Short video updating the zionist attacks on Lebanon as part of Israeli plan to create 'Greater Israel'.
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Israel's 'disgraceful grim murder'
Another fine interview by Judge Andrew Napolitano and Jeffrey Sachs.
Sachs is becoming much more emotional and very direct in his condemnation of zionist Israel with the complicity of Germany, UK, other EU nations and the US.
Israel is making Gaza 'unlivable' says Sachs which he states defines genocide.
They also discuss the current 'recklessness' of NATO's constant efforts to keep the Ukraine war aimed at Russia hot. Sachs states that Trump must be stronger in his efforts to stop the war.
P_h_o_n_y_ _“E_x_c_e_p_t_i_o_n_a_l_i_s_m_”
Because
the self-image of the United States has been built on collective denial
of the painful realities of the dispossession of others—Indigenous
inhabitants in the Americas, Africans, and Third World peoples—fantasy
politics in the US has become a way of life. Our collective fantasy is
consistently reinforced by virtually all our education, entertainment,
political discourse, religious sermonizing,
sports, etc. Most of us have been emotionally and intellectually
programmed in the perpetuation of the heroic myths of our origins, and
the consequential feelings of righteousness that have led us into war
after war. Some might say the wool has been pulled over our eyes.
However, I assert that the wool was in our eyes to begin with, and
remains in our eyes, not over them. We continue to be a pretend society.
The
crimes underlying our founding and expansion, our “original sins,”
continue to contaminate the soul of US America. The third genocide is
ongoing, perpetuated by our extravagant materialist values. Since
systematic injustices are never talked about, let alone seriously
addressed, people in our culture blissfully live in ignorance or denial
of our nature as violent plunderers. Our thinking and behavior are
marked by severe distortions based on our unshakable belief in our
exceptionalism. A quest for truth is one of the first steps toward
change. Understanding history helps clarify the why of our
interventions, including Viet Nam. Recovery of our humanity is at stake.
I
grew up believing that the United States is the greatest country in the
history of the world, endowed by our Creator to bring prosperity to the
impoverished and Christianity to the heathen. Believing this mythology
led me (and millions of others) to obey orders to Viet Nam. In
retrospect, the American war in Viet Nam seems incredibly, tragically
absurd—and worse, criminal. It is no wonder that for many of us, the
myth of US America was utterly collapsed by our experience in the war.
The
“Wild West” of the new world that European invaders set out to conquer
doesn’t exist anymore, or perhaps it is everywhere, as imperialist
projects continue seeking new frontiers, working feverishly to assure
one regimented, homogenous worldwide culture, a culture that in fact
leads to spiritual death. “Winning the west” has come to represent
Capitalism’s insidious winning of the world, with globalization of
materialism. As a result, all of us humans, and much of the remainder of
life on this planet, are endangered.
~ S. Brian Willson was born on U.S. Independence Day in 1941 to a conservative religious family in rural New York. A good student and athlete, he was conscripted into the military from graduate school in 1966 and by 1969 was commander of a USAF combat security unit in Viet Nam. A trained lawyer and criminologist, and one-time member of the Washington, D.C. Bar, he has been an advocate for prisoners, Viet Nam veterans, and impoverished people around the world striving for justice. As an activist, he has been a conscientious tax refuser, participated in water-only fasts and various civil (dis)obedience actions, and led delegations documenting U.S. aggressions in a number of countries.
As a result of a lengthy veterans’ fast in 1986, he and the other fasters were identified as domestic terrorist suspects. One year later, on September 1, 1987, while engaging in a well publicized blockade protesting weapons shipments to El Salvador and Nicaragua, he was run over and nearly killed by a U.S. government munitions train accelerating to three times its 5 mph limit. He lost both legs below the knee and suffered a fractured skull requiring insertion of a permanent protective plate. He continues to walk his talk against U.S. domestic and foreign imperial policies on two prosthetic legs and a three-wheeled arm-powered hand-cycle, as he strives for right livelihood and a simpler lifestyle. His 1992 book, On Third World Legs, is out of print. Brian now lives in Nicaragua.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Defeat the far-right insurrectionist forces in South Korea
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| Outside the South Korean Blue House demanding real democracy |
Thanks to Simone Chun
On June 3, South Korea will hold its ninth presidential election. Far
from a routine democratic exercise, this vote comes at a critical
turning point—one that will determine whether the country restores its
democratic republic or descends into permanent authoritarian rule.
Just two months ago, the Constitutional Court upheld the National
Assembly’s vote to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol, who had declared
martial law on December 3, 2024, in a blatant attempt to cling to power.
This dramatic ruling followed a months-long mass mobilization. Nearly
ten million Koreans braved freezing temperatures and violent crackdowns
to demand Yoon’s removal. Their protests, now known as the “Revolution
of Light,” represent not only a rejection of domestic dictatorship but
also of American-backed militarism and foreign interference.
Indeed, the struggle for Korean democracy is increasingly
international. The United States continues to sponsor massive joint war
exercises on the peninsula—over 250 days of live-fire drills in the past
year alone. For many Koreans, these war games have come to symbolize
the persistent subordination of their sovereignty. The uprising, then,
is not only about ending authoritarianism at home but also about
asserting a more independent and peace-oriented foreign policy.
Today, the leading opposition candidate, Lee Jae-myung, has placed
democratic restoration and foreign policy realignment at the center of
his campaign. Lee has promised to halt the march toward war, reassess
Korea’s role in U.S.-Japan security frameworks, and pursue diplomacy
rooted in Korean national interest. Some in the West have rushed to
label him “pro-China,” but Lee has pushed back forcefully: “Why must
Korea involve itself in the Taiwan Strait crisis? Is that truly our
fight?”
This is a moment of clarity—and choice. The Korean people have
already begun to reject dictatorship through peaceful, disciplined
resistance. Now, the June 3 election offers a chance to complete that
process by institutional means. What is at stake is not only the future
of Korea’s democracy but the broader question of whether smaller nations
have the right to self-determination, free from great power coercion.
The far-right insurrection in South Korea is not over yet. The world
should take note. Democracy is not simply preserved through ballots and
constitutions—it lives through the courage, vigilance, and solidarity
of ordinary people. Korea’s Revolution of Light reminds us that the
fight for democratic sovereignty is global, and far from over. We must
mobilize all efforts to ensure the overwhelming defeat of the far-right
insurrectionist forces.
극우 내란 세력이 완전히 패배하도록 모든 역량을 결집해야 한다.
오는 6월 3일, 한국은 제9대 대통령 선거를 치른다. 이번 선거는 단순한 정권 교체를 넘어, 민주주의의 존속 여부를 결정짓는 중대한 분기점이다. 불과 두 달 전, 헌법재판소는 계엄령을 선포하고 헌정 질서를 파괴한 윤석열 전 대통령의 파면을 인용했다. 그러나 그보다 먼저, 수개월에 걸쳐 혹한과 탄압을 무릅쓰고 전국 곳곳에서 수백만 시민이 거리로 나서 민주주의 수호를 외쳤다.
이 항쟁은 오늘날 ‘빛의 혁명’으로 불린다. 이는 국내 권위주의에 맞선 투쟁을 넘어, 미국 중심의 군사주의와 외세 개입에 대한 거부, 주권을 향한 국민적 저항의 표출이기도 하다. 특히 미국 주도의 250일 넘는 대규모 연합 군사훈련은 외세 지배의 상징으로 인식되며, 이에 맞서 시민들은 자주적 민주공화국을 요구하며 일어섰다.
이번 선거는 단지 국내 문제에 그치지 않는다. 윤 전 대통령의 계엄령 시도는 국내 극우 세력과 일부 해외 세력의 연계를 통해 진행되었고, 이는 국제적으로도 민주주의의 위기를 상기시킨다. 동시에, 한국 시민들은 조직적이고 평화적인 저항을 통해 헌정 질서를 회복할 수 있음을 보여주었다.
현재 유력 야권 후보 이재명은 민주주의 복원과 외교 자주성을 핵심 공약으로 내세운다. 그는 한미일 군사 공조 일변도의 대외 정책에서 벗어나, 국익 중심의 자주 외교를 추진하겠다고 강조한다. 이에 일부 서방 언론은 그를 ‘친중’이라 비판하지만, 그는 단호히 반문한다. “대만해협 문제는 왜 한국이 개입해야 하는가? 그것이 과연 우리의 문제인가?”
한국 국민은 이미 선택을 시작했다. 권위주의적 회귀를 거부하고, 민주주의와 자주권을 지키겠다는 결연한 의지를 보여주었다. 이번 선거는 그 의지를 제도적으로 완성하는 과정이다. 국제 사회는 한국 시민들이 보여준 저항의 힘에 주목해야 하며, 그들의 목소리에 진지하게 귀 기울여야 한다. 민주주의는 단순히 선거로 유지되지 않는다. 그것은 주권을 가진 시민들의 끊임없는 참여와 연대, 그리고 감시를 통해 살아 숨 쉬는 원칙이다. 한국의 빛의 혁명은 그 원칙을 전 세계에 다시금 일깨우고 있다. 극우 내란은 끝나지 않았다. 그들은 지금 총 집결, 단결하고 있다. 극우 내란 세력의 압도적인 패배를 위해 총력을 기울여야 한다.
Trump's 'Golden Dome' Star Wars system interview with Bruce Gagnon
A closer look at Trump's Golden Dome, who benefits, who loses.
China just cracked Trump's Golden Dome
Scientists at China’s Zhejiang University have created a composite, multi-layered, heat-absorbing stealth material they say can evade detection by infrared and microwave systems at long ranges.
It operates at temperatures up to 700 °C.
That’s bad news for Golden Dome, which will rely on ground and space-based early warning, tracking, fire control and radars to detect and track threats.
Without help from its eyes and ears, Golden Dome’s interceptors would be essentially useless and firing blind.
Taxpayers will be hit up for anywhere between $550 billion to several trillion dollars.
Say good-bye to Veterans Administration, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, social programs, infrastructure repair, environmental programs, student aid and much more.
We'll have Neo-feudalism and the very leaky 'Golden Dome'.
But the military industrial complex will be loaded with your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Speak out now while you still can - that is if you value the lives of the future generations....
EIS comments needed on Space X military launches in California
Environmental Impact Statement for Authorizing Changes to the Falcon Launch Program at Vandenberg Space Force Base
The US Space Force and Elon Musk's Space X launch company are attempting to circumvent environmental regulations at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Space Force and Musk wish to fill Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) with war fighting satellites (intel, targeting, and ultimately weapons) at the exclusion of other nations like China and Russia. The available spaces in the LEO parking lot are getting scarce.
The California Coastal Commission (CCC) has the authority to regulate all actions that have impacts on the coastal environment. So far the Space Force and Musk have told the CCC to take a hike.
I've submitted comments to the environmental impact statement (EIS) shown below. I urge others to write comments as well to show growing global concern about this issue are indeed widespread.
To send comments click here. Scroll to bottom of the page to find comment section.
GN comments to the EIS:
Our organization supports the good work of the California Coastal Commission that has repeatedly expressed serious objection to the planned dramatic escalation of Space X rocket launches from Vandenberg.
Sadly though the US Space Force and Elon Musk have rejected the authority of the CCC to regulate launches.
The concerns are over environmental impacts (land, air, ocean), noise pollution, ozone depletion from launch exhaust, and more.
It is obvious to us that the Pentagon is rushing to occupy as much of Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) as possible in order to keep other nations from using the declining numbers of parking spots for satellites.
This is an aggressive action by the US Space Force which will likely lead to conflict in space over time.
Any war in space, and the resulting Kessler Syndrome, could make it near impossible for future rocket launches to get thru the dangerously growing orbiting mine field of debris.
For all these reasons the proposal to increase launches should be flatly rejected.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Germany still remains divided between East & West
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| ‘East German or West German?’ |
“Wanderers and seekers.”
Excerpted in part from Germany in crisis, Part 4
There are commonly accepted ways to measure the inequalities between the two halves of the reconstituted Federal Republic. Wages are lower in the former German Democratic Republic [GDR] than in the west, by 25 percent. Unemployment in the east is higher than in the west—by a third. Good jobs are scarcer in the old G.D.R., as most of the strong, powerful industries that earned Germany its success—steel, autos, machinery, chemicals, electronics—are in the western half. As those who live in the former G.D.R. will readily explain, most senior positions in the eastern states—in the now-privatized enterprises, the universities, the banks, and so on—are held by Germans from the west.
In this way “reunification” is not quite the word for what happened on 3 October 1990: Better to say it effectively turned East Germany into a colony of West Germany. Resentment, an obvious consequence, is easily legible in the [recent national election] February results. In the eastern states the three opposition parties —AfD, Die Linke, B.S.W.—easily outperformed the mainstream parties as measured against the previous elections. There are some protest voters in the numbers, as many of the Germans with whom I spoke—not all, I must add—told me. But protest is not all there is to read into the results. Voters in the old G.D.R. are also more ardent than in the west as they search for a new national direction.
I come again to questions of identity and consciousness. East Germans were never subjected to those fateful Americanization programs the postwar Federal Republic [west] endured during the Cold War years. There was no psychological unmooring as occurred among West Germans. This different experience has born profound consequences. East Germans were not, so to say, separated from themselves as West Germans were; their identities were by comparison undisturbed.
As those in the eastern states often explain, they developed an abiding distrust of authority during the G.D.R. years. But a paradox here: It was in their resistance to the East German state that East German people preserved who they were, what it was that made them German. And it is this distrust and resistance that informs their views and attitudes today toward Berlin and the west of Germany—their disdain, their refusals. More than one easterner told me they view the centrist regime in Berlin as another dictatorship.
An hour’s drive east of Dresden, across vast flat stretches of what were once collective farms, you come to a town in Saxony called Bautzen. The French commonly speak of la France profonde, “deep France,” literally—the untouched France of the old villages and farms. Bautzen, it seems useful to say, lies in what we can think of as deep Deutschland. You find in the place and its people another idea of Germany—alive and well enough, precisely the Germany the neoliberal centrists in Berlin appear determined to extinguish.
Bautzen, with a population of 38,000, has a varied history. It traces its beginning to the early 11th century and is pleased today to display its origins in the Middle Ages. (If you like Medieval towers, this is your place: A dozen of them still mark out the town’s perimeters.) The Third Reich operated a concentration camp there, part of the Groß–Rosen network. The Red Army liberated the Bautzen subcamp on 20 April 1945, five days before Soviet troops met the Allies at the Elbe. From 1952 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East German Stasi used the former camp as a notorious prison nicknamed Gelbes Elend, Yellow Misery, for the color of its walls.
During the G.D.R. days the people of Bautzen began what they called “Monday night demonstrations” at Gelbes Elend. At their largest these weekly occasions attracted up to 5,000 people, and they had a standard slogan. “We are the people” can be fully understood only in its historical context. The G.D.R. advanced itself as “the people’s democracy,” or “the people’s republic.” The words chanted at the protests outside the Stasi prison on Mondays were a pointed reply, the stress in the phrase falling in translation on the first word: “We are the people.”
At the end of my visit to Bautzen, I met for dinner with some of those who led those demonstrations. We gathered at a cavern-like restaurant that had long ago been a monastery. The waiters wore monks’ robes and the menu featured (for better or worse) Medieval dishes. The beer (for the better) was also from an old recipe—a rich red brew served in crude clay steins. I do not know whether our hosts intended this, but Mönchshof zu Bautzen, as the place was called, was faintly suggestive of their project. This was to rediscover what it means to be authentically German—not in any kind of nativist or reactionary fashion, but as self-preservation, a defense against the neoliberalism Berlin sponsors.
The Monday demonstrations spread widely during the G.D.R. decades and were six-figures large in Dresden, Leipzig, and other cities. They continue now, if on a much smaller scale. And the slogan at all of them is a straight carryover: “We are the people” is still in its way a response to the pretensions of power in Berlin. Working through an interpreter, I asked those ranged around our table, an assemblage of rough-hewn boards, what their politics were. “AfD? Die Linke? Sahra Wagenknecht’s B.S.W.?” The last is a left-populist breakaway from The Left.
“We take no interest in the political parties, none of them,” one of my hosts said. “We don’t think in terms of ‘left’ and ‘right,’ either. We come together on the basis of facts. We’re trying to build what you would call ‘a people’s movement.’”
The phrase—how to say this?—did not instill confidence. To an American ear “a people’s movement” suggested I was at a table of dreamers in one of who knows how many towns reunification had served badly. When I mentioned this to Karl–Jürgen Müller, the student of German politics, he replied, “You’re looking at the tip of an iceberg. Beneath the surface there’s a lot more of this.”
This seemed the case as the evening went on and those assembled told me of the conferences and congresses they organize regularly with other communities. In the back of the notebook I used that evening I find a well-produced accordion brochure announcing a Kongress Frieden und Dialog, a Congress for Peace and Dialogue, in Liebstedt, a Thuringian town near Weimar, 260 kilometers distant.
I had heard the same frustration with Germany’s traditional party politics many times in the course of my reporting. I do not mean to suggest any kind of imminent nationwide insurgency. What I saw at ground level seemed to me nascent, a suggestion and no more of a possible future. As we drove back from Bautzen to Dresden I thought of something Dirk Pohlmann, the broadcast journalist and documentarian, had said when we spoke in Potsdam. “We’re sitting atop a tectonic shift,” he told me. “The Greens are done. The Free Democrats [among the other big losers in February] are done. The major parties are weak. People are looking for unities on questions of right and wrong. ‘Left’ and ‘right’ have nothing to do with this.”
~ Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, author and lecturer. His most recent book is Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
The lies in the skies exposed
Former President Lyndon Johnson says “He who controls the weather, controls the world.”
FrankenSkies is an 80-minute social change documentary regarding the Solar Geoengineering/Chemtrail agenda that affects every living being on earth. The struggle of bringing awareness to this subject, despite the obstacles of a socially engineered populace and the military industrial complex with its endless resources, is palpable in this awakening truth feature.
An impeccably timed eye-opening exposé, the film reveals the campaign to normalize chemical cloud formations via atmospheric aerosol dispersals.
Up against a normalization timetable encompassing a controlled media and an indoctrinated educational and political system, activists ask the question:
Is your silence your consent?
A shocking informative film on climate engineering, frequency control and CIA manipulation, the film’s narrative unfolds through a historical timeline of experimentation on humanity, bringing us to a modern-day laboratory that encompasses the air we breathe and dictates when and where the sun shall shine, or not…
The fight continues.
FrankenSkies 2: Climate Chains is in the works—an urgent sequel uncovering more hidden truths about weather engineering…
Monday, May 26, 2025
Invite to UK Space Watch meeting June 3
Our next Space Watch UK online meeting will take place on Tuesday 3 June (7 – 9 pm UK time), and we hope you will be able to join us.
[This UK Space meeting will be held at 2:00 pm EDT (New York) on June 3.]
The meeting will be an opportunity to catch up with others working on space-related campaigning around the UK, and we will be organising a group discussion activity to help prepare for UN Space Week/Keep Space For Peace Week on October 4-11. A full agenda and Zoom joining instructions are below.
We'll also be giving brief updates on what has been happening in the space sector in the UK and what we have been up to at Space Watch UK, including a short report on our recent visit to the island of Unst in Shetland, where the SaxaVord spaceport is located.
We'd like to hear what you have been up to as well, and have left space on the agenda for updates from local groups (if you would like to give a brief update it would be helpful if you would let us know before the meeting by replying to this message).
We look forward to seeing you in June, and in the meantime
please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Best wishes,
Peter Burt info@spacewatch.uk
Agenda
7.00 Welcome
7.10 Update on UK space programme news
7.20 Update on Space Watch UK activities
7.30 Updates from local groups (two minutes each)
7.50 Planning for UN Space Week / Keep Space For Peace Week 4-11 October 2025
- Working in small groups to discuss:
- What activity could your organisation / group do to mark UN Space Week?
- How can Space Watch UK help and support you in organising activities?
(15 minutes group discussion, short break if needed, then 2-3 minutes feedback per group plus summary.)
8.30 Report back on Space Watch UK visit to Unst
8.45 Any other business
9.00 Thank you and goodbye
The meeting will take place online on Zoom. Joining details are as follows:
Space Watch UK Network Online Event
3 June 2025 07:00 PM London
Meeting ID
858 5929 8409
Security Passcode
598755
Invite Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85859298409?pwd=qarFhdBkJhFbShZL0ds8vlMUz9zFhA.1
Israel-US preparing for war with Iran
I think Israel will find some way to launch an attack on Iran and then all bets are off, says Col Douglas Macgregor.
The next 60-90 days could put an end to US imperial ambitions.
This will blow up in our faces if Tel Aviv and Washington attack Iran.
The slap heard around the globe
Macron is one of the phoniest political hacks on the world stage.
How can anyone be fooled by this pretender any more?
History lesson: WW2 in the Arctic
The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
SouthFront shares the 8th part of the series titled “War in the Arctic”. This part highlights the struggle in the Artic, one of the harshest battlefields of WWII, with a special focus on the Soviet port of Murmansk.
The strategic port was the main destination of convoys carrying arms and ammunition from the U.S. and the UK to the Red Army.
The Nazis attacked Murmansk on June 29 of 1941. They planned to capture Murmansk within a month but ran into difficulties. By November 17, the attack, dubbed Operation Silver Fox, had ended with a catastrophic defeat for the Germans.
While the Germans continued to attack convoys heading to Murmansk, the allies managed to deliver some 15 million dollars worth of supplies from the U.S., UK, and Canada to the port, including 10,000 tanks, 18,000 airplanes, equipment for heavy industry and medical supplies.
Soviet pilots and sailors made great sacrifices to secure the strategic Arctic port and support the efforts of their allies.
October 7 of 1944 marked the start of the Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive by the Red Army. With the support of the Arctic Fleet, Pechanga was liberated after fierce fighting. On October 21 the troops reached the Norwegian border, and on October 25 Kirkenes was liberated. The offensive marked a significant victory for the allies in the Arctic.
Cold Response is one such US-NATO war game.
A key reason that Trump wants greater control of Greenland (and make Canada the 51st US state) is linked to western desires for full control of the Arctic region. Due to climate change, and the melting Arctic ice, the time is near when drilling for oil and natural gas under the ice will be possible and the US-NATO want to be sure they control the region.
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" Robs the Poor and Rewards the Rich
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| Trump's bill squeaks by in House of Representatives. Next goes to Senate. |
More Walls, A "Golden" Dome, More Weapons, Higher Deficits, Make this a Petty Ugly Bill
The “Big Beautiful Bill” passed recently by the House is petty and ugly. A sham. A reverse Robin Hood. It cuts SNAP benefits (food stamps) to the poor. It cuts Medicaid. Because who needs food and medical care, amirite? Meanwhile, it cuts taxes for the richest Americans and funds various weapons follies (a foolish and wasteful missile shield known as “Golden Dome,” more nuclear weapons, yet more billions for the wall on America’s border with Mexico). And it adds significantly to the national debt.
Remember when Republicans were once known as fiscal conservatives? Remember calls for a balanced budget? Those days are long gone. The “Big Beautiful Bill” is a fever dream, or a night terror if you prefer, of wanton and wasteful spending that rewards the already well-heeled and hurts the most vulnerable of Americans.
Trump, who is truly an expert at the craft of the con, concocts the most outrageous names to sell his BS. Thus a missile shield that may end up wasting $500 billion is a “golden dome.” Heck, the whole bill, which is contempuous toward the poor and punishing to workers organizing for higher wages, is sold as “big” and “beautiful.”
When Trump describes things as “golden” and “big” and “beautiful,” you should know to hold tightly to your wallets and purses, America, because you’re about to get scammed.
At his site, Stephen Semler has a superb chart that breaks down the petty ugly bill the House just passed. Here’s an excerpt. Read it and weep, America.
The bottom line: More money for the already affluent and for the Pentagon; less money and benefits for the poor. The rich get richer, the poor poorer, as America reinforces its turn to weapons, walls, police, domes, and warriors.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Trump's Golden Dome: Star Wars is back
Today the Military Industrial Complex is marching towards world dominance through space technology on behalf of global corporate interests. To understand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future wars on Earth from space, it's important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins and true purpose of the space program.
Trump calls for a renewal of Ronald Reagan's 1980's vision of SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), popularly called Star Wars. The program is a massive boondoggle in the works. Early estimates are that Trump's 'Golden Dome' would cost from $500 billion to trillions of dollars. The recipients of this largess would be weapons corporations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Space X.
Major cutbacks in social and environmental programs will be required to help fund this insanity.
Golden Dome would spur a new space weapons arms race that will destabilize our planet and beyond.
This documentary Arsenal of Hypocrisy features Global Network Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the dangers of moving the arms race into space.
The one-hour production includes archival footage of Nazi rocket tech brought to U.S. after WW2, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlines the U.S. plan to "control and dominate" space and the Earth below.
The video spells out the dangers of the Bush-era "Nuclear Systems Initiative" that will expand the use of nuclear power in space by building Project Prometheus -- the nuclear rocket.
Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, warns that a war in space would create massive bits of space junk that would create a mine field surrounding the Earth making it virtually impossible to launch anything into the heavens. Mitchell calls space a fragile environment that must be protected.
Noam Chomsky talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth and reminds the viewer that the U.S. and Israel have for many years blocked negotiations on a global ban on weapons in space at the United Nations. He also speaks about the role of the media in suppressing this important issue.
The video also contains archival sound of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 warning the American people about the power of the military industrial complex.
Arsenal of Hypocrisy was produced in 2003 by filmmaker Randy Atkins from Gainesville, Florida. It is still highly relevant today.
The video was featured at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2004.
The dangerous rise of Israeli fascism
There’s a movement in Israel that wants to bring about the end times.
The Temple Movement believes destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque and replacing it with a Jewish temple will bring about the messiah.
BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the movement’s goals and its ties to Israeli fascism.
Friday, May 23, 2025
News bits from around the whirled
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| Palestinians mourn over the bodies of those killed in Israeli air strikes, at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on 20 May 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP) |
Here is the next fight against any interaction with the world. Trump admin BLOCKS Harvard from enrolling international students. Trump is pressuring the elite school to fall in line with his agenda. Funding from international students make up +25% of the cost of the schools and the entire student body. The US will become dumber and more isolated with the young people more lost. The international students will flock to other countries who now have the opportunity to developed top class schools.
On a similar note, Microsoft bans words ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza’ and ‘genocide’ in internal emails —The censorship follows Microsoft’s firing of employees who protested the company’s ties to Israel. While Microsoft claims it is curbing ‘politically focused emails’ — staff say it’s an attempt to silence free speech.
Yair Golan, a former Israeli general and the leader of the country's left-wing opposition party, has been barred from wearing an Israeli military uniform, entering a military base or serving as a reservist, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday.
Before retiring, Golan had served as the army's deputy chief of staff. Katz cited Golan's remarks on Tuesday criticising the government's policies in Gaza.
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” Golan told Israeli public radio in an interview.
"A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations," Golan said.
A human rights group has documented the deaths of 26 Palestinians in Gaza, including nine children, in just 24 hours, due to starvation, malnutrition, and lack of medical treatment.
“These deaths are the result of a deliberate Israeli policy that weaponises hunger and denial of treatment to kill Palestinian civilians,” the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week.
A poll cited by Haaretz newspaper indicates that 82% of Israelis support the displacement of Gaza Strip residents.
In a statement drawing widespread condemnation, zionist freshman Republican Congressman Randy Fine (R-Daytona Beach, Florida) called for the United States or “Israel” to “nuke” Gaza, likening the besieged Palestinian enclave to Imperial Japan during World War II and invoking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a model for ending the war on Gaza.
Appearing on Fox News following the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers near the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, Fine said, “The only end of the conflict [in Gaza] is complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror.”
The French naval intelligence vessel Dupuy de Lome has arrived in
Helsinki to monitor the Russian navy in the Baltic Sea, the Estonian
newspaper Postimees reported. One
of the goals of the intelligence ship is to monitor vessels allegedly
involved in transporting Russian energy resources, the report said. The
Dupuy de Lome ship was designed to intercept and analyze all types of
signals, including those directed through satellites, for the French
navy.
South Korea’s military
on Friday firmly denied that any discussions have taken place with the
United States regarding a potential withdrawal of American troops from
the peninsula, following a media report suggesting the White House was
considering such a move.
“Absolutely nothing was discussed,” the Ministry of National Defense
said in a text message to reporters. It emphasized that the 28,500 U.S.
troops stationed in the South remain a “core strategy” of the U.S.-South
Korea alliance and a key deterrent to North Korean aggression.
The statement came hours after The Wall Street Journal, citing two
unnamed U.S. military officials, reported that President Donald Trump’s
administration was evaluating a possible redeployment of 4,500 troops
from South Korea to other Indo-Pacific locations, including Guam.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
South Korea’s military on Friday firmly denied that any discussions have taken place with the US regarding a potential withdrawal of American troops from the peninsula, following a media report suggesting the White House was considering such a move. “Absolutely nothing was discussed,” the Ministry of National Defense said in a text message to reporters. It emphasized that the 28,500 US troops stationed in the South remain a “core strategy” of the US-South Korea alliance and a key deterrent to North Korean aggression. The statement came hours after The Wall Street Journal, citing two unnamed US military officials, reported that President Donald Trump’s administration was evaluating a possible redeployment of 4,500 troops from South Korea to other Indo-Pacific locations, including Guam.Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
South Korea’s military
on Friday firmly denied that any discussions have taken place with the
United States regarding a potential withdrawal of American troops from
the peninsula, following a media report suggesting the White House was
considering such a move.
“Absolutely nothing was discussed,” the Ministry of National Defense
said in a text message to reporters. It emphasized that the 28,500 U.S.
troops stationed in the South remain a “core strategy” of the U.S.-South
Korea alliance and a key deterrent to North Korean aggression.
The statement came hours after The Wall Street Journal, citing two
unnamed U.S. military officials, reported that President Donald Trump’s
administration was evaluating a possible redeployment of 4,500 troops
from South Korea to other Indo-Pacific locations, including Guam.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
By Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)
With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman.
Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief. But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided, distracted by other conflicts and incapable of holding to a consistent position.
Worse, as the negotiations drag on, the Trump administration is defaulting toward the hardline Israeli position which rejects all uranium enrichment, even for civilian purposes, violating a right Tehran considers sacrosanct.
The Iranian diplomats have now begun to suspect the Trump administration held an ulterior motive for engaging in talks, and is exploiting the meetings in Oman as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.
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| Palestine solidarity protest in Yemen |
A renewed million-person demonstration was staged on Friday in Al-Sabeen Square in the capital Sanaa, and various squares in the Yemeni provinces in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized under the name of “steady with Gaza and more escalation in the face of the genocidal crime and starvation”.
Millions of people denounced the escalation of its heinous crimes and genocidal war that the Zionist enemy’s committing against civilians in Gaza, in addition to the ongoing killing and destruction, starvation and thirst, in an unprecedented tragedy, amidst a shameful Arab and Islamic situation and humiliating global inaction.
Russia and Ukraine have begun to swap prisoners as part of a major exchange agreed last week. The two sides each returned 270 soldiers and 120 civilians on Friday, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow. The exchange is set to continue in the coming days, it added.
Residents of Russia’s Kursk border region captured during the incursion launched by Ukrainian troops last year were among those returned as part of the exchange, the Russian military stated.
Kiev’s forces in Kursk Region have since been fully driven out by Russian troops, and the recently liberated region was visited by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.
Moscow and Kiev agreed to a 1,000-for-1,000 swap during direct talks in Istanbul last week. The negotiations were the first of their kind since Ukraine unilaterally withdrew from peace talks in 2022.
The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands.
Every university in Gaza has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of students and hundreds of educators have been killed. The genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase. Meanwhile, Israeli universities continue to develop the weapons and ideologies that made all of it possible. And the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) still refuses to sever ties, 8 months after being confronted with the undeniable proof.
The call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions is not merely symbolic. These institutions have never been neutral bystanders to state violence. They are engineers of it, embedded in the military-industrial complex, drafting demographic warfare strategies, justifying settler expansion, and persecuting Palestinian students and faculty. They provide the intellectual, logistical, and technological infrastructure of apartheid and genocide.
Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) provides strategic cover for collective punishment. Its April 2025 paper proposes using “sustained military pressure” and “voluntary emigration”, a thinly veiled ethnic cleansing proposal. This is the same institute that developed the infamous Dahiya Doctrine, advocating the use of overwhelming force to devastate civilian infrastructure as a military tactic. TAU collaborates with weapons manufacturers like Elbit Systems, and actively integrates soldiers into academic life. Students in uniform walk freely through campus while Palestinian students are surveilled, harassed, expelled, or arrested for dissent.
Public discussion: How do you feel about the U.S. role in the world today?
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