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Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.   by Kit Klarenberg   Part 4 - “Discreet operations”: reviving ‘Operation Gladio’ terror ops in Ukraine   To accomplish the balkanization of Russia, Project Alchemy’s plotters took inspiration from Operation Gladio, a CIA and NATO-orchestrated covert operation that saw fascist paramilitaries carry out false flag terrorist attacks across Western Europe after World War II in a bid to prevent communism from taking root. A section detailing potential “ discreet operations ” in Alchemy’s strategy paper, which stressed the “ need to intervene in every way except ‘official,’ ” explicitly recommended “ Stay-behind Gladio handbooks/ Partisan Pamphlets ” which would be “ updated for Information Age. ”  Another move Alchemy propos...

UN Palestinian Rights Committee   Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), shared a harrowing account of her experiences working in Gaza, where she bore witness to the devastating humanitarian crisis. She described the systematic targeting of civilians, healthcare workers, and infrastructure, emphasizing the unimaginable toll on Palestinian lives. Through poignant stories of patients and colleagues, she highlighted the loss of entire families, the suffering of children, and the resilience of healthcare workers who continue to serve despite constant threats and personal losses. Dr. Haj Hassan detailed how hospitals have become targets of military strikes and described the horrors of forced displacement, deprivation, and the relentless psychological and physical toll on Gaza's population.   She called for urgent global action, stating that silence in the face of such atrocities perpetuates impunity and signals the erosion o...

The Jimmy Dore Show   Mainstream media outlets reported that recent anti-NATO protests in Montreal, Quebec “turned violent,” which just means that police showed up and started busting heads. Anti-war protesters were demanding Canada end its support for NATO’s war in Ukraine as well as Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And so, naturally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Canadian politicians accused the protesters of antisemitism. Jimmy Dore speaks with Canadian attorney, commentator and social activist Dimitri Lascaris about his experiences at the protests.

As arrest warrants are issued for Israeli leaders, it must not be forgotten that they confessed to their crimes from the start. Western media outlets chose to suppress the truth   by Owen Jones   Part 2 - “We are fighting human animals” Two days after the 7th October attacks, the Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant - now subject to an international arrest warrant - told a news conference that Israel was: “ Imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly. ” This was unambiguously the declaration of multiple war crimes: not least, depriving a civilian population of the essentials of life. Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions legally prohibits collective punishment, a factual point which readers and viewers should have been made aware of. Indeed, Human Rights Watch - a prestigious NGO - declared this a call “ to commit a war crime ”, noting its criminality on ground...

The outspoken Italian human rights lawyer, Francesca Albanese, accuses British politicians of genocide denial and urges the EU to cut trade ties with Israel   Middle East Eye   Part 3 - 'Let's talk about genocide'   Born in 1977 in Ariano Irpino, southern Italy, the 47-year-old is one of the youngest special rapporteurs in the UN's history. Along with Italian, Albanese speaks English, French, Spanish, and Indonesian. Albanese's public challenging of Israel’s narrative has earned her celebrity status among the anti-genocide movement worldwide. Her interactions with journalists and state leaders have garnered millions of views on social media, and her talks at universities have been received with standing ovations. Outside campuses where she held talks last week in London, she was received with solidarity protests by students holding Palestinian flags and counter-protests by those with Israeli flags and banners reading “ban Fran”.   In her interview with MEE, Albanese...

Will the cowards at @BBCNews ever figure out who is killing Palestinians? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/fwe1iefZkN — ADAM (@AdameMedia) November 27, 2024

Geopolitical Economy Report  To defend their colonialism in Gaza, the United States and Israel have attacked every single legal institution upholding international law, including the UN, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and more. Ben Norton explains how the imperial war on Palestine is a neocolonial assault on multilateralism and multipolarity.

Democracy Now!   Security forces in Pakistan arrested over 1,000 supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan during a march on the capital of Islamabad. Protesters had vowed to stage a sit-in until Khan — who has been imprisoned since August 2023 on what are widely viewed as politically motivated charges — was released, but ended their efforts after six people were killed.    Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, who teaches political economy at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, discusses the political maneuvering behind Khan's dramatic ouster and explains how Khan's image as an "outsider" in Pakistani politics contributes to his lasting public appeal.   Related:   The ouster of Imran Khan: How much involvement did the US have in Pakistan’s coup? Imran Khan thanks supporters for protesting against 'US-backed' regime in Pakistan   Pakistan confirms secret diplomatic cable showing US pressure to remove Imran Khan 

Danny Haiphong   In this must-watch discussion, renowned economists Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson analyze the collapse of the US empire and the seismic shifts in the global order. From Russia’s hypersonic advancements to the decline of the US dollar and the rise of BRICS, they unpack the economic, political, and military dynamics reshaping the world.

Syriana Analysis   On Tucker Carlson's show, Glenn Greenwald revealed the truth about the CIA secret war in Syria. 

Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.   by Kit Klarenberg   Part 3 - ‘Ukraine’s Next Chapter – Elders Grand Strategy Options Paper’   Within Project Alchemy’s covert war room, the obsession with a long war quickly took hold. Members of the cell took their cues from a policy paper Stickland attributed to “The Elders,” which he described as “ a group of Fusion players, ” referring to the strata of academics and defense industry figures with strong ties to the British military. An Alchemy document composed under Stickland’s watch and titled, “Ukraine’s Next Chapter – Elders Grand Strategy Options Paper,” suggests that members of the cabal had convinced themselves a “ palace coup ” inside the Kremlin was inevitable. So long as Russia struggled inside Ukraine, they b...

The Grayzone   In an interview with The Grayzone 's Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales explains why he believes US agents and members of the Bolivian government led by his former Minister of Finance, Luis Arce, were behind the recent attempt to assassinate him, and why they want to silence him and crush the grassroots social movements he represents. Morales also addresses the challenges of confronting North American imperialism and advancing the integration of the South American continent. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   The Western alliance is divided over Israel, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, charging him with crimes against humanity in Gaza. The United States is threatening sanctions. Ben Norton discusses the severe political crisis in the "rules-based order". 

Owen Jones   Israel's ferocious response to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants shows how panicked their authorities are. Owen Jones is joined by the brilliant Dr. Alonso Gurmendi (London School of Economics) who explains why the arrest warrants could be a game changer not just for Israel and Palestine, but reflect dramatic changes to the entire global order. 

BreakThrough News   Tulkarem-based journalist and researcher Anan Quzmar joins the show to break down Israel’s escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. Quzmar calls the violence a “ natural outcome ” of the “ Israeli leadership’s ideological trajectories of further entrenching the occupation and displacing Palestinians ” and the “ continued international support shielding Israel from accountability. ” Israel’s frequent violent incursions, Quzmar explains, are “ indirect recruitment for insurgency rather than counter-insurgency, ” adding, “ you are forcing people into a desperate situation where they are more likely to pick up guns and try and resist. ” 

Al Jazeera English   Israel and its biggest ally, the US, again isolated, furiously attacking the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Most European nations say they'll execute the warrants if either man steps on their soil. So what might happen next?  

The outspoken Italian human rights lawyer, Francesca Albanese, accuses British politicians of genocide denial and urges the EU to cut trade ties with Israel   Middle East Eye   Part 2 - Persona non grata   According to Albanese, the failure to issue arrest warrants is putting international justice on the edge. " We might lose what we have, what we have built. Multilateralism is on the edge, and international law is on a knife's edge . " It's about us, all of us students, doctors, professors, journalists, ordinary people in the street to protect it if our elected government officials don't do that. " Middle East Eye hosted Albanese on 13 November during her visit to London, where she spoke with students and staff at four universities, including her alma mater, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).  An Italian human rights lawyer, Albanese holds the title of the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories ...

As arrest warrants are issued for Israeli leaders, it must not be forgotten that they confessed to their crimes from the start. Western media outlets chose to suppress the truth   by Owen Jones   Part 1 - Israel said exactly what it would do from the start The International Criminal Court has finally issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Any other outcome would have defied reason - because no crime in modern history has been so confessed to by its perpetrators - with so much shamelessness, pride and relish - as Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To understand what Israel planned to do from the very beginning, you required no special intuition, no access to leaked top secret documents. You simply needed to listen to what Israeli political and military leaders and officials said in public, and take them literally. Such statements proved the most accurate roadmap to predict the crimes Israel...

Democracy Now!   The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during Israel's assault on Gaza. The court also issued a warrant for Hamas's military chief Mohammed Deif, whom Israel said they killed in August.    This is a major development on the international stage, says HuffPost correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed, particularly in its implications for U.S. culpability in Israeli war crimes. The Biden administration, as Netanyahu's "ultimate enabler," is visibly "totally alone" in its refusal to recognize Israel's crossing of "red lines," as even its ally nations who are party to the ICC are now legally required to cooperate with the court's decision. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   US politicians and media outlets complain about China's growing global influence, but offer no alternatives to help countries develop. China has the world's largest economy, produces inexpensive manufactured goods everyone wants, invests trillions in infrastructure, and doesn't interfere in internal affairs of foreign nations. Ben Norton compares what Washington and Beijing have done in Latin America, especially Peru and Nicaragua.  

Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.   by Kit Klarenberg   Part 2 - Britain takes ‘unilateral lead’ on ‘regime change’ in Russia   Project Alchemy was founded on the personal orders of Lt. General Charlie Stickland, who is charged with “ planning, executing and integrating UK led joint and multinational overseas military operations ” as the head of Britain’s Permanent Joint Headquarters. Stickland boasts in leaked communications that his family “ come from a long line of pirates and buccaneers .” In his email signature, the general identifies himself as an “ LGBTQ+ Advocate ” in rainbow-colored text. Stickland and his assistant, Maj. Ed Harris, did not answer The Grayzone ’s calls to their personal phones, nor did they respond to detailed questions submitted to...

IMPEACH BIDEN. CHARGE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WITH WAR CRIMES. If Biden, Blinken and Netanyahu get away with the atrocities they're committing against children, the world will never recover. pic.twitter.com/GE345fufNa — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 21, 2024

του system failure   Όπως είχαμε αναφέρει αμέσως μετά τις εθνικές εκλογές του 2023, παρά τη μεγάλη νίκη Μητσοτάκη, οι μιντιακοί ινστρούχτορες της καθεστωτικής προπαγάνδας εμφανίστηκαν σε γενικές γραμμές "μουδιασμένοι" και αυτό οφείλεται στο γεγονός ότι το συστημικό κατεστημένο (δηλαδή τα μεγάλα οικονομικά συμφέροντα που ελέγχουν και το σύνολο των μεγάλων ΜΜΕ πανελλαδικής εμβέλειας), πέτυχε μόνο έναν από τους τέσσερις μεγάλους στόχους που είχε θέσει εξ'αρχής. Μιλώντας με ποδοσφαιρικούς όρους, ουσιαστικά έχασε με σκορ 3-1.   Ο μεγάλος στόχος που επετεύχθη, είναι ο κατακερματισμός του Αριστερού, κεντροαριστερού χώρου με διάχυση της ψήφου σε ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, ΠΑΣΟΚ, ΚΚΕ και Πλεύση Ελευθερίας. Και γι'αυτό το αποτέλεσμα συνέβαλε αποφασιστικά η μιντιακή υπεροπλία του καθεστώτος Μητσοτάκη.  Οι τρεις στόχοι που δεν κατάφερε να πετύχει η ντόπια ολιγαρχία είναι συνοπτικά, η στρατηγική ήττα ΣΥΡΙΖΑ και αντικατάστασή του από το ΠΑΣΟΚ, η απομάκρυνση Μητσοτάκη και το "ρετουσάρισμα...

Israel, fortified by bombs and funding from the Biden administration, is escalating the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands from the north of Gaza to the south, amid fierce bombing and the deprivation of food and water for those who stay behind. This is continuing amid marches and other demonstrations sponsored by the religious right in Israel whose leadership also is calling for north Gaza to be turned over to Israeli settlers. What was a worrisome rumor in Gaza more and more seems like a reality. Control over all of Gaza and the West Bank is the core demand of the religious right in Israel that now dominates the government. I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future—perhaps in two weeks — in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned recons...

The expanded list of grounds for Russia to use nuclear weapons in the updated nuclear deterrence policy effectively eliminates the possibility of defeating the country on the battlefield, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Russia released a presidential decree outlining the basic principles of the country's policy on nuclear deterrence. The document sets out among other things that a massive aerial attack on Russia, including with the use of cruise missiles and drones, could trigger a nuclear response. The West realizes the need for greater restraint in relations with Russia in order to avoid getting involved in a catastrophic military conflict, the official said, adding that "enemies are forced to admit that the Russian president’s determination to firmly defend the country’s fundamental interests by all available means narrows the room for maneuver for Washington and Brussels." Full report: https://sputnik...

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on Joe Biden's final days as a stalwart defender of Israel's ongoing assaults on Gaza and Lebanon.

The outspoken Italian human rights lawyer, Francesca Albanese, accuses British politicians of genocide denial and urges the EU to cut trade ties with Israel   Middle East Eye   Part 1   United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has doubled down on her criticism of Israel and world leaders for failing to stop the "colonial erasure" of Palestinians in Gaza, and called for more arrest warrants to be issued for Israeli leaders over suspected war crimes. In a wide-ranging interview with Middle East Eye , Albanese accused the British foreign secretary of being a " genocide denier, " called on Europe to halt trade with Israel, and denounced the delay by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over Gaza atrocities. Albanese said the prosecutor of the Hague-based court was already late in applying for warrants in May of this year.      " The International Criminal Court should have acted much earlier, " s...

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globinfo freexchange   As we wrote back in 2019, what we see now in the United States with Trump, is a counter-attack by the part of the American capital against the globalist faction. The faction that is primarily consisted by the liberal plutocracy . Therefore, as the capitalist class splits, the capitalists around Trump are now taking with them the most conservative part of the American society, as they need electoral power. They have the money and their own media network. Their first big victory was Trump in the US presidency and this explains why the liberal media attack him so hard and so frequently. On the other side of the Atlantic, we have a similar situation. The United Kingdom is probably now the most crucial field of the endo-capitalist war and the anti-globalist capitalists marked a first big victory through the outcome of the Brexit referendum.   As subsequently mentioned , we thought it would take forever to find someone from the Left to support th...

Owen Jones   The story continues to fall apart. 

Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.   by Kit Klarenberg   Part 1   Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “ at all costs. ” Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans “ to keep Ukraine fighting ” by imposing “ strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia. ” The leaks obtained by The Grayzone expose a hidden hand behind Britain’s policy in Ukraine, showing i...

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Al Jazeera English   There's no respite for people in Gaza either, more than 400 days into Israel's bombardment of the strip.   In the northern city of Beit Lahiya, at least 50 Palestinians have been killed in an attack on a multi-storey building, housing forcibly displaced people.   Several remain trapped under rubble as paramedics can't reach the area. Israeli forces have been preventing civil defence crews, medics and aid from entering the north since last month.  Palestinians in Beit Lahiya are not only under attack, but are again being forcibly displaced from their homes by the Israeli military. For more than 40 days, at least 100,000 Palestinians have been forced out in the north. In central Gaza, an Israeli strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in the Bureij refugee camp. Five others were killed in the nearby al Nuseirat camp.  

Owen Jones   What this means for Palestine is terrifying.  

BreakThrough News   Lea Kayali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), discusses a huge win for their “Mask Off Maersk” campaign: In Spain, two Israel-bound Maersk ships loaded with US-made weapons were blocked after months of pressure from activists and PYM’s campaign exposing the shipping giant’s violation of Spain’s arms embargo on Israel. Kayali discusses where the global movement to stop arms to Israel goes next. 

FRANCE 24 English   Unrest broke out before and after the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match in Amsterdam on November 7. In the following days, international media coverage of the riots was criticised. Many outlets focused on anti-Semitic attacks, while overlooking anti-Arab or anti-Muslim behaviour by Maccabi supporters. Part of this was because a video filmed by Dutch photographer Annet de Graaf was widely circulated and often misrepresented.  FRANCE 24 guest in this edition of Scoop is professor and disinformation expert Marc Owen Jones.

Democracy Now!   Update from Arwa Damon of the humanitarian organization INARA, at Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on "deteriorating conditions" as Palestinians are "slowly exterminated" by disease and starvation caused by Israel's brutal siege.    A special U.N. committee has found that Israel's actions in Gaza are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide." Palestinians in Gaza feel that "they are living through their own annihilation," says Damon. "There is actually a real sense that the worst is yet to come." 

The Breach   Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’ 

Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump has nominated warmongering neoconservatives to run his foreign policy, including Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, John Ratcliffe as CIA Director, and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador. Ben Norton reports on their extremely hawkish views.

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed break down one of the most cynical instances of disinformation this year, explaining how Israeli football hooligans were given free reign to rampage through Amsterdam, attacking the Dutch police and citizens, and bellowing genocidal chants, before being portrayed by Western leaders as innocent pogrom victims when locals fought back.

Double Down News   The Video The Media Doesn’t Want You To See 

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Owen Jones   Over 1,000 German academics, civil servants and intellectuals - and international figures - have condemned Germany for its complicity in genocide. 

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