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The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests.   by Alan Macleod   Part 3 - Columbia’s Billionaire Pro-Israel Backers Much of Columbia’s funding comes from donations from billionaire benefa...

by Nate Bear   Part 1   Yesterday Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion. The acquisition will mark the single largest transfer of former Israeli spies into an American company. This is because Wiz is run and staffed by dozens of ex Unit 8200 members, the specialist cyber-spying arm of the IDF.    Unit 8200 wrote the programming and designed the algorithms that automated the genocide of Gaza and was also responsible for the pager attack in Lebanon. Now the men and women who helped design the architecture of apartheid are being swallowed by the US tech-surveillance complex. The identity of the Wiz founders, all former Unit 8200, is fairly well-documented (by Israeli media at least). One of the founders, Ami Luttwak, boasts on his LinkedIn profile that he led a "mission critical R&D team" for Unit 8200 which won them the “Israel Defence Award 2012.” Less well-documented, however, is the fact that a huge chunk of the Wiz workforce, from o...

NATO is a TERRORIST organization Do you agree? pic.twitter.com/jf7qzW4PQe — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 27, 2025

Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump is portrayed as a "populist" committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires -- including Elon Musk, the world's richest oligarch -- and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a consumption tax on the poor through tariffs. Ben Norton explains how Trump is waging a class war. 

🚨🇾🇪🇺🇸 The US just BOMBED A CANCER HOSPITAL in YEMEN! Stop the ZIONIST TERRORISM! pic.twitter.com/vVCcEksRBZ — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 27, 2025

Owen Jones  

BreakThrough News   Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss Israel’s resumption of its genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza, launched just a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to face his corruption trial. Israel, backed by a green light from Trump, intensified the bombing of Gaza, began a ground invasion, and killed over 500 Palestinians within 48 hours while enforcing a total blockade of Gaza. Eugene states that Israel never wanted to go through with the ceasefire because “the Israeli project can’t succeed unless it totally ethnically cleanses the territories it claims– and kills anyone in the way.” Recognizing that they may “not get the chance again,” they are putting their foot on the accelerator.” 

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on how the Trump administration covered for Israel shattering the Gaza ceasefire, making way for one of the worst massacres of civilians in recent history. 

Glenn Greenwald  

by Alan Macleod  Part 1 A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student demonstrations that began at Columbia University last year. Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, noted that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic senator John Fetterman and aides to the Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford, and that all supported Betar U.S.’ campaign to rid the country of thousands of “terror supporters.” Shortly after Glick’s trip to Washington, D.C., Trump signed an executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” that promises ...

The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests.   by Alan Macleod   Part 2 - Unprecedented Protests, Unprecedented Repression Columbia was the epicenter of a massive protest movement across ...

Danny Haiphong   Geopolitical analyst Ben Norton joined to give a full breakdown of just how Yemen has been able to stand up to the US & Israel in the Red Sea, detailing both the military and political implications of what it means for Yemen, Gaza, and the rest of the region. 

BreakThrough News   Craig Mokhiber, a human rights lawyer, joins the show to discuss the US’s airstrikes on Yemen. Trump’s bombardment follows Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement's resumption of its blockade of Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea – a solidarity action for Gaza after Israel choked off all aid. Mokhiber explains how according to international law, all nations are expected to cut ties with the Israeli occupation and act to prevent genocide– yet the US is bombing Yemen for doing precisely that. 

The Jimmy Dore Show  

Israeli newspaper Haaretz yesterday accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of derailing the Gaza ceasefire agreement, not Hamas.       Israel – not Hamas – is the one preventing the deal’s implementation and the hostages’ return Haaretz said in an editorial. The Israeli occupation army once again began pounding the Gaza Strip with air strikes since Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians, injuring hundreds, and shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January. The government claimed that the assault was renewed due to Hamas’ “repeated” rejection of all proposals to extend the ceasefire and release Israeli captives.   “But it must be said, loudly and clearly, that this is a lie. It was Israel, not Hamas, that violated the agreement,” Haaretz commented. “On its 16th day, the parties were supposed to begin discussing the second phase, which was supposed to end with the release of all the remaining hostages...

Middle East Eye   “We have failed to prevent genocide.” UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese called Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza an “acceleration of genocide”, in an interview with Channel 4 News on Tuesday. She also urged for the discussion on the events in Gaza to be held in the framework of international law, rather than based on what Israel is saying as she emphasised how two of its leaders are “indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity” by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Israel killed more than 400 Palestinians, including over 100 children, in one of the bloodiest bombardments of the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, unilaterally ending its ceasefire with Hamas. Since Tuesday, more than 710 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Antony Jones   Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, who defends the indefensible and fails to take any accountability for the slaughter and genocide currently being carried out in Gaza by the Israeli government. The pushback is minimal and the media have failed to hold Isreal to account, as have America and UK in arming them to the teeth.  

Geopolitical Economy Report   US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley at the expense of the working class. Ben Norton explains. 

What you're looking at here is a cancer hospital. It was Gaza's only cancer hospital. This is the Western-armed Israeli military blowing it up. Do you think we'll be forgiven for these atrocities? Trust me - we won't be. pic.twitter.com/0KwUM2l3JL — Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) March 21, 2025

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Aaron Mate argues that the US and NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine by expanding NATO, dismantling arms control, installing military assets threatening Russia, meddling in Ukraine, and blocking multiple opportunities for peace. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   President Trump has taken decisive military action in Yemen, ordering airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels on March 15, 2025. This action represents a significant flip-flop from when, as a presidential candidate, Trump railed against the Biden administration for bombing the Houthis instead of talking to them. Jimmy Dore discusses the strikes, the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office and which came after a period of relative quiet in the region. 

Double Down News   When people show you who you are, believe them.

by Caitlin Johnstone   This is Trump’s genocide. Trump is just as culpable for what happens in Gaza as Netanyahu. Just as guilty as Biden was during the last administration. Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire and then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide. He did this while bombing Yemen and threatening war with Iran for Israel. I don’t know why Trump has done these things. Maybe it’s all for the Adelson cash. Maybe Epstein recorded him doing something unsavory with a minor during their long association and gave it to Israeli intelligence for blackmail purposes. Maybe he owed somebody a favor for bailing him out of his business failures in the past. Maybe he’s just a psychopath who enjoys murdering children. I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that he did it, and he is responsible for his actions.  Trump supporters will justify literally anything their president does using wha...

The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests.   by Alan Macleod   Part 1 - Spooks in Our Midst Before entering academia, Dr. Yarhi-Milo served as an officer and an intelligence analyst wit...

Owen Jones  

Middle East Eye   At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday. Israel’s government vows to continue escalating these military attacks, saying it’s in response to Hamas’ refusal to extend the ceasefire, which has been in place since January. But is this the real reason for this morning’s attack? Or is there a much more cynical explanation - one tied to the political fate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?   The Big Picture Podcast speaks to Daniel Levy, the president of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator. 

BreakThrough News   No, Hamas didn’t end the ceasefire negotiations. Israel is justifying its bombardment of Gaza by saying Hamas refused to return Israeli captives. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains how Israel is totally distorting the narrative of the ceasefire agreement in order to continue ethnically cleansing Gaza.

The Jimmy Dore Show   On Sunday, the US launched a large scale attack against the Iran-aligned Houthi militants in Yemen, killing at least 53 people and wounding almost 100 in the Yemen capital Sanaa and surrounding area, according to the Houthi-run health ministry. President Trump warned that he will hold Iran responsible for any further attacks by Houthi militants on vessels in the Red Sea area. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Iran is dictating every move of the Houthis, giving them weapons, money and intelligence. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss when Trump will make good on his campaign promise to get the U.S. out of Middle East conflicts. 

Glenn Greenwald  

⚡️BREAKING: The death toll from the intense Israeli airstrikes since dawn has risen to 412, including 150 children and a large number of women, with over 500 others injured. pic.twitter.com/awAyCe4zru — Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) March 18, 2025

Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural resources, especially critical minerals.

BreakThrough News   Western media has played a central role in justifying and whitewashing Israel’s assault on Gaza—just as it has done in past U.S.-backed wars from Iraq to Syria. Journalists who claim to champion press freedom are silent as activists and students face unprecedented repression for speaking out on Palestine. Why does the media function as a propaganda arm for empire, and how do we push back? Rania Khalek is joined by Assal Rad, a scholar of Modern Middle East History, a non-resident fellow at DAWN, and the author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran , to break it all down. 

Owen Jones   Owen Jones joined by Palestine Action's Huda Ammori who explains why they're using direct action to fight Israel's genocide - and how their activists are being targeted with anti-terror legislation. 

The Grayzone The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the Trump administration's full bore war on the First Amendment, and the Israeli forces pulling its strings.

Israel assassinated another three journalists today in Gaza for using a drone to film an aid mission. 9 people murdered total. Ceasefire means Israel still kills with impunity daily https://t.co/sGtcNlqMcT — Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) March 15, 2025

Al Jazeera English   Palestinians who emerge from Israeli prisons often speak of the physical abuse, solitary confinement and terrible living conditions that they’ve endured. But is it even tougher for women? 

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the belligerent response of Europe's trans-Atlanticist leadership to Trump's push for an end to the Ukraine proxy war. 

by Alan Macleod  Part 6 - Our Unfree Media Ultimately, what this story reveals is that our media is not free; it is dominated by powerful interests. The most powerful of these is the U.S. government. To Washington, controlling public discourse is as important as controlling the seas or the skies. That is why they invest billions of dollars into doing so. It also explains the reaction whenever actors challenge the U.S.-dominated media ecosystem. In the 2000s, the U.S. military deliberately bombed Al-Jazeera buildings after the network challenged Washington’s narrative around the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. After RT began gaining a foothold in the 2010s, the network was demonized and canceled. TikTok is on the verge of being banned in the U.S., and independent media is constantly shadowbanned, demonetized, defamed and deplatformed. We like to think we are free thinkers. Yet the revelation that USAID funds a vast network of journalists around the world, shaping narratives favorable to...

Danny Haiphong   Brian Berletic reacts to Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen's shocking declaration of war on Russia, explaining the huge consequences it will have for Europe. Why are they taking responsibility for Ukraine? The answer may surprise you and Brian reveals the truth behind the spin in this must-watch video. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   Romania’s central election authority has banned right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu from running in the country’s May presidential election re-run, triggering protests from Georgescu’s supporters. Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round of the country’s presidential election on November 24.  Jimmy Dore and noted public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs discuss the topsy-turvy world in which banning the most popular candidate in a presidential election demonstrates a nation’s commitment to democracy.

Owen Jones  

globinfo freexchange   It was a matter of time to see Syria in chaos again, following the fate of Iraq, Libya and other countries, destroyed by the Western imperialism. Unfortunately we were right when, ten years ago we wrote :                The unbelievable hypocrisy and stupidity of the Western clowns can be proved also by the fact that they are those who armed jihadists in order to throw the Assad regime in Syria. It can be proved by the fact that they have destroyed entire nations (Iraq, Libya, Syria) in order to throw the "brutal dictators", when at the same time they tolerate the most brutal regime, that of Saudi Arabia. One of the main financiers of the jihadists.               Someone should be absolutely naive to believe that these clowns worry about the hypothetical principles of the West, or, for the lives of innocents. Whether these are Eur...

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on new developments in Venezuela as the Trump administration wavers between diplomacy with Caracas and threatening its destruction. 

Wisecrack   In the 1970's a single memo was written that opened up the gates for the full on coprorate takeover of American democracy. It sounds dramatic, but understanding this document can help us make sense of what's happening in America today.  Related: How neoliberalism manufactured consent to secure its unlimited power   

Yanis Varoufakis   Yanis Varoufakis' Brussels speech at the DiEM25 event (National Theatre) on 7th March 2025.  Related: The peculiar fascism of the extreme center  

by Caitlin Johnstone   A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He could spend months in prison. The Age reports that restaurant owner Hash Tayeh has been charged with four counts of “using insulting words in public” for repeatedly uttering the phrase “all Zionists are terrorists” at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne last year. According the The Age’s Chris Vedelago, the punishment for this crime of political speech is “up to two months in prison for a first offence and six months for three or more offences.” “It is believed to be the first time that potential political speech has been deemed a criminal offence that breached the ‘insulting’ law,” Vedelago reports, adding, “The charges are normally levied for using abusive or obscene language against police officers.”  You really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the authoritarian dystopia that Australia has become tha...

Al Jazeera English   Seven weeks into the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel openly resumes its war crimes in Gaza - blocking humanitarian aid - with the tacit support of the international mainstream media. 

by Alan Macleod  Part 5 - A Shady Organization Some might ask what the problem with receiving money from USAID is in the first place. Supporters of the organization say it does a great deal of good around the world, helping to vaccinate children or providing clean drinking water. Looking at the organization’s (now defunct) website, one would assume it is a charitable group promoting progressive values. Indeed, many on the conservative right appear to have taken this woke veneer at face value. Explaining his decision to close the organization down, Musk described it as a “viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America.” This, however, could barely be further from the truth. In reality, USAID, from its inception, has consistently targeted leftist and non-aligned governments, particularly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In 2021, USAID was a key player behind a failed Color Revolution (a pro-U.S. insurrection) in Cuba. The institution spent millions of dollars funding and t...

globinfo freexchange   Little Elon broke again one of his toys, gifted to him by the American taxpayers. Meanwhile, he is ready to wipe out the social state and buy himself more toys to play with, at the expense of the vast majority of the Americans. 

ANI News  Protests outside Greek parliament as lawmakers vote on a censure motion.

The Jimmy Dore Show   In what can only be described as a stunning reversal on a key political issues, Republicans have now seized the mantle of supporting free speech away from Democrats — mostly owing to Democrats’ support for efforts to counter what they call “misinformation” and “hate speech” online. But now Donald Trump appears to be willing to crack down on speech he doesn’t like as well, in particular criticisms of Israel and support for Palestinians.

globinfo freexchange   Αμέσως μετά τις εθνικές εκλογές του 2019 είχαμε γράψει ότι ¨ ... απ'ότι φαίνεται τελικά, ο "σοφός λαός" δεν είναι και τόσο σοφός. Είτε με την ψήφο του, είτε με την αποχή του, έδωσε το ελεύθερο στη χειρότερη δεξιά της μεταπολίτευσης να σαρώσει σαν 'οδοστρωτήρας' τα πάντα στο πέρασμά της. Μετά από τέσσερα χρόνια νεοφιλελεύθερης λαίλαπας, το τοπίο καταστροφής θα έχει κάνει τη χώρα κυριολεκτικά αγνώριστη. ¨   Στο μόνο που πέσαμε έξω ήταν η χρονική διάρκεια της Μητσοτακικής λαίλαπας, που κράτησε παραπάνω και συνεχίζει ακάθεκτη να ισοπεδώνει τη χώρα, μάλλον λόγω της απρόβλεπτης πανδημίας, που ήρθε ως μάννα εξ'ουρανού για το καθεστώς Μητσοτάκη.  Αυτό όμως που δεν μπορούσαμε με τίποτα να φανταστούμε, είναι ότι μετά από την παταγώδη αποτυχία της διακυβέρνησης Μητσοτάκη σε όλους τους τομείς, μετά από αυτή την πρωτοφανή στα χρονικά του τόπου και αδιανόητη απόπειρα συγκάλυψης του εγκλήματος των Τεμπών και την γενικότερη, πρωτοφανή υποβάθμιση τ...

Geopolitical Economy Report   BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying to weaken China -- and strengthen Wall Street oligarchs. 

Two years on from the train disaster and days after the mass protests of 28 February, Parliament is holding a series of discussions on the Tempe case. The Greek Parliament has approved the establishment of a preliminary investigative committee with 277 votes in favour. The committee will examine whether Christos Triantopoulos—who was Deputy Minister to the PM at the time of the deadly train crash—committed misconduct in office in relation to his involvement in covering up the crime scene at Tempe.  [...] During the parliamentary debate, Maria Karystianou, president of Association of Tempe victims’ families, revealed on social media that she, along with fellow bereaved parent Pavlos Aslanidis, had sent a formal legal notice to the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Nikitas Kaklamanis. The notice criticised Parliament for addressing only isolated acts of misconduct by Triantopoulos, rather than the broader accusations against ministers and the PM. Full report: https://thepressproj...