contact with a minor and child molestation. After he completed his sentence, he was transferred to ICE custody.
At first, he was held at the Florence staging facility, according to ICE, but was later transferred to Promise Hospital in Mesa, Arizona, “due to late-stage Alzheimer disease, right kidney cancer, and hepatitis C all of which required a higher level of care”, where he eventually died, ICE said.
18 September
Santos Banegas Reyes, 42, of Honduras, died at the Nassau County correctional center in New York.
He was a construction worker and a father of two daughters, one of whom lives in the US while the other lives in Honduras, according to local news reports.
He was apprehended on 17 September by federal immigration agents just hours before he was found “not breathing” in his cell at the Nassau county correctional center. According to ICE, the preliminary cause of death appeared to be liver failure complicated by alcoholism. His family is contesting his cause of death, and have requested an independent autopsy.
22 September
Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died after falling ill at the Adelanto detention center in California.
His mother, Lucía Uribe, told the Guardian that Ismael had come to the US from Mexico when he was five, crossing the US southern border along with his sister and cousin to join his mother and father. The family settled in Westminster, California, and later moved to Huntington Beach.
He spent a year studying graphic design, and then began working – first at a factory that produced cleaning supplies and later at car washes. Lucía said that Ismael loved listening to music. He was always willing to help others, and often helped his sister, a single mother, with childcare.
Uribe had been protected from deportation under the DACA program, but he was denied renewal because he had been convicted of driving under the influence.
He was apprehended in August during an immigration raid at the Fountain Valley Auto Wash, where he had worked for about 15 years, and was transferred to Adelanto. There, he fell ill – first with a cough and fever, and then other medical complications, according to his family. He was transferred to a hospital, where he died.
His mother learned of the detention through one of his co-workers, and said she was unaware of any medical condition he had. “I want to see less medical negligence,” she told the Guardian, referring to conditions at ICE detention centers.
ICE said Uribe’s cause of death was “still under investigation”.
24 September
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes.
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, 37, of El Salvador, was killed when a gunman opened fire at the ICE field office where he was being held.
He is survived by his partner, Berenice Prieto, and four children. He had worked mowing lawns and trimming trees, and in his free time he liked fishing around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, his loved ones told CBS.
Guzman-Fuentes was arrested by Dallas police in late August due to an outstanding warrant for driving under the influence and other charges that were later dropped.
“We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed. His death is a senseless tragedy that has left our family shattered,” Prieto said in a public statement shortly after his death. “I do not know how to explain to our children that their father is gone.”
29 September
Miguel Ángel García Medina.
Miguel Ángel García Medina, 31, of Mexico, was killed outside an ICE field office in Dallas.
García Medina is survived by his wife, Stephany Gauffeny, two stepdaughters and a son – who was born three days after his death – his mother and grandparents, who live in Mexico, and three siblings.
“Everyone tells me the same thing: he was very funny. He always made us laugh, and that’s why we miss him so much,” Gauffeny told the Guardian. “He was very goofy, you almost always saw him laughing, joking or singing.”
Gauffeny – who clarified to the Guardian that her husband was referred to in an ICE press release as Miguel García-Hernández, his stepfather’s last name – also said: “He was a very present father. Sometimes he wouldn’t go to work if my daughters needed something.”
García Medina was born in San Luis Potosí, a central state in Mexico, and crossed the US border without papers when he was a teenager, settling in Arlington, Texas. He met Gauffeny at a party shortly after and the two were friends for years before they became a couple.
He had lived in the Dallas area for nearly two decades, most recently making a living painting and remodeling homes. In his free time, he liked to work on his truck, Gauffeny said.
He ended up in ICE custody early on 24 September, after a short time in jail for a DUI. While he was shackled inside a government van outside the ICE field office, a gunman opened fire. He died five days later of his gunshot wounds.
He would have turned 32 on 5 January, which is also the day of his 10th wedding anniversary. Gauffeny told the Guardian that he had been in the process of obtaining a green card and planning to open his own painting company. “He made business cards and said he was going to buy the equipment,” she said. “He was so excited and had a lot going for him.”
29 September
Huabing Xie, of China, died at El Centro Regional Medical Center in Calexico, California.
The border patrol had apprehendedXie on 12 September in Indio, California, and transferred him to the Imperial regional detention facility, according to ICE. In 2023, he had been placed under removal proceedings, the agency said.
The agency said that Xie experienced “what appeared to be a seizure and became unresponsive” and medical personnel at the detention center tried to administer life-saving measures before emergency medical services arrived and took him to the hospital, where he died.
4 October
Leo Cruz-Silva, a 34-year-old man from Mexico, died while detained by ICE at the Ste Genevieve County jail in Missouri.
A few days before he died, he was detained by police in Festus, Missouri, for public intoxication, according to federal immigration officials. The police then handed him over to ICE, which served him with a notice that the agency would reinstate a previous deportation order. Cruz-Silva had likely entered the US before 2010, when he was a child, according to immigration officials, and was expelled twice after re-entering via the southern border.
On 4 October, Cruz-Silva died by apparent suicide, according to ICE.
About 50 people organized a vigil to mourn him. “He was a person, he was a brother, he was a son, he was a person,” Susie Johnson, the founder of Abide in Love, a non-profit that works with ICE detainees in Missouri jails, told St Louis Public Radio. “All loss of life, in my opinion, is tragic, and I hate that it happened in our community,” she said.
11 October
Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, 67, died after being detained at the Krome detention center in south-west Miami-Dade county.
Saleh, who was from Jordan, first came to the US in 1994 and became a lawful permanent resident a few months after he arrived in the country.
Saleh managed a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale. In 2017, he was charged – along with a dozen other clerks and store owners – in a scheme to exchange food stamps for cash. He had served time in prison, and after his release in 2020, ICE placed him under an “order of supervision” that required him to regularly check in with immigration officers. In 2025, he was apprehended and placed at Krome.
He was taken to a local hospital due to a high fever, and became unresponsive. A physician listed his preliminary cause of death as cardiac arrest.
23 October
Josué Castro Rivera, a 25-year-old man from Honduras, was killed while trying to flee ICE agents in Virginia.
He had been on his way to a gardening job when ICE agents pulled over his vehicle, his brother, Henry Castro, told reporters. When agents tried to detain Castro Rivera and three other passengers, he fled, running into traffic. He was struck while crossing Interstate 264 in Norfolk.
According to his brother, Castro Rivera had come to the US four years ago, and had been working to help support family in Honduras. “He had a very good heart,” Castro told the Associated Press. “He didn’t deserve everything that happened to him.”
23 October
Gabriel Garcia Aviles, a 54-year-old from Mexico who had been living in the US for 30 years, died about a week after being detained by immigration agents.
Aviles was a father of two and grandfather of three, according to his family. His daughter, Mariel, told LA Taco she used to speak with him every day, and described him as someone who was “always happy and loved bikes”.
Customs and Border Protection agents grabbed him during a “roving patrol” in the southern California city of Costa Mesa on 14 October. Mariel last spoke with him shortly after he was apprehended, she told LA Taco. In the days that followed, his family tried repeatedly to contact him, but said that officers at the Adelanto detention facility refused to connect them.
A week after his detention, Mariel received a call informing her that her father was in critical condition at the VictorValley Global Medical Center. The last time his family was able to see Aviles, he was unconscious in a hospital room guarded by immigration officers, Mariel told LA Taco.
His family has questioned ICE’s assessment that Aviles died of “natural causes” and complications of alcohol withdrawal. He had been healthy, his daughter said, prior to his detention.
25 October
Kai Yin Wong, 63, of China, died at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
Wong had first come to the US in 1970 as a permanent resident. He was convicted of sexual abuse of a child in 2010 and served a 14-year sentence. He was then transferred to ICE custody and ordered deported from the US.
Before his death, he had been detained at the South Texas ICE processing center in Pearsall. In October, he was first transferred to a local hospital after he complained of shortness of breath, and then airlifted to another hospital in San Antonio when he started to experience heart failure and possible pneumonia. He was transferred to another medical center for heart valve repair surgery, according to officials, and died from complications.
He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Lucía Pedro Juan, and their four daughters. The couple had run a plant nursery outside Miami for a decade, and Pedro Juan has described him as a hard-working husband who fought to provide for their family.
According to an interview Pedro Juan gave to the El Paso Times, the couple had gone on a grocery run during the Labor Day holiday when they were pulled over by a highway patrol officer who asked to see their identification papers, and then turned them over to ICE; they were eventually separated by immigration officers. “I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.” Pedro Juan was detained for three months and later deported to Guatemala.
Gaspar-Andrés ended up at Camp East Montana, a detention facility at the Texas military base known as Fort Bliss. The American Civil Liberties Union has called the facility a “human and civil rights catastrophe” following several reports of injuries, illnesses and abuses.
Gaspar-Andrés was repeatedly seen by medical staff for symptoms including bleeding gums, sore throat and body aches, fever, jaundice and hypertension. He was transferred to a hospital on 16 November, where he was diagnosed with hyponatremia. He was later placed on dialysis and palliative care, before he died in December, according to ICE.
His wife told the El Paso Times that Gaspar-Andrés had been relatively healthy prior to his detention, and disputed ICE’s assertion that he had hypertension or other underlying conditions.
5 December
Pete Sumalo Montejo, 72, died at the Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen.
He had first come to the US from the Philippines in 1962, as a lawful permanent resident. In 1992, he was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and in 2024 he was convicted for possession of a controlled substance, according to ICE.
In February, ICE detained Montejo at the Montgomery processing center, where he began to experience several medical complications including shortness of breath and hypoxia, anemia, and septic shock resulting from pneumonia, according to the agency.
6 December
Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, 48, of Pakistan, died at a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
He first came to the US in 1996 as a nonimmigrant visitor, according to ICE, and overstayed his visa. He was arrested by Border Patrol in 2017 in North Dakota, and ordered to leave the US after he did not appear at a 2019 immigration court hearing. Then, in June, ICE located him at a jail in Euless, Texas, where he had been booked.
He spent more than five months at the Prairieland detention center in Alvarado, Texas, before he died. ICE has said Sachwani had a history of medical conditions – including chronic respiratory, liver and kidney issues – and died of “natural causes”.
12 December
Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old man from Haiti, died at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, one day after he was taken into custody.
ICE said Brutus died of “suspected natural causes”.His cousin told NBC New York that the family is still searching for answers about what happened. “We haven’t had some kind of closure surrounding his death,” Evans Belony, his cousin, told the outlet. “He was like a loved one that we all loved; he was like a brother.”
Brutus came to the US in 2023 as an asylum seeker, his cousin said, adding that Brutus had been “very depressed and very sad” following the death of his mother.
The conditions at Delaney Hall, where Brutus was held, have come under scrutiny from lawmakers and advocates. Andy Kim, a Democratic senator from New Jersey, toured Delaney Hall the day after Brutus’s death and spoke to about 80 detainees, who he said described receiving poor medical care and “disgusting” meals that included raw meat. He called for the facility to be closed.
14 December
Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, 46, of Eritrea died of “medical distress”, according to the agency.
According to court documents obtained by the Daily Voice, Abdulkadir filed for an emergency federal motion for medical relief three days before he died.
Abdulkadir had been an imam at the Islamic Center of Northeast Ohio, and had gained a green card in 2018. In 2023, he was charged with wire fraud and misuse of public funds and later sentenced to prison. Supporters wrote to a US district judge requesting leniency, arguing that Abdulkadir may not have fully understood the application process for the benefits programs he was convicted of misusing.
“We miss his teachings, his knowledge. We crave him for our own sake, not just for him. He’s an actively good man,” a supporter wrote, according to the Daily Voice.
ICE took custody of him in July 2024, and detained him at the Moshannon Valley processing center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, where he died a year and a half later. Community members raising funds for his funeral services said that Abdulkadir “spent his life selflessly caring for others, nurturing our children with the wisdom of the Qur’an, healing family rifts, and offering kindness to everyone he met. His boundless generosity touched countless souls, and the space he leaves behind feels immeasurably quiet and deep.”
14 December
Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, of Nicaragua died after months of detention at the Adams County Correctional Center in New Orleans.
He had been arrested in late September in Colorado, and was transferred to New Orleans. He was due to be deported to Nicaragua on 13 December.
On 4 December, according to ICE, emergency medical responders were called to the detention facility and Rodriguez was found to not have a pulse. He was transferred to the hospital, where he later died. He failed a “test to determine brain function”, according to ICE, and was removed from a ventilator in accordance with the wishes of his family.
15 December
Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, was born in Bulgaria and died at the North Lake processing center in Baldwin, Michigan.
Gantchev was “discovered unresponsive on the floor of his cell during routine checks”, and his official cause of death is still under investigation, according to ICE.
He had first arrived in the US in 1995. According to the agency, Gantchev was denied a green card in 2009 and, in 2023, was ordered by an immigration judge to return to Bulgaria. He was apprehended by immigration agents in September as part of the administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz”, which sent hundreds of federal agents to Chicago to crack down on unauthorized immigrants.
His wife, a US citizen, told the Serbian Times that Gantchev had type 2 diabetes and had complained for months about his deteriorating health. “A man who lived here for 30 years, worked hard, paid taxes – and they treated him like an animal,” Ganchev’s wife told the outlet. “They treated him as if he were a murderer.” She learned of his death on 16 December, the day of the couple’s eighth wedding anniversary.
This story and its headline were amended on 6 January 2025 to include the
The Pentagon’s Sickening Cover-Up
Every person killed in the boat strikes was a civilian.
A Pentagon report claims that no civilians have been killed in the military’s boat strikes:
It also assessed that “there were no incidents in which civilian casualties more likely than not resulted from U.S. military operations” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, where U.S. Southern Command, responsible for American forces in Latin America and the Caribbean, has carried out dozens of strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats.
This is what comes from the government arbitrarily and falsely labeling people as terrorists. The military killed 120 civilians at sea in 2025, so they redefine them as combatants in an imaginary conflict to conceal the crimes. Every person killed in the boat strikes was a civilian. To make matters worse, they were deliberately targeted and then executed. Every single attack killed civilians by design.
The claim that the military is combating “narco-terrorists” when it blows up these defenseless boats is a lie, and the authors of this report must know that.
They are all prostitutes: Demented, but truly the new AmeriKKKan.
Afghan American. When she was elected to the Hayward City Council in 2018, she made history as the first Afghan American woman elected to public office in the United States.
Her father’s photo is the same one she posted for Father’s Day.
That’s the detail that undoes State Sen. Aisha Wahab’s defense. Not the racist comment itself — “Call ice on the Mexican girl she don’t belong here” — but the picture attached to the account that posted it, a picture that matches the man Wahab called her “toughest critic, but also my biggest cheerleader” in a 2023 tribute on her own campaign page.
Lots of remembering going on. Until just one real journalist is left.
What they were thinking when they cut down the last tree on Easter Island
“Don’t worry, technology will solve our problems by helping us find a substitute for wood”
“This tree is my private property, I can do with it what I please. Big government has no right to tell me what to do with my own tree”
“The science of deforestation is still up in the air, we need more research before we transition to a low-wood economy”
“Switching to a low-wood economy will cost jobs. Is a few trees worth the cost to our tree-cutting and statue-dragging industries?”
The Fate of Easter Island
To see just how clearly a growing human population relies on and impacts its natural environment, one need look no further than Easter Island, the South Pacific isle with the famous stone statues known as moai. I have been reading much about the fate of Easter in preparation for an upcoming trip, and, as the geographer John Flenley and archeologist Paul Bahn write in The Enigmas of Easter Island, “it is a story with an urgent and sobering message for our own times.”
Old Medea and her paper tiger idea. Proving grounds, crash test dummies, one and all, and seeing where the stress tests work and don’t work. They want autonomous drones, woman.
Sure, Code Pink, getting it wrong again: As of February, more than 1,000 law enforcement and public safety agencies had received waivers to operate autonomous surveillance drones.
Israel is widely recognized as a top global pioneer and leading exporter of military drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology. However, leadership in fully autonomous drone tech and drone swarming is heavily contested alongside the United States and China, both of which invest massively in similar artificial intelligence and robotic warfare capabilities.
In September 2016, Atelier magazine sat down with David Harari, a former head of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to talk about the origins of drone technology.
“I’d like to make clear that unmanned aerial vehicles already existed before Israel started looking at the subject,” he said. However, “We developed the very first operation system.” This was important for Israel facing the threats of the 1970s and early 1980s, first in the Egyptian conflict of 1973 and then against terrorists in Lebanon. Harari told Globes in 2011 that when he began looking into UAVs, people laughed at him and his staff.
In his masterpiece on war, Azar Gat stated that the biological compulsion to survive and reproduce in a world of scarcity is the root of all violence. I will agree with that. Chimps invade the lands of neighboring societies, kill the adult males, take the females, kill the infants, and then take the conquered territory. Jane Goodall was the first to witness that. Human hunter-gatherers did something similar. Orwell noted that what would be considered heinous crimes when committed against the in-group become heroic deeds when committed against the out-group. That reflects humanity’s ingrained criminality. As long as somebody can be portrayed as a member of an out-group, then any action is justified.
I have lived with three people who took lives, which is the greatest crime of all. I have a few murderer relatives. I am the first man in my family, going up my family tree for a century, who was not in the military, and I nearly was.
My great nation was built by exterminating the original inhabitants during history’s greatest crime, and the greatest of my nation’s Founding Fathers architected the plan to swindle the natives out of their land, in history’s greatest theft, but he is sainted in our culture and his greatest crime is unmentionable. American foreign policy has always been one great, unending, series of immense crimes. The war on Iran is just the latest outrage. It took 70 years for the CIA to admit that its 1953 overthrow of Iran’s government was “undemocratic,” which led to today’s situation, and I rarely see any discussion of that fact in the media today.
Oh god, the Subterranean Ex-Uniformed Disservices Brigade here on hump day:
Military families are speaking out and warning about a growing crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines are now in their ninth month at sea—with 250 consecutive days without making land—as the deployment has been extended to take part in the U.S. war on Iran.
Ret. U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor noted that reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard the USS Lincoln come as no surprise, given the circumstances, and they should be taken seriously by the Trump Admin. But the opposite is happening, as the U.S. pushes its military into a crisis for a war of choice they know they can’t win against Iran.
This is it, no?
Growing up in New Mexico as I did, you hear about them. The kids, almost always boys, very often disruptive in some obvious and exhausting way, almost always trouble, who get disappeared to “Nimi” for “straightening out,” as in: If you don’t stop setting frogs on fire/fondling the neighborhood girls/failing all your classes/breaking into school and overturning all the desks, Billy/Johnny/Kevin, your dad/mom/grandpa is going to send you to Nimi to straighten yer happy ass out.
One day, they’re there, throwing rocks at you for having an immigrant parent, say, or commenting on your bra size (you’re thirteen) as they follow you home from school, a little ragtag group of similar cruel-eyed degenerates sniveling along behind them in their wake. The kinds of boys that make you lock the door behind you once you make it safely home. The next day, their carved-up desk sits empty, and no one talks about them much anymore, except to say, eyes wide in warning, I heard his folks shipped him off to Nimi.
Decades later, you see his name in the news. He’s a spy. He’s overthrown a government. He’s assassinated a foreign leader.
He’s the Attorney General of the United States of America.
What Is The New Mexico Military Institute?
While most of us have heard of the fancy private boarding schools and prestigious Ivy League and military colleges that produce the polished J. Crew shoppers who go on to lead the nation from podiums with their gleaming smiles — places like Andover, Exeter, Yale, West Point — there is one boarding school that is just as influential but far less well-known, forgotten in dusty Roswell, New Mexico, a school that functions as an early pipeline into the more secretive forms on power that intelligence recruiters say requires, if not outright sociopathy, sociopathic tendencies. That school is the New Mexico Military Institute.
New Mexico Military Institute is a blonde-brick fortress, a large citadel located a block from Jazzercize Roswell, two blocks from the Cattle Baron steakhouse, and a mere pebble’s toss from the Dairy Queen Grill & Chill. (source)
Donald Trump’s trophy envy began over sixty years ago.
Donald Trump attended the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, from 1959 until he graduated in 1964. He did not attend a federal service academy like West Point.
School Background
Sent by his father at age 13 due to behavioral issues at his previous school.
Completed grades 8 through 12 at the facility.
Participated heavily in varsity sports and rose to the rank of cadet captain by his senior year.
JEWS. Israelis Colonising Philippines Too
Israelis continue to squat and then spread like true cancer cells throughout various parts of the world creating Jews only colonies.
Trump declared his longstanding affinity for the Jewish people and State of Israel far before he entered into the political arena, his entrenchment with Zionism has become the defining feature of his second term in the Oval Office. That position has also become the focal point for criticism of the second Trump administration, as critics — many of whom were once his most loyal supporters — have come to question whether the president is intent on putting America or Israel first. That doubt has raised questions that transcend far beyond political concerns into deeper, more philosophical and spiritual realms. One glaring red flag that perfectly distills those questions was observed on the date of Trump’s second inauguration, when he elected not to place his hand upon the Bible when he was sworn in as president. According to an interview with Israeli media, Trump’s former mistress turned ex-wife revealed that decision may have been made because the president keeps another holy book closer to his heart.
Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife, told Israeli Channel 12 news that the president keeps an Aramaic copy of the Book of Pinchas under his clothing close to his heart for “healing and protection.” The portion of the Book of Numbers (specifically, Numbers 25:10-30:1) is distributed among Kabbalistic sects in the Aramaic text Maples referred to Trump’s copy being as an apotropaic talisman. Centered on the biblical figure Pinchas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of the High Priest Aaron, the book is a highly revered section from the Zohar, the foundational text of the preeminent branch of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah.
In her interview with Channel 12, Maples described her own deep affinity for Judaism, its mystical elements such as Kabbalah, and the State of Israel, despite maintaining the outward appearance of a Christian identity. The experiences and practices that Maples detailed from her own life drew stark parallels with that of Trump and his family’s, including maintaining a kosher diet, reciting the Shema as a declaration of the Jewish faith, visiting the graves of exalted Jewish religious figures, observing the Sabbath, and frequently visiting Israel.
When recounting the ties to Judaism she has maintained for decades, Maples made note of visiting the city of Safed in northern Israel. In addition to being one of Judaism’s Four Holy Cities — alongside Jerusalem, Hebron, and Tiberias — Safed is the historical center of Kabbalah. Its status as the epicenter of Kabbalah arose during the 16th century, when it became home to central figures of the branch of Jewish mysticism like Moses Cordovero and, most notably, Isaac Luria, the father of its contemporary practice, which has become known as Lurianic Kabbalah. Luria’s influence on Kabbalah was so profound that he became known as “Arizal,” which in Hebrew translates to “Lion of God,” based on the Hebrew words “El” (meaning God) and “Ari” (meaning lion). Following his death in 1572, Luria was buried in the Safed Old Jewish Cemetery on the lower hillside of the city. His grave has since become a major pilgrimage site for Kabbalists.
Trump’s ex-wife is not the only figure in his life who maintains reverence for Kabbalah. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who has held various high-ranking advisory roles in each of his presidential administrations, is a member of the Haredi sect of Judaism known as Chabad-Lubavitch. Chabad arose as a Hasidic dynasty in 1775 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi in Liozno, then part of the Russian Empire. The sect is inherently Kabbalistic, taking its name from an acronym representing the first three Sephirot of the Tree of Life: Chokmah, Binah, and Da’at. Ivanka Trump, the president’s oldest daughter, converted to Judaism in order to marry Kushner and regularly attends Chabad-run congregations as a practicing Jew. She has also regularly been seen adorned with a red string bracelet on her wrist, another popular apotropaic talisman worn by Kabbalists.
Maples detailed how Ivanka Trump’s conversion was a monumental force in further immersing the president into world Jewry, which she expressed has helped shape her ex-husband’s spiritual and consequently political identity. The influence of that immersion into Judaism has been echoed by fervent ultra-Zionist supporters of Trump, such as political commentator Mark Levin, who has referred to Trump as the U.S. “first Jewish president” on multiple occasions. Trump himself reinforced that image by making his undying commitment to Israel and the Jewish people explicit, wasting no opportunity to reiterate it during his second term as president.
That commitment has come to undermine Trump’s second term, which continues to be mired by its war with Iran, which senior officials in his administration have consistently justified as necessary to defending Israel and maintaining the U.S. allegiance with the Jewish state. Prioritizing that relationship has led to upheaval among Trump’s supporters, who have come to mock his presidency as being Israel First instead of following through on the America First platform it built itself upon. That growing disdain has become amplified by the continued presence of Kushner within his administration, whose overt identity as a member of Chabad and an unflinching ally of Israel has raised further questions behind the motives driving the work in his role as an informal special envoy in deliberations between the U.S. and Iran.
Within the Chabad-Lubavitch, many of its followers have come to believe that its seventh Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was the Moshiach — Judaism’s long-awaited Messiah. On October 7th, 2024, Trump visited Schneerson’s grave in Queens, New York, to pay his respects alongside ultra-Zionist conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro to mark the first anniversary of Hamas’ October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel. That belief, shaping sects of modern Kabbalistic thought, raises questions about how their belief that the Messianic Age has arisen shapes their political aims and how those motives influence the Trump administration through advisors ingrained in Chabad like Kushner. As the second Trump administration has made the U.S. impossible to separate from Israel, it appears the spiritual influence Judaism and its mystical elements like Kabbalah have had on the president are equally impossible to separate from the forces shaping his leadership.
Sure, another memoir: In her memoir Cleanup on Aisle Five, author and journalist Ann Larson does not publicly name the specific grocery chain she worked for. Instead, she deliberately anonymizes the large Utah-based grocery chain by referring to it simply as “The Grocery Store” (TGS) to protect the identities of her former co-workers and focus on broader systemic industry issues.
It’s fucking Smith’s, man: Key Facts About Smith’s in Utah
Store Count: Around 53 to 57 locations across more than 35 Utah cities.
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, UT.
Parent Company: Kroger
And that’s fucking wacko Mormon country, you know, NO Booze, Cigs, Soda:
Smith’s Food & Drug is named after its founder, Lorenzo Smith, who opened a small dry goods and grocery store in Brigham City, Utah, in 1911. The family and founders were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), which historically ties the regional chain’s heritage to Utah’s LDS community, but the name itself simply honors the family surname of Lorenzo and his son, Dee Glen Smith.
Not that SMITH, Joseph: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, secretly married or was “sealed” to multiple women during his life, with historians and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Research notes he was sealed to roughly 40 women, ranging from teenagers (such as 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball) to women in their 50s.
Polyandry: Several women Smith married were already legally married to other living men at the time.
AmeriKKKa:
Fred Meyer, AKA, Kroger’s, keeping it “balanced,” the power and the will:
History of Fred Meyer
First and foremost, Fred G. Meyer was a retailer with a great idea: One-Stop Shopping. But he was more than that. He was also a philosopher, semanticist and teacher the Wall Street Journal once described as “the last of the great American entrepreneurs.”
Who was Fred Meyer?
Fred G. Meyer (originally Frederick Grubmeyer) came to Portland, Oregon in 1908 when he was 22 years old. Drawing on his experience working for his family’s grocery business, Mr. Meyer began selling coffee from a horse-drawn cart to workers at farms and lumber camps. As he watched and listened to his Customers (always a proper noun to Mr. Meyer), he began planning a completely new kind of s tore.
How One-Stop Shopping Began
In 1922, Mr. Meyer opened the first Fred Meyer store in Portland at the corner of SW 5th & Yamhill. Mr. Meyer’s vision was to give Customers more reasons to shop in his store than in any other. Before he opened his new store, Customers went to separate shops for meat, produce, cheese and other goods. Mr. Meyer placed these all under one roof and put an expert in charge of each area, setting the stage for the Fred Meyer stores we know today – stores that average 150,000 square feet and carry more than 225,000 items. Mr. Meyer’s ideas still appeal to Customers because our service, selection, quality and prices still save people time and money. With food, health & beauty care, clothes, home products, electronics and more under one roof, you can get more shopping done in one stop than at any other store.
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He was born (later anglicized to Fred Henry Grubmeyer) in Germany in 1886 to a German family that immigrated to Brooklyn. He later quietly supported the Rosicrucian Fellowship, a Christian-based western mystical/religious philosophy.
Core Beliefs and Practices
Esoteric Christianity: Focuses on deep spiritual mysteries behind Christian teachings rather than dogmatic faith alone.
Cosmic Evolution: Teaches reincarnation, karma, and the spiritual evolution of man and the universe.
Spiritual Lifestyle: Encourages a vegetarian diet and abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs to keep a clean body and mind.
Spiritual Astrology: Uses astrology as a key tool to understand spiritual development and character tendencies
Don’t worry, I am getting to the crux of MY memoiric experience with Kroger’s and Fred Meyer Marketplace here in sunny Lincoln County, Pacific Coast, Oregon. We shall see if the following 1,000-word commentary gets into the County’s weekly newspaper, since I do identify the grocery chain I did a short bootcamp in before throwing in my apron.
Oh yeah, Fred Meyer is rebranding, and these aprons, all the fucking shit we have to wear, have this subliminal message you are forced to absorb every time you put on and take off the apron!
It is the infantilization of the world. And these companies track Everything: They call it “the Zebra.”
We are a screen-screwed society, and while we have to attend to customers, we are running around with these scanners and product calculators and what is in and what needs to be ordered devices. The last shit wage job I had, Short-Term Rental outfit, Sweet Homes, is all about using Telegram for constant updates, a Breezeway app for constant tracking of supplies and check-ins and check-outs, and alas, ADP for pay and scheduling, all on OUR own personal phones. At 17 an hour at both places, what a deal. The Sweet Homes at least was half a mile from where I live, whereas the grocery store is 30 minutes away during Highway 101 troust traffic. At an 8 am shift, the day starts early, and I worked through no lunches and past the 5 pm end of day clock out.
Know thou masters: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink addressed growing pressure on corporations to rethink years of policies tied to environmental and social agendas, as debate intensifies over whether those initiatives delivered real results for businesses and investors. In a recent interview with Fox News, the “woke” phase in corporate strategy was described as a failed experiment, reflecting a shift now underway across global markets and within the financial system.
Larson, a writer, academic, and cofounder of the successful activist group Debt Collective, writes in the tradition of workplace classics like Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed.” And Larson is no poverty tourist. She found a job at a grocery store in Utah in the fall of 2020 out of economic necessity, and worked there long enough to experience firsthand the struggles endemic to the industry. I spoke to her about class, service industry labor, and the harsh realities behind the smiles of your grocery store cashiers.
On top of a grueling work schedule, you gotta do this?
I’ve been working Union retail jobs since the late 70’s and now I’m about to start getting paid my pension for all those years. My Local 555 Rep has been bugging me to call and set myself up to collect my retirement even though I’m still working. He came in this week and wouldn’t leave until we called all the Locals I’ve worked at and started the process to start drawing the pensions I’ve earned in Oregon, California and Arizona. It’s great to know I can take home my pension income while still working full time.
Frank Keeth, South Salem Fred Meyer
So the union rep for Fred Meyer Newport, Oregon, tracked me down August 11, and wanted to know how he could help me with getting my hour lunch break (laugh laugh laugh, what a joke). I had missed two, and missed 10-minute breaks, because they are understaffed, no one wants to be “the cook,” AKA deep fryer guy, and there are customers wanting the deep-fried triple bypass crap, and the demands of each next line up of chicken and crap for outside the kitchen displays had to be prepped and cooked.
Here I was, talking to this guy, and in plain sight, I was handling the customers,, hitting the buttons for ovens and fryers going off, and having to head to the back to bread/oat the next heart attack shit. I told him that it’s the floors, man, and the lack of hood fan, the general workplace lack of safety. He just raised his hand and said, “We can work on getting you the lunch. That’s in our contract. But the workplace safety and food issues, that’s not the union’s department.”
I was a union organizer in Seattle, for SEIU, and we did more than just talk to the rank and file about lunch fucking breaks. We talked about workplace issues, equipment, managers, etc.
DO YOU GET the DEVOLUTION of all systems noted in the headline I wrote for this ABOVE?
WASTE:
Don’t believe the undercounts: U.S. grocery stores discard roughly 30% of their food supply, totaling about 16 billion pounds of waste annually. This happens because stores overstock full displays to attract shoppers, discard items with minor package damage, and struggle with strict cosmetic standards for fresh produce.
IT’S much MORE:
You want to do a life cycle analysis of the packaging, the field and feedlots, the grass and soy for the animals, all the pesticides and herbicides, all the lives damaged in the ag and food biz, all the forests cut down, all the plastics produced, all the shit mined to get that box of pancakes to your grocery store, all the FUEL? See below? Throwaways.
DEVOLUTION, and MADD, man: Mutually Assured Devolution and Dementia!
Something about a genocide?
It all comes back to the Digital Gulaging of our workplaces, lives, personal interrelations, everything, and of course, the GAZAFICATION of the mind, which is mindlessness:
At every occasion the keffiyeh appears across the shoulders, the tray of maqlouba takes center stage in the dinner-party photos, the map-shaped pin glints on lapels, and a small flag settles into the bio beside the emoji. Solidarity with Palestine has become a full aesthetic, with its own wardrobe, cuisine, accessories, and filters. All of it is understandable and human, and perhaps at some moment it was necessary. But it is not support, or at the very least, it is no longer acceptable to call it support and leave it at that.
The symbol that lost its cost
Real solidarity is measured by what it costs you, not by what it adorns you with. The keffiyeh itself was once a symbol with a price. In some capitals, wearing it was an accusation; it meant its wearer had chosen a side in an unsettled fight and might pay for that choice with his job or his safety. Today you can buy it from a global label, wear it to a party, and take it off before dinner. When a symbol loses its cost, it loses its power to change anything, and turns from a stance into a look.
The problem is not the keffiyeh, nor the maqlouba, nor the pin. The problem is that the symbol becomes solidarity’s ceiling instead of its door. When all our support collapses into a flag in a bio or an embroidered dress at an event, the cause itself becomes a consumer identity we put on to feel we are on the right side of history, while nothing in the lives of its people changes.
A ceasefire that doesn’t stop the dying
The ceasefire the world celebrated did not stop the dying; it only slowed its pace. There are still martyrs every day, far from headlines that grew tired of counting. Hundreds of thousands are still living in tents and camps with no homes to return to, in a strip whose cities have mostly been reduced to rubble. But the face of this that appears least in the news bulletins, and is the deadliest over the long run, is that the artery of aid itself has begun to run dry.
The donors withdraw, one after another
Look at what has happened in the past year alone. The examples no longer require analysis, only enumeration.
UNRWA, the backbone of Palestinian relief for seven decades, is operating today with a shortfall of more than two hundred million dollars in its 2026 budget after major donors halted or cut their funding. It has been forced to cut its Gaza staff salaries by twenty percent, reduce working hours, and terminate contracts. All of this comes on top of being barred, since early 2025, from bringing its international staff and its aid directly into the Strip. Last July the UN Secretary-General warned that any further cuts would push the conditions of millions of Palestinians past the point of collapse.
The World Food Programme, which feeds roughly seventy percent of the Strip’s population, halved food rations this summer for two hundred and twenty thousand families and cut cash assistance for seventy-five thousand people. It says it needs more than four hundred and twenty million dollars to keep working through the end of the year, and warns that two-thirds of the population could face acute hunger by the end of 2026 if new funding does not arrive, and that deeper cuts are coming in October.
The United Nations itself announced last December that it was scaling back its 2026 humanitarian appeal, calling its choices “brutal,” after Washington cut its humanitarian funding and Berlin and other Western capitals followed, dropping tens of millions of people in need around the world out of the relief calculations altogether.
Then came early January 2026, when more than 36 humanitarian organizations in Gaza stopped work all at once, among them Doctors Without Borders and CARE, after Israel barred them from continuing under new registration rules the organizations describe as arbitrary. And so the Strip is choked from both ends at once: funding drying up behind it, doors closing in front of it.
Notice the pattern in all of this. Not one of these institutions stopped because the need had ended. They stopped because the money dried up, the lights went out, and the political will evaporated. Hunger did not withdraw from Gaza; the donors did. And here lies the lethal irony: the quieter it gets, the greater the need. The world treats tragedies as trends with a life cycle, while hunger knows nothing of algorithms.
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Not a word about Palestine, about the starvation salvos from the West, Israel and EuroTrashLandia and InBred UnUnited Queen-dumb. NOTHING, wherever I go, even (sic) at artsy fartsy events. Not a word, man, fear of instant economic death.
We need her heroism by the MILLIONS:
DEAD in the water with these Jewish Supremacists flooding the land with this crap:
Alas, this is where we are on Planet Homo Consumopethicus run by tech fascists and uniformed mercenaries at every corner.
And so the so-called organized shoplifters at Fred Meyer, anywhere, will get shot down by ICE?
I could go on and on about the nickels and dimes — $15.50 an hour, and I fought for more, at a whopping $16.70 an hour. And the employees, associates, complained to me that the oil tubs, the deep fryers, were getting them sick on the chicken.
“No, it’s not your fault, but B— hasn’t done a boil-through. The oil is gummed up with months of chicken fat.”
Ovens that don’t clean, water all over, and the freezer and fridge like a war zone, with boxes piled high for NBA only reach.
Associates complaining, schedules tweaked not in their favor, and of course, slave labor, in a sense, so there is no solidarity, no empathy, really, and alas, the inner workings of Fred Meyer don’t take ME ground truth for a year or another triple bypass. I worked as a case manager, getting clients who were houseless, who were in treatment programs, who were recently released from gulags, who had felonies or even sexual abuse charges, JOBS. I worked as a job developer and coach in these outfits for several years, getting adults with disabilities the only jobs they could get. Production.
In the ID and DD community, they call it the Five “f’s” —
Food: Kitchen prep, dishwashing, or fast-food service roles.
Filth: Janitorial, sanitation, and housekeeping work.
Flowers: Florist assistance, simple landscaping, and nursery gardening.
Factories: Light product assembly, packaging, and warehouse sorting.
Filing / Folding / Fetching: Clerical mail delivery, laundry folding, or errand running
Of course, with this penury and sacrifice zone capitalism, people like me, with college degrees and a shitload of work experience, tons of it, all over the country and within dozens of specialties, well well, we are now the Five F legions, struggling with 300 Percent inflation on many items (never ever believe the Bureau of Stats or whomever’s idea that food has gone up 10 percent or that inflation is 6 percent. Double and triple the costs for SO many things to keep an apartment or household going.)
AND people call me antisemitic for pointing out that there are 320 known Jewish billionaires and millions of Jewish millionaires, pointing to the fact that a small slice of demographic, 19 million worldwide, have an outsized influence on not just my former avocations — journalism, book publishing, editing, higher education, non-profit work, sustainability planning, the arts — but on the average Joe (that’s me, amigos) and Jane’s existence.
My expiration date was August 2020 or 2021, I believe.
This one below might be the last one in the local rag, and certainly I’ve pissed off quite a few around here, so I am unhireable.
Aging is not for the faint of heart may have been a popularized saying of Mae West (1883-1980), but in today’s world of 70 percent of Americans with no substantial retirement funds and a less than admirable Social Security check, this statement is magnified in today’s corporate world of usury.
You have few options in Lincoln County if you’re older than 65, in need of income to keep the lights on and the auto running: grocery clerk, associate, server, or worse, short-term rental and hotel bed stripper, AKA maid.
It matters to no one if you have a few decades of high-quality/high-end work experience, or if you have a few college diplomas. These are slim pickings.
Here we are, or I, rather, age 69 and washed out as a driver for Sweet Homes, notorious for high turnover rates because of poor management and the millionaire owners’ cold-cold hearts.
I attempted to do some work at Kroger’s, AKA, Fred Meyer. I applied for the home goods department, was offered the position after an interview, but the “systems” (computerized) never sent me an offer letter.
I called the regional office, and alas, a phone call later, they offered an apology for the laggard response and an offer to work in the “deli,” since the other position had been filled.
I have tons of prime restaurant experience – French, Greek, Italian and Mexican joints. I’ve catered for big venues. The Kroger group said they fought like hell to get me $16.70 an hour, a dollar more than the starting wage.
The closure of Safeway brought dozens of prospective employees over to FM. Yet this company, Kroger, is continuing its multi-year store closing plan.
This national grocery store chain announced in June 2025 that it would shutter 60 stores in less than two years. They call those closures “underperforming.” At the time, Kroger described the closures at a meeting as a way to shift resources away from struggling locations and into stronger markets.
Dirty corporations know little about the community of place – our town is challenged with affordable grocery stores and might end up becoming a food desert if Kroger closes. It’s a Cincinnati-based chain expanding and contracting at the same time.
The bottom line is profits for shareholders, and Kroger’s footprint in 2026 is increasing new store builds by 30%. These are called large-format marketplace stores, slated for Ohio, Texas, and Indiana. The corporation has spent a few billion by acquiring Giant Eagle.
Fred Meyer is “over hiring,” as one manager stated. Many laid-off Safeway workers have come on board. The problem in the deli is that four-letter word – h-e-l-p, or lack thereof.
That also means more work, more chaotic schedules, and a lack of training are part and parcel to what I experienced there. The ovens are leaky, and the hood fan for three ovens and two deep fryers wasn’t working.
Imagine that — customers wanting deep-fried items with one attendant handling those orders as well as back-of-the-house chicken prepping.
Imagine sinks leaking on the workplace floor, clogged drains, a fridge too small for mountains of boxed poultry.
This is not sustainable, and the scoop from fellow workers is that the hours are long and the demands are intense. Lack of complete staffing makes more work. Some associates in other departments told me that they did not want to cross-train because then more demands would be put upon them without any increase in pay.
This job I applied for was to be part-time – less than 32 hours. Each shift I worked was more than that, with two days off. The equipment and training have been faulty. There is no way putting new employees’ feet to the fire or running them through retail bootcamp is conducive to customer service and employee satisfaction.
On a national level, I have heard an author talk about her grocery experience: “Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register” chronicles Ann Larson’s experience working as a cashier during the COVID-19 pandemic at an anonymized major grocery chain in Utah.
She’s been asked: What do you think would need to happen to resolve that tension for retail employees nationwide?Her answer: “Pro-human labor policies like a shorter work week, a predictable schedule, and paid sick and vacation days are a start.”
Just five companies already control over 60% of U.S. grocery sales.
First proposed in 2022, a $24.6 billion merger of Kroger’s and Albertsons would have created the largest supermarket monopoly in the US. And the beneficiaries would have been Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that controls Albertsons.
A private equity windfall would come at the expense of shoppers who are already paying 25% more for groceries than four years ago. Analysts say that grocery mergers contribute to price inflation because stores can increase costs when consumers have nowhere else to shop.
The associates and cooks never benefit from these acquisitions, mergers, and closures. These companies are bloodless, for sure, and while most customers understand the hard work and high demands of cooks, servers, and preppers, when staffing is low, managers demand more and more from workers. Vacations are rare. Time off requests are denied.
One fellow at another Fred Meyer stated that he’s been there for 12 years and is at the managerial level. However, if he left for whatever reason for four years and a few months, none of the managerial experience would be counted if he returned. Meaning, he’d start at the minimum wage as a new inexperienced hire would get.
Bloodless.
“While researching the book, I read the French philosopher Simone Weil’s account of working in an auto factory during the 1930s. She concluded that liberty for working people was a ‘search for the material conditions for clear thinking.’ What surprised me the most about writing about the supermarket was how right she was.”
For years, an Oregon addiction treatment center offered Native Americans from across the country a path to recovery — only to send those who left the program early to the streets of Portland without a way home, a KGW investigation uncovered.
Medicine Wheel Recovery Services, a nonprofit based in St. Helens, about a 40-minute drive north of Portland, offers addiction and mental health programs for Indigenous people. The program is known for flying patients in from the Midwest and the Great Plains Tribal Network.
However, patients who didn’t finish the program weren’t provided transportation home. Instead, they were given a one-way bus ticket to Portland, where some ended up homeless, city officials found.
“Portland was being used as a dumping ground,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in an interview with KGW. “That is absolutely heart-wrenching.”
Portland leaders said Medicine Wheel reported discharging 1 to 5 people a month via buses to Portland across seven years, from 2018 through 2025.
If accurate, that means the organization could have discharged up to 420 Indigenous people to Portland’s streets, potentially contributing to the disproportionate number of homeless Native Americans in Portland.
This is the Jewification of AmeriKKKa:
This is the face of all perversions of humanity. Something about Israel on its last leg?
Defense company Elbit Systems (TASE: ESLT; Nasdaq: ESLT) reports a new peak in its orders backlog, which reached $32 billion at the end of the second quarter. At the end of 2025, it was $28 billion.
The entire fucking world is complicit.
White slavers….
Oregon voters’ narrow passage of some of the nation’s strictest gun control restrictions in 2022 prompted thousands of new gun purchases in the state despite the restrictions never going into effect, according to a recent study.
Researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon and the Massachusetts-based National Bureau of Economic Research made their findings in a late July study published in the Journal of Public Economics. Measure 114, a 2022 voter-approved initiative, bans high-capacity magazines and requires completed background checks, permits and firearm safety training before purchasing guns.
Murder Inc. Blood on all their hands….
U.S. Strikes on Yemen Last Year Killed and Wounded Hundreds, Pentagon Finds
An internal assessment sent to Congress shows 153 civilians were killed in three strikes during the U.S. bombing campaign.
More Jew Lovers on the Horizon: After Aid Cuts, US Announces $2 Billion for Christian Groups. The Trump administration named World Vision to lead a new Christian consortium that will support HIV treatment and disaster relief.
Journalists often say, “Follow the money.” But what if we said, “Follow billions of dollars to understand who controls this country’s political policy, technology and culture” instead?
Could the key to understanding the economic and political tides in the U.S. today come down to understanding the wealthiest among us?
THe fucking country still gives this cunt trump air time?
The White House has asked the Department of Justice to weigh new charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, according to a person familiar with the matter, pushing to revive a case Donald Trump has fumed about ever since an ally dropped the case citing insufficient evidence.
Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, dropped the charges against the man, David Hearn, on 31 July, blaming a contractor for a flawed installation. In a 20-page filing dismissing the charges, Pirro’s office said it had received evidence that damage to the pool occurred before Hearn visited it, and that “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” Hearn has maintained that he reached in the water to touch a piece of already detached lining while he was on a bike ride in June.
Jews in our bedrooms, I told you so: Airbnb guests find hidden camera pointing at their bed on anniversary trip
The great privacy revolt: people are pushing back against the glasses that record, the earbuds that eavesdrop and the TVs watching our lives — here’s what we can do about it, according to an AI research CEO and a digital rights advocate
‘The chicification of surveillance is deeply concerning.”
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
…FUCKING sick Crypto Christian TIMES.
Now Gloo’s executive chair and head of technology (who’s largely free of the shareholder suit), Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of $110m. His call to action is also a pitch for AI aligned with Christian values: tech products like those built by Gloo, many of which are built on top of existing large language models, but adjusted to reflect users’ theological beliefs.
“My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” he said.
BURN IT DOWN: Replica Christopher Columbus ship arrives in Liverpool
Ahh, the new Columbuses:
Sankar warns unfettered fears about AI infrastructure could curtail prosperity as China outpaces US manufacturing
Palantir’s Shyam Sankar says ‘every day we’re making progress’ as AI supercharges American workers
Hegseth will travel to Panama on Wednesday where he will meet with the country’s President José Raúl Mulino and hold a meeting with Colombian senior officials as the U.S. deepens its defense cooperation with the Central American nation.
Hegseth, who visited Panama last year, will deliver remarks at the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) Forum, a U.S.-led multinational coalition envisioned to coordinate security and military efforts among member nations to counter transnational criminal organizations, notably drug cartels operating in Central and South America, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
Dirty White Psychotics: Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
See the strings on the pedophile? The Jew to his right? Civil rights groups ask judge to block Trump’s new birthright citizenship order
Back to Everyone Has a Podcast Blues News:
William Galston offers up some uninspired advice for Democrats on foreign policy with respect to Israel and Palestine:
Democrats who want to maintain a positive relationship with Israel must adjust to new realities. Their agenda must include setting conditions on weapons sales to Israel, demanding an end to the construction of new settlements on the West Bank and a crackdown on settler violence, and pushing for a disarmed but sovereign Palestinian entity that accepts the Jewish state’s right to exist. At the same time, Democrats must reject the charge that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and stand firm against the “from the river to the sea” rhetoric that means the destruction of Israel. Democrats must say no both to Israel’s excesses and its enemies.
“48 hours after interviewing an Israeli government spokesperson on live radio, Sangita Myska was taken off air and removed from her show.
Now, breaking her silence on Double Down Newswatch former LBC broadcaster Sangita Myska exposes the legal gag orders, perpetual NDAs, social media monitoring, and institutional cowardice silencing journalists across British mainstream media.”
It was revealed this week by the tax-evading crack addict and multi-million-dollar purchaser of people-trafficked sex slaves, Hunter Biden, that the health of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. had thankfully taken a significant turn for the worse.
We were told Genocide Joe’s cancer had continued to spread, and heard it was thankfully “very painful” and had “very debilitating” effects. Hunter managed to perform some emotions while saying without any empathy for those his father murdered in Gaza, “it’s really, really hard, and it’s really sad to watch.” But, before you get ready to dance on his grave, the American War Criminal, Osama bin Biden, has not yet physically died, unfortunately, but as we know, he died morally, ethically and on a human level many years ago.
It’s almost a fitting companion to Genocide Joe’s legacy that his own son is trying to resurrect himself in the shadow of his father’s death. Hunter is a portrait of self-destruction that the highly corrupted and anti-justice “full and unconditional” presidential pardon could never erase, mirroring the path of his despicable father’s litany of destruction that will be celebrated by the American Liberal Sycophants. The following is who they celebrate.
The New York-based Center for Art Lawestimates that between 1933 and 1945, Nazis either stole or forced the sale of 650,000 artworks. Researchers at California-based Santa Clara University have joined the quest to repatriate the 100,000 looted relics still at large by creating the A.I. Provenance Assistant, a new chatbot trained to comb convoluted records for leads.
As momentum builds to recover artworks stolen during World War Two by the Nazis, researchers have created an AI chatbot that aims to trace the ownership and location history of works of art.
Jewish Public Broadcasting System — NPR: How AI is being used to track art stolen by the Nazis by Chloe Veltman/ NPR/ All Things Considered.
Experts estimate that the Nazi regime stole or forced the sale of roughly 600,000 to 650,000 works of art from Jewish families and collections across Europe during World War II. This mass plunder accounted for roughly one-fifth of all the Western art in Europe during that era.
How much is one olive tree worth in terms of production and spiritual value over its lifetime, JEWS?
The olive harvest, known as “mawsim al-zaytoun”, begins in October, with preparations starting in September.
Families ready their tools as the first September rains, talat al-matar, soften the soil, wash the trees and, as many Palestinian proverbs say, bring “barakeh” (blessings) for the harvest and the year ahead.
More than 100,000 families rely on the harvest for their income. It runs through to November and brings together the entire community.
In the years before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, almost half of all cultivated land across the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip was planted with an estimated 10 million olive trees.
Palestinians use olives predominantly for oil, but every part of the tree finds a purpose:
One thousand years, JEWS. For one tree!
Many olive trees in Palestine are more than 1,000 years old, while a few are believed to be older than 3,000 years.
Olive trees flourish in a Mediterranean climate and, once established, are highly resilient and drought-tolerant.
Olive trees usually alternate between “heavy” years with abundant fruit and “light” years with less olives, a cycle influenced by climate, soil and tree care.
The graphic below illustrates the development of an olive tree, from a fragile young sapling to a fully mature and resilient tree.
Ahh, this is such a fucked up Jewified world, man, that you can’t go anywhere on the globe without running into their parasitic subhuman ways.
Looted dirty fucking art my ass:
Since 1967, the Israeli authorities have uprooted 800,000 Palestinian olive trees in the occupied West Bank.
IOF in Mississippi:
Gazafication, man, the Jewification of ICE:
Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters
A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.
There you go, the prison time for a loaf of bread stolen from a store:
The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, or CORCA, was introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, last year with wide bipartisan support. The bill is aimed at limiting coordinated retail theft and shoplifting, which lawmakers allege is happening at “unprecedented levels” as organized criminal gangs steal merchandise from stores and resell the goods online. According to the legislation, the perpetrators “are often polycriminal organizations, using profit from the reselling of stolen goods to support crimes involving drugs and weapons trafficking” while facilitating “human smuggling,” all of which is “funding nefarious groups and activities and threatening the integrity of the international economy.”
The bill would give Immigration and Customs Enforcement authority to coordinate federal efforts against large-scale shoplifting. ICE would establish a so-called “Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center” that would bring under one roof analysts and agents from myriad agencies, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Secret Service. The goal is to centralize investigative data and establish “a secure system for sharing information regarding organized retail and supply chain crime threats by leveraging existing information systems at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.”
It’s unclear if ICE agents themselves would have the authority to confront alleged suspects. DHS and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[John Webb 13, was given 21 days hard labour at Wandsworth prison for stealing 4 loaves of bread and a pot of jam. 1872]
Civil libertarian groups are disturbed by legislation they say constitutes a major expansion of domestic surveillance and policing by DHS, which was founded largely to tackle matters of counterterrorism, civil defense, and other matters of national safety, and ICE, whose purview is immigration enforcement and transnational crime.
Jina John, senior policy counsel for AI, privacy, and technology at the ACLU, told The Intercept the bill could grant DHS increased surveillance powers. “This would formalize a mechanism for retailers to share data about consumers with DHS as well as state and local authorities relating vaguely to ‘threats,’” she said. “The risk here is that when retailers share information, it’s not a specific clip of footage related to a specific theft, in practice, they are sharing continuous footage. That means access to FLOCK license plate readers in retail parking lots and surveillance cameras at stores and malls.”
JEWS man, fucking JEWS:
The Customer: Rami Feinstein, an Israeli-American singer-songwriter, stated he was ordering food for his family when the exchange occurred. [1]
The Employee: Arianna Hamilton, a crew member at the restaurant, engaged in the verbal exchange caught on video. [1, 2]
The Trigger: Feinstein stated he was from Israel and revealed a Star of David necklace, prompting Hamilton to say “Free Palestine”. Feinstein recorded her repeating the phrase, requested a refund, and left. [1, 2]
The Complaint: Feinstein posted the video online, questioning whether Burger King was a safe environment for Jewish customers. [1]
FUcking 19 million rats, man, these fucking home-wrecking, fucking supremacist JEWS:
Burger King later issued a statement saying it was “very sorry” about the experience and that its restaurants are a place “where everyone should feel welcome, respected, and free from discrimination”.
“We have no tolerance for antisemitism, hate, or discrimination of any kind. We are working with the franchisee that owns and operates this restaurant to address this situation,” the statement continued, appearing to conflate Hamilton’s words on Palestine with anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Hamilton, who was fired from her job over the incident, took to social media to give her own account. In the video, Hamilton said that her question was not about the customer’s nationality.
“That man did come in very aggressively. I did not ask him where he was from… like, originated from. I asked him where is he from, from the Lehigh Valley. We get a lot of people from a lot of different places: New York, New Jersey,” she said in the video posted to Instagram.
“He did originally say he was from New Jersey, and we stopped it at that, until he took out the Star of David from his shirt and said, ‘I’m Israeli. I’m from Israel’. And that is what got me to say ‘Free Palestine,’” she continued.
Hamilton added that she was did not want to be silenced on the matter.
“Absolutely, I wasn’t going to back down on “Free Palestine” when he put the camera in my face. That’s just not who I am. I will forever speak on my views. Just… and I will never be scared to say what I think.” she said.
Accompanying the post was an appeal by Hamilton for donations to help cover her living costs while out of work.
By the time of publication, the fundraiser had amassed more than $127,000, with supporters on social media urging more support for the former Burger King employee.
PARASITE! Most look the same without pulling out their fucking star of genocide.
She is a hero (note the fucking white monster bitch trying to stop the hero, white ghost with her slave owning face!)
A new State Department policy about “far-left terrorism” could spark a crackdown on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activists.
You got these cunts, man, these fucking cunts:
Democrats say the Trump administration’s new Medicaid work requirements — especially the narrow definition of who can get an exemption for medical reasons — are way too harsh.
Conservatives contend they’re not tough enough, and have convinced some Republican-led states to be even stricter.
Note the fucking MORMON country:
The federal government gave states the option of allowing people to stay on Medicaid through 2027 if they declare themselves too sick to work, with verification starting in 2028. But at least eight states are rejecting that grace period and demanding proof earlier. Starting in January, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, and Utah will impose work rules stricter than those the administration is requiring.
Their decision underscores many conservatives’ belief that the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare covered too many people that they consider unworthy of support, such as non-disabled, working-age adults without children. Democrats and advocates for low-income people say the harsher enforcement will cause many more sick people to join the ranks of the uninsured faster, putting the burden of caring for them on already-strained emergency rooms and public health clinics.
Hilarie Matlock, the policy director for the advocacy group Idaho Voices for Children, said uninsured sick people will face a Catch-22: they can’t get Medicaid without first seeing a doctor to get proof of their condition, but they can’t afford to see a doctor without insurance.
Self-attestation, she noted, has long been accepted in Medicaid for things such as income, and she disagrees with conservative advocates who view it as a loophole.
“It is not simply taking a person’s word for it,” said Matlock. “It is a sworn statement made under penalty of perjury.”
Lincoln Castle in UnUnited InBred Queen-dumb.
Did you know that children were also held here in the Victorian Prison?
William Maxstead was only 10 years old when he was imprisoned here for 24 hours and received 10 lashes of the rod. His crime was stealing some eggs.
“Purchase a Castle Day ticket this half term and discover the stories of some of our prisoners. Enter the cells, and find out more about life behind bars in the Victorian Era.”
Here’s another fucking parasitic Jew:
What drove EPA to toss its own risk assessment of PFAS toxins in sludge? We found out
The comments urging the EPA to keep or even strengthen its risk assessment came primarily from farmers, individuals, environmental organizations, and included letters representing more than 15,000 members of the public.
This JEW, how much in reparations, in the trillions, for his perverse decision?
The divide couldn’t have been clearer, and in the end, the EPA adopted the position industry had been urging. The risk assessment was scrapped.
It was a troubling development for Bennett, who spent 10 years inside the EPA, and today, and now leads science policy with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
By withdrawing the risk assessment that was done under the Biden administration, they are delaying any kind of real regulatory action,” Bennett said.
We asked her what Lee Zeldin meant when he said the agency was listening to public comment.
“I think what they care about is industry,” she replied. “And I think that’s despicable because EPA’s mission is supposed to be to protect human health in the environment.”
ASK Jew-oogle AI what the long-term health implications and COSTS this Jew’s actions will unleash? You won’t get an answer.
IDF soldiers who served in the West Bank tell Haaretz how settlers in local army battalions, though formally subordinate to the military, are using IDF operations to actively fuel friction with Palestinians.
‘Lords of the Land’: Israeli Soldiers Describe How Settlers Manage Military Reality in the West Bank
GOD. ENOUGH of GABOR and MAX Blumenthal. ALL fucking Israeli Jews are the sign of the devil, the darkest perversions on earth. Goddamn, Jew Mate, shut the fuck up.
Netanyahu is “one of the darkest minds on the world stage right now”
Renowned physician and author Dr Gabor Mate appeared on The Grayzone to give his opinion on Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, occupied Palestine.
He criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calling Israel’s war on the besieged strip “a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness”.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt; it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come.”
A former head of Israel’s National Security Council has called for Gaza to remain devastated for decades, openly presenting Palestinian despair and destruction as desirable outcomes after Israel’s genocide in the enclave.
-[Three fucking miysvah amigos.]
Retired Major General Giora Eiland told Israel’s 103FM radio station on Sunday that rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt; it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come,” Eiland said.
“The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction, and the greater the monument to what they did on October 7, years to come, that is good” he added.
Eiland, a secular Israeli nationalist aligned with opposition politician Avigdor Lieberman, opposes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu politically.
Yet his prescriptions for Gaza have frequently gone beyond Netanyahu’s publicly declared policies.
The face of Palantir is the Mitzvah Monster Karp!!
Jews: Harvard’s New President is a Jewish Doctor – Atlanta Jewish Times.
Harvard withheld annual raises and performance bonuses from unionized academic workers across the University this summer, prompting Harvard Law School clinical instructors to file an unfair labor practice charge late last month alleging the move violated federal labor law.
Union representatives said they knew of no Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, or Harvard Divinity School who received the raises awarded to non-union employees.
At the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, employees represented by HAW-UAW were informed by the institute’s human resources department that they would not receive the annual performance bonus or the July 1 salary increase, according to an email obtained by The Crimson.
The charge, submitted on behalf of HLS clinicians in the smaller of two bargaining units within HAW-UAW, accuses Harvard of unilaterally changing established wage practices more than two years into negotiations for an initial contract.
Note: Always the word “zionist” when in fact, 320 Jewish Billionaires are in on this one.
The success of the noxious Millennial Reich politics that’s now being pushed by the Zionists depends on politically conscious Americans staying divided and inert. For the imperialist regime to recalibrate after Iran’s victory, and pivot towards a new offensive on China, it will need to redirect popular discontent so that nothing comes from all the present outrage. The masses as a rule are against bankers’ wars; the elements pushing the assault on China are the amoral tech nerds, the Israeli transplants who need a distraction from the Gaza genocide, and the petty-bourgeois boomers who never gave up the War on Terror ideology. Therefore the only way to implement the plans for ramping up Washington’s global offensive is through rolling over what the bulk of the people want. Dissent must be crushed, and the conscious masses must not be allowed to gain collective organization.
WINNERS take all. And something about the Republicans and Trump LLC and VD Vance are cowering? The white man’s sickness a la Switzerland.
Real estate broker Bernard London coined the term “planned obsolescence” in his 1932 pamphlet, Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence, intending it as a government-forced mechanism for replacing worn goods. Although industrial designer Brooks Stevens later popularized a consumer-driven definitioReal estate broker Bernard London coined the term “planned obsolescence” in his 1932 pamphlet, Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence, intending it as a government-forced mechanism for replacing worn goods. Although industrial designer Brooks Stevens later popularized a consumer-driven definition in 1954, London is credited with the original concept during the Great Depression.n in 1954, London is credited with the original concept during the Great Depression.
As one looks to the future, it is possible to see that consumer Behaviour will be driven by three trends converging at once: the further embedding of AI decision-making into our lives, the growing psychological imperative for human connection in a world that is increasingly digitally saturated, and the growing imperative for consumers to support brands that contribute to our individual well-being, not exploit our psychological weaknesses.
Neuromarketing and Behavioural economics will continue to have more influence on how brands shape their digital environments, but only those brands that utilize this information for ethical purposes to help reduce friction and deliver actual value to consumers will be successful. Consumers of the coming years will not only reward ethical brands, but they will also punish unethical ones to the point of abandonment.
The JEWS have stolen for centuries. Thousands of years…..
Historically, Palestinian refugees have been treated as an afterthought, or worse, an inevitability.
Between 1948 and 1967, the Palestinian struggle was commonly referred to in the West as “the Arab refugee problem,” as though it were nothing more and nothing less than a question of humanitarian aid and resettlement programs, required for an amorphous group of people in the region. UNWRA was then, as it is now, almost 80 years later, the lifeline of support for around 750,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by the Nakba of 1948, with 325,000 joining their ranks in the Naksa of 1967.
The past 15 years have seen a staggering rise in the number of refugees and forcibly displaced persons globally, with 123.2 million people having been displaced (1 in every 67 people) by the end of 2024, a figure that includes 42.7 million refugees displaced across borders. Back in 2003, Al-Awda, The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, reported that “one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian.” This is probably no longer the case, not because the number of Palestinian refugees globally is lower (it is estimated now that there are 5.9 million who are eligible for UNWRA services alone), but because the global picture in general has become mind-blowingly worse.
When it comes to negotiations over Palestine, however, several decades of refugee rights have been shunted aside. During the Oslo peace process, they were relegated to final status negotiations, dealt with pragmatically and then abandoned. While some fine reports and studies were prepared for the negotiations, these never got off the ground. The “issue” of millions of lives, their rights, losses, and aspirations have been kicked into the long grass. The cramped and insalubrious conditions in the 58 camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and neighboring Arab states, where nearly six million Palestinians eke out a precarious existence, have deteriorated year by year. The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees is as pronounced as the intransigence in resolving their fate.
Violence and sieges have led to mass displacement at Nahr el Bared in northern Lebanon in 2007 (home to 31,000 refugees), as have massacres in Yarmouk camp in Syria in 2015 (home to 18,000), and recent killings in Ein el Helwah camp in southern Lebanon, where many residents of Nahr el Bared had already been displaced in 2007. This is without even mentioning the decimation of camps (Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus) in the West Bank since 2023 and the genocide in Gaza, where 66% of the population are refugees.
Resettlement, or “tawteen” in Arabic, became a dirty word, as it was construed as a negation of a right of return.
In its most recent report of July 2025, UNWRA detailed the “devastating Israeli response” following October 7, 2023, “and resulting humanitarian catastrophe” in which “at least 315 UNWRA personnel have been killed in Gaza and over 300 installations have been damaged or destroyed.” The report goes on to list additional Israeli measures to throttle the agency: the closure of the East Jerusalem office, the imposition of a “no-contact” policy, the exclusion of staff, and obstruction of aid delivery. The current funding crisis is of a radically different magnitude, following the suspension or reduction of funding by several key donors, the report continues soberly. What is being described here is a liquidation policy, not just of an agency, but of the people who have no option but to be dependent upon it. As I write, US plans for Gaza are cutting UNWRA out of humanitarian relief proposals for the Strip.
Historically, solutions for Palestinian refugees have fallen into two main camps: return or resettlement. Both options have met with considerable political intransigence. While Israel has rejected the idea of return outright, the states where most of the refugee camps are based have, in the main, prohibited resettlement. Resettlement, or “tawteen” in Arabic, became a dirty word, as it was construed as a negation of a right of return. The Arab League took a stand in the 1950s, declaring that Palestinians have both the aspiration and the right to return to their land, thus giving Arab host states an ideological basis for not naturalizing Palestinians. The idea was to keep their political identity distinct while at the same time affording them economic and social rights in their Arab host countries. And yet most states have frequently fallen short of honoring the latter part of this commitment. Jordan alone chose to grant nationality to most of the Palestinians living within its borders.
Against this background, Lena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a refreshing, robust, and comprehensive examination of one neglected and frequently misunderstood aspect of the Palestinian refugee “question”: that of reparations. The book builds, in part, on Sami Hadawi’s 1988 work, Palestinian Rights and Lossesin 1948, as well as Salman Abu Sitta’s various works mapping the possibility of return. El-Malak uses Atif Kubursi’s valuation of Palestinian material losses, which he put at US $22.5 billion in 2000. Raja Shehadeh’s seminal studies of Israeli laws that affect land expropriation in Palestine are also drawn from in the earlier chapters.
El-Malak, a technology and data privacy attorney in London, is also an expert in public international law and refugee law. She clearly delineates the focus of her research in the introduction. Only refugees from 1948 are to be considered and the questions are set out as follows:
How did Israel proceed to expropriate property belonging to 1948 Palestinian refugees? What are the legal grounds for the Palestinian refugees’ right to reparation for loss of, or damage to, property? Which legal avenues can be used by these refugees, or their legitimate representative, the observer State of Palestine, to invoke the right to reparation? What are the forms of reparation available under international law, and what are the legal obstacles to the enforcement of a right to reparation? And finally: How have Israeli-Palestinian negotiations addressed the issue of Palestinian refugee property claims?
The two main forms of reparation for property losses are restitution and compensation, with restitution being the preferred option under international law. Compensation “can only be considered an alternative to restitution if the refugees voluntarily choose compensation over restitution or when restitution is ‘factually impossible,’” writes El-Malak. And yet, she goes on to argue that “Israel’s resistance to implement return-based restitution, and the international community’s unwillingness to support restitution rights do not automatically make compensation an acceptable alternative to property restitution.”
The right to restitution goes beyond the original property owner and is passed on to their descendants. El-Malak refers here to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Pinheiro Principles, which urge states to include in their property laws all claimants legally entitled to the restitution of their housing, land, and property, including subsidiary claimants, such as “resident family members at the time of displacement, spouses, domestic partners, dependents, legal heirs, and others.” Examples as to when these principles have been applied include Bosnia, Kosovo, and South Africa. As for how reparations mechanisms might be used, El-Malak points out that mass claims tribunals offer the best venue for resolving Palestinian refugees’ property claims. The chapters of the book that focus on the implementation of property restitution, and the possibilities and challenges, and that provide various levers available to claimants, including potential lawsuits, are informative and serve as a basis for further research.
The legal obstacles are not insurmountable, says El-Malak, but it is the “political and ideological obstacles to return-based restitution that are much harder to overcome, particularly as Israel’s settler ideology continues to be one of territorial expansion and transfer.” Setting a precedent in eroding the Palestinian right to restitution risks compromising the rights of other dispossessed communities. Conversely, the provision of reparations can act as a deterrent to further injustice globally.
There are many admirable aspects of this densely researched book, not simply that the subject alone embodies an optimism of the will, given that it was published in the midst of the Gaza genocide. El-Malak untangles the Israeli government’s approach to the Nakba and expulsions of 1948, which are complicated to say the least. Israeli officials both deny and celebrate the Nakba at the same time, often using it as a threat of more to come, saying that they will have to “finish off the job.” Recently, international legal scholar Rabae Eghbariah argued that the ongoing Nakba provides a legal framework for Palestinian self-determination. Eghbariah insists on returning to the roots of the issue, pointing out that while 1948 may be receding temporally, it is more relevant now than ever. Lena El-Malak seems to agree. By contrast, the recent UNWRA report of July 2025 omits any mention of 1948, pointing not only to the scale of the divide between even sympathetic UN agencies and Palestinian claims, but also to the chasm between Palestinian legal aspirations and the overt hostility of the US government, which has openly pitted itself against the UN generally and UNWRA specifically.
Reparations should form a critical part of the Palestinian fight for international recognition, self-determination, justice, and liberation, which in turn means reinforcing the idea of the Nakba as the original wrong that needs to be righted. El-Malak’s book — to date the most comprehensive contemporary study of the subject — argues that even if international law prefers restitution over compensation as a reparation for property losses, the political refusal to allow for restitution, “does not automatically make compensation an acceptable alternative.” And “this is particularly true when the displacement and dispossession of refugees were part of a wider campaign of ethnic cleaning.” In those situations, she writes, “every effort to secure return-based restitution and reverse ethnic cleaning must be exhaustively exercised before pursuing any subsequent efforts which may rely on compensation based durable solutions to displacement.”
At a time when there is little evidence of any political will to find a solution that includes the Palestinians as equal partners in the search, many readers may question the relevance of international law at all. El-Malak anticipates this hesitation. “One of the aims of this book,” she writes, “is to draw international law into a realpolitik negotiation framework on the rights of Palestinian refugees, though international law and politics are inevitably intertwined. This is not to argue that international law is the magic formula that will bring about liberation. In fact, there is a lot of skepticism on the role of international law and valid criticism of the way in which it is used as a tool for the oppressor. It is, however, a tool that needs to be deployed more effectively, and it cannot be marginalized in the context of ‘peace’ negotiations, if and when these resume under the pretext of political realism.”
Stolen Nation deserves a wide audience, not just for those concerned with Palestine and dispossessed communities, but also for non-legal readers seeking inspiration for new routes for developing justice mechanisms in an increasingly violent and racist world. It is written with a succinctness and clarity that belies the extensive sources utilized to reach its conclusions. Restitution, El-Malak argues, is a claim that should be made, evidenced, and argued for. As El-Malak sets out, the erosion of these rights for Palestinians will have far broader consequences for global order as enshrined by international law. Which makes Palestinian rights an issue of fundamental importance throughout the world.
…and yet, we have a thousand pundits STILL yammering about Trump and his Jew Party and the Unbearable Genocide of Palestine . . . Coming to a Family and Town and Nation Near You.
The revised suit built on an earlier complaint that asked the same judge, Leonie M. Brinkema, to block another measure that arose from the dismissal of the president’s complaint against the I.R.S.: a $1.8 billion fund intended to use taxpayer money to compensate Trump supporters who claimed they were the victims of political prosecutions.
The plaintiffs in the original suit targeting the fund — including a former federal prosecutor who was fired after working on cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — asserted that they had been wronged by the Trump administration. They argued that they would be prevented from filing claims with the fund because it was devised to compensate people who said they were harmed by Democratic administrations.
Judge Brinkema ultimately barred the fund from moving forward in June, ruling that even though Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, had said it was dead, Mr. Trump himself had repeatedly suggested that it could still be enacted. Now, the National Treasury Employees Union has joined the suit, adding complaints about the tax protections, which prohibit audits of tax returns that the president, the Trump Organization and two of his sons have already filed.
On 5 August 2026 I was on “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis, where we talked mainly about the Ukraine war. We focused on the mounting evidence that the Russians have gained the upper hand over Ukraine both on the battlefield and the in the air war. Russia’s success at closing down the Odesa ports and effectively turning Ukraine into a landlocked country is an especially devastating blow to Ukraine, since it is economy is so dependent on exports and imports that go across the Black Sea. It is almost impossible at this point to tell a plausible story about how Ukraine rescues the situation.
Why Ukraine didn’t shut this war down long ago is a mystery to Danny and me, as Kyiv’s situation only gets worse with the passage of time. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Danny’s show is that he relishes putting up footage of retired generals and admirals spouting nonsense on TV about both the Iran war and the Ukraine war. He did not disappoint this time.
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So, Jew Zelensky and his Jew Ukrainians, they aren’t just using Ukraine as a meat grinder and training and proving ground for the Jews running AI, tech, surveillance, drones, etc.?
Remember, Aisle Five? The people I am working with at Fred Meyer- man, oh man- a complete shit show, lack of staff, people staying on the job for 8, 9, 10, 12 hours a day. One fellow says he’d be better off living in his van doing Uber Eats or DoorDash or some such Jewish Directed Billionaire Making Bank Off Dumb Goyim Fucking “thing.”
It is much, much worse than Anne Larson’s book reveals:
We are talking the Deli and deep-fried shit area and sandwich makers, and cheese and meat cutters. Lack of people helping so we run around like fucking war zone. soon=to=be=victims. Supply chain issues, out on the coast rural market issues, and people wanting their pudding even if they don’t get their meat.
Meaningless headlines like this below for millions, tens of millions of Americans STRUGGLING and considered the true wretched of the earth, the nobodies.
Israeli universities form part of the wider intelligence ecosystem through research, graduates, and seminars conducted with the security services and military. They produce personnel, assess institutional performance – as they have done since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood – and examine intelligence work in detail.
The Second Annual Israeli Conference on Intelligence Studies, held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on 28–29 October 2025 under the title “Intelligence Transformations After Failure,” is one open example. No comparable body of work has emerged from Arab and Islamic institutions.
Accounts from current and former security practitioners, alongside cases involving agents both living and dead, reveal an intelligence pyramid: a layered system of recruitment, cultivation, and deployment built around the value of the intelligence sought and the risks demanded of each spy.
Spill on Aisle Five? Resistance, my ass — the Jews are taking numbers and advancing tools to stifle and kill us . . . We are Soylent Green, or soon to be.
The devastating consequences of Western imperialist adventurism and capitalist climate negligence have culminated in a severe global crisis, with food prices hitting their highest level in three and a half years. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the food commodity price index climbed to 131.1 points in July, its peak since January 2023.
While Western media attempts to frame this as an unavoidable natural phenomenon, the reality is starkly different: the starvation of the Global South is being directly engineered by US-led wars of aggression and NATO proxy conflicts.
This implicates Great Britain, the United States, as well as the President and First Lady of Ukraine.
As of March 31, 2026, Congress has approved roughly $195 billion tied to the war in Ukraine. And that doesn’t even include the additional $20 billion loan the United States handed Ukraine in 2024.
That is an astonishing amount of taxpayer money being shipped overseas for a war that has never posed a direct threat to the United States.
Nearly five years into this conflict, neither the Biden administration nor the Trump administration has given the public a clear explanation of what victory actually looks like, how long this war is expected to last, or why there never seems to be an end in sight.
The money, however, never seems to stop. Every new aid package means more contracts, more weapons, and more money flowing through the same political and defense circles that have profited from foreign wars for decades.
At this point, I think it’s more than fair to ask whether that’s the real purpose of war in the first place.
Ukraine has emerged as a state that makes money by selling children, and it started long before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Child trafficking in Ukraine is a massive illegal enterprise, wrote Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament), on his Telegram channel. “Children often find themselves in very difficult situations: they become victims of crimes, including the sale of organs.”
Ukraine is a state that profits by selling children.
FUCKING JAPAN NOW!!!!
Something about Jews, maybe everywhere. This is what they export now.
Israel’s Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals
The escalated abuse against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya following a legal challenge to his detention has sent a chilling message to the families of detained medical workers in Gaza.
The stain is all the way up or down to Shrek: Fetterman wins praise for ‘guts’ after going toe-to-toe with Jon Stewart over Israel support
Pennsylvania senator has suggested that lack of support for Jewish state would be his breaking point to leaving the party
God, this is the DAILY fucking Jew show. My god, Multimillionaire Leibowitz, having a nice chat with a fucking Goyim.
“I mean no disrespect on this, but that is not our country,” Stewart said in the exchange. “You’re saying that these candidates may have great ideas for our economy. They may want to do the exact same thing you want to do, in terms of getting money out of politics. They may want to increase the social safety net. They may want to change the balance of power from capital back to labor, but if they don’t agree with you on Israel, you don’t want them in your party?”
Fetterman asked Stewart to give him some examples, to which Stewart listed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as Democratic figures who have criticized Israel. Fetterman clarified that he meant politicians who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) should run as their own party rather than “colonizing” the Democratic Party.
Stewart dismissed this argument, comparing DSA members to Republican members of the House Freedom Caucus.
“And I’m assuming there’s probably things in the Democratic platform that you might disagree with, but you don’t disavow the entire thing. You’re literally saying, ‘We can all have discussions, except when it comes to Israel,’ which is not America. It seems like a weird line to draw,” Stewart said.
More fucking performances:
It is all in their EYES and the soulless smirks. Jews of the State of Deception, Lies and Murder!!!!!!!!!
Mossad Director Gofman removes two senior officials over failure to replace Iranian regime – report
The officials are the head of the Mossad’s Intelligence Directorate, who entered the position in December, and the head of the agency’s Iran division. Neither official was named in the report.
Citing Gaza war, pharma firm Teva seeks to keep its Israeli origins from US jury
Drug giant asks judge to stop insurer Humana from sharing information during trial, saying it has no bearing on allegations it took part in plot to inflate generic drug prices
Ahh, those millionaire lawyers on your side! Capitalism with a capital CORRUPTION.
Johnny come marching, err, shaving home again. Fucking hellish USA: Both sailors and Marines with medical waivers for facial hair grooming standards will be counseled after six continuous months of treatment.
Oh, those NEPO Jews: Michael Dell’s son built a $13 billion home battery business—and he’s going on 30 years old.
Oh, the United Snakes of Israel, man . . . The power of mercenaries and hitmen . . . . The identity of special operations troops could soon get the same legal protections as spies and other intelligence agents. A proposal in the new national defense bill would extend laws intended to protect the identities of secret agents to military troops in “sensitive units” and those designated by the Secretary of Defense.
Ahh, more insignificant news for billions of people: Allianz Posts Lower Net Profit Amid Portfolio Reshuffle
Group operating profit rose to a new record €4.87 billion
Always shit coming out of the White Man’s Minyan . . .
A federal appeals court on Friday said the Trump White House lacks the authority to unilaterally construct a new 90,000-square-foot ballroom where the East Wing once stood, finding that the $400 million project requires congressional approval.
President Trump quickly said he would appeal the ruling directly to the Supreme Court, setting up a showdown before the justices over the ballroom’s controversial construction.
You getting it yet? Van down by the river? Ain’t enough aisles in a day to clean up, suckers!
From the fucking ILLEGITIMATE Jerusalem Post: Self-determination lies with the Falkland islanders, and sovereignty lies with the UK – opinion
At the heart of Argentina’s illegitimate claim over the Falkland Islands is a historical falsehood. British sovereignty over the islands dates back to 1765, before the Argentine Republic even existed
MAGA cuntology!
Oh, those JEWS. Data center designed to use up to 3 million gallons on Salem’s hottest days
Verrus, the Google-funded company proposing the data center, told Salem Reporter the figures represent a “reference point for expected water consumption” of the entire data center campus “and represent what the maximum water consumption might be on the hottest day in recorded history … and the hottest year in recorded history.”
The Jews would pick an incestuous pedophile for their data centers NAME: Soon after the emperors’ accession, Marcus’s eleven-year-old daughter, Annia Lucilla, was betrothed to Lucius Verus (in spite of the fact that he was her uncle). At the ceremonies commemorating the event, new provisions were made for the support of poor children, along the lines of earlier imperial foundation. Marcus and Lucius proved popular with the people of Rome, who strongly approved of their civiliter (lacking pomp) behavior.
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WHICH FUCKING HOUSING UNIT ABOVE DO YOU PREFER BEFORE GOING TO WORK AT A GROCERY CHAIN?
Ahh, the Jew Show, SNL, making bank on pain:
Endless worthless people getting worthless airtime while those servers and data centers and AI data thieves work overtime.
Sickening, to the point of the average fucking Westerner has NO Where to Turn to Repel these Jewish Billionaires and their Eichmann Talmudist Millionaires and Assortment of Goyim
This analysis does not seek to assign moral responsibility for the war or to predict its precise military outcome. It examines how the conflict is transforming the strategic geography of Europe and the wider Eurasian system. Now, we are watching the war Europe cannot afford to win—or lose.
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More soul and reality in his one speech than a million fucking lectures and conferences and books by the West.
The months that have passed between the previous Regular Session, in December 2025, and the one we are now closing have been marked by an extremely complex and threatening scenario, reminiscent of a besieged fortress.
Since the treacherous military aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of its legitimate president on January 3 of this year, the concept of a world based on laws is being completely erased, threatening to transform the planet into a far more anarchic and insecure place than it already was as a consequence of the ferocious advance of neoliberal capitalism.
The neo-fascist regime currently in power in the United States is shamelessly repeating some of the horrors unleashed by German fascism in its expansionist zeal during the first half of the 20th century.
The points of convergence between these two regimes are becoming increasingly alarmingly dangerous for the fate of humanity and world peace.
Xenophobia, nationalist exceptionalism, lies as an instrument of domination, the cult of personality, the proscription of opposing ideologies, the trampling of cultures, the conquest of territories and the plundering of their natural resources, or the collective punishment of large human populations do not distinguish, but rather increasingly link Hitlerian fascism with which it is showing signs of re-emergence.
Horrors of genocide in Gaza
Let us not forget that a part of the world looked the other way as the horrors of the genocide unfolded in Gaza, and history will forever remember the impunity and cruelty with which this people are still being massacred and their culture is being threatened.
United Nations agencies estimate that between 75,000 and 90,000 inhabitants of the Gaza Strip lost their lives as a result of the war. Around 60% of the victims are innocent women and children, in addition to the more than 10,000 who remain missing under the rubble of bombed buildings.
Not satisfied with their depravity, the perpetrators of this crime caused a population displacement of almost 2 million people to a small strip of land measuring approximately 35 to 40 square kilometers, raising the population density to extreme levels of between 30,000 and 40,000 people per square kilometer — something unsustainable in terms of shelter, water, sanitation and healthcare.
It is essential and urgent to recognize the gravity of the situation: any of our nations could become Gaza again. While this genocide has not entirely ceased, there is an attempt to repeat it against more than 9 million Cubans through an economic blockade and an energy embargo, which have brought the suffering of the Cuban people to extreme levels, practically incompatible with the basic needs of modern life.
U.S. energy embargo = collective punishment
And this is the rot gut AmeriKKKa, in a nutshell, or nutty personage: Robert Wallace has built his political identity around opposing LGBTQ+ rights, despite being an openly gay man himself. He says he’s against identity politics, but has lead identity-based conservative groups. He says he values freedom, but is vehemently for banning books. Those are just some of the confusing contradictions around this politically fringe figure who has received endorsements from sitting lawmakers.
Valiant but wrong:
“Is Iran truly on the verge of delivering the final blow, or is the occupation regime quietly stockpiling for a six-month war of attrition? Professor Sayed Marandi claims the days of the Zionist entity are numbered, citing leaked Iranian military strategies and new weaponry that have left Netanyahu paralyzed with fear. But is the occupation really deterred, or are they merely buying time to unleash a devastating counter-offensive?
In this hard-hitting breakdown, we expose the truth behind the stalled war, the demolition of villages in Lebanon, and Iran’s master plan to bypass the American naval blockade through a game-changing new overland route connecting Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Chabahar Port. While Washington plays its freedom of navigation games in the straits, Tehran is building roads through the mountains—turning economic siege into strategic defeat.
“Charles and David Koch should not be blamed for having more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans put together. Nor should they be condemned for their petrochemical empire. As far as I know, they’ve played by the rules and obeyed the laws.” —Robert Reich, in hisblog article (it was before May 28, 2013, not sure of its exact date), since taken down but preserved by me in a screen shot of it here and for your convenience also in this footnote.1
Today I received an email from Reich with the following words:
Jamie Dimon
In the spring of 2018, Jamie Dimon phoned me at my office at the University of California, Berkeley. I had criticized him publicly, and he was not pleased. He sounded off on the phone for several minutes without stopping.
Dimon has a great deal of influence over the system. He heads the largest bank on Wall Street, JPMorganChase, which survived the 2008 financial crisis better than any other big bank. After the crisis, The New York Times gave Dimon the back-handed compliment of being “America’s least-hated banker.” He has also headed the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group of the most powerful CEOs in America. He is featured regularly on cable news and in the business press. His opinions carry significant weight on Capitol Hill.
Dimon describes himself as “a patriot before I’m the CEO of JPMorgan.” He is a lifelong Democrat. He admirably speaks out about the injustices and inequalities of contemporary America. He is not just talk. He has pushed his bank to invest in poor cities and to create better opportunities for the disadvantaged.
I believe he’s sincere. But he is awash in self-delusion, a condition especially dangerous in people who have significant power over others.
Dimon doesn’t see how he has contributed to the mess we’re in. He doesn’t acknowledge the inconsistencies between his preferred self-image as “patriot first” and his roles as CEO of America’s largest bank and former chairman of the Business Roundtable. He doesn’t understand how he has hijacked the system.
Dimon is emblematic of an abdication of public responsibility to maintain the health of our political-economic system at a moment when a comparative few at the top have more power over it than at any time in over a century.
They have used their power to give themselves unprecedented wealth, which has bought them even more power. They have justified their wealth and power as being in the interest of the public, but the public has been shafted.
Reich’s theme is that there is nothing wrong, per se, with a few individuals having “unprecedented wealth, which has bought them even more power” as long as they do not abdicate their “public responsibility to maintain the health of our political-economic system.”
Reich finds nothing objectionable, per se, in extreme economic/political class inequality; he just insists that the rich and powerful act nicely, so that the public is not “shafted.”
Aside from the enormous injustice per se of extreme wealth/political inequality (which Reich is absurdly ok with) there is the fact that it leads INEVITABLY to the “shafting” of the public. It leads inevitably to the have-nots being treated like dirt because the only way that a very rich and powerful and privileged upper class can maintain its unequal status in society is precisely by treating the have-nots like dirt, as I discuss in detail here. If the upper class ever stopped treating the have-nots like dirt then it would hasten the day when the have-nots remove that upper class from power. The rich understand this; as I demonstrate here the rich have no moral qualms about treating the have-nots like dirt, even committing mass murder of the have-nots. The rich actually think it is their moral duty—to preserve ‘civilization’ and prevent its demise at the hands of the ‘mob’—to do this!
My Comment:
A certain supremacist and forked tongue and outsized influence tradition?
Other Notable Jewish Economists:
Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist known for his work in New International Trade and New Economic Geography.
Milton Friedman: Nobel Prize-winning leader of the Chicago School of economics and prominent advocate for free-market capitalism.
Alan Greenspan: Macroeconomist and long-serving Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Larry Summers: Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president known for his work in public finance and macroeconomics.
Joseph Stiglitz: Former Chief Economist of the World Bank and Nobel laureate known for his fierce critiques of unbridled globalization and free-market fundamentalism.
Janet Yellen: The first woman to serve as both Chair of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Secretary, with a strong focus on maximizing employment.
Gary Becker: A Nobel laureate who expanded economic analysis into human behavior, including crime, family dynamics, and education.
Richard Thaler: A pioneer in behavioral economics who won the Nobel Prize for proving that human beings do not always make rational economic decisions.
David Ricardo: A 19th-century classical economist who developed the foundational law of comparative advantage, which continues to guide modern global trade theory.
Ben Bernanke: Federal Reserve Chair during the 2008 financial crisis, awarded the Nobel Prize for his academic research on the Great Depression and monetary policy.
Back to Astore, the LTC, Retired, Air Force Bombing Mercenaries:
10. The abandonment of the citizen-soldier tradition in the U.S., the embrace of a warrior ethos, and the increasing contempt for diversity within the military.
The last war America won (with serious help from allies like the Soviet Union) was World War II, also the last time America had a true citizen-soldier military. Since then, America has increasingly embraced a warrior ethos. And while diversity used to be a hallmark of the U.S. military, it is now under attack as “woke” by Pete Hegseth.
There you have it: ten signs of America’s increasingly militarized madness. Greater sanity would involve the reversal of all of these.
My Comments:
So all of that good work by The General, THAT Butler, just dust to the wind of time?
Citizen Soldier? Vietnam? Korea? Give it up, retired Air ‘Guernica’ Force Bomber, give it up.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
― Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket
30 million Chinese and Russians dead because of that bankers’ WWII. ‘Saving Private Ryan’ my ass. Saving Rothschilds, for sure / / / / / Standrd Oil / / / /
Thin Red Line for sure……………………
You get it yet? This is 2026, and this is the fucking world we give our kiddos and grandkiddos! Everything is war, is soldiering, is military, is what it is, mercenaries of death for the Racket. According to three people familiar with internal stockpile data, the US has used virtually all of its ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles, weapons that cost more than $1 million each and take years to build, and CENTCOM has nearly exhausted the land-based missiles it had when the war began, reloading by stripping US stocks around the world, including the interceptors we pulled out of South Korea.
Emmett Till memorial, others taking security steps amid vandalism
“When a memorial to victims of brutality and violence is met with brutality and violence, it strikes a chilling nerve and shows how far we have to go.”
This is MAGA Country before the Pedophile’s RISE”
“When a memorial to victims of brutality and violence is met with brutality and violence, it strikes a chilling nerve and shows how far we have to go,” Alderman added.
Jose Vega, deputy director for Oklahomans for Equality in Tulsa, said the advocacy group’s offices are a frequent target of vandalism. In July, surveillance video caught a man spray-painting the word “abomination” over a mural dedicated to gay playwright Lynn Riggs.
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.” The Black teenager’s brutal murder, as well as his open-casket funeral that displayed his mutilated body, shocked the United States in 1955 and became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement. If Till had lived, he would be just over 85 years old today.
What if all those Palestinians and those Iranian girls had lived, uh? Will we ask the question in a decade? In 20 years? In 70 years?
And yet, here we are, STILL, with pedophiles and sex traffickers and human smugglers and rapists>
A new bombshell report from Senator Ron Wyden reveals that JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America systematically failed to report Jeffrey Epstein’s suspicious transactions for nearly two decades despite knowing he was a convicted sex offender with ties to human trafficking and now, the Trump Administration is covering it up. JPMorgan filed just seven SARs totaling $4.3 million between 2002 and 2016, then retroactively flagged over 5,000 wire transfers worth $1.3 billion only after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, six years after the bank had already terminated him as a client in 2013 over money laundering concerns. Deutsche Bank, which took over as Epstein’s primary bank from 2013 until his death, similarly waited until after his arrest to flag $250 million in suspicious transfers, despite compliance staff catching his attorney Darren Indyke repeatedly asking how to withdraw cash without triggering government alerts. Bank of America waved through $170 million in wire transfers from billionaire Leon Black to Epstein for supposed “tax advice,” only flagging them as having “no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose” nearly eight months after Epstein’s arrest.
Leon Black was overwhelmingly Epstein’s largest funding source, providing 90% of the roughly $184 million in revenue Epstein’s shell company Southern Trust reported between 2013 and 2017, and USVI’s settlement with Black explicitly states Epstein used that money to partly fund his sex trafficking operations there. Top JPMorgan executives, including Mary Erdoes (now the bank’s Asset and Wealth Management CEO) and Jes Staley (former investment bank CEO), maintained close personal contact with Epstein for years, with unsealed emails showing Staley telling Epstein “say hello to Snow White” and wanting to give him a “long heartfelt hug,” while a 2012 exchange between two executives joked about the “nymphettes” at Epstein’s house. Even after JPMorgan formally cut ties with Epstein in 2013, Erdoes personally approved continuing to work with him informally so he could keep serving as an intermediary to Leon Black, and banker John Duffy coached Epstein on withdrawing cash through his aviation account instead of personal accounts to avoid scrutiny.
Despite these findings, virtually none of the bankers involved have faced consequences, Erdoes remains employed with total compensation exceeding $50 million this year, and most others named in the report still hold senior positions at JPMorgan or Bank of America. The report also reveals that Senator Wyden taped an interview about this investigation with then-60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi in March 2026, but CBS News leadership under Bari Weiss fired Alfonsi shortly afterward and the segment has not aired. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has refused three separate requests to turn over the Treasury’s Epstein files to the Senate Finance Committee, even though the same records were reportedly given to the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, and Senate Republicans, including Finance Chair Mike Crapo, blocked Wyden’s bill (PETRA) that would have forced their release.
Wyden’s report calls for DOJ and Treasury investigations into all three banks and named executives, criminal probes into Epstein aides Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn and Harry Beller (who control his $100 million estate and remain unquestioned by DOJ), and new legislation requiring annual compliance attestations from banks serving ultra-wealthy clients, harsher penalties for bankers who fail to report suspicious activity, and mandatory disclosure when banks quietly offboard high-risk clients. Total settlements paid out by the banks and Epstein’s estate related to his crimes now exceed $900 million, but Wyden notes this figure is likely understated given evidence of dozens or possibly hundreds of additional secret NDA settlements between victims and wealthy Epstein associates that have never been made public.
Here we are, Murder Spree USA USA USA:
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
“They are murder victims,” the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump.
Sen. Kaine is right to call our attention back to the president’s ongoing murder spree. I would emphasize that the government has no right to take anyone’s life because of alleged ties to drug trafficking. It bears repeating that everyone killed in these boat strikes is a murder victim. Some of them have been fishermen, and some may have been victims of human trafficking, but they are all victims of a mindless campaign of summary executions carried out on the president’s illegal orders.
Max got this right:
“Narration of ruin” is practically a job description for many people these days.
My friend, the brilliant revolutionary and Hawaiian sovereignty activist Keala Kelly channeled the anger that myself and many others share about this in her recent essay excoriating the decline of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement in the face of relentless settler-colonial tourism and militarism in Hawaii. She writes:
“Every inch of Hawai‘i is a crime scene, and justice is on the side of an unnamed road, thumb outstretched, looking for a ride to anywhere but here… The Hawaiian world is deeply fractured and being actively carved up… And I am not willing to narrate our ruin like a journalist with no conscience or an umpire calling strikes and outs.”
“Narration of ruin” is practically a job description for many people these days.
Keala’s bone-deep rage, and the commitment to action that it engenders, mirrors my own. I’ve been terrified in the face of ecological apocalypse since I was 12. The crisis came to my attention not by reading reports or watching videos, but because I was embedded in a youth activist group and surrounded by people who were actively trying to change the world for the better. That was more than 25 years ago. In the intervening time, as our world has become increasingly dominated by the internet, I have observed the rise of the armchair analyst. They must have existed beforehand, but these days, they are a dime a dozen: people who write, host podcasts, post on social media, or work as journalists covering the industrial-scale destruction of nature without actually doing anything to stop it. They are narrators of ruin, and there are many of them here on Substack.
To be clear: some of these people are my friends, and I believe that education is important. Some people face real limitations preventing them from taking action. But most of us do not. Our limitations are self-imposed. They are imaginary. They stem from our fear.
The destruction of the planet is not simply a mistake or an accident that we can educate people out of; it’s a deliberately-constructed material arrangement of economic systems, machinery, energy flows, and systems of power which can be confronted and dismantled. Yes, it has an ideological superstructure supporting it and emerging from it, and the two components, material and ideological, are mutually reinforcing. But the material is primary.
Too many of us are content to believe that raising awareness — or having our own mind changed by the things we read or watch — is enough.
It’s not.
As Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us in his brilliant book Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, “Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?”
Endless classes I have taught, and endless events I have organized. Winona LaDuke, William Kunstler, Sonia Shaw, and dozens and dozens. I wrote about these people and showed documentaries to students and entire towns, and alas, the revolution will never be on a TV screen or projected onto an auditorium screen.
Bioneers is cool, but there is never a call to action. Eco-Raiders? Fucking we just need to do little and big acts of militancy, fire to fire, broken lamps, hacked systems. Anything, just to feel human again.
Oh thou art a Flock or Ring camera.
More blips:
For 37 years, the Bioneers Conference has been a gathering place for those working to defend the web of life and build a more just, life-honoring world. The challenges we face are immense and ongoing, but every step forward matters, especially in difficult times.
This March in Berkeley, connect with visionary thinkers and doers — activists, scientists, artists, educators, Indigenous leaders, community organizers, and more — who are shaping solutions to address the most critical issues of our time.
Through inspiring talks, deep discussions, hands-on workshops, the world-renowned Indigenous Forum, youth programs, art and performance, and countless opportunities for collaboration, Bioneers 2026 will reignite our shared energy, creativity, and commitment to change. It’s never been more important to harness our collective wisdom, connections, and resilience to build the future we want to see. We hope to see you March 26–28 in Berkeley.
The origin of the word courage is the Latin word “cor,” which means “heart.” We need more courage in this time. More heart. More love. Because that is what overcomes fear and carries us to action. That is what gives us the strength to sacrifice for something bigger than ourselves.
This is a challenge to all the writers, podcasters, live streamers, social media users, keyboard warriors, narrators of ruin, and resistance media consumers out there: put down your phone. Shut off your computer. And try to find some way to change the world, physically, here and now. Build a revolutionary movement. Take direct action. Stop the flow of fossil fuels. Defend a forest or other natural place. Battle a data center or housing development. Find what you love, and defend it.
Raising awareness is not enough.
We need action.
Jesus, there are thousands upon thousands of us writing away, posting away, and alas, it is a hard day’s journey.
And until we start chopping off heads, then there will be no revolution:
As the self-proclaimed ex-jew, Gilad Atzmon once said,
Anti-Semitism used to mean people who didn’t like Jewish people, but now it’s reserved for those whom the Jews don’t like.”
Gilad, again . . . “Finkelstein is almost correct here.”
Netanyahu is, indeed, a symptom but not the disease. But so is the Jewish State. It is a symptom, not the disease. It is a symptom of tribal, racist, genocidal supremacy; it is a manifestation of every ‘Jewish characteristic’ (early) Zionism (believe it or not) promised to eradicate and failed completely. In fact, it did the opposite-it actually inflated the symptoms into a genocidal reality.
Yet the approval rate of Netanyahu in the Jewish State and amongst world Jewry isn’t far off (30-40%). If Finkelstein is correct, if the problem is the whole of Israeli society (as a whole), shouldn’t the same rule apply to world Jewry as a whole?
I obviously take a different line to Finkelstein. I dissect the elements at the core of Jewish identification. In my book, being born a Jew isn’t a problem. Identifying religiously as a Jew isn’t necessarily the problem. Identifying politically as a Jew is always a problem as Jewishness is a blood-oriented identity; you are considered a Jew if your mother is one. Jews are not a race, but the Jewish identitarian ideology is racist to the core.
The Jewish political identification echoes the Hitlerian demand for Germans to act politically as Aryans. I regard all biologically oriented identitarian politics in a negative light. If there was something I love about the old good left, it is that past attempt to unite the working class regardless of gender, race, and religion!
Hitler wanted Germans to act politically as Aryans. Zionism expected Jews to act politically as Jews.
The embarrassing fact in that regard is that Zionism predated Hitler by more than two decades (or maybe 2500 years, it depends how you count)… (G.A.)
Gilad Atzmon:
A window into AZZ’s duplicitous mind
Yesterday my favourite Jewish solidarity caricature announced on this page that he is actually happy with me dissecting his thoughts in the open. I am thankful to Ian Berman as it makes me feel less guilty exposing him and his fake solidarity. Berman is an important voice, not because he is clever or influential or even has something to say; he is clumsy enough to speak loudly, exposing the duplicitous Judeo-centric drive at the heart of Jewish ‘solidarity.’ He is a window into the symptom.
The Jewish ‘Anti’ Zionist expresses here his true concern, and it isn’t the Palestinians who are subject to a systematic genocide. It is obviously the safety of his fellow American Jews.
In case you didn’t realise yet, AIPAC, JStreet, and also JVP are symptoms, not the disease. They all put into play the teaching of The Book of Esther. The one Old Testament text excluded from the New Testament.
The Book of Esther teaches Jews how to infiltrate host nations’ leadership and control their decisions making so they fit with Jewish interests. AIPAC controls both houses; JStreet picks the leftover. JVP operates as a lobby group within the solidarity movement; it polices the language, the ideology, the tone, the objectives. It makes sure we attack the Z and never look into the J. Consequently, the discourse of the oppressed is shaped by the sensitivities of the oppressor.
As I repeatedly mentioned on this page before, the Jewish ‘anti’-Zionist (AKA AZZ) task is to obscure Jewish accountability for the crimes committed by the Jewish State. They will do whatever they can to divert attention from the religion, the culture, and the spirit that drives the genocide. They will suffocate you with their misleading terminology and ‘explanations’. They will blame colonialism, apartheid, ‘Christian Zionists’, whiteness, and now it is the ‘rich Zionist Jews’—as if it is the rich who are the ones who murder Palestinians on a daily basis in Gaza and the West Bank.
What about the 20th century’s greatest mass killers such as Oppenheimer, Yagoda, and Fritz Haber? They were neither particularly rich nor were they Zionists. Is it really the money, or is it something else far deeper?
We are dealing with a unique form of entitlement and impunity mixed with a complete lack of ethics —a combination of traits the AZZ aren’t free of. They feel entitled enough to interfere with the discourse of the oppressed and shape it to fit their own tribal sensitivities.
One should wonder: are the AZZ the solution? Or are they a continuation of the problem? I actually believe that they are at the core of the problem. The one good thing good Jews could do is point to the Jewish and Judaic element that made the Jewish State what it is. This is the one thing they never do! They have never done. It is the one thing they are there to conceal!
Finally, when this AZZ speaks about people getting “thrown out of their country”, is he referring to his own people being thrown from every land they ever inflicted themselves upon, or is he referring to the Palestinians being expelled from their own land only? I ask because he himself refrains from telling us…
We are fucking being played by the Jews, by the White Man’s Minyan, by all those freaks in celebrity culture who dare to say the inconsequential term antisemitism when defending murderers, rapists, thieves, squatters, human traffickers, organ merchants. (G.A.)
The Burning Spear newspaper is the official press of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). The oldest Black Power newspaper in existence, The Spear has published without interruption since the 1960s. Known as the “Voice of the International African Revolution,” The Spear carries dynamic articles on the most pressing issues affecting the lives of African workers in the U.S., in Africa and around the world. This is the only place you can find real political analysis of the crisis of parasitic capitalism, insight into world and local events, and a focus on the realities and struggles in the heart of the ‘hood.
On its pages, The Spear tells you how to get organized, how to struggle and how to win. The Spear puts out the real truth and fights for one liberated and united Africa as the birthright of African people everywhere. TheBurningSpear.com is the online edition of the newspaper.
The Burning Spear’s mission is to give voice to the struggles of the African working class from around the world, to unite and inform the struggles of African people and forward the International African Revolution.
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations and progenitor of hasbara, agnotology, fake news, spin, and of course, Israel, man, the big lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
260 million to 300 million people worldwide have died prematurely from tobacco use and cigarette smoke, combining the 100 million deaths recorded in the 20th century with over 160 million deaths accumulated since the year 2000.
Edward Bernays used mass psychology to rebrand cigarettes for the American Tobacco Company, turning smoking into a tool for weight loss and a symbol of women’s liberation.
PRSA San Diego/Imperial Counties: Presents the Edward L. Bernays Mark of Excellence Awards to local agencies, businesses, and solo practitioners.
Gold Coast PR Council: Presents the Bernays Awards to recognize public relations and marketing excellence throughout South Florida
Motherfucker should have been sent to the gallows, and all that money and all that multiple product lying the tobacco companies deplpyed, machetes to the fucking head, not fucking awards.
The early days of Bernays’s career are spent as a Broadway press agent, which eventually brings him together with leaders of the arts and entertainment communities including notables Enrico Caruso, Florenz Ziegfeld and Nijinsky. (Bernays is standing at far right.)
Dirty Jewish Tricks…. Bernays was asked to bring a celebrity group to visit the White House and demonstrate Coolidge’s “warm, sympathetic personality.” He decided that “stage people symbolize warmth, extroversion, and Bohemian camaraderie,” and set up a star-studded breakfast at the White House. He arranged for a group of actors to take the midnight train from New York to Washington after they finished their shows. The cast included Al Jolson, Ed Wynn, The Dolly Sisters, Charlotte Greenwood, Raymond Hitchcock, and other big stars of the time.
Mrs. Coolidge greeted the guests. “I have met you all across the footlights,” she said, “but it’s not the same as greeting you here.” The President was not quite as welcoming. “He was practically inarticulate, and no movement of any kind agitated his deadpan face,” Bernays said later.
When the group lined up for breakfast photos, the President remained as grim as ever. After breakfast, the group moved to the White House lawn where Al Jolson sang “Keep Coolidge,” which he had composed for the occasion. Everybody sang — except for the President.
Despite Coolidge’s demeanor, celebrity star power seems to have worked. Newspaper headlines reported, “Actor Eats Cake with the Coolidges…President Nearly Laughs…Guests Crack Dignified Jokes, Sing Song and Pledge To Support Coolidge.”
Probably no one looked at Coolidge again in the same way.
George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company and an eccentric businessman, recognized that an important part of his market was not being tapped into. Hill believed that cigarette sales would soar if he could entice more women to smoke in public.
In 1928 Hill hired Bernays to expand the sales of his Lucky Strike cigarettes. Recognizing that women were still riding high on the suffrage movement, Bernays used this as the basis for his new campaign. He consulted Dr. A.A. Brill, a psychoanalyst, to find the psychological basis for women smoking. Dr. Brill determined that cigarettes which were usually equated with men, represented torches of freedom for women. The event caused a national stir and stories appeared in newspapers throughout the country. Though not doing away with the taboo completely, Bernays’s efforts had a lasting effect on women smoking.
CANCER on the world. At 103 fucking years old.
Women are “free” to die under the banner of Jews and their neuroperversity:
Israel and the US exploited the Ceuta crisis. But did their involvement go further?
All of this matters because Morocco is a close ally of both Israel and the United States, with deep economic, military, intelligence and security ties to both countries.
Morocco is one of the Arab and African countries closest to the US. It’s a major non-NATO ally which buys vast quantities of US weapons and host of African Lion, AFRICOM’s largest annual military exercise. Its security services have a strong relationship with US intelligence and law enforcement. It has a free trade agreement which underpins annual goods trade worth $7.4 billion a year.
In 2020, Morocco normalised diplomatic relations with Israel. Israel gained security access and influence in North Africa, while Morocco acquired Israeli weapons and defence technology, along with expanded intelligence and cybersecurity cooperation.
In November 2021, Israel and Morocco signed a defence memorandum establishing a formal framework for intelligence cooperation, military exercises, defence-industrial collaboration, Israeli arms sales and exchanges between the two countries’ security apparatuses.
In April 2026, the Israeli news outlet Ynet published an article headlined: “Abraham Accords reach the Strait: how Israel can help Morocco reclaim its north.”
It was written by a Morocco-based analyst affiliated with the hard-right US-based Middle East Forum, which has previously supported the far-right British figure Tommy Robinson.
The article described developments in Washington as the “architecture of a coordinated strategic repositioning”. It argued that Israel was uniquely placed to help Morocco exploit Spain’s deteriorating relationships with Washington and Jerusalem.
The author proposed three roles for Israel:
direct diplomatic signalling in support of Morocco’s position;
lobbying and amplification within Washington;
repeated attacks on Spain as hypocritical for criticising Israeli territorial policy while retaining Ceuta and Melilla.
Owen Jones, sorta milquetoast.
Jews hate this organization…
In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle: A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left
The recent declaration of war published by the U.S. fascist state attacking Cuba and its allies serves as a glaring call for urgent and strategic unity among the targeted organizations, the broadest sectors of the U.S. left, and all people of conscience. It comes as no surprise that a scrambling empire would see organized, sustained resistance that refuses to silently accommodate its lawless, genocidal attacks on human rights globally as a credible threat. Directly out of their imperialist playbook, it is quite clear that this is an attempt to criminalize Cuba’s existence while intentionally omitting the actual cause of suffering for the Cuban people – the decades-long blockade systematically depriving them of food, medicine, and fuel, designed to strangle the revolution by all available means.
Although the report’s intention is not new, it provides renewed consideration of the question of what is to be done. That is, in its naming of various “guilty parties” among the U.S. left, it reiterates who has been, and will continue to be, on the cutting edge of repression. Both in its historical references to African revolutionaries like Assata Shakur and Kwame Ture, and recalling the nationwide opposition to the execution of George Floyd, the state continues to point its repressive apparatus at colonized and oppressed populations, first and foremost, at Africans fighting for self-determination.
Our resistance must be rooted in the politics of African/Black liberation, not just in ideology and practice, but in the organizational structures that will allow for such a path to be charted and achieved – one that is driven by African/Black leadership. Through the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights, we understand that the process of decolonization can only be advanced when it is led by those most oppressed by the U.S. settler state.
For non-Africans, the task ahead requires that we show up more fully and with more principle and discipline alongside African revolutionaries – not as an act of charity, but as a political commitment of mutual comradeship that materializes the inextricable link uniting our collective struggle against our common enemy.
When politics command our organization, we effectively strategize and commit to action in a way that reflects our unwavering solidarity with African liberation and the Black Radical Peace Tradition. In other words, the social, economic, and political benefits that stand to be gained by compromising or retreating on our principles must be rejected if we are to commit to an authentic application of our anti-colonial, anti-oppressive, and anti-imperialist politics.
We are at a precipice where the call for a unified resistance requires the rejection of liberalism and siloed leftist “influence,” and the embrace of swift and strategic unification that leverages our collective power against state violence intended to neutralize anyone unwilling to submit to its oppressive forces. The path to win is before us and has been laid out by Africans leading this struggle – historically and today.
We do not underestimate the power of our enemy. Their militarized forces occupy our streets and our psyches. These violent systems of repression lay the groundwork for the intensification to come. Our response demands a resistance rooted in collective struggle for systemic change that shifts power to the people: the heart of People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Most importantly, we will continue, relentlessly, in our unbending solidarity with Cuba, in defense of its people, its sovereignty, and the integrity of its revolutionary process.
The Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network
Nodutdol
CODEPINK
National Lawyers Guild
Diaspora Pa’lante Collective
National Students for Justice in Palestine
Nolympics
CUNY for Palestine
Taxpayers Against Genocide
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
Workers World Party
Palestinian Youth Movement
National Jericho Movement
NYC Jericho Movement
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
South Central About Face – Veterans Against the War
No Compromise, No Retreat
Back to stupid:
My comment up thus far:
Who the hell would trust VD VANCE for ANYTHING? Not sure what the fuck that’s about. As if Tuck Pads Carlson somehow is no longer a racist and piece of stain. Oh, yeah, he’s going to get a third dirty reactionary party going with who, Tulsi and Marjorie and, god only knows who.
Sorry, you’ll ban me, or have Substack hide me, but the son-of-a-bitch VD needs to go the way of the dodo, machete and all.
Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that Washington’s goal is to keep formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain.
Vance acknowledged that the U.S.-led West wants to maintain a strict international division of labor, in which poor countries in the periphery produce low-value-added goods (with lots of competition and therefore low profits), whereas the rich nations in the core extract exorbitant monopoly rents through their control over high value-added technologies (with little to no competition, reinforced by strict intellectual property rights).
RIGHT..
VD made these remarks at a summit that was organized by the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. This annual meeting in Washington, DC is called the American Dynamism Summit, and it brings together corporate executives and U.S. government officials to facilitate contracts.
One of their main priorities is preparing for war with China. Andreessen Horowitz promotes 50 U.S. companies that it says are “shaping the fight of the future”, outlining a scenario of a hypothetical 2027 war with China over Taiwan.
Vance is a China hawk who has scapegoated Beijing for the many economic problems in the U.S., demonizing it as “the biggest threat to our country”.
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Is he Jewish, changing names? More psychosis of whiteness, man, fucking hell.
James Donald Bowman (1984): Born with his biological father’s surname in Middletown, Ohio.
James David Hamel (1990): Adopted by his mother’s third husband, Robert Hamel, which removed his biological father’s name and changed his middle name from Donald to David. He used variations like J.D. Hamel through high school, his Marine Corps service, and college.
James David Vance (April 2013): Legally changed his last name right before graduating from Yale Law School to honor his maternal grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance (”Mamaw and Papaw”), who primarily raised him.
He published his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, under the name J.D. Vance.JD Vance (2021): Dropped the periods from his initials stylistically upon entering public office and his U.S. Senate campaign.
So this guy spent 20 years in the US BOMBING FORCE, the uniformed (blue, like the USPS) mercenary forces, and he thinks he has a bead on CAPITALISM? He’s getting $7000 a month in “retirement.” His naivete borders on childish thinking, but then, overhearing doctors and lawyers and great white hopes in Newport last night talking about the best food in Ita…
And so, the fucking food, school, hospital, pharmacy, civic, news, public spaces DESERTS, designed in the fucking PR-Spinning VD anc Chlamydia Capitalism:
Scourge of my artform, mother fucking MFA programs. I’ve written about this before, so, cock off. Try journalism, daily reporting while going to grad school, taking a few graduate writing and novel classes.
I was the only fucker who could produce something EACH and every fucking WEEK.
Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets published
Thomas Pynchon was known to avoid the press and refuse interviews. There are only two official photographs of the Gravity’s Rainbow author available publicly – one taken at high school, the other during his time in the navy. He is the embodiment of the American image of a great writer: a mysterious recluse who works in a turret alone.
These days, the writerly lone wolf is more a myth than it is a reality. Most of today’s celebrated authors are trained in the profession and their qualification is the MFA (master of fine arts). Percival Everett received his from Brown, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie studied at Johns Hopkins University, and Jhumpa Lahiri went to Boston. Great writers, now, are less rare animals discovered in the wild and more elite thoroughbreds, meticulously trained and set up for the race ahead.
Acting ICE Director David Venturella has divested of his Geo Group stocks and recused himself from “all contracts and obligations related to detention” and certain other matters that involve the private prison company, according to a letter sent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.).
Venturella previously worked at Geo Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, before returning last year to the Department of Homeland Security, where he also worked during the Obama administration. Venturella worked for Geo Group from 2012 to 2023 and then was a consultant for the private prison company through Jan. 31, 2025, according to an SEC filing.
But then this cocksucker USA is FULL of Peter Principle and Unqualified cunts: During a 2005 testimony before Congress, Venturella noted that he is the son of an immigrant, though he did not specify the country of origin.
Surname Origin: His surname, “Venturella,” is of Italian origin.
Acting ICE Chief Divests Detention Stocks and Recuses From Contracts
David Venturella previously worked at Geo Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators
HE’S A FUCKIUNG KOREAN.
Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Utah National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Utah National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
When President Trump sharply reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah by more than 1.2 million acres, he claimed it was necessary because recreation was virtually impossible within the site’s boundaries.
“You can’t go hunting, you can’t go fishing, you can’t do anything, you can virtually not even walk on it,” Mr. Trump said during a ceremony in the Oval Office last month.
The No. 2 official at the Interior Department, Kate MacGregor, chimed in, saying, “That’s exactly right, sir, so you are remedying that today.”
But recreation has been allowed in Bears Ears since President Barack Obama designated the monument in 2016. And government documents reviewed by The New York Times show that Trump administration officials were briefed on recreational opportunities inside the monument about a month before the Oval Office event.
Utah officials, who pushed for shrinking the monument, told the Trump administration in June that there was “current recreational access” to Bears Ears, according to the documents, which The Times obtained via a public records request.
The state officials specifically cited two trails popular among hikers, backpackers and off-road vehicle drivers, the documents show. (Other trails attract scores of horseback riders, mountain bikers and rock climbers, as Mr. Obama noted when he designated the monument.)
The documents suggest that the administration was “lying or spreading misinformation about these fantastic public lands” when it justified cutting the protected areas, said Steve Bloch, the legal director at the nonprofit Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, who reviewed the records at the request of The Times.
National monuments are public lands that are legally protected from oil and gas drilling, mining and other industrial development. They have similar protections as national parks, but while national parks are created by Congress, national monuments can be created by presidents through the Antiquities Act of 1906.
Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, did not answer questions about the documents but said in an email that “the Obama and Biden administrations abused the Antiquities Act to lock up millions of acres of Utah’s public lands, impoverishing local communities and sharply restricting access for recreation, grazing, resource development and fire prevention.”
Bears Ears is the ancestral homeland of five tribes in the region: the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Pueblo of Zuni. It contains thousands of archaeological sites that tribes consider culturally significant, including the remains of burial grounds, cliff dwellings and rock art panels.
The monument also boasts “world-class outdoor recreation opportunities,” Mr. Obama wrote in his proclamation designating Bears Ears, which cited “rock climbing, hunting, hiking, backpacking, canyoneering, whitewater rafting, mountain biking and horseback riding.”
Louis Williams, the founder and owner of Ancient Wayves River and Hiking Adventures, which provides tours of Bears Ears led by Indigenous guides, said he watched live as Mr. Trump signed the executive order to shrink the monument.
“I was shaking my head,” Mr. Williams said. “I was like, ‘I wonder if he’s ever been here to this region, because if he knew this region, he would find out this place is totally accessible.’”
You fucking MAGA cunts. Nothing coming out of your fucking Pedophile’s anus near his nose is worthy of anything but incineration. Follow him into the fire pit, please!!!!
NOTHING coming from the White Man’s Minyan is worthy of anything but incineration. Boys, girls, grannies, aunts and uncles, fathers and mothers of these fucking MAGA Minyan cunts — burn burn burn.
And then, the InBred UnUnited Quee-ueer-dumb.
Prolonged drought could cause shortage of some foods, farmers’ union head says
These fucking cunts, man oh man. I can’t even take a tip from a customer working at the Kroger’s deli. But these white cunts?
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to review megamergers involving Paramount.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s financial statements show he has reported accepting honors gala tickets from CBS or its parent company eight times since his 2017 appointment to the commission, totaling over $75,000 in gifts.
Carr, who also voted in favor of the Paramount-Skydance merger last year, sat with his wife in a private skybox at the December gala with Paramount CEO David Ellison and other executives from Paramount and CBS. Such seats sold for $125,000 a ticket, according to Kennedy Center guidelines.
“Government officials have the power to make decisions that impact huge swaths of the American people,” Sherman said in a statement about the organization’s demand for an inspector general investigation. “With this tremendous power comes a higher ethical standard that apparently wasn’t met. The IG can and must get answers for the public.”
The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery has drawn a flurry of legal opposition.
California, New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the merger under federal and state antimonopoly laws. The Writers Guild of America, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Public Interest Project filed similar court challenges in recent weeks.
Paramount has recently agreed to pause its merger until the litigation is resolved or until June 1, 2027, whichever comes first.
[Federal Communications Commission member Olivia Trusty]
Carr and Trusty should be required to repay Paramount the “fair market value” of any improper gifts and the federal ethics agency should refrain from certifying Carr’s annual disclosure report until he can prove that he has complied with ethics laws, Democracy Defenders Fund wrote. Its letter to the FCC and the Office of Government Ethics also requests that Carr be disqualified from further participation in the commission’s decision on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to open five publicly subsidized grocery stores in New York City is quickly becoming a reality. On July 27, 2026, Mamdani announced details of the plan, including a 30 percent discount to market prices of a “core basket” of healthy groceries such as fruits, vegetables, eggs, and milk; a request-for-proposals process to select private sector operators; and an operating subsidy that the city will use to fund the lower prices.
According to estimates by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC), for which I am currently consulting, shoppers could save over $1,000 a year on groceries. Two locations have already been announced, including sites in the Bronx and East Harlem. City council has approved $70 million in capital funds for store build-outs, while operational funds are still being decided. The city’s annual budget is over $125 billion; the funds needed to open and run NYC Groceries are less than one-tenth of 1 percent of that budget, a literal rounding error.
According to a 2025 poll, support for the public grocery idea in the city is overwhelming. A coalition including trade unions, community groups, cooperative businesses, and food security advocates has been working closely with the city to plan and implement the idea. The result is an idiosyncratic model that may point the way forward for other cities. — another Jew, different flavor . . . Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One By Errol Schweizer
NATIONALIZE it ALL, cocksuckers.
Eddy Bernays with Uniforms, cunts:
“When WWI started in 1918, like many other Americans, I wanted to enlist as a soldier but unfortunately my vision was 20/18 and nobody could enter the armed services of the Untied States whose vision was not 20/20. A few weeks after that I noted that George Creel, a member of the group that fought for greater liberalism with Ida Tarbell, Ernest Poole and others, had been appointed head of the United States Information agency called USIA and it was the first time the United States was to use ideas as weapons to win a war. I applied to the USIA to become a staff member and was accepted. I was the only person on the staff in New York that had ever had any activity in publicity, press agentry or the like. The others were mostly professors and I served in the foreign office that dealt with materials sent to other media and with overt acts to make the world safe for democracy and make this a war to end all wars. To my surprise and delight I was invited over to the Peace Conference in Paris which Woodrow Wilson was to come to and this is a picture of the various members of our group of the foreign policy office of the agency in New York. And we traveled as I recall it for 10 days on the Atlantic Ocean, landed in France and were each assigned a separate apartment in Paris and worked on Wilson’s 14 Points as I said to win the war to win the morale of our allies to win over the neutrals and to deflate the morale of the enemy.”
—Edward Bernays, in a 1987 videotape housed at the Museum of Public Relations
[Monster Bernays . . . with beedy eyes, on the right, looking away, with his Hitlerian moustache. ]
Manufacturing Dissent
Rachel Blevins
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