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ISRAEL SHELLED PALESTINIANS FOR BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE YELLOW LINE AFTER MOVING IT

They Just Keep Finding New Ways To Carve Off More Pieces Of Gaza And Murder More Palestinians. That Should Tell A Lot About The Nature Of The Israeli Regime.

It was reported that the IDF quietly moved part of the “yellow line” which divides Gaza 300 meters forward, and then started shelling Palestinians for being on the “wrong side” of the line.

They just keep finding new ways to carve off more pieces of Gaza and murder more Palestinians.

Haaretz has a disturbing story out about a 14 year-old Palestinian boy who was waiting for his school bus in the West Bank on a quiet street eating a cookie, when suddenly a bunch of IDF vehicles pulled up and a soldier shot him directly in the face with a teargas canister. Then they sped off.

The boy lost his right eye in the attack.

Israelis will just casually shoot a Palestinian kid in the face for no reason, and then go online and call you hateful for opposing them.

Leftists are going to hate Israel for leftist reasons and rightists are going to hate Israel for rightist reasons. This is not a difference that needs to be reconciled or a problem that needs to be solved.

You’ll see Israel supporters point to the rising number of rightists who oppose Israel and trying to marry it to pro-Palestine leftists in some way. Former Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy claimed that antizionism “builds coalitions on both extremes — and increasingly between them — by mobilizing politics against Jews.” But that’s just some nonsense they’re making up in order to justify their genocidal atrocities. Leftist opposition to Israel is about justice, equality, anticolonialism, antiracism, anti-imperialism, antiwar and anti-apartheid activism, and has nothing whatsoever to do with hating Jews. Rightist opposition to Israel is more about nationalism, anti-interventionism, America First ideology, and yes, in many cases a hatred of Jews. These are two completely different things.

You never saw Zionists bitching about the far right until they started pivoting against Israel; until then they were happy to make alliances with them, and still are as long as they remain supportive of Israel. And half the time you see them citing anti-Israel sentiments on the right it’s only to play guilt-by-association by framing them as the same as the pro-Palestine left.

It’s just more empty narrative-diddling from Israel apologists. It’s not a real argument, and doesn’t require a counter-argument. It’s just them flailing around trying anything they can to stop the entire western political spectrum from flushing Israel down the toilet.

War propagandist Bret Stephens has a new article out titled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro” in which he argues for American regime change interventionism in Venezuela on the basis that “the regime’s close economic and strategic ties to China, Russia and Iran give America’s enemies a significant foothold in the Americas.”

This would be the same Bret Stephens who in 2023 wrote an article in the New York Times titled “20 Years On, I Don’t Regret Supporting the Iraq War,” by the way.

Right wingers think a mother should be at home raising her children, an arrangement that many mothers would be on board with, but if you say this requires either state support or for employers to be forced to increase pay so that single-income families can exist they say “No that’s socialism!”

They want the mothers to stay at home while the fathers work 80-hour work weeks for ten bucks an hour so that billionaires can become trillionaires.

Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years work will be optional and money will be meaningless because AI and automation will eliminate the need for labor and make everything wonderful. Something tells me the guy who just took a trillion-dollar pay package from Tesla doesn’t really believe money is going to be meaningless anytime soon.

This soon-to-be-trillionaire whose ego is so fragile and infantile that his AI chatbot tells people he’s smarter than da Vinci and more athletic than LeBron James is asking us to believe that revolutionary change isn’t necessary because capitalists like himself are going to fix it so that everyone lives in luxury.

LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

The Difference Between People Who Supported The British Empire And Who Support The American Empire Is That Those Who Supported The British Empire Knew They Were Supporting An Empire.

Someone who supported the British Empire’s acts of mass military slaughter around the world did so because they supported the Crown and wanted His Majesty to civilize the godless savages and turn the whole world into his royal subjects. Someone who supports the American empire’s warmongering thinks they are doing so because Saddam is an evil dictator, because Gaddafi is an evil dictator, because Maduro is an evil dictator, because Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis are terrorists, etc.

Supporters of the British Empire understood that the enemies of the Empire were being killed because they refused to adequately subject themselves to the King and his demands. Supporters of the American empire think the American regime and its allies are always attacking Evil Bad Guys in the name of spreading Freedom and Democracy, and if this happens to advance pre-existing geostrategic agendas and/or resource interests then it is purely by coincidence.

Supporters of the British Empire understood that they were living under an actual empire: a power umbrella comprised of colonies, protectorates, dominions, mandates and territories which spanned the globe. Supporters of the American empire think it is entirely by coincidence that there is a giant cluster of nations which happens to move in near-perfect unison on all foreign policy agendas and continually wages war upon nations which are not part of that cluster.

The British Empire was entirely open about what it was. It would conquer a place, tell its inhabitants that they are now British subjects, and make them raise the Union Jack on their flag pole. The western empire which is loosely structured around Washington lets its member states keep their own flag and pretend they’re sovereign nations, while behaving in ways that are not significantly different from the subjects of the British Empire.

The British Empire was open and unapologetic about pilfering resources from the darker-skinned populations it had conquered and using them to improve the lives of people in the imperial core. In the American empire those resources are extracted in the same way, but under cover of slogans like “opening up markets” and “free trade” and “globalization”.

The British Empire was held in place by brute force and overt indoctrination. People were forcibly subjugated and then over the years educated to believe it served their interests to live under the Royal Crown, and if they tried to become independent, the redcoats would be sent in to remind them of His Majesty’s beneficence.

The American regime’s empire is held in place by plenty of brute force as well, but its primary weapon is psychological manipulation. It has the most sophisticated propaganda machine that has ever existed, which trains the minds of its subjects to support all its various agendas of capitalism, militarism, imperialism and global domination under the guise of news media, Hollywood productions, and Silicon Valley tech services. Disobedient nations find their information ecosystems awash with National Endowment for Democracy reeducation media informing them why their current government doesn’t serve their interests, and if that doesn’t work there will be a “revolution” which decades later the CIA will admit to having fomented and armed.

The American empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was. The British Empire told its subjects that they were the property of the King and must do as His Majesty commands. The American regime’s empire subjugates people by tricking them into thinking they are free.

DOCTORS FROM GAZA ARE STILL BEING HELD IN ISRAELI PRISONS

While Some Were Released In The Ceasefire, Israel Still Holds 80 Palestinian Medical Workers Without Charge. Their Families Are Demanding Their Freedom.

When Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra turned his phone camera around in his office at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, placards reading “Freedom to Dr. Abu Teima” and “We will not leave you” appeared. They were held by Nahed Abu Teima’s wife and children, who have not spoken to him in nearly two years.

Abu Teima was the director of the surgical ward at Nasser Hospital until Israeli forces detained him during a February 2024 raid on the medical complex. His family was addressed after asking Al-Farra, the head of the hospital’s pediatric and maternity ward, what he knew about the seven colleagues taken in that same raid.

Their names appear on a list published by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI), identifying 17 Gazan doctors — and 80 medical workers overall — who remain in Israeli custody even after Israel’s release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees at the start of the ceasefire.

Held without charge or trial in dire conditions, these doctors are denied contact with the outside world, save for infrequent lawyer visits. They face physical violence, medical neglect, and starvation, as a result of which dozens of detainees have died. Yet even when their cases draw significant public attention — like that of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, detained since December 2024 — it has done little to bring about their release.

A few months ago, there was a social media campaign in which Israeli doctors read the testimonies of detained Gazan physicians. They read out the following words: “We need antibiotics and medicines for infections … Sometimes I perform surgeries on prisoners, clean the abscess, open it with a piece of plastic, and disinfect with some chlorine.” It was only after speaking with Abu Teima’s family that it was learned the testimony was his.

Since his detention, Abu Teima has been permitted to see his lawyer only once every six months. After their most recent meeting in early October, the lawyer informed the family that he has lost 25 kilograms, is beaten daily, is told he will never be released, and is being denied his regular blood pressure medication.

At the time of his arrest, Abu Teima had been living with his wife, Arwa, and their nine children inside Nasser Hospital, alongside many other families of medical staff. Israel had destroyed their home in Khan Younis early in the war, and they believed the hospital would offer some protection from the airstrikes.

When the Israeli army raided the medical complex, Abu Teima’s family evacuated but he insisted on staying behind to care for the patients who remained. It was the last time his family saw or spoke to him.

Only in August 2024, with the help of PHRI, did they receive confirmation that he was being held at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel. Their first indirect contact, through a lawyer, came three months later — nearly nine months after his arrest.

Since then, Arwa and the children have been living in a tent in Khan Younis. A practicing gynecologist, she has managed to support the family alone, but it has not been easy: Doctors in Gaza have received no steady salaries since the start of the war, only sporadic lump-sum payments every two to three months

One of her younger sons, Yousef, smiled brightly throughout the conversation despite suffering from heat stroke and an infectious abscess in his leg. When the family came to the hospital to protest for Abu Teima’s release, Al-Farra administered IV fluids and antibiotics; without their connection to the hospital, Yousef’s treatment would have been far harder to secure.

“We lose one child in the hospital every day because of a lack of equipment,” Al-Farra told +972. Medications for diabetes, hypertension, and hypothyroidism are scarce. The hospital has run out of test tubes for blood work, and its intensive care units operate without essential infusion equipment.

Although more food has entered Gaza since the ceasefire, Al-Farra explained, staples like meat, milk, eggs, and fresh produce remain largely unavailable. And despite a surge in patients arriving from shuttered hospitals in the north, Nasser has received no additional medical supplies.

EPSTEIN’S TIES TO TRUMP ARE THE FOCUS OF THE MEDIA WHILE THEY IGNORE HIS TIES TO ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE

This Is Such A Perfect Example Of How Western Media Ignore Anything That Doesn’t Fit Neatly Into The Media Worldview That Israel Can Do No Wrong.

If there’s not some kind of partisan angle to it that Democrats can use to attack Republicans or Republicans can use to attack Democrats, it tends to get conspicuously overlooked.

Which just so happens to align nicely with the objectives of the American empire.

The empire doesn’t want people looking too closely at the evil things the American regime and Israel have been doing together regardless of who is in office, so the western press tend to ignore these things wherever possible.

The empire doesn’t want people keeping track of what countries the American regime’s war machine is bombing from administration to administration, so the western press keep this information so silent that every few months I’ll see a viral tweet from some American going “Wait a second we’ve been bombing Somalia this whole time?” or “We’ve got troops in KENYA??”

The overwhelming majority of the empire’s abuses remain in place regardless of which political party happens to be in power or what the current president’s campaign platform was. War. Genocide. Militarism. Imperialist extraction. Ecocidal capitalism. Soaring inequality. Poverty. Homelessness. Police militarization. The ever-expanding surveillance network. Censorship. Propaganda. Government lies and opacity. The crimes of the imperial intelligence alliance.

All of the worst things about our dystopian civilization here in the globe-spanning power structure that is loosely centralized around the United States keep marching forward completely uninterrupted from presidency to presidency, while the mass media ignore them and keep the public fixated on irrelevant feuding between America’s two mainstream political factions.

This is because the mass media of the western world do not exist to report on the major news stories of our day. They exist to indoctrinate, distract, and manipulate. They are not news services, they are propaganda services.

Adding a few more details of Trump’s already well–documented Epstein ties to the information ecosystem will drum up a lot of interest and attention and monopolize political discourse for a day or two, but it won’t change anything. The American public developing a universal revulsion toward Israel and its involvement in their own country’s affairs, however, would have far-reaching consequences that could change the face of the world. Which is why the propaganda services of the empire are focusing on the former rather than the latter.

BECAUSE THEY ARE LOSING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE, THE ZIONISTS ARE FREAKING OUT

More And More Often We’re Seeing Them Say The Quiet Parts Out Loud As They Frantically Scramble To Manage Perceptions And Manipulate Minds Around The World.

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made some very revealing remarks during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on Sunday, expressing frustration with the way younger Jews are dismissing pro-Israel arguments because of the carnage they’ve seen in Gaza.

“We are now wrestling with a new I think generational divide here, and I think that’s particularly true in that social media is now our source of media,” Hurwitz said. “It used to be that the news you got in America was American media, and it was pretty mainstream; you know it generally didn’t express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media. But today we have social media, which is the global medium; its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don’t really love Jews. So while in the 1990s a young person probably wasn’t going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them; they find them on their phones.”

“It’s also this increasingly post-literate media; less and less text, more and more videos,” Hurwitz continued. “So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us cannot have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they are just seeing in their minds: carnage. And I sound obscene.”

Hurwitz went on to say that Holocaust education has begun backfiring, because it has been giving young people the wrong impression that genocide is always bad.

“And you know I think unfortunately, the very smart bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-semitism education in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism,” Hurwitz said. “Because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews, and they think oh, antisemitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people. So, when on TikTok all day long, they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”

It’s just so fascinating to see a former White House speechwriter making so many of the points that anti-Zionists have been making for years, but taking the exact opposite meaning from them:

The mainstream legacy media has always hidden anti-Israel views from the public — and that was a good thing.
Social media has now given Palestinians the ability to expose the truth about Israel’s abuses — and that’s a bad thing.
People aren’t falling for the Zionist spin and narrative-diddling anymore because they’ve seen the carnage in Gaza with their own eyes — and that’s a problem.
People who learned from Holocaust education that genocide is wrong have been applying those same lessons to the genocide in Gaza — and this means they’re “confused”.

Hurwitz isn’t denying Israel’s abuses or framing its genocidal atrocities as the problem, she’s just coming right out and saying that people obtaining information and moral clarity about those abuses is the problem. The atrocities aren’t wrong, what’s wrong is people seeing those atrocities and calling them what they are.

She complains that she looks “obscene” for trying to lay out arguments and narratives justifying the Gaza holocaust for people who’ve seen the “wall of carnage” from the genocide. Yes obviously you’re going to look obscene if you try to tell someone why raw video footage of massacres, mutilated children and emaciated bodies is actually showing something that is justifiable and acceptable.

You can’t stand in front of a pile of child corpses justifying their murder and then whine when people ignore your spinmeistering and keep staring at the tiny bodies. That’s like murdering an entire family and then telling the cops, “But you’re not listening to my reasons for killing them!” They’re doing the normal thing while you are being obscene.

There’s a viral clip of this tirade going around Twitter and some were curious if Hurwitz had said anything after the video segment ended which might have made what she said sound less horrible, after checking out the original video on the Jewish Federations of North America’s Youtube channel, it turned out that nope. It didn’t get any better.

Hurwitz went on to say that people are wrong to carry the lessons of Holocaust education into opposition to Israel’s genocidal atrocities because the Holocaust was Nazi Germany blaming Jews for all their problems in the same way people think Israel is the source of all the world’s problems today.

She then mourned the way western Jews “re-imagined Judaism as a Protestant-style religion” in order to integrate into western society rather than retaining a strong identity that is loyal to the state of Israel.

“The problem is, we’re not just a religion,” Hurwitz said. “We’re a nation. Civilization. Tribe. Peoplehood. But most of all we’re a family. And so if you are a young person raised in America who thinks Judaism is a Protestant-style religion, then the seven million Jews in Israel are merely your co-religionists. So my co-religionists, if I look at them and they’re not practicing my religion of social justice and certain prophetic values then what do I have to do with them?”

“But that’s a category error,” says Hurwitz. “The seven million people in Israel, they are not my co-religionists, they are my siblings. But I think if you think of them as merely your co-religionists, it’s easy to slide into anti-Zionism. You don’t necessarily have that connection to them.”

Hurwitz is saying here that Jews around the world should be loyal to Israel no matter what Israel does, not because that’s the moral or truthful position but because Israel is where their loyalties belong.

We don’t know about you, but if our siblings were murdering civilians we would immediately become their enemy. We wouldn’t defend my brothers if they were going around shooting children in the head like IDF snipers have been doing in Gaza, in fact we would feel a special responsibility to stop them exactly because they are my brothers. Genocide doesn’t magically become acceptable if the perpetrators are your “siblings”, unless you are a sociopath.

It’s just incredible how hard Zionists have been freaking out about the way Israel has lost control of the narrative these last two years. More and more often we’re seeing them say the quiet parts out loud as they frantically scramble to manage perceptions and manipulate minds around the world.

Many things which used to be hidden are finding their way into the light.

HUNDREDS DETAINED AS ISRAEL RAIDS DOZENS OF HOMES IN A WEST BANK TOWN

The Israeli Army Reportedly Turned The Municipal Stadium Into A Makeshift Holding And Interrogation Site. Videos Showed Israeli Soldiers Escorting Bound Palestinians Inside The Town.

The Israeli army detained about 100 Palestinians in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron (al-Khalil) in the southern occupied West Bank, after sealing all of the town’s entrances early on Wednesday, it was reported.

The raid came hours after an illegal Israeli settler was killed and three others were wounded, one critically, in a ramming and stabbing operation at the Gush Etzion junction in the southern West Bank. The operation was carried out by two Palestinians, one of them from Beit Ummar, who were shot dead by Israeli forces, the report noted.

On Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority – the official liaison with Israel – notified it that Imran al-Atrash from Hebron and Walid Mohammed Sabarneh from Beit Ummar were killed by Israeli fire near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

DOZENS OF HOMES RAIDED

Israeli forces stormed Beit Ummar early on Wednesday and raided dozens of homes, including the Sabarneh family’s house, damaging its contents, witnesses said.

They said the army launched a broad arrest campaign in the town, detaining about 100 people.

According to the witnesses, the army turned the municipal stadium into a makeshift holding and interrogation site.

Videos circulating online showed Israeli soldiers escorting bound Palestinians inside the town.

ENTRY AND EXIT RESTRICTED

Residents said the army sealed all entrances to Beit Ummar with dirt mounds and iron gates, restricting movement in and out of the area. It was reported that ambulances were unable to enter or exit the town.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the field interrogations were accompanied by torture and severe beatings, a news agency reported.

The occupation forces also stole money and gold jewelry, confiscated vehicles and electronic devices, turned homes into military points, using residents as human shields, and distributed leaflets containing direct threats against the residents, the report stated.

HANAN AL-BARGHOUTI ABUSED IN DETENTION

Meanwhile, the Prisoners’ Media Office reported that the Palestinian detainee Hanan Al-Barghouti is being subjected to repressive measures, abuse, and continuous starvation in Damon prison.

She also suffers from “the policy of repeated revolving-door detention” which involves the arrest and release of detainees several times, often without charge or trial. The Media Office urged human rights organizations to campaign for her release.

Barghouti was freed from detention in December 2024 and rearrested in April this year, and again in September this year. She was also freed in November 2023 as part of the prisoner exchange deal with Israel.

Hailing from the village of Kobar in Ramallah, Hanan is the sister of Nael Barghouti, who was previously the longest-held Palestinian prisoner until his release and deportation in the February 2025 prisoner exchange.

ESCALATING ATTACKS

The Israeli army has escalated its attacks in the West Bank since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023.

More than 1,076 Palestinians have since been killed, and 10,700 others injured in attacks by the army and illegal settlers in the occupied territory. More than 20,500 people have also been arrested.

In a landmark opinion last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

AMERICANS DON’T WANT WAR WITH VENEZUELA – ASK THEM

Reports Say The President Is Preparing To Attack, As Lawmakers Ignore Their Constituents And Refuse To Stand In The Way Of The Armed Robbery Of Venezuela’s Massive Oil Reserves.

As the Trump administration’s made-for-Hollywood strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats have dominated the news, the Pentagon has been positioning military assets in the Caribbean and Latin America and reactivating bases in the region. More recently, The Washington Post reported that high-level meetings were held about a possible imminent attack on Venezuela and The New York Times has learned that the president gave authorization for CIA operations there.

There is one problem: Americans don’t seem to be very enthusiastic.

While voters returned Donald Trump to office in 2024 based on a host of campaign promises, his faithful took his long-voiced complaints about spending on foreign aid and entanglement in overseas wars as vows to focus on the homeland. A range of Americans are in sync with his past statements about avoiding war; opposition to military intervention abroad is common for the left and right. Simply put, the public is not interested in going to war. Indeed, one recent poll found that just 15% of American adults support invading Venezuela.

Some see Trump’s Venezuela moves as an attempt to distract from domestic policy failures or the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, but his actions can’t be dismissed as wagging the dog. Trump has shown himself willing to engage with militarism. It’s not just “drug boats,” and it’s not just Venezuela. He has spent 2025 belying the myth, which has persisted over his three campaigns for president, that he is averse to war-making.

WHAT POLLS SAY ABOUT VENEZUELA

The public has mixed views on some of the Trump administration’s specific actions toward Venezuela. Asked in a recent YouGov poll about the Navy’s presence in Caribbean waters, for example, the percentage who approve (30%) was not much lower than the percentage who disapprove (37%).

Framing its actions against the South American nation as narcotics enforcement seems to have benefited the administration: A poll in early October found 71% of registered voters in favor of “the US destroying boats bringing drugs into the United States from South America.” Different wording — and perhaps media coverage of the continued boat strikes raising issues of their necessity, legality, and effect — could help explain why a poll in mid-November found only 29% answered yes to the question, “Should the U.S. government kill suspected drug traffickers abroad without judicial process?”

Importantly, however, in a survey, roughly two-thirds of American adults said they oppose an invasion of Venezuela and, as noted above, only 15% support one. Over half oppose the American regime using the military to overthrow the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

A 2023 survey found a souring of views of military intervention more broadly, with growing numbers believing that intervention by the American regime tends to “worsen situations.” Respondents seem to have based this on more recent examples, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars. None of these interventions were seen by the majority of those polled as “successful” uses of American forces abroad.

A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Overall, Americans do not want to get, to use Trump’s own words, “bogged down” in foreign wars. Public opinion on intervention appears driven by a cost-benefit analysis as John Mueller, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Ohio State University describes it. This may be why some Americans are more willing to accept action in the form of targeted strikes such as the boat bombings and limited displays of military might.

Since the Cold War and especially the 9/11 attacks, America has become increasingly militarized. One measure of this, of course, is government spending. The Costs of War project estimates that the American regime has spent $8 trillion as a result of the post-9/11 wars. The $22 billion in support for Israel’s war in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 is one of the latest and most egregious instances of the American regime’s support for a military first approach.

Unfortunately, the official end of the post-9/11 wars was not the end of their financial costs to ordinary Americans. The percent of the discretionary federal budget devoted to the military continues to rise and at the expense of domestic programs. Pentagon spending alone in 2026 will jump to well over $1 trillion. Though many of the economic costs of war are hidden and/or deferred to an indeterminate future — especially when they are funded through deficit spending — Americans still rightly worry about getting involved in costly conflicts like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CAN PUBLIC OPINION HALT TRUMP’S MILITARISM?

Many have taken note of how Congress’s passage of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force has helped concentrate power in the executive, enabling swifter, unilateral military deployment by the commander-in-chief. With the AUMF, Congress relinquished its constitutionally assigned war powers and ceded to the president its duty to decide whether, when, and where to use the military to combat terrorism. Since then, the executive branch has conducted counterterrorism activities in an astounding 78 countries.

Despite Americans’ low trust in Congress, they nonetheless want the president to seek congressional approval before going to war. Feeding their mistrust, Congress has failed to respond to them on this crucial issue.

Look at how a compliant Congress has abdicated responsibility for oversight of the bombings in the Caribbean — which have now killed more than 83 people — as the Pentagon arrays warships, missiles, drones, and jet fighters in the region. Senate Republicans voted down legislation that would have required Trump to get their approval for any attacks on Venezuela, blatantly ignoring the disapproval of a public they are meant to represent.

So the bombings and the build-up continue, with Trump matter-of-factly telling a journalist, “We’re just going to kill people” without seeking congressional approval.

In the end, Trump may not attack Venezuela, but it likely won’t be because the people are against it. He is in the process of commandeering all armed capacities of the American government, military, and law enforcement to serve his purposes foreign and domestic. Reasserting the rights of the people, including the right to peace, requires Congress to aggressively reassert its constitutional duty and the citizenry to demand its will be met.

AMERICA’S BILLIONAIRES MOVE TO SILENCE DISSENT AS ISRAEL’S IMAGE COLLAPSES

A Poll In July Found That 32 Percent Of Americans Approve Of The Israeli Campaign In Gaza, While 60 Percent Disapprove, A 10 Percent Drop In Support From The Previous September.

A research center findings showed that a third of American adults (33 percent) say the country sends Israel too much military aid, a larger portion of the population than those who say the American regime provides the right amount (23 percent) or not enough (8 percent).

A majority of Americans hold a negative view of Israel and report being “extremely” or “very” concerned about its military strikes killing Palestinian civilians and about starvation among Palestinians in Gaza.

A poll revealed that there are slightly more Americans who sympathise with the Palestinians than those who sympathise with Israel.

Israel’s popularity crisis is particularly acute among young Americans, with only nine percent of those aged 18 to 34 backing Israel’s military action in the Strip. Forty-two percent of those in the 18 to 29 cohort say the American regime grants Israel too much military aid, compared to 21 percent whose opinion is that the regime is giving the right amount or too little.

One influential ghoul after another – from Hillary Clinton to wealthy tech investors and members of Congress – has attributed this shift to TikTok, as if American youth are incapable of independently concluding that it is wrong to repeatedly set fire to tents filled with displaced persons.

Amid the decline in pro-Israel sentiment, which is functionally the same as a decline in support for American imperialism in and beyond the Middle East, the American regime’s ruling class is aggressively asserting control over powerful media organs.

CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE

On 25^th September, President Donald Trump issued an executive order mandating that for TikTok to continue operating in America, one or more Americans had to own the majority of the platform.

Trump’s actions, it is worth noting, build on the Biden administration’s approach to TikTok, which also called for American control of the app, a position with bipartisan support in Congress.

Accordingly, a group of American investors led by the software firm Oracle is taking control of 65 percent of TikTok.

Oracle is set to oversee TikTok’s American operations, provide cloud services for user data storage and secure a licence to take charge of the app’s algorithm.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison is one of the top donors to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), an American nonprofit that effectively subsidises the Israeli military. He has said that he feels a “deep emotional connection to the State of Israel” and “we”, seemingly a reference to Oracle, will “do everything we can to support the country of Israel”.

A similar process has unfolded in traditional news media. In August, the Ellison family’s media company, Skydance – an outfit financially supported by Larry Ellison and run by his son, David – acquired Paramount, a movie studio that owns CBS and a host of cable channels.

Bari Weiss, a talentless behind-kisser and tattle-tale passionately opposed to free speech and to Palestinian freedom, has been named CBS News’s editor-in-chief.

Now, the Ellison family has its sights set on Warner Bros Discovery, which owns HBO, TBS and CNN.

MEDIA CAPTURE

While there is ample space for pro-Palestine messaging on TikTok, it is not as if traditional news outlets like CBS have a record of supporting Palestinian liberation.

CBS, like all major corporate media in the United States, far more often than not produces content favourable to American-Israeli objectives in West Asia.

For example, in the last year, the CBS News website ran 2,575 stories that mention Gaza, with only 388 containing the word “genocide”.

In other words, in a period that mostly predates the Ellison-Weiss regime, only 15 percent of the site’s Gaza coverage mentioned the crime of crimes, even as one credible source after another has concluded that Israel has carried out a genocide in the Strip.

Thus, CBS News already had a record of what has previously called genocide denial by omission, a form of media distortion that helps enable genocide by reducing the likelihood that enough of the American population will accurately understand that their government is party to an extermination campaign to bring it to a halt.

CNN, for its part, helped manufacture consent for the Gaza genocide by making pro-Israel propaganda its official policy.

What the latest developments in the media landscape represent are, as with so much else in the Trump era, a movement towards vulgar, unabashed assertions of raw power that dispense with the typically hollow and hypocritical pretences of an open and democratic society that characterised America’s recent past.

LOSING LEGITIMACY

The American state and the billionaires it serves know that they cannot win the Palestine-Israel debate, and they see that their colonial outpost is rapidly losing perceived legitimacy.

Trying to stamp out content that makes Israel and the American regime look bad by occasionally giving audiences a partial glimpse of American-Zionist barbarism in Palestine is a sign of desperation rather than strength.

The gambit will not work.

Media outlets do not operate in a vacuum, and people are not empty vessels that news firms can simply fill with whatever they like.

The American state and the billionaires it serves know that they cannot win the Palestine-Israel debate, and they see that their colonial outpost is rapidly losing perceived legitimacy

Israel’s image cannot be restored, and neither can that of the American ruling class, certainly not among young people who won’t soon forget their peers being suspended, expelled or chewed up by the American regime’s merciless deportation machine.

They won’t soon forget their colleges turning riot cops against them or putting snipers on the roofs of school buildings during pro-Palestine student protests. They won’t soon forget the mainstream media lying to them while Palestinian journalists showed them the grieving parents whose bereavement was enabled by western, and especially American, taxpayers.

If the Gaza “ceasefire” holds, the international movement in solidarity with Palestine may lose some of its energy in the West.

However, even if the frequency of mass demonstrations in western cities dwindles, the organizations and alliances formed after October 7^thare not all going to disappear.

Indeed, many of these formations predate 2023, with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement having established nodes around the world and achieved numerous successes since its inception in 2005.

That institutional memory cannot be erased by media manipulation, nor can the experience, political organizing skills and self-confidence that pro-Palestine activists have gained by fighting, and sometimes winning, through 20 years of BDS or two years of resisting genocide.

THE ISRAELI KNESSET APPROVED THE FIRST READING OF BILL TO CUT UNRWA ACCESS TO WATER AND ELECTRICITY

The Amendment Stipulates That Water And Electricity Providers Will Not Supply Any Property Registered Under UNRWA As The Consumer.

It also grants the state authority to take control of lands registered with the Israel Land Authority that are used by UNRWA. (United Nations Relief and Works Agency)

The amendment follows a previous Knesset law prohibiting any connection between state authorities and UNRWA, which raised debate over whether water and electricity services fall under this “connection.”

The new bill clarifies that the prohibition also applies to vital services, including supplying UNRWA properties with water and electricity, and allows the state to seize properties used by the agency, particularly in occupied Jerusalem.

The proposed legislation is seen as part of broader Israeli efforts to undermine UNRWA’s work and attempts to marginalize the Palestinian refugee issue.

This should give you a good idea of the very nature of the Israeli regime and it’s supporters.

LEARN WHY TRUMP SHOULD ACCEPT PUTIN’S NEW START OFFER

On February 5th, 2026, The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), The Sole Remaining Nuclear Arms Control Agreement Between The United States And Russia, Will Expire.

This September, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to voluntarily adhere to the treaty’s warhead limits on long-range missiles for a year, should the United States reciprocate. President Donald Trump reacted favorably, saying it “sounds like a good idea to me,” but fell short of agreeing. Tensions have since soured, with Trump ordering the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing in response to reports that Russia tested nuclear-powered weapons that can be equipped with a nuclear warhead. Reacting to Trump’s move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that “Russia will respond in kind.”

Without New START, or a successor agreement, the United States and Russia may embark on an arms race that funnels hundreds of billions of dollars into weapons of collective suicide. China would likely join in rather than be left behind. At best, the enlarged arsenals would sit dormant for decades waiting for some faction of politicians and bureaucrats to argue that the technology is obsolete and requires “modernization,” diverting ever more government resources into the illusion of nuclear security. At worst, a geopolitical crisis could precipitate nuclear use, eventually spiraling to mutual destruction.

BETTER OPTIONS EXIST

The most vocal opponents of a New START extension are neoconservative policymakers and intellectuals, including veterans of the George W. Bush administration. These darlings of the foreign policy establishment recycle the familiar threat inflation tactics they used to promote forever wars in the Middle East to push the United States into a trilateral nuclear standoff.

They contend that Russia and China seek to outmatch the American arsenal for coercive purposes. Hence, they reflexively advocate for the United States to upload additional nuclear warheads onto deployed delivery systems beyond New START’s limit of 1,550 (technically 1,770). Neoconservative arguments for reactionary expansion couch their belligerency in the language of maintaining an arsenal of numerical, technical, and situational effectiveness vis-à-vis China and Russia.

Concerned that Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping seek collective nuclear superiority as coercive leverage to subvert American global power, many national security observers say the American regime must expand its nuclear arsenal in response, to address a growing and diversifying list of potential targets. Indeed, some who argue against extending New START do so on the basis that “China’s nuclear build-up puts upward pressure on the size of the U.S. nuclear force” and “Xi is committed to a larger nuclear arsenal and is not willing to trade it away.” Rather than attempting to understand and address why the Chinese may be apprehensive about engaging in arms control negotiations, their “solution” is to reinforce one of the main drivers of animosity.

Underpinning the neurotic worldview of those who advocate arsenal expansion is a devastating overconfidence in counterforce targeting, or taking out military infrastructure while sparing civilian populations. These advocates, by superimposing some generalized, presumptive lens on the decision-making process of Russian and Chinese leaders, believe they know what targets the American regime’s nuclear forces must hold at risk to effectively deter adversarial aggression. They throw nuance to the wayside. Wrapping their ignorance in faux legalism, they insist that by targeting “legitimate” military and political sites, many of which are collocated in or near civilian population centers, counterforce strikes would abide by international law, limit the potential damage an adversary could inflict on the United States, and thus deter adversaries by ensuring the American regime would prevail in a nuclear conflict. You may suppose some of us still need bedtime stories to help us sleep at night.

Counterforce targeting warrants consideration as a paradoxical device in the American regime’s nuclear policy debates. Proponents of the doctrine champion it as both a means of dissuading nuclear aggression and an end to nuclear tensions by implicitly promising to preserve comparative dominance in the destructive capability of the American regime’s arsenal. They insist this is the necessary precondition for the United States to engage in arms control diplomacy, while incoherently maintaining that any reciprocal measures by other nuclear powers are concerted efforts to destabilize relations. Essentially: good for me but not for thee. Counterforce sycophants can only be satisfied by the achievement and preservation of American nuclear superiority, which in itself is not conducive to productive diplomacy, especially with leaders who want their states to be respected as equal stakeholders in global peace and stability.

Nuclear superiority and, by extension, counterforce targeting, are thus under-scrutinized assumptions of American national security observers who argue against an extension to the limits of New START. These doctrines are detrimental to the prospects of mending the frayed relationship between the United States, Russia, and China. The American interest in preventing a nuclear war requires robust diplomacy which cannot be predicated upon some fanciful desire for unparalleled bargaining leverage. Arms control agreements are indicative of stable bilateral relations as much as they are a pragmatic tool of engagement and cooperation for nuclear risk reduction.

In other words, the health of the treaty—its endurance, political purchase, and sustainability—mirrors the health of the broader relationship. Commitments to maintain treaty levels, even those in principle, signify a desire to stabilize and improve relations. Despite all the bluster from yesteryear’s strategic minds about needing to maintain a counterforce-capable arsenal to counteract Russia and China’s technical and numerical nuclear advancements, the fact remains that the current American nuclear arsenal is capable of inflicting untold destruction on both countries simultaneously under the New START limit. Likewise, Russia and China can inflict untold destruction on us, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. No targeting doctrine or favorable disparity can guarantee victory any more than it can guarantee collective defeat, for no one knows what Pandora’s box has in store should its contents be unleashed.

The willful expiration of the New START treaty would mark a concerning low in the American regime’s relationship with Russia and bode poorly for trilateral engagement on nuclear disarmament—a mainstay of Trump’s foreign policy instincts. He must resist the subversive influence of neocons who seek to implant their universalist interventionism into his agenda. They care not for restraint but for a fanciful preponderance of American power. Trump should leave their views in the trash heap of history, where they belonged after his 2016 ascendance.

Pursuing nuclear arms control with Russia is one way to start.