While West Asia’s Axis of Resistance seeks to weaken Israel’s military, economy, and security, a handful of Arab states and Turkiye are secretly striving to bolster Israel and supply its war on Gaza. This is the region’s new ’Axis of Normalization.’

Yemen stands as one of the few Arab states working to mount economic pressure on the occupation state by blocking the shipment of Israeli-bound goods from transiting the Red Sea and other regional waterways.

BY Mohamad Hasan Sweidan

Colonization … is the best affair of business in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage … the same rules of international morality do not apply … between civilized nations and barbarians.

– John Stuart Mill [20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873], quoted by Eileen Sullivan in “Liberalism and Imperialism: JS Mill’s Defense of the British Empire,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 44, 1983.

The events of 11 September 2001 were intended to impose and enshrine a new Exceptionalist paradigm on the young 21st century. History, though, ruled otherwise.

The man behind a botched assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his Florida golf club has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh by multiple media reports citing anonymous law enforcement sources. Authorities have yet to officially confirm the suspect’s identity.

The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon while the former US President and Republican presidential candidate was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. A Secret Service agent apparently spotted a rifle barrel sticking through the resort's fence and fired several rounds at the threat. The suspect fled the scene, leaving behind an AK-style rifle with a scope and a GoPro camera, but he was later arrested.

”He was not displaying a lot of emotions. He never asked, ‘What is this about?’” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told a press conference.

On at least one occasion I have made jokes about Galloway’s tendency to wear a hat indoors, a wide brimmed fedora that places him somewhere between Marlon Brando’s Sky Masterson and Robert Mitchum’s Reverend Harry Powell.

It’s a strong look and one, it turns out, not motivated by sheer vanity. I recently discovered, while watching George chat with his friend Steve Topple online (I live a very full life), that Galloway claims he wears the hat to cover the scars he bears after he was assaulted in 2014 (by one Neil Masterson). If this is true, then frankly, the hat wearing is his business and his alone, though I would add that it’s better at least that he wears a snazzy fedora than a forlorn baseball cap. So, chapeau, George.

It’s a novel. By George Galloway. What did you expect?
By Padraig Reidy

The second week of September was rich in news related to both the Russian and American space programs. Everyone was interested in what would happen to the crew of Boeing’s Starliner, and the Russian lunar program was also intriguing.

The story of the Starliner crew is a sympathetic one. Veteran astronauts Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Lyn Williams  launched the first crewed test flight of the seven-seat reusable Starliner on June 5. NASA seemed to sense that it was not yet time to risk seven people. Especially considering that the unmanned Starliner had already failed.

This week marks 23 years since George W. Bush declared a U.S.-led “war on terror” and the people of Afghanistan and Iraq are still suffering its consequences.

After the U.S. invaded Iraq, an estimated half a million Iraqis were killed and at least 9.2 million were displaced. From 2003-2011, more than 4.7 million Iraqis suffered from moderate to severe food insecurity. 

Turns out Liz “Lettuce” Truss, famed for her 49-day reign as Britain’s PM, isn’t the only piece of rotting debris from the Conservative Party’s disastrous final years in power to wash up on these shores.

Truss’ appearance before a few hundred at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane next month will be swiftly followed by another visit from Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson in December, whose buffoonish three years in No.10 ended with a whimper in 2022 after a series of scandals.

It’s sickening to think Australian governments would put the gas cartel and foreign citizens ahead of lower electricity for Australians. But as Rex Patrick reveals from the latest FOI documents, sadly, that’s what they have done.

In October 2022, nine months after Russia invaded Ukraine, then West Australian Premier Mark McGowan gave some unsolicited advice to the federal government on how to deal with surging gas and electricity prices. They should look to his state to find a solution, he told the ABC’s 730 Report. 

McGowan was primarily referring to the gas reservation policy that’s been in place in WA since 2006, whereby gas producers are forced to reserve 15% of the gas they produce for use in WA.

Die meisten Publikationen, die sich dem Schicksal der Juden in Deutschland annehmen, haben primär den Zeitraum zwischen 1939 und 1945 im Blick. Dieses Buch ist anders: Es setzt weit früher an und widmet sich vornehmlich der Frage nach der Entstehung des deutsch-jüdischen Dilemmas.

Most publications that deal with the fate of the Jews in Germany primarily focus on the period between 1939 and 1945. This book is different: it starts much earlier and is primarily devoted to the question of how the German-Jewish dilemma arose.

Germany has nothing to hide in its investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has insisted, days after Moscow described the probe as “absolutely not transparent.”

So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the 2022 blasts that severed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, which transported Russian natural gas to Germany and other parts of Western Europe.

”We call on all security authorities and the Federal Public Prosecutor General to investigate the blasts without regard for anyone,” Scholz said during a meeting with citizens in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, on Saturday.

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Members of the French government are concerned about the Ukraine conflict spiraling out of control and are now exercising “great discretion,” Le Monde reported on Saturday, citing diplomatic sources.

Fears of the confrontation escalating into a direct collision between Moscow and the NATO bloc have skyrocketed over the past few days, as the US and its allies reportedly consider authorizing Kiev to conduct strikes deep in Russian territory using Western weaponry.

While France has announced “no official position” on the matter, unnamed diplomats in private conversations admitted to the French daily that Paris has been concerned about potential escalation and has been trying to avoid it.

“We must do everything possible to avoid World War III,” an unnamed official told the newspaper.

An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

AMERICANS REPRESENTS LESS THAN FIVE PER CENT OF THE WORLD POPULATION, YET THET VIE TO CONTROL THE WHOLE WORLD VIA VARIOUS MEANS, SOME OVERT AND SOME COVERT.

BUT THIS IS NOT THE REAL STORY.

THE POINT IS THAT ONLY A VERY FEW AMERICANS (AT THIS STAGE WE SHALL HIGHLIGHT THEM AS A FEW WHITE MEN, RATHER THAN OTHER ETHNIC GROUP) ARE CENTRAL TO THIS CONSPIRACY. IT IS REFERRED TO AS THE DEEP STATE IN A LOOSE WAY OF DEFINITION. WE LOVE LABELS. THE DEEP STATE LOVES POWER. IT’S PSYCHOPATHIC. 

WE SHALL EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS A PYRAMID OF COMMAND, WITH THE CENTRAL CORE OF VERY FEW CONSPIRATORS AT THE TOP, MANAGING VARIOUS LEVELS OF EXECUTIVES TAKING ORDERS WHO IN TURN GIVE INSTRUCTIONS AND COMMANDS TO THE LOWER RANKS, SEEPING DOWN TO THE BILGES OF THE POOREST DUM FOLLOWERS.

RT has played a major role in eroding support for Ukraine around the world, and the network has fundraised to buy weapons for the Russian military, the US State Department claimed on Friday. The US has sanctioned RT’s parent company in response.

In a press briefing in Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken leveled a slew of accusations against RT. Blinken claimed that the outlet operates a range of nominally independent news channels on social media in order to spread pro-Kremlin messaging, that it operates a secretive cyber operations unit linked to Russian intelligence, and that it covertly manages a crowdfunding platform to arm and supply Russian troops fighting in the Ukraine conflict.