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20.11.2025 - 16:49 [ USA Today ]

A funeral for Dick Cheney, and the ‚adults-in-the-room‘ GOP establishment

Cheney and Bush took office under a cloud of controversy after the Supreme Court ended Florida‘s recount during the 2000 presidential election. They left the White House eight years later with the economy collapsing into the Great Recession and two unpopular wars raging.

It was that political landscape that Trump found so amendable to his own outsider campaign in 2016 that helped catapult him from New York real estate and reality TV star into the White House. Along the way, Trump would accuse Bush and Cheney of leading the U.S. into „endless wars.“

13.11.2025 - 02:26 [ Eos.org ]

A Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Going from Bad to Worse

(November 10, 2025)

The observations by the European Space Agency’s Swarm trio of satellites found that Earth’s already weak magnetic field over the South Atlantic Ocean—a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)—is getting worse and that it has grown by an area half the size of continental Europe since 2014. At the same time, a region over Canada where the field is particularly strong has shrunk, while another strong field region in Siberia has grown, the measurements show.

13.11.2025 - 02:11 [ ScienceSensei.com ]

The Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Rapidly Weakening—And Scientists Are Tracking Every Change

(July 29, 2025)

1. The Magnetic Field’s Essential Role

Earth’s magnetic field acts as a protective barrier against the relentless bombardment of solar wind and cosmic rays. Without this shield, high-energy particles from the Sun would strip away our atmosphere, exposing living organisms to dangerous radiation.

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12. Atmospheric and Climate Connections

Researchers are investigating whether a weaker magnetic field could alter Earth’s atmosphere or climate.

13.11.2025 - 01:19 [ European Space Agency ]

Swarm probes weakening of Earth’s magnetic field

(May 20, 2020)

Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has lost around 9% of its strength on a global average. A large region of reduced magnetic intensity has developed between Africa and South America and is known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.

10.11.2025 - 21:28 [ Ori Goldberg / +972 Magazine ]

Both sides of the Sde Teiman leak debate reflect Israel’s moral decay

(November 7, 2025)

Over the past two years, Maj. Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi — the official responsible for all internal investigations and legal enforcement in the Israeli army — has almost entirely refrained from probing the countless, well-documented allegations against its soldiers. The Sde Teiman guards’ crime, however, as captured in the leaked video, was apparently so blatant and grotesque that authorities had no choice but to issue indictments.

When Israeli military police arrived at Sde Teiman to arrest the suspects, however, they were met by right-wing rioters and soldiers, including several members of Knesset hiding behind their immunity. Attempting to block the arrests, they insisted that the perpetrators did nothing wrong and that their actions were merely part of the Israeli war effort.

Tomer-Yerushalmi leaked the video of the rape soon after, and it quickly spread online. Protests by right-wing Israelis in support of the abusers grew in turn. But while many around the world were aghast at what could only be described as “right to rape” protests, the discussion in Israel quickly faded in favor of daily news of “successes” on the Gazan front. The case was largely forgotten for months, until the investigation into the video’s leak was announced last week.

16.10.2025 - 14:23 [ Junge Welt ]

»Es gibt einen beängstigenden Opportunismus«

Sehen Sie Deutschland, Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten auf dem Weg zum Totalitarismus oder Faschismus?

Es gibt den Begriff des umgekehrten Totalitarismus, und ich glaube, das trifft es in Europa eher. Die Institutionen bleiben formal bestehen, wir gehen wählen, aber das Meinungsspektrum wird immer weiter eingeschränkt, Berufswege von Menschen, die widersprechen, werden zerstört. Die Repression nimmt zu. Das kann natürlich auch in offenen Totalitarismus kippen, wie wir das in den USA bereits sehen.

01.10.2025 - 13:53 [ New York Times ]

Cross-Tabs: September 2025 Times/Siena National Poll of Registered Voters

(September 29, 2025)

(Ask if Israel not taking enough precautions, combined with answers to previous question) Do you think Israel is intentionally or unintentionally killing civilians?

Intentionally 40%

Unintentionally 16%

[VOL] Don’t know/Refused 5%

[PREVIOUSLY] Is taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties 25%

[PREVIOUSLY] Don‘t know/Refused 14%

01.10.2025 - 13:38 [ Middle East Eye ]

Forty percent of US voters think Israel is intentionally killing civilians in Gaza

Forty percent of registered US voters think Israel is intentionally killing civilians in its war on Gaza, according to a national poll published Tuesday.

When asked if Israel was taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties, 62 percent said they were not, with just 25 percent saying Israel was taking enough precautions.

More than half of registered US voters disapprove of Israel’s war, and 59 percent said they believe that Israel should stop its „military campaign“ even if Hamas has not been fully „eliminated“. Only 27 percent said the campaign should continue.

01.10.2025 - 13:21 [ MSNBC ]

Majority of Americans oppose economic, military support to Israel: Poll

A majority of Americans oppose sending additional economic and military support to Israel, a new NYT/Siena College poll finds. The New York Times Lisa Lerer discusses.

01.10.2025 - 13:19 [ New York Times ]

Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds

(September 29, 2025)

Disapproval of the war appears to have prompted a striking reassessment by American voters of their broader sympathies in the decades-old conflict in the region, with slightly more voters siding with Palestinians over Israelis for the first time since The Times began asking voters about their sympathies in 1998.

15.09.2025 - 17:51 [ Umair Malik / Twitter ]

this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words

(December 9, 2023)

15.09.2025 - 17:42 [ Middle East Eye ]

Rubio promises ‚unwavering support‘ to Israel in Gaza goals

„The people of Gaza deserve a better future, but that better future cannot begin until Hamas is eliminated,“ Rubio told reporters next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

„You can count on our unwavering support and commitment to see [it] come to fruition.“

14.09.2025 - 17:52 [ Doctors Without Borders ]

Gaza City offensive is a death sentence for 1 million Palestinians

Israeli forces aim to push Palestinians out of Gaza City through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and creating conditions that make life impossible. Nowhere is safe, and the vastly insufficient quantities of aid are delivered through routes that are extremely dangerous for civilians. The destruction of critical infrastructure is ongoing and deliberate.

MSF calls for the immediate end to the use of evacuation orders as a means of forcible displacement, a lasting ceasefire, and the entry of humanitarian aid at scale. We also call on Israel’s allies like the US to stop arms transfers to Israel immediately and ramp up the pressure to halt the offensive.

Without urgent, radical intervention, Gaza faces total annihilation.

09.09.2025 - 20:06 [ Al Jazeera ]

Former US official says role in attack appears ‘confusing’

Adam Clements, a former US official, has said that the Trump administration’s role in the strikes appears “confusing” thus far.

“If the US had knowledge [of the attack], then the US would want to evacuate or at least have shelter-in-place for some diplomats and US service members who are in Qatar,” Clements told Al Jazeera.

“I am wondering who is in control here,” he added. “Is the United States telling Israel what it needs to do, or is it the other way around? And I think that’s one consideration as these situations develop.”

04.09.2025 - 21:26 [ i24News.tv ]

Netanyahu drops West Bank annexation from agenda due to UAE pressure

(today)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed away from putting West Bank annexation on the government’s agenda after the United Arab Emirates warned that any such move would cross a “red line” and threaten the Abraham Accords.

The meeting, scheduled for Thursday, will instead address the deteriorating security situation in the territory as international attention turns toward possible recognition of a Palestinian state at the upcoming UN General Assembly.

04.09.2025 - 21:17 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Emirati officials warn: Israeli annexation of West Bank ‚would destroy Abraham Accords‘ – exclusive

(September 3, 2025)

Senior Emirati officials warned top Trump administration officials against Israeli moves to apply sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, a source familiar with the details of the discussions told The Jerusalem Post.

„This would destroy the Abraham Accords,“ the Emirati officials warned, adding: „Do not allow Israel to annex parts of the West Bank.“

04.09.2025 - 21:03 [ Israel Hayom ]

Israel has lost its ‚total control‘ over Congress, Trump says

(September 2, 2025)

„There was a time where you couldn‘t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn‘t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they‘ve really, they‘ve changed it. You‘re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that‘s when it started… Israel was the strongest lobby I‘ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don‘t, you know, I‘m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I‘ve seen the pictures,“ Trump elaborated.

04.09.2025 - 20:58 [ Fox News ]

Trump surprised Israel no longer has ‚total control over Congress,‘ warns Gaza war hurting global support

(September 2, 2025)

In an interview with The Daily Caller, Trump said that because of left-wing U.S. politicians rallying against Israel and the growing unpopularity of its war in Gaza, the country is losing influence.

„Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that,“ he said.

30.08.2025 - 18:36 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

U.S. Bans Visas for PA Ahead of UN General Assembly; ‘Trump Is an Enemy of Palestine’

According to Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, “In the end, only Israel and the US, perhaps along with Micronesia, will stand alone on the international stage, trying to defy the will of the majority of the world’s nations. Trump’s decision to prevent the Palestinians from participating in the UN General Assembly is yet another direct attack on the international order. But it doesn’t really change anything: the Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, just like any other people in the world. The whole world knows this and supports this fundamental right, and everyone who believes in justice and peace stands with the Palestinian people, now, more than ever.”

“Trump’s decision to ban Palestinians from the UN summit in New York is a full and direct attack on the UN and the international order. The US is an enemy of the Palestinian cause and is fully supportive of the genocidal settler Israeli government. The rest of the world, the UN, and all peace-loving peoples must resist this attack and stand by the Palestinian people. If it be – the UN conference should be held in Europe”, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman agreed,

30.08.2025 - 18:20 [ TRTWorld.com ]

US visa ban on top Palestinian officials before UNGA sparks global condemnation

As UN host, Washington is obligated not to block delegates. While activists frequently demand visa bans on controversial leaders, the US rarely enforces such measures.

Exceptions include barring Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir in 2013 over ICC charges and forcing the General Assembly to meet in Geneva in 1988 when Yasser Arafat was refused entry.

30.08.2025 - 17:55 [ Wafa.ps ]

OIC condemns U.S. decision to deny visas for Palestinian delegation to UN General Assembly

RAMALLAH, August 30, 2025 (WAFA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its deep regret over the US State Department‘s decision to deny the Palestinian delegation visas to participate in the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.

The OIC called on the US government to reconsider this discriminatory decision, which contravenes international law and the Headquarters Agreement it signed, and to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and respect the role of the United Nations as an inclusive platform for all states and their official representatives.

The OIC also called on all parties to the international community, particularly the United Nations, to take urgent action with the relevant US authorities to reverse this decision.

30.08.2025 - 17:54 [ Umair Malik / Twitter ]

this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words

(December 9, 2023)

30.08.2025 - 17:28 [ Ksat.com ]

US revokes visas of Palestinian president and other officials ahead of UN General Assembly

The State Department said in a statement that Rubio also ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials, including those tied to the Palestine Liberation Organization, be denied.

“It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace,” the statement said.

26.08.2025 - 00:49 [ Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of @UNRWA / X ]

#Gaza: more journalists killed today. Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently and #famine with The world’s indifference & inaction is shocking. Like Hannah Arendt said: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.“ This cannot be our future new norm.

Compassion must prevail.

Let us undo this manmade famine by:
– opening the gates without restrictions
– ⁠protecting journalists & humanitarian + health workers

Time for political will.

Not tomorrow, now

25.08.2025 - 15:40 [ theNation.com ]

The European Union Is Complicit in Genocide

(August 11, 2025)

The EU presents itself as a global champion of moral and legal leadership, grounded in the principles of human rights, international law, democracy, and humanitarianism. Yet its failure to uphold these values in the case of Palestine severely undermines its credibility. As Israel’s largest trading partner and second-largest arms supplier, the EU possesses considerable leverage; its refusal to use this influence to hold Israel accountable or protect Palestinian lives signals not powerlessness but a conscious choice of complicity. Moreover, given its member states’ historical entanglement in the colonial partitioning of the Middle East, the EU bears a deeper responsibility to act with justice. Its failure to do so today echoes the very dynamics of domination and double standards it claims to have left behind.

25.08.2025 - 15:35 [ Amnesty International ]

EU-Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’

(July 15, 2025)

Reacting to the EU’s decision not to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, Agnès Callamard Amnesty International’s Secretary General said:

“The EU’s refusal to suspend its agreement with Israel is a cruel and unlawful betrayal – of the European project and vision, predicated on upholding international law and fighting authoritarian practices, of the European Union’s own rules and of the human rights of Palestinians.

This will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful moments in the EU’s history.

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.

12.08.2025 - 11:28 [ Middle East Eye ]

Five Palestinians starve to death in Gaza in a day

Gaza’s health ministry said five people died „due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, including two children”.

A total number of 227 people, including 103 children, died due to hunger since 7 October, 2023, the ministry said.

09.08.2025 - 11:02 [ Ärzte Ohne Grenzen ]

Gaza: Verteilstellen der GHF sind Orte „orchestrierter Tötungen und Entmenschlichung“

(August 7, 2025)

Der Bericht „This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing“ basiert auf medizinischen Daten von Ärzte ohne Grenzen, auf Patient*innen-Aussagen und medizinischen Beobachtungen aus erster Hand, die darauf hindeuten, dass israelische Streitkräfte und privates US-amerikanisches Sicherheitspersonal an den GHF-Verteilstellen gezielt Gewalt gegen hungernde Palästinenser*innen verübt haben.

Ärzte ohne Grenzen fordert, den von den Vereinten Nationen koordinierten Mechanismus zur Lieferung von Hilfsgütern wiederherzustellen. Die Regierungen der Vereinigten Staaten und anderer Länder sowie private Geldgeber*innen sollten jegliche finanzielle und politische Unterstützung für die GHF einstellen. Die GHF ist eine israelisch-amerikanische Stellvertreterorganisation, die die Verteilung von Lebensmitteln militarisiert hat.

Der nun veröffentlichte Bericht von Ärzte ohne Grenzen dokumentiert die Vorfälle, die Mitarbeitende von Ärzte ohne Grenzen in zwei Kliniken erlebt haben.

09.08.2025 - 10:56 [ Médecins Sans Frontières ]

THIS IS NOT AID. THIS IS ORCHESTRATED KILLING – MSF’s frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza

(August 7, 2025)

The conflict in Gaza has been marked by 21 months of abject horror and
dehumanisation. The world has watched as a civilian population, unable to
flee, has been starved, forcibly displaced and bombarded by one of the world’s
most “sophisticated” militaries — armed by Western states. In May 2025, the
unfolding genocide in Gaza was marked by a disturbing new development
as Israeli authorities moved to dismantle the UN-led humanitarian response,
replacing it with a militarised food distribution scheme run by a previously
unknown entity — the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).1 The GHF has
been touted by the Israeli and US governments as an “innovative solution”
— a supposed answer to unproven claims of aid diversion in Gaza and
unfounded accusations of UN failure.

In practice, the militarised food distribution scheme has weaponised
starvation and curated suffering. Distributions at GHF sites have resulted in
extreme levels of violence and killings, primarily of young Palestinian men,
but also of women and children, who have gone to the sites in the hope of
receiving food. At the time of writing, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reports
that more than 1,000 people have been killed and 7,200 injured while
attempting to collect aid — the vast majority of them at GHF distribution
sites.3 Shockingly, we have witnessed the impact of the violence with our
own eyes. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have been working
on the frontline, treating people with devastating injuries — gunshot wounds,
barbed wire lacerations, crush injuries from stampedes — sustained while
trying to receive aid at GHF distribution sites.

09.08.2025 - 10:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

Number of starved Palestinians in Gaza rises to 201

8 August 2025 23:34 BST

The number of Palestinians who have starved to death as a result of Israel‘s siege on Gaza has risen to 201, with most being children, Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director general of the Gaza health ministry, told Aljazeera on Friday.

09.08.2025 - 10:29 [ Washington Post ]

Starvation is spreading in Gaza — and treating it won’t be easy

Updated August 8, 2025 at 10:12 a.m. EDT
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In late July, the world’s leading hunger monitor declared what many had already feared: Famine is unfolding across Gaza, it said, with “a rise in hunger-related deaths” driven by “widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease.”

Nearly 200 people have died of starvation in the enclave, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — a number experts believe is an undercount, both because malnutrition leaves patients more vulnerable to other infections and conditions that are listed as the cause of death, as well as the difficulty of recording deaths that take place outside hospitals.

07.08.2025 - 09:23 [ Yahoo.com ]

EU diplomats confirm they won‘t yet sanction Israel on Gaza

(August 4, 2025)

Gathered online for their regular Mashreq/Maghreb Working Party and despite mounting pressure on Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza, the 27 EU diplomats still couldn’t reach any qualified majority on a European Commission proposal to cut Israel from partial access to the EU‘s €95 billion Horizon Europe research fund.

“The situation has not changed,” one EU diplomat said, referring to a formal meeting of EU ambassadors last week which also failed to agree to the Commission’s proposal. The diplomat said the issue was now in the hands of the EU’s foreign affairs ministers, who will meet informally on 29 August.