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Trump’s Dipomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk? Prefatory Note: The post below is based on modified responses to questions addressed to me by Rodrigo Craveiro, a Brazilian journalist. The focus is what to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from…

"No prospect of brightening skies casting shadow on... Middle East until Palestinian rights are respected... includes honoring international right of return of 7 million Palestinian refugees. There must be campaign to obtain proper accountability for Gaza Genocide"

richardfalk.org/2025/10/17/t...

Inverting Reality: The Optics of Trump’s “Peace” Plan | Countercurrents Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took. Caption: Not the end of war. Not the beginning of peace.

"Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took"

countercurrents.org/2025/10/inve...

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deport...

"Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deported them instead"

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

Dan Steinbock - Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza - Brave New Europe It’s the old truism: Follow the Money! Dan Steinbock is the author of The Obliteration Doctrine and The Fall of Israel, . He is the founder of Difference Group and has served at the India, China and A...

With Kusnher, Rubio, Blair, Israeli Dept. Energy, "awarded licenses for exploration of Gaza Marine Gas Field, to several Israeli & interntnl companies: Eni (Italy), Dana Petroleum (UK/ South Korean company, & Ratio Petroleum (Israel)... violated international law"

braveneweurope.com/dan-steinboc...

EXPOSED: "The Israeli government is paying Google millions of dollars to spread lies about the genocide in Gaza. Google is now Netanyahu’s propaganda machine. Let’s show Google that it’s a mistake to side with war criminals and genocide" Sign petition

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YouTube video by Lex Innocentium European Peace Project : Manifesto For Palestine

Video of recent event in Dublin, Ireland for the European Peace Project : Manifesto For Palestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_U...

YouTube video by Lex Innocentium Lex Innocentium Time Capsule Anniversary Ceremony

Team Lex Innocentium 21st Century at spiritual home, Redwood Castle on 1st anniversary (21st Sept. 2025) of launch of their Civil Society Law - law that declares war to be a crime against humanity, earth & future. They buried a time capsule to be opened 2124...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=81eF...

Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela: What we know, and what’s next Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.

"From late 1800s... US carried out series of military interventions in Central America — so-called Banana Wars — to protect interests of US corporates. Through Cold War, US funded several ops to unseat elected left-wing leaders in Latin American countries"

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

"It's well past time for post-American internet. Every device & service should be designed so people who use them have final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors & digital locks that prevent us from updating... were never good idea...[now] catastrophe"

pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/p...

UN faces ‘race to bankruptcy’ as Guterres unveils sharply reduced 2026 budget The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billio...

"United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026"

news.un.org/en/story/202...

The Impact of Nonviolent Accompaniment 16 Oct 2025 - Third-party nonviolent intervention is the physical presence  of a third party into an area of conflict in such a way as to reduce the level of violence.  Accompaniment of persons in dan...

"To keep clear focused attention amid violence, hate & confusion, requires inner calm. There are techniques... in spiritual training... to stay calm & focused & develop inner vitality so that one ‘s vital energy is not drained away by presence of hostile persons"

www.transcend.org/tms/2025/10/...

YouTube video by Consortium News Chris Hedges: 'Requiem for Gaza' - Edward Said Memorial Lecture 2025

Chris Hedges explains how, "history is a mortal threat to Zionist project... exposes violent imposition of European colony in Arab world... reveals ruthless campaign to de-Arabize an Arab country... underscores inherent racism towards Arabs, culture & traditions"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGqt...

Israel Flipped Out And Killed 45 Palestinians After Running Over Their Own Bomb Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Israel Flipped Out And Killed 45 Palestinians After Running Over Their Own Bomb

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-fli...

US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now

"They get everyone fighting a fake revolution so that nobody thinks about fighting a real one."
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politic...

Medea Benjamin

Oil on canvas.

A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'

Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Germany’s Israel Obsession The fight against anti-Semitism in Germany is empowering those with the closest ties to its fascist past.

This film examines Germany's reworking of its fascist impulses – now by targeting Palestinians, "Arabs", and Jews and those on the left who show solidarity with Gaza's pain.

It's a fascinating case study of where the West is heading more generally: www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed” Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

“'We estimate that nearly one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed”. Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest"

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive...

AS'AD AbuKHALIL: A Return to the Balfour Declaration Donald Trump's twenty-point plan offers nothing political for the Palestinians. It creates a joint U.S.-Israel occupation.  By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News The highly touted picture...

"How can the U.S. square its vague language about the possibility of self-determination for the Palestinians with its direct occupation of the strip?"

consortiumnews.com/2025/10/20/a...

An odd DPP letter and a curious government witness statement – an overall view of the dropped Chinese prosecutions 20th October 2025 * In a few posts last week I wrote about the dropped prosecutions of the two alleged spies for China. These posts were here and, on Friday, at Prospect (click here). Partly publis…

"There is a mess. A major prosecution [Chinese spies] has been dropped & nobody - at least outside of UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) - knows why. But what we can be reasonably certain about is that CPS’s public reasons for dropping the case do not add up"

davidallengreen.com/2025/10/an-o...

What I Learned in Prison About Freedom Civil resistance won’t succeed on material facts alone — faith, suffering, and humility might hold the key to revolution.

Roger Hallam reflects from prison on historic 'enclosure' of religion & importance of spiritual values to social change; plus psychology of mobilisation, because faith communities often tip the balance

rogerhallam.com/what-i-learn...

A gap has emerged between the Irish establishment and the Irish street This sort of gap is being filled by populists across the Continent

"Across Europe, average pro politician is far more liberal on immigration & prison sentencing than average voter [who] wants limits on immigration... & new immigrants to assimilate into local culture, rather than multiculturalism becoming objective of policy."

www.davidmcwilliams.ie/post/a-gap-h...

How and when will our civilization die? Now, I return to the collapse theme.

"I envision that collapse will be both a top-down process & bottom-up process. System will de dismantled from top. Most complex components are shed first, such as most of financial system, global governance, extremely fragmented & modular supply-chains etc"

gardenearth.substack.com/p/how-and-wh...

Nice tribute on the unexpected closure of Bluestockings iconic feminist bookshop in Manhattan

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Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI? - Cal Newport On ​my podcast this week​, I took a closer look at OpenAI’s new video generation model, ​Sora 2​, which can turn simple text descriptions into ... Read more

Cal Newport analyses unfulfilled promises & state of play of AI BigTech

calnewport.com/is-sora-the-...

The 12 questions MPs should really ask about the royal family – if they were allowed As the scrutiny over Prince Andrew’s links with Jeffrey Epstein intensify, there is one arena where his future won’t be debated – parliament. It is time for archaic rules to be updated to allow proper...

After Prince Andrew loses royal title, No Kings Campaign kicks off in England too

www.independent.co.uk/voices/princ...

DOJ whistleblower says he witnessed government officials undermining the rule of law Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice.

60 Minutes featured 1st TV interview by Justice Dept. whistleblower Erez Reuveni, who says he was fired after refusing to lie to federal courts and that DOJ leadership told their subordinates to defy court orders. Implicates Emil Bove, now federal judge.

www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

President Donald Trump Fires Back at 'No Kings Day' by Posting AI Video of Himself Bombing Protesters with Brown Liquid President Donald Trump posted an AI video of himself dumping brown sludge on protesters on his Truth Social platform. His post was in response to 'No Kings Day.'

"In response to nationwide US protests, Trump “posted AI-generated video of himself flying a jet while dumping brown sludge over crowds of protestors.” In the fake clip, Trump is “seen wearing a crown while sitting in a fighter jet marked ‘King Trump'"

people.com/donald-trump...

"The combined wealth of EU billionaires increased by more than 400 billion euros in just six months this year--over two billion euros a day" while ordinary people pay over 80% of total tax revenue

www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...