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Israel exploits state of emergency to dismantle Jerusalem’s religious status quo, imposing a discriminatory reality

By Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Palestinian Territory – Israeli authorities’ restrictions on freedom of worship in Jerusalem are not only a grave violation of religious freedom and international law, but also part of a systematic apparatus of repression within a broader structure of settler colonialism and apartheid. These measures are used to subjugate Palestinians and reshape the city’s demography along discriminatory religious and ethnic lines.

These measures reflect a deliberate Israeli policy to consolidate colonial control by excluding Muslim and Christian Palestinians and marginalising their religious and national presence in Jerusalem, while granting privileges to settlers and keeping Jewish places of worship and commercial facilities open without comparable restrictions.

The ongoing Israeli closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque since 28 January 2026, under the pretext of a state of emergency and Home Front Command instructions following the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, goes beyond a temporary security measure. It marks a new phase in Israel’s ongoing efforts to impose coercive realities in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities are using the war and emergency measures as cover to accelerate policies aimed at reducing the Palestinian presence and erasing the city’s historical and religious identity.

Israeli authorities have maintained the full closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque for the 37th consecutive day since 28 February 2026, completely preventing religious rituals, including in enclosed internal facilities such as the underground Marwani Mosque, which can accommodate around 4,000 worshippers. This undermines any claim that the restrictions are based on security needs, “protective arrangements,” or a “state of emergency.”

While Muslims are barred from accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque during the most significant religious periods, including Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, Israeli police provide heavy protection to tens of thousands of settlers, allowing them to enter the mosque’s courtyards, bring in prayer materials, and perform public Talmudic rituals. This reflects discriminatory enforcement of restrictions and undermines the site’s historical and legal status quo.

The danger of these practices extends beyond the incursions and rituals themselves. They are driven by extremist right-wing groups, including so-called “Temple groups,” which openly declare their political goal of imposing temporal and spatial division at Al-Aqsa Mosque and advocate demolishing the Dome of the Rock to build a “Third Temple” in its place. This is reflected in settler groups’ public celebrations on social media, where they describe the mosque’s closure to Muslims as a “declaration of war” and a “victory” in the effort to impose exclusive Jewish sovereignty over the site.

These restrictions no longer merely raise concerns but rather reflect a systematic Israeli strategy to impose a new reality in Jerusalem aimed at undermining the existing historical and legal status quo, diminishing the authority of the Islamic Waqf Department, and gradually reducing Palestinian presence. Israel recognises that Al-Aqsa Mosque is not only a place of worship, but also a central pillar of Palestinian national, political, and religious identity. Targeting Palestinian presence there, therefore, constitutes a direct attack on that identity and an attempt to weaken it, within a broader context of officially supported efforts to reshape the site’s religious and historical character through practical steps toward imposing temporal and spatial division.

Israeli restrictions have not been limited to Al-Aqsa Mosque but have also affected the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the same period. Access to the church has been restricted under measures imposed on the Old City since 28 February 2026.

On 29 March 2026, Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Ielpo, from entering the church to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass, despite their travelling individually and without any ceremonial display.

These measures are not merely disproportionate or selective restrictions; they are manifestations of an Israeli-imposed apartheid system based on the systematic domination of one racial group over another and the systematic oppression of Palestinians through discriminatory control over access to holy sites and fundamental rights. This system grants Israeli Jews privilege and control while depriving Palestinian Muslims and Christians of their inherent right to worship and to be present in Jerusalem.

The closure of Jerusalem to Muslim and Christian worshippers, while heavy security is provided for settler incursions and Jewish access and religious practice remain largely unrestricted, demonstrates that these measures are not neutral security policies but are implemented in a discriminatory and unequal manner.

During the height of the “state of emergency,” which Israel invoked to close Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque, Jerusalem witnessed large Israeli gatherings in synagogues and streets in early March 2026 to celebrate Purim. Despite official restrictions on public gatherings, Israeli police often limited their response to warnings, while celebrations continued across the city. In contrast, police used batons, sound grenades, and tear gas to disperse Palestinian worshippers near the Old City as they attempted to perform Taraweeh prayers on 17 March 2026 and Eid al-Fitr prayers on 20 March 2026 after being denied access to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

This stark contradiction in Israeli policies exposes the depth of the apartheid system. While authorities keep commercial and recreational facilities, including Mamilla Mall, fully open to the public despite their proximity to besieged holy sites, they simultaneously deny a fundamental human right: freedom of worship and access to sacred places. This shows that the restrictions are not based on genuine security necessity but are used as a discriminatory tool to subjugate Palestinians and restrict their religious presence in the city.

The continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque has become a coercive tool for reshaping Palestinian presence through restricted access, the exclusion of influential Jerusalemite figures, and the erosion of the collective religious and national connection the mosque represents.

This approach predates the current closure and is reflected in systematic policies of bans, summonses, and restrictions, including more than 250 expulsion orders issued since the beginning of 2026. Many of these orders covered Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City, and were repeatedly extended, confirming that the reduction of Palestinian presence at Al-Aqsa is not a response to an emergency security situation, but part of an ongoing Israeli policy, now taking its clearest form in the full closure imposed under the pretext of security.

The international community must take immediate and serious action to halt Israel’s unlawful restrictions on freedom of worship and access to holy sites in Jerusalem, and to compel Israel, as an occupying power, to stop using security pretexts and the state of emergency as cover for restricting the fundamental religious rights of Palestinian Muslims and Christians, and to ensure respect for the historical and legal status quo of the city’s Islamic and Christian holy sites.

The United Nations, including the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Special Rapporteurs on freedom of religion or belief and on contemporary forms of racism, must take clear public positions condemning these actions and work to document and follow up on them as part of a broader pattern of discrimination and systematic persecution against Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem.

Additionally, the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention must fulfil their legal obligations and take practical measures to end Israeli violations in East Jerusalem, including by exerting effective political, diplomatic, and legal pressure to stop the continued imposition of coercive measures on holy sites and prevent Israel from exploiting impunity to further undermine Palestinians’ religious and national rights.

Effective international protection for freedom of worship and access to holy sites in Jerusalem must be ensured through fact-finding missions or independent international monitoring mechanisms to monitor restrictions imposed on worshippers, document patterns of discrimination, and provide oversight of measures affecting holy sites and the Palestinian residents of the city.

All Israeli measures aimed at changing the religious, historical, and legal character of Jerusalem must be halted, including the closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque, restrictions on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, support for settler incursions into holy sites, and policies of expulsion and harassment targeting Jerusalemite religious and national figures. These practices should be recognised as part of a broader project to reshape the city’s reality in a way that excludes Palestinians and marginalises their authentic presence there.

Protecting freedom of worship in Jerusalem is inseparable from protecting the Palestinian presence in the city. Therefore, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls on the international community to treat these violations as infringements of inalienable rights, not merely temporary administrative or security measures, and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability and non-recurrence, including by supporting international investigation and accountability mechanisms for the serious violations committed against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is a Geneva-based independent organization with regional offices across the MENA region and Europe

6 April 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

US-Israel Strike at Universities, Health Facilities in Iran

By Dr Marwan Asmar

US-Israeli planes on Friday severely damaged a research center at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, in what appears to be a move targeting academic and civilian institutions and infrastructure.

The administration of Shahid Beheshti University condemned the attack, stating that the building served as an educational and research center, a significant portion of which was destroyed.

The bombing struck the Laser and Plasma Research Institute at the university. Academics expressed shock, noting that the center is a health research and learning facility with no connection to weapons production, and described the bombing as an act of pure vandalism and hatred.

Shahid Beheshti is not the first university targeted by the US-Israeli coalition in the past month. The Faculty of Pharmacy at Shiraz University was hit on March 14, and Isfahan University of Technology was attacked ten days later.

Strikes also targeted parts of the Science and Technology Campus and the Veterinary Specialized Hospital Campus at Urmia University, as well as Tehran’s University of Science and Technology.

Shahid Beheshti University is one of the country’s leading academic institutions, Iranian state media reported.

The university, established in 1960 and named after prominent revolutionary figure Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, is a major center for research and higher education in Tehran and has long been a hub for thousands of students and faculty.

The reported attacks on educational institutions come days after a series of US-Israel strikes targeted key civilian and research facilities, including the Pasteur Institute of Iran, a century-old biomedical research and public health institution.

Iran’s Health Ministry stated that the airstrike on the Pasteur Institute in central Tehran, which was hit last Thursday, caused severe damage, labeling the incident a “direct assault on international health security” and a violation of international law.

In response to the strikes on health infrastructure, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged international bodies to act, writing on the social media platform X: “What message does attacking hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and the Pasteur Institute, as a medical research centre in Iran, convey?” He called on the World Health Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and physicians worldwide to respond to what he described as a crime against humanity.

Dr Marwan Asmar is a journalist from Amman, Journdan
E-mail: marwan.asmar59@gmail.com

5 April 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

The US-Israel War on Humanity: What is Next?

By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja

Egoistic Warriors vs. Mankind

The trajectory of war against Iran unleashed authoritarianism of dark ages propelling insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture. Humanity and its future appears disdained and unpredictable. The American-Israel war claims peace, democracy for the Iranian people but exhibits continuous bombardments of civilian populations, pains, deaths, horrors and devastation of essential life infrastructures. Trump and Netanyahu do not appear to be normal beings but despotic kings to undermine their own national interest and security. It is not America First but Israel First and a Plan for “Greater Israel” is already operational. What is at stake? Global humanity is being marginalized and threatened by just two political figures lacking effective leadership and accountability for the consequences of their sadistic thinking. President Trump and PM Netanyahu would deny the emerging plan for “Greater Israel” but coordinate and solidify its top priority for the conquest of the whole Arab Middle East. Their actions make no distinction between vice and virtue. The UN Secretary General condemns the US-Israel war against Iran and Iran’s retaliatory attack on the Gulf States. Conscious citizens of Israel feel being hostages as their normal lives are ruined by daily Iranian bombardment, destruction, and the political agenda of an extremist leader and a group of people. The civic societies in Israel demonstrate daily against PM Netanyahu’s policies and practices and ask for an end to the war with Iran. Across Western Europe, millions march in solidarity with Palestninans, peace and demand an end to hostilities. Absurd propositions of wars deny the truth but truth is one and has its own language and that this a war on humanity impacting all segments of social, economic and human affairs.America and Israel are not the friends but foes of the Arab world. They continued to exploit the sectarian divides and dehumanize the socio-economic culture of the Arab societies. To stop insanity, the Arab people should wake-up and realize the factual challenges to defend themselves.

The war has its hidden objectives, to annihilate the whole of the Arab oil producing region, massacre anyone opposing the war and asking for peace , freedom and justice and to make Israel the new superpower of the Middle East. Israel under PM Netanyahu and extremists face no hurdle to evolve “Greater Israel”, no law and no civilized challenge to stop the march for putting finished answers to Palestine. The West European and the US leaders used to propel an imaginary Utopian world of human rights, peace without war and to foresee the “succeeding generations free of the scourge of war” as a legal and political responsibility. Not so, they have all failed miserably to protect the entrenched mankind. The imagination of a promising glorious future simply turned by the few against many as an inferno of horrors, killings and utter devastation throughout Palestine and Persian Gulf.

How Global Leaders Betrayed the Arab Masses?

How strange! Human life has no importance and value but flow of oil assumes top priority to go via Strait of Hurmuz. Trump issues another 48 hrs ultimatum to Iran for the opening of Hurmuz which is already functional and open to all except enemies of Iran and Islam. Most treacherous and irresponsible are the Arab-Muslim leaders – former tribal agents now kings, princes and presidents have allowed the Israeli-American sponsored war machines and atrocities to displace the people of Gaza and unfold a working plan of “Greater Israel.” The oil enriched Arab leaders lost the Islamic history of moral obligations, compassion and intellect and wanted to buy wisdom with wealth. The Western nations fed the Arabian societies with contaminated foods for a long time to change their thinking and behaviors and make them robotic machines to enjoy sports, pleasures and palaces. The Arab masses live in discontent and despair not knowing the reality of upcoming future – crimes and genocide by Israel enlarged to cover the Arabian Peninsula. “The World Wonders! Where are the Arab Leaders”, https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/the-world-wonders-where-are-the-arab-leaders-by-mahboob-a-khawaja-phd/ the author noted: Blind terror and hatred of Arabs and Islam blends the American and Israeli conquest plans for “Greater Israel”, a catastrophic abnormality taking shape and form without any deterrence. Despite the so-called International Law, the UNO Security Council and vigilant global humanity wanting an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, crimes against humanity and forcible displacement of 2.5 million civilians are daily events.

America and Isreal cannot defend themselves, how could they defend others? The American-Israeli collaborative war on Iran and Palestine and its immediate consequences made the Western world shamefully redundant and void in the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom, justice and safety of civilians.

Human Life is a Test of Good and Evil and Accountability

All material powers are exhaustible and the notion of being the most powerful nation is absurd and a political distraction. Sinisterism and unacknowledged motives make Trump and Netanyahu pathological liars unaware of their own ending. God created you as human beings – the most intelligent creation on this planet with moral and intellectual capacity, obligations and accountability. Earth is a “trust” to mankind for its existence, sustenance of life, survival, progress and future-making. Wherever there is trust, there is accountability. Those bombing the earth and killing innocent people are not normal people but a curse to mankind. The Divine warning (The Quran: 7:56), warns: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good. (44:38-39), the reminder is explicit: We created not the Heavens and the Earth; And all between them merely in idle sport. We created them not, Except for just ends. But most of them do not understand.

You cannot pretend to think and behave like animals. Animals live and do not reflect on the imperatives of life whereas, we, the human beings cannot act like animals as we are supposed to be intelligent and responsible species on this Earth. At the edge of reason, the notion of evil leads to realization of evil and tyranny of genocide must be stopped by all means to restore the manifestation of equal rights, peace, justice and security for all. Intelligent people, leaders and nations always readily accept advice: The followers of Moses – the generations of Israelite are reminded by God (The Quran 2: 84-85 ): And remember, We took a Covenant from the Children of Israel (progeny of Jacob), Worship none but God; ….shed no blood amongst you, Nor displace people from homes: and Ye solemnly ratified, And to this ye can bear witness…. It was not lawful for you to banish another party, then it is only a part of the Book that ye believe in…. And on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty, For God is not unmindful what ye do.

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations.

5 April 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

Lying By Commission And Omission By Apartheid Israel, Zionist Trump America, Zionist-Perverted Australia & West 

By Gideon Polya

Lying by omission is far, far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter at least permits public refutation and public debate. Kindness and Truth is the core ethos of Humanity but is grossly violated by genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid Israel that is fervently supported by Zionist America and the Zionist-perverted West, including Australia that is second only to the US in its support for Apartheid Israel and hence for utterly repugnant apartheid.

Some key issues are systematically explored below.

(1). American government lying by commission and omission before Trump.

Famed anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone (author of “The Hidden History of the Korean War”) famously addressed journalism students as follows: “Among all the things I’m going to tell you today about being a journalist, all you have to remember is two words: governments lie” [1]. Before Trump, the US Establishment (the Democrat-Republican Duopoly) lied but at least attempted to maintain a semblance of propriety by (a) lying selectively and “cleverly” by trying to avoid blatant, in-your-face lying by commission, and (b) upholding the massive untruth of US government truthfulness by very publicly politically destroying several presidents for the awful and singular crime of telling a lie to Congress.

Thus Richard Nixon (Republican US president, 1969-1974) was not arraigned for direct involvement as US president in the following horrific war atrocities (deaths from violence and deprivation in brackets): the 1969-1998 Cambodian Genocide (6 million), 1955-1975 Laotian Genocide (1 million) and the 1945-1975 Vietnamese Genocide (15 million) [2-7]. However he was finally forced to resign for lying to Congress over the victim-less Watergate scandal [8]. Likewise Bill Clinton (Democrat US president, 1993- 2001) was not arraigned for direct involvement as US president in the following atrocities (deaths from violence and deprivation in brackets): 1992 onwards Somali Genocide (2 million), the 1990-2003 Sanctions and Gulf War part of the Iraqi Genocide (1.9 million), 1979 onwards Sanctions-related Iran Genocide (3 million), non-intervention in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (0.9 million) and bombing Serbia [2-7]. However Clinton was impeached (albeit thence acquitted) over lying to Congress over his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky [8].

(2). Trump told over 30,000 lies in his first administration.

However Trump has taken crude, bare-faced, in-your-face lying to extraordinary heights. While the George W. Bush administration told a whopping 935 lies between 9/11 in 2001 and the illegal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq (March 2003) [9-11], Donald Trump told an astonishing over 30,000 lies in his first administration alone [10-12]. Like a broken watch that nevertheless tells the correct time twice a day, Trump occasionally tells the truth, perhaps by accident. Thus in a magic moment of inadvertent truthfulness, Trump amusingly responded to a journalist’s question about his assertion that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was a “dictator” by asking: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that” [13].

(3). In 18 months lying Trump America and US-backed lying Apartheid Israel have attacked numerous countries and inflicted the Gaza Genocide (875,000 deaths from violence and deprivation in 2 years).

War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate. A racist, warmongering, mendacious and Zionist Trump has lied and bullied the World into a violent and dangerous rules-free zone reminiscent of 1930s Nazi Germany. Trump is following the example of Apartheid Israel that violates about 15 major International laws and Conventions and has deprived its Occupied Palestinian Subjects of all the human rights set out in the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [13]. A barbarous Trump has supplied the weapons, bombs, military support and UN Security Council vetoes that has enabled the Apartheid Israel-imposed Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust (from data and methodology published in The Lancet by expert epidemiologists, Gazan deaths totalled 875,000 in the first 2 years, with this including the deaths of 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,0000 men). Zionist-perverted Western Mainstream media under-report Gaza deaths by a factor of about 12 [8, 14-16].

Article 2 of the UN Charter forbids unprovoked invasion of another country: “4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations” [17]. Post-WW2 and apart from significant border spats, India and China have not invaded any other country, and Russia has invaded 4 countries, whereas the US has invaded over 50 countries [18, 19]. However with its recent unprovoked attack on Qatar, a nuclear terrorist, state terrorist, Nazi Germany-style, exceptionalist, genocidal and uncontrolled Apartheid Israel has now militarily attacked 18 countries, a record similar to that of Nazi Germany in WW2 [20]. In the last 18 months alone US-armed and US-backed Apartheid Israel has attacked 6 countries (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar, Yemen, and Iran), and Trump America has attacked 5 countries (Syria, Iran, Yemen, Venezuela, and Cuba that is presently crippled by a US naval blockade) and has threatened to invade a further 5 countries (Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Canada and Greenland/Denmark). The World must stop US and Apartheid Israeli war crimes now by application of draconian global Sanctions.

Trump’s extraordinary lying (over 30,000 lies in his first administration alone) is matched by the remorseless lying of Apartheid Israel and its Zionist supporters. Thus I have listed and detailed 35 lies of commission by Apartheid Israel that have been simply adopted by the US, US lackey Australia and the US-beholden West in a massive adoption of lying by commission in the interests of genocidal Zionism and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel [21, 22].

(4). Entrenched US and Western government non-disclosure is lying by omission that like lying by commission endangers rational risk management and hence “national security”.

The US, Apartheid Israel, and the US-beholden West (including US lackey, Zionist-perverted Australia) routinely and extensively block public knowledge of their operations on the basis of “national security”. This must be called out for what it manifestly is: egregious lying by omission that, as explained above, is far worse than repugnant lying by commission, and cripples science-based rational risk management vital for societal safety and “national security”.

Lying, whether lying by omission or lying by commission, sabotages science-based rational risk management that successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses, and (c) science-informed systemic change to minimize harm when things inevitably go wrong. The all too common lying-based converse of such rational risk management endangers societal security and successively involves (a) lack of accurate reportage through lying by omission, lying by commission and censorship, (b) science-rejecting analysis involving gathering evidence to support a partisan position, and (c) a counterproductive “blame and shame” response that leaves a flawed system unchanged and inhibits crucial reportage.

As argued in my huge book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, lying means history ignored and that means history repeated [5]. Apart from inevitable border spats, most countries in the world have not invaded other countries. In stark contrast, as of 2023 the US has invaded 72 countries (52 since World War 2], has committed 469 invasions from 1798 onwards, committed 251 invasions since 1991, invaded or otherwise had a military presence in all but 3 countries , and has 800 military bases in over 70 countries [2, 18-20, 23-37]. The US actively spies on and subverts all countries, including deceiving, subverting and spying on its most craven ally Australia, and indeed supplies raw intelligence on Australians to Apartheid Israel with the cowardly and traitorous complicity of successive Labor and Coalition governments [38].

(5). Entrenched US Alliance lying, 9/11, the US-imposed post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide, and the Zionist-imposed American Holocaust.

Top US commander General Wesley Clark (Jewish background and Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000), revealed how in November 2001 he was shown the Pentagon list of 7 Muslim countries to be invaded and destroyed by America . In his book “Winning Modern Wars” (2003), he states: “As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.” With the bombing of Iran in 2025 and now even more savagely in 2026, all countries on the list have now been bombed and devastated [2-4, 39-50]. In 2015 it was estimated that 32 million Muslims had died from violence and deprivation in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the Israeli-complicit, US Government 9/11 false flag atrocity in which 3,000 innocent Americans were killed [49, 50].

The long term accrual cost of post-9/11 US war spending has been estimated by the Brown University “Costs of War” project at about $8 trillion [51] . Yet 1.5 million Americans die preventably each year from “lifestyle choice” and “political choice” reasons, and accordingly since 9/11 about 36 million Americans have died thus [52-59]. In the Zionazi Israel-promoted US War on Terror (aka the US War on Muslims) about 32 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, and deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9/11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 innocent Americans [49, 50]. The 9/11 atrocity almost certainly involved Zionazi Apartheid Israel – it was the sole beneficiary of these genocidal wars, and only Zionazi operatives of Apartheid Israel would have had the skill, resources, discipline and fanaticism to do it and thence keep the secret [60-63]. Due to Zionazi Apartheid Israel and its traitorous Zionist agents, the Zionist-perverted US Establishment has committed $8 trillion to killing 32 million Muslims abroad (mostly women and children) instead of trying to save the lives at home of the 36 million Americans who have died preventably since 9/11 in what must be described as a Zionazi-imposed American Holocaust.

Part of that Zionist lying-enabled and Zionist-imposed American Holocaust has been the 6,000 American soldiers killed by enemy action in post-9/11 US wars [56], and the over 183,000 American veterans who have suicided since 9/11 ( 20 suicides per day x 365.25 days per year x 25 years = 183,000 suicides [57, 58].

(6). Entrenched and deadly lying by Zionists, Apartheid Israel, Zionist-subverted America and Zionist-perverted Mainstream media.

The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth. The key moral imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (and indeed from all holocausts and genocides) are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone” . Indeed the fundamental rule in science is “zero tolerance for lying”. However these injunctions against lying and inhumanity are grossly violated by genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid Israel and its Zionist and Zionist-perverted supporters. I have catalogued and refuted 35 Zionist lies that have been adopted by the Zionist-perverted US Alliance [21, 22]. The most fundamental and most glaring Zionist lies are that “the Jewish People” descend from the Semitic Israelites of the Bible and have a “God-given right” to a nation state in the ancient land of the Semitic Palestinian people. These key Zionist lies are succinctly demolished below:

(a). “The Jewish People” is an utterly false misnomer when a huge body of decent, sane and humane Jews, from Orthodox religious Jews to socialist and atheist Jews, reject this false, destructive, exclusionist and racist assertion. It is as absurd and dangerous as the presently unheard of assertion of , say, “the Presbyterian people” that would demand, following the example of Apartheid Israel, an exclusively “Presbyterian” nation-state” based on the ethnic cleansing of another country, possession of 90 nuclear weapons, having one of the world’s largest high technology armies and using it to remorselessly devastate the Muslim world from Africa to Iran. Indeed true Orthodox Jews reject racist Zionism and believe that Jews can only “return” to Zion (Jerusalem) when the Messiah arrives to declare the glory of “the Lord” to the whole World [64, 65]. A large body of outstanding anti-racist Jews [66] (backed by a large body of anti-racist non-Jews like Nelson Mandela and Gandhi [67] ) condemn genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and its racist Zionist backers, declaring “not in our name” [66].

(b). Most Jews in the World are genetically non-Semitic Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews (like me) who originate from non-Semitic Europeans and non-Semitic Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism in about the 9th century CE [68-79]. Indeed I come from a famous Ashkenazi Jewish Hungarian family (ask any mathematician or surgeon) and have had my DNA analysed, this revealing that I am 52-57% Ashkenazi Jewish and 24% British Celtic but with zero (0) Middle Eastern (i.e. Semitic) contribution. While the Zionist Israelis running genocidally racist Apartheid Israel are mostly non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jews, the sorely oppressed Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Palestinians and Exiled Palestinians are indubitably Semitic and their forbears have continuously inhabited Palestine for over 4,000 years and made a huge contribution to civilization [79, 80].

(c). The genocidally racist intent hidden by Zionist lying has been exposed by numerous anti-racist scholars and writers. Thus outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU): “An all out struggle against Zionism by Jews, therefore, is also the most effective way to fight against real anti-Semitism. Furthermore, if Zionism is indeed a particularly virulent form of nationalism and, increasingly, of racism and if Israel is acting toward its captive minority in ways that resemble more and more how the Nazis treated their Jews, then we must also say so. For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow “unfair” and to charge “anti-Semitism” when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis.” [66, 81]. Likewise, famed Jewish Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein: “There is a debate among Jews – I’m a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: “Never again to everyone, or never again to us?… [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card…There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], “Never again to anyone”” [66]. Anti-racist Jewish British Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter together with famed co-signatories Tariq Ali, Russell Banks, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, Eduardo Galeano, Charles Glass, Naomi Klein, W.J.T. Mitchell, Arundhati Roy, Jose Saramago, Giuliana Sgrena, Gore Vidal, and Howard Zinn: “Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation” [66]. The humane opinions of outstanding anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish scholars and writers are in stark contrast to the racism and mendacity of Zionist-perverted Western mainstream media [82].

(d). A major vehicle of Zionist lying is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) that has successfully emplaced in the Western Mainstream the false IHRA Definition of Antisemitism that has been rejected by numerous scholars [83-97] and by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations [87, 96] including the prestigious Jewish Council of Australia: “The Jewish Council is strongly opposed to the recommendation for universities to adopt a definition of antisemitism based on the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. The IHRA definition was never intended to be used as a tool to regulate free speech and has been rejected by hundreds of scholars of antisemitism and Jewish studies, including its own author, as well as international human rights organisations. This is because the examples of antisemitism that it provides, such as calling the state of Israel ‘a racist endeavor’, have been weaponised to suppress criticism of Israel and silence Palestinian voices. Its examples also have the perverse effect of conflating Jewish identity with support for the state of Israel, something which increases antisemitism. Its widespread adoption in the university setting would undermine academic freedom of inquiry and speech”[96]. The IHRA is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of the appalling crimes of Apartheid Israel as assertedly “antisemitic”) and is holocaust denying (by ignoring all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, and indeed ignoring some 70 genocides and holocausts) [86, 88]. The IHRA offers 11 examples of asserted anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, of which all have been refuted [88]. The all-European, 35-member IHRA includes all countries that collaborated with Nazi Germany in WW2, and all Western European countries involved in the 5 centuries of slavery and genocidal settler-colonialism [98].

Zionist subversion and perversion explains the extraordinary lying by commission and lying by omission of Western Mainstream media [82]. While numerous anti-racist Jewish intellectuals are resolutely critical of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide [66], because of subversion by Jewish Zionists, Western Mainstream Media variously censor or white-wash the nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, and grossly human rights-abusing conduct of Apartheid Israel. A part explanation for this huge moral discrepancy is that the American 60% of the world’s 30 biggest media companies have a disproportionately high Jewish Board membership. Jews and females represent 2% and 51%, respectively, of the US population but average 33% and 19%, respectively, of Board members of the top 18 US media companies [82]. Thomas Piketty argued that wealth inequity is bad for economics (the poor cannot afford the goods and services they produce) and bad for informed democracy (Big Money purchases public perception of reality and hence more votes, more power and more private wealth) [99, 100]. Big Money perverts democracy and is deadly: about 7.4 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year [2]. In 2014 I estimated that a 4% annual wealth tax would abolish this Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust [101]. However about 300 Jewish billionaires represent about 10% of the world’s over 3,000 billionaires and Jews are disproportionately wealthy in the US and globally [102-104]. The world’s wealthiest 1% own about 50% of the world’s wealth and the bottom 50% own about 1% [105, 106]. The Jewish billionaires and other extremely wealthy Jews are inferred to be Zionist Jews because despite their immense power to influence they are not among the numerous anti-racist Jews condemning the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel [66].

(7). Lying by commission and omission by look-the-other-way, US lackey and Zionist-perverted Australia.

Australia is home to survivors of a 65,000- year old Indigenous culture, the oldest continuous civilization in the world. The British invasion on 25 January 1788 to form the penal colony of Sydney started an over 2-century Aboriginal Genocide and Indigenous Ethnocide. Before the invasion there were 350-700 unique languages and dialects of which only about 120 survive and of these all but 25 are endangered. In the first century of colonization the Indigenous (Aboriginal, Aborigine, First Nations, Black Australian) population fell from about 1 million to 0.1 million through violence, dispossession, deprivation and introduced disease. The last massacre of Indigenous Australians occurred at Coniston in Central Australia in 1928. Overall it can be estimated that Indigenous deaths from violence and deprivation totalled about 2 million. Surviving Indigenous Australians were employed on very low wages as effective slave labour on rural properties. There was large-scale (circa 100,000 ) removal of Aboriginal children (especially part-European children) from their mothers to be trained for domestic or other labour (the so-called Stolen Generations). Indigenous Australians were confined to Missions and subject to government Protectors, with the government intention of “assimilation” and loss of language and culture (Aboriginal Ethnocide). In a 1967 Referendum Indigenous Australians were finally recognized in the Constitution as citizens of Australia and in subsequent decades some key High Court decisions enabled restoration of some Land Rights, mostly in remote areas. Today there are over 1 million Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders), representing about 4% of the Australian population. However the removal of Aboriginal children from their mothers is continuing at a record rate and there is a huge socio-economic “Gap” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian in terms of health, wealth, education, employment, incarceration, deaths in custody, child removal and prospects [107].

White Australian lying by omission and commission over the continuing maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians has been substantially addressed in recent decades by dedicated Indigenous activism (“truth telling”). However look-the-other-way Australia has an entrenched culture of lying by omission and commission as exampled below. The following Elephant in the Room realities within living memory are largely unknown to Australian citizens and deliberately ignored by mendacious and racist Mainstream Australian journalist, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes:

(i). In 1942-1945 Indians were subjected to the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine) in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons in Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam by the British with food-denying Australian complicity [108-116].

(ii). As a US lackey Australia was involved in all 1950s onwards US Asian Wars, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation. The Liberal Party-National Party Coalition involved Australia in all these wars and Labor backed all except for the Vietnam War and the 2003-2011 Iraqi Genocide [2].

(iii). Australians have been involved in at least 8 successful US-backed coups: Laos (1960), Indonesia (1960-1965), Cambodia (1970), Chile (1973), Australia (1975), Fiji (1987), Fiji (2000), and Australia (2010), with the last 3 involving Apartheid Israel [117-121].

(iv). Australia second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways [122-124].

(v). Australia lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Thus, for example, #1, the Lie that “Israel is a Jewish state” (fewer than 50% of its Subjects are Jewish, and about half its Subjects are Indigenous Palestinians despite a century of Zionist-imposed ethnic cleansing), and #2, the Lie that “Israel is a democracy” (its Occupied Palestinian Subjects cannot vote for the government ruling them) [125, 126].

(vi). Australian, US, and Western and Mainstream media under-report Gaza Genocide deaths by a factor of 12. Thus from data and methodology published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet, Gazan “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase in inverted commas) totalled 875,000 in the first 2 years, with this including the deaths of 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,000 men). Zionist-perverted Australian and Western Mainstream media report about 75,000 Gaza deaths and thus under-report Gaza deaths by a factor of about 12 [127-139].

(vii). Australian Mainstream media ignore the horrific Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios before and after the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023. It is obvious to all observers that the Apartheid Israeli response to the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023 was hugely disproportionate [127-139]. However Hamas may have assumed that the Israeli response would be like that of previous retaliations that were called “mowing the lawn” by the genocidal Zionazis. The Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio was 21 in Gaza for the period 2008-6 October 2023, 2 times that ordered by Nazi mass murderer Adolph Hitler and immediately effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Cave Massacre in Rome [140-142]. Hamas could have predicted 21 x 1,200 = 25,200 Palestinian being killed by Zionist Israelis in reprisals for their evidently extremely unwise 7 October 2023 Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp. Hamas simply could not have imagined that by 7 October 2025 the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio would be 875,000/1,200 = 729 or 73 times greater than Hitler’s advocated Reprisals Death Ratio of 10. The ratio may be twice that because many of the 1,200 Israeli dead were killed by the huge shelling and missile firepower of the responding IDF operating under its Hannibal Directive (prevent hostage taking even if it means killing the hostages). Further, 97.5% of the Israelis killed were adults and hence mostly past or present IDF soldiers involved in guarding the Gaza Concentration Camp and imposing the illegal and now 59-year Occupation [142-144]. Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorist is as terrorist does. It is palpably obvious to honest observers that the Zionazis “set up” the Gaza Breakout and contributed hugely to the 7 October 2023 deaths in order to get an “excuse” to destroy 4,000-year old Gaza and kill over 36% of the pre-war population of 2.4 million [145-149]. Likewise, the present US-Israeli bombing of Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and the current invasion and devastation of Lebanon are part of realizing the Zionist Israeli Zionazi dream of a Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates [127].

[viii). Australian Mainstream media largely ignore the horrific realities of the Gaza Genocide [127-150] and also ignore the shocking rate of killing of Gaza journalists who are courageously reporting these horrors [131, 151]. Thus on 15 September 2025 Dr Richard Hil and I wrote: “What journalists, academics, activists, and others should not abide – morally or politically – is the reporting of fatalities that ignores the true scale of the carnage in Gaza. Bluntly, mainstream western Journalists need to do their job. They should seek to emulate the courage and bravery shown by fellow journalists reporting from Gaza. The UN has reported that 242 journalists reporting the Gaza massacre have been murdered – this translates to “journalists killed per year per million of population” of 64.5 in Gaza as compared to 0.5 in Syria, 0.3 in Afghanistan and 0.01 throughout the world…We say to journalists who fail to do their job: silence is complicity and inaction is complicity. They have a duty to those who have lost their lives to properly remember their passing” [131].

(ix). The above examples sketch Australian lying by omission, lying by commission and complicity in relation to genocidal atrocities from the over 2-centnry Australian Aboriginal Genocide and the century-long Palestinian Genocide to the present Gaza Holocaust. However Australia has an entrenched culture of lying and censorship about all kinds of things. Secrecy and censorship is applied routinely by governments to numerous matters, supposedly in “the national interest”, but in harsh reality it is simply lying by omission. However there is also extraordinary lying by commission by Mainstream Australian journalist , politician and commentariat presstitutes [152]. Thus Humanity is existentially threatened by (a) nuclear weapons and (b) climate change but the Australian Labor Government is (a) locking Australia in permanently to US nuclear terrorism by allowing US nuclear-armed warships and bombers to base in Australia, and (b) falsely claiming to be “tackling climate change” while massively expanding fossil fuel extraction, use and export.

(x). As an experiment (I am a half-century career scientist) in the 2.5 years since 7 October 2023 I have each week been addressing about 4 carefully-researched Letters to about 2 dozen Australian Mainstream media but only about 6 have been published. In August-September 2025 the progressive centrist Alternative medium Pearls and Irritations (P&I) published 10 of my hard-hitting Letters in a row but then the inevitable happened: some persons (Australian Intelligence, Zionists or VIPs?) intervened and since 6 September 2025 zero (0) of my Letters were published by P&I or indeed by Mainstream Australian media. However I have been recording all these Letters on a website “Australian Mainstream media lying & censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/australian-mainstream-media-lying-censorshp [137] as a documentary testament to what Australian Mainstream media don’t want their readers to see, know about or think about. The following Letter is given by way of example of Australian Labor Government falsehood:

LETTER: 23 March 2026. Fact checking PM re mosque heckling, apartheid, genocide. “Fact checking PM Albanese: (1). Albanese: “[Sydney Lakemba Mosque] heckling [of the Australian PM]. Some people don’t like the fact that we have outlawed extremist organisations like Hizb ut-Tahrir, and that brought a response from a couple of people” [Guardian: “Guardian Australia analysis of videos taken of the heckling found no reference to the group”]. (2). Albanese: “The use of terms like apartheid not only is not appropriate to describe the Israeli political system and structure, it also cheapens the struggle against apartheid that occurred in South Africa led by Mandela and others” [South African anti-apartheid heroes Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have strongly condemned Israeli apartheid]. (3). While the Greens have used the term “genocide” in relation to the nearly 2.5 years of the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust, apparently Labor, Liberals, Nationals, Teals and One Nation have not [untruth by omission: based on data and methodology published in The Lancet, in 2 years Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase) totalled 875,000 including 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,000 men, and the UN Genocide Convention defines “genocide” as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”]. Silence is complicity” END LETTER [137].

Final comments and conclusions.

The World must act decisively in the face of this horrific and continuing Gaza Genocide atrocity, the horrific US-Israeli devastation of Iran, and the devastation and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon by US-backed and US-armed Apartheid Israel – and all fundamentally enabled by egregious lying by commission and omission. We are all obliged to (a) inform everyone we can (mendacious Western Mainstream media certainly won’t) and (b) urge and apply draconian Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against mendacious and genocidal Apartheid Israel and all its mendacious and Gaza Genocide-complicit supporters, most notably Zionist-perverted America (that has supplied the weapons, bombs and UN Security Council vetoes) and other war crimes- and Gaza Genocide-complicit US Alliance countries. Silence is complicity.

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[129]. Gideon Polya, “Unforgivable 2-Year Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide & Gaza Holocaust By 50 Appalling Numbers”, Countercurrents, 14 October 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/unforgivable-2-year-gaza-massacre-gaza-genocide-gaza-holocaust-by-50-appalling-numbers/ .

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[131]. Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “Australian mainstream media continue to hugely understate Gazan death toll”, Countercurrents, 15 September 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/09/australian-mainstream-media-continue-to-hugely-understate-gazan-death-toll/ .

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[151]. Gideon Polya, “Anas Al-Sharif Died Reporting Gaza Holocaust: Israel Leads World In Killing Journalists”, Countercurrents, 18 August 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/08/anas-al-sharif-died-reporting-gaza-holocaust-israel-leads-world-in-killing-journalists/ .

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Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003).

5 April 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

China’s Coal, U.S. CO2 Stoke Global Warming

By Robert Hunziker

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry totaled 38.11 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2025, hitting a record high, versus 25.51 GtCO2 in 2000. Moreover, the rate of global warming more than doubled for the first time in human history, in only one decade. Scientists are stunned: The Rate of Global Warming has Accelerated More in the Past Decade Than Ever Before, LiveScience, d/d March 7, 2026. According to NASA, 97% of publishing scientists in the world agree that excessive CO2 emissions cause excessive global warming as well as aberrant climate change.

Following a surge in permitting and construction, more than 50 large coal-fired power plants were commissioned in China last year. Source: CREA / Global Energy Monitor. Yale Environment 360 /

China loves coal, but it still should be awarded a gold medal for renewable installations in 2025. No other country came close to installation of 300 gigawatts of solar and 100 gigawatts of wind power in 2025. These installations set a record. Paradoxically, China also wins a tarnished medal for biggest emitter of greenhouse gases at roughly 32% of the world total. If this seems contradictory, yes, it is. But it takes a lot of energy for 1.4B people. After all, the scorecard shows China consumed 40% more coal in 2025 than the rest of the world combined.

China also installed more solar and wind power in 2025 than the rest of the world combined. It is the first country to exceed 1,000 GW of solar capacity. China’s investments in clean energy exceed the combined efforts of the U.S., EU, and UK. Another 300 GW of wind and solar is currently under construction. China’s total clean energy investment in 2025 was $630B.

Still, “Xi Jinping’s promise to reduce China’s carbon intensity by 65 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 is severely off track. Planners could have compensated with renewed ambition in the 15th Five-Year Plan. Instead, they changed the way they calculate energy intensity, perhaps to disguise the failure to meet Xi’s target, and set a looser ambition for the next five years.” (Isabel Hilton, As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction, YaleEnvironment360, March 26, 2026)

US Emissions Turn Up

Meantime, United States greenhouse gas emissions increased for the first time in 24 months: The Rhodium Group’s preliminary 2025 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions analysis reports that after two years of declining emissions, the U.S. produced 2.4% more planet-warming CO2 pollution last year. More concerning was emissions growing faster than the economy, which expanded just 1.9%, reversing three years of successfully decoupling economic growth from carbon output.

Earth’s Tipsy Climate Losing Balance – Worst in History

Climate balance/imbalance is the key gauge of a healthy system. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and melting of ice, These rapid and large-scale changes have occurred within a few decades but will have harmful repercussions for hundreds – and potentially thousands of years.” (Earth’s Climate Swings Increasingly Out of Balance, World Meteorological Organization, March 23, 2026)

Within the past 12 months, Dr. James Hansen (Earth Institute, Columbia) publicly stated: The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated and the international “2C target is dead.” Buckle up.

US Loses $61 Billion In Clean Energy Projects in Only One Year

“A new report indicates that Trump administration policies led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs… industries also lost an estimated 48,000 potential jobs.” (Grist)

A more comprehensive report, according to Climate Power, nearly 173,000 clean energy jobs have been lost, put on the chopping block, or delayed since Trump took office. The job losses stem from 354 canceled or delayed projects, representing more than $61 billion in investments, which would have powered more than 14 million homes. Clean energy as a priority is gone for this administration, over cliff’s edge, in a tailspin.

Clearly, the United States is intentionally harming the world climate system by pushing fossil fuel use over renewable energy, but that’s only the most obvious of intentional abuses. The US has become public enemy number one of climate change with worldwide impact. For example, “The White House also terminated funding for the US Global Change Research Program, the federal body responsible for producing the nation’s most comprehensive climate reports on the impacts of rising global temperatures. It also shut down climate.gov, NOAA’s primary public-facing website for climate science, and axed NOAA’s Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset, which has provided vital information for first responders, the insurance industry, and researchers to plan recovery efforts and assess weather-related risks… The cuts extended to international climate efforts as well. In February, the administration pulled the US out of global discussions regarding an upcoming global climate change assessment carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). President Trump also ordered federal scientists at NOAA and the US Global Change Research Program to cease all work related to IPCC climate assessments, effectively ending US involvement in one of the world’s most critical climate evaluation efforts.” (for a comprehensive list of cuts: Earth.org)

The United States is knee-deep in a massive strategy of global disengagement, ‘isolationism’ pure and simple, America First, regardless of decades of building global interrelationships that have molded the world order. That world order is gone, in crash mode. Along the way, climate change mitigation is low-hanging fruit, easily ignored because of a soft constituency, making it doubly vulnerable with very little ‘pocket money’ payback and crushed by fossil fuel moneyed interests.

At the heart of the problem climate change is an extremely complex global issue that requires worldwide cooperation, the antithesis of isolationism.

Nobody wants to accept it, but a worst-case climate scenario may be taking center stage, flooded coastal cities and bone-dry farmlands as two potential scenarios for failure to acknowledge and mitigate climate change. There is nothing positive about the current direction of seemingly endless fossil fuel energy production. According to scientists, the atmosphere is very close to ‘full-up’ of CO2 emissions based upon guesstimates of limits to keep global temperatures under the dreaded 2C. Then, the whole climate system spins out of control in chaotic fashion.

Isolationism by the world’s leading economy in a complex world with a flagging climate system leads to big trouble for life-supporting ecosystems. But nobody wants to deal with it seriously enough, soon enough to make a big difference; only a couple of countries, out of 195 signatories, are tracking Paris 2015 commitments to cut CO2 emissions by 2030. This is disgustingly outrageous as these same 195 countries were in full agreement that the ‘shit would hit the fan’ unless they cut fossil fuel emissions by 2030 to hold global mean temperature to 1.5°C pre-industrial, which they’ve subsequently moved up to 2°C as 1.5°C looks to ‘be in the bag.’ Clearly, the climate system is outpacing any and all commitments to tame it, but it goes without saying, it’s acting a lot like a wild stallion.

Alas, it is only too obvious that climate change is not a high priority, even as it turns chaotic and destructive enough to crush homeowners’ insurance in some regions of America. Only a few years ago, nobody suggested climate change would end up crushing the property insurance market: How Climate Risks Are Putting Home Insurance Out of Reach, YaleEnviroment360, d/d Sept. 15. 2025.

“After years underestimating the risks posed by climate-fueled disasters, the U.S. home insurance industry is in turmoil. In vulnerable areas, rising insurance costs are upending housing markets and communities, as homeowners scramble to try to find insurance they can afford,” Ibid.

OMG- What happens to property insurance at 2C?

Robert Hunziker is a journalist from Los Angeles

5 April 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him?

By Tom Engelhardt

Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other!

Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan that would last a mere 20 years until Donald Trump prepared for and Joe Biden carried out a humiliating withdrawal of the last American troops there, the U.S. is back big time, dumber and more wildly destructive than ever.

Whew! That’s a lot of (terrible) history to get into a single sentence!

And so, here’s a TomDispatch question for you: What four-letter country, the first three of which are IRA, has the U.S. now been bombing? No, not Iraq! That war began in 2003 and ended a mere eight years later in 2011. And remind me, how did that work out? It’s Iran, of course.

And what a nightmare that is! By now, everyone who didn’t vote for Donald Trump (and even some who did) knows that he’s an all-American maniac. In his own striking fashion, the former “president of PEACE” has undoubtedly, even proudly, taken possession of the label: the most dangerous man on Earth. And believe me, on this planet of ours right now, that’s no small accomplishment. (Think Vladimir Putin for a start!)

And given that he has almost three years (3 years!!) to go in his presidency (if all goes well and he doesn’t nationalize the American electoral system and run for a distinctly unconstitutional and unprecedented third term in office), everything we’ve seen so far is undoubtedly just a prologue to a future from hell! (And yes, sad to say, at this point we are indeed in the second exclamation-point presidency of Donald J. Trump on an exclamation-point of a planet, itself going downhill all too fast.)

Of course, anyone — and, for that matter, any people — can make a mistake. And electing Donald Trump president the first time around might once have qualified as exactly that.

But no longer — not when, having just missed in 2020 with 46.9% of the vote, he won again in 2024 with 49.8% of American voters backing him.

Of course, at some level, we shouldn’t be shocked. For so many years, the United States was simply the most powerful country on Planet Earth, an imperial #1 of a sort that arguably hadn’t been seen in history. But sooner or later, all great imperial powers do go down. If you don’t believe me, just check any history book. That’s beyond predictable.

What’s been unpredictable is that the United States would begin going down quite so wildly and, as a first in history, that “our” president would distinctly try to take the planet itself down with him. So, here we are blasting the hell out of Iran and, of course, in the process, as all wars do, putting wildly more fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Modern war and preparations for them may, in fact, be the most carbon intensive activity on this ever warming planet of ours.

Of course, century after century, great powers have experienced decline, but seldom have their leaders been quite such a personification of imperial decline as Donald Trump. Yes, the self-proclaimed “president of PEACE,” who campaigned in 2024 on the promise that he’d “break the cycle of regime change,” is now distinctly the president of WAR, leaving the rest of us not in a Dump-Trump, but all too sadly in an increasingly dump-truck of a world.

The “Con Job” Presidency

If, once upon a time, you had told me about a world in which Donald Trump would be president of the United States (twice!), I would have thought you a genuine nut case. And worse yet, he has proven to be anything but alone in his madness. I mean, how could there possibly be a war in its fifth year right at the edge of the European heartland, another in Lebanon, a third in Iran (and mind you I’m not even mentioning Gaza), and a major civil war underway for endless years in Sudan on a planet that already seems to be going down the tubes in a big-time fashion? (And, mind you, I’m not even counting the never-ending American bombing of Somalia!)

How could all of that be happening on a planet already (all too literally) heating to the boiling point thanks to what’s come to be known as climate change (itself far too mild a term for what’s going on)? How could all of that be happening when it’s no secret that wars and militaries (even in peacetime) release staggering amounts of fossil fuels into the atmosphere — and my own country’s military tops them all? (And honestly, in this world of ours right now, it’s hard to write anything without exclamation points!!) As Nina Lakhani of the Guardian has reported, that military is “the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter” and “the largest single fossil fuel consumer in the U.S.”

You might wonder how that could be possible, when it’s become all too apparent that making war on each other, while a nightmare in itself, is also the worst imaginable way of making war on this planet of ours.

Honestly, how could we Americans have elected — not once, but (yes again!) twice — a president who rejects the very idea that this planet is beginning to broil from the burning of staggering levels of fossil fuels and has openly called climate change a “con job“? And worse yet, he remains deeply indebted to the fossil-fuel industry, which poured at least $96 million into his 2024 reelection campaign and an estimated $445 million into influencing the total election. He might indeed not have won the presidency without their donations, and now, undoubtedly as his thank-you to the industry, he’s doing everything he can to take our future away from us by, among other devastating things, trying to halt projects that spread non-fossil-fuel-producing solar and wind power. Truly, how could 49.8% of Americans have reelected a president who ran for office the third time (with a bluntness almost beyond imagining) on the all-too-incendiary campaign slogan “drill, baby, drill“?

A president of the United States, really?

Honestly, don’t you think that everything I’ve written so far reads like the world’s most unbelievable science fiction novel? And once upon a time, I can assure you (as a former editor in mainstream publishing), no publisher would have ever agreed to put out a book with a plot so pathetically unrealistic and, had it by some miracle — or rather ill omen — appeared, every imaginable reviewer would have panned it mercilessly and few readers would have thought to buy it.

In truth, if, once upon a time, some sci-fi writer had come up with such a plot, he (or she) would have been laughed out of the profession and off this planet. Donald Trump, president of the United States (twice!)? Give me a humongous break! How distinctly unrealistic could any author be in creating such a bizarre character as The Donald, no less coming up with a plot in which he would win the presidency not once, but twice?

And how about, on a planet where there may be no greater broiler than military operations, that very president deciding to launch a new war almost randomly against — yes! — Iran, which has already spread across the region (with, of course, a helping hand, or rather a panoply of bombs and missiles, from Israel), while creating a global oil crisis linked to the largely blocked Strait of Hormuz? I mean, imagine that! Or rather, no need to imagine it, since it’s our reality and Donald Trump is distinctly trying to create a dump-truck (rather than dump-Trump) world.

Living on Borrowed Time and Possibly the Wrong Planet

And so, here we are, all of us, already living through the worst imaginable version of science fiction with a literal madman as president, who seems distinctly intent on nothing less than doing in this planet and so all the rest of us, or at least all too many future us-es.

And under the circumstances, no one should be faintly shocked that 2023, 2024, and 2025 were the three hottest years in recorded history, while the El Niño weather pattern expected to emerge later this year is essentially guaranteed to drive global temperatures to new records in 2026 and 2027. And as Jonathan Watts of the Guardian recently reported, “Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study [by scientists from the Nature Conservancy] that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas where heat severely limits activity.”

And just to emphasize how strange things truly are these days, imagine this: the country doing the most on this planet when it comes to putting some limits on climate change is — yes, of course, China. As a start, it’s now producing and selling solar panels, wind turbines, and other green energy-producing materials globally in a distinctly record fashion. It has also captured the electric vehicle (EV) market, lock, stock, and barrel, selling millions of those vehicles in more than 150 countries and territories, which should, of course, be truly commendable. And yet, to put all of that in a little Trumpian perspective, China still produces more greenhouse gases (mainly from burning coal) at this very moment than anyplace — yes, anyplace! — else on Planet Earth and an estimated 35% of the total. How beyond strange, beyond science fiction, beyond fantasy, beyond anything someone might once have imagined.

Of course, give him credit. At almost 80 years old, Donald Trump’s own level of energy is somewhat remarkable. And it’s also true that, when it comes to destroying our lives, climate change is just one of the areas he’s taken up with such alacrity. After all, we’re talking about the president who appointed vaccine skeptic (and that’s putting it politely) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health and he’s been hard at work trying to ensure that Americans will get vaccinated ever less frequently and sicker ever more often. (Fortunately, a Massachusetts district judge only recently “blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year” by Kennedy and crew.)

I have to admit that, at almost 82 years old myself, having covered so much of this at TomDispatch for almost 25 (increasingly strange) years, I do have the feeling that I’m living not just on borrowed time (because of my age) but increasingly on the wrong planet. And for that reason — if you’ll excuse my repeating myself — I find it no less hard to believe that a near majority of Americans voted in 2024 for You Know Who a third time around.

So much that Trump and crew have done should be considered the political, environmental, and cultural equivalent of putting a gun to all our heads and pulling the trigger. In truth, his name should undoubtedly be changed from Donald J. Trump to Donald D. Trump — “d” for decline, of course. So, give the whole crew of them credit. Thanks to Trump, Kennedy, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and all too many other strange characters, this country and this planet are both heading down in a remarkably distinctive fashion.

And it’s hard even to imagine that we still have almost three more years of Trumpiana ahead before — well, under the circumstances, who knows what? There can be no question that he and his crew are indeed hard at work trying to create a dump truck (rather than a dump Trump) version of this world of ours. Sigh…

Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com.

30 March 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

Friendship With US Means Ruinous Surrender

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Friendship is a form of egalitarian relationship where mutual understanding, support, trust, interests, respect, equality, and dignity thrive to expand cooperation, minimise risks, and share both happiness and sorrow, thereby creating a society based on mutual dependency and solidarity. Share and care defines friendship. These values are crucial in friendships between people as well as between countries. However, these values are alien to Yankee imperialist US foreign policy and its parasitic approach to international relations and politics. American imperialist foreign policy uses friendship as a strategic tool to advance its so-called national interests—that is, to uphold the dominance of capitalism at all costs. There is no genuine friendship in American foreign policy; it is driven by corporate interests, which reign supreme in every partnership, undermining the very idea of friendship, solidarity, diplomacy and democratic dialogues. Strategic friendship is no friendship but an opportunist alliance that US pursues at costs.

American foreign policy has, at various times, betrayed Australians, Afghans, Africans, British, Egyptians, post-Soviet states in Eastern Europe, Chinese, French, Filipinos, Indians, Pakistanis, Japanese, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Spaniards, Ukrainians, Russians, western Europeans, Iraqis, Iranians, Latin Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, Kurds, Vietnamese, Koreans, and countries in the Arab and Gulf regions. The list is so long when it comes to what is seen as American betrayal of friendly countries across the globe. The US has used these countries at different stages to serve its own strategic interests by backstabbing these countries in different stages of its imperialist history.

There is no country, other than Israel, that US foreign policy has not betrayed, at some point, disappointed or turned against in its interactions. Many countries have suffered due to their friendship or strategic partnership with the US. USA has not truly helped any single countries; rather, its assistance, aid and relief pakages have often been tied to advancing its own interests. For example, food aid to India was desinged to undermine Indian agriculture and food sovereignty, potentially creating food markets for American corporations. In this way, American aid packages are often carrying embedded strategies to uphold American interests.

American foreign policy often seeks to undermine democratic governments and constitutional states while supporting reactionary, authoritarian, and anti-democratic regimes to advance its strategic interests. Pakistan, for instance, is widely seen as having suffered politically and economically due to its unequal strategic partnership with the US, in which the Pakistani army is often acting in alignment with American interests at the cost of Pakistani people and their interests. Afghanistan was also deeply affected, as US policies during the Soviet period involved supporting militant groups to undermine progressive changes in the country with Soviet support.

American regime-change operations have occurred in many parts of the world. Washington has frequently been destabilising countries and governments that do not align with its strategic priorities. US actions have single handedly contributed to the devastation of countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, as well as several nations in Africa and the Middle East, while at the same time supporting reactionary family-led regimes in Arab and Gulf regions. Similarly, in Latin America, the US has backed right-wing and authoritarian forces, often under the justification of combating drug cartels.

American foreign policy is often seen as using the language of terrorism, democracy, freedom, and human rights to destabilise and disrupt the prevailing order and stability in different regions of the world. Mr. Donald Trump’s recent unprovoked attack on Iran is not merely as an accident or a sudden decision by a megalomaniac president, but as part of a well-designed foreign policy. It is argued that such actions aim to divert public attention from issues such as the abandonment of Ukraine and the Epstein scandal, while also fuelling prolonged ethnic conflicts in Asia, Arab, and Middle Eastern countries. These strategies are intended to weaken existing structures of governance in order to gain greater control over natural resources in these regions, thereby strengthening the petrodollar led capitalist system, which is seen as facing challenges due to the increasing independence of the OPEC countries from Washington’s influence.

From Vietnam and Korea to Kosovo and Ukraine, American foreign policies have contributed in creating divisions within families, communities, and countries in order to preserve its own interests. British colonialism divided the Indian subcontinent, but American policy is keeping India and Pakistan apart by supporting terrorist strategies of the Pakistani military, thereby containing India while also contributing to Pakistan’s political and economic deficit and instabilities within democratic governance. US foreign policy has been using the Kurds as strategic allies but abandoning them, with little support for an independent Kurdistan. Similarly, American policies have emboldened Zionist regimes in Israel, which is carrying out large-scale genocidal violence against Palestinians in their own land.

American foreign policy is serving corporate interests in the name of national interests, while many working people in the US continue to face hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and poverty. The American state and its ideological apparatus are not aligned with the broader interests of people or the planet, but instead serve propertied classes and various forms of their capitalist interests. Therefore, opposition to American imperialism is framed not as opposition to the American people, but to the American state and its ideology, which is fundamentally at odds with peace and the well-being of people worldwide. Both ruling and non-ruling classes within the US are often operating within this framework, shaped by an entrenched political system that advances these interests across party lines. The American state is not only a rogue state but also a highly organised mafia system that primarily serves entrenched economic power, often at the expense of people, peace, and the planet.

Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political commentator

30 March 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

The United States of America: A Threat to Humanity

By Guillermo R. Barreto

We are witnessing a turning point in history. We are experiencing a crisis that goes beyond an economic crisis. We are facing a true crisis of civilization. The U.S., as an imperial power, is increasingly showing its decline, and in that decline, it acts irrationally, endangering all of humanity. It is not merely the fact that they have an ‘incoherent’ and violent president, a racist and misogynistic sexual predator; Trump is not an anomaly. He is merely an extreme and bizarre manifestation of what the U.S. has been since its founding.

The United States was founded by white slave-owning landowners, convinced of their racial superiority and exceptionalism, coupled with a deep-seated belief that they were destined to dominate the world (Manifest Destiny). A look at the recent National Security Strategy, published in November 2025, directly reveals this claim to superiority, which, in Trump’s case, takes on pathological traits.

Between 1776, the year of its independence, and 2019, the U.S. carried out 392 military interventions, half of which took place after 1950 and 25 percent after the end of the Cold War. It is a fact that in the 250 years following its independence, the United States was not involved in a war for only 17 years. Since its inception, it has been a nation with imperial ambitions, which has made it a true power since the Anti-Fascist World War (the so-called Second World War according to Eurocentric historiography). Its imperial trajectory has evolved over time, and today we find ourselves at a moment when its power and society show clear signs of decline, and when new forces—capable of challenging that power—have emerged worldwide. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), its actions have become more dangerous and threatening.

One of those forces is, without a doubt, the People’s Republic of China, which was identified at the NATO Summit held in Madrid in 2022 as a threat to ‘the interests, security, and values’ of whatever NATO represents.

The Declaration has the audacity to claim that China seeks to undermine the ‘rules-based international order.’ A way of saying that China is challenging that international order based on NATO’s rules.

China was consolidated as a state in 221 BC under the reign of Emperor Qin, who succeeded in centralizing the state after two centuries of the so-called ‘Warring States period.’ During his rule, Qin developed professional armies, organized the collection of taxes, had legal codes written, invented instruments for long-distance trade, and stabilized the mandarin bureaucracy. We could say that, during that period—more than 1,500 years before Latin-Germanic Europe—China had moved beyond feudalism. By that time, China had already developed a political thought and philosophy (the ‘Period of the Hundred Schools’) that would underpin, with variations, normative and ethical action in China for the next 30 centuries.

In classical Chinese philosophy, political wisdom is grounded in knowing how to wait, so that the ‘situation’ may transform into an ‘opportunity.’ This waiting is not, however, passive. It involves observing the ‘potential of the situation’ and preparing for and accompanying the transformation (the path, the Tao) toward the opportunity. From the European perspective, Machiavelli said 20 centuries later that opportunity arises from fortune (chance), and it was the ruler’s skill to know how to take advantage of those opportunities. In Chinese philosophy, the opportunity arising from fortune is not lasting. It is fleeting. One must prepare for the opportunity. The ruler must therefore not fight opposing forces, but know how to use them to his advantage without denying them.

This brings us to the words spoken by President Xi Jinping during thecentennial of the Chinese Communist Party. In his words, the president takes us from the party’s founding, the struggle for liberation, the Long March, the defeat of the Nationalists, the triumph of the revolution, the Cultural Revolution, the 1978 reforms, and the present day. A historical journey that reveals a path (Tao), a journey during which the transformation of the ‘situation’ into an ‘opportunity’ has been prepared.

In concrete terms, this opportunity has meant the eradication of critical or extreme poverty, officially declared in 2021. China lifted 850 million people out of extreme poverty. This achievement has resulted in a 70 percent reduction in extreme poverty worldwide. China has achieved economic development unparalleled in human history. The rate at which GDP, life expectancy, total consumption, and per-household consumption have increased, among other metrics, is on a unique scale. In 1978, only 1 percent of the world’s population lived in countries with a GDP lower than China’s. By 2012, that figure stood at 51percent. These indicators can be reviewed in John Ross’s insightful book, China’s Great Road, published by 1804 Books. All of this translates not only into positive impacts for the Chinese people but also reinforces a vision centered on working to consolidate what President Xi has called a ‘community with a shared future.’ This implies positive impacts on a global scale.

We see that the challenge China poses to NATO—and especially to the United States—goes beyond macroeconomic indicators or trade advantages.

It is a civilizational challenge. It is a different worldview. While President Xi Jinping speaks of building a community with a shared future, the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy emphasizes making the U.S. the strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful nation in the world. While China works to transform the situation into an opportunity, the United States acts impulsively, hoping that fortune will grant it the opportunity. That is why China invests in health, education, science, housing, and transportation, but the U.S. invests in weapons and in maintaining a deadly military force capable of destroying the entire world. This makes the U.S. a true threat to humanity. A nation of supremacists and superstitious people who promote a culture of death and possess a powerful army. An empire whose decline we are witnessing, whose end is beginning to loom, but an empire that dies fighting. Today, more than ever, anti-imperialism is a necessity and must be the common ground for all the struggles of the peoples of the world. The struggle today is anti-imperialist. For peace, for life, for humanity.

Guillermo R. Barreto is Venezuelan and holds a Ph.D. in Science (University of Oxford).

30 March 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

In FT interview, Trump announces intention to launch ground invasion of Iran

By Andre Damon

In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expansion of the US war of aggression that would only be possible through a ground invasion of the country.

Trump’s statement of his intent to massively expand the war was announced one day after what organizers said were as many as 8 million people took to the streets across all 50 states in the third round of “No Kings” demonstrations—which would make them the largest single-day protests in American history. Despite efforts by the organizers to downplay opposition to the war in Iran, the demonstrations expressed the overwhelming popular opposition to it.

The Financial Times interview, conducted by Edward Luce, was published as the Pentagon ordered thousands of additional troops to the region. Trump compared the planned seizure of Iran’s oil to Venezuela, where the US intends to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following its capture of President Nicolás Maduro. “To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran,” Trump said, “but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.”

Such a move would involve seizing Kharg Island, through which most of Iran’s oil is exported. Trump told the Financial Times: “Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options.” He added: “It would also mean we had to be there for a while.”

The Wall Street Journal reported separately Sunday that Trump is actively making plans for a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran—“a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.”

The Washington Post reported Sunday that the Pentagon is preparing for “weeks of ground operations in Iran.” The Post reported that any operation “would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops.” One official told the Post the objectives would take “weeks, not months.” Another said “a couple of months.”

The Post cited a former senior defense official, who said: “We’ve looked at this. It’s been war-gamed. This is not last-minute planning.” On the seizure of Kharg Island, the official said: “Seizing it is not difficult. Protecting your guys once they are there is.”

Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a retired Army officer, told the Post: “I just wouldn’t want to be in that small place with Iran’s ability to rain down drones and maybe artillery.” A poll by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62 percent of Americans strongly oppose the use of ground troops in Iran. Only 12 percent are in favor.

Trump claimed he could take Kharg Island “very easily,” saying Iran has “no defense” on the island. The military’s own assessments contradict this. CNN reported that Iran has fortified the island with an estimated 30,000-40,000 personnel, air defense systems, underground trenches, land mines along the coastline and swarms of first-person-view kamikaze drones. Harrison Mann, a former Army major and Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, told Democracy Now that the operation would be “close to a suicide mission,” warning that US troops “could really end up being trapped there.” Joe Kent, Trump’s own former counter-terrorism chief, said: “I just think that would be a disaster. It would essentially be giving Iran a bunch of hostages on an island that they could barrage with drones and missiles.”

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham compared the planned operation to Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, and said: “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this. My money’s always on the Marines.” Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday that the US was “secretly planning a ground invasion” while publicly talking about negotiations, according to Reuters.

More than 50,000 US troops are now deployed across the Middle East, according to the New York Times. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)—2,500 Marines and 2,500 sailors—arrived in the region on Friday. Another 2,200 Marines from the 11th MEU are en route aboard the USS Boxer. Roughly 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division have been ordered to the region. The Wall Street Journal and Axios reported that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to send another 10,000 troops to the region.

In Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Sunday the expansion of what he called the “security zone” in southern Lebanon. More than 1,238 people have been killed and 3,500 wounded since Israel launched its assault on March 2, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, including 124 children. More than 1.2 million people have been displaced. Israeli forces have reached a tributary of the Litani River. PBS NewsHour reported that three journalists were killed Saturday in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a marked press vehicle in Jezzine.

After 30 days of war, the civilian death toll in Iran continues to climb. The human rights group Hengaw, using field documentation, reported at least 6,530 killed through Day 25, including 640 confirmed civilians. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) documented at least 1,551 civilian deaths, including 236 children. Iran’s Red Crescent reported more than 81,000 civilian sites damaged, including 61,000 homes and nearly 500 schools. Between 3.2 and 4 million Iranians have been internally displaced. A near-total internet blackout has sealed off 90 million people from the outside world for 30 days.

Brent crude surged above $115 a barrel on Sunday, up 59 percent this month, according to Reuters, the steepest monthly jump on record, exceeding gains during the 1990 Gulf War. Gasoline in the United States has risen to $3.98 a gallon, up nearly $1 since the war began. Goldman Sachs estimated in a report cited by Fortune that the war is costing the US economy 10,000 jobs per month.

On the Sunday talk shows, no Democrat on any of the four major programs used the words “war crime” or “international law” in connection with the Iran war. Last weekend, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Donna Brazile declared on ABC’s Sunday news program: “Democrats understand that Iran has posed a threat, not just to the region, the Gulf, but to the world itself.”

The entire Democratic leadership—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar—voted for the $839 billion military budget that funds the war.

Originally published in WSWS.ORG

30 March 2026

Source: countercurrents.org

The Man Who Gave Back The Key: Farewell to Liamine Zeroual — A Statesman at the Height of His People

By Laala Bechetoula

“Those in power must show reason and discernment and rise to the level of our people — and let Algerians express themselves freely.”

— Liamine Zeroual, April 2019 — declining for the third time in his life to return to power, aged 77

EDITOR’S NOTE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL READERS: Most of the world has never heard of Liamine Zeroual. That itself is part of his story. He was the sixth President of Algeria — a nation of 46 million, the largest country on the African continent, a former French colony that purchased its independence with over one million dead between 1954 and 1962. He governed from January 1994 to April 1999, during the most violent period in Algeria’s modern history: a civil war that claimed more than one hundred thousand lives. He did not seek power. He did not cling to it. He did not profit from it. He gave it back. That is who he was. The rest is detail — extraordinary, luminous detail.

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He Died Yesterday

Not like any death.

He died — this man who refused a salary for doing nothing, who said no to America and went home, who walked out of the presidential palace with exactly what he had walked in with: nothing but his honour.

Liamine Zeroual died on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 84. And with him ended not merely a life, but an entire generation’s understanding of a single word: duty.

A Name That Was a Prophecy

Few obituaries begin with etymology. This one must.

Zeroual — in Tamazight, the ancient Berber language of the Aurès Mountains that colonialism could not kill — means the one with blue eyes. The one who carries the colour of the sky in his gaze, yet never flies away. He remains a man of the earth, of clay, of mountains.

Al-Yamin — in Arabic — is the oath. The right hand extended in covenant. The direction of blessing.

When his parents named him in 1941 — while Algeria still groaned under French colonial rule — they did not choose a name. They wrote a destiny.

He fulfilled it, word by word, until his last breath.

The Mountain That Never Bowed

He was born in Batna, in the heart of the Aurès — that ancient, unbroken massif that refused to kneel before Rome when Tacfarinas led his resistance, that refused to surrender when the Berber warrior-queen Kahina made her last stand, and that fired the first shots of Algeria’s war of independence on November 1, 1954.

The Aurès is not merely geography. It is the genetic code of Algerian defiance, written in stone.

Those who grow up with its soil under their fingernails carry something no academy can teach and no rank can confer: a pride that does not break, and a silence that speaks louder than any speech.

Sixteen Years Old, One Rifle

In 1957, at the age of sixteen, he joined the National Liberation Army — the armed wing of Algeria’s independence movement — to fight French colonial rule.

A boy. A rifle larger than his shoulders. A mountain ahead with no visible end.

He needed no one to explain why. It was enough to watch his mother walk with her head bowed in her own hometown. It was enough to read the words “French national” on his father’s identity papers and know it was the greatest lie ever stamped on an official document.

His comrades in the mountains called him the Lion of the Aurès. He neither accepted nor rejected the name. He simply kept walking forward.

Moscow, Cairo, Paris — Learning the Enemy’s Art Without Becoming Him

After independence in 1962, while many veterans rested on the laurels of revolution, Zeroual went back to school. Cairo. Then Moscow (1965–1966). Then the École de Guerre in Paris — yes, in Paris, the capital of yesterday’s coloniser — to learn the art of war from those who had waged it against his own people.

This is the difference between a genuine statesman and an imitator: the first takes the tool and leaves the soul; the second takes the soul and loses himself.

He returned to build, methodically, without haste: the Cherchell Military Academy (1981), command of Tamanrasset in the Sahara (1982), Béchar on the Moroccan border (1984), Constantine (1987). General in 1988. Commander of ground forces in 1989. A man who lays bricks one by one. Who does not skip steps. Who does not jostle for position. Who does not wait for applause.

“I Don’t Want to Be Paid for Doing Nothing”

In 1990, he disagreed with President Chadli Bendjedid over plans to restructure the army. He did not negotiate. He did not yield. He did not manoeuvre.

They moved him sideways — appointing him Ambassador to Bucharest, Romania. An old and refined technique for sidelining those who inconvenience you.

He accepted. He went. Then, within weeks, he did something almost no one in the history of power has ever done voluntarily: he came back and said the sentence that contains his entire soul:

“I don’t want to be paid a salary for doing nothing.”

Stop. Read it again.

In a world where people claw at positions, titles, offices, and salaries — he gave one back because he was not earning it. He went home to Batna. He closed the door. He thought the story was over.

It was not over.

January 1994: The Country Calls, and He Cannot Refuse

Algeria was burning. Not as metaphor. As fact.

The Black Decade — la Décennie Noire — had consumed the country since the military cancelled the elections of January 1992. What followed was one of the twentieth century’s most brutal and underreported conflicts: over one hundred thousand dead, entire villages massacred, intellectuals and journalists assassinated, children orphaned by the thousands. A nation bleeding from wounds it could not dress.

The army needed a president. They went first to Abdelaziz Bouteflika. He refused. So they went to the silent man in Batna.

General Khaled Nezzar — the army’s strongman who engineered the transition — wrote in his memoirs, one of the rare documented testimonies of Algeria’s opaque political history, that Zeroual was “the most visibly unsettled” in the room that night, and that he

“accepted, out of a sense of duty, to become Head of State.”
— General Khaled Nezzar, Memoirs

Not with joy. Not with ambition. But: out of a sense of duty.

Like a man lifting a boulder not because he wants to, but because no one else can.

On January 30, 1994, Liamine Zeroual sat in the presidential chair at El-Mouradia palace — without the hunger for power, and with its full weight pressed upon his chest.

The Woman Who Voted While Trembling

“Do not go out. We will slaughter you.”

That was the message from the armed groups before the presidential elections of November 1995.

And yet Fatima went — or Khadija, or Zohra, or whatever name you wish to give to that Algerian woman who had lost her son, or her husband, or her brother in the decade of blood. She dressed in black that morning. She stood before the mirror for a long moment. And she said to herself, in a language only those who have buried someone they loved can understand: “I will go.”

Her hands were trembling when she placed the ballot in the box. She was not voting for a man. She was voting against the slaughter. She was voting for her son’s right to rest in his grave in peace. For her own right to sleep one night without fear.

She was among the 74.24% of Algerians who came out that day despite the threats — the highest recorded voter participation in Algeria’s post-independence history. That number is not a statistic. It is the collective moan of a people who came out into the street to say: We want to live.

Zeroual won 61.34% of the vote, in Algeria’s first ever genuinely pluralist presidential election. But the real victory belonged to Fatima, and Khadija, and Zohra.

Mercy: The Word He Chose Deliberately

When he sought to bring armed fighters back from the mountains, Zeroual did not call his policy an amnesty — the cold legal term preferred by bureaucrats. He did not call it reintegration — the bloodless language of technocrats. He called it: rahma. Mercy.

In that single lexical choice lives an entire philosophy.

Mercy is not weakness. It is the courage of a man who knows that a people who have lost one hundred thousand sons do not need more blood. They need to breathe. Thousands of fighters surrendered their weapons and returned home.

Wars do not always end with a last bullet. Sometimes they end with a word.

America Comes Knocking

In December 1997, US Ambassador Cameron Hume sat across from Zeroual for forty minutes. He brought the full diplomatic weight of the world’s unipolar superpower to bear. He wanted to persuade Zeroual of something Zeroual had already decided against.

When the meeting ended, Zeroual was Zeroual. The only thing that had changed from the encounter with the ambassador of the most powerful nation on earth was a cup of coffee added to the tray.

In Algeria’s history, many have bowed before Washington. Many more have claimed they did not bow. Zeroual belonged to a rare third category: those who simply did not register the question.

The Night in Windhoek

September 1998. Windhoek, Namibia. Guest of President Sam Nujoma.

In the garden of the official residence, alone beneath the open African sky, he paced. One cigarette, then another. The night deepened. No one.

No one knows what passed through his mind in those hours. No one ever will. But we know what came out of them.

At dawn, on the presidential aircraft returning to Algiers, he gathered his aides in the small salon. He was calm. He was serious. And he spoke the words that those who heard them have carried verbatim to this day:

“You know that I wanted to leave a year ago. The time has come. We must leave room for others. I am leaving.”
— Liamine Zeroual, aboard the presidential aircraft, September 1998

In the entire recorded history of human political power, few leaders have said voluntarily: I am leaving. Washington said it when he refused a third term and founded the Republic. Mandela said it after one term and secured South Africa’s democracy. Zeroual said it over Africa in a plane, with no audience but his aides.

The first had a monument carved in gold. The second had a Nobel Prize. The third did not ask for even a photograph.

Twenty-Seven Years of Golden Silence

A year passed. Then five. Then ten. Then twenty-seven.

He wrote no memoirs. He gave no interviews. He commented on nothing. He founded no party. He appeared nowhere. He complained to no one. His house in Batna stood as he had left it. His window looked out on the mountain that had made him. It was enough.

In 2019, when the mass uprising known as the Hirak toppled President Bouteflika after twenty years in power, the most powerful figure in Algeria’s intelligence establishment personally asked Zeroual to lead a transitional government. His answer was what it had always been: “The new generation must take its place.”

This was not humility. It was the wisdom of a man who understood that genuine leadership means leaving room for those who come after you.

What Ibn Khaldun Would Have Written

The fourteenth-century North African historian Ibn Khaldun — perhaps the greatest social theorist the Islamic world ever produced — argued in his Muqaddimah that civilisations rise and fall on the strength of asabiyya: the collective spirit that binds a community and places the common good above private interest.

Zeroual was asabiyya embodied in a single human being. He did not need to read the Muqaddimah to learn the lesson. He was born carrying it in his blood and in the red clay of the Aurès.

Had Ibn Khaldun lived to see this man say “I am leaving” over Africa in an aircraft, he would have added a final chapter to his masterwork. He might have called it: “When Virtue Takes Human Form.”

The Mountain Returns to the Mountain

Liamine Zeroual died on March 28, 2026, at the military hospital in Algiers, aged 84. The institution he had served his entire life received him at the end.

His life held everything a human life should hold: a childhood under occupation, a youth in revolution, a maturity spent building, an ordeal of governance in infernal years, and an old age of noble silence.

What his life never held, not once: hypocrisy, greed, self-dealing, or leaving the country worse than he found it.

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Algeria weeps today with tears that are real — because it understands, in the depths of its conscience, that it is not merely bidding farewell to a man. It is bidding farewell to a mirror in which it could once see what it aspired to be.

And in this moment of farewell, everyone who has ever loved this country asks the same question: why do we grieve a man who lived in silence and departed in silence?

Because noble silence — in a country like Algeria, in a time like this — is the highest form of eloquence. Because the man who does not want a salary for doing nothing — in a world where everyone scrambles for everything in exchange for nothing — that man cannot be replicated.

He was the last of a kind. Not a kind defined by ideology, party, or region. A kind defined by a single quality that history cannot manufacture on demand:

He meant it.

Farewell, O man whose name was an oath and whose life was the keeping of it.

Farewell, Liamine. Last of those who left power and took nothing with them but their honour.

May God have mercy on you, and grant you a rest as great as your service.

Laala Bechetoula is an Algerian historian, journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Laghouat, Algeria.

29 March 2026

Source: countercurrents.org