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23.05.2026 - 11:37 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

They’re Not Mad At Ben-Gvir For Being Evil, They’re Mad At Him For Being Honest

(May 21, 2026)

Ben-Gvir’s Twitter account shared a video of the minister taunting activists who were abducted by Israeli forces in international waters earlier this week, captioning it “This is how we accept the supporters of terrorism” in Hebrew and “Welcome to Israel” in English.

The video shows flotilla activists from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand being shoved, held in stress positions on the ground, and mocked by Ben-Gvir while restrained. This all of course pales in comparison to the abuses endured by Palestinian captives on a daily basis, but it’s the subject of international outcry today because the victims are from the west.

22.05.2026 - 01:15 [ MessageBoxNews.com ]

Ken Martin Has to Go

If you’ve been following politics over the last month or so, you are more than familiar with the saga over the autopsy that the DNC was refusing to release. After stonewalling for months and an incredibly viral interview on Pod Save America, where DNC Chair Ken Martin vigorously and incredulously defended the decision not to release the autopsy, the whole imbroglio has roiled the party for weeks and led to a debate about the debate.

All along, Martin’s argument was that the autopsy had happened, it had been helpful in informing his strategy, but that releasing it would be a distraction and divide the party before the midterms.

Well, that was all bullshit.

16.05.2026 - 08:30 [ Günther Burbach / Nachdenkseiten ]

Der Krieg um die Wahrnehmung: Wie künstliche Intelligenz beginnt, öffentliche Realität zu formen

Hinzu kommt ein Faktor, der politisch bislang erstaunlich wenig diskutiert wird: KI-Systeme lernen, welche Inhalte besonders starke emotionale Reaktionen auslösen. Angst, Wut, Empörung und moralische Zuspitzung erzeugen Aufmerksamkeit, und Aufmerksamkeit ist die eigentliche Währung digitaler Plattformen. Dadurch entsteht ein Mechanismus, der gesellschaftliche Spannungen systematisch verstärken kann.

Die eigentliche Gefahr liegt dabei weniger in einzelnen Falschmeldungen als in der dauerhaften Veränderung öffentlicher Wahrnehmung. Wenn Menschen permanent mit emotionalisierten, algorithmisch optimierten Inhalten konfrontiert werden, verändert sich schrittweise die Art, wie politische Realität wahrgenommen wird. Komplexe Zusammenhänge werden auf Schlagworte reduziert, Gegner moralisch entwertet, Unsicherheit in Feindbilder übersetzt.

06.04.2026 - 17:24 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

The Empire Is Losing Its Ability To Hide Its Ugly Nature

Garicano’s entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called “extreme left” has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. It’s just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal.

Everything’s becoming more and more revealed. More and more transparent. What was once done solely by whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists and dissident media is now being done by the empire itself, because there’s only so long you can hide the truth about something so malignant. An empire that is held together by lies, corruption and endless slaughter was never going to remain unseen. The brutality necessary to dominate the planet had to come out into the light eventually.

“May all be revealed” has been my prayer for our world for many years now. That dearly held wish is now being answered, and the truth is looking every bit as ugly as expected.

May all be revealed. May all that is hidden become seen. In the empire. In our governments. In our culture. In our community. In our interpersonal relationships. In ourselves.

04.04.2026 - 07:36 [ Spencer Ackerman / Forever-Wars.com ]

So You Lost A War To Iran

(March 31, 2026)

Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.

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Welcome to strategic defeat—or, I should say, welcome back, considering the whole War on Terror and all, and the Vietnam War. Only this time the consequences of defeat for the Americans are set to be far more severe.

29.03.2026 - 11:25 [ El Pais ]

Silvio Rodríguez: ‘The world is run by an authoritarian, warmongering, thieving regime. And it’s not Cuba’

(March 26, 2026)

The image of a rifle in the hands of a singer-songwriter is strange, but not when the one wielding it is Silvio Rodríguez, 79. The Cuban singer-songwriter has spent his entire life singing, directly or indirectly, about the Revolution, its leaders and its ideals; about the martyrs and the guerrillas. “There are politics in my songs, but not propaganda,” says the musician, who receives EL PAÍS on Wednesday at the Ojalá studios in Havana. He speaks of the government’s “orthodox and closed” vision in the economic sphere, and of his commitment to a less “rigid” socialism. “Socialism by the book is very idealistic,” he concludes. He doesn’t budge an inch on his opinion of the United States government: “The world is run by an authoritarian, warmongering, thieving regime. And it’s not Cuba.”

27.03.2026 - 13:01 [ New York Times ]

It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

Is Trump a freak of history or its fulfillment, an aberration or a culmination? The answer, surely, is both. But in the course of his presidency, Trump has revealed a much older malady: America’s unshakable faith in its ability to shape the world to its liking, indifferent to what others might want and supremely confident that its plan is the right one. Beyond Trump, it’s this disfiguring mentality we Americans must face.

27.02.2026 - 13:32 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Die Meinung von Iris Sayram, RBB, zur vorerst gestoppten Einstufung der AfD

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17.02.2026 - 11:25 [ Naomi Klein / Bluesky ]

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

(February 15, 2026)

21.01.2026 - 02:19 [ Democracy Now ]

A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond

AMY GOODMAN: And finally, Michele, I wanted to ask you about another topic. One month has now passed since Congress’s deadline for the Justice Department to release all files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the DOJ says it’s made available less than 1% of those files. And you see many people are saying, “Is he going after Minneapolis, saying he’s going to take Greenland, you know, taking the president of Venezuela, and possibly threatening to bomb Iran to take attention away?” Could that be it? You see his sensitivity at the Dearborn auto plant, when a worker yelled “Pedophile protector! Pedophile protector!” and he turned around and gave him the finger and mouthed the words “F— you,” but said the curse.

MICHELE GOODWIN: Well, it’s certainly inconsistent with what were the campaign promises. The campaign promises to those who supported Trump, and those who didn’t, was that the files would be released, all of the files. Now, that’s not happened, so — and that’s critically important.

03.01.2026 - 13:17 [ Council on Foreign Relations ]

Israel, Russia, and the United States Are Testing the Boundaries of Global Order

(September 12, 2025)

As I’ve discussed at length recently, we have already witnessed the death of the global trading system as we have known it. But this slide away from the rules-based system isn’t limited to trade. It is evident in the use of military force as well.

Three examples of unilateral military action over the past couple weeks are particularly instructive:

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That is the real Hobbesian peril. Each of these actions can be seen as an isolated instance, but if one or two or three countries take kinetic action unilaterally, it risks creating a permission structure where others feel there are no guardrails to constrain them.

07.12.2025 - 23:16 [ Council on Foreign Relations ]

Israel, Russia, and the United States Are Testing the Boundaries of Global Order

(September 12, 2025)

As I’ve discussed at length recently, we have already witnessed the death of the global trading system as we have known it. But this slide away from the rules-based system isn’t limited to trade. It is evident in the use of military force as well.

Three examples of unilateral military action over the past couple weeks are particularly instructive:

(…)

That is the real Hobbesian peril. Each of these actions can be seen as an isolated instance, but if one or two or three countries take kinetic action unilaterally, it risks creating a permission structure where others feel there are no guardrails to constrain them.

22.10.2025 - 17:59 [ lnk.to ]

Ideal – Berlin (2025 Mix)

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22.10.2025 - 17:58 [ Ideal Band / Youtube ]

Ideal – Keine Heimat (Na, sowas!, 07.02.1983)

Premiered Apr 12, 2025

Am 27. Juni ist das selbstbetitelte Ideal-Debütalbum von 1980 in einer neu abgemischten Version erschienen. Für den „2025 Mix“ wurden die originalen Mehrspurbänder digitalisiert und von Moritz Enders (u.a. Kraftklub, Casper) und Annette Humpe neu abgemischt. Das Ergebnis klingt verblüffend direkt, greifbar und gegenwärtig – als wäre die Berliner Band gerade erst ins Studio gestiegen.

Der Clou: Für den neuen Mix kam ausschließlich Technik zum Einsatz, die bereits 1980 zur Verfügung stand. Der Sound ist also nicht einfach nur neu – sondern neu gedacht im Geist der alten Zeit. „Ideal (2025 Mix)“ ist nicht bloß ein nostalgischer Rückblick, sondern ein eindrucksvolles Update: Songs wie „Berlin“, „Blaue Augen“ oder „Hundsgemein“ wirken heute so kompromisslos, radikal und relevant wie eh und je.

07.10.2025 - 03:50 [ publicquotes.com ]

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil As it is for the bad to suspect good. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

01.10.2025 - 16:40 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

The Trumpanyahu “Peace” Plan, And Other Notes

The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn’t a psychopath.

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I didn’t come to where I’m at ideologically from reading Lenin or talking to Marxists, I got here because I did a lot of inner work and had some transformative experiences and came out the other side with a deep love for this beautiful planet and for the strange naked ape mutants who people it, and with a yearning to help create a healthy world. I just kinda felt my way through the human experience as the barefoot hippie earth mama that I am, and it carried me to a clear intuitive understanding that the western empire must end and that capitalism cannot carry our species into the future.

28.09.2025 - 00:32 [ Ramzy Baroud ]

The Gaza Precedent: How the World’s Response Will Shape Global Justice

Though Netanyahu continues to act with the same old arrogant attitude that he, his government, and country are above the law, including international law, it is incumbent on all of us to remind him and other war criminals that no individual, no entity, and no government is immune to accountability when it comes to the blood of the innocent.

This struggle is not solely for the sake of Gaza; it is for the very soul of humanity. Should Netanyahu’s actions succeed in normalizing genocide in the 21st century, this horrific crime could become a sanctioned political strategy for tyrants and regimes worldwide. The world cannot afford to let this happen. The future of global justice hangs in the balance.

15.09.2025 - 19:09 [ Jacobin ]

Der Mord an Charlie Kirk ist eine Katastrophe

Charlie Kirks Ermordung droht die US-Rechte weiter aufzuwiegeln und die Hoffnung auf sozialen Fortschritt zu erlöschen. Denn dass politische Kämpfe mit Worten und nicht Patronen ausgetragen werden, ist eine Überlebensfrage für die Demokratie und die Linke.

15.09.2025 - 19:07 [ Jacobin ]

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster

The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.

20.08.2025 - 16:43 [ Hosny Mohammad / Middle East Eye ]

How Gaza‘s aid sites have morphed into Israel‘s cruellest form of psychological torture

We are witnessing a reshaping of the individual, of society, of the market, and of the social fabric that binds people together. What remains of meaningful human agency is being dissolved, with Palestinians left to face uncertain fates.

In this open-air theatre, Israel is carrying out a systematic policy of dismantling individuals and structures alike, paving the way for a final phase – one of collective submission, of psychological dependence on the oppressor, and of collapsed trust in society itself.

This, in turn, paves the way for a new order in which people attach their hopes to whoever appears stronger, more capable, more able to feed them. We will by then have become pliable clay, to be shaped by Israel at will or discarded, left as broken human wreckage under the control of warlords and looters.

06.08.2025 - 09:21 [ Freitag.de ]

Psychopathische Eliten: Warum sich die Menschheit höchstwahrscheinlich selbst zerstört

(Aubust 5, 2025)

Kemp sieht in diesen „Agenten des Untergangs“ die Ursache für den gegenwärtigen Kurs in Richtung gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruch. „Das sind die großen, psychopathischen Unternehmen und Konzerne, die globale Katastrophen riskieren“, sagt er. „Atomwaffen, Klimawandel und künstliche Intelligenz werden nur von einer sehr kleinen Zahl verschwiegener, sehr wohlhabender und mächtiger Gruppen wie dem militärisch-industriellen Komplex, Big Tech und der Industrie für fossile Brennstoffe produziert.“

„Der springende Punkt ist, dass es nicht um die gesamte Menschheit geht, die diese Bedrohungen schafft. Es geht nicht um die menschliche Natur. Es geht um kleine Gruppen, die das Schlimmste in uns hervorbringen, die um Profit und Macht konkurrieren und alle [Risiken] vertuschen.“

03.08.2025 - 13:10 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Israeli Artists, Intellectuals Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

“Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the Strip,” the letter says. “We, Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our Palestinian neighbors, write this with grave shame, in rage and in agony,” it states.

The signatories include Academy Award recipient Yuval Abraham, former attorney-general Michael Ben-Yair, former speaker of the Knesset and former Jewish Agency head Avraham Burg, former Hadash MK Tamar Gozansky, Guy Davidi: International Emmy Award recipient for 5 Broken Cameras (2013) Ari Folman: Golden Globe recipient for Waltz with Bashir (2009), Prof. Emeritus Amiram Goldblum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. Oded Goldreich: Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Prize recipient (2021), Eran Kolirin: Screenwriter and film director, Ophir Award recipient for Let It Be Morning (2021), Nadav Lapid: Screenwriter and film director, Golden Bear recipient for Synonyms (2019), Photographer Alex Levac: Israel Prize recipient (2005), Hagai Levi: Television writer and director, Golden Globe recipient for The Affair (2015), Prof. Michal Na’aman: Painter, Israel prize recipient (2014), Ohad Naharin: Choreographer, Israel Prize recipient (2005), Inbal Pinto: Choreographer and dancer, Israeli Culture Ministry award recipient (2011), Aharon Shabtai: Poet and translator, Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize recipient (1993) and Eyal Weizman: Director of Forensic Architecture.

08.07.2025 - 19:34 [ Mekomit.co.il ]

היום שבו במערב ייזכרו שהם תמיד היו נגד הטיהור האתני בעזה

יום רביעי, 25 באוקטובר 2023. 18 יום אחרי שהשמיים נפלו, נתניהו כבר הכריז שצפוי „תמרון קרקעי“, משרד הבריאות בעזה מסר שנשבר שיא, בהפצצות מהאוויר נהרגו ביממה אחת 704 תושבים, ו-90 מדינות נרשמו לדבר בדיון במועצת הביטחון של האו“ם שכונס כדי לקרוא להפסקת אש. עומר אל-עקאד כתב בחשבון ה-X שלו משפט שנצפה מאז יותר מ-10 מיליון פעמים: „יום אחד, כשזה כבר יהיה בטוח, כשלא יהיה כל מחיר לקרוא לדבר בשמו, כשיהיה מאוחר מדי להתעמת עם האחראים, כולם יהיו מאז ומתמיד נגד זה“.

>> „מכירת ספרים היא האור, היא לא פשע בשום דרך וצורה“

אותו פיתול ניסוחי בהיר הלך עם אל-עקאד כל הדרך אל כותרת ספרו השלישי, שבא אחרי שני רומנים מצליחים: אוסף המסות „יום אחד כולם יהיו מאז ומתמיד נגד זה“ יצא לפני כחודשיים, ובו הוא נותן סימנים בקלקולי החשיבה של הליברליזם המערבי, בפערים שבין הערכים להחלטות, במיוחד מול הטיהור האתני שמבצעת ישראל ברצועת עזה.

08.07.2025 - 19:29 [ +972 Magazine ]

The Western liberal’s moral collapse in Gaza

On October 24, 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’ attack on Israel, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported a grim new record: Israel’s bombardment of the Strip had killed 704 Palestinians in the previous 24 hours alone. The next day, Egyptian-Canadian writer Omar El Akkad posted a now famous sentence on X: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

That razor-sharp turn of phrase, which has since been viewed more than 10 million times, stayed with El Akkad all the way to February 2025, when it became the title of his third book.

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Faced with the existential threat that Israel’s war on Gaza poses to their self-image, one might expect Western liberals to reckon with El Akkad’s core argument. And yet, outside of the ideological pro-Israel factions who cling to dogma over truth, the self-styled progressive is more likely to acknowledge past injustice only once nothing can be done to change it — when the most they can muster is a weary shrug: “It is what it is,” or, “We had no choice.”

“One remarkable difference between the modern Western conservative and their liberal counterpart,” he writes, “is that the former will gleefully sign their name on the side of the bomb while the latter will just sheepishly initial it.”

06.07.2025 - 21:32 [ +972 Magazine ]

Legacy of South African Bantustans hangs over Trump deal

(February 9, 2020)

South Africa‘s Bantustans were designed to weaken and fragment the black population. Under Trump‘s plan, Palestine could face a similar fate.

28.06.2025 - 04:49 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire

But we are asked to believe that this vicious imperial power structure is the only rational actor on earth, and that those who resist its aggressions are the crazy ones.

And you are told that if you can’t see this, then you’re crazy too. You’re a crackpot. A conspiracy theorist. A paranoid nutball whose voice should be marginalized and whose ideas should be dismissed with a scoff.

You are crazy if you don’t believe what the world’s craziest power structure says about its enemies being crazy.

It is gaslighting on a global scale. It is madness, and that is why this civilization has gone mad.

Let’s hope someone finds a way to protect the world from the insanity of the western empire.

30.05.2025 - 19:13 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

This Dystopia Would Never Be Accepted Without Extensive Indoctrination

(May 27, 2025)

It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid. Our minds require a whole lot of training to accept this horrific dystopia as the baseline norm. That’s why the empire we live under has the most sophisticated domestic propaganda machine that has ever existed.

In order to have clarity, we need to learn to look with fresh eyes. Uninitiated eyes. Eyes that have not been educated out of their initial healthy impulse to weep at what we are doing and how we are living here. We need to get in touch with that intuition within us which rejects the sickness of our society as though it was meeting it for the very first time.