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Gold mine

New UN report reveals the companies getting rich off Israeli occupation and genocide

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00 UTC
Tanks
© Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire/APA ImagesIsraeli army tanks deploy into the Gaza Strip • May 20, 2025
A new report from UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese uncovers the economic interests benefiting from Israel's genocide in Gaza.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, issued a seminal report on June 30, titled "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide." It focuses on the economic interests benefiting from the current genocide in Gaza.

While the report itself names a lot of names, from states to corporations, banks, and universities, Albanese concludes, "the entities named in the present report constitute a fraction of a much deeper structure of corporate involvement, profiteering from and enabling violations and crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory."

The report comes on the heels of two other major reports by Albanese last year: the "Anatomy of a Genocide" from March 2024 and the "Genocide as Colonial Erasure" in October 2024. In the latter, Albanese identified how Israel was expanding its genocide from Gaza to the West Bank.

Comment: A stun-worthy and deeply disturbing array of participants/corporations/states in numerous capacities have contributed to, made possible, and networked for the eradication of Palestinians, the depths of which are far and deep. A shocking list! And according to the source: This is just 'the tip of the iceberg'.

"The Real Reason the Genocide Hasn't Been Stopped"
You can hear it directly from Francesca Albanese in this 13 minute interview with Chris Hedges

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Magic Wand

Stalin of the EU: How the unelected Queen of the Union plans to keep her grip on power

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:30 UTC
Ursula
© Phillipp von Ditfurth/Getty ImagesUrsula von der Leyen...all that glitters is not gold
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission that runs the EU is finally facing a long overdue no-confidence vote. Its chances of success, all observers agree, are very small. And yet, this is an important moment.

That's because the single most powerful politician in the EU is not, for instance, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz or French President Emmanuel Macron (notwithstanding their own delusions of grandeur), but Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission. Because in NATO-EU Europe, the true measure of power now is the ability to spoil whatever sorry remnants of democracy are still standing. And in spite of very tough competition, von der Leyen is the worst, most corrupting spoiler of them all.

This is due to three facts. The first is structural: The EU was designed not to be a 'democracy' - however flawed - but one big, entrenched, and growing 'democracy deficit'. Its purpose has never been to shaft the US, even if American President Donald Trump can't stop whining about that. The EU's real core function is to extinguish democracy in Europe by shifting genuine power from nation-states with some, if already meagre, popular participation in political decision-making to an unelected bureaucracy, of which the Commission is the center and top.

Comment: Europe, asleep at the wheel, eyelids taped shut, now finds itself without expectation driving off a cliff.

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Bizarro Earth

Dmitry Trenin: The West's war on Russia will go beyond Ukraine

Dmitry Trenin
RT
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:46 UTC
Putin
© Alexander Kazakov/SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin
The trademark style of the current US president, Donald Trump, is verbal spectacle. His statements - brash, contradictory, sometimes theatrical - should be monitored, but not overestimated. They are not inherently favorable or hostile to Russia. And we must remember: Trump is not the 'king' of America. The 'Trump revolution' that many anticipated at the beginning of the year appears to have given way to Trump's own evolution - a drift toward accommodation with the American establishment.

In that light, it's time to assess the interim results of our 'special diplomatic operation'. There have now been six presidential phone calls, several rounds of talks between foreign ministers and national security aides, and sustained contact at other levels.

The most obvious positive outcome is the restoration of dialogue between Russia and the United States - a process that had been severed under the Biden administration. Crucially, this revived dialogue extends beyond Ukraine. A range of potential areas for cooperation have been mapped out, from geopolitical stability to transportation and sport. These may not carry immediate strategic weight, but they lay the groundwork for future engagement. Under Trump, the dialogue is unlikely to break off again - though its tone and pace may shift.

Comment: Strategies applied to a selected outcome are achievable for the betterment of international relations and the resolution of dispute...but only if all parties are willing to agree and able to comply.

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Arrow Down

Patrick Lawrence: Trump dead-ends Putin

Patrick Lawrence
Scheerpost
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump WH
© White House/Daniel TorokPresident Donald Trump • Salute to America celebration • Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines • July 3, 2025
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken by telephone numerous times since the former reassumed office seven months ago. Not much appears to have been accomplished by way of these exchanges, some of which have been lengthy, according to the accounts Washington and Moscow have provided afterward.

No progress toward a durable settlement to end the war in Ukraine. Talk and desultory diplomatic contacts with a view to repairing the profligate damage successive American administrations have done to U.S.-Russian relations, but no substantive advances. O.K., it is what it is, as we say. But there was something singularly conclusive about the telephone conversation the U.S. and Russian leaders had last Thursday.

I detect that a dead end has been reached.
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Warning

Trump eases off Russia sanctions - but the EU is too eager to strangle itself

Rachel Marsden
RT
Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:47 UTC
Ursula
© Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesUrsula von der Leyen
Washington has lifted restrictions on a Moscow-led project in Hungary, but Brussels is eager to starve itself even more.

Looks like Washington is about to steal the EU's lunch. Again.

The Trump administration just lifted sanctions on a Russian-led nuclear project in Hungary, specifically one run by Moscow's atomic energy titan, Rosatom.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said:
"The administration of President Trump has lifted this sanction. This made it possible to guarantee the safety of Hungary's energy supply in the long term. Finally, there is a kind of presidential administration in the United States which respects the reality of the map, takes it into account. We are not a country with a large number of oil and natural gas factories surrounded by dry land. Thus, our sustainable, cheap and safe electricity supply can only be provided by nuclear energy."
Translation:
"Listen up, you overcaffeinated Brussels bureaucrats running this group project from hell. We were just fine running on Russian oil and gas until you snatched it away like a juice box from a toddler. Now you're scolding us for not pulling new energy out of thin air? Fine. We're going nuclear. With Russia."
Enter Paks 2, Hungary's next-gen nuclear project, pronounced "Paksh" as in "Paksh me another reactor, Vladimir." This Rosatom-led deal was frozen under Biden-era sanctions. Now with Trump back, Hungary's firing it up again.
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Star of David

'Abraham Shield': Israel's next big blitzkrieg

Aniss Raiss
The Cradle
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:26 UTC
The Abraham Shield is certainly not a peace plan, but rather a war blueprint cloaked in the PR language of mutual stability and prosperity.
The Abraham Alliance
© The Cradle
Days after the 12-Day Israel-Iran war, drivers in Tel Aviv were greeted by a colossal digital billboard lined with familiar faces: Persian Gulf royals in pristine robes, Arab presidents in pressed suits, all grouped under a bold banner - The Abraham Alliance.

There was no clarification of who had formally signed on, no footnote about "ongoing consultations." The image made no distinction. The message was clear: Whether officially declared or discreetly aligned, these governments had already enlisted in the occupation state's regional vision.

For years, Arab governments have played both sides - issuing statements of solidarity with Palestine, while coordinating airspace, intelligence, and investments with Tel Aviv. Saudi Arabia repeatedly claims it will not normalize without movement on Palestinian statehood, even as Israeli jets crisscross its skies and business delegations are quietly exchanged.

So did the billboard reveal the truth? Or, simply confirm what has long been denied?
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Star of David

From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the US

Carrie Zaremba
Mondoweiss
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:56 UTC
columbia university pro palestine protest
© Tamara TurkA student is confronted by a New York Police Department officer outside Columbia University on October 7, 2024.
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.

By the time DHS agents showed up at Mahmoud Khalil's door, a full-spectrum campaign had already marked him as a target. Columbia professor Shai Davidai had posted Khalil's name and image online, called him a terrorist, and urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to deport him. The smear was picked up by a network of doxxing accounts like "Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus," which publicly lobbied for the revocation of Khalil's visa. Rubio repeated the call, Khalil received death threats, and the university stayed silent. Then, federal agents arrived. A professor's tweet had become a trigger for federal enforcement. A tweet, a tag, a dossier — these were the new informant files. This time, professors, NGOs, and anonymous social media accounts were the new operators.

This episode captures a defining feature of our current conjuncture: counterinsurgency is no longer the exclusive domain of state intelligence agencies. It has been privatized, digitized, and reframed as "civic action," with Zionist nonprofits, right-wing law firms, and data-harvesting platforms organizing in concert with universities and police departments to neutralize Palestine organizing.
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Gavel

Supreme Court lifts block: Trump can move forward with mass layoffs of federal workers

Melissa Quinn
CBS News
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:30 UTC
trump supreme court okay fire fed workers
The Supreme Court has lifted the block allowing the Trump administration to begin shrinking the size of the federal bureaucracy.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked sweeping layoffs of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies while a legal battle over President Trump's plans to drastically cut the size of the government moves forward.

The high court's order clears the way for the Trump administration to resume its efforts to reorganize and scale back the federal government, which has been led by the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

The Justice Department turned to the Supreme Court for emergency relief after a federal judge in May ordered a halt to the job cuts and enforcement of other orders by DOGE to slash programs or staff.
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Bad Guys

Biden's White House doc takes the 5th, refuses to answer House GOP questions

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:19 UTC
Kevin O'Connor biden doctor mental decline hid
Kevin O'Conner and Joe Biden
After requesting to delay his testimony, Kevin O'Connor - former President Biden's White House doctor, refused to answer questions during a deposition in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, according to a statement from his legal counsel that cites doctor-patient privilege and constitutional rights against self-incrimination.

"Earlier today, Dr. Kevin O'Connor asserted the physician-patient privilege, as well as his right under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in declining to answer questions from the staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding his service as Physician to the President during the Biden Administration," reads the statement.
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Star of David

Saying the quiet part: Israel defense minister unveils plan for 'concentration camp' in Gaza

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:54 UTC
Defense Minister Israel Katz gaza concentration camp
© Amir Levy - Getty via NYTimesDefense Minister Israel Katz: "Citizens will be concentrated in the south...understanding there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza."
With Gaza ceasefire negotiations under way and President Trump raising hopes of a deal being reached by week's end, Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday revealed that the IDF will create what it calls a "humanitarian city" in the wasteland that is Rafah, and then forcibly concentrate Gaza's entire population of nearly 2 million people inside it.

Though the Israeli government and its advocates will likely to condemn already-widespread usage of the term "concentration camp" to describe this undertaking -- likely claiming it's somehow antisemitic given the parallels to Nazi Germany -- it's unambiguously applicable under the Merriam-Webster definition of the term:
concentration camp (noun) a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard

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