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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

This is Gaza as the Zionist Envisions It

by Scott Creighton

Remember... in order to build you must first destroy. That is what this is all about. Not about Hamas. Not about Oct. 7th. Not about existential threats.

'From the river to the river' was the promise. That's what Daniela Weiss said in that documentary. That's what they claim the promise from god was. Everything from the river Euphrates to the river Nile belongs to the Israelis. It's right there in front of your eyes and always has been.

In order to achieve that they must destroy what came before them. Wipe it out. Not only ethnically cleanse the land of it's rightful owners, but erase all the evidence of it ever being inhabited.

Only then can they begin to construct their own technocratic version of what the land of Palestine is to become.

Marco Rubio’s Munich Speech Sanewashed US-Backed Dictatorships

from Common Dreams

Much has already been written about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s damage-control mission to the Munich Security Conference, sent to cool transatlantic tensions mere weeks after President Donald Trump hinted multiple times at annexing Greenland by force. But beneath the conciliatory tone was Rubio’s explicit defense of the fight against “godless communist revolutions” and “anti-colonial uprisings” throughout the world, a horrific sanitization of the US-backed dictatorships that terrorized Latin America and beyond in the last century.

Rubio painted a sweeping narrative of Western civilization under threat. “The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline,” he declared, “accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map.”

Section 230 Is Way More Than Just a Social Media Liability Shield

from Public Knowledge

We are nearing the 30th anniversary of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, in which lies Section 230, the infamous internet liability shield opponents believe is the major roadblock to making platforms a safer, healthier space for free expression. Responding to incessant calls to hold social media platforms accountable for harm, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers have championed repealing or reforming Section 230. The most recent charge is driven largely by kids’ online safety debates, and is being led in the Senate by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) with support from a bipartisan group of 8 other lawmakers. In the House, Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced her own Section 230 sunset bill to tackle what she perceives as “liberal Silicon Valley bias” in platform content moderation. Most recently, Representative Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) introduced the Promoting Responsible Online Technology and Ensuring Consumer Trust (PROTECT) Act, legislation to repeal Section 230, coming from the angle of holding platforms accountable for harm to children.

Armed militia members are serving as Israeli agents in Gaza: Investigation

from al Jazeera

Al Jazeera is set to release a new investigation on armed groups in Gaza accused of collaborating with the Israeli military against Palestinians, detailing their names, movements and training locations, as Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave continues unabated.

The investigation, a new episode of the programme What is Hidden is Greater, by Al Jazeera journalist Tamer Almisshal, will be broadcast at 9pm in Doha (18:00 GMT) on Friday. It includes audio and video material that the network says documents how individuals inside Gaza were recruited and operated.

The investigation reveals how the armed groups have been moving freely from northern to southern Gaza behind the so-called “yellow line” – the self-proclaimed demarcation line, effectively a buffer zone, where the Israeli army is entrenched under the first phase of the Gaza “ceasefire” that came into effect in October.

Israel has repeatedly violated the “ceasefire” on a near-daily basis, killing more than 525 Palestinians.

Israeli military maps indicate the line extends 1.5km and 6.5km (0.9 to 4 miles) inside Gaza from its eastern boundary with Israel and covers roughly 58 percent of the enclave...

Hamas rejects Netanyahu aide’s 60-day ultimatum for group to disarm

from al Jazeera

Hamas has rejected remarks by an Israeli government official calling for the Gaza-based group to disarm in 60 days and threatening to resume Israel’s genocidal war if it fails to comply.

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi told Al Jazeera Mubasher on Monday that he had no knowledge of such a demand.

“Statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … and through the media are merely threats with no basis in the ongoing negotiations”, Al Jazeera Arabic cited him as saying.

Mardawi’s comments come after Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs, during a conference in Jerusalem on Monday, threatened to renew the genocidal war on Gaza if Hamas failed to disarm in 60 days, local media outlet the Times of Israel reported.

A top aide to Netanyahu, Fuchs claimed that the two-month period was requested by the United States administration. “We are respecting that,” he said...

Eight Arab-Islamic nations condemn Israeli land grab move in West Bank

from al Mayadeen English

Eight Arab and Islamic countries on Tuesday issued a unified condemnation of "Israel’s" latest decision to designate vast areas in the occupied West Bank as “state land” and initiate comprehensive land registration procedures for the first time since 1967.

In a joint statement released from Doha, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt described the move as a grave escalation designed to accelerate settlement expansion, entrench Israeli control, and impose what they termed unlawful sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territory.

The condemnation follows the Israeli cabinet’s approval on Sunday of a proposal to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as “state property", a move reportedly spearheaded by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, alongside so-called Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Security Minister Israel Katz. Israeli media reported ahead of the vote that the plan envisions the gradual settlement of 15% of Area C by 2030.

Under the 1995 Oslo II Accord, the West Bank was divided into Areas A, B, and C. While Areas A and B fall under varying degrees of Palestinian administrative control, Area C, comprising roughly 61% of the territory, remains under full Israeli control and hosts the majority of illegal settlements. The newly approved policy focuses squarely on this zone...

Monday, February 16, 2026

Bush Accidentally Mentions The Explosives Detonated In The Twin Towers On 9/11.

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Fascists on Parade and Other News

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Rep. McGovern Introduces Bill to Repeal U.S. Blockade on Cuba

(Meanwhile... U.S. House Blocks Resolution to Bar Trump From Using Military Force in Venezuela )

from TeleSur

On Thursday, Jim McGovern, a Democratic U.S. representative for Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District, introduced a bill to eliminate the legal basis of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

“I introduced a bill to repeal the U.S. embargo against Cuba. For over six decades, the U.S. has embraced failed, obsolete, Cold War thinking toward Cuba,” said the lawmaker, who is also a senior member of the House Rules Committee, a leading anti-hunger advocate and co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

“Our 60-plus-year embargo has been ineffective and counterproductive — it hurts the Cuban people, it strengthens hardliners, it gives rise to more refugees, and it undercuts our standing in the world,” he added.

“We have tried the same thing for over 60 years — and it has failed for over 60 years. Let’s try something different — let’s open things up! Let’s lift the embargo, giving U.S. businesses, entrepreneurs, tourists and universities more access.”

“Let’s push for freedom and democracy through diplomacy and engagement. Let’s let Cubans who live on the island decide their own future — not Marco Rubio or Donald Trump,” McGovern concluded.

His bill, titled the United States-Cuba Trade Act (H.R. 7521), seeks to repeal the statutory basis for the U.S. embargo on Cuba. To that end, McGovern’s proposal would: