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In pulling the Gaza documentary, the BBC is failing Palestinian children
Anyone who is offended by a child sharing their lived experiences of survival can choose not to watch the BBC Gaza documentary. But do not deny innocent children – who have experienced unimaginable grief and loss – the right to tell their stories, writes Sylvia Monkhouse
Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is a harrowing account of life in Gaza as seen through the eyes of Palestinian children. It provides a rare window into young lives devastated by months of relentless bombings, displacements, and unspeakable horrors.
Japanese and Nazi War Crimes, Human Experimentation, and the Emergence of CIA-Fomented Ultra-Right-Nationalism
Chris Spencer
Some atrocities of World War II are the most recalled overall. Still, the nature of its atrocities is in the details—details that have been officially covered up, repressed, or just plain denied. Nazi Germany's and Imperial Japan's human experimentation were no deviations but the natural consequence of ideologies that dehumanized millions in their quest for scientific and military supremacy. These X-ray, microwave, drug, and psychological "Mind Kontrol" manipulation experiments were not conducted on the battlefields and concentration camps of Europe and Asia only. They continued into the post-war period, where they were continued under the aegis of the United States government via OSS/CIA Operation Paperclip and its less famous (MKUltra, MKNaomi, MKArtichoke) siblings. MK is Germanic for Mind Kontrol, a tenet of the Far Right.
Baron Otto Von Bolschwing, SS Veteran of Eichmann’s "Jewish Affairs"
By Katherine Smith, PhD
Eichmann The Long-hidden report: CIA created ‘safe haven’ for Nazis in the US obtained by the New York Times November 13, 2010, may be the most concrete account yet of the role that prominent members of Germany's Nazi party played in the early, formative years of the CIA, following World War II. The report alleges the CIA created a "safe haven" for Nazis believed to be of use to the US' Cold War efforts. [1]
Are Things Going Amiss?
Paul Craig Roberts
During the Biden regime, Trump criticized the Democrats for dropping bombs on Yemen. You don’t have to do that, Trump said, you can talk through problems over the telephone. Now it is Trump who is bombing Yemen.
Those few who think about foreign affairs chalk it up to another Trump favor to Israel. Even so, it makes no sense. It doesn’t help to stop the killing in Ukraine to start the killing in Yemen and to continue the killing in Gaza and the small remnant of the West Bank. Is Trump for peace or just partly for peace depending on location?
Trump’s bombing of Yemen could turn into something bigger. Trump’s national security advisor said that Washington might begin bombing Iranian warships. He didn’t explain the point of it or address the consequences. The bellicosity emitting from the Trump regime calls into question Trump’s sincerity about peace in Ukraine.
The Interface of Control: Censorship, Eugenics, Technology Manipulation, Authoritarianism and the Road to Global Confrontation
Tracy Turner
During this era when the world is run by technology, corporate control and ideological domination, there is the necessity to comprehend the complex factors behind the current direction of the global civilization. These forces—ranging from the looming shadow of modern eugenics to the omnipresent influence of social media giants like Meta (formerly Facebook)—collaborate to control, manipulate, and suppress dissent. As political elites consolidate power, the ideals of freedom and democracy, once revered pillars of Western civilization, are increasingly under siege.
The convergence of censorship, surveillance, war crimes, political authoritarianism, and global conflict is an existential threat not only to human freedoms but to the very survival of democratic institutions worldwide. This piece aggregates sources to examine the complex dynamics of repression to a point where human freedom is incrementally eroded and global peace becomes increasingly unattainable.
The Fall of Tesla: Musk's Monopoly, Trump's Politicking, and a Growing Rebellion
Chris Spencer
While America grapples with the growing financial hegemony of tech billionaires and corporations' unfettered monopolization of power, the fascist-spectacular rise of Elon Musk and his electric vehicle and space empire, Tesla, has come under rigorous examination. The fickle volatility of Tesla stocks, particularly the calamitous drop of 91% from their peaks in the 2024 election rally (Saul, 2025), has sparked a domino chain of protests, financial volatility, and outrage from the public. Elon Musk's close identification with erstwhile President Donald Trump, who is striving to trash the American government using his (Musk’s) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), signals an unsettling new trajectory for American democracy-albeit one that is just as readily prone to descending into a corporate-dominated dystopia.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Foreign Military Bases and Forces
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
I know, I know, foreign military bases are spreading like a disease, and governments are openly mocking the rule of law.
But it’s hard to aim without a target. So, I’ve drafted a target.
This is a quick initial draft of something that, if it ever comes to be, will no doubt be improved and worsened by many voices. Please start that process, especially the improving part, by adding comments here
Cable News in 2025: The Rise of Fear-Based Entertainment on FOX, CNN, and MSNBC
Fred Gransville
CIA's Favorite Truth-Diversion Network: Take a Guess?
Spoiler alert: Some of this is satire.
Ah, 2025. It was the year when cable news giants learned the art of turning every small political faux pas into a huge existential disaster and ignoring the real tribulations of the commoner. The time when the 'Verbal Bureaucrats' moved from conveying pertinent information to entertaining the masses with a mix of melodrama, speculative ideologies, and the occasional pop culture reference. Step right up to the cable news circus, where stakes are low, rewards plentiful, and truth the first casualty. Fear sells ad space-Fox: Where Reality Takes a Backseat to Ratings.
CNN (Cattle News Network): The Machine That Cries False Alarms
In 2025, CNN is that friend who texted you ‘We need to talk’ in a way that guaranteed you’ll waste an entire hour talking about nothing more than the weather. CNN has mastered the ability to create urgency and every of its reports seems to be ‘breaking news’. For instance, the Great Butter Crisis of 2025 or the earth-shattering story of a lawmaker who was once seen in the public with mismatched socks. CNN ensures to give it wall-to-wall coverage whether the viewer is interested or not. CNN: Turning Panic Into Profits Since 1980.
The US Needs To Apologize to Russia
Reidar Kaarboe
Hva Mener Partiene
In connection with the war in Ukraine, the USA owes several apologies to the Russians. Once they are given, it will be pretty clear who should do what with whom to achieve lasting peace, even though the war in Ukraine wasn't started on Donald Trump’s watch.
● The US must apologize for breaking an explicit promise not to expand NATO eastward. If the Russians had broken their promise not to deploy missiles in Cuba, it would have been a major scandal in the West. Now, no one in the West cares about the USA’s broken promise.
● The US must apologize for failing to respect a "red line" and the "existential threat" that Russia perceived with NATO expansion, just as the USA perceived it when the Russians sailed toward Cuba with missiles. The USA said that if the Russians did not turn back, there would be war, and the Russians turned back. The Russians said that if NATO did not stop its expansion eastward, there would be war. And there was war.
● The US must apologize for "investing" 5 billion dollars in regime change, which led to the overthrow of a democratically elected government. If the Russians had done something similar in a country, resulting in war for the USA, there would have been an uproar in the West. Now, no one talks about it.
Purist Holocaust Advocacy and Denial of Other Genocides: A Case Study of the Holodomor and Armenian Genocides
Robert David
The Holocaust, the systematic murder of some six million Jews by Nazi Germany in World War II, occupies a singular and unprecedented position in global memory and historical debate. Its dominant position in Genocide discussions has generated an irrefutable story of victimization and hardship.
But more sinister is a trend among some groups that adhere to the exclusive focus on Holocaust memory: denying or downplaying other genocides, namely the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide. While the actions of Nazi Germany are undoubtedly heinous, this essay argues that Holocaust purists ignore or deny the genocide of Armenians and Poles, Czechs and Ukrainians, despite clear historical fact confirming the designation of all as genocides.
