GAZA’S ENGINEERED COLLAPSE INCLUDES: LOOTING, HUNGER AND LOST CHILDHOODS

Israel’s Genocidal Assault Is Deliberately Unravelling The Fabric Of Palestinian Society. Now Imagine It Is Living Under Crushing Psychological Pressure, For Nearly Two Years.

Since the beginning of this genocide, the Israeli military has targeted thousands of professors, doctors, journalists and public voices across all sectors – pursuing a calculated strategy to strip society of its intellectual and social leadership.

At the same time, the occupation devised a more insidious plan to crush those who remain. It encouraged the looting of the few food trucks allowed in under international pressure, while preventing regular deliveries to warehouses and distribution centres – a clear green light for thieves to attack the trucks, steal supplies and resell them at exorbitant prices to the desperate.

This policy has produced a new social class of looters, enriched by war and theft. And that is precisely the intended outcome: one of the mechanisms of extermination is to encourage the formation of criminal gangs, disconnected from community values or collective purpose, to dominate the new order.

Respected figures in the community – university professors, teachers, doctors, reformers – are not likely to loot trucks or chase after deadly American food drops. They therefore face starvation unless they can scavenge a few scraps to survive.

There is a particular cruelty in this humiliation. Those who once lived with social respect and professional esteem are now being forced down to the very bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy, laboring to secure a plate of poor-quality food for themselves and their children. They find themselves in a society sliding towards savagery, where human relations are increasingly defined by a brutal struggle for survival.

The children of Gaza have changed. Distortion of childhood is not the work of nature. It is the outcome of a deliberate policy sustained by the occupation.

When food used to enter in minimal but sufficient quantities, guarded and delivered to international agencies for orderly distribution, such scenes never existed.

Israel made the decision to attack those very institutions that organized aid distribution, with the explicit aim of drowning Gaza in chaos and tearing apart the foundations of social stability – destroying people’s humanity and pushing them into savagery in an attempt to strip them of moral legitimacy.

Political actors appear unwilling to take the decisive steps needed to halt Gaza’s comprehensive collapse. The devil whispered to Israel and its allied governments the idea of airdropping aid. It was a perfect scheme, delivering a spectacle for the cameras, while having little-to-no real impact in meeting the bare minimum of people’s needs.

Each day, a few planes release their cargo somewhere in Gaza. Children watch, clapping and cheering. Yet the load of a single plane is perhaps equivalent to half a truck. Gaza’s daily minimum requirement is about 500 truckloads. If around 1,000 airdrops are needed each day, what’s the point of 10 or 20?

They serve no purpose beyond media theatre. The children’s applause and excitement can only be explained by the novelty of the experience: for once, planes pass overhead without dropping bombs or missiles. That in itself is a new phenomenon for the people of Gaza.

Before this war, the skies were monopolised by Israeli aircraft of death – and so the children clap at the sight of planes that do not kill them. In this sense, the airdrops might be seen less as offering physical relief, and more as a type of fleeting psychological release; one small way to lighten the otherwise unbearable pressure.

Who could ever measure the damage this war has done to the souls of Gaza’s children?

ISRAEL’S STRIKE ON A FLOTILLA WAS DENOUNCED AS “PREMEDITATED AGGRESSION” BY TUNISIA

This Is After Their Authorities Previously Denied A Similar Incident Targeting Pro-Palestinian Boat In Tunisian Port The Day Before Was An Attack.

A strike on Tuesday targeting a boat from the pro-Palestinian Sumud flotilla to Gaza that was moored near Tunis was “a premeditated aggression”, the Tunisian interior ministry said.

Tunisian authorities had earlier denied that a similar incident the day before was an attack.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international civilian movement seeking to peacefully transport humanitarian aid to Gaza, to break the Israeli siege on the war-torn enclave through international waters.

It is currently located off the coast of Sidi Bou Said near the Tunisian capital, awaiting departure.

Earlier this week, the flotilla organisers reported that two of the boats were targeted by “drone attacks” – the Portuguese-flagged Family Boat on Monday evening and the British-flagged L’Alma on Tuesday evening. No injuries were reported.

In a statement on Wednesday, the interior ministry stated that “the attack that occurred [on Tuesday] on one of the boats moored at the port of Sidi Bou Said was a premeditated act”.

The ministry said all the necessary investigations were conducted to “reveal the whole truth, so that public opinion, in Tunisia and around the world, knows who planned this attack, who collaborated in it, and who carried out its acts”.

“HIJACK AND SABOTAGE” ATTEMPT

The Tunisian authorities, however, had denied that the first incident was an attack.

Based on surveillance videos and eyewitness accounts, flotilla organisers had denounced on Monday “an orchestrated [Israeli] attempt to hijack and sabotage our mission”.

The investigative organization Belllingcat said analysis of footage from the incidents and their aftermath suggest incendiary munitions were dropped on the vessels from the air.

Miguel Duarte, who was on board the Family boat and witnessed the attack, told said that he saw a drone hovering over the vessel before it dropped an explosive device.

“I saw a drone clearly about four metres above my head. I called someone. We were looking at the drone, just above our heads,” he recounted.

The Tunisian National Guard immediately denied any “hostile act or external attack”.

It said they detected “no drone overflights in the area” and mentioned a lighter or a cigarette butt that “set life jackets on fire”, urging the public to follow only “official information” and not “rumours”.

In the evening, the interior ministry backed this version, saying that allegations of a drone attack on the flotilla were “totally unfounded”.

Following these statements, the Tunisian opposition party Ennahda called for the “truth” about the incident.

Ennahda – which, like many Tunisian political actors, activists and journalists, has been the target of the repression orchestrated by President Kais Saied since his coup d’etat four years ago – urged complete transparency towards the public regarding the affair, in order “to protect Tunisia’s national security and sovereignty”.

The United Nations’ special rapporteur on occupied Palestine, Francesca Albanese, who is participating in the flotilla, said while details of the attack have to be verified, Israel has a long history of attacking Gaza-bound ships.

“If it’s confirmed that this is a drone attack, it will be an assault and aggression against Tunisia and against Tunisian sovereignty,” she said.

ISRAELI ATTACKS ON TUNISIAN SOIL

Since his 2019 election, Saied has presented himself as an enemy of “foreign interference”, for which he blames some of the country’s ills. He has also declared himself a champion of the Palestinian cause, regularly denouncing the “Zionist genocide” in Gaza.

Tunisians are largely very sensitive to the Palestinian cause, not least of which is because their own country has been targeted by several Israeli attacks.

On October 1st 1985, an air raid devastated the headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Hammam Chott, a southern suburb of Tunis, where the Palestinian leadership led by Yasser Arafat had taken exile after its forced evacuation from Beirut in 1982.

The bombings killed 50 Palestinians and 18 Tunisians, according to local authorities.

On April 16th 1988, Khalil al-Wazir, better known as Abu Jihad, then the PLO’s second-in-command, was assassinated in his residence in Sidi Bou Said.

And on December 17th 2016, Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian engineer who was in charge of Hamas’ drone manufacturing program, was riddled with approximately 20 bullets at his home in the port city of Sfax.

Another “Sumud” North African convoy, which also departed from Tunisia to break the Israeli siege of Gaza in June, this time by land, had to turn back after being blocked by eastern Libyan authorities, who arrested 13 participants and reportedly mistreated the activists.

Some Libyan news websites suggested that the convoy was stopped at the entrance to Sirte following pressure from Egypt, after Israel urged Cairo to ban any “act of provocation” by pro-Palestinian activists on their territory and any “attempted entry into Gaza”.

Of course, to the Israeli regime, saving Palestinians from starvation is against Israeli policy.

A CANCER-CAUSING AGENT WAS SPRAYED OVER AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS LINKED TO A SECRET ARMY PROJECT

The Army Has Admitted To Spraying A Mysterious Chemical Fog Over Dozens Of Neighborhoods, Which Residents Now Claim Is Giving Them Cancer Decades Later.

These secret tests took place in the 1950s and 1960s, in areas such as St. Louis, Missouri; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Corpus Christi, Texas, and 29 other cities throughout America and Canada.

Over the years, residents in these of densely populated areas, including St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, saw trucks and rooftop devices spraying a thick, foul-smelling fog that stuck to their skin and made many children feel sick.

What the military didn’t tell Americans was that the spray contained zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS), a powder which can cause cancer, kidney damage, or lung problems if inhaled in large amounts over time.

The Army sprayed the cadmium-filled fog to mimic and study how biological weapons may have spread through cities during the Cold War, choosing areas like St Louis because they resembled Soviet cities like Moscow.

While the Army has maintained that the exposure levels were low enough not to cause serious harm, key records from a report examining the fog’s health risks are still missing, leaving many to doubt the claims that the spraying was safe.

Now, former residents from the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex have come forward to reveal that many of them have developed rare forms of cancer, while others in their families have already died from diseases that may be linked to the fog.

Pruitt-Igoe resident Cecil Hughes said: “They didn’t ask our permission. We didn’t ask for them to spray us. My government used me like I was a Guinea pig.”

Although Pruitt-Igoe was demolished in the 1970s, a group of residents, who were children at the time of the spraying, spoke up about the long-term diseases that spread through in their community after the Army testing.

James Caldwell said he was diagnosed with a rare type of lymphoma and added that he believed it’s linked to the spraying since the disease doesn’t run in his family.

Caldwell noted that the fog was sprayed from a flatbed truck that carried a large machine on the back with a big nozzle.

‘You couldn’t even see through it; it was that thick, and it would adhere to our skin,’ Caldwell said.

‘And as far as the guys on top of the buildings, they tried to portray them to us as maintenance workers, but what are the maintenance workers doing in a hazmat suit? They had masks and goggles,’ he added.

Jacquelyn Russell revealed she lost two siblings to cancer, while many of her neighbors had kidney, brain, and eye cancers, which she attributed to the ZnCdS fog.

Former resident Ben Phillips added: “My parents’ friends started dying. I went to 10 funerals, and about seven or eight of them were cancer-related deaths.”

Despite the many residents claiming this Cold War test caused their cancers, there is still no definitive proof connecting the ZnCdS spraying to any health problems, even after 70 years.

Decades after the tests took place, the Army publicly acknowledged it conducted dispersion tests involving zinc cadmium sulfide as part of Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) and other biological warfare experiments.

The tests were designed to study the dispersal patterns of chemical agents, using the St Louis housing projects and many other American neighborhoods as stand-ins for potential Russian targets.

The government’s admission came in the mid-1990s after declassified documents were released, quickly leading to public outrage and a congressional investigation into the safety of the chemical fog.

In 1997, the National Research Council, a non-governmental scientific body, released a 387-page report on the ZnCdS spraying, confirming the Army’s claims that the low levels of ZnCdS being sprayed were safe and were unlikely to cause serious health problems.

However, the NRC report noted that health risks, such as lung cancer, kidney issues, and weakening bones from cadmium exposure, could not be fully ruled out due to limited data on long-term effects.

The NRC report highlighted that some Army records about the ZnCdS tests were missing or still classified, making it hard to know the full scope of what was sprayed in the 1950s and 60s.

Those missing documents included the Joint Quarterly Report 5, a classified report detailing the ZnCdS spraying tests written by a scientist named Philip Leighton, who was involved in the Army’s biological warfare research program.

A Freedom of Information Act request for the missing document filed in May has gone unanswered, despite the law giving the government only 20 working days to respond.

The residents of Pruitt-Igoe have demanded compensation and further studies of the mysterious fog but admitted that whatever is done will come too late to help them.

‘They’re waiting on all of us to die,’ Phillips claimed. ‘And when we die, maybe they’re going to wait for our kids to die.’

Despite residents’ demands, public hearings, and advocacy groups calling for action, the federal government has not provided compensation, issued an official apology, or acknowledged health impacts from the ZnCdS spraying.

There are no records that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducted new health studies, which Missouri state lawmakers requested.

Does that give you an idea of the true nature of the American regime?

THE PENTAGON IS ‘TRACKING’ SERVICE MEMBERS AND CIVILIANS WHO CELEBRATE CHARLIE KIRK KILLING ACCORDING TO DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH

The Pentagon Is “Tracking” Any Comments From Them That Celebrate Or Mock The Wednesday Assassination.

“We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable,” Hegseth wrote Thursday on social media.

Hegseth was responding to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who earlier said it is “unacceptable for military personnel and Department of War civilians to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American. The Department of War has zero tolerance for it,” using the Trump administration’s preferred name for the Department of Defense.

They did not mention any specific examples of personnel who had reacted positively to Kirk’s death.

Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot in the neck at the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday. After a search, officials identified the suspected shooter as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man.

Both Republican and Democratic political figures — including all living former American presidents — have condemned Kirk’s assassination, but a small number of social media users have mocked or celebrated the killing, drawing outrage.

The heads of military services also have warned those under them that any inappropriate comments on Kirk will be met with retribution. Navy Secretary John Phelan cautioned sailors, Marines and civilians they “will be dealt with swiftly and decisively” should they bring “discredit” on the department.

“I am aware of posts displaying contempt toward a fellow American who was assassinated,” he wrote on the social platform X late Thursday. “I want to be very clear: any uniformed or civilian employee of the Department of the Navy who acts in a manner that brings discredit upon the Department, the [U.S. Navy] or the [Marine Corps] will be dealt with swiftly and decisively.”

The official X account for the American Coast Guard, meanwhile, also said it “is aware of inappropriate personal social media activity made by a member regarding recent political violence,” though did not provide specifics.

“That social media activity is contrary to our core values. With the support of DHS, we are actively investigating this activity and will take appropriate action to hold the individual accountable,” according to the post. “We recognize the harm such behavior can cause and remain steadfast in ensuring that the conduct of our personnel reflects the trust and responsibility placed in us by the American people.”

Free speech in America? Oh, sure – dream on.

THE AMERICAN REGIME SHOULD BE SKEPTICAL ABOUT ‘IRAN-BACKED’ MILITANTS

Misleading Israeli Narratives Could Push Washington Toward War. The Fortitude And Capabilities Of The Houthis Cannot Be Explained Away By Alleged Iranian Control.

Israel carried out airstrikes on Thursday that killed the civilian political leaders of Yemen’s Houthi movement. Though they grossly violated international law, the bombings were nonetheless celebrated in Washington.

Corporate media like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported the strikes as a “symbolic and psychological blow” that demonstrated “improved Israeli intelligence” against the Houthis and their Iranian sponsors, while neocons like Mark Dubowitz of the mysteriously funded Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-Israel think tank, applauded the attack on the “Houthi-controlled terror leadership.”

But despite the “mission accomplished” attitude from Israel and its neoconservative loyalists in America, the attacks will likely do very little to stop the Houthis, whose campaigns reflect Yemen’s own history of resistance rather than Iranian control. The group remains extraordinarily independent, producing much of their own weaponry and pursuing a strategy driven by their own political grievances with Israel and the United States.

Their central grievance is the American regime backed Israeli genocide and famine currently being perpetrated against the Palestinians in Gaza, with whom the Houthis identify—because, as political scientist Norman Finkelstein explains, “what was done to Gaza was done to them.”

Before Israel set out to fulfill the demands of its ultra-nationalist politicians to “destroy all of Gaza’s infrastructure to its foundation” and “erase the Gaza strip from the Earth,” Yemen was the country considered to have the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, with over 23 million people in need of humanitarian assistance by 2022.

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, like Gaza’s today, has been entirely man made. More specifically, it has been perpetrated by Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and Israel. They imposed a brutal blockade and bombing campaign that reportedly caused the deaths of nearly 377,000 people in Yemen between 2015 and 2021, more than 85,000 of whom were children who starved to death.

The Houthis’ identification with the Palestinians of Gaza is therefore neither rooted in religious “fundamentalism” nor in subservience to Tehran—it reflects a deep sense of solidarity forged through parallel suffering at the hands of American regime backed clients in the Middle East. This explains why, despite the assassination of its civilian leadership, the Houthis have vowed to “escalate [their] operations as long as Israel continues its policy of genocide and starvation.”

The corporate media largely ignores these motivations, obfuscating the political grievances of Israel’s enemies by recasting them as irrational and intractable. Treating the Houthis as mere Iranian proxies has about as much explanatory power—and serves the same propagandistic function—as George W. Bush’s claim that America suffered the 9/11 attacks because “they hate us for our freedoms.”

By erasing the role of the American regime’s military action on behalf of Israel in generating the very groups that threaten it, Israel and its American lobby are able to portray Houthi attacks as further evidence of a region-wide Iranian conspiracy to destroy Israel. This axis of resistance, the story goes, simply can’t be reasoned with and potentially threatens the United States as well, therefore requiring unlimited funds and unconditional support from American taxpayers.

As the Israeli government pushes President Donald Trump to attack its regional adversaries, Washington ought to be skeptical of Israel’s intelligence about them, especially regarding the purported threat posed by the so-called “Iran-backed” network of militant groups.

It was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s encouragement that the American regime launched its own air campaign against Yemen in March, intense bombing which failed to deter Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes but killed hundreds of civilians. That bombing campaign revealed, among other things, that American regime’s and Israeli intelligence on Yemen remains outdated and often wildly inaccurate. Revealing their ignorance of Houthi operations, the Pentagon may even have relied on anonymous X accounts to coordinate targeting, a method that led directly to airstrikes that killed innocent civilians.

Further evidence of American and Israeli ignorance is the continued deployment of expensive MQ-9 Reaper drones over Yemen, dozens of which have been shot down by Houthi surface-to-air missiles. That the Pentagon is willing to risk hundreds of millions of dollars on these missions underscores how little Washington actually knows about Houthi capabilities and positions.

Yet despite the demonstrable shortcomings of Israeli and American intelligence, American regime analysts continue to treat the Houthis as directed by Iran and motivated by Islamic fundamentalism. Even attacks on American MQ-9 drones are routinely cited as proof of Tehran’s vast arms-smuggling network, which we are told supplies the Houthis with the SAM missiles to bring the drones down.

But as reporting from Drop Site News and other independent media has shown, the Houthi movement produces a substantial portion of its own weaponry, rendering it largely independent of foreign support. That the Houthis keep their arsenals and bases well-hidden and fortified helps to explain why Israel chose to target the Houthis’ civilian political leadership rather than its military commanders.

Houthi self-sufficiency exposes a striking irony: While the Houthi arsenal is in large measure indigenously produced, Israel’s weaponry is mostly foreign made and funded by American taxpayers. Like the bombs that drop every month or so in Syria and Lebanon and every day in Gaza, the bombs that fall on Yemen are financed by Washington.

The persistence of Houthi operations, despite assassination campaigns, bombings, and sanctions, demonstrates that their movement will not be stopped with bombs and bullets. As Trump himself acknowledged after concluding his own airstrikes on Yemen, even though “we hit them very hard,” the Houthis have “a great capacity to withstand punishment,” adding that “there’s a lot of bravery there.”

The fortitude and capabilities of the Houthis cannot be explained away by alleged Iranian control. To reduce them to Tehran’s puppets is to erase their actual grievances and the solidarity with Gaza that drives their campaign.

It is precisely their shared suffering—not foreign directives—that explains why the Houthis have been more willing than any other group in the region to take up arms for Gaza, and why Washington’s blank-check support for Israel’s wars will not stop them. Indeed, it will only deepen their resolve.

ISRAEL AND THE AMERICAN REGIME AGAIN USE DIPLOMACY FOR AGGRESSION IN ATTACK ON QATAR

Devoted To Destroying Gaza, Israel Attacks The American Regime’s Ally Qatar And Exposes Hamas Ceasefire Talks As Yet Another Ruse.

The Israeli bombing of Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar came just two days after president Donald Trump issued what he called his “last warning” to the Palestinian group. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms,” Trump wrote on social media. “It is time for Hamas to accept as well.”

Trump’s terms, outlined in a 100-word document, demanded that Hamas release all remaining captives in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire, with no guarantee of a permanent end to Israel’s mass murder rampage in Gaza. During that pause, the American regime’s proposal stated, “President Trump will guarantee that the parties negotiate in good faith until an agreement is reached.”

Trump made a similar pledge to Hamas earlier this year when he convinced it to free Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander, only to continue supporting Israel’s bombardment and starvation siege upon his release.

This new overture was also in bad faith. As Hamas officials gathered to discuss Trump’s ultimatum, 10 Israeli warplanes entered Qatari airspace and bombed them. Six people were reportedly killed; Hamas claims that its senior leadership survived.

As they did with Iran back in June, Trump and his ally Benjamin Netanyahu had used the cover of negotiations for an act of aggression that sabotaged a potential agreement. Prior to the attack, the Mossad even gave the Qataris assurances that “we will not attack on your soil.” But that was part of the ruse. The American military base in Qatar – the largest in the Middle East – can easily detect incoming attacks, but did not activate its air defenses, a sign that the Trump administration was involved. If it weren’t obvious enough, the Jerusalem Post immediately reported, citing Israeli officials, that Washington “gave the green light for the operation,” as it has for every Israeli act of violence since Oct. 7th and countless before it.

Having facilitated an Israeli strike on an allied country hosting 10,000 American soldiers, the White House delivered an incoherent response. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump “feels very badly about the location” of the Israeli strike. This was a nod to its awkward timing: the Qatari location recently gifted Trump a $400 million Boeing 747-8 luxury jet, along with what the White House touted as $1.2 trillion in investment pledges. And while the attack “does not advance Israel’s or America’s goals”, Trump nonetheless believes that “eliminating Hamas… is a worthy goal.”

Qatar has responded by suspending its mediation efforts. But since Israel broke the last ceasefire in March, the talks have been a farce. Like the Biden administration before it, the Trump team has repeatedly pretended that Hamas is the obstacle even after it agrees to ever-shifting American and Israeli terms. Last month, Hamas accepted a proposal transmitted by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff for the release of 10 living Israeli captives, in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

Netanyahu ignored Hamas and proceeded with his plans to destroy Gaza City, the last habitable area of Gaza after nearly two years of unrelenting Israeli violence. Israel’s latest targets include high-rise buildings that housed tens of thousands of people and multiple human rights organizations, some struck with minimal or no warning. To complete the scorched earth campaign, Israel has ordered everyone sheltering in Gaza City – around 1 million people, half of Gaza’s population – to evacuate.

Deploying his stock propaganda line, Netanyahu claims that he is targeting “terrorist high-rises” used by Hamas for militant activity. In real life, the Israeli leader is implementing the final stage of his plan to force as many Palestinians as possible into permanent exile.

The Israeli military, Netanyahu reportedly explained to lawmakers in May, is “destroying more and more houses” so that Palestinians therefore “have nowhere to return.” He added: “The only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip.” Netanyahu’s top choice remains Egypt to Gaza’s south, but Israeli officials have tried to entice other states, including South Sudan, to absorb Palestinians forced into exile.

The plan was circulated in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7th attack. A leaked military intelligence report, dated Oct. 13th 2023, called on Israel “to bring about a significant change in the civilian reality” in Gaza. Of three proposed options, the “evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai” was identified as “the one that yields positive and long-term strategic results for Israel.”

Nearly two years later, the ethnic cleansing operation in Gaza continues as planned. Its Washington sponsor remains complicit at every juncture, even if that means facilitating Israeli violence against a less important client state.

AN INSULT TO COMMUNISM IS CALLING HARRIS A COMMUNIST

Republicans Called Obama A Communist, When All His Worst Actions As President Were Continuations And Expansions Of Bush’s Policies.

Democrats called Trump a Nazi when his worst acts were continuations and expansions of Obama’s policies.

Now we’re back to calling Harris a communist, while she supports a genocide that Republicans also support.

Calling Kamala Harris a communist isn’t wrong because it degrades Harris, it’s wrong because it degrades communism.

The Biden-Harris administration is knowingly helping the Israeli government wage a campaign of extermination in Gaza that has shocked and horrified the entire world, so obviously the real villain we need to focus on here is Jill Stein.

No serious person believes a bunch of socialists and peaceniks are going to vote for a capitalist warmongering party. Democrats don’t bitch about the Green Party because of lost votes, they do it because they hate being reminded that their party’s a lie and their values are fake.

Democrats saying the Green Party steals their votes makes as much sense as Republicans saying the Green Party steals their votes. The Democratic Party is not a left wing party. It’s a warmongering capitalist party that is presently engaged in genocide and nuclear brinkmanship.

Democrats say the Green Party never gets anything done while the Democratic Party “getting things done” looks like committing genocide in Gaza, facilitating the exploitation and ecocide of capitalism, and promoting nonstop war and militarism. It’s not enough to get things done; the things you get done actually need to be good things.

Does anyone actually believe Harris would win if she committed to an arms embargo on Israel? Or is that just something people are pretending to believe to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians? Because the system is plainly much more corrupt than this.

If Harris pledged to stop sending weapons to Israel unless it ended its assault on Gaza, you’d see the entire pro-Israel faction and the entire military-industrial complex throw all its funding and all its narrative control into supporting Donald Trump. Wealthy donors who’d been lifelong Democrats would pivot Republican for this election. It would suddenly become a mainstream narrative that Harris hates Jews and loves terrorists. A large segment of the mass media would play along. Op-eds would be churned out by liberal Zionist Jews claiming they must now “reluctantly” vote Trump because Kamala Harris wants to kill them.

Does anyone honestly believe Harris could win an election in an information environment like that? Maybe she could, but it would be a lot harder than just continuing to toe the imperial line like she always has. Obviously a lot of people would switch to supporting Harris if she pledged an arms embargo, but would there be enough of them to compensate for all the voters she’d lose in a hysterical all-consuming information op claiming that she’s a closet Nazi? It wasn’t enough when this was done to Jeremy Corbyn.

Harris is a monster, and she’d happily strangle every Palestinian child to death with her own bare hands if it would win her the presidency. But she’s not the problem. She’s just one person. She’s just playing the tune and dancing the dance you need to in order to win a presidential election in the United States. If it wasn’t her it’d be some other monster playing the same tune and dancing the same dance. The real problem is a profoundly corrupt system which promotes the most evil agendas on earth and elevates the very worst people in society to positions of power and influence to ensure the facilitation of those agendas.

Harris isn’t the cause of Washington’s depravity, she’s a symptom of it, just like Trump, and just like Biden. Really the problem is the American empire itself, and all the corrupt mechanisms that keep its gears turning. The slaughter will continue, in one form or another, until the imperial machine is brought down.

Meanwhile things keep getting scarier and scarier in Ukraine. Reuters reports that America is “close” to agreeing to give the Ukrainian military long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia, at the same time Russia says that it will be altering its nuclear doctrine in response to western aggressions.

The more land and troops Ukraine loses the more eager Kyiv and Washington get to escalate to previously unthinkable levels against a nuclear superpower.

We’re seeing free speech eroded in the west as authorities suppress critics of the genocide in Gaza, just as we saw a huge spike in censorship with the NATO proxy war in Ukraine. They say these wars are to protect the west and its values, while ruining the west and its values in order to protect their ability to manufacture consent for these wars. War, genocide and tyranny are the west’s real values.

All art is political. It either opposes the madness of the status quo, supports it, or distracts from it. Creating diversions for people to sedate themselves with in a genocidal brainwashed dystopia on a dying world is a political act, whether you call it political or not.

An artist who says they “avoid politics” while living in the heart of a murderous tyrannical empire is lying. They don’t avoid politics. They are directly participating in politics. And they are participating on the wrong side.

All art either helps open people’s eyes or helps close them. Almost all art in mainstream culture helps close them — either by normalizing and celebrating the madness of this civilization, or by numbing people to the discomfort of it. This is not just political, it’s on the front line of politics.

Politics are downstream from culture, and if the culture you are helping to create is mindlessly drifting along with the current of oligarchy and empire, then you have responsibility for where that stream ends up carrying us.

THERE IS USUALLY JUST TOO MUCH ISRAELI PSYCHOPATHY TO WRITE ABOUT

A Strike In Qatar To Sabotage Peace Talks, A Drone Attack On The Global Sumud Flotilla, An IDF Sniper Who Discussed Killing Civilians Like A Trophy Hunter Talking About Game Animals.

Recent there has been too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals.

The IDF bombed a Doha residential building on last Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss American-Israeli ceasefire proposals, reportedly killing a Qatari security officer and four Hamas aides, as well as the son of the acting Hamas political bureau chief.

President Trump publicly criticized the Israeli attack, but Middle East Eye reports that according to American regime and regional officials the president had actually “blessed” the strike in advance. These would be the same Hamas officials who Trump had just been aggressively threatening to accept his ceasefire proposal or face severe consequences.

Hamas said the following in a statement:

“Targeting the negotiating delegation, as they discussed US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal, confirms beyond doubt that Netanyahu and his government do not want to reach any agreement and are deliberately seeking to thwart all opportunities and thwart international efforts, disregarding the lives of their prisoners held by the resistance, the sovereignty of states, or the security and stability of the region.”

“We hold the US administration jointly responsible with the occupation for this crime, due to its ongoing support for the aggression and crimes of the occupation against our people.”

It’s hard to argue with any of this. Clearly nobody who’s calling the shots in Washington and Tel Aviv has any interest in actually ending this genocide. Which should surprise no one, since people who are committing genocide aren’t typically interested in negotiating ceasefire talks with their victims.

People really need to stop taking seriously the idea that Israel has any intention of ever agreeing to a ceasefire. They’ve made it clear that they’re not going to stop until they’ve kicked all the Palestinians out of Gaza and annexed it, and the Trump administration has made it clear they’re going to support this agenda. It’s time to start believing them.

The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that there has been another drone attack on another activist ship bringing aid to Gaza, with video footage clearly showing something incendiary hitting the boat from above and starting a fire.

The day before, the boat that had been carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists was struck in the same way. A video was released showing something on fire being dropped on the boat from above. Another showed an activist reacting to seeing a drone drop the incendiary object and saying later that he clearly saw a drone. Another video picked up whirring sounds immediately prior to the fire.

Yesterday social media notifications were ablaze with hasbarists trying to claim the first attack was an internal mechanical fire or a cigarette fire, and then when the subsequent footage emerged they shifted to trying to claim it showed a misfired flare from the boat’s own occupants. The evidence is overwhelming that the Sumud flotilla is being attacked by drones, but we can expect the usual spinmeisters to keep pretending to believe obvious lies about it.

These activists are truly risking their lives with their efforts to break the Israeli siege. Their selflessness gives us hope for our species.

A Guardian article titled “The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich” is creating a lot of buzz today because of the incredibly psychopathic quotes it includes from a sniper from Chicago named Daniel Raab.

A joint investigation by the Guardian, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and ZDF connected footage of unarmed civilians being murdered by Israeli snipers in Gaza with social media posts and recorded admissions from the perpetrators. Raab had been tricked by Palestinian journalists into confessing to his crimes in Hebrew under the false promise of anonymity, with footage of his admissions published online last year.

An excerpt from the article:

Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.

“That was my first elimination,” he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.

Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.

“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

Another:

“They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” said Raab, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois before joining the Israel Defense Forces. “That’s what you have snipers for.”

After Salem was shot, his father, Montasser, 51, rushed to the site, and tried to collect his sons’ bodies for burial, but was also fatally injured by a sniper.

If I had murdered people for trying to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones who I had also murdered, I’d definitely be asking myself a lot of questions, but “what was so important about that corpse?” would definitely not be among them.

Gaza has become a hunting ground which is visited by psychopathic individuals who want to experience what it’s like to kill human beings, and it’s always open season. Those bloodthirsty monsters then re-enter our communities and walk among us without consequences.

They get to go commit atrocities and then come back and resume their lives as though nothing happened, like going off to some kind of genocide summer camp. It’s about the most horrific thing you can imagine.

Israel poisons the entire world.

TRUMP SAYS HE PROMOTES A “CHARLIE KIRK ACT” TO ESTABLISH A “MINISTRY OF TRUTH”

It’s True Intention Is To Suppress The Truth And Target Those Who Tell The Truth. He Wants To Totally Eliminate A Free Press And Free Speech.

It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict speech in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act”.

President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on Saturday in which a Trump voter named Elly May blamed the assassination of Republican political operative Charlie Kirk on the press, urging the president to push for legislation which would make “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.”

May frames the idea as a revisitation of the Smith-Mundt Act, but then goes on to describe authoritarian measures which have nothing to do with Smith-Mundt.

“President Trump, as a supporter who voted for you 3 times, I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth,” May says. “I think instead of bringing it back as a Smith-Mundt Act, you name it the Charlie Kirk Act, make it a law, and you make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred, division, and anarchy all across this country. Fines out their ass which will damn near bankrupt their companies should they lie to the American people ever again.”

“Because of their constant lies, a man lost his life, because of the constant hateful rhetoric of calling him a fascist, and a Nazi, and a white supremacist, and a bigot,” May said. “I think this would be a great legacy for him to have a law named after him to force journalists to finally start telling the truth and having the integrity that they have lacked for over a decade.”

“We are on a dangerous path right now with the constant lies and the propaganda,” May says. “And that doesn’t end just at news journalists. It needs to go to content creators who consistently spread lies and propaganda and half-truths across the internet. This needs to end, and people need to start being held accountable for baseless claims over absolute abysmal things.”

“Get this in front of Congress, get this passed as a law, and start holding these news corporations — be they right, left or center — accountable for their behavior,” May concludes.

May has been promoting a Change dot org petition to “Enact the Charlie Kirk Act to Restore Media Accountability,” which as of this writing has tens of thousands of signatures.

“This amended act will hold media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators accountable for the false narratives and erroneous information they spread deliberately or irresponsibly,” the petition reads, proposing heavy fines for those deemed to be in violation.

A couple of issues with this.

Firstly, the Smith-Mundt Act had nothing to do with holding “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people”; it was a Cold War-era law which prohibited official American government propaganda created by institutions like the State Department and the USAGM from being disseminated domestically. This law was controversially revised under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 in the name of combatting Al Qaeda propaganda campaigns in the United States.

Returning Smith-Mundt to its original iteration would be a fine idea. American right wingers tend to make a much bigger deal about the changes made under the Obama administration than is actually warranted — anyone who remembers the lead-up to the Iraq invasion knows the American regine had no trouble getting immensely consequential propaganda circulating throughout the American press prior to 2013. But anything that inhibits the American regime’s ability to disseminate propaganda to Americans might be somewhat helpful, and couldn’t hurt.

But that isn’t what this “Charlie Kirk Act” push is advocating. Smith-Mundt placed restrictions on what the American regime is allowed to do with regard to propaganda, while the proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the American regime sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly. One limits the American regime’s ability to manipulate public information, while the other explicitly expands it. Nobody anywhere is claiming that propaganda generated by the American State Department or USAGM projects like Voice of America got Charlie Kirk assassinated by calling him a Nazi; they’re talking about creating a new law to stomp out the free speech of “media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators.”

The other issue is of course that giving the government the authority to penalize propaganda and lies means giving the government the authority to determine what constitutes propaganda and lies. They could decide it’s a lie to say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, for example, or that it’s propaganda to say the American regime shouldn’t be waging a proxy war in Ukraine. The “Charlie Kirk Act” is being pushed in the name of fighting propaganda, but it would actually be giving the American government unprecedented authority over what Americans are permitted to say on any platform.

This could of course turn out to be nothing and fizzle right away, but when the president of the United States starts pushing for the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to determine what Americans are allowed to say, that’s worth drawing attention to.

You should be amazed at the virality of this whole thing. The American right’s frenzied emotional hysteria about the murder of Charlie Kirk has them promoting an initiative that is not meaningfully different from the Ministry of Truth proposed under the Biden administration’s “Disinformation Governance Board”, which was aborted after massive public outcry from the right. And that was just three years ago.

When everyone’s emotions are running hot, that’s when it’s most important to be intensely skeptical of everything your government does. We learned this lesson after 9/11, we were reminded again after October 7th, and we may very well be getting another lesson with the killing of Charlie Kirk.

AS AMNESTY WARNS OF ‘UNLAWFUL’ DISPLACEMENT – ISRAEL KILLS DOZENS MORE IN GAZA

Amnesty International Urges Israel To ‘Immediately Rescind’ It’s Mass Displacement Order As WHO Vows To Remain In Gaza City.

At least 39 Palestinians, including two young children, are among the latest deaths in Israel’s round-the-clock bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, adding to the 72 Palestinians killed over the last 24 hours, medical sources have said.

Ten of those who were killed since dawn on Thursday were in Gaza City, where Israeli forces are currently conducting a siege and launching daily strikes on residential buildings as they prepare a major offensive against the Palestinian group Hamas.

The Times of Israel, citing Israeli military figures, reported that a total of 200,000 Palestinians have already been forced out of Gaza City in recent weeks, in an operation described by rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday as “unlawful and inhumane”.

In an Israeli attack early on Thursday, two Palestinians were killed, including an infant, and several others injured after tents sheltering displaced people were hit near Yarmouk Street in Gaza City.

Another Palestinian child was killed after Israeli forces opened fire in the Bureij camp in central Gaza, a source from al-Awda Hospital said.

Sources from al-Awda and al-Mahmoudiyah hospitals also reported early on Thursday several deaths and injuries following Israeli shelling of Shujayea district east of Gaza City.

Further south, at least four Palestinians waiting for aid were killed in two separate incidents in Rafah, while one person was killed in Israeli shelling northwest of Khan Younis.

Earlier, Palestinian authorities and medical sources reported at least 72 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza within a 24-hour period on Wednesday.

These figures bring the number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 64,718, with 163,859 wounded, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

FURTHER COMPOUNDING GENOCIDAL CONDITIONS

Israel accelerated its military campaign on Wednesday, with the army attacking dozens of homes in areas of Gaza City in an attempt to push Palestinians out of the area.

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