"apropos"
Occasionally selected sources
26.4.2025
Democracy Now! - Verbrecherischer Staat Israel
Die Ermordung der Photographin Sepinaeh Farsi
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tk2mGkl4alc
25.4.2025
Politis: France/Nord-Afrique
https://75wuk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsEagCbgEHEETY1oJPhtUy/nS5lezYETLvp
21.4.2025
Bruttel: Why SARS-CoV-2 was a Lab-Manipulated Virus, in 10 Key
Points
https://vbruttel.substack.com/p/why-sars-cov-2-was-a-lab-manipulated
15.4.2025
Inside the CIA: On Company Business
(1980 Documentary by Allan Francovich)
May 26, 1980
The very US government plot to murder
https://odysee.com/@swprs:3/inside-the-cia-on-company-business-1980:3
9.4.2025
Counterpunch: Particularly after its illegal actions against
Palestine and Yemen, the United States must be regarded as the
world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/04/beyond-signalgate-understanding-the-real-scandal-in-yemen/
27.3.2025
Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in
Africa
(Former ambassador of the African Union to the US)
USAID doesn’t have much to show for its decades of education
and healthcare projects in Africa and often destabilised
countries under the guise of environmental, human rights or
social justice agendas.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5mFSRb5dUOMv=5mFSRb5dUOM
23.3.2025
Counterpunch: Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud
Khalil and the Rise of State Terror
The equating of dissent with terrorism is a central feature of
authoritarian regimes. The end point of which is the torture
chamber, prisons, concentration camps, and the death of any
vestige of human rights, civil liberties, and democracy.
Today, those same logics of power are being reanimated under
the guise of national security, as Trump’s government
systematically dismantles the right to protest, the sanctity
of citizenship, and the democratic ideals that once stood as a
bulwark against tyranny.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/21/abducting-bodies-silencing-dissent-mahmoud-khalil-and-the-rise-of-state-terror/
23.3.2025
MintPress: USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of
US-Funded “Independent” Media
The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has
plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into
crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of
journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their
home countries.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/usaid-media-funding-cuts-indepdent-news/289093/
22.3.2925
Southworld: West Africa. Winds of resource nationalism blow
across the Sahel.
Following the expulsion of French troops from Mali,
Burkina-Faso and Niger, the leaders of these countries are
extending their pro-sovereignty policies to the economic
sphere.
Southworld News March 2025
https://www.southworld.net/west-africa-winds-of-resource-nationalism-blow-across-the-sahel/
20.3.2025
Israel is a murderous state.
https://youtu.be/ztd77dIphhQ
11.3.2025
left.eu: EU research funding should create jobs, not weapons
Horizon Europe cooperation with Israeli entities involved in
Gaza genocide particularly concerning
As the European Commission is preparing to review the Horizon
Europe programme for funding research and innovation, The Left
in the European Parliament expressed significant concern over
deep flaws in European research and innovation funding,
including complicity with war crimes.
[cit] A repo100 days of Ursula von der Leyen
How has the Commission President performed?
left.eu: 100 days of Ursula von der Leyen
How has the Commission President performed?
Backtracking on climate action, foreign affairs failures and
an agenda of deregulation leave the Commission President with
a solid F grade for her first 100 days in office.
To say The Left is so far unimpressed with the President of
the European Commission’s first 100 days in office would be
the understatement of the year.
To say The Left is so far unimpressed with the President of
the European Commission’s first 100 days in office would be
the understatement of the year.
The Left In The European Parliament 11 Mar 2025
<press@left.eu>
1.3.2025
BLAST: COMPRENDRE COMMENT LE FASCISME GAGNE LES ETATS-UNIS ET
L’EUROPE
Depuis plusieurs mois, ce qui se joue aux États-Unis dépasse
largement leurs frontières et s’étend désormais à l’Europe. Ce
qui ressemblait encore récemment à un durcissement politique
classique est en train de devenir un basculement fasciste. Aux
États-Unis, la nouvelle administration a immédiatement
enclenché une dynamique brutale, centralisant le pouvoir,
attaquant les contre-pouvoirs et multipliant les décisions
chocs. En Europe, des alliances politiques et économiques se
structurent entre les droites dures et les extrêmes droites,
des médias se mettent au service de cette stratégie, et des
groupuscules violents montent en puissance, le tout sur fond
d'explosion des fake news et d'avénement de la post vérité. Ce
rouleau compresseur avance avec une efficacité implacable,
saturant l’espace public de polémiques, de provocations et de
fausses informations pour noyer toute opposition dans le
chaos. Résultat : on peine à prendre du recul, à comprendre la
vitesse à laquelle tout s’accélère. Pourtant, malgré cette
mécanique bien huilée, des résistances s’organisent. Aux
États-Unis comme en Europe, certains refusent de se laisser
écraser et tentent de structurer une riposte. Reste à savoir
si elle sera à la hauteur du défi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4H-EseCidw
24.2.2025
Mediapart; Allemagne : l’impossibilité de critiquer la
politique israélienne fait le jeu de l’AfD
Un consensus partisan outre-Rhin confond la lutte contre
l’antisémitisme et le soutien inconditionnel à l’État hébreu,
fût-il dirigé par l’extrême droite. Il conduit à silencier les
voix dissidentes, y compris juives, et à conforter encore
l’AfD, qui réussit à se présenter comme philosémite.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/220225/allemagne-l-impossibilite-de-critiquer-la-politique-israelienne-fait-le-jeu-de-l-afd
11.2.2025
CHD: COVID
‘Denial and Deception’: Why Is Mainstream Media Ignoring Lab
Leak Theory?
January 3, 2024
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
According to reporter Matt Ridley, the evidence that
SARS-CoV-2 probably came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
is now “voluminous, detailed and strong,” yet government
officials and mainstream media continue to ignore that fact.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/usaid-funded-internews-network-censorship-wikileaks/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250210
4.2.2025
https://multipolar-magazin.de/meldungen/0166
US-Geheimdienst: Sars-Cov-2 stammt aus Labor
Neuer CIA-Direktor ändert Einschätzung der Behörde / Drosten
widerspricht nicht mehr der Labor-These / Neben chinesischem
Virenlabor in Wuhan auch Hinweise auf US-Labor als
Ursprungsort
1. Februar 2025
Washington / Berlin.
(multipolar)
Der US-Geheimdienst CIA geht unter seinem neuen Direktor John
Ratcliffe nun offiziell davon aus, dass das Virus Sars-Cov-2,
das laut der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) als Auslöser
der Krankheit Covid-19 gilt, aus einem chinesischen Labor in
Wuhan entwichen ist. Der neue CIA-Direktor änderte
Medienberichten zufolge in einer seinen ersten Amtshandlungen
die entsprechende Einschätzung seiner Behörde.
(date?)
Lab-leak-true
(Video,8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_-_lSrzYs
30.1.2025
Mediapart: Extrêmorama. L’internationale fasciste
Après la réélection de Donald Trump et le salut nazi d’Elon
Musk, les deux nouveaux hérauts de l’extrême droite mondiale
veulent influer sur le paysage politique des autres
démocraties libérales, et entendent « parrainer » des alliés
dans les prochains scrutins occidentaux. Avec quelle
efficacité ?
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/280125/extremorama-l-internationale-fasciste
24.1.2025
CHD Defender / Paul Thacker : Fauci, Daszak e.a.
Disinformation Champions.
Within hours of leaving office, Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci
for “any offenses” committed from 2014, onward. Known for his
crimes against humanity, Fauci has become a rather infamous
figure over the decades — even more so during COVID than in
the early years of his career. Many are wondering the
motivation, rationale and justification behind this executive
decision and would rather see the public health official
prosecuted for his actions, rather than vindicated. (38min)
Followed by: "extremely revealing" research on the mRNA
injections and excess mortality (John Baudouin).
(Video, 1:20:20)
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/fauci-granted-preemptive-pardon-can-he-be-prosecuted--exclusive-interview-john-beaudoin/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chdtv&utm_id=20250122
21.1.2025
Politis: Pris entre Trump et ses alliés d’extrême droite,
Netanyahou est sur un siège éjectable.
Plus fâcheux encore pour Netanyahou, la pression ne vient pas
seulement de Trump, elle vient aussi d’une société israélienne
fatiguée, à laquelle il sera difficile de faire admettre que
la guerre reprend, que d’autres jeunes soldats vont mourir, et
que les derniers otages sont définitivement sacrifiés.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2025/01/regard-denis-sieffert-les-contradictions-israeliennes-de-donald-trump/
18.1.2025
Counterpunch: Suicide by Rental Truck: Why the U.S. Gets
Violent Wake-Up Calls From Vets
In fact, the most reliable predictors of who will perpetrate
mass violence in modern-day America is military service.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/17/suicide-by-rental-truck-why-the-u-s-gets-violent-wake-up-calls-from-vets/
10.1.2025
Corporate Europe Observatory’s (CEO) new report [Bias baked in
- How Big Tech sets its own AI standards]
exposes how, behind closed doors, Big Tech is writing the
standards that will govern their own AI products and their
compliance with fundamental rights obligations.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/civicrm/mailing/url?u=9943&qid=1682202
5.1.2025
MintPress: Visegrád 24: The Polish Government-Funded Fake News
Factory Driving The Online Israel-Palestine News Cycle
Visegrád 24 has shot to prominence, amassing more than one
million followers across social media platforms. Yet it has
consistently shared blatantly false information in an attempt
to ramp up support for the state of Israel’s crimes in Gaza.
Worse still, the semi-anonymous account pushing a far-right
agenda worldwide is known to be funded by the deeply
conservative Polish government.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/visegrad-24-news-factory-driving-online-israel-palestine-news/286382/
1.1.2025
Fauci==Mengele:
The People's Voice - RFK Says Fauci Must Be Executed for
'Killing Thousands of Kids'
December 31, 2024
"Once hailed as America’s doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci is now
compared by many to the infamous Nazi, Dr. Josef Mengele - and
for good reason.
Like Mengele, Fauci is a psychopath who has pushed science
into the realm of sadism and there is an unmarked mass grave
in New York state bearing witness to his sickness."
https://odysee.com/@hipsterious:3/SC_2024-12-29_The-People's-Voice---RFK-Says-Fauci-Must-Be-Executed-for-'Killing-Thousands-of-Kids'_720p:1
28.12.2024
Counterpunch: For more than fourteen painful months Israel has
passed off its inhuman actions against the people of Gaza as
“defensive.”
We are to believe that the massacre of tens of thousands of
civilians and attacks on its Arab neighbors are somehow
Israel’s “right.” Championed by the Biden
administration, Tel Aviv has grown ever more bolder and
barbaric in its efforts to crush the resistance and expand its
“undeclared” borders; simply, because it can.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/27/deception-and-politics-from-washington-to-tel-aviv/
Counterpunch: More people were killed by US Customs and Border
Patrol (171) in 2022 than died at the Berlin Wall in its
entire 28-year existence (136).
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/27/the-sound-of-da-police-the-year-criminal-injustice/
23.12.2024
Counterpunch:The bombardment of Gaza is relentless,
indiscriminate and all encompassing, and whilst weak Western
governments refuse to condemn Israel and cut all military aid
the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) continues to slaughter
Palestinian civilians and obliterate what remains of Gaza.
Nobody and nowhere is off limits to Israel, even designated
humanitarian zones, camps and informal settlements where
displaced Palestinians shelter (75% of the population has been
displaced), are targeted.
At least 44,502 Palestinians have been killed since 8 October
2023
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/20/the-annihilation-of-a-nation/
15.12.2024
AFP: Est de la RDC: sommet Tshisekedi-Kagame annulé, pas
d’accord en vue
La réunion des présidents de la République démocratique du
Congo et du Rwanda prévue dimanche à Luanda a été annulée,
douchant tout espoir d’un accord dans l’immédiat pour rétablir
la paix dans l’est de la RDC
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/fil-dactualites/151224/est-de-la-rdc-sommet-tshisekedi-kagame-annule-pas-d-accord-en-vue
Counterpunch: Washington’s Third World War Scores Another
“Victory”
While I am certainly not one to begrudge those residents of
Syria who are celebrating the end of Assad’s ultimately brutal
regime, I am hesitant to accept the overthrow of that
government as either a democratic uprising or even as a
quantum step forward for the people of that region of the
world. Indeed, the immediate aftermath of Assad’s defeat
has been an increase in the bloody assault on the region by
Tel Aviv and Washington. As any observer of war and
politics in the region knows, when Washington and Tel Aviv
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/washingtons-third-world-war-scores-another-victory/
10.12.2024
Mediapart: Accord UE-Mercosur : Ursula von der Leyen humilie
Paris
En passant outre l’opposition de la France sur le Mercosur, la
présidente de la Commission nourrit les soupçons d’un passage
en force anti-démocratique dans un dossier très sensible. Une
étrange façon de débuter son nouveau mandat à Bruxelles, qui
reflète aussi la perte d’influence de Paris.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/061224/accord-ue-mercosur-ursula-von-der-leyen-humilie-paris
et:
L’accord UE-Mercosur, un affront pour le monde agricole : « Ce
traité livre en pâture les paysans »
En proie à une crise profonde, les agriculteurs ont très
vivement réagi après l’annonce de la validation du traité de
libre-échange, vécu comme une menace pour les productions
françaises.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/061224/l-accord-ue-mercosur-un-affront-pour-le-monde-agricole-ce-traite-livre-en-pature-les-paysans
6.12.2024
USRTK: Leading scientist defends Mexico’s food
sovereignty from GM corn and glyphosate
Dr. María Elena Álvarez-Buylla is an expert on the topic of
genetic engineering who has co-authored dozens of papers about
molecular genetics, ecology, evolution and related topics. She
is a professor of molecular genetics, epigenetics, and
development at Mexico’s National Autonomous University.
Until the end of September, Dr. Álvarez-Buylla was the head of
Mexico’s national science agency, CONAHCYT, the National
Council of Humanities, Science and Technology. During the
six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
Álvarez-Buylla’s agency was charged with documenting the
scientific evidence of the risks to human health and the
environment of genetically modified (GM) corn and the
herbicide glyphosate. That research led to Mexico’s
precautionary policies to eliminate the use of GM corn in
tortillas and to phase out the use of glyphosate. When the
U.S. government last year challenged those measures as unfair
trade practices under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA), her agency provided the scientific evidence
underpinning the Mexican government’s defense in the formal
trade dispute, a process that is now awaiting a ruling by the
three-member panel of arbitrators.
https://usrtk.org/gmo/scientist-defends-mexicos-food-sovereignty-from-gm-corn-glyphosate/
and:
CHD Defender:
GMO Corn, Glyphosate Pose Unacceptable Health Risks, New
Scientific Analysis Shows
The 200-page document with 1,200 references, prepared by
Mexico’s National Council for Humanities, Science and
Technology underpins Mexico’s 2023 decree to restrict the use
of GM corn in tortillas and other minimally processed corn
products, and to phase out the use of glyphosate in Mexico.
https://usrtk.org/gmo/scientist-defends-mexicos-food-sovereignty-from-gm-corn-glyphosate/
4-12.2024
“The Biden Administration’s HHS engaged in a multi-year
campaign of delay, confusion, and non-responsiveness in an
attempt to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation
and hide evidence that could incriminate or embarrass senior
public health officials.
Daszak also tried to hide evidence from subcommittee[...]
Roughly 10 pages detail various ways that Daszak and EcoHealth
Alliance obstructed the committee’s investigation.
Morens “likely lied” to Congress on multiple occasions,
unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, and shared
nonpublic information about NIH grant processes with Daszak."
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/7-takeaways-520-page-house-report-covid-pandemic/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20241203
CHD: Agency Capture
Could Scientists at Center of COVID Lab-leak Controversy Face
Criminal Charges?
A report released yesterday by the U.S. House of
Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus
Pandemic raises questions over whether Peter Daszak and other
scientists could face criminal charges stemming from the
COVID-19 tragedy.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/scientists-covid-lab-leak-controversy-criminal-charges-rtk/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20241203
1.12.2024
MintPress: Revealed - The Israel Lobbyists Writing America’s
News
The fight for control over the Israel-Palestine narrative has
been as intense as the war on the ground itself. U.S. media
have been widely criticized for displaying a distinct bias
towards the Israeli perspective. However, a new investigation
from MintPress News reveals that not only is the press skewed
in favor of Israel, but it is also written and produced by
Israeli lobbyists themselves. This investigation unearths a
network of hundreds of former members of the Israel lobby
working at some of America’s most influential news
organizations[...]
A MintPress News investigation has found hundreds of former
employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs
and CAMERA working in top newsrooms across the country,
writing and producing America’s news – including on
Israel-Palestine. These outlets include MSNBC, The New York
Times, CNN and Fox News.
Some of these former lobbyists are responsible for producing
content on Israel and Palestine – a gigantic and undisclosed
conflict of interest. Many key U.S. newsroom staff were also
formerly Israeli spies or intelligence agents, standing in
stark contrast to journalists with pro-Palestine sentiments,
who have been purged en masse since October 7, 2023.
November 12th, 2024
https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/special-reports-2/
26.11.2024
Politis: Le conseil de la semaine : « Médias de la haine :
objectif, guerre civile ? » de Off Investigation
Alors que des milliardaires classés à droite, voire à
l’extrême droite, multiplient les rachats de médias et
imposent leur influence sur les lignes éditoriales, une
question brûle les lèvres : comment en est-on arrivé là ?
Signé par Emma Feyzeau et Gauthier Mesnier, ce documentaire de
90 minutes plonge au cœur des mécanismes responsables de
l’essor des discours haineux sur les plateaux de télé
contrôlés par les ultra-riches. À travers des témoignages
inédits, il détaille les méthodes de management brutales au
sein de leurs rédactions et montre les rouages d’une
inquiétante dérive médiatique. Disponible en accès libre
depuis le 10 novembre sur YouTube (voir ci-dessous) et le site
web de Off Investigation.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/11/le-conseil-de-la-semaine-medias-de-la-haine-objectif-guerre-civile-de-off-investigation/
Oct 6, 2024
TOM LAUSEN | RKI Files | Paul Ehrlich "Todesliste" | Bill
Gates | Impfungen & Masken | FOLGE 192
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=capRyJbJHLY
23.11.2024
Newsweek: Trump's Former CDC Chief Suggests US Origin for
COVID: 'Can't Prove That'
The theory that a lab in North Carolina was the "birthplace"
of COVID-19 has resurfaced in an interview with a former
director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who
has said it is a "real possibility."
Robert Redfield, who headed the CDC during Trump's first
administration, told author and podcaster Dana Parish during a
90-minute interview on her 3rd Opinion podcast released on
November 14 that he believes that the SARS-CoV-2 virus—which
causes COVID-19—was developed as part of a "biodefense
program" in a lab at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
7.11.2024
Politis: Peut-on critiquer librement la politique d’un État ?
À tout le moins, cela devrait relever de la liberté
d’expression de tout citoyen. Mais, concernant Israël,
l’instrumentalisation de l’antisémitisme est devenue un moyen
de faire taire toute critique de sa politique guerrière et
coloniale. L’assimilation entre « antisionisme » et
« antisémitisme » est aussi une des réussites de la propagande
israélienne, qui permet de faire admettre comme synonymes le
sionisme, qui est un mouvement politique, et la défense de
l’État hébreu.
Or cette torsion sémantique pourrait aujourd’hui se voir
inscrite dans le droit français, grâce à la députée macroniste
Caroline Yadan
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/11/critiquer-la-politique-israelienne-pourrait-etre-poursuivi-penalement/
Politis: Emmanuel Macron n’a cessé de restreindre l’accès des
journalistes à l’information, sous sa présidence, quitte à
recourir à des moyens coercitifs. Dernier exemple en date ce
dimanche, « les forces de l’ordre, sur consigne de l’Élysée,
ont empêché des journalistes du pool TV français de couvrir un
bain de foule en partie hostile au président », lors d’un
déplacement à Montréal
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/09/politique-comment-macron-verrouille-violemment-la-presse/
6.11.2024
Mediapart:Les démocrates victimes de l’illusion de la
croissance
Beaucoup d’États-Uniens ont sanctionné par leur vote le bilan
économique de Joe Biden. Les démocrates ont trop souvent
refusé cette réalité au nom des chiffres flatteurs de la
croissance. Oubliant les difficultés du quotidien vécues par
les citoyens moyens. Ils en paient le prix fort.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/061124/victoire-de-trump-les-democrates-victimes-de-l-illusion-de-la-croissance
25.10.2024
Politis: Migrants : un revers pour Meloni
Une victoire pour les ONG et les militants : la section des
affaires migratoires du tribunal de Rome a invalidé, vendredi
18 octobre, la rétention dans des centres albanais, construits
aux frais de l’Italie, des premiers demandeurs d’asile envoyés
par le gouvernement de Giorgia Meloni.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/10/migrants-un-revers-pour-meloni/
11.10.2024
CHD: Remdesivir Papers: Drug Used to Treat Service Members Led
to Death
What has been revealed in the “Remdesivir Papers” will shock
you to the core. This compilation of documents, released by a
military whistleblower, contains damning information on the
hundreds of deaths and adverse events related to the clinical
trials of a COVID antiviral. Besides the compromise on the
fundamental issue of informed consent, these files reveal
concerning truths related to the methodology and processing of
the product testing data among servicemembers.
(Video, 35 min)
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/remdesivir-papers-drug-used-to-treat-service-members-led-to-death/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chdtv&utm_id=20241016
10-10-2024
Foxnews: Killer State Israel - more than hundred journalists
murdered
https://x.com/FWarweg/status/1843959292409545006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1843959292409545006%7Ctwgr%5E5181874df55ecd18645d31d5832653f59a3b4a2e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nachdenkseiten.de%2F%3Fp%3D122772
7.10.2024
PLEASE VIEW THIS, AND THEN TRY TO TELL ME
THAT ISRAEL IS A "CIVILISED" STATE:
Al Jazeera: War crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in
the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted
online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long
conflict.
Published On 7 Oct 20247 Oct 2024
(Video, 1 hour 21 min)
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2024/10/7/war-crimes-in-gaza-i-al-jazeera-investigations
2.10.2024
RSC: Had the U.S. used its considerable leverage with Israel
to end its war in Gaza, the region would not have found itself
on the edge of a disastrous war in April; six months later,
the Middle East is back at the brink of disaster.
Iran has made it clear that it does not want a regional
conflict; Tehran doesn’t seem to believe it can afford such a
war. But Netanyahu clearly thinks it’s in his interest to ramp
up conflict right now, as Washington stands frozen — a month
out from an election and with a lame duck president who seems
incapable of telling Israel “no,” no matter the costs for
American security.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-irsael/
30.9-2024
Exomagazin.tv: KRIEGEN WIR KRIEG? | Das 3. Jahrtausend #103
Im Gazastreifen haben Teams von Euromed Dutzende Massengräber
mit Frauen, Kindern und Zivilisten gefunden.
Wie konnte es zu so vielen toten Zivilisten kommen? Unter
anderem weil künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt wurde, um
Verdächtige aufzuspüren und zu töten – ohne Rücksicht auf
Kollateralschäden. Außerdem: Die Versicherung will für den
Nord Stream Anschlag nicht zahlen, weil die Pipeline nicht von
Terroristen, sondern von einer Regierung in die Luft gejagt
worden sein muss. Und was gibt’s Neues von Julian Assange? Die
komplette Sendung / Alle Links zur Sendung gibt es ab Freitag,
den 26. April 2024, 19 Uhr exklusiv auf unserer Webseite
ExoMagazin.tv ►►
https://www.exomagazin.tv/kriegen-wir-krieg-das-3-jahrtausend-103
.
(Video, 2h 11 min 24 sec)
https://exo.tube/w/4YWCbPHssunzbUpuCzhmns
30.9.2024
Politis: En perdition, Emmanuel Macron retrouve sa gauche
avant le deuxième tour
Le Président parle mais n’est plus écouté, à commencer par ses
ministres qui divergent sur l’attitude à adopter face au RN.
Dans les cabinets ministériels règnent une ambiance toxique.
La macronie vit son crépuscule.[...] Emmanuel Macron se tient
enfin à l’écart de cette ambiance de fin de règne qu’il a
lui-même provoquée. Le président « se prépare à tout »,
affirme l’un de ses interlocuteurs réguliers qui continue
d’échanger avec lui. En apparence, le chef de l’État continue
de convoquer ses ministres à des réunions comme celle de lundi
et à s’intéresser aux législatives. Dans les faits, il semble
se préparer à une cohabitation avec le RN, comme le relate Le
Monde. En réalité, son crédit politique semble épuisé, comme
l’a démontré sa réunion au sommet ce lundi.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/07/elections-legislatives-en-perdition-emmanuel-macron-retrouve-sa-gauche-avant-les-elections/
YT: The history of Hamas, Fatah and Palestinian resistance |
Azzam Tamimi | The Big Picture S3E02
What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against
Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional
and global political interests, ideological differences and
disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla
tactics.
Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is
hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a
wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and
the West Bank.
(Video, 50 min ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLTLuiqNsWI
24.9-2024
Counterpunch: Obviously, the western decision to bring Ukraine
into NATO was a catastrophic, colossal blunder.
As Kiev loses, out-manned and out-gunned by Moscow, this can
only focus the very legitimate criticism on NATO that it has
essentially done nothing besides make very bloody trouble
since the end of the cold war (vide NATO crimes in Yugoslavia,
Afghanistan and Libya). Numerous American diplomatic and
security state luminaries vociferously cautioned against NATO
expansion after 1991. They were ignored. American presidents,
in their supreme arrogance, starting with Bill “Bomb Belgrade”
Clinton, broke Washington’s promise to Mikhail Gorbachev and
expanded NATO right up to Russia’s doorstep. Evidently, they
thought they could do so with impunity. They were wrong. Their
gamble not only risks WWIII, it destroyed a country, Ukraine.
Time to mothball NATO, so it can never cause such a
catastrophe and endanger the entire world again.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/20/the-world-would-be-better-off-without-nato-revisited/
21.9.2024
CHD: Small Stones of ‘Truth and Scientific Analysis’ Can Slay
the COVID Establishment ‘Goliath’
“COVID hysteria” — as Fenton and his co-author Martin Neil,
Ph.D., call it — “was based on massively exaggerated case and
mortality numbers” created through “flawed definitions, easily
manipulated data and inaccurate mass testing of healthy
people” that convinced people the “only way out of the
pandemic and lockdowns” was an injection that was neither safe
nor effective, according to Fenton. He and Campbell admitted
that initially, they bought into the hysteria.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fighting-goliath-covid-truth-scientific-analysis-norman-fenton-campbell/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20240917
16.9.2024
LA Progressive: The Rise of Fascism in the United States: From
9/11 to Trumpism
The rise of fascist politics in the U.S. is partly indebted to
the post-9/11 period. After the initial surge of patriotism,
the Bush administration's policies ushered in a new era of
militarism and nationalism that blurred the lines between
democracy and authoritarianism. The erosion of civil
liberties, mass surveillance, and the expansion of the
security state created a framework for the far-right to build
upon. These seeds blossomed under Donald Trump's presidency,
which took the latent fascist tendencies of the post-9/11 era
and amplified them.[...]
As the memory of 9/11 was weaponized, it shifted from a moment
of unity to a tool for fostering divisions. The so-called "War
on Terror" was steeped in racism and xenophobia, with Muslims
and immigrants becoming scapegoats. Within a short period of
time, the notorious war on "terror" ‘included invasions of
Iraq and Afghanistan, unleashed blood and brutality from the
Middle East, Asia and Africa to major European capitals [and]
resulted in nearly a million dead and 38 million refugees. Not
only did the “anti-terrorist wars” cost $1.5 trillion dollars,
but they also unleashed a regime of torture, abductions, Black
sites, and a regime of terror.[7] This laid the groundwork for
authoritarian policies that have only intensified in the years
since. Fascism, which thrives on fear, resentment, and the
dehumanization of the "other," found fertile soil in this
post-9/11 landscape, and is now a central organizing principle
of the Republican Party in the United States.
https://www.laprogressive.com/democracy/rethinking-9-11
13.9.2024
CHD Defender: UN ‘Pact for the Future’: Digital IDs, Vaccine
Passports, Massive Censorship
World leaders will convene later this month in New York to
discuss proposals that critics believe will enshrine global
digital ID and online censorship and give the United Nations
(U.N.) secretary-general unprecedented emergency powers.
Proposals to be discussed at the 79th U.N. General Assembly
include the Pact for the Future, described by the U.N. as an
“opportunity to create international mechanisms that better
reflect the realities of the 21st century and can respond to
today’s and tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities.”
The proposed Pact for the Future encompasses 11 policy
proposals. These include proposals for the establishment of a
U.N. “Emergency Platform” and a “Global Digital Compact,” and
policy proposals on “Information Integrity” and “Transforming
Education.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-nations-pact-future-digital-ids-vaccine-passports-censorship/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20240912
13.9.2924
Counterpunch: Zionism International is Working Both Sides of
the Atlantic
In the Gaza genocide, now expanded to the West Bank, the US
and UK have not only provided the main weapons of physical
annihilation, they are also collaborating with their junior
partner Israel in the war of public disinformation and
deception. By now, it has become obvious to most observers in
the US and UK that the provision of advanced weapons to the
apartheid state, including thousands of American 2000-pound
bunker-buster bombs, precision-guided air-to-ground hellfire
missiles, and assorted other instruments of mass destruction,
is part of an effort to wipe out the Palestinian civilian
population through death and eventual deportation.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/13/zionism-international-is-working-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/
8.9.2024
Politis: Souvenons-nous que ce ne sont pas les Palestiniens
qui ont tué la gauche [israelienne].
Ce sont les amis de Netanyahou qui ont assassiné Yitzhak
Rabin, et c’est Shimon Peres, alors icône de la gauche
française, qui a rejoint le gouvernement de droite en 2001,
scellant le sort du Parti travailliste. Il a suffi ensuite de
financer le Hamas, ce dont Netanyahou s’est glorifié, pour
enfoncer la région dans les ténèbres. Certes, la rue
israélienne n’est pas prise d’empathie pour les Palestiniens,
mais elle commence à comprendre que le danger vient de
l’intérieur.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/09/regard-denis-sieffert-israel-portee-et-limites-dune-mobilisation/
6.9.2024
Politis: En nommant Michel Barnier, Emmanuel Macron fait le
choix du RN
Plus de deux mois après les législatives, le chef de l’État
choisit une figure de la droite en tant que nouveau Premier
ministre. Un choix qui raconte le refus d’Emmanuel Macron de
remettre en cause sa politique. Et entérine une entente de
fait avec l’extrême droite.
C’est la fin du feuilleton le plus long de l’été. Au bout
d’une cinquantaine de jours d’interminables réflexions, de
consultations sans fin et de calculs politiques
incompréhensibles, Emmanuel Macron s’est décidé. Enfin. Par un
communiqué de 6 lignes, le chef de l’État nomme à Matignon ce
jeudi 5 septembre Michel Barnier, l’ex-négociateur en chef de
l’Union européenne chargé du dossier Brexit et figure de la
droite depuis près de cinquante ans.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/09/politique-matignon-en-nommant-barnier-macron-fait-le-choix-du-rn/
5.9.2024
Forbes: Why African Groups Want Reparations From The Gates
Foundation
On August 27, African faith, farming, and environmental
leaders came together to launch an unusual statement. Their
open letter was addressed to “the Gates Foundation and other
funders of industrial agriculture.” It charged these funders
with promoting a type of corporate, industrial agriculture
that does not respect African ecosystems or agricultural
traditions.[...] By AGRA’s own admission, it failed in its
goal to double crop yields and incomes for 30 million farmers
by 2020. In fact, some critics argue, AGRA has made things
worse.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2024/09/02/why-african-groups-want-reparations-from-the-gates-foundation/?mc_cid=e56590b050&mc_eid=e3703747e5
3.9.2024
mediapart: (1) Le gouvernement entretient l’opacité sur
les millions d’euros d’armes françaises livrées à Israël
Un rapport du gouvernement, que Mediapart publie en
exclusivité, révèle que la France a livré 30 millions d’euros
d’armes à Israël en 2023. Le gouvernement français refuse
toujours de dire si certaines livraisons ont eu lieu après le
début de la guerre à Gaza, et ont pu servir à cibler des
civils.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/030924/opacite-sur-les-millions-d-euros-d-armes-francaises-livrees-israel
mediapart: (2) Le Royaume-Uni suspend en partie l’exportation
d’armes vers Israël
Au premier jour de la rentrée politique au Royaume-Uni, lundi
2 septembre, le ministre des affaires étrangères britannique a
annoncé la suspension d’une trentaine de licences
d’exportation d’armes vers Israël. Trop pour les uns, trop peu
pour d’autres.
https://www.mediapart.fr/
31.8.2924
ALJAZEERA: WhatsApp novelists use messaging app to write and
sell books in Zimbabwe
Emerging authors and eager readers are finding more accessible
and affordable ways to get their literary fix.
Whatsapp
The WhatsApp messaging app has gained popularity
among readers in Zimbabwe
By Chris Muronzi
Published On 31 Aug 202431 Aug 2024
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/8/31/whatsapp-novelists-use-messaging-app-to-write-and-sell-books-in-zimbabwe
Mediapart: Face à Macron, syndicats et partis politiques se
dispersent.
Si des syndicats ont pris ouvertement fait et cause pour le
NFP lors des élections législatives, l’heure est à la
séparation : la rentrée sociale des partis politiques, le 7
septembre, n’emmènera pas avec elle les troupes syndicales,
qui manifesteront le 1er octobre. [...] La rentrée sociale, ça
sera chacun de son côté. Face aux provocations
antidémocratiques d’Emmanuel Macron, les syndicats et les
partis politiques de gauche iront côte à côte mais pas
ensemble… Au grand dam de La France insoumise, qui avait
appelé les syndicats à se joindre à sa manifestation du 7
septembre
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/300824/face-macron-syndicats-et-partis-politiques-se-dispersent
29.8.2024
The Nation: Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine
(Barry Yourgrau) After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he
became an early witness to a toxic new nationalism rising
among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of
its dangers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/weimar-anti-fascist-palestine-zionism/
27.8.2024
Politis: Depuis un mois et demi – au jour où ces lignes sont
écrites –, Emmanuel Macron, chef de l’État français, confisque
le résultat des élections législatives remportées en juillet
par la gauche unie au sein du NFP. Et depuis un mois il refuse
de donner la primature à la candidate désignée par cette
coalition victorieuse et prétend imposer le Premier – ou la
Première – ministre qui lui siéra.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/08/billet-grave-erreur/
Counterpunch: Despite its pretense of unknowing, the supposed
shock at Israeli tactics, and the multitude of words about
ceasefires and statehood, it’s quite plain to me that
Washington is fine with Israel’s bloodthirsty wars, with the
occupation, apartheid, massacres, assassinations and
provocations.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-a-hubert-humphrey-for-2024/
23.8.2024
Journalist ? Better not go to Britain
Consortium News [d/l 23.8.2024]: Journalist
Richard Medhurst:
"I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act,
Sec 12 because of my reporting.
6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the
aircraft.
I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned.
I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this
provision of the Terrorism Act."
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1825663412904288585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1825663412904288585%7Ctwgr%5E408036c6bac74ccbf1cf9995a16e01ef4541b8e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconsortiumnews.com%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fjournalist-richie-medhurst-arrested-at-heathrow-airport-under-terrorism-act%2F
21.8.2024
Chaînes Bolloré: « L’Arcom a une responsabilité historique :
arrêter la machine de la haine »
Banalisation du RN au nom de la « neutralité », emprise des
médias d’extrême droite de Bolloré, pilonnage de la gauche sur
les plateaux, tandis que l’Arcom renouvelle certaines
fréquences de la TNT : dans « À l’air libre », c’est l’heure
du bilan médiatique de la campagne. Et il n’est pas fameux...
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/090724/chaines-bollore-l-arcom-une-responsabilite-historique-arreter-la-machine-de-la-haine
20.8.2014
BAS: Missiles on the move: Why US long-range missiles in
Germany are just the tip of the iceberg
The United States plans to deploy long-range missiles in
Germany as early as 2026, including the novel long-range
hypersonic weapons known as Dark Eagle that can travel up to
1,725 miles (2,775 kilometers) at a maximum speed of Mach 17
and can be fired from mobile launchers.
The deployment of long-range missiles in Germany supports the
US Army’s 2030 vision for maintaining superiority against
near-peer competitors and aligns with the “Joint Warfighting
Concept” that defines the strategic doctrine for US military
operations. The decision also aligns with NATO’s deterrence
and defense strategy, which emphasizes horizontal escalation:
That is, in wartime, NATO members would defend beyond the
immediate attack site and strike elsewhere to apply pressure
and divert the forces of the adversary.
https://thebulletin.org/2024/08/missiles-on-the-move-why-us-long-range-missiles-in-germany-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/#post-heading
18.8.2024
Counterpunch: Restoring Fear – Why Israeli Soldiers Rape
...Historically, Israel has carried out massacres with a
specific political strategy in mind: to instill the desired
fear to drive Palestinians off their land. Deir Yassin,
Tantara and the over 70 documented massacres during the
Palestinian Nakba, or Catastrophe, are cases in point.
Israel has also utilized torture, rape and other forms of
sexual assault to achieve similar ends in the past, to exact
information or to break down the will of prisoners.
UN-affiliated experts said in a report published on August 5
that “these practices are intended to punish Palestinians for
resisting occupation and seek to destroy them individually and
collectively.”
Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza has manifested all these horrific
strategies in ways unprecedented in the past, both in terms of
widespread application and frequency.
[...] Considering the size and locations of the Israeli army,
well-documented evidence of rape and torture demonstrates that
such tactics are not linked to a specific branch of the
military. This means that the Israeli army uses torture as a
centralized strategy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/16/restoring-fear-why-israeli-soldiers-rape/
14.8.2924
Politis; Gouverner dans le chaos
Il faut sortir de l’instabilité créée en permanence par le
chef de l’État, tout en résistant à la peste émotionnelle qui
alimente le Rassemblement national.
« Souverän ist wer über den ausnahmezustand entscheidet. »
C’est ainsi qu’Emmanuel Macron cite en allemand une phrase du
juriste nazi Carl Schmitt lors d’une discussion avec Arié
Alimi. Depuis son élection en 2017, le président multiplie les
provocations. L’état d’exception, c’est sa préférence. Lors du
covid, tous les conseils des ministres étaient précédés d’un
conseil de défense à huis clos.[...]
La première instabilité, constitutionnelle, va peut-être
accélérer le passage à la VIe République, comme lors de la
crise de 1958 qui a conduit à la Ve. Alors que le camp
présidentiel s’est écroulé lors des législatives, comment
peut-on continuer à avoir la même présidente de l’Assemblée
nationale et le même premier ministre ? Comment un président
peut-il continuer à gouverner sans contre-pouvoir ? Créer le
chaos institutionnel avant les Jeux olympiques et
paralympiques pour ensuite s’appuyer sur ceux-ci pour
préserver son pouvoir est dans la logique schmittienne de
l’état d’exception.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/07/chronique-macron-gouverner-dans-le-chaos/
12.8.2024
CHD: Censorship/Surveillance
‘Really Chilling’: Five Countries to Test European Vaccination
Card
[...] Development of the EVC began in 2018, according to
official EU documents.
That year, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announced at the annual
meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), that it would
become the first international nonprofit to partner with the
WEF’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/five-countries-test-european-vaccination-card/
CHD: ‘It’s About Your Money’: New EU Vaccination Card Will Be
Used to Control Access to Banking, Other Services
Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst joined “The Defender In-Depth”
this week to discuss the European Union’s (EU) plans for a
European Vaccination Card (EVC), the plan’s similarities to
the EU’s Digital COVID Certificate, the global push toward
digital ID and implications for health and medical freedom.
The EU, which pioneered the development of digital “vaccine
passports,” will next month launch a test run of its new EVC
in five countries — Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and
Portugal.
The card purports to “foster informed decision-making on
vaccination, and improve continuity of care across the EU” and
“aims to empower individuals by consolidating all their
vaccination data in one easily accessible location.”
While the objectives of the program, set to be implemented
throughout the EU by 2026, appear benign, critics argue the
EVC is a stepping stone for mandatory vaccinations in the
future.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender-views/
REM: What we are going to eat...
CHD: Big Food
Tyson to Build Insect Protein Factory — Critics Say It’s About
Money, Not Health or Environment
Tyson Foods said it is acquiring an ownership stake in the
Dutch insect ingredient producer Protix, and forming a joint
venture to construct “the first at-scale facility of its kind
to upcycle food manufacturing byproducts into high-quality
insect proteins.”
[REM: Tyson is one of the largest food distributors in the
USA.]
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tyson-insect-protein-factory-protix/
9.8.2024
Politis: Johann Chapoutot : « Pour les macronistes, tout ce
qui est de gauche est extrême »
Les macronistes sont proches de l’extrême droite par affinité
intellectuelle. Le pouvoir macroniste se montre néolibéral et
social-darwinien, et prend des accents autoritaires et
réactionnaires. L’entourage d’Emmanuel Macron le prouve
aussi : Bruno Roger-Petit, un conseiller influent à l’Élysée,
est fasciné par l’extrême droite et par l’image sombre de
François Mitterrand au moment du gouvernement de Vichy. Le
pouvoir en place est aussi extrêmement complaisant envers les
médias de Vincent Bolloré : les interviews accordées sur CNews
ou au Journal du dimanche sont nombreuses. L’existence de ces
dîners n’a alors rien de très surprenant.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/07/johann-chapoutot-le-capital-fait-toujours-le-choix-de-lextreme-droite/
8.8.2024
TomDispatch: The Christian Nationalist Vision for America. The
Formal Project 2025 Takeover
In a future Trump administration, whatever else he does (and
Theoharis and Barnes lay out those plans in Project 2025 in
grim detail), consider one thing guaranteed, he’s going to
make you and the rest of the world sweat!
The nearly 900-page document outlines a plan to ramp up U.S.
military might, slash social welfare programs, and prioritize
“traditional marriage.” A reflection of the Republican Party
today, including several Christian nationalist organizations
and billionaire funders listed among its 100 institutional
sponsors, Project 2025 is a roadmap for what could be thought
of as a new Pax Romana.
https://tomdispatch.com/project-2025/
5.8.2024
Medium.com: How the CIA made Google
In sum, many of Google’s most senior executives are affiliated
with the Pentagon Highlands Forum, which throughout the period
of Google’s growth over the last decade, has surfaced
repeatedly as a connecting and convening force. The US
intelligence community’s incubation of Google from inception
occurred through a combination of direct sponsorship and
informal networks of financial influence, themselves closely
aligned with Pentagon interests.
The Highlands Forum itself has used the informal relationship
building of such private networks to bring together defense
and industry sectors, enabling the fusion of corporate and
military interests in expanding the covert surveillance
apparatus in the name of national security. The power wielded
by the shadow network represented in the Forum can, however,
be gauged most clearly from its impact during the Bush
administration, when it played a direct role in literally
writing the strategies and doctrines behind US efforts to
achieve ‘information superiority.’
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
3.8.2024
Al Jazeera: On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more
Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
The latest killings bring Israel’s world-record journalist
kill total to at least 113 during the current genocide in
Gaza, according to the more conservative estimate.No other
world conflict has killed as many journalists in recent
memory.
Israel has a long history of violently targeting journalists,
so their Gaza kill total is not necessarily surprising.The
latest killings bring Israel’s world-record journalist kill
total to
at
least 113 during the current
genocide
in Gaza, according to the more conservative estimate.
No other world conflict has killed as many journalists in
recent memory.
Israel has a
long
history of violently targeting journalists, so their
Gaza kill total is not necessarily surprising.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/2/gaza-and-the-death-of-western-journalism
2.8.2024
Common Dreams: Israeli Forces Have Killed 366 UN Workers
and Family Members in Gaza: Leaked Report
Confidential figures shed additional light on what's been the
deadliest-ever war for United Nations staff.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-workers-killed-in-gaza
Common Dreams: With Project 2025 and Agenda 47, the USA’s
Coups Come Home to Roost
The authoritarian, dystopian settings that the U.S. created in
so many places across the world are being reconceived by
ultra-conservative forces affiliated with Trump for the
purpose of introducing them here.[...]
There should be little doubt in any concerned citizen’s mind
that the reactionary forces in this country, led by one of the
most authentic con artists in political history, are as close
as they have ever been to dismantling U.S. democracy and
replacing it in turn with a dystopian setting guided by the
very same vision, values, and even tactics that have been the
hallmark of U.S. imperialist efforts to install and support
neo-fascist regimes around the globe.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/project-2025-agenda-47
Common Dreams: UN Probe Finds 'Appalling Acts' of
Torture Against Palestinians Detained by Israel
The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence,
waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of
whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access.
https://consortiumnews.com/de/2024/08/01/un-finds-appalling-acts-of-torture-against-palestinians/
Telepolis: Folter und systematische Gewalt: UN-Bericht
kritisiert Misshandlung palästinensischer Häftlinge
Mehr als 10.000 Palästinenser meist ohne Anklage verhaftet.
Berichte über Folter und "käfigartige Einrichtungen". Vor
allem an einem Ort ist die Lage heftig.
Laut einem neuen Bericht des UN-Hochkommissariats für
Menschenrechte (OHCHR) wurden im Zuge des Gaza-Kriegs tausende
Palästinenser von israelischen Behörden willkürlich
festgenommen. Dabei kam es zu Folter und Misshandlungen.[...]
Israels jüngste Aktion festigt seinen Status als einer der
aktivsten Staatsterroristen im Nahen Osten (denn die Ermordung
des Hamas-Führers Haniyeh war nach offizieller US-Definition
ein Akt des internationalen Terrorismus) und als Hauptursache
für die regionale Instabilität.
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Folter-und-systematische-Gewalt-UN-Bericht-kritisiert-Misshandlung-palaestinensischer-Haeftlinge-9821228.html
Link to report:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/opt/20240731-Thematic-report-Detention-context-Gaza-hostilities.pdf
31.7.2924
CHD: Pandemic Response Caused More Excess Death Than Virus
The claim: COVID-era excess deaths were a direct result of a
pandemic respiratory virus. Research has suggested, however,
that these patterns in global mortality rates have another
cause. Joseph Hickey, Ph.D. took part in a study on this very
topic, and along with his co-authors, concluded that public
health interventions had a major role to play in these
fatalities — dispelling the popular assertion that it was the
infectious disease. Hickey provides valuable insights on this
investigation and its findings on “Defender In-Depth.”
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/pandemic-response-caused-more-excess-death-than-virus/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chdtv&utm_id=20240731
CHD: Five European Union (EU) countries in September will
pilot the newly developed European Vaccination Card (EVC),
which “aims to empower individuals by consolidating all their
vaccination data in one easily accessible location.
The pilot program marks a step toward the continent-wide
rollout of the card, according to Vaccines Today.
Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the
new card in a variety of formats, including printed cards,
mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones.
The program aims to “pave the way for other countries by
harmonising vaccine terminology, developing a common syntax,
ensuring adaptability across different healthcare settings,
and refining EVC implementation plans,” Vaccines Today
reported.
The plans will be made public in 2026, “extending the EVC
system beyond the pilot phases and enabling broad adoption
across all EU Member States.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/five-countries-test-european-vaccination-card/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20240730
25.7.2024
Counterpunch: Depraved: The Legal Entanglement with
Israel
In a searing rebuke to the State of Israel, the Court in its
83-page brief refuted Israeli claims that the Palestinian
territories under its control are “disputed,” not
occupied. More to the point, the Court determined that
the occupation regime established by Israel in these three
areas, which it considers to be “a single territorial unit,”
[p. 27] is in violation of innumerable statutes of
international law.
From restrictions on basic rights of free movement, to special
pass laws for Palestinians, arbitrary and systematic
demolitions of Palestinian homes, and overt discrimination
against Palestinians as a group, the ICJ Opinion catalogs a
widespread pattern of abuses by the State of Israel as an
occupier and violator of the most fundamental human rights of
Palestinians over whom it rules. In conclusion, the
Court notes, “Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied
Territories is illegal.” [p. 72ff].
From this ruling, Israel emerges as nothing other than a
pariah state, similar to that other notorious violator of
human rights, the apartheid regime of South Africa.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/25/depraved-the-legal-entanglement-with-israel/
21.7.2024
Jeffrey Sachs: What Might the US Owe the World for
Covid-19?
A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly
constitute the most significant case of governmental gross
negligence in history. The people of the world deserve
transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Mar 16, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/covid-19-gain-of-function-us-research
17.7.2024
Caitlin Johnstone: The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs
Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the
US empire is not a national government which happens to run
nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation
that happens to run a national government.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/01/the-us-empire-isnt-a-government-that-runs-nonstop-wars-its-a-nonstop-war-that-runs-a-government/
12.7.2024
Politis/FR
Que reste-t-il des « fâchés pas fachos » ?
Dans un ouvrage remarqué, le sociologue et politiste Félicien
Faury analyse les ressorts du vote RN parmi des « électeurs
ordinaires » de Provence et ouvre des perspectives pour une
reconquête du vote populaire.
Par François Rulier
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/07/felicien-faury-des-electeurs-ordinaires-rn-que-reste-t-il-des-faches-pas-fachos/
« Être arrivé si près du but ne peut qu’encourager le RN
à aller plus loin »
À l’issue des législatives anticipées, le Rassemblement
national a remporté 143 sièges. Un résultat en deçà des
attentes du parti, lequel gagne néanmoins du terrain partout
et va continuer à bénéficier d’une dynamique électorale,
estime la politiste Nonna Mayer.
Par Pauline Migevant
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/07/elections-legislatives-nonna-mayer-etre-arrive-si-pres-du-but-ne-peut-quencourager-le-rn-a-aller-plus-loin/
12.7.2024
Counterpunch: Fascism at the Gates
by Walden Bello
From having no radical right-wing regime in the 2000s
[in Europe], except occasionally and briefly as junior
partners in unstable governing coalitions as in Austria, the
region now has two in power—one in Hungary and the government
of Giorgia Meloni in Italy. The far right is part of ruling
coalitions in Sweden and Finland. The region has four more
countries where a party of the far right is the main
opposition party. And it has seven where the far right has
become a major presence both in parliament and in the streets.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/11/fascism-at-the-gates/
Counterpunch: Settler Colonialism and the Engineering of
Historical Amnesia
It’s rarely broached by our politicians or mainstream U.S.
media that Isreal supplied weapons and surveillance technology
to the right-wing government and military in El Salvador;
planned and helped to execute “scorched earth” plans against
the indigenous populations of both El Salvador and Guatemala;
provided military training and support for General Jose Efrain
Rios Montt’s successful coup and violent dictatorship; and
gave weapons and training alike to the Rwandan military and
Hutu militias before and throughout the 1994 genocide.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/11/settler-colonialism-and-the-engineering-of-historical-amnesia/
4.7.2ß24
Counterpunch: The Imperial Presidency Is Now Legalized
The US Supreme Court’s July 1 decision to grant absolute
immunity to a President’s official acts is indeed, as Senate
Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote on X, “a sad
day for America” and “our democracy.” Donald Trump and future
presidents are evidently now free to follow their worst
instincts if they don’t like the result of elections—or
anything else.[] Absent any guardrails, presidents, by
claiming they are acting in their official capacities, may
incite insurrections, order the justice department to detain
critics and round up aliens, declare elections invalid, and
ignore Congress if it doesn’t follow his will—for instance on
Social Security and abortion. The Court’s ruling is borderline
insanity, feeding the impulsiveness, delusions, and
vengefulness that define Donald Trump.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/04/the-imperial-presidency-is-now-legalized/
2.7.2024
Sud Radio/FR: L'État profond français : explications avec
Claude Janvier
(Video, 55 min; avec transcipt))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLWx2au2Ko
30.6.2024
Counterpunch: Assange is Finally Free as America, Britain,
Sweden and Australia are Shamed
... the Biden administration, like the Trump and Obama
administrations before it, has been vigorously doing the
bidding of the US National Security State —the CIA,, the FBI,
NSA and the Pentagon — in pursuing a major espionage
case against Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, He and his
organization had hugely embarrassed those agencies and the US
government agencies over the years with the release of
documents proving that the US was guilty of systemic and
massive war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, was spying on the
leaders of allies in NATO, and and Assange had also also
helped NSA leaker Edward Snowden, another arch enemy of the
national security state, to escape to Russia. [...]
The US media happily ran page-one banner-headlined stories and
videos of the US war crimes exposed by Assange and his
Wikileaks organization. But then, when he was being indicted
and hounded by the US government and was fighting his
extradition to the US from a jail cell in Britain, those same
media organizations just as happily stabbed him in the back,
quoting slimy US politicians like former Trump VP Mike Pence
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/28/assange-is-finally-free-as-america-britain-sweden-and-australia-are-shamed/
24.6.2024
Odysee: Hunt for people / Menschenjagd
Forced recruiting in Ukraina
(Video, 53 min)
https://odysee.com/@VideoStube:1/menschenjagd-ukraine-videostube-18.6.24:6
22.6,2024
CHD.TV: Censorship, Control and Collusion
Mike Benz on what is ‘media literacy,’ really? Is it simply an
altruistic addition to curriculum within the education system,
or is it another strings-attached mechanism for silencing
dissent? Watch this episode of ‘Good Morning CHD’ to find out
when and why these efforts began, how they affect the
consumption and circulation of information today and in what
ways they can impact viewpoints and rights of the population
to come.
REM: A solid analysis of the US setup of this collusion of
government, instituions and involment of civil organisations
like, e.g. Google and Wikipedia and their twisted algorithms.
(Video, 1:03:21)
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/censorship-control-and-collusion/
19.6.2024
Politis: « Au Parlement européen, la droite est tentée par une
alliance avec l’extrême droite »
Manfred Weber, issu de la très droitière CSU allemande et qui
préside le PPE, premier groupe parlementaire, est très
compatible avec certains thèmes de l’extrême droite. Il a
déclaré, entre autres, qu’il va falloir repenser le Pacte vert
(Green Deal) de la législature précédente. Avec une bataille
symbolique : la remise en cause de l’interdiction de la vente
de voitures thermiques neuves en 2035. On s’attend aussi à ce
que le règlement Reach qui encadre la commercialisation des
produits chimiques ne soit pas durci, à la conduite de
politiques industrielles plus agressives, à des règles
beaucoup moins restrictives en matière de pesticides
agricoles, etc.
Et c’est une stratégie assez ouvertement définie par
les penseurs du PPE que d’essayer d’attirer ECR et des partis
d’extrême droite ouvertement antieuropéens vers un projet
conservateur. Qui va manger l’autre ?
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/06/guillaume-sacriste-entretien-au-parlement-europeen-la-droite-est-tentee-par-une-alliance-avec-lextreme-droite/
17.6.2024
Counterpunch: Trump’s Conviction Papers Over Much Bigger
Crimes that He (and Every Other Recent US President) Have
Committed While in Office
The crimes he has been convicted of are small fry compared to
the crimes of state that he committed while in office. And
these crimes are, at most, only marginally worse than those
committed by every US president in living memory, irrespective
of which of the two major parties they have belonged to. And
the fact that he, all his recent predecessors and, indeed, his
successor to the White House, have committed these crimes in
an atmosphere of complete impunity is the real issue that the
public should be focusing on.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/11/trumps-conviction-papers-over-much-bigger-crimes-that-he-and-every-other-recent-us-president-have-committed-while-in-office/
7.6.2024
CHD / The New Lede: Carbon Offsets Are a ˜Scam™”. Here's Why
Many of the world's largest companies rely on carbon offsets
to reach "net zero" emissions goals. However, investigations
reveal that more than 90% of these offsets are likely "hantom
credits" that allow corporations to continue polluting while
claiming to lower their carbon footprints.
The global offsets market is huge, worth more than $2 billion
and expected to grow to $10 billion or more by 2030.[...] The
well-documented truth is that many offsets are worthless,
failing to deliver the promised emissions reductions, or even
causing harm.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/carbon-offsets-scam-why/?
4.6.2024
The New York Times: Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a
Lab, in 5 Key Points
Opinion Guest Essay By Alina Chan
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html
REM: To sing along childrens' verse of "Liar, liar, pants on
fire":
US Congress: A Hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci
(Video, 3:47:25)
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/a-hearing-with-dr-anthony-fauci/
3.6.2024
Newsweek: The Death of Western Values: ”Surveillance,
Conformity, and the
Post-9/11 State | Opinion
The collusion between Big Tech and the government is not
merely a matter of convenience, but a strategic alliance aimed
at controlling the narrative and maintaining order. This
unholy alliance ensures that any challenge to the status quo,
be it political, social, or ideological, is swiftly
neutralized. The algorithms designed to connect us now serve
to divide and manipulate, creating echo chambers where
conformity is enforced, and deviation is punished.[...] The
state, armed with unparalleled surveillance capabilities and
supported by tech giants, holds more sway over the individual
than ever before. The values that once defined the West - ”
liberty, transparency, and the right to dissent” - have been
eroded in favor of security, secrecy, and ideological
conformity.
https://www.newsweek.com/death-western-valuessurveillance-conformity-post-9-11-state-opinion-1906892
31.5.2024
Mediaprt: LVMH à Paris : cartographie d’un empire
Entre les boutiques, les musées, les hôtels et les bureaux, le
géant du luxe étend son emprise dans toute la capitale,
notamment dans les secteurs les plus prestigieux. En tout 206
adresses, et des quartiers très largement occupés par le
groupe.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/enquetes (Paywall)
Reclaim the Net: Mastercard’s Controversial Digital ID Rollout
in Africa
The plan is to, over ten years, make sure 100 million people
and businesses in Africa are included in digital ID programs
and thus allow access to government and “humanitarian”
services.Given how controversial digital ID schemes are, and
how much pushback they encounter in developed countries, it’s
hard to shake off the impression that such initiatives are
pushed so aggressively in economically disadvantaged areas and
communities precisely because little opposition is expected.
(REM: The acronym of the plan, MADE, in German language means
"maggot".)
https://reclaimthenet.org/mastercards-controversial-digital-id-rollout-in-africa
Bad Medicine Movie Post Production & Release
- An appeal to contribute to technical costs for production of
a documentary about how "Healthy people are being tortured and
killed by COVID-19 protocols ".
(Promotion video clips)
https://www.givesendgo.com/BadMedicineMovie
29.5.2024
Algorithmwatch: 29,000 people have died in the Mediterranean
over the past ten years while trying to reach the EU. You
would think that the EU wanted this tragedy to stop and
scientists across Europe were working feverishly on making
this happen with the latest technology. The opposite is the
case: With the help of so-called Artificial Intelligence, the
walls are being raised, financed with taxpayers' money.
https://r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/GRqk5cQg3Z92dZW-Rt3xwQ?m=AUYAAEJfKlQAAc2_xwIAAC-kqw0AAAAA7y4AAOx3ABB0KQBmUN0vftJvDQVXQby2Y9xm5wAb-AAQJ0I&b=e20c6965&e=4c501851&x=uhP3z_6tX1mGBZnTG9FzJt1YjTm9Or3icZdpaRExX-8
24.5.2024
Counterpunch: The Future of an Illusion
Israel is purposefully conducting a massive ethnic cleansing
campaign via genocide in order to finally incorporate Gaza
into a Jewish-majority Isreal, with the hopes that the US or
neighboring states will accept any survivors as
refugees.][...] Israel, it has been clear for some time now,
is a classic instance of a failed state – a characteristic
product of Cold War over-armament plus “free enterprise”
decay. But its failure, from the US point of view, goes deeper
than this. It is a failed spectacle, above all
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/24/the-future-of-an-illusion/
20-5-2024
Politis: EPR de Flamanville : relaxe pour les huit activistes
L’EPR est un fiasco industriel majeur : dix-sept ans de
travaux, au lieu des cinq annoncés, 20 milliards d’euros de
coût (frais financiers inclus), soit six fois plus que prévu.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/05/en-bref-relaxe-pour-huit-activistes-antinucleaire-la-france-condamnee-pour-assignation-a-domicile/
[16.2.2024]
Counterpunch: A Cry in the Darkness: “Please Come, Come Take
Me”
Since October, at least 146 ambulances have been targeted by
the IDF and more than 309 medical workers killed.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/16/a-cry-in-the-darkness/
19.5.2024
Die Geheimakte Corona-Expertenrat - ein Dokumentarfilm von Aya
Velázquez
über die deutsche Maßnahmenpolitik
(Video, in German, 1:42:32)
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=LlQh6s0W4fE
REM: Refreshingly critical documentary about the exceptionally
authoritarian of, AND broad exceptance for the handling of
measures concerning the Sars-CoV-2 infection in Germany.
To note: that almost nothing the like went over the German
public media.
15.5.2024
CHD Defender: ‘Slippery Slope’: Big Tech’s War Against
‘Misinformation’ Now Targeting Natural Health
Alliance for Natural Health last month launched the “Free
Speech 4 Health” campaign and a petition asking YouTube to
change its medical misinformation policy, enacted in August
2023. Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is one of the campaign’s
partners.
Verkerk discussed the campaign and petition and highlighted
examples of Big Tech censorship of health-related information
and attempts by governments to criminalize such speech.
(Video 1:11:02)
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/defender-in-depth-rob-verkerk-alliance-for-natural-health-free-speech-misinformation/
14.5.2024
Aljazeera: Global South should learn from Big Pharma’s
bullying of South Africa
The extortionate vaccine contracts Pretoria signed during the
pandemic demonstrate why achieving pharmaceutical sovereignty
should be a priority for all dev
https://aje.io/h6s1v7
Aljazeera: Israelis killing Palestinians ‘in cold blood’ in
occupied West Bank
The number of Palestinians killed there by Israeli soldiers
and settlers has reached unprecedented levels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/13/israel-killing-palestinians-in-cold-blood-in-the-west-bank
7.5.2024
La Quadrature Du Net: Contre l’empire de la vidéosurveillance
algorithmique
L’« expérimentation » de la vidéosurveillance algorithmique
dans le cadre fixé par la loi Jeux Olympiques n’en est pas une
: elle n’est qu’une manœuvre hypocrite destinée à légaliser
par petites touches une infrastructure policière déjà
massivement déployée en France. Pour contrer cette stratégie,
La Quadrature du Net lance aujourd’hui une campagne visant à
nourrir l’opposition populaire à la vidéosurveillance
algorithmique.
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/la-quadrature-du-net/blog/020524/contre-l-empire-de-la-videosurveillance-algorithmique-la-quadrature-contre-attaque
3.5.2024
Al Jazeera: ‘Blood minerals’ - What are the hidden costs of
the EU-Rwanda supply deal?
EU plans to secure supplies for green revolution from Rwanda
are likely to support smuggling of conflict minerals from DR
Congo.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal
2.5.2024
La Quadrature Du Net: Contre l’empire de la
vidéosurveillance algorithmique
L’« expérimentation » de la vidéosurveillance algorithmique
dans le cadre fixé par la loi Jeux Olympiques n’en est pas une
: elle n’est qu’une manœuvre hypocrite destinée à légaliser
par petites touches une infrastructure policière déjà
massivement déployée en France.
(Video; paywall)
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/la-quadrature-du-net/blog/020524/contre-l-empire-de-la-videosurveillance-algorithmique-la-quadrature-contre-attaque
1.5.2024
Politis: L’horreur
Depuis 7 mois, nous vivons un cauchemar, tétanisés par chaque
nouveau « bilan humain » de l’abominable massacre du peuple
palestinien. Et dont la dénonciation, en France, est désormais
criminalisée.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/04/palestine-gaza-lhorreur
30.4.2024
The New Arab: Palestinian children among dead bodies found in
Nasser Hospital mass grave in Gaza
https://www.newarab.com/news/children-among-dead-bodies-found-gaza-hospital-mass-grave
"25 do Abril"
https://globalbridge.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Patrick-Lawrence-Portugal-1974.pdf
Al Jazeera: Gaza drone video shows killing of Palestinians in
Israeli air attack
(Video, [only two min.])
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=DhVV2_mub84
and
Al Jazeera:: Unarmed Palestinians killed in Gaza
(Video, 2 min 09)
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/28/unarmed-palestinians-killed-in-gaza
29.4.2024
Spectator: Why were Germany’s Covid files redacted?
Multipolar [German website] has sought to investigate on which
scientific grounds fundamental liberties were curtailed,
schools closed, lockdowns established and vaccines imposed. It
is especially surprising that this legitimate curiosity has
until recently not been shared by the wider German media. As a
result of an ongoing legal battle, Multipolar finally
succeeded (at least partially) in its aims.[...]In the spring
of last year it received the 2,500 pages of the RKI’s Covid
protocols, from early in 2020 to April 2021. But the files
were heavily redacted – as if they contained state secrets
concerning high diplomacy or military matters. So Multipolar
has filed a second legal action to enforce disclosure of the
redacted parts, which amount to about one-third of the files.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-were-germanys-covid-files-redacted/
25.4. 2024
FRANCE 24: Revivez le discours sur l'Europe d'Emmanuel Macron
à la Sorbonne
Un grand discours sur l'Europe à un mois et demi des élections
européennes, et sept ans après son premier discours sur
l'Europe dans cette même enceinte.
23.4.2024
UN News: Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in
Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found
stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed
concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli
airstrikes, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on
Tuesday.[...]
“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and
wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied
and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani,
spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876
19.4.2024
Counterpunch: A Brief History of Kill Lists, From
Langley to Lavender
Obama and his national security team kept meeting in
the White House every “Terror Tuesday” to select who
the drones would target that week, using an Orwellian,
computerized “disposition matrix” to provide
technological cover for their life and death
decisions.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/a-brief-history-of-kill-lists-from-langley-to-lavender/
Democracy Now: Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as
Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian
Conference
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=24J1IkwtyDQ
17.4.2024
Norbert Häring;The EU is getting ready for total
control of the digital space
Under the pretext of promoting “civic” engagement, the EU
Commission is funding the development of artificially
intelligent software for the survellance and manipulation
of social media – for use of state-funded, private
watchdogs and government agencies.
https://norberthaering.de/en/propaganda-censorship/hatedemics-en/
15.4.2024
BILL GATES : L'INCROYABLE ARNAQUE DERRIÈRE SA FONDATION
(Video discussion, 22 min; in French)
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Dqzt6yAmdDE&listen=false
14.4.2024
Mediapart/Fr: Les militantes et les militants du climat ne
se battent pas pour eux mais pour les écosystèmes et pour
une planète durable. Face à l’urgence climatique, ils et
elles intensifient leurs actions. Mais ils n’ont jamais
été autant réprimés, selon un rapport du rapporteur
spécial de l’ONU Michel Forst publié en février dernier.
Avec Michel Forst, rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur les
défenseurs de l’environnement; Luisa Neubauer, militante
allemande du climat, Fridays for Future Germany; Tom,
artiste, manifestant à Sainte-Soline.
(Video, 49 min)
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/280324/militants-ecologistes-en-europe-la-grande-repression
13.4.2024
Dr. Stephanie Seneff about Glyphosate - "it's a
nightmare".
(Video, 46 min)
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/glyphosate-generation/
9.4.2024
https://www.zejournal.mobi//media/video/post/2024/03/1711804028_jhg0CQMPnCSJ.mp4
Prof. Francis Boyle on background of Covid-19 in
biowarfare research.
7.3.2024
The Jimmy Dore Show
After seizing power in Niger last year, the country’s coup
government has decided that it has no need for the
presence of American armed forces, recently insisting that
the 1,000 U.S. soldiers depart Niger and all drone
operations cease. The U.S. has resisted the demand,
however, first sending the blood-soaked Victoria Nuland to
try to change the Nigerean leaders’ minds, and now simply
dragging their feet about exiting.
Jimmy and Due Dissidence host Russell Dobular discuss
Niger’s efforts to push back against the imperialistic
U.S. war machine.
(Video, 20 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzT6PQIgj4
3.4.2024
Politis: En Europe, l’ombre de la disparition des gauches
Enquête. Impasse du logiciel social-démocrate, atonie face
à la montée de l’extrême droite, absence de récit
mobilisateur : chercheurs et personnalités politiques
tentent d’analyser la faiblesse des forces progressistes
et écologistes sur notre continent.
https://75wuk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/aYXmRC4QWYZ0MKQE7ddIA5gu7-Lm4_GdPeYd8ucv5Sjbn-U5ppcYYrBG60bwZ_oZ_0BgrvKyPgvHrNqz_Cl9XxwIki2ZPay3sOTIRa5z5hJkKysj2CtBs9S7Oq9TYzF8oz7KTfLdL-LOxgzZeqNf0FYknx6-RT-Xjz7sjSscxeNNWeFdRy4ipobxFMyMKw6OAkuRc9NXcfQAjcjpTbItio9yjZVS00f3GWDGQEywKW-6jqm9ccIruPOa6nwctIjt4_kMLdTc-ih7iy3uBjrVdrk
1.4.2024
Ossietzky: Postdemokratie
Es braucht gar keine AfD, wenn u. a. Kanzler Scholz
»Abschiebungen im großen Stil« fordert und Ministerin
Faeser ein Gesetzespaket mit einer Rückführungsoffensive«
vorlegt.
https://www.ossietzky.net/artikel/postdemokratie/
Counterpunch: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s
New Cold War
The dismantling of German industry since 2022 is
collateral damage in America’s geopolitical war to isolate
China, Russia and allied countries whose rising prosperity
and self-sufficiency is viewed as an unacceptable
challenge to U.S. hegemony. To prepare for what promises
to be a long and costly fight, U.S. strategists made a
pre-emptive move in 2022 to turn Europe away from its
trade and investment relations with Russia. In effect,
they asked Germany to commit industrial suicide and become
a U.S. dependency.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/01/germany-as-collateral-damage-in-americas-new-cold-war/
31.3.2924
Home Office # 425 [Gäste: Tom Lausen und Andreas Beutel zu
RKI-Files]
Datenspezialist Tom Lausen zeigt anhand von Scripts und
‘Künstlicher Intelligenz’ erweiterte
Recherche-Möglichkeiten auf. Lausen führt dies an den vom
‘Multipolar Magazin’ freigeklagten RKI-Files vor, welche
im PDF-Format vorliegen und für ihn teilweise durchsuchbar
sind . (Video, ca. 2 h.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKB1O07IXBI
30.3.2024
The Grayzone: Sweden closing
Nordsteam investigation shocking coverup -investigator
Erik Andersson, a Sweden-based engineer who led the first
independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream
pipelines blast sites on the Swedish government's sudden
closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the
eve of joining NATO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Gc0u4TdjY
27.3.2024
Politis: Gaza : la complicité française
La France a autorisé, fin octobre 2023, la livraison à
Israël d’au moins 100 000 pièces de cartouches pour de
redoutables fusils mitrailleurs susceptibles d’avoir été
utilisés contre des civils à Gaza, notamment lors du
« massacre de la farine ». Cette révélation de nos
consœurs de Disclose et Marsactu contredit les engagements
du gouvernement, qui a prétendu que seuls des « composants
défensifs pour le Dôme de fer » avaient été livrés.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/03/israel-la-complicite-francaise/
25.3.2024
Counterpunch: The EU was very quick to
sanction Russia two years ago. Israel’s crimes are infinitely
worse, yet there is no call from the EU for them to suspend
their violations of international law.
Follow-Up to an
Open-Letter Demanding Accountability From the EU Leadership
for Complicity in Genocide
by Geneva International Peace Research Institute
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/25/follow-up-to-an-open-letter-demanding-accountability-from-the-eu-leadership-for-complicity-in-genocide/
23.3.2024
X(exTwitter) - how Israel "defends":
https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1770895103785046489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1770916615950938527%7Ctwgr%5Ea589e7e629a7f6a9a1730a20e9afbb67bb2613de%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2Fpalestinians-killed-by-israel
Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden asserted that
"everyone in the world needs to see this. Note that this
footage permits no room for 'it was a mistake,' showing
repeated, specifically targeted strikes on the unarmed and
even wounded."
...
"There is no way they could have been considered combatants,"
said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinians-killed-by-israel
22.3.2024
Statewatch: European money for the war in Gaza: how EU
research funding supports the Israeli arms industry
Technologies developed with financial support from Europe are
being used in the current war in Gaza, as they have been
previously in occupation of Palestinian territory and
marginalisation of the Palestinian people.
https://www.statewatch.org/analyses/2024/european-money-for-the-war-in-gaza-how-eu-research-funding-supports-the-israeli-arms-industry/
21.3.2024
Palestine: Almost 300 academics from universities across
Europe and beyond have called for the EU to stop funding
research projects "that may, directly or indirectly, violate
international law and human rights," in particular with regard
to substantial research funding the EU provides to
institutions in Israel.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/february/palestine-300-academics-call-for-halt-to-eu-research-funding-that-violates-international-law/
18.3.2024
A Revolution in American Foreign Policy
Replacing Greed, Militarism, and Hypocrisy With Solidarity,
Diplomacy, and Human Rights
By Bernie Sanders
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/revolution-american-foreign-policy-bernie-sanders
15.3.2024
While Israel has a propaganda machine, the Hasbara, mostly
aimed at foreign countries, the US has no official
propaganda machine. It doesn’t need one because it has the
New York Times.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/smoke-mirrors-how-israeli-agitprop-lies-become-fact/
The Tucker Carlson Encounter: Dr. Pierre Kory
They’re still claiming the Covid vax is safe and effective.
Yet somehow Dr. Pierre Kory treats hundreds of patients
who’ve been badly injured by it. Why is no one in the public
health establishment paying attention?
REM: Specifictly on the "big five" of specialised journals
like "Natur", "Science", &corp.
REM 2: Astonishing similarities to Wodarg's reasoning.
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-pierre-kory/
Germany and NATO Caught Red-Handed in War Planning
German military leaders may have bungled foolishly over
their private discussions regarding operational plans
against Russia. However, the security of their incompetent
communication – while laughable – does not lessen the
seriousness of what was being discussed.[...] Lt. General
Ingo Gerhartz and his aides were earnestly weighing up the
technical and propaganda means by which to strike Russia
with long-range ballistic missiles. In short, a NATO member
was caught red-handed hatching an act of war against Russia.
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/03/08/germany-and-nato-caught-red-handed-in-war-planning/15/
14.3.2024
‘The Blob’: Government, Media and Big Tech Censorship
Alliance Suppressing Dissent on Wide Range of Issues
[The] ex-U.S. Department of State official Mike Benz
exposed how an informal alliance of government agencies,
media and tech companies he calls “the Blob” has redefined
democracy as a “consensus of institutions” to justify
censorship and maintain control over our government and
public discourse.
[...] via its sub-agency the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), DHS [US dpt. of
"Homeland Security"] expanded its focus to include the
suppression of information related to the COVID-19
pandemic.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mike-benz-government-media-big-tech-censorship-russell-brand/
Gespräch Ulrieke Guérot, Oscar Lafontaine
Oskar Lafontaine und Ulrike Guérot reflektieren die letzten
20 Jahre transatlantischer Beziehungen, wo die gemeinsame
Reise hingehen könnte, oder ob es vielleicht für Europa an
der Zeit ist, wieder eigene Wege zu gehen
Dec 7, 2023 European Citizen Radio
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=71OCgyn-J5k
(Audio, 22 min)
13.3.2924
Gespräch Ulrieke Guérot, Walter van Rossum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhJrMHI_qs
8.3.2024
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/silencing-the-science/
Silencing the Science
When Nathaniel Mead, along with his co-authors, published a
paper analyzing the COVID mRNA shot platform, they faced
censorship by means of a retraction. What did the scientific
literature expose that called for such a response from the
powers that be?
Looking into the Pfizer clinical trial data uncovered
shocking, ‘statistically significant’ data on adverse events
in the vaccinated, it revealed a lack of ‘adequate safety
and toxicological testing’ of the products and it challenged
the mainstream risk-benefit narrative on the shots.
(Mar 6, 2024: Video, 1 h 7 min)
8.4.2024
Infosperber/CH:
Roland Wiesendanger - Wenn korrupte Wissenschaft die
Weltpolitik bestimmt
Herkunft des Coronavirus: Freigeklagte Emails werfen ein
schlechtes Licht auf Wissenschaftler.
[REM: Gekürzte Fassung des Artikels von Roland Wiesendanger /
Infosperber 7.3.2024]
Infosperber/CH: Bestätigt - Netanyahu missbrauchte
die Hamas für seine Strategie
Israels Regierungschef erlaubte Katar, die Hamas finanziell zu
stärken. Denn mit der Terroristen-Hamas musste er nicht
verhandeln.
5.4.224
Politis: Sur la guerre en Ukraine, les gauches n’arrivent
(encore) pas à s’unir
Socialistes et écologistes veulent que la France soutienne
davantage militairement l’armée ukrainienne. Insoumis et
communistes plaident pour la voie diplomatique. Tous
n’hésitent pas à jouer l’affrontement en ce début de campagne
des européennes.
28,2,2024
Counterpunch: How Israel is Making Gaza Unlivable
Israel’s genocide on Gaza has led to at least 30,000 dead
(including 12,000 children). This past week, we saw the
Israelis begin bombing on Rafah and a ground invasion of the
last refugee haven in Gaza is expected at any time. But while
the Israelis wage their ethnic cleansing campaign with bombs
and bullets, they’ve also weaponized environmental destruction
to make sure that no one can return to a land and water
poisoned by their war machine.
Counterpunch:
Remembering a Voice for Peace
Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” author of more
than 100 books and 1,000 scholarly articles about world peace,
passed away on February 17, 2024, at age 93.In 1969, [..]
Dissatisfied with the popular idea of peace as a “negative,”
the mere absence of war, Galtung redefined peace as the
opposite of violence. He characterized the latter as
“avoidable insults to life.” The art of peace became the
skilled avoidance of such insults. In this way, he enriched
our vocabulary of peace by embracing the notion of “positive
peace,” also known as the presence of justice.
27.2.2024
Responsible
Statecraft: 10 years later: Maidan's missing history
The revolutionary violence that swept Kyiv’s Maidan Square on
the night of February 21, 2014 unleashed the forces of
Ukrainian nationalism and, ultimately, Russian revanchism, and
resulted in, among other things, the first full-scale land war
in Europe since 1945.[...] President Volodymyr Zelensky has
called the Maidan the “first victory” in Ukraine’s fight for
independence from Russia. Yet too often lost in the tributes
to Ukraine’s ‘Revolution of Dignity’ are two simple, though
ramifying, questions: What was the Maidan really about? And
did things have to turn out this way?
25.2.2024
REM: Perhaps among the best examples of treating a
complex issue in video format, this documentary:
"State of Control": From
QR Code to totalitarian technocracy - the perfect
"mission creep".
(Video, 1 h 14 min; English commentary but some [important]
interviews in Dutch language only)
24.2.2024
orientXXI: À Gaza, les soldats israéliens mettent en
scène leurs crimes en vidéo
Si beaucoup de Gazaouis se sont transformés en journalistes
reporters d’image pour documenter le massacre en cours, les
vidéos ne manquent pas du côté des militaires israéliens, qui
eux filment leurs exactions, brandissent leurs forfaits, avec
la complicité de leur hiérarchie.
Netzwerk Kritische Richter und Staatsanwälte:
Meinungsfreiheit – ein Auslaufmodell. Der Digital
Services Act (DSA).
An dieser europäischen Verordnung wird beispielhaft gezeigt,
wie nationale und EU-Institutionen Hand in Hand alternative
Informationsflüsse verhindern.
Sollte sein Antrag auf Bewilligung eines eigenen
Berufungsverfahrens keinen Erfolg haben, sind Assanges
Möglichkeiten innerhalb des britischen Rechtssystems
erschöpft. Er würde dann umgehend an die USA ausgeliefert,
wo ihm nach sieben Jahren Isolation in der
ecuadorianischen Botschaft und fünf Jahren im
Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Hellmarsh weitere 175 Jahre Haft
drohen – einschliesslich «schwerer
Menschenrechtsverletzungen u.a. durch Haftbedingungen, die
Folter und Misshandlung gleichkommen» (Amnesty
International).
Der Moskau-Korrespondent Ulrich Heyden blickt auf sein Leben
zurück und findet die Wurzeln der Anti-Kreml-Mentalität im
Journalismus.
A reasonable voice, regarding both the
Tucker-Interview and the position to the Ukraine conflict.
The nauseating cynicism of the very official propaganda of
Israel's government.
The mass monitoring tool in question is called
Patternz.[...] Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps,
including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of
caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability
that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the
apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring
tool advertised to national security agencies that can track
the physical location, hobbies, and family members of people
to build billions of profiles, according to a 404 Media
investigation.[...] 404 Media’s investigation, based on now
deleted marketing materials and videos, technical forensic
analysis, and research from privacy activists, provides one
of the clearest examinations yet of how advertisements in
ordinary mobile apps can ultimately lead to surveillance by
spy firms and their government clients through the real time
bidding data supply chain. The pipeline involves smaller,
obscure advertising firms and advertising industry giants
like Google.
REM: Historical - a rare example letting to hear how the
leading figure of a major world power thinks, and
engages seriously in a public discussion about this.
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=waLjtcUq5Mc
In Myanmar entstehen Deponien mitten in Wohngebieten. [...]
Der Müll, der die Strassen säumt, stammt grösstenteils von
Produkten, die in Myanmars Supermärkten gar nicht verkauft
werden. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem investigativen Kollektiv
«Lighthouse Reports» und mehreren anderen Medien hat
«Frontier Myanmar» Plastikmüll aus Polen, Kanada und
Grossbritannien dokumentiert.
Chinese scientists have created a mutated pangolin
coronavirus that is 100% lethal in “humanized” mice, raising
biosafety concerns around risky gain-of-function research.
The preprint study demonstrated the virus’ ability to
replicate in lung and brain tissue, concluding that severe
neurological infection likely caused the mice’s deaths.
According to scientists at the Beijing University of
Chemical Technology, the SARS-CoV-2-related pangolin variant
“GX_P2V C7” was derived from a previously cloned virus that
mutated in lab-grown cell cultures.
When intranasally inoculated into mice bioengineered to
express human ACE2 receptors, the virus killed all of the
mice within eight days.
REM: An exemplary documentary about French Capitalism, and
of the rogue ascension of one of its leading figures.
Bolloré presently reigns in at almost 40 per cent of stock
exchange registered enterprises in France, including one
of the major TV channels and huge dependencies in Africa
(palm oil, container ports.)
14. 1. 2024
Die Militärausgaben der europäischen Länder eilen derzeit
von Rekord zu Rekord.
Nach Angaben der Nato kletterten die Budgets der
europäischen Nato-Länder von 236 Milliarden Dollar
im Jahr 2015 auf 375 Milliarden im Jahr 2023 steil nach
oben.
8.12. 2023
Größe der Kreise stellt Anzahl der monatlichen Nutzer dar
Although Western sanctions and hostility to Russia and China
failed to cripple either economic behemoth, they have caused
a redirection of trade and a readjustment of goals. This may
well turn out to be another instance of Washington’s elite
shooting itself in the head, because all its ridiculous
attacks have served mainly to cement Moscow’s and
Beijing’s bond, thus creating a new economic, political
and military colossus. Sadly, short-sightedness appears to
be the order of the day in the West, and has been for most
of this century. Beltway diplomatic Einsteins have so
aggressively thrust Russia and China together, that now the
partnership has a military dimension, too. Sheer genius on
Washington’s part: take two of the world’s most puissant
nuclear powers and shove them into each other’s arms.
A formerly secret map from AFRICOM shows a network of 29
U.S. military bases that stretch from one side of Africa to
another.
United States Counterterrorism Operations Under the
Biden Administration, 2021-2023
The war launched by the United States government in response
to the 9/11 terror attacks continues. This map is a snapshot
of today’s global military and civilian operations that
evolved from President George W. Bush's “Global War on
Terror,” launched in 2001, and continued through and beyond
the U.S. military’s official withdrawal from Afghanistan in
2021. This war on terror continues under President Joe
Biden. Between 2021 and 2023, the first three years of the
Biden administration, the U.S. government conducted
counterterrorism operations in 78 countries, including
ground combat in at least nine countries and air strikes in
at least four. In 73 of the 78 countries,
(Including a map, and links to earlier publications in the
series.)
In the interview, Kennedy traced the history of the U.S.
bioweapons program — from its origins, when the U.S. brought
Nazi and Japanese scientists here after World War II to
today’s biodefense research being conducted under the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID).[...]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the NIAID for 39 years until he
retired last year, later offshored some of that research to
China.[...]
Suggesting SARS-CoV-2 likely originated from
gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
in China — research funded in part by the U.S. government —
Kennedy called for an end to the risky research to prevent
future lab leaks. He said there should be transparency among
nations conducting such research, and that it should be
criminalized.
Research by this reputated expert on financial and patent
application data points to an engineered origin of the
SARS-CoV-2 virus as a construct of biological weapons
research, as he explains at a hearing in the European
Parliament.
(Video, ca. 22 min)
Aurdip: Losing academic integrity in favor of
whitewashing the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories
“On 6 March 2024, Barak Medina and Anna Peters published
an article in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (FAZ) with a question as their title: “Fighting
Terror with Military Means?”… Why do we bother to write
against another case of grave violation of basic academic
standards? There are several reasons for making our
rejection of Medina’s and Peter’s declared support for the
Israeli army public.” By S.B. & A.M. The authors, who
sign with initials for security reasons, are an Israeli
and a German academics.
https://aurdip.org/en/losing-academic-integrity-in-favor-of-whitewashing-the-israeli-army-in-the-occupied-territories/