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By Devin Watkins

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88

Pope Francis died today, 21 Apr 2025, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.

At 9:45 am, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announced the death of Pope Francis from the Casa Santa Marta with these words:

“Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis. At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of His Church. He taught us to live the values of the Gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love, especially in favor of the poorest and most marginalized. With immense gratitude for his example as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, we commend the soul of Pope Francis to the infinite merciful love of the One and Triune God.”

The Pope was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital on Friday, February 14, 2025, after suffering from a bout of bronchitis for several days.

Pope Francis’ clinical situation gradually worsened, and his doctors diagnosed bilateral pneumonia on Tuesday, February 18.

After 38 days in hospital, the late Pope returned to his Vatican residence at the Casa Santa Marta to continue his recovery.

As he aged, Pope Francis frequently suffered bouts of respiratory illnesses, even cancelling a planned visit to the United Arab Emirates in November 2023 due to influenza and lung inflammation.

In April 2024, the late Pope Francis approved an updated edition of the liturgical book for papal funeral rites, which will guide the funeral Mass which has yet to be announced.

The second edition of the Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis introduces several new elements, including how the Pope’s mortal remains are to be handled after death.

The ascertainment of death takes place in the chapel, rather than in the room where he died, and his body is immediately placed inside the coffin.

According to Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Master of Apostolic Ceremonies, the late Pope Francis had requested that the funeral rites be simplified and focused on expressing the faith of the Church in the Risen Body of Christ.

“The renewed rite,” said Archbishop Ravelli, “seeks to emphasize even more that the funeral of the Roman Pontiff is that of a pastor and disciple of Christ and not of a powerful person of this world.”

21 April 2025

Source: transcend.org

Against the U.S. Aggression on Yemen
In Support of the Position of the Yemeni People in Confronting the Genocide in Occupied Palestine

Joint Statement and Appeal
(Issued by the Yemeni National Team for Foreign Outreach and the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement)

We once again condemn the ongoing savage and barbaric U.S. aggression against the Yemeni people and their civilian and economic institutions. We also condemn the disgraceful and cowardly official Arab silence, and every complicit stance or participation in justifying this heinous crime by some Arab and Islamic states and regimes in the region. At the same time, we extend our sincere revolutionary salutes to the valiant Yemeni armed forces who stand with pride, dignity, and confidence alongside the Palestinian people in confronting the crimes of the Zionist entity and its ongoing genocide under U.S. sponsorship. The Yemeni armed forces—by the grace of God—are confronting the aggression carried out by the U.S. to aid the “Israeli” enemy and will continue their support operations for the oppressed Palestinian people until the aggression on Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted.

In this joint statement, issued in eight languages, we call upon friends, comrades, and revolutionary forces around the world for the broadest possible global popular mobilization against the Zionist genocide, and to continue international popular efforts to prosecute the “Israeli” war criminals and their murderous, criminal allies in the White House. We join our voices with those of peoples, forces, and liberation movements that confront the crimes of imperialism, occupation, fascism, and racism, and that support the just liberation struggle of the Palestinian people and their legitimate resistance to liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea, and to uproot the racist Zionist settler-colonial occupation and its agents in the region and the world.

The American weapons that kill innocents, target civilians, destroy water reservoirs, burn agricultural land, and bomb infrastructure and public civilian facilities in Yemen are the very same weapons that destroy homes, schools, and hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria. These weapons are produced by the same death factories and U.S. and Western corporations. They aim to entrench American hegemony and serve the same ruling classes. Accordingly, we call upon the free people of the world, especially in the United States, to launch a popular campaign against what is called the “American military-industrial complex.” We call for the imposition of a military embargo on “Israel” and for preventing countries and companies from supplying the Zionist occupation entity with tools of killing and extermination.

We reaffirm: Despite the ferocity and power of the brutal war machine and the destruction, death, and suffering it causes, the Palestinian and Yemeni peoples stand as one, unified army on the frontlines against imperialism, Zionism, and reaction. Together, they present an authentic revolutionary model to the Arab and Islamic peoples and the free people of the world, and they outline the path of ongoing revolution, the features of universal liberation, and the direction of the honest and trustworthy human compass—not only in our region, but also for all the peoples of the Global South and for all humanity that still suffers under the weight of fear, repression, poverty, exploitation, state terror, and the policies of subordinate client regimes.

We in the National Team for Foreign Outreach and the Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement call, through this joint statement, upon all the free people of the world to support the position of the Yemeni people, its leadership, and its army. We also renew our call to end the aggression and the siege imposed on the Yemeni people by the United States and its allies, and we call on the free peoples to rally around the clear revolutionary stances expressed by the Yemeni people around the clock, in squares and public arenas, affirming their resolve and will, and that they will not retreat, tire, or surrender—but will remain steadfast in their historic position in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their heroic resistance in Gaza and all of occupied Palestine.

The revolutionary humanitarian stance is embodied in the slogan “You Are Not Alone,” shouted by millions of Yemeni voices for Palestine. It is affirmed by the masses under sun and rain, with weapons, blood, and sacrifice, and it is carried by men, women, the elderly, and children in the squares and arenas of Yemen. This revolutionary slogan today represents a human and faith-based wisdom, and a strong cry that terrifies the entities of occupation, darkness, and dependency. It expresses the will of a defiant people who will neither surrender nor kneel before enemies. We want this sincere slogan “You Are Not Alone” to become an international slogan and stance, echoed by the vanguards of the peoples in every city and capital, and in every field liberated by the will of the masses and their free conscience.

Long live Palestine, free and independent
Long live Yemen, free, proud, and independent
Freedom for Palestine from the river to the sea

National Team for Foreign Outreach – Yemen
Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

19 April 2025

Source: masarbadil.org

By Prof. Richard Falk

28 Mar 2025

In this unmissable, must-watch conversation, Professor Richard Falk—international law expert, former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, and leading scholar on global justice—breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance.

From the historic context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, Falk sheds light on the accountability challenges facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change. Listen to his insights on the urgent need for justice-driven action and the role of geopolitical dynamics in shaping the international order.

UNMISSABLE: Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? w/ Richard Falk

Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute.

7 April 2025

Source: transcend.org

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Paul Larudee is a retired academic and current administrator of a nonprofit human rights and humanitarian aid organization.

14 April 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Mark Taliano

Beneath the apparent silence and complicity of Legacy Media messaging, Western-supported terrorists, the same ones who have committed massacres throughout the Regime Change War on Syria, are massacring Syrians and committing genocide right now.

Article Two of the Genocide Convention defines genocide in these terms:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (1)

The above definition includes a “mental element” of intent and a range of physical elements in which only one is necessary.

The elements of genocide, both mental and physical, have been recorded by terrorists themselves in Syria.

In the following video, as an example, a terrorist announces intent to mass slaughter.

Western-Supported Genocide Against Syrian Minorities

Credible information confirms that a company from Idlib has taken control of the area for real estate investment.

In western Hama, the villages of Al-Aziziya and Arzeh were also completely depopulated, and families from the town of Khattab were settled there instead—following brutal massacres against innocent civilians.

In northern Homs, the village of Tisnin and its surroundings were forcibly emptied as well. Many other villages, neighborhoods, and residential communities in Homs and Rural Damascus are seeing their original residents being pushed out—either directly or through intimidation, threats, abductions, and killings.

Additionally, propaganda campaigns are promoting the settlement of Bedouin populations in various parts of the Syrian coast and some neighborhoods in Homs, replacing the original inhabitants.

This is a clear plan of demographic change, and it requires immediate action to confront it.

We call for:

Engaging international lawyers and human rights advocates in Europe, America, and worldwide

Mobilizing political parties and international public opinion

Documenting this as a new crime committed by the de facto authorities and their leadership: the forced demographic change and displacement of dozens of Alawite villages and bringing in new populations in their place

These acts are part of a broader ongoing campaign of genocide, adding to the long list of violations.

We will not remain silent. We urge everyone to resist this scheme and refuse to accept or normalize it.

By Julian Rose

The brutal murder of eight Red Cross paramedics and five aid workers in Southern Gaza on March 23^rd 2025 – each shot more than 20 times and then buried in a sandpit along with their vehicles – should be ‘an event too far’ for Israeli soldiers. The brave precedent for saying ‘no’ already having been set by colleagues refusing to follow the commands of the Israeli war cabinet.

This vile atrocity must have crossed the red line for these recruits, as well as seasoned soldiers of the Israeli army, if they are still to be considered human beings.

It has already been reported that a small but growing number of Israeli military have refused to engage against Palestinians in Gaza, demanding that Netanyahu stands by the terms of the hostage exchange negotiated with Hamas.

But this hostage exchange ‘quid pro quo’, as vital as it obviously is, is now joined by another critically important concern that must be addressed: are the soldiers carrying out these executions under the influence of a mind control program similar to that developed by MK Ultra in the USA in the 1950’ and 60’s?

This is possible. Israel has a sophisticated A.I. development program and Mossad is no doubt fully prepared to exercise its controls over its own people.

Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli professor of history and top advisor to the Word Economic Forum cabal, has made a point of stating how human beings are now “hackable”, and how this will enable the reengineering of the human into a gene edited version in which ‘all the faults have been removed’. With the result that this entity will then become ‘superior to God’.

“We will do better than God” in Harari’s words.

This has a strong throw-back to Hitler’s preoccupation with the pre World War Two eugenics program, designed to result in the breeding of ‘the perfect Aryan’. In the Nazi’s case, an athletic, blond haired, blue eyed ‘ubermensch’.

A god like figure, whose qualities were supposed to lead to Nazi Germany developing a race of superior beings ‘with most of the faults removed’.

The program was initiated in 1927 in the USA under the title ‘Planned Parenthood’ and continued after World War Two, finally being dissolved in 1976. Planned Parenthood had direct covert links with the MK Ultra mind control agenda. 

Of course, in both the Nazi and US cases, this was a ‘breeding program’ and as such, was based on selective sexual reproduction as the means to the end product. But new versions have moved this eugenics process into the purely technological sphere. 

Now eugenics breeding is to be an A.I. exercise, with the particular qualities of this laboratory species decided by those in charge of the programs. No doubt individuals with a very limited concept of what would constitute ‘fault removed superior entities’.

Israeli Zionists are obsessed with the superiority of the Jewish bloodline. This overtly supremacist position is behind all Netanyahu’s attempts to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza, and most likely all other Palestinian enclaves that remain after decades of pogroms into their territory by the Israeli military.

Many of those military men and women – apparently willing to perform acts of cold blooded murder on their Palestinian brothers, sisters and children – may be less than human themselves.

Either so deeply indoctrinated in the supremacist values of the Zionists – who regard Palestinians as no more than worthless animals – or open books for mind control exercises using the A.I. frequency bending techniques lauded by Harari. 

Those same electromagnetic pulses that are already coming down the microwave pipeline into Smart Phones via 5/6G transmitter masts and thousands of Elon Musk’s Space X satellites.

The difference is technical only – the intent is the same. One has to call it what it is: demonic.

One must conclude that President Trump, and other backers of Netanyahu’s displacement and massacre of innocents, also belong to this camp. Maybe as lesser evils, but complicit nonetheless.

This anti-life cult has as its goal a process which culminates in the eradication of all the sentient qualities that make humans ‘human’. 

It wishes to replace the Supreme Source which stands behind all our lives – and indeed the creation of Life itself – with the man made genetically modified/computerized Transhuman. An objective favored by Yuval Noah Harari and fellow architects of the technocratic, digital and algorithmic control system going under the banner of ‘the Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution’.

Most don’t want to recognise this reality, in spite of the fact that it stares us all in the face.

But quite simply, we must. Because one can’t build a resistance movement without knowing what it is one is resisting.

So, one more time: we are resisting the deliberate and overt sterilization of the creative life force, as it manifests itself in the vast diversity of sentient, empathetic and loving expressions of the inhabitants of our richly endowed planet. 

The central motivation for such an act of war is unlimited power, control and material possession. All other factors to be stripped away and discarded as obstructions to the achievement of that goal.

Including the architects of control most feared enemy, the never dimming spiritual flame whose unseen light never ceases to guide us towards our true awakening and omnipotent potential to become at one with the source of (our) creation. This ascent process is our reason to be. Why we were born. To maintain its equilibrium is not a passive affair. It’s a struggle. An endless struggle. But for those who persist – a deeply rewarding one.

Our dark oppressors try everything to make us give up this struggle, because it’s a huge threat to their dominance.

They want us to fall back on the superficial and seductive attraction of mediocrity, convenience and slavery. 

The regime promoted by globalist deep state aligned institutions, governments, corporations, military and media –  reveals a calculated lack of pragmatic intervention in the Gaza holocaust. Apart from some well chosen expressions of ‘shock’, they turn their heads away.

This clearly defines them as either being in the same camp as the chief Israeli perpetrators – or simply too cowardly and self interested to intervene to prevent the further massacre of innocent Palestinian men, women and children.

As a major contribution to putting an end to this horror, we must step out of the prison of our mind controlled perception that ‘we can’t intervene’ – either directly or indirectly – and are victims of something beyond our power to change. Such thinking makes us into yet more canon fodder for the parasitic perpetrators of the bloody crimes in Gaza.

We must go onto the front foot – here and now – and enter fully into the struggle to overcome both our self imposed blockages and those put in our path by the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. The same sect who plan the genetic modification of the human race.

The choice put in front of us is stark: to be brave or to be cowards. Be brave. Be human. Take actions that promote Life. We are both the directors of our destinies and the ultimate destiny of our planet.

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Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, international activist and broadcaster.

14 April 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Nexus

10 Apr 2025

Yanis Varoufakis was Greece’s finance minister during the Greek debt crisis in 2015. Some called him the rock star finance minister for resisting the faceless bureaucrats from the European Union, the IMF – and the rapacious bankers. We get his views on Trump’s Tariffs, Free Speech in the West, and Transhumanism where he warns we’re all at risk from the techno-feudal lords who are taking over the world.

Video:  Yanis Varoufakis Explains Trump’s Tariffs

14 April 2025

Source: transcend.org

By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge

Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening

8 Apr 2025 – With much of the globe and US public focused exclusively on tariff mania, President Trump as well as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unveiled massive news yesterday, which would have normally made a bigger impact in headlines.

By Chris Hedges

12 Apr 2025 – The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide — and placed two-thirds of Gaza under displacement orders, rendered “no-go zones,” including the border town of Rafah, which is encircled by Israeli troops.

On Friday Defence Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel will “intensify” the war against Hamas and use “all military and civilian pressure, including evacuation of the Gaza population south and implementing United States President [Donald] Trump’s voluntary migration plan for Gaza residents.”

Since Israel’s unilateral ending of the ceasefire on March 18 — which was never honored by Israel — Israel has been carrying out relentless bombing and shelling against civilians, killing over 1,400 Palestinians and wounding over 3,600, according to the Palestinian health ministry. An average of one hundred children are being killed daily according to the United Nations. Israel is, at the same time, inciting tensions with Egypt to lay what I suspect will be the groundwork for a mass expulsion of Palestinians into the Egyptian Sinai.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, echoing Katz, said Israel would not lift the total blockade until Hamas was “defeated” and the remaining 59 Israeli hostages were released.

“Not even a grain of wheat will enter Gaza,” he vowed.

But no one in Israel or Gaza expects Hamas, which has weathered the decimation of Gaza and sustained mass slaughter, to surrender or disappear.

The question no longer is will the Palestinians be deported from Gaza but when they will be pushed out and where they will go. The Israeli leadership is apparently torn between driving Palestinians over the border into Egypt or shipping them to countries in Africa. The U.S. and Israel have contacted three East African governments – Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland – to discuss the resettlement of ethnically cleansed Palestinians.

The consequences of wholesale ethnic cleansing will be catastrophic, jeopardizing the stability of the Arab regimes allied with Washington and setting off firestorms of protests within Arab countries. It will likely mean the severing of diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors Jordan and Egypt, already close to the breaking point, and push the region closer to war.

Diplomatic relations have fallen to their lowest point since the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979. The Israeli embassies in Cairo and Amman are largely empty with Israeli staff withdrawn over security concerns following the Oct. 7 incursion into Israel by Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions. Egypt has refused to accept the credentials of Uri Rothman, who was appointed to be the Israeli ambassador last September. Egypt did not name a new ambassador to Israel when former ambassador, Khaled Azmi, was recalled last year.

Israeli officials are accusing Egypt of violating the Camp David accords by increasing its military presence and building new military installations in the Northern Sinai, charges Egypt says are fabricated. The peace treaty’s annex permits additional Egyptian military hardware in the Sinai.

Former Israeli chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, warned of what he calls Egypt’s “security threat.” Katz said that Israel would not allow Egypt to “violate the peace treaty” between the two countries signed in 1979.

Egyptian officials note that it is Israel that has violated the treaty by occupying the Philadelphi Corridor, also known as the Salahuddin Axis, which runs along the nine mile border between Gaza and Egypt and is supposed to be demilitarized.

“Every Israeli action along Gaza’s border with Egypt constitutes hostile behavior against Egypt’s national security,” Egyptian General Mohammed Rashad, a former military intelligence chief, told the Arabic language newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat.

“Egypt cannot sit idly by in the face of such threats and must prepare for all possible scenarios.”

Israeli officials are openly calling for the “voluntary transfer” of Palestinians to Egypt. Knesset member, Avigdor Lieberman, stated that “displacing most Palestinians from Gaza to the Egyptian Sinai is a practical and effective solution.” He contrasted the high population density — Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on the planet — with the vast “untapped lands” in the Egyptian Northern Sinai and noted that Palestinians share a common culture and language with Egypt, making any deportation “natural.” He also criticized Egypt because it allegedly “benefits economically from the current political situation,” as a mediator between Israel and Hamas and “reaps profits from smuggling operations through the tunnels and the Rafah crossing.”

The Israeli think tank Misgav Institute for National Security, staffed by former Israeli military and security officials, published a paper on Oct. 17, 2023, calling on the government to take advantage of the “unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip,” and resettle Palestinians in Cairo with the assistance of the Egyptian government. A leaked document from the Israeli Intelligence Ministry proposed resettling Palestinians from Gaza to the Northern Sinai and constructing barriers and buffer zones to prevent their return.

Any expulsion would likely happen swiftly with Israeli forces, which are already mercilessly herding Palestinians into containment areas in Gaza, carrying out a sustained bombing campaign against the trapped Palestinians while creating porous evacuation portals along the border with Egypt. It would entail a potentially lethal standoff with the Egyptian military, instantly throwing the Egyptian regime of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who has described any ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza as a “red line,” into crisis. It would be a short step from there to a regional conflict.

Israel has seized territory in Syria and southern Lebanon, part of its vision of “Greater Israel,” which includes occupying land in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It covets the maritime gas fields off Gaza’s coast and has floated plans for a new canal to bypass the Suez Canal, to connect Israel’s bankrupt Eilat Port on the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. These projects require emptying Gaza of Palestinians and populating it with Jewish colonists.

The anger on the Arab street — an anger I witnessed over the past few months during visits to Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Qatar — will explode in a justifiable fury if mass deportation takes place. These regimes, simply to hold on to power, will be forced to act. Terrorist attacks, whether by organized groups or lone wolves, will proliferate against Israeli and western targets, especially the United States.

The genocide is a recruitment dream for Islamic militants. Washington and Israel must, on some level, understand the cost of this savagery. But it appears as though they accept it, foolishly trying to obliterate those they have cast out of the community of nations, those they refer to as “human animals.”

What do Israel and Washington believe will happen when the Palestinians are expelled from a land they have lived in for centuries? How do they think a people who are desperate, deprived of hope, dignity and a way to make a living, who are being butchered by one of the most technologically advanced armies on the planet, will respond? Do they think creating a Danteesque hell for the Palestinians will blunt terrorism, curb suicide attacks and foster peace? Can they not grasp the rage rippling through the Middle East and how it will implant a hatred towards us that will endure for decades?

The genocide in Gaza is the greatest crime of this century. It will come back to haunt Israel. It will come back to haunt us. It will usher to our doorsteps the evil we have perpetrated on the Palestinians.

You reap what you sow. We have sown a minefield of hatred and violence.

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief.

14 April 2025

Source: transcend.org