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By Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor 

Geneva – Euro-Med Monitor urgently called on international humanitarian organisations in the Gaza Strip to relocate a substantial part of their operations to Gaza and North Gaza governorates, in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons returning to their areas following the ceasefire agreement reached on Thursday morning.

The immense humanitarian needs in the northern Gaza Strip require organisations to balance their operations across the northern, central, and southern regions, with particular focus on urgent relief projects for the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons living in near-catastrophic conditions in the north.

In its statement, Euro-Med Monitor noted that Gaza and North Gaza governorates have become the epicentre of the Strip’s gravest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 90 per cent of the infrastructure destroyed, residential neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, and almost no effective humanitarian presence on the ground.

The organisations addressed included the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Central Kitchen (WCK), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and other humanitarian and relief agencies operating in the Gaza Strip.

Since 11 August 2025, ongoing Israeli military operations have directly targeted Gaza City and its northern areas as part of a declared plan to depopulate and destroy the city. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee, while many others remain trapped in deadly conditions.

The blockade imposed on the northern regions has completely paralysed life, forcing most hospitals and health centres to shut down and leaving thousands of patients and wounded without treatment or medication. Water networks have also ceased functioning, compelling residents to rely on unsafe sources, which has led to the widespread outbreak of diseases and epidemics.

On 22 August 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative officially declared that famine had spread throughout the Gaza Strip, reporting that half a million people are living in IPC Phase 5 “humanitarian catastrophe”, the highest level of hunger and starvation globally. Most of these individuals are in Gaza City and North Gaza, where food aid has not arrived for weeks, and sufficient relief supplies have been denied entry.

Field reports received by Euro-Med Monitor from residents of North Gaza indicate that dozens of children and elderly people have died from starvation or malnutrition-related illnesses, while daily deaths are recorded among patients unable to access medicine or medical care. The Israeli military continues to block humanitarian organisations from operating freely in these areas and imposes severe restrictions on the movement of aid, turning the north into a “completely sealed-off disaster zone.”

The situation on the ground demands urgent action to redeploy relief teams to the north by establishing major, permanent humanitarian centres in Gaza and North Gaza governorates. These centres should distribute food, water, and medical aid, operate mobile clinics and central kitchens, and provide weather-resistant tents for families returning to their devastated areas.

Euro-Med Monitor stressed the need to restore water desalination stations, sewage networks, and public hygiene services to prevent the spread of epidemics, alongside rehabilitating roads and humanitarian corridors to enable rescue and aid teams to reach affected areas.

Redirecting humanitarian efforts to Gaza and North Gaza governorates has become a top priority to ensure a genuine start to recovery and reconstruction. Continuing to focus operations solely on the central and southern Gaza Strip will only prolong the catastrophic situation in the north and hinder the return of life for more than a million people in those areas.

A central field presence of humanitarian organisations in Gaza and North Gaza governorates represents not only a relief response but also an act of humanitarian protection and a clear message that the world will not tolerate the starvation of civilians or their abandonment to a slow death. A firm stance from the international community against any Israeli restrictions on the movement of humanitarian teams is essential.

Euro-Med Monitor affirmed its full readiness to cooperate on the ground and exchange information with organisations to ensure effective access to targeted areas and the successful implementation of their programmes with the highest levels of coordination and integration. The repositioning of humanitarian action to the north is not a tactical choice but an urgent moral and humanitarian imperative at this stage.

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

10 October 2025

Source: countercurrents.org

By Quds News Network

Gaza (QNN)- The Israeli military has begun withdrawing its forces behind the line agreed upon in the Gaza deal, leaving behind “unbelievable, massive destruction.”

According to residents who hadn’t fled to the south under Israeli threats and local sources, massive destruction was left behind by Israeli forces after they withdrew behind the line agreed under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Videos circulating on social media show widespread infrastructure damage and vast areas completely wiped out, including the Jalaa and Sheikh Redwan neighborhoods.

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According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israeli forces have destroyed 367 housing units daily since the start of the genocide in October 2023:

• Israel has demolished more than one mosque per day on average.
• It has displaced 394 families every day.
• It has targeted one shelter or displacement center every three days.
• It has destroyed one central water well each day.
• It has damaged 7 kilometers of electricity networks daily.
• It has destroyed 959 meters of water pipelines every day.
• It has destroyed 959 meters of sewage networks daily.
• It has destroyed 4,000 meters of roads per day.

Israel Continues Strikes on Gaza Despite Ceasefire Deal Approval

Israel has launched attacks on Gaza since Friday morning, despite approving a ceasefire deal after two years of genocide.

Local sources said the Israeli military carried out air strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and in Gaza City over the past hours.

Israeli forces have also repeatedly shelled the Katiba area and Hamad City in Khan Younis.

Intense gunfire was reported from Israeli military tanks near the Wadi Gaza Bridge on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza.

Israeli attack helicopters also targeted a site east of Gaza City, and artillery shelling has also been reported.

The Israeli attacks in the early hours are the first to be reported in Gaza since Israel approved the first phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas late on Thursday night.

Gaza’s civil defence has also warned people to keep away from the border areas of Gaza City until the official announcement of the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

10 October 2025

Source: countercurrents.org

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and Dr. Gilbert Doctorow

Gilbert Doctorow and I share the belief that unless Putin responds more firmly than he has been inclined to do to the West’s provocations, war is inevitable.

Hungary, led by the only intelligent leader in Europe, has arranged a meeting in Budapest between Trump and Putin. I suspect that this is the last chance to avoid war. Its success turns on whether Trump can abandon his bully role, understand that the solution requires a NATO pullback from Russia’s borders and a mutual security agreement between Russia and the West, and declare in a press conference that Washington’s support (incitement really) of Ukraine is at an end.

For Putin, I suspect the meeting in Hungary is Putin’s last test of Trump. If Trump fails the test, chances are high that delivery of Tomahawks to Ukraine will result in a Russian declaration of war against Ukraine and quick destruction by conventional means of Ukraine’s ability to continue the conflict. Putin will have reversed his strategy of non-response to provocations and put the West on notice, something he should have done years ago. The likelihood is the Russian Foreign Ministry’s effort to dismiss the Tomahawk threat as terrorism rather than an act of war will fail.

Unless Trump comes to his senses, a brutal demonstration of Russian force is all that can stop the momentum toward a real war.  

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Paul Craig Roberts is a renowned author and academic, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy where this article was originally published.

17 October 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Drago Bosnic

The threat of direct American aggression on Venezuela has been looming for months, with the United States sending joint strike forces and escalating attacks on supposed “drug boats”. It’s pretty amusing to see a nation that has lied about every single casus belli since at least the 1898 Spanish-American War claim that it’s “actually telling the truth this time”.

For some inexplicable reason, the plutocrats, and warmongers  in Washington DC think we’ve all forgotten about the Tonkin Bay “incident”, demonization and countless lies about Serbs in former Yugoslavia, the 9/11 which led to millions of casualties across the Middle East and around the world, etc.

And yet, “just once, just this time”, the US “must be telling the truth” about the mythical “drug trafficking” by Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro, the “evil narco boss”.

Of course, we should all just forget and completely ignore the extremely close ties between the enormous US intelligence apparatus and the massive drug industry in Latin America (and elsewhere around the world).

In addition, even CNN admits that the Trump administration’s accusations against Venezuela are not backed up by any verifiable data.

On the contrary, it suggests that Caracas is at the very bottom of the list of countries trafficking narcotics into the US, with Colombia, Peru and Bolivia being far ahead. In fact, the DEA itself claims that 90% of cocaine that reaches America is from Colombia. And yet, Bogota is not getting even a stern look.

In other words, Washington DC couldn’t possibly care less about who’s smuggling drugs into the US. The only thing it cares about is finding a pretext (no matter how ridiculous) to invade yet another sovereign nation.

Now, if the said country is also home to the largest proven oil reserves in the world, that must be a “coincidence” and “stroke of luck” that America “certainly didn’t plan for”

Sardonic jokes aside, the Pentagon itself keeps proving just how ridiculous all these excuses are by sending various weapon systems that undoubtedly cannot be used to stop drug trafficking. Namely, apart from fighter jets and ships armed with “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, the US military is now also sending strategic bombers to “fight off Venezuelan drug boats”. 

American B-52s flew along the Venezuelan coastline on October 15, a day after President Donald Trump ordered another strike on these mythical “drug boats”.

“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding: “The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed.”

He insists that the boat was “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization”, obviously without providing a single shred of verifiable evidence to back up such claims.

This was the fifth known incident where American troops attacked random Venezuelan boats, claiming they’re used for alleged “drug trafficking”. Venezuela reported that nearly 30 people have been killed in these strikes, most of them fishermen.

Since Trump already started using strategic weapons against these “dangerous people”, perhaps he should also order US ICBMs to be fired at these boats, although it’s highly questionable whether they’re actually functional. If that doesn’t work, Trump can always wait for his “orbital weapons” to be built and strike the boats with those. Jokes aside, it’s truly astonishing how each and every US administration stays virtually identical to the previous one.

Namely, nearly every single one in America’s relatively short history has pushed for wars, death and destruction, even when its election rhetoric was “fully pacifist”. Unfortunately, Latin America is highly vulnerable due to Washington DC’s infamous Monroe Doctrine. Venezuela is particularly jeopardized and its leadership is fully aware of that.

This is why Caracas deployed around 15,000 troops in the states of Zulia and Táchira (both bordering Colombia) in late August and early September. These units are mostly comprised of special police and military personnel, indicating that Venezuela is worried about cross-border raids and infiltration. Such measures are perfectly understandable given America’s propensity to use sabotage and terrorist attacks to undermine targeted countries. Back in 2020, the CIA launched the so-called “Operation Gideon” precisely from Colombia.

At the time, two boats carrying approximately 60 insurgents tried infiltrating Venezuela, tasked with instigating an armed rebellion. This was effectively Trump’s “mini-Bay of Pigs” moment, because the group was commanded by two former US Army “Green Berets”, both employed as mercenaries by Silvercorp USA, a Florida-based PMC.

Such private military enterprises are quite common in the US and are used by the Pentagon to maintain plausible deniability in case of failure. Precisely this happened with “Operation Gideon”. Its failure was attributed to multiple factors, with several US intelligence services accusing one another of “major security breaches”. In fact, back in January, Jordan Goudreau, the head of Silvercorp (himself a former “Green Beret”), openly accused the CIA and FBI of “sabotaging the operation”.

Now, whether that’s true or not is irrelevant, as Venezuela needs to be prepared for any similar incursions, particularly now that such actions might serve as the vanguard of direct US aggression. As such operations continue to fail (at least partially thanks to the involvement of Russian intelligence that keeps informing Caracas of any foul play), the war junkies in Washington DC are increasingly nervous that their plans for yet another war might fail.

This is why they’re so desperate to ensure a direct confrontation, at any cost. The Venezuelan military is preparing for any eventuality, so it’s activating air and missile defense units, reserve troops and territorial defense forces. Caracas is also preparing for potential guerrilla warfare in case of a full-scale invasion. Although it seems too far-fetched now, such a scenario certainly shouldn’t be discarded.

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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

17 October 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Andrew Korybko

The next Putin-Trump meeting will soon take place in Budapest. Prior to their last one in Anchorage, the vision that they were working towards was a resource-centric strategic partnership that could then become a steppingstone towards a more comprehensive one in the future. For that to happen, either Putin had to freeze the frontlines or Trump had to coerce Zelensky into withdrawing from Donbass, but neither could agree to what was requested of them so their New Détente went nowhere.

Even worse, the Europeans then became serious obstacles to peace, even going as far as teaming up with the Brits and Zelensky to propose dangerous “security guarantees” that riled Russia. Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Putin afterwards, arguably due to him being manipulated by Lindsey Graham and Zelensky, thus culminating in the latest talk about sending Tomahawks to Ukraine. It was within this tense context that they talked again, right before Zelensky’s trip to DC, and agreed to meet in Budapest.

Each side is also coming under a lot of newfound pressure nowadays that conceivably influenced their latest call and plans to meet. From Russia’s side, the new TRIPP corridor will inject Western influence along Russia’s southern flank via NATO member Turkiye (despite Russia’s thaw with Azerbaijan), Poland is reviving its long-lost Great Power status along Russia’s western flank, and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) revealed last month that French and UK troops are already in Ukraine’s Odessa Region.

As for the newfound pressure that the US is nowadays coming under, this concerns the nascent Sino-Indo rapprochement after America’s bullying of India backfired, Russia finally clinching a long-negotiated deal with China to build the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline on presumably favorable terms for Beijing, and all of this resulting in the failure of Trump 2.0’s Eurasian balancing act. At the same time, Russia and the US could be manipulated into war with one another by possible British and/or Ukrainian false flags.

SVR warned twice about their alleged false flag plots in the Baltic, which was followed by the suspicious drone incident in Poland that was weaponized by deep state elements in a failed bid to manipulate its new president into war with Russia. Shortly afterwards, Estonia claimed that Russia violated its maritime airspace, which led to NATO threatening to shoot down Russian jets, then there was a Russian drone scare in Scandinavia. SVR since warned that Ukraine is now plotting a false flag attack in Poland.

The geostrategic context that was just outlined suggests that a grand compromise might now be possible so as to alleviate some of the aforesaid pressure on each, reduce bilateral tensions, and thus prevent any false flags from manipulating them into war. To that end, Russia might accept some limited Western “security guarantees” for Ukraine, the US might curtail its arms exports to Ukraine and NATO, and then they might clinch their hoped-for strategic resource deals upon freezing or outright ending the conflict.

Informal quid pro quos, such as Russia helping the US “manage” Iran so long as the US gets Zelensky to implement a degree of (at least symbolic) “denazification” and possibly withdraw from Donbass, could also be agreed to for facilitating this arrangement. At the same time, Ukraine, the EU, and the UK might carry out provocations to sabotage the Budapest Summit. In any case, if Putin and Trump do end up meeting again sometime soon, then they’re expected to agree to something tangible this time around.

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Andrew Korybko is an American Moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare.

17 October 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Author’s Introduction

The article below is of utmost relevance, specifically pertaining to  President Donald Trump’s stance with regard to the Annexation of both Canada and Greenland.

We recall Donald Trump’s statement last December at  his luxury Mar a – Lago residence, in a conversation with Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

President Elect Donald Trump intimated in no uncertain terms that Prime Minister Trudeau should become Governor of the 51st state of the United States of America.

This was no joking matter. Canada described as the 51st State of the USA signifies the outright Annexation of Canada.

We will also recall the powerful statement of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in his Letter to Donald. “From One Old Guy to Another”.  

A few days prior to Trump’s inauguration, Jean Chrétien in an open letter to Trump pointed to:

“The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump”. 

“I have two very clear and simple messages. To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake! What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world … to join the United States?

I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country.

We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.”[March 2003] (complete text of letter)

Jean Chretien intimated with astute foresight what is now unfolding under the Trump Presidency:

“Now there is another existential threat.

And we once again need to reduce our vulnerability.

That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders “ 

That challenge is currently being addressed by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government in negotiations pertaining to Trump’s decision to impose (unilaterally) heavy tariffs on commodity trade with Canada.

In early March 2025, Trump threatened Canada and Mexico:

“US President Donald Trump said Thursday [February 28] tariffs of 25% on Mexican and Canadian goods are set to take effect on March 4,while also threatening to impose an additional 10% on Chinese imports on the same date.” (CNN emphasis added

The Annexation of Greenland

Ironically, on that same day, March 4 2025, President Donald Trump: “renewed his threat of using military force to annex Greenland“.

“saying in an NBC News interview he wouldn’t rule it out to make the self-governing Danish territory a part of the United States”

It’s the latest in Trump’s many comments about seizing control of the resource-rich island, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes.

 “I don’t rule it out,” he told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything.”

The Annexation of Canada 

President Trump has been persistent in his intent: As confirmed in an incisive October CBC report: the Annexation of Canada is so to speak “on the Table”.

“Is [Trump] trying to change political views in this country?

If so, that’s foreign interference,” said Dick Fadden, who also headed CSIS and served as national security adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper.” (CBC)

A recent report by the Globe and Mail  (October 3, 2025) examines the Annexation issue in detail. Professor Franklyn Griffiths intimates that “A Trump Annexation would likely start in the North” 

In other words, it would have an impact on “Canada’s maritime sovereignty”.

“Canada needs to consider the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon, and without our permission, send American warships into and through the waterways of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, commonly known as the Northwest Passage.

We owe it to ourselves to imagine what an imminent show of American force (rather than an invasion) would mean. We should also use the prospect to deal with and not write off Mr. Trump’s threats to annex us.” (Professor Griffiths)

“Starting in the North” is Déjà vu

The issue of annexation of Canada –which is now being cautiously addressed by the Canadian media– goes back to 2004. It relates to the instatement of US Northern Command.

Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to negotiate with Bush Adminstration, more specifically with Donald Rumsfeld.  He resigned in 2004 in the wake of the war on Iraq. A new Prime Minister was appointed.

That same year, I addressed the issue in an article entitled: Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush’s Military Agenda? (November 23, 2004) (which at the time was the object of censorship by the Canada’s mainstream media).

Canada’s media was mum on the process of US Militarization of Canada under USNORTHCOM.

Most Canadians are totally unaware that under the clauses of US Northern Command, which were accepted and by Prime Minister Paul Martin the U.S. had acquired  the de facto right to “invade” both Canada and Mexico. (see map below). 

Canada’s Sovereignty in Jeopardy: “51st State”, Déjà Vu: The Militarization of North America under President Donald Trump

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 04, 2025

The map below reveals the territory of USNORTHCOM, which allows the US military to deploy from southern border of Mexico and part of the Caribbean up to the North West territories and Canada’s Artic, not to mention the strategic waterways in Canada’ Northern territories.

51st State is “No joking matter” 

On October 8, Prime Minister Carney meets President Trump in Washington D.C.

On a positive side:

“The Prime Minister and the President welcomed the progress achieved to date in building a new economic and security relationship between their nations. Canada currently has the best trade agreement of any U.S. trading partner, with 85% of Canada-U.S. trade now tariff-free, and our cooperation is further improving border security” (pm-gc-ca PM of Canada)

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17 October 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By Julian Rose

It is said that things come in three’s — well so do accomplices in deep crime.

These three deep state operatives have formed a coven to operate as the front line purveyors of a corporate re-branding of Palestine’s Gaza peninsular.

Tony Blair is already a recognised war criminal, having been personally responsible for the mass murder of 300,000 Iraqi citizens, on the basis that Saddam Hussein was in possession of ‘weapons of mass destruction’.

There were no such weapons, as special government weapons advisor Dr David Kelly strongly stated – and paid for his life in doing so. 

But Blair’s bold faced lie set off the 2003 Iraq war, and the bombing into oblivion of the citizens and infrastructure of that tragic country. An action sanctioned by President George Bush and led by US ground forces under the brutal General ‘Rambo’ Schwarzkopf.

Well, now Blair is back, and has teamed up with that other frigidly cold, calculating killer Benjamin Netanyahu, to work out the best way to exterminate the Palestinian race and simultaneously make a profit from its blood.

Netanyahu’s overt act of genocide has earned him a United Nation’s citation as ‘perpetrator of crimes against humanity’. Aside from this, he has broken every international humanitarian treaty of the past century and is subject to arrest in any country with sufficient backbone and moral fiber to carry this through.

However, the USA is not one of those countries. President Donald Trump has vowed to keep rolling out the (blood) red carpet for his dear friend ‘Bibi’s’ Stateside visits.

Trump’s very existence appears to be controlled by Zionist Israel. His big, brash, bully authoritarian despotism has earned him friends in some quarters. Mostly those who think they see some financial advantage by sheltering under his wing.

He has a large “won’t say anything against our saviour” following amongst Republican voters who have been cheering him along his pompous MAGA bonanza.

The absurdity of all this is not seen by the masses. Few seem to realize that America was never ‘great’ in the first place. With a history that commenced with the violent oppression of indigenous Indian tribes and their ultimate incarceration is special ‘reserves’ followed by open encouragement to fall into alcohol and drug addiction. 

USA was pretty much founded on the ethos ‘every man for himself’, which promoted a rush for material wealth and self-interest-driven land grabs, spurred on by an ego fueled belief that ‘big is beautiful’ and ownership is power.

A cruel civil war established the domination of big industry and the industrialisation and intense exploitation of almost everything, including vast areas of what was once the richest farmland in the world.

Or, is ‘once great America’ judged to be so honored due to its bombing and invasion of more than twenty eight countries since 1945, and the murder of countless millions of human beings via a Blitzkrieg policy designed to out-do the example set by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

What does the bellicose real estate dealer Mr. Trump have to say about being the number one accomplice to the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza? 

About being the closest partner in Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing regime? 

About his continued role as weapons supplier for the Zionist supremacist goal of ending any possibility of Palestinians retaining their homes and regaining their rights to territories they have occupied for centuries?

What kind of degraded animal is this pompous poser who wants ‘to make America great again?’

By concentrating on this three-pointed nexus of evil, I don’t wish to obscure the fact that there are hundreds more human clones in positions of power in the world who have equally failed to lift a finger to end the Gaza carnage, or indeed any other acts of war that they themselves have knowingly provoked through a seemingly irreversible obsession with money and power. 

This includes most of the planet’s religious institutions whose lofty rhetoric of “peace and love on earth” has proved entirely empty when put to the actual test of standing up against brutal villainy.

As Trump, Blair and Netanyahu pour over their blueprint for the construction of a ‘Palestine Free Riviera’ over the ashes of a razed Gaza, with its landscape of surreal Trump Towers, glistening steel high-rise apartments and multinational corporate power pyramids – the men, women and children of that territory continue to be subjected to mass starvation, murder, torture and eviction from their already gutted homes.

What more can one say about this despicably cruel carnage that reveals its perpetrators to be deeply sick, psychotic entities who take pleasure in death and operate at the lowest level of existence of the human species.

As long as such psychopathically hardened criminals continue to be allowed to roam this earth, barking out their executioner orders to a brain dead mind controlled military – there can be nothing but bloodshed in store for humanity.

This is an unconscionable prospect.

Therefore, a coalition of the brave, true and noble must be formed to devise and execute a strategy for the immediate arrest and incarceration of Netanyahu and Blair. And, if Trump refuses to use his Presidential powers to intervene in the Gaza massacre, he too must be subject to the same treatment.

These arrests are not something that will happen via the intervention of ‘the justice system’. That is an illusion. Although the case against Israel is soon to be released by the International Court of Justice and will no doubt prompt further vocal saber-rattling.

We have already seen how cowardly and inept is the United Nations in its failure to enforce international criminal court edicts, further exposing its singular lack of determination to install an expanded peace force in Gaza.

The necessary decisive actions will be taken by a new kind of ‘citizen’s law enforcement body’, comprised of those who recognise that only a coming together of individuals willing to take responsibility for decisive intervention to end the murder of their brothers and sisters, will break the otherwise interminable blood bath.

The imperative is for ‘the citizen’s arrest’ to be projected into the international arena. An action that will, in the context of the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza, receive the emotional and actual support of the majority of the people of the world. 

Once on the move, nothing will be able to stop a vast groundswell of humanity from ultimately ending this nightmare.

Such decisive heroic action will light up the world – and once again raise the flag of dignity of the human race. 

It will clear the way for the reestablishment of a refreshed approach to justice, peace and true respect for all forms of life..

A re-sculptured society, carved out by the hands of a citizen led movement whose unstoppable momentum will finally overpower the dark deep state cult that has the world so relentlessly crushed within its deadly embrace.

N.B. As further proof of high ranking duplicity – at the time of writing – King Charles and the British government are honoring President Trump with an exceptionally lavish state banquet in Windsor castle at the expense of the British tax payer. 

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

16 October 2025

Source: globalresearch.ca

By BADIL

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights releases its latest position paper, entitled “The Decisive Plan: The Israeli Regime’s Blueprint for Colonial Expansion and Palestinian Subjugation.” Analyzing both its ideological and practical elements, the paper exposes how Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan,” presented in 2017, has been institutionalized by the Israeli regime as its operative strategy to impose full “sovereignty” over the West Bank and consolidate colonial domination across all of Mandatory Palestine.

Since the formation of the current Israeli coalition in late 2022, and especially following 7 October 2023, the regime has been implementing the Decisive Plan’s framework through the intensification of existing policies and the creation of new facts, legislation, military and administrative measures on the ground. These include the formal expansion of colonies, the creation of a special ministerial portfolio for Smotrich, the destruction of refugee camps, mass arrests, displacement and the systematic suppression of Palestinian political and economic life. Together, these actions reflect a coordinated effort to entrench Israeli control, erase Palestinian presence, and impose a new colonial status quo.

Far from being a marginal or fringe view, the Decisive Plan represents the direct continuation of Zionist doctrine since its earliest formulations. At its core, the paper demonstrates that the Decisive Plan is the culmination of the Israeli regime’s long-standing colonial objective: maximum amount of land with the minimum number of Palestinians. The Plan’s enforcement is facilitated through the regime’s structural pillars of forced displacement, colonization, and apartheid, which together sustain a system of total domination and denial of Palestinian self-determination. The Decisive Plan outlines three coercive “options” for Palestinians—subjugation, expulsion, or annihilation— mirroring the policies of colony expansion and isolation of Palestinian communities enforced throughout the West Bank. It further highlights how this enforcement parallels the genocide being carried out in the Gaza Strip, revealing a unified strategy of domination across all Mandatory Palestine.

Moreover, the paper underscores the enabling role of Western, colonial states—particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France—whose political, military, and financial support has allowed the Israeli regime to pursue these crimes with impunity. This complicity has entrenched a global order where genocide, apartheid, and colonial domination are enabled and legitimized.

BADIL calls upon states to fulfill their obligations under international law to end all complicity and co-perpetration of Israeli crimes. This requires the adoption of immediate and concrete measures, including political, economic, and military sanctions against the Israeli regime, as well as the protection and continued operation of UN agencies, particularly UNRWA, in Palestine. Anything less constitutes a greenlight for the continuation of genocide and the complete imposition of Israeli colonial domination.

17 October 2025

Source: badil.org

AP reports: “Pakistan reports a new clash with Afghan forces along border.”

Drop Site News reports: “In Pakistan, thousands of protesters from the religiously conservative Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party were marching in solidarity with Gaza when police reportedly opened fire directly on the crowd.”

Trump claimed Tuesday, “I spoke to Hamas,” and they said, “Yes sir, we will disarm.” In reality, DSN reports “senior Hamas, Islamic Jihad and figures from other resistance factions have repeatedly rejected disarmament throughout negotiations, including in multiple interviews with Drop Site over the past year.” They also report: “Israel on Tuesday announced it will not abide by the terms of the ceasefire agreement related to humanitarian aid … only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 trucks — will be allowed to enter.”

JUNAID S. AHMAD, junaidsahmad@gmail.com, @Academicatarms

Ahmad is professor of law, religion, and global politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Ahmed just wrote the piece “Washington’s Subcontractor: Pakistan and the price of obedience,” in Muslim Views which states: “The generals may have silenced [ousted democratically elected prime minister Imran] Khan’s voice, but not his echo. It reverberates across a nation denied dignity — a roar that grows louder with every crackdown. Cornered at home, Pakistan’s generals have reached for their oldest sedative: war. The clashes with Afghanistan are not accidents of geography but instruments of political survival. Conflict rallies the flag, distracts from repression, and cloaks tyranny in patriotism.”

At the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he wanted to again nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Middle East Monitor, Ahmed recently wrote the piece “The silence of the sultans: Muslim regimes and the holocaust of our time” which states: “It’s not that the Muslim world lacks power. Far from it. The Gulf states alone sit atop a financial arsenal large enough to buy and sell entire Western economies — on Tuesdays. Turkey and Pakistan, meanwhile, field massive, sophisticated armed forces. The former is a NATO member with drones and ambitions. The latter is a nuclear-armed state whose generals never tire of reminding the world that they’re ready for ‘full-spectrum deterrence’ — a euphemism for mushroom clouds on demand. And yet, when it came to Gaza, both seemed to have misplaced their playbooks, their backbones, and their sense of duty.”

in “The Muslim World: A Requiem” he writes: “Let us be honest: most Muslim-majority governments today are client states, marionettes in a puppet theatre directed by Western powers, primarily the United States. Iran is the notable exception, though even it often walks the tightrope between pragmatism and defiance. The rest? From Riyadh to Rabat, from Islamabad to Amman, their foreign policies are either written in Washington or blessed by it. One could argue that the only difference between the State Department and the foreign ministries of many Muslim states is the choice of drapes.” His other pieces in Middle East Monitor include “The Zionism of the brass: Why Pakistan’s army won’t defend Gaza” and “The generals and princes are cashing in while Gaza bleeds.”

His recent pieces in The Palestine Chronicle include “Diplomacy or Drama? The Farcical Axis of Washington, Islamabad, and Tel Aviv” and “What Would Muhammad Do? The Answer They Fear.”

He also writes at Counter Currents. Recent pieces there include “Chappelle in Riyadh: From ‘Killing Them Softly’ to Killing His Own Legacy” and “The Saudi–Pakistan Pact: Theater of Complicity.”

Reuters reported: “A live microphone captured Indonesian President Prabowo asking Donald Trump if he could meet his son Eric, an executive vice president of the Trump Organization. ‘I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy,’ Trump said.”

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October 15, 2025

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Islamabad, Pakistan
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By BEN NORTON

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government. She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is key to Trump’s regime-change war.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right coup leader in Venezuela who has been funded by the US government for decades.

Machado has openly called for the US military to invade Venezuela, in order to overthrow the revolutionary Chavista government of President Nicolás Maduro.

She is at the heart of the war that Donald Trump has waged on Venezuela. Machado has endorsed the US military’s extrajudicial executions of Venezuelans in boats in international waters, echoing the Trump administration’s unsubstantiated, evidence-free claims that it is supposedly killing “drug traffickers”.

Machado also supports the illegal, unilateral US sanctions that have killed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

Likewise, Machado has expressed staunch support for Israel as it carried out genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Nobel Peace Prize for war criminals

The fact that a pro-war, far-right coup-plotter like Machado was given a Nobel Peace Prize demonstrates how extremely hypocritical the award is.

This hypocrisy is far from new.

US imperial planner Henry Kissinger was given a so-called Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, despite the fact that he was one of the worst war criminals in modern history, with the blood of millions of victims on his hands, in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Chile, and beyond.

Former US President Barack Obama also won a so-called Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. His administration then went on to wage nonstop war. Obama bombed seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

This is by no means the first time that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been hypocritical. But giving the prize to María Corina Machado is especially outrageous, because it comes precisely at a moment when, one, she has been supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and two, she is working with Donald Trump to wage war and use violence to try to overthrow Venezuela’s government.

María Corina Machado supports Israel’s genocidal regime

Machado has openly praised Israel as it has carried out a genocide against the Palestinian people.

A United Nations commission led by renowned experts on international humanitarian law stated clearly that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

In January 2025, Machado held a call with Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar. She expressed her “gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel”, adding that she “immensely values the support of the government of Israel”.

The genocidal Israeli regime has refused to recognize the government of Venezuela’s constitutional, internationally recognized President Nicolás Maduro, and has instead recognized US-backed coup leader Edmundo González, who lives in Spain and is a proxy for Machado.

In April 2024, Israel attacked Iran in an act of aggression, and Tehran hit back in self-defense. Machado immediately took to Twitter to condemn Iran. She emphasized her “solidarity with the State of Israel amid the direct aggression by the Iranian regime”.

Machado denounced the supposed “risk represented by the alliance of Iran with the Venezuelan regime”, and she vowed that, if the US can successfully put her in power in Caracas, Machado would form a close alliance with the US and Israel against Iran and the Palestinian people.

In 2023, Machado again tweeted support for Israel, expressing hope that it has a “long and happy existence”, adding that the far-right Venezuelan opposition and the genocidal Israeli regime share common “values”.

One of the clearest illustrations of Machado’s extremist politics came in 2018, when she published an open letter to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking the genocidal leader to help her overthrow Venezuelan President Maduro.

Machado requested that Israel, Argentina’s right-wing government, and other countries in the “international community” give the Venezuelan opposition “the necessary support to generate a regime change” against Maduro.

In the letter, Machado cited “the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect”, which was used by the United States to justify its 2011 war on Libya. That US-led NATO war destroyed the central government of what had once been a peaceful, stable, and prosperous oil-rich North African country and turned it into a lawless failed state with open-air slave markets.

Today, Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity that his regime has committed in Gaza.

Venezuela does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel. They were repeatedly broken by revolutionary former President Hugo Chávez and his successor Maduro, both of whom have been strong supporters of the Palestinian people and have condemned Israel for committing genocide.

María Corina Machado is at the center of Donald Trump’s regime-change war on Venezuela

Giving the so-called Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is even more outrageous considering that she is at the heart of a war that the US government is currently waging against Venezuela.

Donald Trump has launched multiple military attacks, killing dozens of Venezuelans without charge or trial. In flagrant violation of international law, the US military has repeatedly bombed boats surrounding Venezuela in international waters, claiming without any evidence that they were full of people trafficking “drugs”.

Machado has supported Trump’s attacks on her country, including his extrajudicial executions of Venezuelans without charge or trial.

The Financial Times interviewed Machado, and she admitted that she is working with the US government to try to overthrow Venezuela’s President Maduro.

The FT reported that the “deployment of US warships to the southern Caribbean has encouraged thousands of Venezuelans to join an underground movement preparing to bring down President Nicolás Maduro”.

The Trump administration has sent eight warships and thousands of troops to the Caribbean, the FT reported, along with 10 F-35 jets in Puerto Rico. The newspaper noted that this is the largest US military buildup in the region since the 1994 US invasion of Haiti.

“Top figures in the Venezuelan opposition say they have been in touch with senior Trump administration officials to discuss how to choreograph Maduro’s downfall”, the FT wrote.

The newspaper quoted Machado, who threatened, “This set of internal and external forces have created the conditions for Maduro and his regime to increasingly understand that their time is up and that their best option is to leave power now”.

What does Machado hope to do if the US manages to put her in power?

The far-right opposition leader admitted in another interview with the Financial Times that she wants to privatize Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves.

“We have to privatise and open up the markets, beginning with the energy sector”, Machado told the FT in 2023.

After calling to sell off Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, she stressed that the South American nation’s enormous oil and gas reserves, along with its lucrative minerals, “will all be open to private investment”.

The newspaper acknowledged in passing that Machado has a “radical reputation” in Venezuela. This is putting it mildly. Machado is the leader of the far-right extremist wing of Venezuela’s opposition. It is explicitly violent and anti-democratic, and notoriously corrupt.

Trump said he wants to “take over” Venezuela and exploit its oil

During Trump’s first term as US president, he launched another coup attempt in Venezuela.

In 2019, Washington appointed the unelected right-wing opposition figure Juan Guaidó as the so-called “interim president” of Venezuela, despite the fact that he had never participated in a presidential election.

The US and its European allies then proceeded to freeze and steal billions of dollars worth of Venezuelan government assets, which were used to fund the coup attempt — and enrich leading figures from the corrupt Venezuelan opposition.

Trump’s coup attempt clearly failed during his first term. At a Republican Party rally in 2023, he complained that the US empire had been very close to “taking over” Venezuela and pillaging his oil. He fumed:

Venezuela. How about we’re buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over. We would have gotten all that oil. It would have been right next door.

In fact, right after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that it had given its so-called peace prize to Machado, Trump held a press conference in the White House.

There, Trump revealed that Machado had called him on the phone to thank him for helping her try to overthrow Maduro.

Trump boasted that he has been supporting Venezuela’s far-right opposition. These were his remarks:

The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today [on October 10], called me, and said, “I’m accepting this in honor of you because you really deserved it”.

A very nice thing to do. I didn’t say, “Then give it to me”, though. I think she might have. She was very nice.

And I’ve been, you know, I’ve been helping her along the way. They need a lot of help in Venezuela.

María Corina Machado supports illegal US sanctions that have killed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans

Machado has also advocated for years for the United States to impose more and more sanctions on Venezuela, which violate international law.

These unilateral coercive measures have killed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

In 2017, when Trump levied heavy sanctions on Venezuela, Machado praised them, writing happily in an approving tweet, “These sanctions are surgical and effective; with a strong financial, commercial, and political impact”.

Then, in 2018, Machado insisted that “the regime will only leave with force”. She demanded “International force: more lawsuits and sanctions”.

International experts have pointed out that the illegal US sanctions on Venezuela are responsible for at least tens of thousands of deaths, and likely hundreds of thousands.

Renowned economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs calculated that US sanctions caused more than 40,000 deaths in Venezuela in just one year, from 2017 to 2018.

Their findings were published in a 2019 study at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, DC.

“The sanctions have reduced the availability of food and medicine, and increased disease and mortality”, they wrote.

Weisbrot and Sachs also warned that, “if the sanctions continued, they will almost certainly result in tens of thousands more avoidable deaths”.

The unilateral coercive measures have indeed continued since then, meaning it is likely that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan civilians have been killed by these illegal US sanctions.

This was implied by another peer-reviewed scientific study, published in 2025 in the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet.

Unilateral economic sanctions have caused an average of 564,000 excess deaths every single year for the past five decades, the latter study found.

The majority of the deaths from sanctions have been children under the age of five, concluded economists Mark Weisbrot, Francisco Rodríguez, and Silvio Rendón.

The United States is responsible for imposing the majority of unilateral sanctions, in violation of international law.

This means that Nobel “Peace” Prize laureate María Corina Machado has supported illegal coercive measures that killed hundreds of thousands of her countrymen, including many children.

Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, and other US politicians lobbied Norwegian Nobel Committee for María Corina Machado

US government officials played a key role in lobbying the Norwegian Nobel Committee to give its so-called peace prize to the Venezuelan coup leader.

On August 26, 2024, several right-wing members of the US Congress sent the committee a letter (PDF).

“We write to you in support of the nomination of María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize”, they said.

The signatories were all Republicans. They included Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Florida House Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, María Elvira Salazar, Michael “Mike” Waltz, Neal Dunn, and Carlos A. Gimenez, along with the New York Representative Byron Donalds.

Today, Rubio is the second-most powerful person in the US government after Trump. He is both secretary of state and national security advisor. (Rubio is the second person in US history to simultaneously hold both positions, after war criminal and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger.)

Mike Waltz previously served as Trump’s national security advisor, and now is US ambassador to the UN.

These are the US government officials who have been working closely with Machado and Venezuela’s extreme, far-right opposition to try to violently overthrow President Maduro.

By giving Machado its “peace” prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee demonstrated that it is willing to act as a tool of US empire, cynically exploiting the discourse of “peace” in order to advocate for more war.

13 October 2025

Source: geopoliticaleconomy.report