From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (180)

tim anderson@timand2037

In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.

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When I was 6 years old, Israel dropped bombs disguised as toys on us in Lebanon. New report reveals that Israel left behind bombs disguised as toys in Gaza. But keep talking about Israel not targeting children.

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Palestinians are still being massacred daily. Still being starved. Still being bombed. Still having their homes demolished and stolen. There is no ceasefire and never has been. The genocide continues. This white supremacist apartheid monstrosity must be stopped.

Israel and the U.S. appear determined to keep Gaza starving. Three weeks into the ceasefire, Israel is letting in less than 24% of the agreed aid levels — just 145 of the minimum 600 trucks per day promised. Even so, as Hamas reasserted control and dismantled Israeli-backed looting gangs, UN data shows looting has collapsed by nearly 95%.

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The entrance to Beit Hanoun…

Located at the far north of Gaza — my city, my home, the place where I was born.

Today, it has become rubble and ashes — completely destroyed.

Every time I watch this video, my heart aches again, as memories of my life and childhood there come rushing back.

All that remains are longing, the pain of loss, and images that will never fade from my memory.

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In violation of Trump’s ceasefire deal, Israel continues starving Gaza

Since the start of the ceasefire, Israeli occupation authorities allowed entry of only 3,203 truckloads to Gaza — including 639 commercial and 2,564 aid trucks.

That means just 145 trucks per day, instead of the agreed 600 — only 24% compliance.

Fuel and power deliveries were even worse:

Gaza received only 115 fuel/energy trucks out of 1,100 promised — just 10%.

Breakdown of commercial trucks:

293 food

220 mixed goods

82 clothing

23 household supplies

10 equipment

6 fuel

4 medical

1 spare-parts

These figures expose Israel’s continued blockade — restricting food, fuel, and essentials for hospitals, bakeries, and vital services.

A deliberate policy to starve and break Gaza, in blatant violation of the agreement and international humanitarian law.

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Israeli settlers attacked the village of Kafr Qaddum and the lands of Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank, in ongoing assaults targeting Palestinian farmers and their property under the protection of Israeli forces.

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President Xi announced that China has chosen Shenzhen of Guangdong Province as the venue for the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in November next year.

Shenzhen is a modern international metropolis that only decades ago was a primitive fishing village. Its transformation is a miracle in world history created by the Chinese people. It is also an important window showcasing China’s steadfast commitment to the mutually beneficial strategy of opening up.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Shenzhen next year.

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All Gaza’s neighbourhoods contain unexploded israelis bombs that threaten civilian lives, says Civil Defence Spokesman Mahmoud Basal

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This War Could Have Ended So Many Times

Jeffrey Sachs: Now Europe is in this unbelievable warmongering period led by the German chancellor, of all people and all countries, absolutely unpleasant, Merz, Macron, Starmer.

In 2023, I had a conversation with President Macron. And I said, “Mr. President, this war came from NATO enlargement.” He said, “You’re absolutely right.” I said, “Mr. President, this war could end if NATO would just be clear that it’s not going to enlarge Ukraine.” “You’re absolutely right.” Yes, nice conversation. He said exactly the opposite in public, and until today says exactly the opposite.

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In a typically bellicose, faux-patriotic, and inaccurate speech, Farage put rhetoric over reason. He made a number of claims about the EU, which of course was not even invented at the time of the ECHR. Producing a series of bizarre examples which he claimed showed the ECHR undermining British laws, Farage failed to acknowledge the many advantages and protections it gives us.

The ECHR came into force in the aftermath of the Second World War, to safeguard against violations of human rights. It aimed to enshrine a ‘never again’ commitment to prevent the atrocities seen under fascist regimes. Drawing inspiration from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ECHR upholds basic human rights, a benchmark in every country. Many of the human rights protections people enjoy across Europe today arise from the work of the court — including the right to asylum, free speech, religion, assembly, and privacy, as well as press freedoms and protections for LGBT+ communities.

It is fundamentally wrong to suggest that the ECHR only protects the rights of people who live elsewhere in Europe. The ECHR — which is not a foreign court, but part of the legal system — has protected people in the UK from torture, unlawful killing, slavery, and arbitrary detention. Stripping individuals of a final avenue for justice when domestic courts fail, the decision to exit the the ECHR risks the rights of us all. Let us also not forget the centrality of the ECHR to the Good Friday Agreement — withdrawal would pose a needless risk to the peace process.

Let’s get serious. We know what Farage’s speech was about. He is upset that the ECHR — and the 1951 Refugee Convention — protects the human right to asylum. It was the ECHR that stopped the Rwanda scheme, we’re told. Good! That means it works: it prevents profoundly cruel and immoral policies that fail to treat refugees like human beings.

Those who arrive on our shores are not ‘boat people’. They are human beings, exercising their legal right to asylum. As Warsan Shire writes in her poem Home, ‘no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land’. If Reform were serious about putting people smugglers out of business, they would advocate for safe routes for people seeking asylum. That is what a humane system of immigration looks like.

We are witnessing rising levels of racism in our society. I have been horrified by the protests outside migrant hotels. Imagine risking your life to make it across the Channel. And imagine ending up in a hotel, looking out of the window, and seeing a crowd of people shouting at you to ‘go home’. What has happened to our humanity when we are abusing some of the most desperate people on our planet? And do you know what? Tomorrow they’ll be our teachers, doctors, street cleaners, carers, neighbours, and friends.

The great dividers want you to think the problems in society are caused by migrants and refugees. They’re wrong. They’re caused by an economic system that protects the interests of the super-rich. That’s why 4.5 million children live in poverty. That’s why people’s water bills continue to rise. That’s why tenants in private sector flats are paying well over half their take-home pay to keep a roof over their head.

I was a member of the Council if Europe for 5 years. In my experience, the issues of human rights are taken very seriously. Yes, the ECHR needs better resources and be more efficient. There ought to be a much stronger education programme in every single one of the member states that adheres to the ECHR about what human rights mean. The danger of the current debate is that we simply throw away the huge advances we have made, and make the next generation vulnerable to the populist, dangerous rhetoric of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, and the forces that are trying to turn this country into a place of division, hatred and fear.

Our message should be rather simple: human rights matter — and we are not going to let Farage take them away.

Mathew Forstater@mattybram

Fadhel Kaboub explains why the UN Sustainable Development Goals are unachievable under the current global economic architecture.

Listen to his intervention here: https://youtu.be/sAXSvhR40EQ

The full two-hour panel discussion is available here via UN Web TV: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k1ij7d8kia

Relearning Economics@RelearningEcon

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“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”

–Richard P. Feynman

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A young Gazan boy, who lost his hands in the Gaza war, asked the Colombian president:

“Are you afraid of U.S. threats?”

The president replied firmly: “I will never abandon you, and I fear neither the U.S. nor Trump.”

He then met with the boy and several other children from Gaza

Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen

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Zelensky in March 2022 (before the US & UK sabotaged the Istanbul peace agreement): “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives“

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1985675183529869787

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DD Geopolitics@DD_Geopolitics

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“Let them watch.” — Putin

As President Putin revealed, a NATO reconnaissance ship hovered near the test site while Russia’s Burevestnik-21 missile was being tested and the Russian side made no effort to obstruct them.

Burevestnik (“Storm Petrel”) is Russia’s nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile, designed for virtually unlimited range and unpredictable trajectories. It has no analogues.

Putin states clearly:

“It surpassed all known missile systems in the world in terms of flight range… and it hits its target with high precision at a predetermined time.”

Richard@ricwe123

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Orwellian quote of the day: “Ukraine is not losing, but the front is moving in the wrong direction”

(Marc Rutte, NATO Secretary General)

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I’ve just finished @StarmertheFraud and it’s honestly one of the most shocking political books I’ve ever read. Paul Holden goes deep into how Keir Starmer and his team reshaped the Labour Party from the inside, using leaked documents and inside accounts that are hard to ignore.

What stood out to me most was how calm and detailed it is. It’s not a rant, it’s a forensic breakdown of how democracy can be twisted by people who claim to protect it. The amount of evidence he’s managed to pull together is unreal, and it completely changes how you see modern politics in Britain.

It’s gripping, disturbing and absolutely essential if you care about truth in politics. I couldn’t put it down.

5/5 – everyone should read this.

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Afshin Rattansi@afshinrattansi

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“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use them against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”

—Dick Cheney. His lies killed over a million Iraqis, destroyed a nation, and he profited through all of it via his massive holdings of Halliburton stock, which was given approximately $39.5 billion in no-bid reconstruction contracts.

Going Underground@GUnderground_TV

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs outlines how Dick Cheney, while Defense Secretary, wasn’t content with the dismantling of the Soviet Union, he wanted to see Russia dismembered and broken up into small countries. War criminal Dick Cheney passed away today at 84.

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BREAKING: Colombian President Petro has just announced from Egypt his plan for the reconstruction of Gaza.

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This is rare enough to be highlighted: an actually good Financial Times article on the state of the AI “race” between the U.S. and China.

Three interesting points that stood out to me:

1. The fact that “for a general-purpose technology such as AI, long-term advantage often comes down to how widely and deeply technologies spread across society.”

   This is because, at the risk of pointing the obvious, benefits from a new technology come from using it widely, not just creating it. You wouldn’t get any benefit from discovering the steam engine in and of itself: what drove productivity gains (and ultimately Britain’s advantage in the industrial revolution) was spreading and using this technology in its society.

   And China has advantages here, as the article notes, since they’re unarguably better at orchestrating society-wide transformation, as that’s all they’ve been doing for the past 3 decades.

2. The point that US semiconductors export controls actually helped China in AI since they “pushed Chinese companies towards a different playbook: pooling compute, optimising efficiency and releasing open-weight models.”

   This is extremely ironic as the US effectively pushed China to develop models that are a) more efficient (since operating under constrains the U.S. doesn’t have) and b) open-source (since China has constrained compute).

   Which turns out to be the better strategy for global diffusion: if you’re a company in say Germany or Brazil, you can download Qwen or Deepseek, run it locally, fine-tune it for your market, and never worry about API rate limits (and worry less about costs since the models are more efficient and you don’t have an AI unicorn taking a cut every time you run a query).

3. The oft-ignored point of societal enthusiasm. As the article notes: “The public in China [is] the most optimistic in the world about AI — far more than in the US or the UK… Optimism can be a powerful fuel”

   I often lament about this as a European: we often have a doomist take on new technologies (AI very much included), which is a huge repellent for entrepreneurship and technological diffusion. And that ultimately hurts Europe a lot in many ways, precisely because of the first point above: advantages from new technologies come down to how widely and deeply it spreads in society.

   If China is the most enthusiastic country in the world about AI, this in and of itself will help drive the widespread adoption that, per point 1, is what actually matters for long-term competitive advantage.

Aipamena

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Israel has held Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as a political prisoner for decades.

He’s been tortured and silenced, but the world hasn’t forgotten him.

Join the global call: Free Marwan Barghouti! Read more: https://commondreams.org/opinion/release-marwan-barghouti

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BREAKING: In a blatant violation of the fragile ceasefire, Israeli tanks and helicopters are now firing toward eastern Gaza City.

Since the deal was signed, Israel has repeatedly breached the agreement, targeting civilians and bombarding eastern Gaza.

Trita Parsi@tparsi

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Israeli soldiers harass a little Palestinian girl and take her bicycle. If soldiers were bullying a child like this in any other country, half of Washington would be calling for military intervention to stop it.

But when Israel does it, the US funds it.

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A little girl found a bag of noodles and opened it. It exploded in her hand, and her finger had to be amputated. The girl thought it was food but it was stuffed with explosives

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“The billionaire class who have only two concerns, making our cities safe for billionaires and making our cities safe for Israel, they mobilized fanatically to stop Zohar al-Mamdani...”

—Professor Norman Finkelstein

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BREAKING:

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said that “Defending Venezuela is defending the sovereignty of Latin America.”

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin:

“Those who are dragging European countries, into a new war with Russia…we do not send our tanks to their borders, but we have something to answer with. And it will not end with the use of armoured vehicles.”

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Zelensky’s official social media accounts posted a video of him standing beside a neo-Nazi banner and shaking hands with soldiers who donned SS insignia on their uniforms. The Ukrainian Armed Forces; the only armed forces on Earth where it’s commonplace for soldiers to wear Nazi insignia… But of course ‘no Nazis in Ukraine!’

Zelensky in 2022: “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukrain and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives.”

He knew Washington’s plan was to use Ukraine’s people as cannon fodder, he went ahead with it anyway.

Dagny Taggart@DagnyTaggart963

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Emmanuel Macron stated that Europeans should not rely on social media for news and need to return to traditional state media. Speaking on Wednesday in Paris, he said that people are “completely wrong” to use social media for information and should instead rely on journalists and authoritative media. According to him, social platforms are destroying the foundations of democratic discussion.

France and its allies, he warned, have shown “naivety” by allowing foreign platforms and algorithms, which no longer respect neutrality, to shape public debates. He wants to develop a new “European protection and regulation program.” Essentially, this is a plan to establish strict political control over the digital sphere. Macron also did not forget to blame Russia for his problems.

Summary : the little wanna be Napoleon is upset that people are searching for less bias information and rejecting state media propaganda.

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China to Washington: Cooperation with Venezuela “is not directed against any third party.”

Beijing responded to U.S. media reports claiming Maduro sought support from Russia, China, and Iran amid rising tensions in the Caribbean.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China’s partnership with Venezuela is based on “sovereign equality” and condemned unilateral sanctions or military pressure that threaten Latin American stability.

Mao Ning also called on the U.S. to respect international law and maintain “normal judicial and police cooperation,” a subtle warning as U.S. naval and air operations expand near Venezuela and Colombia.

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A displaced girl from Gaza documents her daily routine inside the tent after being forced to flee for the 10th time.

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New footage shows armed Israeli settlers in Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, draining a Palestinian family’s water tank, wasting the water and blocking their livestock from drinking the water as well.

RussiaNews @mog_russEN

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Putin: The Russian Federation seeks friendship with all peoples of the world.

The peoples of the planet can unite around shared values — this is what drives Russia’s culture.

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BREAKING : As part of the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza, Al-Qassam Brigades have handed over the body of an Israeli prisoner to the Red Cross.

Yet beneath the ruins, the bodies of 10,000 Palestinians remain, still waiting to be recovered.

“We do that to classes, to intimidate the Palestinians,” admitted an Israeli soldier.

On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Old City of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, ordering Palestinians to shut their shops, enforcing a curfew, and blocking residents from reaching schools, universities, workplaces, and hospitals.

Soldiers pointed their rifles at civilians and journalists alike to secure a provocative march by extremist settlers through the Palestinian city.

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“They placed this so-called ‘yellow line’ so people can’t go there but why can’t we?” asks a Palestinian man in North Gaza near the boundary. “Our homes are there. We can’t even cross to get our winter clothes.”

This partition, introduced under the first phase of U.S.-brokered ceasefire in October 2025, now divides Gaza, with Israeli occupation forces maintaining control over nearly 60% of the Strip. The Israeli occupation painted yellow concrete blocks every few hundred meters to mark the new limit of its occupation, turning once-lively neighborhoods like ones in Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Al-Shujaiyah into a militarized no-go zone. Civilians are shot at when they attempt to go near it, even just to the rubble of their homes. This left many Palestinians wondering whether the “yellow line” will be used for further division and displacement, an attempt to bring a slow annexation unfolding under the guise of a ceasefire.

ebrahim_saeed2 (IG)

Eye on Palestine@EyeonPalestine

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Jabalia is sinking into a scene of massive destruction caused by the ongoing Israeli war on the Strip.

Homes have been leveled to the ground, streets have lost all their features under the rubble.

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HORRIBLE : An Israeli soldier has shared a boastful Instagram video, set to music, showing the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza Strip ,a city the Israeli army has wiped off the map.

Not a single house remains standing.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848

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It looks like they invited Zelensky to eat the scraps!

Russia warns: the EU will have problems if they steal Russian assets!

At the latest briefing, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke about the situation surrounding the crisis in Ukraine.

Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

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BREAKING: China firmly supports Nigeria’s path for independent development, FM spokeswoman Mao Ning said

susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى@susanabulhawa

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I’m excited to announce a forthcoming anthology, EVERY MOMENT IS A LIFE: GAZA IN THE TIME OF GENOCIDE, published by @OneSignalPub, and available for pre-order at any bookseller.

This book was born from a series of eight writing workshops that I held in Gaza with young people under the auspices of the Culture & Free Thought Association (CFTA) in 2024.

The collection comprises short stories from 18 talented individuals. Each is a small window into their lives as they struggle to survive a genocide.

You’ll read about waiting in line to use a shared bathroom, or to buy bread; about letting go a precious bed frame to have firewood; about childbirth, friendship, a cup of coffee by the sea, and delirium born of chaotic thoughts; about losing an aunt, rescuing clothes, mending a shoe, going from tent to tent, finding transportation, buying diapers, hiding books, and the terror of getting detained when you’re deaf; about raising someone else’s toddler; about family and a prayer to have something left.

I’m grateful to my friend, renowned author Huzama Habayeb, who edited the Arabic originals once we compiled all the stories. I’m proud of each of the wonderful writers who contributed to the book. And I’m honored to play a part in ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza tell their own stories, in their own voices, with an understanding and intimacy that no one but they possess.

@aleksbrz11

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BREAKING NEWS

Vladimir Putin:

‘Poseidon’ and ‘Burevestnik’ will ensure ‘strategic parity for the WHOLE 21st CENTURY’

Putin congratulates the engineers behind Russia’s latest nuclear-powered weapons

Technology unmatched in the West

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Freed Palestinian detainee Thaer Jihad Hithnawi reunited with his family after being freed from Israeli occupation prisons, following three years of administrative detention.

World Affairs@World_Affairs11

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BREAKING:

China warns the US that if the US wants nuclear war, it will be wiped out with nuclear war, if the US wants to destroy china , the US will be destroyed.

China also said that there is only state with hydrogen bomb that is china.

RussiaNews @mog_russEN

UNUSUAL:

Zelensky, from inside his underground bunker near the DPR hub of Dobropolye, awards medals to the notorious Nazi fighters of “Azov”

.. -: Bunker… Nazis… This scene seems familiar from the movie Downfall!

-: He visited Dobropolye! — Usually a sign of impending fall. Avdiivka, Artemovsk, everything is working..

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JUST IN:

Belarusian President Lukashenko said the hypersonic Oreshnik missile will enter combat service in Belarus as early as December.

He also warned the West, “Don’t push your luck, we can strike if things go badly“

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“2 million Arabs in Israel live in equality”, they say

This is their equality

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Israeli settlers storm the Old City of Hebron under the protection of the occupation army.

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How it started: Don’t be evil How it’s going:

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

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THE ISLANDER@IslanderWORLD·

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Belgian MEP Mark Demesmaeker ripped the mask off:

“I skip meals so my children can eat in winter.”

“I am dying from cold, from lack of heating and medicine.”

These aren’t wartime metaphors. These are real letters he receives, from real people, and reflect an EU devouring its poor to feed the military-industrial beast.

The two Europes are no longer theoretical. One half shivers in silence. The other half cashes in. Rheinmetall, the German arms giant, is booming. Meanwhile, Europe’s working class is starving, stripped of heat, medicine, and dignity.

Let’s call this what it is, a continental betrayal. They said this was about defending democracy. But Europe is no longer governed. It’s collateralized. Your suffering is someone else’s stock dividend. Your pension? Gone to fund a failed counteroffensive. Your hospital budget? Redirected to buy American-made missiles.

And for what? To fight Russia, a “gas station with nukes”, that the collective might of nato still can’t beat after 19 rounds of sanctions and de facto all out war. While Russia’s economy grows, Europe shrinks. While Russia secures energy flows, Europe imports inflation. And while Russia builds trade with the Global South, Brussels builds walls around its own people.

This isn’t the EU of De Gaulle’s dream. It’s a military annex of Davos. Run by technocrats, not patriots. Legitimized by fear, not votes.

Demesmaeker’s words cut through the fog:

“We must get out of the Brussels bubble.” But Brussels isn’t a bubble anymore. It’s a fortress. Guarded by lobbyists. Airlocked from reality. Impervious to the howl of hungry citizens.

They’ll send your sons to the front. They’ll send your daughters to the war factory. They’ll send your savings to Raytheon. And when it’s over, they’ll send you the bill, with interest, paid by the blood of your future generations.

What they call “resistance” is just redistribution, from the poor to the war profiteers. Europe doesn’t need more tanks. It needs justice. It needs heat, food, medicine, it needs its future back.

But there’s no money in peace. So they will drain you dry.

Russia didn’t do this to Europe. Europe did this to itself. With Davos doctrine. With imperial hubris. With the iron delusion that its own people were expendable in a war no one voted for.

The next time they say “support Ukraine,” ask them: At what cost? And to whom?

Because the people already know. They feel it in their bones. And winter is coming

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1985788052820934730

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Front Line Defenders@FrontLineHRD

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pocalypsis pocalypseos ?

@apocalypseos

Venezuela is the red line:

“Iran, Russia, and China will not allow these jackals to open their eyes,” says Iranian journalist Hayal Muazzin

Russian State Duma Deputy Alexei Zhuravlev has confirmed the urgent delivery of Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E air defense systems to Venezuela, signaling Moscow’s readiness to escalate military support as a U.S. carrier group approaches.

The Immediate Threat

The New York Times reports that senior Trump advisors have prepared three offensive options against Venezuela:

– Air strikes on military bases to weaken support for Maduro

– Deployment of Navy SEALs to capture or assassinate President Maduro

– Counter-terrorism units to seize airports, oil fields, and key infrastructure

Zhuravlev emphasized Russia “does not see any obstacles” to supplying advanced weapons, including Kalibr cruise missiles. “We supply almost the entire range of weapons—from small arms to aircraft,” he stated.

A History of Covert Intervention

The crisis is further shadowed by the recent FBI manhunt for Jordan Goudreau, former U.S. Special Forces operative and CEO of Silvercorp USA. Goudreau led the failed Operation Gideon in 2020, a privately organized attempt to capture President Nicolás Maduro that ended with the arrest of his mercenaries on Venezuelan shores. His current fugitive status highlights the blurred line between U.S. government policy and private military ventures in the region.

Strategic Calculations and Diplomatic Alignments

European leaders are notably avoiding the upcoming EU-CELAC summit in Colombia, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen among key absences. According to Bloomberg, this reflects a desire not to provoke U.S. President Donald Trump, revealing heightened Western caution as Washington adopts an increasingly aggressive stance in Latin America.

Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov has also weighed in, questioning the sincerity of U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s statement that the “era of regime change” is over. Noting Gabbard’s isolation in the administration, Pushkov suggested she may be playing good cop while colleagues prepare for the removal of Maduro, with opposition figure Corina Machado positioned as Washington’s preferred successor.

Regional Flashpoint

Venezuelan forces now patrol key borders with Russian-made anti-ship missiles, while U.S. airspace closures near Puerto Rico and reports of a carrier strike group moving toward the Caribbean indicate imminent operations. As Iranian journalist Hayal Muazzin, who publishes in Russian, put it: “Iran, Russia, and China will not allow these jackals to open their eyes in the region.”

The Caribbean has become a geopolitical tinderbox, with Venezuela emerging as the frontline of a new era of strategic competition—where U.S. military pressure converges with Russian, Chinese, and Iranian resolve, creating the potential for unprecedented escalation.

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Alternative News@AlternatNews

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Zelensky wants more money, to keep his gang going. He wants to beat Russia

In the meantime his soldiers are desperate. Desperate to get out alive.

This is a boy whose recording made it out, via Starlink. Alas, he is now dead. Zelensky does not care.

They deserve better! RIP!

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A British spin-doctor working for Israeli firm Elbit, whose UK factories have been arming the genocide in Gaza, boasted she planted an evidence-free story in the Times about Palestine Action being funded by Iran, a witness tells Private Eye.

The smear helped the Starmer government justify declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group – the first time in British history a direct-action group has been proscribed.

The Met has wasted many millions of pounds in public funds arresting pensioners for holding signs in support of Palestine Action‘s efforts to disrupt the supply of weapons from Britain to Israel.

More here:

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Match Euskal selekzioa-Palestine : la vente de billets est ouverte | Sport | MEDIABASK

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El Catalunya-Palestina ja té data i estadi: les parts implicades han arribat a una entesa via

@elnacionalcat

1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)