AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

To the surprise of precisely no one who isn't a credulous rube high on imperialism, settler colonialism, and weapons contractor bribes, Israel has started bombing children and houses again in Gaza. Naturally of course a Trump regime that wants to pave over Gaza and build luxury hotels and casinos for an obscenely wealthy, globetrotting ruling class if it can just find a way to get rid of all those pesky Palestinians, stands fully in support of resuming the US armed, funded, and politically protected genocide.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-violates-cease-fire

Backed by Trump, Israel Shreds Cease-Fire Deal and Kills Over 400 Across Gaza

"A barrage of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday killed more than 400 people and left a fragile cease-fire agreement in tatters just over two months after it was reached, with Israel's prime minister pledging "increasing military strength" in an enclave already decimated by more than a year of bombing.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Netanyahu government consulted with the Trump administration ahead of the latest Gaza bombardment. Leavitt expressed the White House's total support for Israel's attacks.

While Israel had been carrying out more limited deadly attacks on Gaza despite the cease-fire deal—including strikes over the weekend that killed at least nine—Tuesday's bombings were described as the "heaviest assault on the territory since the cease-fire took effect in January."

Speaking frankly, there are more detailed articles featuring a lot more atrocity porn available online, but I chose to highlight this short piece because the headline writer understood the importance of centering the Trump regime's full support for this monstrous, objectively illegal bullshit. The US government is supplying the bombs, funding the Netanyahu government, and actively praising Israel for resuming crimes against humanity; that makes the atrocities in Gaza Trump's genocide, the same as it made them Biden's genocide before him. None of this is lost on most media observers outside of the United States, but an American corporate media complex that has always supported the mass murder of Palestinians remains reluctant to center that knowledge, even if it hurts the fascist assclown currently calling their work "illegal" and threatening to come after them with the full force of the U.S. government.

Of course everyone in the media, American or international, is claiming to be "shocked" that Israel has willfully imploded the ceasefire, and telling you that you should be shocked too. Naturally however, that position too is a grotesque farce that ignores available evidence and reality itself. This may be the first large-scale bombing since Netanyahu agreed to pretend he cared about a cease-fire for a while, but Israel already resumed the genocide when it tightened the blockade of, and cut electricity to Gaza; a region that is more or less constantly in a state of humanitarian crisis because Israel has been conducting a war of extermination there and purposely starving the population inside for seventeen months and counting. Furthermore, all of this is pretty consistent with statements made by various high ranking officials in the Netanyahu government, who have openly flouted their intentions to break the cease fire and ethnically cleanse (by whatever means are necessary) the Palestinian people in Gaza. The fact that American corporate media rarely reports on these stated intentions, and is foundationally committed to credulously taking Netanyahu's word for it when he claims to be seeking peace while bombing hospitals and murdering babies, does not mean the larger US establishment is unware of these facts - just that they're hoping you are.

The fact is, Trump, his administration, and American arms manufacturers should be on trial for crimes against humanity as we speak, and the reality that he is not alone in that because committing genocide in Gaza is a largely bipartisan position in the American establishment does absolutely nothing to alter the situation.

#Gaza #Genocide #Trump #Fascism #SettlerColonialism #Israel #Netanyahu #Imperialism #EthnicCleansing #Media #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Backed by Trump, Israel Shreds Cease-Fire Deal and Kills Over 400 Across Gaza | Common Dreams

"This return to violence does not come as a surprise," said one advocacy group. "Netanyahu has, from the beginning, signaled his intention to abandon the cease-fire process before it could become a lasting peace."

Common Dreams
Mar 18, 2025 at 7:53pmWeb
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 28, 2025

As I've argued (with mixed success) on the other account, the Trump regime "Signalgate" scandal has political relevance for folks who want this fascist government to fail, even if you, like me, do not give one flying fuck about "national security." Trump's warmonger division willfully broke multiple laws, got caught lying about it, and currently look incompetent enough that they'd struggle to run a taco stand, let alone a government. This isn't breaking news to anyone who has been paying attention, but it has inspired the larger liberal establishment to finally make *some* effort to push back against the Trump regime, and I'd rather have them doing that than meekly accepting the boot; which is precisely why the entire fascist manufacturing consent machine in and around TrumpWorld is flailing so hard to justify the regime's actions and make this go away.

For whatever value Signalgate does (or doesn't) have in slowing the Trump regime's agenda down however, I think it says a lot about why we're facing down a fascist government requested by roughly 75M voters, that the "national security" discussion has taken overwhelming precedence over acknowledging that the attack on Yemen itself was unconstitutional, and the leaks also reveal the administration confessing to a war crime.

1) https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strikes-in-yemen

A Reminder Amid Group Chat Outrage: US Strikes on Yemen Are Unconstitutional

"The advocacy groups Just Foreign Policy, DAWN, and Action Corps released a joint statement Thursday calling on Congress to take action to stop U.S. military action in Yemen by upholding "its sole authority to declare war under Article I of the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR)."

The chat messages sent between officials including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz stunned the public and Washington insiders this week because they had accidentally also been sent to Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, but the three groups pointed out that they also included an admission from Vance that the strikes were not defensive—contrary to claims by President Donald Trump."

2) https://truthout.org/articles/democrat-leaked-messages-show-waltz-admitting-to-war-crime-in-yemen-strike/

Experts: Leaked Messages Show Waltz Admitting to War Crime in Yemen Strike

"In an exchange after the strikes first hit, as shown in Wednesday’s leak, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz says that the U.S. had collapsed a building that one of their Houthi targets was supposedly inside, calling it “amazing.”

“Their first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and now it’s collapsed,” Waltz said. Per the screenshots, Vice President J.D. Vance responds, “Excellent.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe says, “A good start.” Waltz then replies with a fist emoji, a U.S. flag emoji and a flame emoji.

According to Yemen Data Project, the first strike killed at least 13 civilians and injured nine on the night of March 15, hitting north of the capital, Sanaa. Yemen Data Project says that this was the bombing deemed “excellent” by the vice president and “amazing” by Waltz.

The messages are “prima facie evidence of at least one war crime applauded by the people who conspired to commit it,” wrote Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs for the Center for International Policy (CIP), on social media."

To be clear, I'm not saying these crimes by the regime aren't at least coming up on the margins of the liberal establishment; I've seen a few Democrat politicians expressing these critiques, and brief discussions in even the mainstream corporate media have occurred around these topics. The problem is that the vast *majority* of people with a platform to bring these crimes to light simply don't care. We live in a society where illegal military actions based on the thinnest of pretexts, and war crimes against (particularly Muslim) civilian targets are so normalized that it just doesn't move the needle for a political and media establishment that helped normalize this monstrous shit in the first place. If you haven't figured out by now that one of major reasons the Trump regime is (mostly) succeeding in installing a fascist dictatorship in America, is the powers granted to the imperial presidency to protect "national security" and to fight a racist, quixotic "War on Terror," I'm going to have to ask you how long you've been in a coma. A society that empowers and tolerates crimes against humanity abroad under the auspices of "keeping us safe," is a society that will tolerate the same when their leaders invariably bring the violence back home.

#Signalgate #Trump #Vance #Yemen #WarCrimes #Imperialism #War #WarOnTerror #Fascism #murder #Gaze #Israel #Genocide #Media #Scandal

A Reminder Amid Group Chat Outrage: US Strikes on Yemen Are Unconstitutional | Common Dreams

Leaked messages reveal Trump officials admitting illegal strikes in Yemen. Advocacy groups demand Congress act to stop unauthorized war. Are lawmakers more concerned with protocol breaches or the lives lost in Yemen?

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 13, 2025

In the lead up to the US 2024 election, I made it a sort of policy not to take anyone claiming Donald Trump was "anti-war" seriously; after all, I was conscious during his first presidency and I have a very clear memory of him engaging in nuclear brinksmanship with North Korea via social media, dropping the largest conventional bomb in Afghanistan just to prove he could, and actively *trying* to start a war with Iran - in addition to his material support for the KSA's war in Yemen, scaling up airstrikes and drone attacks in our ongoing wars, as well as a significant increase in American covert military operations which often had disastrous consequences. Perhaps most tellingly, Trump increased US military spending each and every single year during his first four years in office.

As such I found it pretty laughable when motivated observers, including a few in "independent" media claiming to be progressives, defended the rise of Elon Musk's DOGE initiative by suggesting the Trump regime would find and end "fraud, waste, and abuse" in the Pentagon budget. In so much as I bothered to engage with these arguments, I predicted that neither Trump nor Musk would touch the military budget, or any other part of the US government that's about committing violence against their perceived enemies, including domestically; with the possible exception of an FBI Trump still hates because they investigated him for crimes he absolutely committed. As such, I can't say I was surprised to learn that during a sit-down meeting with noted genocidal fascist warmonger and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump bragged about his intentions to *increase* U.S. military spending to literally a trillion dollars.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-trillion-military-budget

Trump Pledges $1 Trillion for US Military While Hitting Working Class With Huge Tax Hike

"President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed ahead with a destructive tariff scheme that amounts to a major tax increase on American households, with working-class families set to bear much of the pain.

Speaking to reporters at the White House during a sit-down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said his administration has signed off on an upcoming military budget in the vicinity of $1 trillion, which would be a record sum. The military budget for the current fiscal year is $892 billion, more than half of the federal government's discretionary budget.

"Nobody's seen anything like it," Trump said Monday of his $1 trillion budget proposal."

Given that I see no reason to engage with the absurd and typically disingenuous idea that Trump is somehow not a bog standard American imperialist, I'd like to focus in on the budgetary arguments about fraud and waste that are obfuscating and propping up what is clearly a billionaire nazi bust-out operation being conducted on the US government. If you take a step back and simply look at the argument people defending DOGE are presenting here, the whole game falls apart:

- Health inspectors, disease specialists, labor board adjudicators, consumer protection departments, food and drug inspectors, IRS officials working to get the super rich to pay the taxes they owe, feeding starving children in conflict zones, Inspector Generals that oversee government officials, Medicaid and SNAP benefits, the social security check that means your grandma isn't living on cat food? Waste, fraud, and abuse.

- A bloated Pentagon wholly captured by the military industrial complex, that literally cannot pass an audit, is already a source of large-scale fraud and waste, and currently spends more money on "defense" than any other country on earth by a degree that's objectively mind blowing; particularly when you factor in that we're not *officially* involved in a major war at the moment? Vitally important spending and in fact a reason to celebrate!

Look folks, I'm creeping closer and closer to my fiftieth year on this Earth, so you don't need to tell me that imperialism and obscene military spending is a bipartisan objective in American politics. The critique I'm articulating about Trump's spending on the murder machine could just as easily have been written about every Democrat President in the post-war era. But that's also the point; Downmarket Mussolini, a man who just committed a war crime in Yemen, wholly supports Israel's genocide in Gaza, is openly talking about trying to annex Canada, and whose regime is building support to potentially bomb Mexico, is just another fucking imperialist and none of these nazis give a fuck about fraud and waste - they just want to starve your grandparents and poison your children to pay for tax cuts for the uber rich.

#Trump #Imperialism #Pentagon #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #War #DOGE #Musk #Propaganda #Rubes #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Netanyahu

Trump Pledges $1 Trillion for US Military While Hitting Working Class With Huge Tax Hike | Common Dreams

"Spending $1 trillion on the Pentagon while hollowing out resources for diplomacy and launching a global trade war is a recipe for international conflict and American decline," warned one analyst.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 29, 2025

I can't help but find it bitterly ironic that Trump has managed to cultivate a barely-plausible public image as an isolationist instead of the bog standard American imperialist he is, pretty much entirely by repeatedly lying to a media complex that's so pro-imperialism they can't really be bothered to call him out on it. This is particularly noticeable in stories about Trump's obscene military spending, which a GOP up to its eyeballs in defense contractor money has been more than happy to greenlight throughout both his terms in office so far.

Now, as part of a hundred and fifty billion (with a b) dollar defense spending package they want to include in Trump's multi-trillion dollar tax cut bill (that will undoubtedly be paid for by deep cuts to vital social programs), the GOP plans to earmark twenty-seven billion dollars for Trump's fantasyland "Golden Dome" missile defense project.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/golden-dome-tax-cuts-27-billion

GOP Wants $27 Billion for Trump's Golden Dome 'Fantasy' While Working to Gut Working-Class Safety Net

"As Republicans in Congress push forward with a sweeping tax and spending plan that could be be paid for in part by deep cuts to Medicaid and to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the GOP plans to add a defense package to that bill which will include "an initial $27 billion boost" for the Golden Dome desired by U.S. President Donald, according to Thursday reporting from Reuters.

Trump has said he wants an "Iron Dome for America"—something akin to Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense. In a speech earlier this year he referred to it as a "Golden Dome."

Experts who spoke to NPR recently said that building a Golden Dome would be more complicated than Israel's Iron Dome for multiple reasons. Dylan Spaulding, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, earlier this week called the Golden Dome idea a "complete fantasy."

Shoutout to the folks old enough to be getting Reagan "Star Wars program" vibes here; this is an absolutely bonkers idea, to say nothing of a criminal waste of money at a time when the regime is crying poor and eyeing deep cuts to Medicaid and potentially even Social Security payments. So why the hell are Trump and the Republican Party doing it? Well, if you guessed that it's probably all a grift to make billionaire broligarch nazis who own Trump like a stamp collection even richer, you win the gold star.

"The $27 billion investment in Golden Dome will fund the building of more missile interceptors and the purchase of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) antiballistic missile batteries, according to the congressional aide. THAAD is made by Lockheed Martin," the defense contractor, Reuters reported.

According to reporting from the outlet last week, billionaire "Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as front-runners to win a crucial part of the Golden Dome program that would track incoming missiles."

So you caught the subtext there right? Programs like Meals on Wheels, lifesaving Medicaid, and even your grandma's Social Security check are "fraud, abuse, and waste." But funneling money to defense contractors and noted nazi supervillain Elon Musk for Trump's asinine motion picture fantasy missile defense system that won't even work, is vital supplemental defense spending.

Look, Trump sure as fuck ain't the first American president to funnel billions of dollars to his warmonger buddies through unnecessary defense spending; some would argue the American economy has basically be running on that odious practice since the Vietnam War. By that same measure however I'm going to need Very Serious People TM to stop telling me about "Donald the Dove" and pretending anything about Musk's DOGE department is related to cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse" when these jackanapes are dropping twenty-seven billion dollars are useless war toys for Trump's "First Buddy" to manage for a profit.

#Imperialism #Trump #Musk #DOGE #GoldenDome #TaxCut #Oligarchy #USPol #Fraud #LockheedMartin #SpaceX

GOP Wants $27 Billion for Trump's Golden Dome 'Fantasy' While Working to Gut Working-Class Safety Net | Common Dreams

Republicans in Congress plan to allocate $27 billion for a "Golden Dome" defense package desired by Trump.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 21, 2025

So, what is it with white supremacist ex-film star presidents and "dumb weapons ideas inspired by science fiction movies?" Although it's hardly the worst thing about the Republican Party's nightmare class war reconciliation bill, noted bootlicker Mike Johnson squeezed in $25B worth of funding for Downmarket Mussolini's absurd desire to build a "Golden Dome" missile defense system covering the USA; now Trump himself has announced he intends to move forward with the project, and despite the fact that it's a delusional old cracker's unworkable fantasy, it's going to cost Americans a lot more than just $25B.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-appoints-michael-guetlin-golden-dome

Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader

"Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United States from possible foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons.

Flanked by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, in the Oval Office, Trump also said that he wanted the project to be operational before he left office. He added that Republicans had agreed to allocate $25bn in initial funding and Canada had expressed an interest in taking part."

Dear Canada, what the fuck? Setting that aside; this is absolute batshittery. I hate the way US media reports even Trump's most unhinged activities through the lens of what a vain, ignorant dipshit he is but sometimes that really is why he does the shit he does. Downmarket Mussolini has been obsessed with "space war" and atmospheric militarization since his first administration, and he's jealous of Israel's US-funded "Iron Dome" - the tip is in the name, Gold is worth more than Iron. This is basically Trump's version of the "Star Wars" program Ronald Reagan tried to will into being during the 1980's, and they're equally useless and wasteful ideas.

The kicker here however is that the $25B price tag Republicans are tossing around is just a down payment; even Trump thinks it'll take $175B and experts predict the real price might be way higher, and that's without the cost overruns that have become endemic in US military spending projects.

"But the option that Trump chooses will determine its timeline and cost. The $25bn coming from Republicans’ budget bill is only set to cover initial development costs. The final price tag could exceed $540bn over the next two decades, according to the congressional budget office."

Have I mentioned that this garbage isn't going to work? Never mind that; even if it did work, why do we need a Golden Dome? I've been on this green Earth for 48 years now and I can't think of one time we've come under missile attack, with or without a "Golden Dome." Are we sweating Mexico and Canada teaming up to take out the Beltway with conventional rockets, because neither country has a nuclear weapons program? Both Russia, and China have had nukes for my entire life and the need for this really hasn't come up.

So if America doesn't need a Golden Dome, who does? If your guess was billionaire nazis raised in apartheid South Africa and defense contractors, you win a gold star.

https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musks-spacex-among-bidders-to-build-trumps-175-billion-golden-dome/

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Among Bidders to Build Trump’s $175 Billion “Golden Dome”

"Defense Contractors are already boosting the idea. In an interview with Fox on Wednesday, Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet boasted that the dome would create jobs domestically, while also trying to sell Lockheed Martin as a company that could play a major role in its creation.

Among benefactors of the project could be Elon Musk, who has played a major role in Trump’s government-gutting spree after spending more than $250 million on Trump’s reelection; and Peter Thiel, a major backer of Vice President J.D. Vance, credited for Vance’s rise in politics.

Musk’s SpaceX and Thiel’s Palantir are reportedly frontrunners to win a contract to build a major part of the Golden Dome, Reuters reported last month."

Although I don't want to just quote the whole article, this Truthout piece also notes that Trump is just pulling numbers out of his ass and this is probably going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars more than he's saying; $880B to be precise. It also says what the Guardian won't: this is stupid and it's not going to work. The Iron Dome barely works and this is more ambitious and unworkable by far. And of course, the author notes as I have above that we literally don't fucking need it.

This my friends, is what old timey newsmen used to call a "boondoggle" in the making. This is a massive make work program for billionaire fascists who own defense contracting companies, guys like Musk and Thiel, and it's being rammed through at the same time the ruling party is slashing over a trillion dollars in life-saving social programs for labor class people. This should disgust you, even if your media is too far up the weapons industry's ass to care much.

#Trump #GoldenDome #Musk #Imperialism

Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader

Gen Michael Guetlein of Space Force will be in charge of defense system that could cost $540bn over 20 years

The Guardian
Show threadGeneral StrikeMay 21, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I mean hypersonic missiles and North Korea's continued development of ballistic missiles might be cited as justification, but I doubt a missile-based defence system would be adequate to the task of dealing with hypersonic missiles. Also chucking money at an expensive to build and expensive to use missile based system, just as they are about to be made obsolete by cheap to run laser-based defence systems seems pretty stupid.
Show threadDouglas Edwards  🇭🇺Apr 13, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes All true. BTW I'm now reading that he's putting troops in #Panama in violation of our treaties with them. Seizure of the Canal Zone, or even of Panama as whole, may be the likeliest choice for his first concrete act of military aggression.
Show threadDemin Mar 29, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I'm at the point where I don't give a shit how an attack on the fascists is framed, so long as it contributes to getting them the fuck out and back into the margins of society tbh. I'll blow the national security horn even though I could not care less, 'cause people who for some reason do care may actually be able to do something with it.
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 2, 2025

At this point I'm starting to believe the primary purpose of the sham ceasefire in Gaza, broken by Israel to continue a US-backed genocide of Palestinian people, was to allow US corporate media to catch its breath and reset to a position of trying very hard to ignore blatant war crimes against clearly innocent Palestinians. A United Nations investigation has revealed that the IDF executed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including a UN employee, in March 23rd; then tried to bury the evidence, including crushed ambulances, to hide this crime against humanity. Details of the murders make it clear that this activity was deliberate, and yet the portions of the mainstream western media that remain firmly pro-genocide have hardly registered any sort of outcry or calls for action.

1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement. “One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.

“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said. “These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said that one of its employees was among the dead found in Rafah."

As an American, please let me once again remind you that none of these atrocities would be happening without US financial, material, and diplomatic support. We're subsidizing the Israeli government, we're shipping the IDF the bombs and weapons being used to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza, and it is by US diplomatic force that Western support for Israel even as it commits a genocide, remains strong, if somewhat less overt than it was at the start of this genocide. Trump (and Biden before him) could end this inhuman slaughter today if he wanted to; he just doesn't want to because killing brown people and taking their resources (beachfront property and natural gas, in this case) is a important business activity for the entire Pig Empire.

In an environment where the media is actively cultivating a numb complicity, and western states are either ignoring the massacres, or as in the Trump regime's case, openly celebrating them, it behooves all of us in the so-called West to reject these attempts to rewind time and protect the genocide. In the months leading up to the ceasefire, Western political leaders and media were on the backfoot as independent media, folks with Tik Tok accounts, protestors, and even everyday people refused to accept the complicity of silence and demanded action. This "reset" must not be allowed to continue while Palestinians in Gaza are murdered with impunity and the complicity of the larger Pig Empire; as noted by Ahmed Moor writing in the Guardian - which is sadly where I have to get my mainstream news about a US-enabled and supported genocide the Trump administration is happily paying for, because US media outlets are still trying to pretend none of this is real:

2) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/02/israel-red-crescent-paramedics-europe-us

Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west’s blessing

"Nor will global leaders intervene to end the mass murder which has been punctuated by this latest obscenity. Some of them – such as Emmanuel Macron, who called for a ceasefire, might appear to want to end the slaughter. After all, dead babies in incubators and paramedics in a mass grave are unpleasant garlands to wear. But 18 months in, they are too deeply implicated. Who can forget Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of Netanyahu? Or Keir Starmer’s affirmation of Israel’s “right” to starve Palestinians in Gaza?

Today, those who are tasked with upholding international law have been co-opted by the Israeli leadership, whether they like it or not. The logic of gangland drug dealers and criminals – new members commit crimes to join, and are locked in – prevails.

So far from being complicit, US and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza."

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Trump #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USA #WarCrimes #Netanyahu #IDF #Media #EthnicCleansing #UN #Imperialism #Netanyahu #UNRWA #SettlerColonialism #RedCrescent

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

The Guardian
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 17, 2025

In writing about the Trump regime's fascist assault on foreign student anti-genocide protestors, a lot of what we talk about is the domestic social costs these authoritarian actions and a failure to oppose them produce. I don't mean to be callous, because injustice and repression against any part of the opposition to fascism, is injustice and repression that harms us all; to say nothing of the personal costs to the students targeted for having the audacity to think conducting an ongoing genocide in an open air concentration camp is morally wrong. If you want to know why the regime is pursuing these fascist, repressive policies however, and why the administration before them was happy to lay the groundwork that is today enabling Trump to target anti-genocide protests under the false banner of "fighting antisemitism," I must unfortunately conclude that the answer is "probably, because it's working."

How else can you explain political and military leaders in Israel all but admitting they intend to finish off the genocide they've been conducting against Palestinians in Gaza, without much notice in the American media environment, and amid a collapse in popular resistance to the genocide, even as polling indicates a strong shift in American sympathies away from Israel and its crimes against humanity in Gaza?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-to-remain-in-gaza

'Only Hellfire': Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza

"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the U.S.-backed genocidal policy of blocking lifesaving humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip will continue, and that Israel Defense Forces troops will remain in the embattled Palestinian enclave indefinitely.

"Israel's policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population," Katz said. "No one is currently planning to allow any humanitarian aid into Gaza, and there are no preparations to enable such aid."

I want to be clear, I'm not saying there's no active resistance to the genocide going on in America, only that the regime's fascist repression is contributing to a climate of fear that's suppression discussion about and resistance to Israel's crimes against humanity in the broader culture. And let's be fair here, the still quite bipartisan nature of support of *this* particular application of fascist terrorism in the American ruling establishment makes opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza perhaps one of the most dangerous acts of anti-fascism a person can undertake in this political moment. When Trump kidnaps a Maryland father and traffics him to a torture prison in El Salvador, the oppositional political and media apparatus in this country are quick to condemn him and demand action. When Trump starts black bagging student protest leaders and shipping them to nightmare jails in politically favorable court districts, that same establishment equivocates, says nothing at all, or sometimes outright supports that repression. Take for example former Biden antisemitism Envoy Deborah Lipstadt:

https://forward.com/news/712297/students-deported-ice-antisemitism-deborah-lipstadt/

Student protesters being deported are not ‘martyrs and heroes,’ says former antisemitism envoy

"I’m not opposed to the administration rescinding the student visas of some of the people that they’re rescinding the student visas of,” she said. “But I just think it should be done properly, according to the laws of the country.”

So uh, you got that? The fascism is fine, but god-damnit there are *rules* people! Please keep in mind that this woman is one of the foremost authorities in the world on The Holocaust, so we can presume she knows she's protecting fascists to support a genocide. I assume, but don't know, that she holds no special place in her heart for the Klepto Kaiser, so I can only surmise that she's just a hardcore Zionist and a big fan of bombing children and hospitals.

Look friends, I know that this is a really bad time to ask people to stick their necks out to oppose a genocide, but Israel just bombed literally the last hospital in Gaza and it barely made the evening news. The regime, and indeed much of the larger ruling class establishment that supports settler colonialism, and profits from the genocide by various means, wants to create an environment where speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and Israel's settler colonial massacres is just criminal and subversive enough to stop most of us from doing it. This will then allow them to easily pick off a much smaller number of people who are brave enough and otherwise able to resist the genocide directly. It is vital that we counteract that by keeping the genocide on our lips, and our outrage about crimes against humanity in the discourse; they can't arrest us all - and Gaza, is running out time.

#Fascism #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism #Media #Trump #Palestine #ICE #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DHS #Propaganda #Protest

'Only Hellfire': Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza | Common Dreams

"Israel's defense ministers can't stop publicly confessing to war crimes," said one U.S. journalist.

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Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 17, 2025

As an add on to the post above, if you don't think speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza and on behalf of the people being slaughtered there matters, then why is the Netanyahu government working so hard with multi-billion dollar social media companies like Meta to suppress pro-Palestinian speech online?

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram

"A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.

Government requests for takedowns generally focus on posts made by citizens inside that government’s borders, Meta insiders said. What makes Israel’s campaign unique is its success in censoring speech in many countries outside of Israel. What’s more, Israel's censorship project will echo well into the future, insiders said, as the AI program Meta is currently training how to moderate content will base future decisions on the successful takedown of content critical of Israel’s genocide."

As I've noted elsewhere, it's very clear that the pro-genocide Pig Empire establishment used the sham ceasefire Trump supposedly brokered in Gaza as an excuse to reset the discourse and resume the genocide at pace. We've returned to a pre-2024 media environment of silence and minimization of crimes against humanity, particularly in America, and these folks are working overtime to keep you from talking about, and hopefully (for genocidal monsters) thinking about Gaza while Israel attempts to wipe out the Palestinians there before we wake up and realize what's going on.

The only way to fight this, is to keep talking about it, and resisting both the genocide and the US government's support for it. We've been here before and broke through the cone of silence; in fact that's the whole reason the ruling class establishment is trying to rewind the discourse around the genocide in Gaza to a pre-2024 state. We must not let them get away with it by contributing to that cone of silence.

#Fascism #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Trump #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Censorship #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Propaganda #Mark Zuckerberg #OnlineCensorship #Zionism #Netanyahu

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.

Drop Site News
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 25, 2025

I think folks who argue with me when I point out that stories which don't align with the interests of the investor class of rich people who own media companies are suppressed in corporate media, somehow forget that I simply consume so much "news" that I can literally feel a shift in coverage. Which is why this short blog by media critic Adam Johnson, which mathematically confirms, more or less, everything I've been saying about how Gaza has been driven from the mainstream discourse even as Israel's genocide ramps back up and US public opinion shifts against our client state, did not surprise me at all.

https://www.columnblog.com/p/as-trump-and-israel-escalate-genocide

As Trump and Israel Escalate Genocide in Gaza, Popular Media Continues to Ignore It

"Nowhere is the absence of urgency any more glaring than the total erasure of Gaza from the “agenda setting” Sunday morning news shows that both reflect and curate Washington political priorities for the week. In the 5 episodes each for the four Sunday News Shows—ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, and CNN’s State of the Union—for the weeks of March 23, March 30, April 6, April 13 and April 20, Israeli’s assault on Gaza, and the Trump administration’s full-throated support for it, has not been discussed or mentioned once. That’s 880 minutes of “agenda setting” debate, discussing, and reporting that did not see fit to mention the US support for what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both call an ongoing genocide."

So, just let that set in for a minute. In the time frame listed, Israel has committed a confirmed war crime by murdering 15 medics in cold blood, bombed the last functioning hospital in Gaza, instituted a total blockade on aid designed to starve Gazans to death, and its ministers have on multiple occasions bragged about Trump's support being instrumental for their plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians; and those are just the stories *I* covered but the vaunted "Sunday Shows" couldn't spare a minute for. An ongoing genocide in Gaza being aided an abetted by the US President who is also black bagging anti-genocide protestors in American cities and citing foreign policy concerns to justify it, simply did not come up.

If you're wondering why the "Sunday Shows" matter, it's because while very few people reading this watch them, pretty much everyone with power and influence in American politics does. With that having been noted however, it really doesn't matter because Gaza was barely covered in the mainstream nightly news either.

"Despite Israel killing almost 2,000 Palestinians since they broke the ceasefire on March 18, the subject of Gaza has barely registered a blip in the nightly news coverage as well. In the 78 episodes the three major network nightly news shows have aired, there’s only been two segments about Gaza: one 4 minute 17 second segment I noted in The Real News from March 26 on CBS Evening News, and another 1 minute and 44 second segment about the IDF killing 15 medics that aired on ABC’s World News This Week on April 3. In over 1,500 minutes of evening news from the three major networks since March 19 only 6 minutes, or less 0.4 percent, has been reporting on Gaza. NBC Nightly News has not covered the suffering in Gaza at all since March 20, but it did take time out on April 13 to do a 1 minute 46 second profile on an Israeli captive still being held in Gaza."

Surely, the newspapers were better, right? Well, if we're talking about America's paper of record, the New York Times - I wouldn't get your hopes up folks:

"Since March 20, The New York Times has run a total of three front page stories about Gaza out of roughly 220 total front page stories (two on April 6/April 8 about the IDF killing of medics in Gaza and one April 3 about Israel “Initiating Tactics to Hold Gaza Territory”) By way of comparison the Times has run 12 front page stories about Ukraine. “For Ukraine’s Sick Children, a War Within the War,” read one sympathetic front page headline from March 26. “Attack Devastates Ukrainian City,” read another on April 14. Front page coverage of Gaza, when it does exist, does not lead with Palestinian suffering or humanity but instead Israeli denials or sterile coverage of IDF “tactics.”

And finally, while this is just personal analysis, Johnson also thinks the shift has taken us back to pre-2024 media conditions when it comes to the genocide in Gaza; specifically citing the bipartisan support for the US-backed genocide in the American political establishment as the factor that allows the media to simply ignore the situation.

I'm not gonna bother saying I told you so; but I did.

#Fascism #Gaza #Genocide #Media #Imperialism #Trump #Netanyahu #SettlerColonialism #Censorship #Israel #Palestine

As Trump and Israel Escalate Genocide in Gaza, Popular Media Continues to Ignore It

Under Biden, Gaza was excused, downplayed and natural disaster-rized. Under Trump it’s simply not a priority at all.

The Column
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 27, 2025

After seven weeks of bombing and a genocidal blockade of all humanitarian and food aid going into Gaza, the UN's World Food Program is now announcing that it has run out of food inside the strip; which will further exacerbate a humanitarian crisis engineered by the government off Israel as part of the genocide it's conducting against Palestinians in the enclave.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-food

UN Program Out of Food in Gaza as Israel Maintains Blockade

"No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed," WFP said Friday. "This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced, exacerbating already fragile markets and food systems. Food prices have skyrocketed up to 1,400% compared to during the cease-fire, and essential food commodities are in short supply, raising serious nutrition concerns for vulnerable populations, including children under 5, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and the elderly."

Over 18 months into a U.S.-backed military assault for which Israel faces a genocide case at the Interenational Court of Justice, WFP said that "the situation inside the Gaza Strip has once again reached a breaking point: People are running out of ways to cope, and the fragile gains made during the short ceasefire have unravelled. Without urgent action to open borders for aid and trade to enter, WFP's critical assistance may be forced to end."

While conditions are dire, WFP is prepared to keep feeding people, if Israel will allow aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave. The program highlighted that "more than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance—enough to feed 1 million people for up to four months—is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza by WFP and food security partners as soon as borders reopen."

The program called on "all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians and allow aid to enter Gaza immediately and uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law."

I need to stress here that this isn't an activist organization, or political representatives from Gaza talking here; this is a UN program that feeds refugees, the exploited, and folks in crisis situations. There is absolutely no reason to believe they're exaggerating the situation, which in turn means we're watching Israel commit a crime against humanity in real time. If this were anyone other than a US client state in the MENA, the entire American establishment would be able to see that there is no reason to continuously bomb Gaza while enforcing a nearly two month long blockade on food, supplies, and humanitarian aid, unless you're actively trying to kill innocent people. Which of course Israel is; they're committing a genocide, the Trump administration is happily paying for it, and a bipartisan US establishment awash in PAC and donor money, is quietly ignoring that genocide for political, financial, and ideological reasons.

#Israel #Genocide #Gaza #Palestinians #Blockadge #UN #WorldFoodProgram #Starvation #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Fascism #Trump #Media #Blackout #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism

UN Program Out of Food in Gaza as Israel Maintains Blockade | Common Dreams

The World Food Program says it is out of food as Israel's relentless bombing and blockade have left Gaza on the brink of starvation.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 30, 2025

Speaking before the International Court of Justice, the Palestinian ambassador to the Netherlands articulated what everyone who isn't openly lying to obscure a genocide already knows; Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and its blockade of Gaza is an international crime.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/icj-hearings

Palestinian Envoy to ICJ: Israel Using Starvation as 'Weapon of War' in 'Genocidal Campaign'

"The siege has created conditions that are "incompatible with sustaining life or the continued existence of Palestinians in Gaza," Hijazi said.

The ambassador noted that the ICJ hearing was taking place to consider whether Israel is violating international law.

"It is not about the number of aid trucks Israel is or is not allowing into the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially Gaza," said Hijazi. "It is about Israel destroying the fundamentals of life in Palestine while it blocks U.N. and other humanitarians from providing lifesaving aid to the population. It is about Israel unraveling fundamental principles of international law, including their obligations under the U.N. Charter."

"Starvation is here," Hijazi added. "Humanitarian aid is being used as a weapon of war."

My friends, I honestly don't know what more I can say here when the facts speak for themselves. Israel has totally blockaded Gaza, they're bombing the shit out of the people inside, and the military isn't allowing enough food, or seemingly any medical supplies or other lifesaving humanitarian aid through to the Palestinian people its bombing. As this clearly genocidal shit is going on, a US media is largely ignoring the crisis while apparently hoping all the Palestinians will be dead before their audience notices we're helping Israel exterminate or ethnically cleanse an entire people in Gaza.

And all the while a Pig Empire establishment continues to manufacture consent for the slaughter by pretending the Netanyahu government's motives are unknowable in the fog of war, despite the fact that cabinet ministers keep blurting out their intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza and we're watching what can only be an attempted genocide unfold on Tik Tok videos day, after horrifying day. History is going to be written about the cowardice, complicity, and depraved indifference to human life on display in the Pig Empire establishment here; the only question is will we as Americans survive our own fascist chickens coming home to roost long enough to help write it.

#Fascism #Trump #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ICJ #Imperialism #Famine #SettlerColonialism #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Starvation #AmmarHijazi #Blockade #Netanyahu #Palestine #Palestinians #WhiteSupremacy

Palestinian Envoy to ICJ: Israel Using Starvation as 'Weapon of War' in 'Genocidal Campaign' | Common Dreams

Israel's brutal blockade in Gaza is causing unimaginable suffering, with people slowly dying from starvation and violence. How can the world stand by as innocent lives are destroyed?

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 6, 2025

Well, I guess members of the Isareli government have repeated their intentions to permanently occupy and ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians enough times that even American corporate media has to care; the Guardian however is doing a much better job of honestly acknowledging what Israel's latest plan for Gaza ultimately means.

On the heels of the Netanyahu government's plan to displace the population of Gaza and consolidate territorial control over the occupied region, Finance Minister Smotrich said the quiet part out loud - Gaza will be completely destroyed, and Palestinians will (be forced to, presumably) "leave in great numbers for other countries" - essentially as refugees from a genocide the colonizer world refuses to acknowledge; but we can't expect Smotrich to admit that part too.

Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

"An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.

The declaration on Tuesday by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, came a day after Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan for Operation Gideon’s Chariots, which an Israeli official said would entail “the conquest of the Gaza Strip and the holding of the territories”.

The Israeli threats to seize control of the territory permanently has stirred global outrage.

“We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s operations,” the UK’s Middle East minister, Hamish Falconer, said. “Any attempt to annex land in Gaza would be unacceptable.”

The disturbing part here is that Smotrich's horrifying, genocidal statement is really only "news" because Pig Empire media is objectively pro-genocide and has caught a case of intentional amnesia about Israel's now-nineteen month long campaign to wipe out the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israeli ministers have been talking about emptying Gaza of Palestinians for months, the goddamn President of the United States has openly mused about turning the entire area into beachfront condos built by American companies, and as we speak Israel is actively engineering a famine in Gaza by blockading food and medical supplies into the occupied region.

Ethnic cleansing is just a more polite term for genocide, and even if you're too ignorant to understand that, International Courts have already ruled that Israel is plausibly committing a genocide in Gaza, and warrants have been issued for the arrest of Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Taken as a whole, the actions and statements of the Israeli government, both before and after it broke the ceasefire, have always indicated that their plan was to permanently occupy and "ethnically cleanse" Gaza; it is only through willfully complicit ignorance that clearly pro-genocide mainstream media outlets have refused to properly contextualize news from Gaza through the lens of Israel's obvious and openly articulated intentions to complete the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

Unfortunately for the cowards, collaborators, and profiteers in our mainstream establishment however, the combination of Israel's announced Operation Gideon’s Chariots offensive, and Smotrich's crude, gleeful bluntness, have made it more or less impossible to pretend we don't know what the Netanyahu government is doing; even if that same mainstream establishment is still struggling to admit there can't be any good reasons to conduct "ethnic cleansing" regardless of their political alliances and personal racisms.

#Facism #Trump #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #Smotrich #ICC #ICJ #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism #Media #Collaboration #MassMurder #EngineeredFamine #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

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Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 17, 2025

I don't know if most people realize the overall quality of foreign policy reporting in American media is generally pretty horrible. Part of this is because structurally under capitalism for profit media tends to align with US imperial objectives at the expense of the truth, part of it is that reading audiences aren't diplomacy wonks so the complex details of international relationships have to be shoehorned into some form of narrative, and part of it is that most state level negotiations are conducted in secret so you can print pretty much any bullshit you want and call it "reading the tea leaves" because nobody is going to hold you to account for being wrong later. Which isn't to say it's impossible to do good foreign policy reporting, just that it usually involves interrogating primary sources who aren't going to want to talk to you if you're critical of their decisions and (often false) arguments. In a modern, eviscerated media age that places profit and cultural relevance much higher than journalistic accuracy in their hierarchy of priorities, pretty much every corporate media news outlet employs at least one name-brand foreign policy analyst who writes opinion columns based on vibes.

I mention this because over the past week I've read at least a dozen "front page" opinion pieces, primarily from "centrist" analysts, arguing that Trump's recent MENA mutual hand-job tour indicates that Downmarket Mussolini has "abandoned" Israel, or at least "put Benjamin Netanyahu on notice." Typically, the evidence to support this conclusion will revolve around Trump's cozy relationship with Qatar, sealed by an open bribe in the form of a $400M dollar luxury jet, and the fact that Der Leader's top diplomat Steve Witkoff negotiated with Hamas to secure the release of U.S. citizen and Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, apparently without consulting Israel. The implication, which is sometimes even stated openly, is that this "deteriorating" relationship and one throwaway statement about starving Palestinians, means the Trump regime may be about to break with Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza.

This is of course, absolute bullshit for one extremely obvious reason; namely that the Trump administration continues to openly greenlight Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is not supposition; between Trump's statements, the US government's actions, and the Netanyahu regime's responses it is abundantly clear that the project to ethnically cleanse Gaza and turn it into riverfront property is still on, and Der Leader is happy to trade tacit US approval for the genocide or removal of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel, to simply smooth over a MENA foreign policy initiative designed to increase Trump's global influence while enriching him and his family.

To demonstrate why I know this let's look at this detailed report by Jeremy Scahill who actually *did* contact a source for his foreign policy analysis; specifically a senior Hamas official.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade-israel

Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander

“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.” In an interview with Drop Site, Naim said the agreement was: “If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”

“He did nothing of this,” Naim added. “They didn't violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”

This is a detailed, granular piece of journalism that explores the genocidal behavior Israel is engaging in as it attempts to starve Palestinians to death while continually bombing hospitals and refugee camps, as well as why the things Trump claims he's actually doing to mitigate engineered starvation in Gaza are mostly bullshit. What's important for our purposes here is the knowledge that the Trump regime pretty much just straight up lied to Hamas in order to secure the release of Edan Alexander and some flattery for Der Leader, and the reality that both Israeli leadership and the President are *still* openly talking about ethnically cleansing Gaza!

Look, I have no problem believing that Netanyahu is irked at Trump for his embarrassing love affair with the Qataris, but the idea that the Klepto Kaiser is "abandoning" Israel even as his regime continues to ship Israel billions of dollars in weapons while mapping out a post-Palestinian future for Gaza, is either embarrassingly naïve, or an open admission that Palestinian lives have so little value to you that their extermination or exile doesn't rise to the level of discussion. In this media environment, it could be both.

#Trump #Fascism #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #Netanyahu #Qatar #ForeignPolicy #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #Media #Hamas

Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander

The U.S. immediately broke the deal, senior Hamas official Basem Naim tells Drop Site. “They threw it in the trash” and there has been “zero” progress on a Gaza ceasefire.

Drop Site News
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 17, 2025

Given the centrality of fascist attacks on the "Lügenpresse" to their overall nazi agenda, I am sympathetic to liberals who get nervous when I go after US media outlets for lying to smear critics of power; including some outlets being directly threatened by Trump. But sympathy and the ability to understand where those folks are coming from, doesn't change the reality that corporate media in the US has long since given up even the pretense of authentic journalism, and has willingly functioned as a propaganda vehicle for American imperial and colonialist objectives for pretty much its entire existence; and long before the rise of Trump. The fact that it's not always politically convenient to point this out, doesn't make it any less true, or any less damaging for our political and news discourse as a whole.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the US media's 19 month-long insistence that there are two equally valid "sides" in a discussion between genocidal warmongers and folks who oppose Israel bombing hospitals and refugee camps as part of an intentional project to conduct a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. At virtually every turn, this is a corporate media establishment that has defended a genocide, and viciously smeared anyone who opposed that genocide, while actively covering up for unhinged Zionists who celebrate murdering women and children while claiming basically every dead Palestinian is a terrorist or at least acceptable collateral damage in the fight to "end Hamas." Furthermore this behavior has continued well into the second Trump era, even as Israel engineers a famine to starve Palestinians to death in Gaza, and the Trumpenreich itself kidnaps and tries to deport foreign student anti-genocide protestors while seizing control of higher education institutes under the guise of fighting "antisemitism" that really just means "opposing Israel's genocide."

For an example of what I'm talking about, let's look at this story about that time the New York Times decided to ferret out the truth, and answer the question that's been on precisely no rational person's mind - "is popular children's entertainer Ms. Rachel an agent of Hamas?"

https://archive.ph/yE3mF

The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She’s Paid By Hamas

"Here's something else you won't find in this New York Times article: the name of anyone in StopAntisemitism, a public irritant with no legitimacy whatsoever. It's bizarre that Tracy declines to identify the person behind the organization: Liora Reznichenko, a.k.a. Liora Rez, is the founder of StopAntisemitism. She spoke at a U.S. House committee in 2024. Her main activity consists of brigading private citizens and trying to get them fired from their jobs, while she hides her own identifying information; she has a focus on targeting any criticism of Israel. According to the Washington Post, StopAntisemitism is supported in part by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation—Tracy refers to the organization, though not by name—as well as partially funded by the Merona Leadership Foundation, which in 2022 tax filings reportedly paid Reznichenko $125,633 and gave her organization approximately $270,000. This publicly available information failed to make it into Tracy's report.

To make it abundantly clear: Reznichenko does not provide any evidence that Ms. Rachel is funded by Hamas, either on her own website or to Tracy. The reporter's manufactured conflict primarily hinges on some Zionist crackpot with a Twitter account and an ongoing defamation lawsuit against her, and yet she receives the benefit of anonymity as well as a helpful ally. "Accurso’s activism has divided Jewish parents distraught by the relative dearth of posts about Israeli children, with whom many Jews worldwide feel a powerful connection," Tracy wrote. If I were his editor, I'd ask what this means. "Relative dearth"? "A powerful connection"? And this is unique, somehow? In another paragraph, Tracy wrote of Griffin-Accurso, "She did not dispute that she has posted more frequently about Gazan children." Why would she dispute it?"

Sweet mother of christ folks. For those of you who don't know, Ms Rachel is a children's content creator who really loves kids, and through her contacts with Palestinian children during again, an ongoing genocide, has started speaking out on her personal social media accounts on behalf of Palestinian child amputees and starving kids in Gaza. To the unhinged Zionist pro-genocide propaganda machine in America this means she must clearly be working for Hamas, and they've started a now weeks long smear campaign to declare Mrs. Rachel, basically a terrorist. Absurd you say; and indeed it is. But the Times, a paper that loves dead Palestinian kids and supports the genocide, decided to treat this as a "both sides" and "some are saying" story to help these maggots persecute, again, popular children's entertainer Ms. Rachel. For supporting Palestinian child amputees.

Excuse me while I vomit.

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 20, 2025

I don't want to keep harping on the point, but I think it's important to understand just how disconnected from reality a lot of foreign policy analysts in mainstream US media are right now; particularly when reporting on anything remotely related to the Trump regime's continued support for Israel's ongoing, and indeed accelerating, genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. In this instance, while a number of "centrist" (both left, and right leaning) pundits were theorizing that Trump's corrupt bribery tour of the MENA region (that notably did not feature a visit to Israel), signaled a shift in US Gaza policy, word was oozing out of a Trump regime with more leaks than a colander about a blatantly genocidal scheme to "move" over 1 million Palestinians to Libya. As this Truthout summary notes, that means the Trump regime is planning an ethnic cleansing operation; which as we've discussed before, is essentially a more polite way to say "genocide."

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-reportedly-considering-plan-to-move-palestinians-to-libya/

Trump Administration Reportedly Considering Plan to Move Palestinians to Libya

"A plan reportedly under consideration by the Trump administration to send up to one million Gazans to the divided country of Libya was met with criticism on Friday and Saturday, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing.

On Friday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration has broached the plan with Libya’s leadership, though no final agreement has been reached. NBC News’ reporting relied on several unnamed sources “with knowledge of the effort.”

“This is absolutely categorically an ethnic cleansing and sending people to Libya of all places is unconscionable,” wrote investigative journalist James Stout on Bluesky on Friday, in response to the reporting."

As the article notes, the Trump administration has denied that any such plans are in the works, but given the quantity of details NBC was able to report on, and the fact that it lines up with literally every single other thing Downmarket Mussolini and his minions have said about his plans or positions on Gaza, I see no particular reason to believe the fascist US government on this one. So, as he has at various times indicated he would do, Trump is working towards ethnically cleansing Gaza of Palestinians on behalf of his ally and ideological soulmate Benjamin Netanyahu, in what would absolutely be an act of genocide. This is pretty cut and dry; and by no means does it indicate a *positive* change in the Trump regime's Gaza policy.

So, how has pro-genocide, corporate American media reported on these alarming developments? Well, let's just say it hasn't been great. To demonstrate my point, let's look at the actual NBC reporting that the Truthout story was built around.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

"The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration’s discussions, the same three sources said."

Okay, so you can see why I think the regime's denials are bullshit right? NBC knows way too much for this to be a fabrication; and so do we as observers who've been following Trump's actions and statements on Gaza. All is not well however, because NBC insists on framing even this obvious story about Trump and Israel teaming up to do ethnic cleansing, in a blatantly pro-genocide context. For example, you won't find the term "ethnic cleansing" in this story, even though that's what it's literally about. NBC also works hard to lend credibility to Trump and Israel's narrative that the Palestinians would leave for Libya willingly; a preposterous proposition when you consider all the violations they've already suffered to keep their home in Gaza, as a Hamas spokesman indicated.

So, at the same time Israel is accelerating its genocidal project in Gaza, and Trump is working on a plan for ethnic cleansing, dipshit foreign policy writers want you to believe he's turning against Israel's genocide because he made one comment about starving children and accepted a plane from Qatar? I think it's obvious Trump traded Gaza to Israel to smooth over his MENA grift vacation and he's muddying the waters to deflect blame now.

These hacks should be working at Foot Locker, not writing opinion pieces that deny a genocide.

#Trump #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #Libya #Media #EthnicCleansing #MENA #Palestinians #EngineeredFamine

Trump Administration Reportedly Considering Plan to Move Palestinians to Libya

The news was met with criticism, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing.

Truthout
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMay 21, 2025

I'm just going to admit that no matter how low my opinion of the IOF and the genocidal Netanyahu government is, I did not have Israeli troops firing "warning shots" at an international delegation of foreign diplomats from 24 countries, including the UK, Canada, and France who have all recently criticized Israel's ongoing and accelerating US-backed genocide in Gaza, on my bingo card.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-shoots-at-diplomats

Outrage After Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Live Rounds at Foreign Diplomats in West Bank

"Palestinian officials were briefing a group of more than 20 diplomats about the crisis in the illegally occupied West Bank—where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians including hundreds of children since October 2023 while pushing ahead with massive land theft and colonization—when they came under fire.

According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the delegation "deviated" from the route approved by Israeli occupation authorities "and entered an area where they were not authorized to be," prompting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers to fire "warning shots to distance them away."

"The IDF regrets the inconvenience caused," the ministry added.

Israeli media reported IDF troops fired shots in the air. However, video footage of the incident appears to show soldiers aiming their guns and firing straight ahead in the direction of the diplomats as they scrambled for cover. Israeli officials have often been caught lying about the actions of IDF troops in Palestine.

The delegation included diplomats from the European Union and countries including Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, India, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and the United Kingdom."

It's time to grab your asses folks because the ride is about to get bumpy. The pro-Israel, pro-genocide propaganda machine is already working overtime to minimize this incident, but let me assure you that shooting at diplomats is an act of war and that shit is on video. Furthermore, even if you accept the Israeli Foreign Ministry's lies about "warning shots," they're still openly threatening the representatives of sovereign, even allied nations, for getting too close to evidence of their crimes and talking to refugees displaced by violent Israeli oppression. This is obviously an act of retaliation designed to intimidate foreign governments that are increasing pressure on Israel to end its genocidal campaign in Gaza and more broadly human rights abuses against Palestinians living under Israeli occupation; particularly the three G7 governments that formally condemned Israel's engineered famine in Gaza on Monday.

Look, I don't blame folks for being skeptical of the idea that Pig Empire politicians that have actively enabled Israel's genocidal war of extermination in Gaza for 19 months, actually care about Palestinian lives. They don't; but public opinion across pretty much all of the Western world has now swung so hard against "starving babies to death" that the very same governments that enabled this nightmare are trying to distance themselves from the slaughter they've helped create. Time is running out for team genocide and I realize that the Netanyahu government is jam-packed to the gills with emboldened, bloodthirsty racists, but this is an unprecedented act of global aggression that is going to live in infamy right alongside the genocide Israel is conducting against Palestinians in Gaza, and the multiple US governments who've made all this carnage and murder possible. Zionists have lost their fucking minds if they think they can bully the whole world at once; the tide *is* turning against Israel and Netanyahu, which is why they're trying to wipe out all the Palestinians in Gaza as fast as possible, before anyone works up the courage to actually try and stop them.

All of which might cause you to ask where exactly the US stands on all of this? Well, as it turns out US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was only a few miles away, speaking to the media from Tel Aviv in Israel proper. Was Huckabee on hand to pressure Israel to stop slaughtering innocent Palestinian civilians, or starving Palestinian babies to death in Gaza? Absolutely not. The former US Senator was there to express his outrage at Canada, Britain, and France for condemning Israel, even as the settler colonial nation is murdering hundreds of Palestinians via airstrike, and starving women and children to death in Gaza.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5404970/ambassador-israel-mike-huckabee-interview

So, let me just sum up here: the entire planet has turned against Israel's genocide forcing even Pig Empire governments to say something, the IDF is firing "warning shots" at foreign diplomats, and our ambassador to the region thinks *Palestinians* are like the Nazis from WWII? We're ruled by monsters who clearly think we're all stupid.

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #MikeHuckabee #WarCrimes #Imperialism #Colonialism

Outrage After Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Live Rounds at Foreign Diplomats in West Bank | Common Dreams

Among those shot at were representatives of three nations that threatened "concrete actions" if Israel doesn't end its assault and siege on Gaza and others that support a genocide case against the country.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 2, 2025

Despite what appears to be a broad, albeit primarily rhetorical, shift in mainstream establishment opinion about Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza across most of the Pig Empire, Very Serious People TM in the US remain inside a disturbingly bipartisan, pro-genocide unreality bubble. Inside that bubble it seems far more reasonable to discuss Trump's personal relationships with Israel's fascist PM Benjamin Netanyahu than it would be to talk about all the ways his regime has actively expanded on the Biden administration's open facilitation of that genocide, even as it continues to this very moment. Yet outside that bubble, across the broader planet and even in the US discourse that exists beyond corporate media and in pocket political actors, the reality that this is America's genocide too is inescapable.

Take for example the absurd "humanitarian aid" scheme the Trump regime and Netanyahu cooked up to pretend Israel wasn't trying engineer a famine as part of its broader, openly stated project to ethnically cleanse, occupy, and colonize Gaza, that was nevertheless treated as a plausible sign Trump was reigning Israel in by a credulous, pro-genocide US establishment and media complex. The moment the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" and the plan to distribute aid under the watchful eye of the IOF and U.S. mercenary contractors was revealed, everyone living in the real world, including UN aid officials and humanitarian relief experts immediately said this wasn't going to stop the intentional starvation and the whole thing smelled fishy. Folks who truly understood the nature of Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza however, spoke of a far darker possibility; that the reason to march Palestinians halfway across the Gaza strip and herd them like cattle into a heavily-surveilled area surrounded by soldiers, was to directly facilitated and further the genocide and mass displacement of Gazans itself.

Well, now that IOF forces have engaged in a massacre at one of these sham food distribution sites, actively engineered, supported, and protected by the Trump administration and our hired military contractors, I think we can chalk this one up as yet another L for team genocide and the US establishment unreality bubble. As Israel sprints towards pariah state status, and the international community is searching for an off ramp before public opinion drowns their formerly pro-genocide leaders, the Trump regime has responded by actively facilitating and even participating in a settler colonial massacre that's part of a larger ongoing genocide. Yet somehow, despite plenty of corporate media coverage of the incident, this reality largely escapes Very Serious People TM in the American discourse.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/witkoff-massacra-gaza

'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site

"Health officials in Gaza and multiple witnesses at the site near the southern city of Rafah reported that "Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer (1,000 yards) away from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation," according to the Associated Press.

"The international community must act immediately and decisively to compel Israel to end its inhumane aid distribution mechanism in Gaza, following today’s massacre near a U.S.-backed aid centre south of Rafah, where Israeli forces killed or injured over 220 starving civilians," said the Switzerland-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), in a Sunday morning statement, which had personnel on the ground near the aid station."

Folks, we are literally luring starving Gazans out of hiding with the promise of food, concentrating them in pens, and then letting IOF soldiers shoot at them while calling that "humanitarian aid" and pretending we're doing something about an ongoing genocide. There are no words I'm comfortable uttering in this political climate that can adequately cover the outrage, revulsion, and loathing I feel towards a Trump regime, US corporate media, and a broader bipartisan American establishment that contains plenty of rich Democrats, that has brought this livestreamed genocide into being. Even now, even among those who at this late an hour have finally decided that TikTok videos of starving toddlers means this really is a genocide, are trying to couch this in terms of "Netanyahu's genocidal war" despite the fact that literally none of this would be possible with direct American material support, and a US corporate media complex devoted to manufacturing consent for murdering babies and bombing hospitals. Infuriating.

The truth however is that 19 months into an ongoing genocide, the propaganda bubble is starting to burst; you can't stop reality from being real, forever. We, the United States of America, own this genocide, and the whole world is watching while we pretend our government isn't an active participant.

#Trump #Fascism #Media #Gaza #Propaganda #Genocide #Israel #Massacre #Palestinians #Witkoff

'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site | Common Dreams

"The new U.S.-Israeli genocide strategy: starve the population, lure them with promises of aid, then kill them."

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 3, 2025

I'm not about to turn this account into US political drama posting full time, but I'd like to take a moment to talk about the Linsdey Graham tweet about the Gaza flotilla and anti-genocide activist Greta Thunberg. If you haven't seen it, there's a screenshot in the Zeteo article below, but the short story is that Graham posted or quoted an image of Thunberg on the deck of a flotilla vessel, and wrote over top "hope Greta and her friends can swim."

Graham's behavior is of course disgusting and condemnable on its face. I want to talk about it today however because I think if you take the Senator from South Carolina's post in the proper context, it reveals quite a lot about where the US government, buttressed by a pro-genocide corporate media, stands in contrast to the rest of the world on the subject of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Lindsey Graham's Disgusting Tweet About Greta Thunberg Is 'Brain Rot' in Its Truest, Most Vulgar Sense

https://zeteo.com/p/lindsey-grahams-disgusting-tweet

"The warped logic, wildly insulting to the intelligence or basic morals of the Americans he serves, is one thing. As with their comical hypocrisy, the refrain about the modern Republican Party that “the cruelty is the point” is baked into US politics. But the extent to which these threads undergirding American conservatism are put into total overdrive when it comes to Israel is jarring to any observer.

Because, to be clear: Graham, a US senator, paid by our taxes, is apparently calling for a government that’s killed at least 54,000 (and likely, far more) Palestinians to bomb a boat carrying food to a starving population (or, if I’m being incredibly generous, he is just hoping the ship sinks). It’d be one thing if Graham was operating in the already-broken framework of the draconianism we’re used to: egging on the detaining of protesters and cheering for the bombing of Gaza under the auspices of “eliminating Hamas.”

Think how far we’ve come: pointing out Israel’s bombing of humanitarians was a “blood libel.” Now, it’s a punchline.

Here, we reach the endpoint of it all: a Republican, sealed off in his grotesque, hermetically-sealed bubble, finding it not only appropriate, but actively helpful in his (and his Israeli friends’) PR crusade to buoyantly rejoice at the idea of 12 volunteers – including a young college-aged person – being bombed, and left to tread in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea."

There's honestly so much going on here that you could write a whole book about this tweet, and the political moment in America that produced it. There are literal layers of grotesque inhumanity behind a US Senator cheerfully wishing death on a world famous activist and her friends for the high crime of trying to feed people we're helping to starve out of existence. Graham's callous, if not gleeful disregard for human life speaks to a modern, cultishly-devoted to Trump Republican Party whose broader motto might as well be "we're for killing and starving people" at this point; a sentiment their voters seem to embrace so long as the leopards aren't eating *their* faces.

If you know that the previous flotilla food aid attempt involving Thunberg was unable to reach Gaza after being struck by weaponized drones widely-believed to be Israeli in origin, then Graham's tweet reads like an open threat by a US Senator on behalf of a foreign government conducting a genocide we're paying for; which at almost any other point in American history would be earth-shaking news, but passes more or less for business as usual in the American pro-genocide reality bubble. This would be appalling under any circumstances, but for Graham to post this at the very same time the US government under Trump is pretending it is forcing Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, while openly concentrating starving Palestinians into corrals for the IOF to shoot at, is next-level Third Reich-type shit; and the whole world knows it.

Which then brings us back to the larger point about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and failing international support for the Netanyahu regime and an IOF committing open war crimes and mass murder. At the precise time that the entire international order except the United States is running away from their prior support for Israel's genocidal actions because starving children to death on livestream is extremely unpopular, the United States is accelerating the body count and a US Senator is openly threatening a European peace activist on behalf of our openly eliminationist ally, for the high crime of attempting to feed starving people our govt would clearly prefer dead. The Trump regime and the broader pro-genocide establishment in America are out of step with the rest of the Pig Empire, and out of touch with reality; Israel isn't the only country flirting with pariah state status as the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues to unfold.

#USPol #Gaza #Israel #UN #LindseyGraham #GazaFlotilla #GretaThunberg #Genocide #Starvation #WarCrimes #Palestinians #GOP #Trump

Lindsey Graham's Disgusting Tweet About Greta Thunberg Is 'Brain Rot' in Its Truest, Most Vulgar Sense

As the Zeteo contributor set sail on the Gaza aid flotilla, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted: "Hope Greta and her friends can swim!"

Zeteo
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 9, 2025

I don't know what it's going to take for a bipartisan pro-genocide media establishment to accept that Trump is definitely trying to help Israel finish off its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza before international sanctions come pouring it, if what we've already seen the Trump administration do hasn't generated that realization or level of honesty on its own. Take for example the regime sanctioning International Criminal Court judges for authorizing an investigation into allegations of torture conduced by US troops in Afghanistan, and issuing warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity his government definitely committed, on livestream, over and over again.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-icc-sanctions

Rubio, Trump Accused of Criminal Obstruction for Sanctioning ICC Judges

"Two of the sanctioned judges authorized a probe of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. The other two green-lighted warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, his former defense minister, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, including weaponized starvation and the murder of Palestinians—at least 54,607 of whom have been killed since Israel began its assault and siege of Gaza following the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ICC's Assembly of State Parties—the court's governing body—said in a statement Friday that the U.S. sanctions are a "regrettable" effort to "impede the court and its personnel in the exercise of their independent judicial functions.

Kenneth Roth, a professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and former director of Human Rights Watch, on Friday accused Trump and Rubio of "obstructing justice under Article 70 of the Rome Statute," the treaty establishing and governing the ICC."

As the numerous human rights officials and observers in this article noted, it's pretty much impossible to see Rubio's actions here as anything other than a flat rejection of international law, in the service of protecting American's presumed "right" to commit war crimes, and our ally Israel's presumed "right" to conduct an ongoing genocide in Gaza. If the larger pro-genocide US establishment were merely duped by anti-terrorist sentiments, Israeli propaganda, and the fog of war, this should be a moment (one of many) where they turn and look at each other to ask "Hans, are we the baddies?" Even at the height of the War on Terror, similar legal criticism of the Bush regime promoted widespread discussion about the legality of what we were doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, even if it did little to stop our disastrous imperialist forever wars. Instead, Rubio's ongoing efforts to demonize and sanction international court judges barely rate a blip on the mainstream media radar screen as the genocide in Gaza rages on.

Folks, we *are* the Nazis history was trying to warn us about; and that couldn't be any clearer now that reality TV Nazi Trump is the one enabling Israel's genocide in Gaza instead of dotard weepy Zionist Joe Biden. The media and opinion-makers in our discourse aren't living in a cave; they know all the same things you do about how Trump is ensuring as many Palestinians die as possible before Israel starts facing nation-altering consequences for its crimes against humanity. What they, and the foreign policy goblins in the Trump administration are all clearly hoping, is that by stringing you along with a "will he or won't he game" about Downmarket Mussolini's willingness to allow the genocide to happen, Israel can kill enough Palestinians to allow facts on the ground to render the debate about stopping the genocide irrelevant.

#Fascism #Trump #Media #Genocide #Gaza #Palestinians #Israel #BenjaminNetanyahu #Afghanistan #MarcoRubio #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Imperialism #Colonialism

Rubio, Trump Accused of Criminal Obstruction for Sanctioning ICC Judges | Common Dreams

"Sanctioning ICC judges for doing their work on behalf of justice is a flagrant attack on the rule of law," said one critic.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 16, 2025

As you have perhaps heard, US ally Israel attacked US-declared regional adversary Iran on Friday. This has touched off a conflict that could end up anywhere on the spectrum between "a very short war" and "World War Three" in light of how many powerful countries on Earth have a vested interest in ensuring the survival of either Israel, or Iran respectively. The situation is tense, delicate, and while the purpose of this blog isn't to talk about global foreign policy decisions, I still feel pretty comfortable saying the United States is already on the wrong side of history here given Israel's illegal aggression; to say nothing of the ongoing US-enabled genocide the Netanyahu government is conducting against Palestinians in Gaza. We are, by virtue of our alliance with Israel and our government's open and even material support of Netanyahu's desperate gambit, as close to being at war with Iran as possible without actually declaring a war.

Truly, this is a moment that calls for a clear-headed, elite negotiator style of President who can deescalate the situation before the conflict draws in global powers, and most importantly of all keep the United States out of yet another unwinnable forever war in the MENA. Of course, we instead have Donald Fucking Trump; a man who apparently does not seem to realize that Israel is incapable of reaching the war objectives of a conflict it started *without* direct American intervention, and are thus actively trying to draw the US into Netanyahu's war, even as Israeli political officials openly admit as much.

How do I know Trump is that stupid? Well, he keeps saying the quiet part out loud - like Sunday for example, when he told ABC News that he was willing to commit US forces to the conflict; which would officially be joining Israel's objectively illegal war on Iran.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-war

Trump Says US Forces 'Could Get Involved' as Israel Expands Deadly Assault on Iran

"U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that American forces "could get involved" in the intensifying military conflict that Israel started late last week with a barrage of attacks on Iran, prompting large-scale retaliatory strikes and warnings of a prolonged and catastrophic war.

Trump told ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott that the U.S. is not currently involved in the conflict, which is false. The U.S. has helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles, and American fighter jets are reportedly "patrolling the sky in the Middle East to protect personnel and installations." One Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post that "there was full and complete coordination with the Americans" on Israel's early Friday bombardment of Iran, which set off the conflict.

But Trump's remarks Sunday signaled the potential for a deeper U.S. role in the war, setting off alarm among lawmakers who have warned that such involvement would be illegal as well as disastrous."

Look, I don't want to get all libbed up here but, are you fucking kidding me with this dipshit? Literally any other US President in the entire history of this country would be telling Israel to shut this shitshow down because the US empire doesn't get dragged into wars to save the careers of politicians running our client states, we drag client states into wars the US declares at a time and place of our warmongers' choosing. I do not give a single rat's ass about American "national security" and the Pig Empire's international racket to enforce capitalist extraction at bayonet point, but Trump trying to hitch our wagon to Netanyahu's desperate hail mary so he can look tough is a profound display of political weakness and yet another example of why this absolute fucking muppet should not be the guy in charge of an American war machine that can turn the whole planet to ash multiple times over.

To put it fucking politely, Israel is an ethnonationalist colonial outpost for the Pig Empire in the MENA, that is currently conducting an ongoing livestreamed baby holocaust in Gaza, and the only fucking thing keeping them from being a pariah state is the support of the US government as embodied by the Trump regime. Netanyahu needs America, way more than Trump needs Netanyahu; for the Swine Emperor to even be considering committing US troops to Israel's ongoing assault, which almost certainly started with an actual fucking war crime, is the most Dunning-Krueger effect shit I've ever seen a US President do; and I survived the George W. Bush presidency.

Look folks, I don't know how this story ends; recent reports indicate that Iran is inexplicably still willing to negotiate for peace with us, so I think we should take their offer. But make no mistake, there will be no winners of a war against Iran, and the fact that Trump is toying with embroiling us in one, again, speaks to why this man must go. So much for the "anti-war" President, amirite?

#Fascism #Trump #Israel #Iran #War #USPol #ForeignPolcy #Idiot #WW3 #Netayahu #WarCrimes #Genocide

Trump Says US Forces 'Could Get Involved' as Israel Expands Deadly Assault on Iran | Common Dreams

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that American forces "could get involved" in the intensifying military conflict that Israel started late last week with a barrage of attacks on Iran.

Common Dreams
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 17, 2025

Well, a couple of you in the comments chided me for hedging my bets about Trump's intentions in Iran yesterday, and I guess 'fair point." Given the actions and statements of Swine Emperor Trump over the past 24 hours, and the massive buildup of US military forces in the region occurring now, I'm prepared to say that the US is unofficially at war with Iran; because Trump says so.

Is that legal? Who cares? By the time anyone bothers to figure out if he can actually do this we'll be neck deep in another forever war in the MENA so it won't matter; the empire will coalesce around its de facto leader, the US President, like it always does during colonial warfare. In fact if numerous statements by Trump's political opposition in the US and other Western governments that center Israeli PM Netanyahu's false propaganda about Iran building nukes are to be believed, this process is already underway.

As far as I can tell this is already over but for the crying; the US is effective at war with Iran, and that's a position the Iranian government at least, seems to agree with. For the sake of posterity however, let's review two things the Swine emperor has said publicly on social media that have forced me to accept this conclusion, despite the fact that I very much don't want it to be so.

First up, are you aware that the President took to his private social media company to order a city of 10M people in Iran to evacuate immediately at 2AM in the morning local time? Yeah, that really happened.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-evacuation-tehran

Trump Call for Evacuation of Tehran—A City of 10 Million—Denounced as 'Terroristic' Threat

"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention was among those condemning Trump's evacuation call for Tehran, denouncing it as a "terroristic" social media threat "unbecoming of a head of state." Tehran is home to around 10 million people, roughly equal to the population size of Israel.

"President Trump should be ashamed for being the lapdog of genocidaire and petty dictator Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and for following in the obsequious footsteps of former U.S. President Joe Biden," the Lemkin Institute said in a statement. "We call on President Trump to deescalate the situation immediately by pulling the Israeli PM back from this war of aggression and by pursuing a robust and truly independent U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East."

Assal Rad, a Middle East scholar and fellow at Arab Center Washington DC, asked, "Where are 10,000,000 people supposed to evacuate to?"

"It's like telling the entire country of Sweden to evacuate," Rad wrote on social media. "Even if that was possible and they all had places to go, the traffic is not moving and gas is scarce. Even if they could all get out, what are they coming back to?"

At this point, I think it's clear that the Kelpto Kaiser was trying to maintain some degree of plausible deniability, but as I've stressed often, just because nazis play word games doesn't me we have to treat those games as valid. It is very obvious that Trump is threatening to wipe out an entire city in a country we're officially not even at war with; something which would be a war crime because mass murdering civilian targets is literally against international law even if you're at war - not that we seem to care anymore, given our support for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. You can pretend that Trump is merely threatening a city of 10M people on behalf of Israel, but given that Israel is a US client state incapable of making war with Iran without US weapons, financial, and diplomatic support, that excuse rings extremely hollow. This is "nuclear terror state" type shit and deeply ironic given that Israel and the rest of the Pig Empire's excuse for attacking Iran in the first place is a bullshit argument about Iran becoming a "nuclear terror state."

So, let me ask you a question; if a foreign leader with the military capability of actually striking the United States, say Xi in China for example, said what Trump just said to Tehran to the people of New York City, would you assume we're now at war with China? I certainly would.

If by some chance *that* does not convince you however, what Trump just said this afternoon will.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/17/israel-iran-conflict-live-updates-tehran-trump-evacuation-middle-east?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-685197c38f082553e8fca9a9#block-685197c38f082553e8fca9a9

So you got that right? The US President just said "we" control the skies over Iran, demanded the Iranian government's unconditional surrender, and low-key threatened to assassinate the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei unless they surrender. Just casually, on social media, the way you or I might shitpost through a lazy summer Tuesday.

Folks, whatever the laws and rules say, it's pretty clear Trump does not give a fuck. We're at war with Iran now, because he's at war with Iran now and a political opposition bothsides-ing an unprovoked Israeli attack on Iran that is definitely a war crime, isn't going to do sweet fuck all to change that. We're in it now.

#Trump #Fascism #Iran #Israel #Imperialism #War #USPol #MENA

Trump Call for Evacuation of Tehran—A City of 10 Million—Denounced as 'Terroristic' Threat | Common Dreams

"It's like telling the entire country of Sweden to evacuate," said one scholar.

Common Dreams
Show threadcrowJun 17, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes do you think this will be trump's "9/11" to distract from his plummeting approval and domestic fascism ? To get the flags waving and consolidate support ?
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesJun 17, 2025

@crow I mean I think he thinks a President at war gets a huge popularity boost. In fact back in 2013 I think, when he was just starting to position himself as a right wing political commentator, Trump said that Obama would respond to his bad poling numbers by attacking Iran, as if it was a obvious statement that this would help Obama's political career.

Given the widespread opposition to what is now clearly a fascist takeover in progress, I'm not sure I can pinpoint in specific what it is that's driving Trump to think he needs a patriotism bump in support, it might be all of it - the courts, the mass protests, the fact that his polling numbers are cratering, the fact that even his mainstream opposition is starting to notice this is all Hitler shit... I dunno specifically which thing is scaring him, I just know that he thinks a MENA war INCREASES a president's popularity and his dictatorship is currently hanging by a string.

Show threadcrowJun 17, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Trump said that Obama would respond to his bad poling numbers by attacking Iran, as if it was a obvious statement that this would help Obama's political career.every accusation a confession do jay pegh

Show threadRobert LinkJun 16, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes "...the US empire doesn't get dragged into wars to save the careers of politicians running our client states, we drag client states into wars the US declares at a time and place of our warmongers' choosing."

Preach!!!

Show threadsamiamsamJun 16, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

but maga assured me donny was the peace guy

Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderJun 16, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Dunning-Kreuger effect: had to look that one up. Didn't know there was a named category for the shit-show that is DHS right now - see, I learned a thing from you and immediately applied it.

Client-state: I've been yelling that Israel is an, in-everything-but-name, US state, but client state is a much more accurate term. I am happy to have learned that one, too.

Ye. We are in deep shit. Trump fired all the people who would know what to do right now to turn this off.

Show threadDemin Jun 16, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Maybe allying ourselves to the far-right ethnonationalists who start a new war whenever the Knesset thinks about a no-confidence vote was a mistake
Show threadrtnJun 3, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Amazingly written. Thank you!
Show threadMausmaki 🇧🇷🇻🇪Jun 3, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes We should not listen all the time to old white men who are destined to enter foster care in the near future. Let them tell you what they want - we should not bother. Of course, and this does not need ANY explanation, we communicate with wonderful Greta. Let Mr. Trump talk to Mr. Graham - everything perfect!
Show threadZach BennouiJun 5, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Thank you for this, as an American, I'm becoming more and more concerned about where America is headed. I really hope we can stand up as a country and say "enough is enough," but honestly I don't know if we have the guts. I'm starting to think about leaving in the next few years, something I never thought I would need to do.
Show threadLukefromDCJun 2, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes It's shit like this that turned Hamas from a religious political party and militia to "the Army" alongside all other resistance groups in Gaza.
Show threadLJMay 21, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes holy fuck.
Show threadGary HoustonMay 22, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes surprised? Maybe a little, that the foreign diplomats weren't just shot and dumped in a mass grave, followed by Israel offering vague apologies and saying "we'll have an investigation", and the foreign governments saying "fine, whatever."
Show threadJacquelineMay 23, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes but when their own diplomats get the same treatment, the media gets into a frenzy about "antisemitism"
Show threadJacquelineMay 23, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Honestly, I feel like the people who want me to feel sad about the diplomats who died yesterday are mostly hypocrites who think Israel has the right to bomb embassies and shoot at ambassadors from other countries.

Like, I personally think vigilante violence is counterproductive and leads to much suffering and misery, but I'm not going to ignore Israeli atrocities because of it. This entire situation just serves to make the hypocrisy and the cruelty of Zionism stronger in my mind.

Israel can execute foreign aid workers with impunity, starve children to death, pump a 3 year old with lead, and they have the fucking audacity to tell me I have to feel sad when one of their own guys gets a similar treatment?

Show threadJacquelineMay 23, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes these people have no shame and they are just as spineless and crooked as the maga fascist lunatics who are running this country into the ground.
Show threadMcQuiniacMay 20, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes #86_47 https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-reportedly-considering-plan-to-move-palestinians-to-libya/
Trump Administration Reportedly Considering Plan to Move Palestinians to Libya

The news was met with criticism, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing.

Truthout
Show threadKid ManiaMay 18, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
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jfc I hate this fucking timeline. I really do.
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"Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous."
- Thomas Ligotti

Show threadRabidchaosMay 17, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes In this media environment, I would bet on it often being both.
Show threadLevel 98 🇺🇦May 7, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes They also want to do the same to the West Bank.
Show threadCaptain Jack SparrowMay 1, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

israel is using a baseless lie to justify banking #UNRWA from #Gaza and the US war machine is happy to go along with that lie, the USA is complicit in genocide both under Biden and Trump

#Gazagenocide #Palestine

#fuckisrael

Show threadDianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 25, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes As I keep saying, Those that own the media control the propaganda.
Show threadKid ManiaApr 25, 2025

@Dianora @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
Slightly dated, but still worth a watch.

"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media"
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https://youtu.be/BQXsPU25B60?si=6upnaYRNcVHXLTNd

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Show threadDianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 25, 2025
@clintruin @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I have got the book but these ideas predate Chomsky as well. Look at John A. Hobson, Walter Lippman. Chomsky takes a swipe at Dewey. As far as propaganda goes, I suggest Arendt, Ellul, Bernays and of course the modern work by Stanley.
Show threadKid ManiaApr 25, 2025

@Dianora @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
Bernays is critical.
And a massive shout out to the good people at the Internet Archive...
Full book "Propaganda" by Ed Bernays.
The first sentence of the first chapter (penned in 1928) should tell anyone anything they need to know.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275553

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Show threadDianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 25, 2025
@clintruin @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes There have been some accusations of him stealing ideas from Lippman (see https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1955/907) which makes Lippman a must read IMHO but there is no question Bernays used psychology in his advertising (another word for propaganda) work. So yes, we are furiously agreeing.
Show threadKid ManiaApr 25, 2025

@Dianora @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
He was definitely involved with Lippman ("unacknowledged mentor"), so anything is possible. But then, some have suggested they both stole their ideas from Spinoza, soooooo...

The key here is the "ideas".
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0363811115000053

Show threadKid ManiaApr 25, 2025
@Dianora @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
"furiously agreeing"
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love it.
Show threadDianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 25, 2025
@clintruin @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Well yes Spinoza is on my bookshelf. Spinoza also influenced Nietzsche. The ideas could even be pulled out of Plato's Republic. Plato did not think much of Democracy.
Show threadDianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 25, 2025

@clintruin @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes There is this thread of 'gold' vs. 'bronze' etc. *people* in Plato's republic which is carried on by people such as John Dewey (!) and Bernays.

"First throughout the interview, Bernays expressed an unabashedly hierarchical view of society. Repeatedly he maintained that although most people respond to their world instinctively, without thought, there exist an "intelligent few" who have been charged with the responsibility of contemplating and influencing the tide of history." Ewen *a social history of spin*

Show threadKid ManiaApr 25, 2025

@Dianora @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
"Bernays expressed an unabashedly hierarchical view of society."

He was a product of his moment, that is for sure.
And yeah, Plato. Like his exploration of reality...dislike his ideas on politics.

Show threadDaughter of DiscordApr 25, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

I think folks who argue with you are stupid.

I don't really think it's much deeper than that

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesApr 25, 2025
@CosmickTrigger I'd go with "engaging in motived reasoning" myself; many of them are not stupid, just very committed to settler colonial genocide.
Show threadDaughter of DiscordApr 25, 2025

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Isn't being very committed to settler colonial genocide pretty fucking stupid?

Seeing as how it is also driving climate change which threatens to kill 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉? Including them?

Show threadferricoxideApr 17, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

I don't even understand why you would want to try to evict or exterminate the Gazan's especially if doing so is done with an eye towards luxury redevelopment? I mean, especially given its location, it's missile- and/or drone-reachable by a lot of people that would be pissed off by those evictions and exterminations? What would-be luxury visitor would want to go there and spend their entire time as a target? Would it just be for the thrill of being a target? The thrill of knowing "a lot of people died so I could back here"?

Nothing about this makes sense.
Show threadStoneface VimesApr 2, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes the atrocious crimes are bad enough by themselves but they then compound them with their feeble half arsed attempts to botch the cover ups . It is such an insult to everyone else too.
Show threadGuySApr 2, 2025
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes The resources on earth being not enough to support billionaires increasing wealth, actions are taken to kill a maximum and deport the others to El Salvador jail.