Trucker's Strike, S. Resolution 852 and the IRGC Letter to Americans
Resolution 852 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/852/text
Resolution 852 roll call vote https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00252.htm#position
Open Letter to the People of America (PDF) https://img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09/29/0/173138753.pdf?ts=1790679102019
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by Scott Creighton
While Fox tells it viewers its the poor and disabled who are ruining the country... this is who Trump really serves as he and the Project 2025 boys destroy our country.
from AntiWar
The US military is set to complete its withdrawal from its remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday under a deal signed between the US and the Iraqi government in 2024.
The US is officially ending the mission of the anti-ISIS coalition that began in 2014 after the US redeployed troops to Iraq following a 2011 withdrawal.
Over the past few months, the US has had only a few hundred troops in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, which has come under significant attacks launched by Iran and its allies since the US launched the war against Iran on February 28. The US also maintained a small presence at its Camp Victory base in Baghdad, and Al Jazeera reported from the base on Tuesday that the last US military personnel have left...
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from Daily Sabah
Former German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, according to media reports Monday, adding to mounting criticism of Israel’s genocidal conduct in the devastated Palestinian enclave.
"I think there is plenty of evidence that war crimes were committed in Gaza,” Habeck told public broadcaster ARD.
While "every form of antisemitism must be named and fought, this should not lead to a ban on speaking out or to an unspoken rule that one must not criticize Israel and the Netanyahu government,” he added.
Habeck, who was Germany’s vice chancellor from 2021 until 2025, linked the rise in antisemitism to Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
"The reason antisemitism is so prevalent on the left right now is because of Israel's actions and the war crimes it has committed in Gaza!”
The Green politician stressed that Israel was "not” a peaceful country...
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from al Mayadeen English
Washington seeks to plunder and rob the Iranian people, fragment Iran, and return it to a country colonized by them, the spokesperson for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, said on Tuesday.
In a letter addressed to the US public, Mohebbi said Americans do not know the facts and objectives of the American administration toward Iran and the peoples of the region, and that the American administration levels accusations against other countries at random to dominate them and plunder their wealth.
He said, "The lie of the century is that Iran wants to produce a nuclear weapon," and asked why the American administration killed the only person who was prohibiting the production of nuclear weapons...
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from Tehran Times
The letter is addressed to scholars, students and media workers. It says the American public is not the target of Iran's resistance. Rather, the target is a political class that turns war into a business and uses the country's power against people in the region and at home.
"The men enthroned at the White House oppress both Iranians and Americans," the letter states.
The letter is signed by the IRGC's public relations office and circulated in English and Persian. Its central message is that Americans have been misled about Iran and about their own government's role in the region.
Much of the document calls on Americans to separate themselves from the "U.S. war machine." It asks university communities to refuse research and media work that helps plan or justify attacks that kill civilians. It says silence in the face of such policies makes Americans complicit in decisions taken in their name. "This is not a call for hostility toward Americans, but for them to hold their own leaders accountable," the letter reads...
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by Scott Creighton
Either the TrumpyBear administration is trolling us... or we have hit the next level of Orwellian fascism.
In this ad that aired over the weekend during some football games, the rabid fascist libertarians from Project 2025 and the Trump administration declare this country will never be socialist or Marxist or communist but rather, I guess, it will always remain a savage capitalist crony free market Milton Friedman wet dream of opportunity for the rich.
Then as fighter jets fly around giving people like Pete Kegsbreath a rock-hard micro-penis, 'love me' keeps repeating itself over and over again as images of the glorious leader and his new wig are seen in weird, almost hypnotic MTV-type loops.
What's next? Two Minutes Hate?
You don't slip into straight up fascism overnight unless we force a regime change on you or someone trusted in your government takes the bag and sells out their entire nation (I'm looking at you Venezuela)
That hasn't happened to us. We got here via the installment plan. Reagan then Bush then Clinton then Bush then ObamaGod then TrumpyBear and so on.
We've been shifting to the right so much over the past few decades all it took was one Project 2025 plan and here we are, right of Mussolini.
The Big Brother reference is apt. The remaining Trumpites, as stunted as they may be, are being processed to hate any other form of economy than that which enriches the Epstein class. Typical divide and conquer technique but with a twist... get the poorest and the dumbest to defend the richest and most educated. Like having slaves fight the Civil War on behalf of the slave owners.
Cute right?
Is it working? Is it being done as a troll? It's hard to tell with these people. But what you can take from it is this... the war in the heavens, BRICS multi-polar world view verses the Westernized uni-polar approach is trickling down to us. Thru tariffs and high prices and fuel costs skyrocketing... we are the collateral damage.
And language like this is the brunt of the fight.
Anything other than glorious free market savage capitalism is Goldstein. Even the regulated market economy we used to create the world's best economy and first middle class. Even that is communism to these crazies from the basement.
RAF Stunt, Martial Law, SCOTUS Ruling and Gaza on Google Earth
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by Scott Creighton
The Atlantic has made a little noise recently when they claimed TrumpyBear has outside advisors telling him he needs to declare an emergency and then martial law in order to keep Rethuglicans from losing in November. Sounds like something I have heard before...
'“There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an American election,” Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said in a joint statement earlier this month after Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security advisor, declared in an interview with Newsmax that Trump could “take military capabilities, and he could place them in those [swing states], and basically re-run an election” in those states. Other Trump backers have suggested that he might use a declaration of martial law combined with the powers of the Insurrection Act to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.' CATO Institute Dec. 29 2020
Sound familiar? That was 2020. Here's another example...
' During periods of national civic unrest, Alex Jones alleged on his broadcasts that Obama and the media intentionally inflamed racial and political tensions to establish a pretext for martial law. Jones, alongside other commentators, frequently speculated that Obama would attempt to subvert the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remain in power or install a handpicked successor outside normal democratic channels.' Google AI asked about Alex Jones and Obama martial law
Di$info Jone$ used to do that doom porn all the time. He made a mint out of it.
Is there any substance to this latest claim though?
(Delcy Rodriguez is handing over everything to Trump and his crony business partners. In this story we hear of them literally piling up the loot in the Roosevelt room like pirates looking at their latest haul of booty.)
from the New York Times
In early March, as President Trump basked in the success of a military intervention in Venezuela, he joined Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the West Wing for a private celebration. A businessman also attended, and brought along a pile of gold.
The president looked approvingly at the 10 Venezuelan gold bars stacked in the Roosevelt Room, across from the Oval Office, White House officials recalled. Aides took photos and joked about keeping the gold.
Mr. Trump himself had once blacklisted Venezuelan gold, declaring that it destroyed the environment, poisoned people and financed gangsters and corrupt military officials. But after Mr. Trump toppled the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, his view changed.
On the same day that the bars arrived at the White House, the Trump administration issued a new policy allowing traders to import Venezuelan gold from one of the world’s most violent and corrupt mining regions. The first supplies would come from a state-owned mining company that remained a designated U.S. national security threat...
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(The base was on alert for days before this stupid stunt took place. The guys seem to have told police they were paid to be there with the vans. The stuff in the back of the vans were probably fake bombs. Trump let the cat out of the bag because he's stupid and said they had been 'investigating' there guys for a while. If that is the case and they were real terrorists with real bombs, then why was it some random woman who called police on em and had it stopped? And why, if they were terrorists, did they simply pull over when cops flashed their lights on them? And why did the police and courts let them go on bail if they were planning a terrorist attack? This is stupid. Someone tried to set up a false flag event in order to blame Iran and the police and courts in the UK aren't as helpful to them as they are in the states.)
from the Guardian
The five suspects were revealed to be British men, all in their 20s and from London. They had been arrested in the Gloucestershire countryside early on Sunday morning on suspicion of explosives offences and preparing an act of terrorism, with an Iranian link a key line of inquiry.
Their release on police bail suggests that detectives believe it unlikely they were on the brink of a mass casualty attack by exploding a bomb close to the base, sources said.
An Iranian link is still under investigation, as is whether any of the five were paid to gather in the village of Whelford, 2 miles from RAF Fairford.
The prime minister, Andy Burnham, called a meeting of the government’s crisis committee Cobra over the events in the Gloucestershire countryside and Iran’s possible role.
(Well there you go. Now the billionaires wont have to stage a massive false flag electric grid disruption event to allow TrumpyBear to cancel the mid-term elections. Now they get to have voter purge lists made up by the Trump administration on a state-by-state basis like the Bush/Cheney people did in 2000 that last time the neocons stole the election. Ironically enough, it was the SCOTUS who intervened in that one and made 9/11 possible. The more things change...)
from NBC
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded federal database containing citizenship information, as the president encourages states to purge people from voter rolls.
The justices, divided 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by the government after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration’s changes to the database were likely unlawful.
Critics have said the data is unreliable and could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls.
But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election, which “limits the potential impact” of the decision this year. States can still make individualized queries about voters.
Happy Friday folks. Have a great weekend.
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by Scott Creighton
YouTube waited enough time to make it look like they actually reviewed my work before they gave me their stock rejection of my appeal. Remember, they only did it because I made a video talking about Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall document that became the founding document of revisionist Zionism. You can watch the video here and see if I ever say anything that provides support for Hamas other than mentioning them as what they are... a resistance party opposed to the illegal occupation of Zionist Israel.
I then found out that I can appeal to a higher authority, Google. So, that is what I did. This is my appeal:
'YouTube struck my channel after only 1 content strike. They did so because I made a video talking about Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall paper showing how racist it was. In no part of it do I say anything about any terrorist organization other than Irgun and I am certainly not supporting it. They are censoring information about the origins of Zionism on behalf of Israeli oligarchs who are committed to expanding their borders. The world walked out of Netanyahu's UN visit and even the US president refused to meet with him this week. The world is shifting. Israel is the terrorist occupation army in this conflict and even Trump's own MAGA base has figured it out. I asked YouTube where they stand on this subject and they rejected reality. Where does Google stand? Do no evil? Remember that? I do NOT support terrorist organizations or criminal ones. Does Google? Restore my channel and the years of good work I did with it. Or go down in history on the wrong side. Choose.' me
YouTube unequivocally stands with revisionist Zionist Israel and the Greater Israel campaign in spite of the fact that the whole world opposes it including MAGA chuds now that TrumpyBear launched an illegal and pointless war on Iran for Glorious Israel.
It is not Palestine who are the terrorists here... it is Israel and YouTube has hitched their little red wagon to their Zionist oligarchs and they are riding with them to the end.
Like all corporations, they have no soul, no morals, no scruples. They only have projections of profits and market share. So in the end, when it becomes too costly to continue to support the terrorists in Tel Aviv, they will shift like they always do but unfortunately they will have long ago deleted all the data from our censored channels.
I expect Google to return a similar verdict just as I knew YT would reject this appeal. Gotta go thru the motions. Make them show their true colors.
YouTube supports genocidal criminal terrorist organizations like the IDF and Likud. Will Google?
Yeah. lol.
from Consortium News
Donald Trump just delivered probably the most bombastic, ignorant, aggressive and outrageous speech to the rest of the world from the podium of the U.N. General Assembly in the 81-year history of the United Nations.
I covered 25 U.N. general debates from inside U.N. headquarters in New York as a correspondent based there and I have never seen anything like it, including Trump’s previous five U.N. addresses.
He began on Tuesday by beating his chest proclaiming himself king of the world:
“Our economy is the envy of the world.
Our military is the most powerful on earth.
Our technology is second to none and we are leading in virtually everything.Our energy is fueling the planet.
America is rising.Our nation is growing.
Our power is expanding.”
But of course America doesn’t have an empire.
“We’ve invested more money in the United States military in the past 12 months than ever before,” he reminded everyone, including the leaders of nations whose innocent people are slain by that military. “And this term, it will be $1.5 trillion.”
He reserved special venom for America’s latest victim of unprovoked violence:
“For 51 years, the fanatical Iranian regime has ruled by bloodshed and mass murder, spreading death and carnage and chaos across the entire Middle East and beyond. They were the bully of the Middle East, but they are the bully no more.”
Trump dare not look in a mirror.
For there he would see the face of the real bully of the Middle East, who, with bases of smoldering ruins, is bully no more...
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from Common Dreams
As she waited to be loaded into a police vehicle with several other pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City on Thursday, Democratic US House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier said she was among hundreds of New Yorkers who had risked arrest “because we can’t allow a war criminal to roam the streets of our city.”
“He needs to be tried in The Hague,” she added, speaking about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose arrival in the city for the United Nations General Assembly sparked the protest outside the UN headquarters.
Other politicians who joined the protest included Brad Lander, Chris Rabb of Pennsylvania, Melat Kiros of Colorado, and Adam Hamawy of New Jersey, while celebrities who have been outspoken supporters of Palestinian rights, including actors Hannah Einbinder, Susan Sarandon, Elliot Page, Cynthia Nixon, and writer Tony Kushner also joined the demonstration led by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
“I’m here because I want to stop US complicity in the genocide that is happening in Gaza and the West Bank,” said Nixon. “I want to stop us funding Israel, I want to block the bombs, and I want elected leaders here in this country to catch up to the American people and people everywhere around the globe who understand that what is happening in Gaza and Palestine is a war crime, it’s unacceptable, and it’s wrong, and history will judge them very harshly.”...
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by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Hmmm... 8:30pm and my appeal hasn't been automatically rejected yet. I guess they put them on a delay to make it seem more legit. lol
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My latest attempt at getting my channel back from IDF loving YouTube.
'I do not support violent criminal organizations. YouTube needs to keep up with the times. 77 nations just walked out of the UNGA because a WAR CRIMINAL Benjamin Netanyahu was allowed to speak there. Even President Trump would not meet with him. The violent criminal organization is the IDF as they have killed over 20,000 children in Gaza in order to take the land and make it Israel. The WORLD knows. The PRESIDENT knows. Everyone knows... but YouTube. You support a violent criminal organization. And you should be ashamed of it. In short order the genocide that is happening will be fully exposed and YouTube will still stand with the violent criminal organization. Or not. Thou mayest. It's in the bible. Look it up. Restore my channel and your honor. Or don't.'
This time it went through.
from the South China Morning Post
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from MEMO
When Israel barred international journalists from Gaza in October 2023, the explanation was for their “safety” claiming that reporters could not be protected in an active war zone. One year after the one-sided ceasefire, Israel’s excuse has been invalidated, yet the ban remains. Leaving behind, unchecked, the largest graveyard on earth, and an occupying army still refusing to let the world’s press see what is buried in it.
In April 2026, the Foreign Press Association, joined by the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, and the Union of Journalists in Israel, petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to end the military’s ban on foreign reporters entering Gaza, arguing that a “ceasefire” was in place, all captives had been released, and there was no substantiated threat to journalists. The government opposed the petition, this time invoking the war with Iran as a new justification. The excuses kept changing. The ban didn’t.
by Scott Creighton
Thousands protested the war criminals visit to the Big Apple the other day and dozens were arrested by Mamdami's police department. Didn't he just have a nice warm meeting with TrumpyBear? Oh yeah he did.
President Trump invited lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani to visit him at the White House to “see how I work” after a meeting at Gracie Mansion Monday, a lip reader revealed.
“What I will say, we’ll look after you, but as I say, you’re doing great,” Trump said, expert lip reader Jeremy Freeman told The Post.
“I’ll look after you, you look after the New Yorkers,” the president said. “And we can both make it work. I wanna support you, help me. Come with me to the White House – see how I work.” New York Post
This was the scene in the streets as Bibi was being embarrassed in the UNGA by all the civilized nations having their delegates walk out on him not interested at all in hearing him spew his lies and racist hatred.
After his embarrassment, Netanyahu started his speech by calling the people who left 'moral cowards'
No Bibi... the moral cowards are the ones who stayed.
(Israel suffered major embarrassment when Benjamin Netanyahu was shunned on stage at the UNGA. He had to stand there while delegates poured out of the main assembly hall to the cheers and applause of the people in the observation balcony. The video of this treatment went viral and it is sure to have been all over Israeli TV with their election just weeks away. Now combine that shame with the fact that no one of any consequence would take the time to meet with him while in New York. So much so, he went wheels up on their plane less than 8 hours after he touched down. Persona non grata indeed. Humiliating doesn't do it justice for a man who just a couple weeks ago was campaigning on him being able to totally control the United States and therefore the world by extension. He must have been livid the whole back to his shithole country where his former fans are now feeling like he is making Israel a pariah to the world.)
from Daily Sabah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York Thursday for a whirlwind, less-than-eight-hour visit to the UNGA, highlighting Israel's deepening diplomatic isolation amid ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In stark contrast to his week-long trip last year, Netanyahu’s compressed schedule included no meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump, key American political figures, or leaders from major Western European allies.
The lack of top-level U.S. engagement reflects increasingly strained ties between Israel and its traditional international partners ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 general election.
A planned meeting in New York with billionaire Elon Musk was also canceled, leaving the Israeli leader without any high-profile U.S. engagements on his agenda.
Israel's former ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, said he could not recall a time when an Israeli prime minister visited the U.S. without meeting the president, describing this as a blow for Netanyahu ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 general election.
"It's a campaign speech. Now it would be much better if that campaign speech were accompanied by a meeting with the president, or another world leader, or at least the secretary of state, but apparently it's not," said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington.
"I don't recall a time when the prime minister came to the United States and didn't meet with the president ... So I'm sure that he was disappointed by that."
Alon Liel, a retired ambassador and former director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, offered an even harsher assessment of the prime minister's brief stopover.
"Never before has there been such a humiliating visit to the UN for an Israeli prime minister," Liel said.
"Netanyahu can meet with Argentine and Greek leaders, but he cannot meet with any American politician or official. That means not only Europeans, but Americans are running away from him too," he added.
"I think this is the big blow; because the U.S. is the only country in the world where Netanyahu could go. Now he has fallen into a situation where he does not feel comfortable even in the U.S., unable to even stay overnight in New York," he said.
Liel added that Netanyahu is behaving "like a persona non grata even in the U.S." during an extraordinary period of international pressure...
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ProPublica has the files which include info on crimes committed by a number of current lawmakers from both parties according to ProPublica... but they only mention two by name a Republican who is up for reelection in 2 months...and a Democrat has been dead for 4 years. Fair and balanced.
ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/collins-fbi-probe-gives-boost-jackson-maine-senate-race-12476800
Lawrence O'Donnell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnaAyJcNZs
John Oliver story https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/09/unitedhealthcare-unitedhealth-group.html
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by Scott Creighton
Because he is close and because the ProPublica Yellow Journalism hit-piece is supposed to sway the election, liberal Zionists, the DNC establishment and Big Business have descended on career politician Troy Jackson 'forcing him' to change his stance on things like Medicare for All and the genocide in Gaza.
That's what we are supposed to believe anyway.
Always happens like this. The fake left run a candidate who says all the things the progressive left want to hear and then all of a sudden... POOF... they change due to no fault of their own.
Listen to these two try to make excuses for Jackson while dishonestly calling him a working class guy. Troy has been in politics since 1998 when he was a Republican.
Guy didn't even wait until after the election to jump ship and show his true colors. I wonder if someone in the DNC is trying to help Collins stay in office by getting Troy to expose himself too soon.
A Despot Goes to UN Spewing Lies, Hate and Racism
'According to data from the Israel National Council for the Child, 38 children in total were killed during the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, including 3 children under the age of three'
(That means way more children were killed by the IDF in Gaza since Oct 7th than people died during the 9/11 attacks and the Oct 7th incursion COMBINED (3,000 + 1,200 = 4,200 verses 5,031). Also, more INFANTS have been killed by the IDF than unarmed civilians on Oct. 7th (1,029 verses 600)... most of whom were killed by the IDF due to the Hannibal Directive being enacted.)
by Scott Creighton
This is why the Israelis don't want anyone filming inside Gaza. They don't want us to see what they did in response to the IDF killing hundreds of Israeli young people on Oct 7 2023.
The scale of this is monstrous. Biblical even. And Israeli Jews cheer it on, wanting more in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
This is Gaza. This is what Robert Kraft is defending when he says Macklemore is a monster for saying 'Free Palestine'
by Scott Creighton
It isn't much. But here it is.
Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.
Did I leave anything out?
(Isn't that interesting. A friend just told me he was informed his healthcare premiums for himself and his family are going up ANOTHER 25% starting next year. That increase coincides with increases in deductibles and co-pays. They are targeting healthcare in Gaza and in the U.S. What a shock.)
from Middle East Monitor
Israeli gunfire near a medical point in central Gaza supported by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) seriously injured a woman and her child this morning, forcing patients and medical staff to evacuate, the British charity said. It is the second MAP-supported facility to be evacuated after Israeli gunfire in less than a week.
The shooting took place in Abu Madeen, between Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi, in Deir al-Balah, where MAP’s partner, the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA), runs the medical point.
Stray bullets hit the clinic, damaging a water tank on the roof. CFTA evacuated all patients and medical staff, with around 40 patients inside the clinic at the time. It remains unclear whether services will resume tomorrow.
Less than a week ago, Israeli military quadcopter gunfire killed a 65-year-old patient inside a MAP-supported medical point in Jabalia, northern Gaza, run by MAP’s partner, the Al-Awda Health and Community Association.
Mohammed Al Hour, a MAP community health worker who lives nearby, said: “The gunfire has not stopped since midnight last night. I was at home, and the shooting just continued. I wouldn’t say we have got used to it, because people don’t really have many choices. They have to carry on with their lives and meet their basic needs.
“So, this morning, I went to the clinic, and there was still gunfire from time to time. At times, it became more intense, and some bullets reached us. One of them landed about a metre away from me.
“People panicked, and we decided to close the medical point, especially as there had also been gunfire in the surrounding area that hit a woman and a child...
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from Tehran Times
Saudi Arabia may be the paradigmatic case of this construction. After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Kingdom's political elites pursued with renewed fervour two parallel projects, historical commemoration and state-building, to impose their postwar vision on the state, the nation and the economy.
Not only has the Kingdom "hidden" the transnational, transoceanic intellectual exchanges predating 1932; in recent years King Salman has aggressively pushed a reformulated, secularised historical narrative. The country's "archival performance", marked by inefficiency, sabotage and coercion, betrays "conflicting visions of the past" and a sometimes fragile grip on power. From its establishment, the family's authority rested largely on American corporations, ARAMCO above all, and on the United States government, which shielded it from widespread, if erased, anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian mobilisation at home and from regional rivals. Yet the struggle to hold power on its own terms made plain the need for a state-sanctioned historical narrative.
The desire to control the narrative is not merely an archival matter. In 2009, Prince Khalid bin Sultan led Operation Scorched Earth, a Saudi intervention in Yemen that quickly became a quagmire and ended in humiliating retreat. The official narrative never admitted failure, but Khalid's later disappearance from public life suggests he was made to shoulder the blame.
by Scott Creighton
The orange diddler of Epstein Mansion is not going to tear down the Kennedy Center though he may succeed in making sure no plebes can ever afford to attend a show there in the future if he and Russ Vought keep demoing the economy like they have been doing since day one.
Was anyone shocked when he barred CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House for being 'fake news'? Not likely.
A long time ago Dave Chappelle did a bit pretending to be Black Bush and he announced a program taking us to Mars... Red Rocks!
Obviously it was a distraction. Nothing more. A funny one but a distraction.
This is what TrumpyBear is up to now.
Yea, CNN is fake news. So is MS Now. Anyone remember Rachel Maddow telling everyone the vaccine will keep them from catching and carrying the Rona virus? We knew that was bullshit before she said it and they have far better researchers than we do and yet, she said it just the same.
CNN fakes war-time videos all the time in support of one imperialist campaign after another.
by Scott Creighton
(Steve watching as I write this)
Hello folks. Been a couple of days. Some of you have been asking about Steve and how the trip to the vet went. I will do my best to fill you in. Some good news... some not so good.
The good news:
Steve's bloodwork looks pretty good. Slightly elevated in white cell count but negative in all three FIV tests. His kidneys are doing alright and so is his liver. For the most part his blood work was pretty solid for a cat of his age having lived on the street for most of his life.
The vet (whom I really liked a lot) went out of his way to answer all my questions and actually listened to my concerns.
He seems to think it's not Vestibular Disease however after talking him into it we decided to treat him as if it was just to be on the safe side and I think that choice has paid off.
Steve, now that I have changed his medication from the Cephalexin (sp) I was giving him to his new treatment of 2 antibiotics and 1 steroid, is doing much better. He can sit on his own. He gets off his chair and wanders around going to the litter box once and even checking out Beau's water dish when he got thirsty.
For a week all he could do was lay there while I spoon fed him and gave him water with a syringe.
This is a marked improvement... but only so much of one as he still seems aimless at times and lethargic. I am hoping his recovery will unfold in spurts making progress in stages rather than continuously. Or maybe this is all there will be. I don't know.
The vet charged me for one xray and gave me 4 2 of which were of his skull. He was looking for anything abnormal like a grown or major infection which he found none.
He also threw in some free sonograms of his abdomen because he wanted to clarify something before telling me about it.
The vet was a decent person who seems to care about animals. He owns his practice and in independent... no corporate influence. The way it should be.
The no-so good:
from Drop Site News
Nearly fifty years after the infamous Red Army Faction trials, Germany’s maximum-security Stammheim Prison is once again the setting of a high-profile case that calls into question the conduct of the German state. This time, however, the defendants are five international pro-Palestinian activists charged with vandalizing a factory in the German city of Ulm owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
On September 8, 2025, the five Berlin-based activists, now known as the Ulm 5, broke into Elbit’s facility and carried out acts of vandalism that they recorded using body cameras and posted online. They destroyed equipment and spray painted “free Palestine” and “baby killers” on the walls. In their videos, the activists—citizens of Britain, Ireland, Spain, and Germany—say they carried out their direct action “to dismantle the tools used to commit genocide in Gaza” and to call attention to Germany’s complicity with it.
No one was injured in the action, which allegedly caused €1.04 million in damages, and the protesters remained at the scene to be arrested. Even so, German prosecutors have clearly decided to treat the Ulm 5 with unusual severity, charging them with membership in a criminal organization, Palestine Action Germany, in addition to trespassing and criminal damage. An additional charge concerns the use of “symbols of an unconstitutional or terrorist organisation”—referring to Hamas—based on the defendants’ use of slogans including “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”...
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from AntiWar
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he has canceled a planned House session for Thursday, sending lawmakers for an early seven-week recess and pushing back a vote to impeach US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth until after the midterm elections.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced the resolution to impeach Hegseth, suspected Johnson might take drastic measures to avoid the vote, so he didn’t inform GOP leadership of his plan to introduce the resolution, which he did on the House floor on Tuesday.
“And there it is. Just as I predicted. They’re canceling Congress tomorrow to avoid the vote on IMPEACHING [Hegseth]. It will also make it harder for us to reach 218 signatures on the Epstein Discharge Petition before the election. We were at 190+ signatures last night,” Massie wrote on X after Johnson canceled the votes...
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from Daily Sabah
A Turkish diplomat announced that Ankara sent a proposal to Russia and Ukraine that would end attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea. The move follows a sharp increase in attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea in recent months, often using drones.
At least 25 Turkish-owned vessels, four of them flying a Turkish flag, have been hit since late June, industry figures show.
"We have shared a text of a memorandum, a draft text, with the Russians and the Ukrainians to come up with a solution to those strikes taking place in the Black Sea," the diplomat told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday.
Türkiye has been pushing Russia and Ukraine to suspend attacks on civilian vessels, with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan demanding a "moratorium" on Aug. 8 in a call that appeared to have fallen on deaf ears. The attacks have intensified as the foes seek to damage the other's export revenues, with the war now raging into a fifth year...
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(A triple-tap on a school full of little kids and the murder of a beloved religious leader? Uh... duh. Yeah, thanks for the 'news')
(I guess now Kegsbreath will triple-tap the UN building in Manhattan. That'll teach them dreaded Marxists!)
from al Mayadeen English
Indiscriminate attacks that caused loss of life, civilian injuries, and damage to civilian infrastructure in Iran may amount to a war crime, with the Fact-finding Mission for Iran (FFMI) saying it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was responsible following the US and Israeli aggression on February 28.
In a report set to be presented to the Human Rights Council, the mission said the US aggression involved Tomahawk missile strikes on the clearly identifiable Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, killing more than 150 people, including around 120 girls and boys.
It also cited an airstrike in which missiles dispersed clouds of tungsten fragments over a sports complex and a clearly identifiable residential area in Lamerd, killing 22 civilians, including men and women...
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Sheeran Gets RAILED as Demonstrations for Palestine Ramp-up Across the World
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from Middle East Monitor
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that lasting peace in the Middle East is impossible without a two-state solution for the Palestinians.
"In the context of upheaval across the Middle East, we must never forget the dramatic suffering of the Palestinian people -- both in Gaza and the West Bank," he said at a news conference ahead of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly.
"The peace plan for Gaza must be fully implemented with unrestricted humanitarian aid," he said.
Turning to the occupied West Bank, Guterres said: “And the creeping annexation of the West Bank must stop.”
He stressed that a political resolution remains the only path forward. "There will be no peace in the Middle East without realizing the two-state solution," he said.
Responding to a question on a letter by Palestine's UN Envoy Riyad Mansour detailing Israeli officials' statements on "ethnic cleansing and forced expulsion," and whether Palestinians still see a real path to the two-state solution, Guterres said: “We are extremely worried with the situation that is taking place.”
Welcoming the efforts of High Representative for Gaza at the Board of Peace Nickolay Mladenov "to advance the two stages of the peace plan," Guterres said: “It is clear that Israel is not accepting the implementation of the peace plan as it is conceived now.”
Guterres also pointed to the continued Israeli airstrikes on Gaza "having serious threats to the civilian population," saying: "There is a creeping annexation with violence by the settlers, sometimes with the support of security forces" in the occupied West Bank.
He described the situation in the West Bank as "absolutely intolerable."
from Daily Sabah
Ed Sheeran's North and South American tour was thrown into turmoil Tuesday as four opening acts pulled out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore after he was dropped over pro-Palestinian remarks made onstage.
Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ouster and attributed the decision to the tour's promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.
Rowe and Lukas Graham would have been replacements for Macklemore on Sheeran’s remaining U.S. dates, while Beoga had been performing several songs - including some the Irish folk band co-wrote - with Sheeran around the middle of each set. Finneas, who is Billie Eilish’s brother and musical collaborator, was due to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas said on Instagram. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people.”...
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from Tehran Times
Demonstrations flared from Aleppo and Idlib to Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the regime of Ahmad "al-Jolani" al-Sharra announced an abrupt 40 percent price hike on diesel, along with steep increases on gasoline and cooking gas.
Protesters burned tires, blocked the strategic M5 highway linking Damascus to Aleppo, and intercepted crude oil tankers moving through eastern provinces.
Angry crowds demanded the immediate dismissal of Energy Minister Mohammed al-Bashir.
The ruling clique in Damascus cited global market volatility and maintenance at the Baniyas refinery. That explanation offered no comfort to a population enduring systemic collapse.
from Tehran Times
On Kharg Island, the darkness settles over the humid waters of the Persian Gulf. In Shiraz, the lights of the squares come on beneath the evening sky. In Sanandaj, people make their way toward Azadi Square. In Birjand, families gather in the cold. In Tonekabon, on the Caspian coast, an elderly war veteran walks slowly toward the crowd.
And in Arak, beneath the lights of Martyrs Square, a woman sits behind a sewing machine.
Her name is Zahra Fattahi.
For almost 200 nights, she has brought the machine with her, repairing damaged Iranian flags and preparing them to be raised again.
That image — a woman, a sewing machine, a piece of torn fabric and a square filled with people — may say more about these nights than any official statement.
Two hundred nights have now passed since nightly gatherings began in cities across Iran following the outbreak of war. What started in the immediate aftermath of the conflict has, according to reports by Mehr News Agency correspondents, continued through heat, humidity, rain and winter cold.
The gatherings have been different from city to city. Some have centered on mourning. Others have included cultural programs, Quran recitations, music, children's activities, food and tea booths, speeches and family gatherings.
But beneath the differences is one recurring image: people returning to the same public spaces night after night...
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from Drop Site News
When Israel deployed its Iron Beam laser weapon for the first time last December, the announcement by leading Israeli defense firms Rafael and Elbit Systems was met with fawning coverage worldwide. The futuristic laser system, designed to shoot drones and rockets out of the sky, was celebrated as a demonstration of the Israeli weapons industry’s technological sophistication.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense described Iron Beam as “Israel’s first domestically developed laser interception system,” while touting the country as a pioneer in missile defense. The Arrow anti-ballistic missile system, another key example of Israel’s purportedly homegrown ingenuity, was heavily employed to defend from Iranian missile attacks during two recent wars.
That alleged ingenuity is at the center of a debate roiling Washington this month as Congress returns to debates about whether to create a new office in the Pentagon to coordinate U.S. and Israeli military research, testing, and industrial production, giving institutional architecture to a relationship that is already deeply intertwined on a de facto basis. The legislation, known as Section 219, was included in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act, but remains contested in the Senate. Backers of the bill argue that tighter coordination with Israel should not be seen as a giveaway or cost to the United States, but rather is a boon to U.S. military capacity because the U.S. benefits more from the partnership than Israel. Arrow and Iron Beam are routinely held up as case studies of such innovation.
But the real story of how these weapons were developed is quite different. In fact, both weapons systems were developed and financed by the United States before being handed off to Israel by acts of Congress, according to government documents and interviews with key personnel involved in their development—despite warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies that transferring the tech to Israel effectively hands it over to U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia.
The pattern has long been cause for concern inside the intelligence community and among some in the Pentagon, but the mandates have come directly from Congress.
David Pyne, who worked as a civilian in the Pentagon office that oversaw development of the Arrow 2 program in the early 2000s, said it still bothered him that the American military put in so much work, and American taxpayers footed the bill, yet the U.S. couldn’t even fully benefit from the system. “They didn’t contribute a dime into the program, but the thing that pissed me off at the time, and obviously since, is that they would not share the final product,” said Pyne in relation to Israeli participation in the program...
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Tucker Interviews Finkelstein and Other News
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from AntiWar
Mohsen Rezaei, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Monday that there would be no talks between Tehran and Washington until “Iran’s conditions are met,” comments that came after President Trump claimed that Iran “badly” wants a deal.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social: “The failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the USA. will choose to engage – The concept of which we are open to. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The post reflected a change in Trump’s position, as he recently said he was no longer interested in negotiations with Iran, something Rezaei pointed out in his response to the US president...
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