While Nicolás Maduro awaits trial for "narco-terrorism" charges, a top US drug trafficking family – the Sackler clan – is paying its victims and continuing to live lavishly.
The Grayzone's Kei Pritsker spoke to Dede Yoder, whose son died of a fentanyl overdose after being prescribed Oxycontin, a dangerous opioid deceptively marketed by the Sackers' Purdue Pharma.
Yoder explains how the Sacklers have philanthropy-washed their way out of real accountability for systematically poisoning America.
A new bilateral cybersecurity deal and the continued flow of weapons leave little ambiguity about Germany's stance: not accountability, but normalization.
“Israel has the right — and indeed the duty — to defend its citizens and its existence against those who repeatedly deny the democratic Jewish state’s right to exist.” With these words, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in December.
The language was familiar, part of a well-established lexicon of German-Israeli diplomacy. Against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, such phrasing now reads as a blunt reaffirmation of the countries’ “special relationship”: an assertion of Germany’s responsibility for Israel’s security and endorsement of a growing military partnership.
That symbolism has since been followed by more concrete steps. A little over a week ago, Israel and Germany signed a cybersecurity agreement to expand their existing cooperation. “I attach enormous importance to the overall cooperation between Israel and Germany,” Netanyahu said during the signing. “Israel’s enemies should know: Our eyes are on them at all times and everywhere,” read a statement on the agreement from his office.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who traveled to Israel to sign the deal, said he wanted to take Israel as a “model.” “We are relying on systematic exchange rather than ad-hoc cooperation,” Dobrindt told German media. “Israel is Germany’s most important partner outside of NATO and the EU,” his ministry stated.
According to the German newspaper Bild, the agreement includes cooperation between Germany’s elite police unit GSG 9 and the Israeli police’s counterterrorism unit, known colloquially as Yamam. This unit has carried out extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinians in the West Bank, and was also involved in Israel’s hostage rescue operation in Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza in June 2024, during which four Israelis were freed and over 270 Palestinians were killed. Bild also reported plans for a joint German-Israeli AI and cybersecurity research center.
The agreement further includes Germany’s participation in the U.S.-led Office of the Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (OSC) in Jerusalem, within which Dobrindt reportedly said Germany would “take on a leadership role.” The office provides training to Palestinian police officers and “security forces” in the West Bank, with plans to extend this to Gaza. Germany is already involved in the EU Mission for the Support of Palestinian Police and Rule of Law, which is expected to expand its mandate to train police officers from Gaza as well (overall, 3,000 police units are expected to be trained by European forces). (more...)
Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide
Patagonia is often imagined as a remote sanctuary at the edge of the world: vast forests, glacial lakes, windswept plains, and indigenous territories that have resisted the pressures of industrial modernity for centuries. Yet in recent years, this image has begun to fracture. Across Argentina’s southern provinces, forests have burned with unusual frequency and intensity, communities have been displaced, and land once protected by ecological or cultural barriers has become newly accessible, as documented in assessments of the 2024 Argentina wildfires. At the same time, Patagonia has emerged as a focal point in a far larger global struggle, one driven not by climate, but by geopolitics, resource scarcity, and national security imperatives emanating from Washington.
Beneath Patagonia’s scorched earth lies a convergence of uranium, lithium, copper, gold, and rare-earth-associated minerals, precisely the materials the United States has identified as critical to its military, technological, and economic survival, according to the Defense Logistics Agency’s Strategic Materials list (DLA). As China continues to dominate global supply chains for these resources, the U.S. has embarked on an aggressive, state-backed campaign to secure alternative sources, a shift analysed in multiple policy briefings and industry reports from Fastmarkets, and Rare Earth Exchanges, just to name a few. Argentina, and Patagonia in particular, have become central to that strategy. This investigation examines how U.S. mineral policy, Argentine investment frameworks such as RIGI, foreign mining corporations, and a wave of criminally investigated fires intersect, raising disturbing questions about environmental destruction, indigenous population displacement, and the true cost of securing “strategic” resources.
Over the past decade, the United States has quietly but decisively reframed access to critical and strategic minerals as a matter of national security, a transformation detailed in analyses of Pentagon stockpiling and mineral vulnerability, as described in a report from Ecor Network, titled: “Mining for War: An Assessment of the Pentagon’s Mineral Reserves“. This shift reflects a growing awareness inside the Pentagon, Congress, and the intelligence community that modern warfare, surveillance, and economic power depend on materials that the U.S. largely does not control. Lithium is essential for batteries powering military systems and electric vehicles; rare earth elements such as neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are indispensable for missile guidance systems, radar, satellites, and advanced communications; uranium remains fundamental to nuclear energy and deterrence; and copper, nickel, gallium, and cobalt underpin everything from fighter jets to data centers, as reflected in the DLA strategic materials mandate (DLA).
The vulnerability lies in the supply chains. The United States is fully import-dependent for at least twelve critical minerals and more than fifty percent dependent for twenty-eight others, while China controls roughly seventy percent of global rare earth mining and more than ninety percent of refining capacity, a dominance outlined in policy analyses cited by GovFacts and Discovery Alert. These realities allow Beijing to control, or according to some critics, weaponise supply chains, a risk openly acknowledged in U.S. government and industry circles.
Faced with this imbalance, Washington has responded not with market liberalism but with a form of mineral mercantilism. The Pentagon has invested directly in mining companies, guaranteed price floors for rare earth products, invoked the Defense Production Act to subsidise extraction and processing, and expanded the National Defense Stockpile, developments examined in industry reporting like Fastmarkets. A proposed $2.5 billion Strategic Resilience Reserve, reported by Reuters, would further entrench government control over mineral flows, explicitly aiming to reduce reliance on China and secure long-term access to critical inputs.
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which manages the stockpile, lists uranium, lithium, rare earth elements, copper, nickel, cobalt, gallium, and platinum group metals among its priority materials. These are not abstract commodities; they are the physical backbone of U.S. military power and technological dominance, and the list reads almost like a geological map of Patagonia itself. According to the recent Observatorio de Tierras report, US citizens and corporations are the largest owners of Argentinian land, leading with 2.7 million hectares, followed by Italy and Spain, with 50% located in the Andes and in Patagonia. (more...)
Patagonia’s Silent Occupation: Who’s Burning Patagonia to Mine Its Minerals?
Milei, who has regularly defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was also invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace.
Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and give its intelligence agencies authority to apprehend individuals without prior judicial order.
Decree 941—issued on December 31, during legislative recess—reorganizes all intelligence agencies, including military intelligence, under the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE), which will report directly to the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The current General Secretariat of the Presidency is the president’s sister, Karina Milei.
CELS, a leading human rights organization in Argentina, published a statement labeling the decree as “unconstitutional” and warning that the order, known as a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) grants SIDE, “powers characteristic of a secret police force, including detention authority, and establishes a legal framework for the surveillance of the entire population under conditions of extreme secrecy.”
When Milei first came to power in 2023, he was a far-right outlier in South America, with most surrounding countries having center-left governments. Last year saw a shift, with far-right governments coming to power in Bolivia and Chile, but most importantly Trump’s return to the White House. Figures like Milei are emboldened, carrying out U.S.-aligned agendas which pair greater state repression with economic reforms that impose austerity on working people and open resources to foreign extraction.
Milei, who has regularly defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was also invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace. The international body, created by Trump with U.N. approval, was established to task foreign government’s with administering Gaza’s future. Trump has signaled that he intends for the Board to play a role in global conflicts beyond Gaza. (more...)
As Israel’s image has suffered from its genocidal campaign in Gaza, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and broader Jewry are targeting Hispanic evangelical communities in the United States and Central America to cultivate a fresh base of golems who will back Zionist causes.
Greenblatt recently announced a formal partnership with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference during a speaking engagement at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, revealing an extensive outreach initiative targeting Hispanic evangelical communities. “We have roughly 2,000 active synagogues in America. There are 42,000 active Hispanic evangelical churches,” Greenblatt told the audience. “Right now, the ADL is co-writing Sunday school curriculum with them. Right now, the ADL is working on joint lobby days with them.”
The ADL announced the partnership on October 16, 2025, creating educational materials for distribution across Hispanic evangelical churches in the United States. The collaboration encompasses a 12-month antisemitism awareness curriculum distributed to pastors, youth leaders, and congregants, with specific modules designed for K-12 private schools. Faith-based resources include sermon guides and prayer materials promoting solidarity with Jewish communities.
Multilingual digital campaigns targeting Generation Z and Millennial congregants will feature short-form videos and social media content. The partnership also includes Prayer and Justice Gatherings, with roundtable discussions planned across California, Florida, New York, Texas, and Washington DC. According to the official announcement, the curriculum will provide resources specifically for Sunday school implementation, representing the first time ADL has directly contributed to Christian religious education programming. The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, led by President Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, also operates the Hispanic Israel Leadership Coalition, a specific arm dedicated to Israel advocacy. (more...)
Jonathan Greenblatt Rolls Out Plan to Activate Hispanic Evangelical Golems
🔥 He got fired from a Catholic college for opposing abortion. That was just the beginning.
Dr. E. Michael Jones has been called every name in the book. The ADL has him on their radar. Google buries his website. But after 40 years of writing, researching, and speaking out, he says his reach has never been greater.
"If you're not suffering, you're not dealing with the truth. If you haven't been banned, if you haven't been called names, you're not in the battle."
In this no holds barred conversation, Dr. Jones breaks down everything from the origins of his controversial work to why he believes the current moment is a turning point for Catholics and for the West.
What you'll learn in this episode:
• Why getting fired in 1980 was the best thing that ever happened to him
• His take on the term "anti-Semitism" and why he refuses to accept it as defined today
• The connection between Puritanism, Freemasonry, and what he calls the "hidden grammar" of America
• Why he wrote an 1800 page book that he says poses the biggest threat to the current order
• How the grace of the sacraments has sustained him through decades of opposition
• His challenge to Catholic bishops on a recent controversial document
• Why he believes Logos is the universal language that can unite people across cultures
"God had a plan and I had the courage to step out about what I believed. And if you do that, God will take care of you."
He is not backing down. He is not slowing down. And after this conversation, you will understand why.
📚 Find his books at fidelitypress.org
The egos of those who run Davos annual flight from reality would have you believe that there will be a real, free exchange of ideas there. In reality it is an exercise in control, with fake alternatives presented, all within the containment of the City of London's imperial geopolitics. Will Donald Trump change that? Let's see if he will denounce London's control over the world economy through "financialization", and embrace cooperation with the BRICS nations, based on the ideas of the American System as advanced by Lyndon LaRouche.
These interviews with the brilliant Hal Sanderson set forth the Process Church of the Final Judgement, an organization most have never heard of.
We have touched on the organization in the Miscellaneous Archive Shows about The Ultimate Evil.
Key Points of Discussion and Analysis Include: Mary De Grimston’s primary role in the development of the organization; Ms. De Grimston’s Nazi manifestations; The group’s organizational relationship with Tommy Baumler, an American Nazi and one of the figures operating around Guy Banister’s front organization at 544 Camp Street/531 Lafayette Place in New Orleans; The organization’s transnational and apparent intelligence connections; The group’s links to the paraplegic, post-assassination attempt George Wallace; The over-the-top generalizations that have muddied the waters surrounding the group.
Counter protesters criticize TPS actions at the demonstration
On January 10 at 1:00 pm, anti-immigrant protesters gathered at Nathan Phillips Square before marching through downtown Toronto to the Eaton Centre, drawing a strong counter-protest and police presence. During the protest and counter-protest, Toronto Police Service (TPS) arrested eight individuals, three of whom were charged with assaulting a peace officer.
Anti-immigrant demonstrators held signs that read “Make Canada Great Again” and “Stop the invasion” as families spent the Saturday afternoon skating on the rink next to the demonstration. A substantially larger group of counter-protesters was also present, chanting “Go home losers, go home racists,” and “shame!”
TPS presence at the demonstration was extensive, with more than 10 squad cars parked along Queen Street West. At Nathan Phillips Square, over 20 officers formed a barricade to contain counter-protesters. No similar measures were taken to contain the anti-immigrant demonstrators.
Around 2:00 pm, the anti-immigrant group began its march toward the Eaton Centre, which lasted more than two hours. Counter-protesters followed in opposition. TPS officers accompanied the march and blocked traffic at Dundas Street West and parts of Yonge Street to keep the march moving.
Members of the Canada First group carried Canadian flags and banners with slogans such as “fit in or fuck off” and “we need some Canadian ICE,” and some chanted calls for “quality immigrants only.”
Onlookers and counter-protesters shouted back, with some identifying themselves as immigrants and accusing the protesters of spreading hateful and exclusionary messages. (more...)
Eight arrested during anti-immigrant protest and counter-protest
After learning that yet another Zionist group has filed a complaint against him the Law Society, Dimitri Lascaris recounts the history of his battles with the Zionist lobby.
John Collins examines why Freemasonry alone cannot explain the theological problems inside modern charismatic and New Apostolic Reformation movements. Tracing the issue back to ancient Gnosticism, he explains how secret knowledge, spiritual elitism, and hidden revelation repeatedly resurface in Christian history.
By comparing early church responses—especially Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies—with post–World War II healing revivals, Branhamism, and modern NAR teachings, this episode shows how Gnostic ideas reshape salvation, authority, and church identity. The discussion exposes why mystery-driven Christianity thrives in times of fear and instability, and why the simple public gospel remains the antidote.
Introduction
The second coming of Tony Blair, Medicine Man with messianic hunger for war. Charlatan on platform shoes. Trump's coup de théâtre, the existence of aliens. Takes one to know one.
This week has seen an excerpt of Lisa Banfield's book, The First Survivor - Living With Canada's Deadliest Mass Shooter, published by the Nationals Post chain of newspapers. She also did an interview with CTV in advance of the book release on January 20, 2026. We review some of the details provided in the excerpt, and key outstanding discrepancies in this discussion with Chad Jones and Ryan Potter, including her claims about how she escaped, where she spent the night of April 19, 2020, and what she claims to have heard in those hours.
In this episode, Palestine Declassified explores the dirty tricks employed by the Zionist lobby in Australia to undermine solidarity with Palestine, including Benjamin Netanyahu’s extraordinary outburst against the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Neville Chamberlain's perfidious game in 1938 deliberately created a monster in the heart of Europe, setting stage for the continent's greatest tragedy in history.
Following the destruction of Czechoslovakia, Hitler turned his attention to Poland. At first, it was just diplomacy: the talks with Poland kicked off on 21 October 1938. As expected, German representatives asked the Polish government for the city of Danzig and a kilometer-wide strip across the Polish Corridor to accommodate a highway and four-track railroad under German sovereignty. These were deemed moderate requests and they were made to the Polish ally in a relatively cordial atmosphere.
The territories in question were parts of Germany that she’d lost by Versailles treaty after the World War I, so German demands didn’t seem outrageous. At that time Hitler did not intend to overrun Poland, but rather to engage her in the forthcoming invasion of Russia. If his demands were granted, Germany was prepared to reciprocate with certain concessions to Poland. However, the Polish government did not yield to German demands.
A few months later, on 21 March 1939, Hitler reiterated his demands, this time more forcefully. When the news of this reached London, UK’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suddenly and unilaterally issued a strangely worded security guarantee for Poland. It read as follows:
“Certain consultations are now proceeding with other governments. In order to make perfectly clear the position of His Majesty’s Government in the meantime, before those consultations are concluded, I now have to inform the House [of Commons] that during that period, in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty’s Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power.”
This was the first time Britain made such a commitment to another nation since 1918. Not only did the British government commit to guaranteeing a foreign nation, it also gave that nation the privilege to decide when the guarantee would take effect, while asking for nothing in return. Importantly, the British only guaranteed Poland’s independence, not its territorial integrity. In that, they left the door wide open for Germany to continue pressuring Poland for territorial concessions. (more...)
Appeasement: the SHOCKING truth about the 1938 Munich Agreement - The “three block” imperial agenda
Among the most influential authors and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was born in England but went on to play an important role in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1774, he emigrated to America where, for a time, he helped to edit the Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.
Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.
Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.
Think that Canada’s border agents, the CBSA, are radically different from ICE?
Desmond Cole explains how the Canada Border Security Agency works, often in tandem with ICE, to detain and deport migrants, sometimes with lethal consequences.
It’s easy to sit in judgement of the U.S., but Canada has enabled, and even profited from, the rise of American fascism.
What role is Canada playing in the United States’ fascist turn?
The Department of Homeland Security rounds up hundreds of migrants a day, throwing them in cages operated by the Canadian security firm GardaWorld.
As ICE agents sow terror in cities across the U.S., the Ontario manufacturer Roshel supplies them with armoured vehicles to facilitate their work.
While ICE saw its budget balloon to $75 billion last year, the Montreal-based CGI Inc. helped the agency manage its sprawling technology needs from offices in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.
And just days after the U.S. military abducted a sovereign head of state, Canadian politicians boasted about the coup creating opportunities for Alberta oil in Asian markets.
Everywhere you see American imperialism ruining lives, you’ll find unscrupulous Canadians cashing in. Our political class would rather we not acknowledge this reality, that we continue to fall for slogans like “elbows up” without actually considering the degree to which our economy has been absorbed by U.S. interests. (more...)
Canadians Cash In While America Burns
AIPAC is suddenly unwelcome among Democrats, but there's a new sheriff in town to enforce the pro-Israel orthodoxy. J Street aims to make liberals 'love Israel again,' but most Democrats are looking to distance themselves due to the Gaza genocide.
The Israel lobby is exposed these days as it has never been before. Or AIPAC is. AIPAC is a dirty word among Democrats because it refuses to criticize the Netanyahu government.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner are both refusing AIPAC donations. In New York City, progressive Democratic candidates are primarying two sitting congressmen, Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman, and making the incumbent’s donations from AIPAC an issue.
And not just Democrats. In announcing her resignation from Congress, the Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that she takes no money from AIPAC– and “condemns Israeli genocide” — in contrast to Donald Trump, who has gotten over $230 million in pro-Israel money, and backs Israeli genocide to the hilt.
The liberal Zionist organization J Street looks to be the beneficiary of this shift. J Street used to represent a left/liberal fringe of the Democratic establishment. Now it represents the center/right.
And J Street is lobbying hard for Israel. It doesn’t want the U.S. to cut military aid to Israel. It says it wants young Jews to “fall in love with Israel” all over again.
This is risky positioning. There is today a “civil war” inside the Democratic Party over Israel, two liberal Zionists acknowledged on a recent J Street podcast.
That civil war is happening for a simple reason. The Democratic base sympathizes with Palestinians more than they do Israelis, by a shocking 60 to 12 percent. Among the young, the numbers are even higher, while the party’s elites sympathize with Israel. (more...)
J Street is the new AIPAC in the Democratic Party
Three imprisoned Palestine Action activists survived a months-long hunger that has been described as a ‘landmark moment of pure defiance’
Three imprisoned Palestine Action activists ended a months-long hunger strike on 14 January after the UK government decided not to award a $2.7 billion military training contract to Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems’ British subsidiary.
“Elbit Systems is living on stolen time – we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people," Prisoners for Palestine said, crediting the outcome to sustained prisoner pressure.
The group also described the hunger strike as “a landmark moment of pure defiance, an embarrassment for the British state," adding that the strike “exposed to the world Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime, and has seen hundreds of people commit to take direct action in the prisoners’ footsteps.”
On 15 January, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie Chiaramello confirmed they had begun refeeding under medical supervision after learning that Elbit Systems UK was denied the contract.
The deal would have seen the Israeli arms maker train up to 60,000 British troops each year over a decade.
Four other imprisoned activists - Teuta Hoxha, Jon Cink, Qesser Zuhrah, and Amu Gib - also resumed refeeding after pausing their strikes. (more...)
Palestine Action hunger strike ends after UK scraps Elbit Systems contract
Israel imposed restrictions on work permits for teachers from West Bank, leading to disruption for thousands of students
Christian schools in Jerusalem have announced escalating protest measures, including a suspension of classes and a mass strike, in rejection of what they consider arbitrary Israeli policies that have disrupted the work of hundreds of teachers.
These steps come after Israel imposed restrictions on work permits for teachers from the West Bank, leading to disruptions in the education sector.
The denial of permits has deprived schools of essential teaching staff, directly impacting thousands of students in Jerusalem.
More than 12,000 students are educated in 15 Christian schools in Jerusalem. These schools employ 820 teachers and staff, including 235 who hold West Bank ID cards issued by the Palestinian Authority. They reach their workplaces with "entry permits to Israel", which are renewed at the beginning of each academic term.
At the start of the new school term, the Israeli Civil Administration refused to renew the permits of some teachers and placed others under review, while issuing third-category permits only for certain days of the week. (more...)
Christian schools in Jerusalem suspend classes to protest at Israeli restrictions
BP's influence over UK STEM education through its sponsorship of the Science Museum’s teacher training academy comes under attack, raising concerns over fossil fuel industry ties and greenwashing in educational spaces.
BP is facing renewed criticism over its influence on science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) education in the United Kingdom, following revelations about its longstanding partnership with the Science Museum Group.
Documents obtained through freedom of information requests show that the oil and gas giant funded a key research project, Enterprising Science, which led to the launch of the Science Museum Group Academy, a training program for teachers and educators.
Since its creation, the academy has run more than 500 courses, reaching over 5,000 teachers across the UK.
Campaigners argue that the documents reveal the extent of BP’s involvement in the project. The original contract for Enterprising Science reportedly included a clause stating that no major decisions could be approved unless backed by BP’s representative.
Chris Garrard, co-director of Culture Unstained, a group advocating for ethical sponsorship in the arts and education, said, "BP’s toxic influence over young people’s learning is calculated and insidious. We wouldn’t allow tobacco companies to be involved in crafting educational content, so why should a fossil fuel company with a record of ignoring climate science play such a central role?" (more...)
BP's 'toxic influence' on UK STEM education faces scrutiny
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Activists hail end of 27-year BP sponsorship deal with British Museum
Join us live for a conversation between TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and the Indigenous Protector Movement on what's happening in Minneapolis.
We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, "Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the end of international law," unpacks how recent U.S. aggression from Venezuela to Gaza signals a dangerous unraveling of the post-World War II legal order.
We’ll discuss:
Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the end of international law
A black box since the 80s, the elusive Club de Berne has been influencing European and other states’ intelligence activities with little public knowledge or consent for decades. The once informal organisation bringing together heads of EU security services is morphing into a proper institution. Operating transnationally, the Club evades the few legal and regulatory frameworks that exist on international intelligence cooperation.
In November 2019, the Austrian Newspaper “Oesterreich” published an internal document of the Club de Berne (CdB), thus giving the ominous secret service club the biggest leak in its history. Until then, the little official information about the CdB was always the same; it was described as an “informal club” that brings together the heads of the secret services of the EU states, as well as Switzerland and Norway. However, as recent research proved, the Club is much more than that. An as yet unpublished document shows that at least in 2011, the FBI, the CIA, and the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad, among others, were involved in exchanges of information within the CdB.
The active involvement of non-European services in the CdB stands in sharp contrast with the publicly portrayed image of an inner-European exchange between intelligence services. Even though the CdB has grown significantly over the past years, it acts outside any democratic control – not in Switzerland and not in the other nations that have their services participate in the CdB. It has never been embedded into an institutional framework despite constantly acquiring new areas of responsibility. Due to the growing area of executive activity that is out of reach for the public, i.e. independent oversight and effective remedy, the Club de Berne is not tenable, for it equips government actors with unchallenged power. This must change.
Swiss historian Aviva Guttmann has intensively studied the founding phase of the Club de Berne as part of her research work on Swiss counter-terrorism. Her research shows that the Club exchanged information beyond Europe already shortly after its foundation in 1969. At that time, nine Western European secret services shared information about Palestinian terrorists and their supporters with the Israeli domestic and foreign secret services Shin Beth and Mossad, as well as the American FBI. The exchange took place via an encrypted telegram system called Kilowatt. From 1974 onwards, a second telegram system called Megaton existed, which concerned non-Palestinian terrorism.
“To date, neither the public, nor Parliament, nor other departments have been informed of the existence, let alone the extent, of the practices of this secret service exchange”, Guttmann notes. Her research work in the Swiss Federal Archives however, does not go beyond the 1980s, as more recent files are subject to the usual 30- to 50-year retention period for documents held by federal authorities. Since then, the CdB has largely been a black box. (more...)
The Club de Berne: a black box of growing intelligence cooperation
Garland Nixon and Harley Schlanger further expose the nefarious role of the British
The video discusses the complex web of power and influence that shapes global events, focusing on the role of intelligence agencies, media manipulation, and oligarchic control. The conversation explores the interconnectedness of these entities and their impact on public perception.
KeyPoints
🚨 The British Empire's legacy of manipulating other elements against each other is still present today.
💡 Intelligence agencies play a significant role in shaping global events through covert operations and media manipulation.
📰 The media is often complicit in covering up these operations, creating cynicism among the public.
📊 Oligarchic control of financial systems, such as the Bank of England, allows for manipulation of power dynamics.
💸 Epstein's case highlights the involvement of powerful individuals and organizations in compromising themselves for personal gain.
Neville Chamberlain's perfidious game in 1938 deliberately created a monster in the heart of Europe, setting stage for the continent's greatest tragedy in history.
As the crisis between Germany and Czechoslovakia escalated through the summer of 1938, France and Britain ordered the Czech government not to mobilize its troops for fear of provoking Germany. Instead, they pressured Prague to accept the Anglo-French solution to the crisis. But their proposal would only further weaken Czechoslovakia’s security in exchange for vague promises of international guarantees.
The government of President Edvard Beneš protested vigorously and rejected the solution. In their turn, London and Paris rejected the Czech refusal and mounted further pressure on the government in Prague. Neville Chamberlain explained the imperative to force Czechoslovakia’s government to yield:
“The idea of territorial cession would be likely to have a more favorable reception from the British public if it could be represented as the choice of the Czechoslovak Government themselves and it could be made clear that they had been offered the choice of a plebiscite or of territorial cession and had preferred the latter. This would dispose of any idea that we were ourselves carving up Czechoslovak territory.”
To turn up the pressure, France threatened to revoke their alliance and abandon the Czechs to Germany. Finally, on 21 September 1938 the Czech government relented and accepted the Anglo-French dictate.
The very next day, Chamberlain paid Hitler a visit at Godesberg on the Rhine in order to personally deliver the good news. At that meeting, Hitler and Chamberlain formulated the extreme Godesberg Ultimatum – a set of even more exacting demands against the Czechoslovak government and had the British military attaché rush them to Prague. (more...)
Appeasement: the SHOCKING truth about the 1938 Munich Agreement
China bans cybersecurity tools from US and Israeli firms amid rising tech and security tensions with "Israel", citing national security threats.
Tensions between "Israel" and China have intensified, as both take steps in a growing technological and security standoff, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Chinese private vehicles were banned from entering security-sensitive industrial zones in "Israel", amid growing concerns within the country’s security and military establishment that technological systems in these cars could be used to leak sensitive information.
Amid this intensifying cold conflict, Chinese authorities have instructed domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software produced by around 12 American and Israeli firms, Reuters reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter. These directives were issued in recent days over national security concerns in China.
The list of banned software includes the Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point. Among American companies, the ban reportedly affects software from VMware, Palo Alto Networks (co-founded by Israeli Nir Zuk), and Fortinet.
The sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic, said Chinese authorities fear that this software could collect confidential information and transmit it outside the country. (more...)
China hits back at 'Israel' in escalating cybersecurity showdown
Public data shows that Israeli arms companies have obtained grants for civilian projects despite a strict EU ban on funding research that can be used in warfare
The EU has funnelled millions of euros' worth of funding meant for civilian research programmes to Israeli arms manufacturers and other defence firms despite a ban on the funding of military and dual-use research.
Public records show Israeli companies, central to the state’s military industry, have repeatedly participated in EU-backed research, including as part of the Horizon Europe and its predecessor Horizon 2020 programmes.
Funding data reviewed by Middle East Eye shows that between 2014 and 2025, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe allocated nearly more than $15m to projects involving Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a state-owned defence company and one of Israel’s largest weapons manufacturers.
IAI produces drones, missile systems and surveillance technology used in the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank.
Since the mid-1980s, EU member states have pooled research funding in successive schemes, the most recent of which is Horizon Europe, which runs between 2021 and 2027 and has a budget of €100bn ($116bn).
Countries not part of the EU can also participate by paying an association fee, which gives their universities and companies access to grants.
Israel has been one of the biggest beneficiaries among the associated members, particularly in security research.
The EU has maintained strict restrictions on the nature of the research allowed under the scheme and has a ban on “dual use” research that can be applied to military uses in order to ensure publicly funded civilian projects cannot be repurposed for warfare.
Unlike the EU, Israel does not maintain strict separation between civilian and military research, as its research ecosystem is structurally intertwined with its defence sector.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a European expert in financing for research and technological development at an Italian university, described dual use for military purposes as “the malignant application of good intentions”. (more...)
Israel's arms manufacturers benefit from EU funding for cutting edge civilian research
“Three times more explosive power has been dropped on Gaza than was used in the Hiroshima bomb.”
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 13, 2025
Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell strongly criticised Israel, accusing its government of committing genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/s8FOLeuH8J
The fires started quietly. In early January 2026, a plume of smoke rose over the lenga forests and glacial valleys of Argentine Patagonia. By the time the blazes were fully visible from the air, thousands of hectares had been scorched, rural communities were under threat, and officials acknowledged that some of the fires were deliberate, with accelerants and military-grade devices recovered. Firefighters, aided by aerial units and the army, battled against fierce winds and a landscape already stressed by drought. But these fires were more than an environmental crisis. In towns from Bariloche to Lago Escondido, whispers circulated that foreign actors, including known Zionists. might be exploiting the chaos. Indigenous Mapuche communities and local activists began raising concerns about Israeli nationals, sometimes identified as Israeli soldiers, moving into remote lands, their presence coinciding with government reforms easing foreign ownership of burned and rural properties.
What once circulated as a rumour has now become an unavoidable reality on the ground. Across Patagonia — on both the Argentine and Chilean sides, unease is growing as residents and visitors alike confront an increasingly visible and unexplained presence of Israeli nationals, many presenting themselves as ordinary backpackers. Their numbers are not seasonal anomalies but a constant: thousands arrive every year, in every season. In towns like El Calafate or Bariloche, which was a refugee city for Nazis after World War II, the signs are impossible to ignore; Hebrew lettering dominates shop windows, hostels, and travel agencies, creating the uncanny impression of a parallel cultural footprint embedded deep in the Patagonian frontier.
Locals are no longer asking whether something is happening, but why. What explains this sustained presence in one of South America’s most strategic and resource-rich regions? Why now, and why here? As criminal fires devastate vast stretches of land and Argentina’s political leadership deepens its alignment with Israel under the Isaac Accord, the official explanations grow thinner, not clearer. Is Patagonia quietly being repurposed into a geopolitical backyard? Is Argentina becoming a testing ground, or a playground, for foreign strategic interests?
These questions, once dismissed as fringe speculation, are increasingly difficult to ignore. And the deeper one looks, the more the story resists simple answers. (more...)
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The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.
There will be a new flotilla in April 2026 that will attempt to break the 18-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza. The mission is expected to be the largest maritime action for Palestine to date, involving more than 3,000 activists from 100 countries on 100 boats, including a medical fleet of 1,000 health care workers to deliver 500 tons of life-saving aid, equipment and medical supplies that Israel has blocked from entering Gaza.
Once again, activists from all over the world will sail toward Gaza in an attempt to end one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. Once again, their journey will be minutely tracked on social media. Once again, Israeli drones will be sent out in international waters to intercept and attack the boats. Once again, the boats will be boarded by masked, heavily armed Israeli soldiers. Once again, activists will be arrested. Once again, they will be sent to high-security prisons. Once again, they will be physically abused, placed in solitary confinement, insulted, berated, forced to watch Israeli propaganda videos about Oct. 7, or raped by Israeli prison guards. Once again, Palestinians, many of whom wait on the beach in the hope that the latest flotilla will get through, will see they are not alone. And once again, the world will look away, ignoring its legal mandate to intervene to end the genocide, as per Article I of the Genocide Convention.
And yet, despite the almost certain outcome, the flotillas are imperceptibly chipping away at the Israeli stranglehold on Gaza. They are reminding the world of its moral and legal duty to intervene. They are shaming not only Israel, but the Western governments whose complicity sustains the genocide. They are illustrating that we are not powerless. We can act.
“How did you feel when you watched the flotilla?” I asked the Palestine ambassador to Italy, Mona Abuamara, when I joined the Italian dock workers strike in Genoa and national demonstration for Palestine in Rome at the end of November 2025.
“Like a child,” she answered. “You know how when you know the end of a movie but you still want it to be different. I kept thinking, ‘Let it pass. Let it pass.’ As if it could. We knew it wouldn’t. That’s part of the beauty of those people on those boats. They knew they’re not going to be allowed to pass, but they refused to accept the status quo.” (more...)
The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience
Netanyahu's government has been spending millions of dollars on propaganda to influence America's religious hard right. Public support for Israel is sharply declining and antisemitism is on the rise. Understanding political power, media narratives, and religious extremism is now more important than ever.
In this special livestream, cult expert Dr. Steven Hassan, author of the Cult of Trump is joined by award-winning journalist and Columbia University professor Anne Nelson to discuss her recent Washington Spectator investigation into the Israeli government's outreach to US Evangelical and Christian nationalist movements.
Nelson's reporting examines how propaganda like influences campaigns, messaging strategies, and emotionally charged tactics have been used to secure loyalty to Netanyahu from segments of the American Christian right, especially among those aligned with Donald Trump. Dr. Hassan has previously analyzed Netanyahu's authoritarian tactics in The Cult of Trump, but Nelson's new report provides critical insider that demands wider public recognition and conversation.
Anne Nelson is a former Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a Livingston Award-winning reporter, and the author of multiple books which examine long-term power networks, propaganda, and resistance movements. She currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
Together, Hassan and Nelson will explore how Christian dominionism, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), and spiritually manipulative tactics are shaping political alliances between foreign governments and U.S. religious movements and why these influence strategies matter for democracy worldwide.
During this important discussion, we’ll break down:
