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UN Human Rights Council   On 28 October 2025, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, presented her most recent report to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues) of the United Nations General Assembly at its 80th session in New York. Ms. Albanese was speaking remotely from South Africa. As in previous sessions, the Committee examined human rights questions, including reports of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council. The Committee heard presentations from Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts, and Chairs of Treaty Bodies and Working Groups as mandated by the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. 

Danny Haiphong   As NATO threatens the unthinkable with Russia, Vladimir Putin has dropped a major bombshell which will make Trump think twice before allowing the US's European vassals to cross this line. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson break down why it could all end in mushroom clouds for Europe if NATO continues to test Russia's resolve.

A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of Prime Minister Aldo Moro.   by Kit Klarenberg and Wyatt Reed   Part 6 - Moro rescue committee set up to fail   Throughout Moro’s 55 days in Red Brigades captivity, Italian officials declared that the “state must not bend” to “terrorist demands,” making it clear the Italian government would neither negotiate with the Red Brigades nor release any of its jailed members in return for the PM. The former Italian Prime Minister was subsequently bundled into a car trunk, shot 10 times, and left in the vehicle in central Rome for authorities to find. Today, many Italians view Rome’s inflexible approach with deep suspicion, given the government’s willingness to negotiate with terrorists both before and after Moro’s murder. Magistrate Mario Sossi, whose kidnap by the...

Israel’s genocide is being powered by Microsoft. From creating a massive digital dragnet, aiding in the production of A.I.-generated kill lists, hiring hundreds of Israeli spies to run its internal affairs, and suppressing figures opposing the slaughter, the Seattle-based tech corporation has played a key role in the violence.   by Alan Macleod    Part 1   MintPress has detailed the deep collaboration between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Amazon, Google, TikTok, Apple, Palantir, and Oracle, but Microsoft’s relationship with the government and armed forces of Israel is potentially the closest, leading then-CEO Steve Ballmer to state that “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.”    MintPress explores the decades-long partnership between Microsoft and Israel, and the employees trying to break that marriage from the inside.  Source, links: https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/...

The Jimmy Dore Show   In this segment Jimmy Dore and guest Jackson Hinkle assess Donald Trump’s second terms so far, arguing that he has betrayed many of his campaign promises by expanding military spending, enforcing new censorship laws, and escalating foreign interventions. They contend that Trump has acted against free speech principles, supported Israeli and corporate interests, and failed to end the Ukraine war or reduce U.S. involvement abroad. Hinkle highlights U.S. aggression toward Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, and other nations, claiming that Trump’s policies mirror those of previous presidents like Biden and Obama. Both conclude that Trump’s administration represents the continuation of American imperialism rather than the reform or restraint he once promised.

Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown    by Aisha Down When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive. Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”. After Palisade Research released a paper last month which found that certain advanced AI models appear resistant to being turned off, at times even sabotaging shutdown mechanisms, it wrote an update attempting to clarify why this is – and answer critics who argued that its initial work was flawed.   In an update this week, Palisade, which is part of a niche ecosystem of companies trying to evaluate the possibility of AI developing dangerous capabi...

Geopolitical Economy Report   The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire's hegemony in Latin America, waging war on Venezuela, imposing sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, hitting Brazil with tariffs, and meddling in Argentina's election. Ben Norton explains how Trump and Marco Rubio are trying to cut off all western hemisphere ties with China and Russia, bringing back the colonial Monroe Doctrine, now known as the Donroe Doctrine.   

Yanis Varoufakis   On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide. 

Cyrus Janssen   Why the US is Launching a New Cold War   Why the US Wants to Use Latin America   China and Venezuela Relationship   Truth About María Corina Machado   Why China is Important for Latin America   How US Used Tariffs to Destroy Venezuela    The Truth About Drug Trafficking in Latin America   How the US is Preparing For War with Venezuela    Will Latin America Unite Against the US?    Brazil, BRICS, and the Expansion in Latin America

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal sets Israel's flagrant violations of the recently signed Gaza ceasefire against a historical backdrop stretching back to the inception of the self-proclaimed Jewish state.