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DrALJONES

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Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko

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Seriously informative interview on:

  • how central Epstein was to the Zionist project

  • the UN's choice not to defy Israel

Epstein was a powerful, unofficial, Jewish-supremacist "ambassador" for Israel.

Among his projects, Epstein helped shape the Oslo & Abraham Accords to eradicate Palestinian rights from the process - which became "peace without justice".

Craig Mokhiber is a fearless former UN insider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AoPlJgEBQ

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An Australian whistleblower facing death threats is in hiding after speaking out about intelligence failings prior to the 2025 Bondi massacre in Sydney.

He infiltrated an ISIS-linked network & reported internally. That failed, so he went public.

The Aus govt has a despicable pattern of persecuting & jailing bonafide whistleblowers.

The Australian public broadcaster aired this doco about the issue:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H002S00

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Analysis: "Starmer’s ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry"

A Channel 4 doco on Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist organisation alleges the proscription was done at the behest of Elbit Systems.

The doco cites evidence - including a 2023 internal Home Office email stating: "Reassure Elbit Systems UK... that the government cares about the harm the group is causing the private sector".

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-02-10/ban-palestine-action-arms-industry/

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"It’s time for the world to boycott the US"

"Under Donald Trump, the US is escalating violence abroad & repression at home while facing none of the sanctions routinely demanded of other states."

"A global boycott & divestment campaign may now be the only nonviolent way to force accountability."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us

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"It’s time for the world to boycott the US"

"Under Donald Trump, the US is escalating violence abroad & repression at home while facing none of the sanctions routinely demanded of other states."

"A global boycott & divestment campaign may now be the only nonviolent way to force accountability."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us

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Report: Epstein "trained as a spy" under Ehud Barak & was likely "compiling Kompromat on behalf of Mossad."

After phone calls between Alan Dershowitz — Epstein’s lawyer — & Epstein, Mossad would call Dershowitz to debrief.

The direct testimony places Epstein "within an organised foreign intelligence apparatus, rather than as a lone criminal figure."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260205-fbi-document-epstein-trained-as-spy-under-ehud-barak-and-worked-for-mossad/

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Dear Vladimir, please send one million Russians to dilute Palestinian presence. Yours, Ehud

(recordings, courtesy Epstein files)

Fmr PM Barak also "disparaged Jews who arrived from Arab & Muslim countries after the creation of Israel in 1948, saying Israel can now be 'selective'."

"Israel’s Ashkenazi leadership has a long history of looking down on Jews from the Arab & Muslim world, often treating them as inferior."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/epstein-files-ex-israeli-pm-urged-putin-send-one-more-million-russians-israel

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Report: Epstein "trained as a spy" under Ehud Barak & was likely "compiling Kompromat on behalf of Mossad."

After phone calls between Alan Dershowitz — Epstein’s lawyer — & Epstein, Mossad would call Dershowitz to debrief.

The direct testimony places Epstein "within an organised foreign intelligence apparatus, rather than as a lone criminal figure."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260205-fbi-document-epstein-trained-as-spy-under-ehud-barak-and-worked-for-mossad/

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"It’s time for the world to boycott the US"

"Under Donald Trump, the US is escalating violence abroad & repression at home while facing none of the sanctions routinely demanded of other states."

"A global boycott & divestment campaign may now be the only nonviolent way to force accountability."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us

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Report: Staff at Human Rights Watch resign after HRW's new Exec Director pulled a major report on Palestinian refugees' right of return.

Head Omar Shakir & Milena Ansari's report said that Israel’s prevention of refugee return "constitutes a crime against humanity under international law."

Shakir said that Exec Dir Philippe Bolopion pulled the report due to fear of political backlash.

https://jewishcurrents.org/researchers-at-human-rights-watch-resign-over-blocked-report-on-palestinian-refugee-return

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Interview: ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti.

The agents are Jesus Ochoa, 43, & Raymundo Gutierrez, 35.

“This is in the public interest,” says reporter J. David McSwane. “This country has a tradition & norm of being able to identify law enforcement officers, both for their safety & the safety of the public.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/3/propublica_cbp_agents_alex_pretti

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The cruelty is the ..

Report: Strip searches, blindfolds, handcuffs, irrelevant interrogations, denial of medical attention, extortion to collaborate: Israel's collective punishment at the Rafah crossing

More than 20,000 people need to leave Gaza urgently for medical care to save their lives.

In addition, 30,000 Palestinians wanting to return are not getting clearance.

https://aje.news/11ynjj?update=4285205

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TikTok US’s new CEO, Adam Presser, described its moderation policies:

“The use of the term ‘Zionist’ [is] a proxy for... hate speech."

It's fine to use ‘Zionist' as a proud Zionist, "but if you’re... calling somebody a Zionist as a dirty name, then that gets designated as hate speech to be moderated against.”

"Jewish organizations are constantly feeding us intelligence & information when they spot violative trends.”

Source: Zeteo Feb 1

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"Israel has NO authority to block anyone from entering the Palestinian territory it illegally occupies."

~Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, occupied Palestinian territories

Albanese "condemned Israel’s ban on Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from Gaza".

"The ban is part of Israel’s effort to crackdown on NGOs & aid organisations in Palestine."

https://aje.news/48xd9d?update=4282876

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"+ Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs - Follow Israel has NO authority to block anyone from entering the Palestinian territory it illegally occupies. Stop normalising the illegal occupation by bending to its diktats. Respect the ICJ deliberation: force Israel to end the occupation. Time for justice is NOW. (©) Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic Perhaps this is the first time in MSF's history that the org has been expelled from a country on the accusation of being a “military infrastructure” that “shields terrorism,” echoing the same key allegations used by Israel against the entire healthcare to justify genocide. er Israel to halt MSF work in
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Interview: A “theme park of dispossession” for Palestinians: US plans for Gaza

The draconian measures planned "are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy & a lab for government surveillance – all meant to drive them out."

"Israel is establishing facts on the ground in Gaza – including 50 military bases – which eventually become permanent”.

~Sharif Abdel Kouddous

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/the-bottom-line/2026/2/1/gazas-daily-nightmare-vs-us-talk-of-ai-driven-smart-cities

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Report: At the present rate, urgent medical evacuations from Gaza would take a year.

"More than 1,000 Palestinians have died waiting for medical evacuation".

~James Smith, emergency doctor

https://aje.news/48xd9d?update=4283619

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Mostly Palestinians, of course....

Report: Israel has the second worst rate of child poverty among OECD countries.

30+ Israeli laws passed since Oct 2023 have deepened the system of apartheid & repression against Israel's 2 million Palestinian citizens...

...the descendants of the indigenous population violently displaced in 1948 during Israel's creation.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-israel-amongst-poorest-amid-increasing-poverty-rates-report

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Interview: "How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities"

Border Patrol culture is "one of rampant abuse & impunity" ~Todd Miller, journalist

"Management of Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations. After 9/11 we just gave them money & let them design their own accountability systems" ~Jenn Budd, ex-agent.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/28/border_todd_miller

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Interview: Abolish ICE, defund DHS, impeach Kristi Noem. ~Rep Delia Ramirez

Ramirez says Noem’s agency is “rotten from the inside out” & must be completely dismantled.

“You have an agency killing people, executing them, lying about it, & then talking about investigating themselves while operating with impunity.”

"This is a direct influence... from this president."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/28/ramirez_noem_impeach

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The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

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The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)
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Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.

Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/headlines/fbi_agent_resigns_after_unsuccessfully_trying_to_probe_ice_agent_who_killed_renee_good

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Israeli so-called "peace" agreements have always been deliberately contrived to prevent the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.

Netanyahu admitted it:
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-netanyahu-brags-he-deceived-us-destroy-oslo-accords/8934

The Israeli-US use of the word "peace" translates as "peace (quiescence) without justice)".

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Netanyahu came to power "on a mandate to stop the Oslo process in its tracks." During the supposed peace- making, "Israel colonised Palestinian land at the fastest rate ever." Netanyahu spoke to a group of settlers about how easy it was to con the US: "Look, | wasn't afraid to maneuver... confront Clinton. | wasn't afraid to go against the UN. Question: Aren't you afraid of what they'll say, Bibi? Bibi: No. Especially today, with the US. | know how they are. America is something you can easily maneuver & move in the right direction. And even if they say something... so what? 80% of Americans support us! It's absurd! | gave my own interpretation to the agreements... allowing me to stop the race back towards the 1967 borders. | halted the fulfilment of the Oslo Agreements. It's better to give 2% than 100%. Netanyahu, 2001. Abridged from https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-netanyahu-brags-he-deceived-us-destroy-oslo-accords/8934
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A "big, organised camp" at Rafah will hold "hundreds of thousands of people [& be] equipped with ID checks, including facial recognition, to track every Palestinian entering or leaving."

“What they are building is, in reality, a human-sorting mechanism reminiscent of Nazi-era selection points... a tool for racial filtering & a continuation of the genocide by other means.”

It will serve "Israel’s longstanding goal of depopulating" Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/israel-plans-rafah-sorting-camp-slammed-as-continuation-of-genocide

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"What ICE is doing to America is familiar to me as a Palestinian"

"Today, Americans are getting a taste of what Palestinians have experienced for decades: state terror."

"In 2025, 32 people, called “illegals”, died in ICE custody, making it the deadliest year in two decades."

"In the occupied West Bank... Israeli forces & settlers have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians in two years & four months."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/27/what-ice-is-doing-to-america-is-familiar-to-me-as-a-palestinian

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Report: Palantir: Why is the Israel-linked surveillance firm embedded in Britain's NHS?

Palantir has received a £330 million contract with Britain's NHS.

It was also recently awarded a £240 million deal with the British Ministry of Defence, three times more than a previous contract signed in 2022.

Palantir was partially funded by the CIA at its inception & is heavily involved in israeli & US surveillance operations.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palantir-why-israel-linked-surveillance-firm-embedded-britains-nhs

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Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.

Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/headlines/fbi_agent_resigns_after_unsuccessfully_trying_to_probe_ice_agent_who_killed_renee_good

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Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

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The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)
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Report: After Jared & Steve twist Netanyahu's arm or something, he agrees to a "limited reopening" of the Rafah crossing between Gaza & Egypt:

"Israel has agreed to a limited reopening... for pedestrian passage only, subject to a full Israeli inspection mechanism."

Pedestrians only, no aid vehicles, full Israeli inspection. No doubt that'll all work well... for the Israelis

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-agrees-limited-reopening-rafah-crossing-netanyahus-office-says

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BDS is working:

Report: increasing boycotts see Israeli agricultural exports facing collapse.

Orders from Europe & Asia are drying up.

Major sectors—particularly tech & investment—are also suffering.

Consumer spending, too, has plummeted.

Economists warn the crisis may signal a longer-term unravelling of Israel’s global economic integration.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260121-israeli-agricultural-exports-face-collapse-as-boycott-over-gaza-genocide-deepens/

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Interview: Journalist tests ICE recruitment process

"They didn’t ask very many questions.”

Laura Jedeed was hired as an ICE deportation officer after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas.

There was no paperwork, no background check, a likely failed drug test, & she publicly shared her opposition to the Trump administration.

"Who are they hiring? They don’t know.”

~Laura Jedeed

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/laura_jedeed_ice

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Interview: Replacing democracy with tax-free, regulation-free, CEO-run "network states" for the rich.

"This is a long-term project. And even if the Trump thing fails, they will regroup & come back in another form. And I feel like they'll have a lot better success getting what they want".

Especially with JD Vance (creation of Peter Thiel)

~Gil Duran

At 19 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5aJhTVjVo

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Interview: "ICE Detention Expands Dramatically"

"The number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump’s first year back in office."

ICE’s annual budget has quintupled, & it is jailing more & more people who have no criminal record.

While ICE hoped to have over 100,000 people in detention by now, the number stands at 70,000.

Already, the first 2 weeks of 2026, four more people have died in detention.

~Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/american_immigration_council

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Interview: "This Regime Will Fall”: Deadly Iran Protests

Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi "has been repeatedly arrested in Iran, served prison sentences, & was recently sentenced in absentia to an additional year in prison & a two-year travel ban."

Pahani discussed the protests in Iran, fighting against censorship, & the risk of prolonged cycles of violence."

Pahani interview & new film trailer

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/jafar_panahi

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Epstein-Israel links: no wonder the emails are still under wraps.

Report: Leaked Epstein emails show he brokered meetings between Ehud Barak & billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.

Epstein wanted to facilitate an investment by Sulayem in an Israeli logistics chain.

Some emails refer to Epstein's work as a private diplomat & intelligence fixer...

eg, in arranging a security deal between Israel & Mongolia & talks with Russia.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeffrey-epstein-brokered-meetings-between-ehud-barak-and-uae-billionaire-abraham-accords

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For those who keep using "we" when it is not.

The fascists want us to believe that we are all responsible for the atrocities they are committing.

It is not we the people who are destroying life as we have known it.

It is a miniscule percentage of fascistic psychopathic billionaires.

When they first advertised their fascist plan in the 70s, few recognised exactly how dangerous they were.

Even Chomsky said he underestimated their ferocity.

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Report: UK government pays Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, "substantial" settlement for aiding in his "torture & rendition"

Zubaydah has been held at Guantanamo "for more than two decades without charge."

He underwent extreme torture, incl "prolonged sleep deprivation, confinement in coffin-sized boxes, beatings, stress positions & repeated waterboarding."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-settles-out-court-guantanamo-detainee-abu-zubaydah-over-torture-complicity

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Analysis: "Grand Illusion"

"We are cursed by the bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”

Source: Chris Hedges Report, Jan8

"We live in the real world.. that is governed by.. force.. power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.”

~Stephen Miller, CNN, Jan5

“He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist."

~Adolf Hitler

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~Stephen Miller
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You know this is actual fascism, right?

Aim: total control

Method: cruelty and murder.

The people running the US are not only fascistic, they are highly likely psychopathic (power is everything; no empathy, so no conscience).

Dem leadership appeases them because they're owned by the same psychopathic oligarchs.

Awareness, then resistance, eg, boycott X, FB & Amazon just for a start.

See
https://youtu.be/UoR807KZIH4?si=fU-XKX5Ix-yP1Y_d

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| A GOVERNMENT DOESN'T ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE BECOME FASCIST
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This fascist project is coming to fruition now after 50 years in the planning - 1971 to be more accurate, with the Powell Memorandum & subsequently, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

All because the 1960s gave the rich nightmares involving guillotines.

See Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

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The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s: Huntington's so-called “excess of democracy”. They planned counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism & imperialism. They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within academia, government agencies & the press. They neutered the liberal class & crushed popular movements. They set the FBI on anti-war protestors, civil rights, Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Young Lords & other groups that empowered the disempowered. They broke labor unions, leaving 90% of the workforce without union protections. Critics of capitalism & imperialism, eg, Chomsky & Ralph Nader, were blacklisted. The campaign, laid out by Lewis Powell Jr in his 1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate coup d'etat, which five decades later, is complete. The differences between the two ruling parties on substantive issues — such as war, tax cuts, trade deals & austerity — has become indistinguishable. Chris Hedges Nov 04, 2025 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic
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"Every successful resistance movement in American history understood the same thing:

"You don't wait for the next election while consolidation is underway.

"You interfere. You obstruct. You make illegitimate power pay for every inch.

"Congressional Democrats have the tools. They're choosing not to use them.

"Democrats are waiting for the ghost of James Madison to save them".

But it's the ghost of Patrick Henry coming to haunt them.

~Tad Stoermer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoR807KZIH4

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~Tad Stoermer
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Tad Stoermer (continued):

"No one in the opposition is willing to stall appointments, grind procedure to dust, force confrontation, or make governance impossible.

"Congressional minorities have tools.Procedural obstruction, denying unanimous consent, quorum disruption.

"The Senate can be ground to a halt by a minority willing to sacrifice goodwill. And they are actively choosing not to use any of that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoR807KZIH4

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~Tad Stoermer
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Report: Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action to save lives of Filton hunger strikers.

"We learned, through pain, permanent damage, and watching our comrades fall, how states behave when prisoners have no choice but to refuse the only right afforded to them: food."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/11/an-urgent-appeal-to-save-the-lives-of-palestine-action-hunger-strikers

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Report: "Close to death"

Hunger striker Heba Muraisi has passed day 66 without food, & Kamran Ahmed is on day 60.

Medical experts have warned that they are entering a phase where irreversible harm & the risk of death increase sharply.

Lawyers representing the two hunger strikers have written for the 4th time to David Lammy, "urging him to meet them to discuss a possible resolution."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-activists-60-days-hunger-strike-damage

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Report: "Israeli state literary body excluded from Bologna fair"

"The Bologna Children’s Book Fair has barred the Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature from participating in this year’s fair".

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260109-israeli-state-literary-body-excluded-from-bologna-fair-amid-widening-cultural-boycott/

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Interview: "The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela"

Marco Rubio has personal ties to the drug trafficking racket in the 20th century.

His own policy cynically uses drug trafficking as a means to achieving Trump's extrajudicial & imperialist goals in Latin America.

~Maureen Tkacik

Chris Hedges Report 7 Dec

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"This Is Our Hemisphere”: Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region

"Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking."

"Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/colombia_trump

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Report: "Close to death"

Hunger striker Heba Muraisi has passed day 66 without food, & Kamran Ahmed is on day 60.

Medical experts have warned that they are entering a phase where irreversible harm & the risk of death increase sharply.

Lawyers representing the two hunger strikers have written for the 4th time to David Lammy, "urging him to meet them to discuss a possible resolution."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-activists-60-days-hunger-strike-damage

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"It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

"With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.'"

~Mehdi Hasan

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/maduro_venezuela_mehdi_hasan

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