EU state launches clampdown on its largest Christian church

 

The Estonian Orthodox Church could reportedly be forced to cut ties with Russia under a new law

Estonia's parliament has approved a law that could force the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church (ECOC) to sever its historical ties with Russia, according to local broadcaster ERR. Moscow has slammed the move as a “blow to religious rights and freedoms.” 

The ECOC – formerly known as the Estonian Orthodox Church (EOC) – had previously been required to revise its charter and remove any mention of the Moscow Patriarchate, despite maintaining canonical ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

On Wednesday, the Baltic nation’s parliament passed amendments to the Law on Churches and Congregations in a third and final reading, with 60 votes in favor and 13 against in the 101-seat Riigikogu.

Under the new law, religious organizations in Estonia cannot be bound by foundational documents to a foreign governing body that “poses a threat” to national security. The changes were introduced in response to the Moscow Patriarchate’s support for Russia’s military operation against the Kiev regime, ERR reported on Wednesday.

Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Laanemets, who initiated the bill, had previously threatened to shut down monasteries that refuse to cut ties and even threatened to classify the ROC as a terrorist organization. In August 2024, the EOC revised its charter and removed references to the Moscow Patriarchate, but Laanemets said the move was insufficient.  (more...)

EU state launches clampdown on its largest Christian church

The Battle for Mount Royal

 

In the reddest of red ridings, Liberals and Conservatives are trying to make this election about another country — but not the one you think.

The TV was the first thing I noticed when I walked into a restaurant in Montreal’s West End. 

“CANADIAN BUSINESSES PULL U.S.-MADE PRODUCTS IN RESPONSE TO TARIFFS,” the screen read, under another all-caps caption, “TRADE WHIPLASH.”

On that day in early March, the person defending the Canadian government’s position on CNN was my member of parliament, Anthony Housefather.

I said hello to the woman behind the cash. She was lamenting Housefather, saying she no longer believed in him.

It was March 6 and Mark Carney was days away from his coronation as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister. The tide was turning in the country, and her response surprised me. The Liberals, she said, had let her down on Israel. They criticized Israel and hadn’t been the trusted ally and supporter that Israel had expected. 

Taken aback, I told her that I strongly believed that the Liberals had not been tough enough, and had on the whole looked the other way at much of the horror that I was seeing every day on social media or non-North American international news. I ordered my food and took it to go. 

Welcome to Mount Royal, a riding where Oct. 7 continues to loom large.  (more...)

The Battle for Mount Royal

Team Trump Takes the Field: Perilous Times

The program begins with reading of two articles discussing the arrival of fascism in America. The articles are limited in scope, however, Mr. Emory feels a degree of satisfaction to see the overdue recognition of the true nature of the unfolding apocalypse.

From Henry Giroux: “We live in perilous times. The mobilizing passions of fascism are no longer a distant echo of history—they are here, surging through the United States like an electric current. We are in a period of social, ideological, and racial cleansing. . . . Americans are not witnessing a slow drift toward authoritarianism. They are living through the violent, coordinated seizure of democratic life by fascist forces emboldened by indifference,  cruelty, and the architecture of unaccountable power. . . .”

Following that reading, Mr. Emory presents an informative interview by Amy Goodman of a Guardian journalist who details the fascist forces shaping both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

The influence of Elon Musk’s grandfather on the development of technocratic fascism is a topic that will be explored in future programs.  (more...)

Team Trump Takes the Field: Perilous Times

Las Vegas, Israel, JFK, Trump, Tariffs and White Catholicism

 

Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to discuss the Las Vegas, Israel, JFK, Trump's tariffs and his article “Guns and Rosaries: The Rise of White Catholicism."  We talk about the Jewish role in the creation of Las Vegas and how “Sin City” has contributed to the Jewish takeover of American culture and politics. 

Dr. Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and author many books including The Holocaust Narrative and the soon to be released Walking with a Bible and a Gun: The Rise, Fall & Return of American Identity.

Holding Israeli soldiers accountable worldwide for war crimes

 

In this in-depth interview, Dyab Abou Jahjah, president of the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation, explains its efforts to hold members of the Israeli army accountable worldwide for war crimes and his vision for the future.

The employees fired for protesting Microsoft's ties to Israel

 

Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal made headlines around the world on Friday when they interrupted Microsoft's 50th anniversary party to protest the company's provision of AI services to Israel's military.

Calling for an end to Microsoft's AI and cloud service contracts with Israeli forces, which are used for targeting and surveillance in Gaza and Lebanon, the pair said the decision to take action followed months of having their concerns over human rights violations ignored by their superiors.

In an interview with Middle East Eye, the former employees talk about what led to their decision to disrupt the high-profile event, including Microsoft's links to Israel's military and the company's response to their concerns, and reflect on whether they have any regrets about taking such bold action.

Weaponizing DEI: Inside the Trump-backed Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity

 

Under the pretext of dismantling Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs—widely unpopular among American conservatives—the powerful Heritage Foundation has begun to extend its campaign to anti-war activism and leftist causes on university campuses. The Trump administration appears to be enacting this agenda step by step.

DEI initiatives have become a fault line in America’s ever-deepening culture war. While many liberals support them, a March NBC poll found that 85 percent of conservative respondents favored terminating all DEI programs.

Keenly attuned to the political climate, President Donald Trump wasted no time. Immediately after taking office, he signed executive actions designed to purge DEI from the federal bureaucracy.

For years, prominent conservative voices have railed against DEI. But since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, many of them have taken a novel turn—linking DEI to criticism of Israel. On November 29, Ben Shapiro tweeted: “Destroy DEI. It is the rationale for the entire toxic intersectionality that has radically exacerbated antisemitism in the first place.” The following day, he aired an episode of his online show titled “Musk Is Right: Kill DEI To Fight Anti-Semitism.”

On January 20, 2024, Shapiro and Elon Musk spoke for more than 40 minutes at an event hosted by the European Jewish Association, discussing DEI and antisemitism. The conversation was laced with straw man arguments that fused the two issues. Shapiro went so far as to claim that DEI is inherently linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews.  (more...)

Weaponizing DEI: Inside the Trump-backed Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity

How the Heritage Foundation is shaping US policy and silencing dissent

 

Project Esther is the latest move by the Heritage Foundation to influence US politics in ways that directly impact pro-Palestine activism, civil liberties, and free speech on college campuses. 

What’s presented as a strategy to combat antisemitism is being used to frame peaceful protests as a national security threat. With its language appearing in Pentagon memos and policy proposals, the project marks a deeper shift in how dissent is handled in the US.

Palestine and the moral bankruptcy of universities

 

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

With Israel unilaterally breaking the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and increasing targeting of protesters in the U.S., it is a chance to take stock of how Western universities have (mis)handled the student-led Palestine solidarity movement. The University of New Brunswick has taken a heavy-handed approach, as reported by the NB Media Co-op.

More protests can be expected as Israel ratchets up its repression in the West Bank, and as President Donald Trump makes provocative statements about the U.S. potentially annexing Gaza. Will university leadership and University of New Brunswick president Paul Mazerolle reconsider their approach?

Mazerolle privileges UNB’s alleged commitment to neutrality above anything else. The Chicago Principles and the Kalven Report, which he cites to explain his administration’s position, recommends that the university remain neutral on social and political issues. The report was written in 1967 in response to students protesting the Vietnam War. 

Neutrality is a myth now, as it was then. This myth relies on a fallacy that deflects responsibility: that supporting and maintaining the status quo is apolitical. Furthermore, the argument that these principles support academic freedom and unrestricted debate on campuses is flawed; academic freedom is already protected in Canadian universities.  (more...)

Palestine and the moral bankruptcy of universities

A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & More

 

An immigration judge has announced she could rule as early as Friday on whether the Trump administration can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student protest leader incarcerated at an immigrant detention center in Louisiana. Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was seized by federal agents on March 8 and told his green card had been revoked. His case comes as many legal scholars say the country is facing a constitutional crisis on a number of fronts — from the Trump administration's threats to ignore judicial decisions, to its targeting of law firms, to its use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants without due process. Trump "is trying to neutralize the opposition," says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and former ACLU national legal director. "He wants to violate the law with impunity."

Meta's Head Of AI Policy Is Ex-IDF Along With One Hundred Other Meta Employees

 

More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli government scheme that allows non-Israelis to volunteer for the Israeli army.

Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.

Through this program, known as Garin Tzabar, many non-Israelis who have fought for the IDF have been implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity since Israel’s genocide of Gaza began in October 2023.

Anderson served as a non-commissioned officer in the IDF for over two years where she worked in the Military Strategic Information Section, writing dossiers and public relations propaganda. She was also the liaison between the IDF and foreign military attaches stationed in Israel, and liaison to the Red Cross.

With AI a critical emerging technology for tech giants and militaries, Anderson’s role at Meta is an important one. She develops the legal guidance, policies and public relations talking points concerning AI issues and regulation for all of Meta’s key areas, including its product, public policy and government affairs teams.

At Meta, Anderson, who is based in Meta’s Washington DC office, is in familiar company. More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers are employed by the company, my new investigation shows, many of whom worked for Israel’s spy agency Unit 8200.  (more...)

Meta's Head Of AI Policy Is Ex-IDF Along With One Hundred Other Meta Employees

How Bad Are Govt Threats to Speech?

 

Time to squeeze the Orange Man

Bad Moon Rising

 

The corporate welfare state

Toronto Protest for Murdered Palestinian Journalists

 

Taking journalism and stripping it back down to its roots, I became the town crier. Free news on the streets. That's what I needed to do a couple days after Israel murdered Palestinian journalist, Hossam Shabat. It was a very typical Toronto affair. Most people didn't react; very Toronto. The ones that did, did so quietly; they would mouth 'thank you' or give me a silent nod. I was only out there for an hour but it felt good. It felt good to do more. To use my body and voice and to face people. To look them in the eye and to have them look Hossam in the eye. To confound the ignorant. To make mad the guilty and appall the free. I may do it again.

Lawyers accuse British Israelis of Gaza war crimes

 

Top barrister Michael Mansfield and a legal research team on Monday lodged an extensive report to London’s Metropolitan Police accusing 10 British citizens of war crimes in Gaza.

The 240-page report was compiled by a team of lawyers in the UK and researchers based in The Hague for submission to the War Crimes Team at the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.

The submission was made on behalf of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the British-based Public Interest Law Centre, which are representing Palestinians in Gaza and Britain.

The report, which is the first of its kind, reportedly provides detailed, fully researched, and solid evidence of the involvement of British nationals in grave crimes committed in Gaza.

It specifically identified 10 British suspects and presented a dossier of evidence of their involvement in "war crimes and crimes against humanity" committed by the Israeli military.

It further calls for an investigation into those British nationals, with the aim of issuing arrest warrants and pursuing prosecutions in British courts.

Microsoft sells AI tech to Israel’s army, then ‘silences’ staff who speak up

 

We speak to MEE senior reporter Azad Essa about the relationship between Silicon Valley and Israel - highlighting Microsoft AI contributions to the Israeli army's military campaign in Gaza.

When Does ‘Never Again’ Begin?

 

Statement from Diane Sare, President of The LaRouche Organization

Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, we find ourselves asking the question, “When does ‘Never Again’ begin?” One would have hoped that over these last 8 decades, which have brought the Nuremberg Tribunal and an official legal definition of the term “genocide,” that mankind would have evolved to the point where mass killings of unarmed civilians, starvation as a weapon, and the use of torture of captive human beings would be seen as prehistoric relics of a bygone barbaric age.

Instead, we seem to have gone back to the mantra of the tyrannical Caligula: “Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.” Even speaking against the genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people is cause for imprisonment, and/or banishment from the United States! One hopes that the crazy Caucus of Judea and Samaria in the U.S. House of Representatives is not planning to reintroduce the guillotine!

Unknown to most Americans, billions of people in the rest of the world no longer think the colonial system is a legitimate world order. They believe that Bibi Netanyahu is a war criminal who should be brought to justice, not cheered by foolish members of the U.S. Congress. 

Leaders of powerful nations like China, Russia and India are developing an entirely new economic order, very much like that proposed by the much-maligned American economist Lyndon LaRouche in 1975, when he wrote his proposal for what he called the “How the International Development Bank Will Work.” At the time, Henry Kissinger and the British Royals launched a crusade to prevent this realignment, with the result that Lyndon LaRouche and more than a dozen of his associates were imprisoned.

Now, thanks in no small part to the arrogance of the billionaire Wall Street and London elites, who weaponized the dollar and tried to force entire nations into submission with brutal sanctions, self-respecting leaders of the BRICS-plus nations have developed alternative arrangements to protect their people from economic privation. The result has been that the United States has grown weaker, and much more indebted, while the nations we claimed to be harming grew stronger.  (more...)

When Does ‘Never Again’ Begin?

The LaRouche Organization participated today in the Washington D.C. “National March for Palestine: Ceasefire Now!; Stop the War on Gaza” rally. In a crowd of many thousands of people from all over the country, TLO distributed 700 copies of the new statement by TLO President Diane… pic.twitter.com/IOXK5BQvDq

— LaRoucheOrg (@LaRoucheOrg) April 7, 2025

'These people just don't care about human rights'

 

Andrey Telizhenko, Former Advisor to the Memeber of Parliament of Ukraine and Former 3rd Secretary at Embassy of Ukraine in the USA talks to RT to discuss Ukraine's Syrsky awarding his 'friend' Bernard-Henri Lévy

Guests in Israel

 

Israel’s ultra-right government cooperates with the right-wing extremists across Europe. Germany’s AfD is a potential partner. Berlin sticks to its policy of unconditional backing for the Israel government.

Israel’s ultra-right government seeks to deepen its cooperation with the extreme right in Europe and, in principle, does not rule out working with the AfD. Representatives of various parties aligned to the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) bloc, now the third largest group in the European Parliament, attended an international conference in Israel last week. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs, it was billed as a gathering to discuss the fight against antisemitism. Attendees included Jordan Bardella, President of the French Rassemblement National (RN). Likud, the party of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had earlier been accorded observer status with the PfE grouping in the EU. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, has instructed Israel’s diplomats in France and elsewhere to normalise relations with various extreme right-wing parties. Yet the majority of these parties grew out of traditionally antisemitic circles. In many cases they are directly linked to Nazi collaborators. Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, says that he “hopes” the AfD will break with certain controversial politicians, clearing the path for direct cooperation with his government. The German government works very closely with Netanyahu, who supports Chikli.

An international conference on the fight against antisemitism took place in Jerusalem on 26 and 27 March. The participants included various prominent representatives of the extreme right in Europe. The event was organised by the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs, headed by Amichai Chikli (Likud), and was addressed by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) and Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar (New Hope). Other prominent speakers were the former Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, considered a close supporter of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Jordan Bardella, far-right star and president of the French Rassemblement National (RN). The speakers list also included Marion Maréchal from the extreme right-wing Identité-Libertés party in France, Charlie Weimers from the Sweden Democrats (a vice-president of the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament), and three MEPs, who are all leading lights in the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group in the European Parliament, namely Kinga Gál from the Orbán party Fidesz; Sebastiaan Stöteler from the PVV (headed by Geert Wilders); and Hermann Tertsch from the Spanish party Vox. The PfE brings together parties of the extreme right that the so-called centrist parties still categorise as forces to be contained by a “firewall” or “cordon sanitaire” in the European Union.

For European politicians and parties of the extreme right, the invitation from the Israeli government to a conference is a major win in several respects. For one thing, it allows them to divert attention from their origins in earlier antisemitic circles. In many cases they stand in the tradition of Nazi collaborators. In effect, the Israeli government is whitewashing their reputation, issuing them with a clean bill of political health.   (more...)

Guests in Israel

Yale professors flee US for Toronto school linked to massive human rights abuses

 

The Munk School was founded in 2000 by one of Canada’s most infamous oligarchs

In late March, three professors at Yale University—scholars Marci Shore, Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder—announced that they were leaving the United States to teach at the University of Toronto. They made the decision in the face of Donald Trump’s intensifying attacks on higher education, a deeply alarming trend that has seen agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abduct student activists off the streets with the aim of forcibly deporting them. Stanley and Snyder cite the complicity of the Columbia University administration in Trump’s assault on student activism as a major reason for moving to Canada.

Stanley and Snyder (as well as Shore, who is leaving the US for similar reasons) are not wrong that Trump’s punitive blitz against the national student body is horrifying, but their rosy-eyed view of Canadian academia shows a misunderstanding of political and economic realities here.

It is true, however, that Trump is going much further than the Biden administration in persecuting student activists and other members of the anti-war movement (for his part, Stanely has spoken out repeatedly in defence of pro-Palestinian encampments at Yale and elsewhere). On March 7, the White House threatened to withhold $400 million in funding from Columbia unless the university implemented a suite of policies designed to suppress student activism and punish criticism of Israel. Its demands included:

suspending or expelling some of those who participated in pro-Palestinian protests; centralizing disciplinary power within the hands of the university president; banning mask wearing on campus; increasing the numbers and powers of campus police; and putting the Middle East, South Asian and African Studies department under “academic receivership” (a rare move that places a department under external/administrative control, typically because it has become dysfunctional, but in this case because it was not sufficiently pro-Israel).

The Columbia administration agreed with Trump’s proposals and has begun implementing them; not because of “capitulation,” as anthropologist Steven Striffler explains, but because the administration shares Trump’s interest in suppressing student activism.  (more...)

Yale professors flee US for Toronto school linked to massive human rights abuses

Activists Occupy Global Affairs Office, Call For Israel Arms Embargo

 

“The top demand is to stop arming and funding the Israeli war machine.”

Over one hundred Jewish activists and allies took over the lobby of a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) building on Queen Street West in Toronto on Friday, demanding immediate action to address Canada’s support for Israel. 

The activists’ message to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and all political parties was that Palestinian rights need to be a focal point in the ongoing federal election. 

“We are here today to let our elected officials, Mark Carney, Mélanie Joly and Pierre Poilievre know that they still have blood on their hands [...] The top demand is to stop arming and funding the Israeli war machine,” Gur Tsabar, a spokesperson for Jews Say No to Genocide, told The Maple. 

“It is to let them know that Palestine is a federal election issue.”

Demonstrators gathered at the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Garden near the GAC building early on Friday morning. At around 8:30 a.m., the crowd entered the GAC building wearing t-shirts and holding banners that read “Jews for Free Palestine,” “Jews Say No to Genocide” and “Stop Arming Israel.” 

They sat in the lobby chanting “arms embargo now” and displayed a banner that read “1,256 Palestinians murdered in Gaza since Mark Carney took office.”

The protesters then exited to Queen Street West to continue their demonstration. 

“We are making it a federal election issue where we are going to be there every step of the way when they are campaigning,” said Tsabar.  (more...)

Activists Occupy Global Affairs Office, Call For Israel Arms Embargo

All Israel-promoting institutions are fair targets for protest

 

Enough with the gaslighting. Enough with the defensiveness. Justice minded Canadians need to embrace protesting genocide-promoting Jewish institutions.

Recently, Liberal MP Ben Carr complained that people protested an Israel soldier’s talk at Winnipeg’s Asper Jewish Community Campus. Concurrently the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) jointly condemned a protest in that city against a planned visit by the Israeli consul to Vancouver’s JCC. Irrespective of whether there was an Israeli soldier or diplomat at these institutions they should be protested. And anti-genocide forces need to stop cowering to Zionist gaslighting, suggesting these are simply innocent community institutions, not enablers of Palestinian dispossession.

In his statement calling for “bubble legislation” that would suppress Canadians’ Charter enshrined right to assembly Carr bemoaned that a “Jewish school with minors and toddlers” was housed inside the building where the Winnipeg protests was held. But a brief search of Gray Academy’s website and Instagram makes clear the kindergarten to Grade 12 school engages in racist indoctrination. Its website has a section devoted to “Our Commitment to Israel”, which notes how “Gray Academy stands unequivocally and wholeheartedly with Israel. This is one of our key commitments.” Every day the youngsters sing Israel’s national anthem, do a Zionist prayer and view Israeli flags. Their Instagram account promoted a February “Support & Solidarity for Israel Rally” and an event to “honour Israel’s fallen soldiers.”

Of course all humanitarian Winnipeggers should be rallying to call for Gray Academy’s charitable foundation to lose its tax deduction status and for the school to end its genocidal indoctrination.  (more...)

All Israel-promoting institutions are fair targets for protest

The Global South alliance seeking to hold Israel accountable

 

In this in-depth interview, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, the chair of The Hague Group, discusses why nine states launched a coalition in January 2025 to hold Israel accountable under international law.

Exporting Genocide: Gaza Burns as Repression Comes Home

 

Rania Khalek hosts a special live episode of Dispatches with Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine.

They dive into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the global silence enabling it, and why this brutal new phase was always Zionism’s endgame. From U.S.-funded fascism abroad to rising repression at home, nothing is off the table.

Southern Europe Is Now In Bed With Israel's Murderous Elbit Systems w/ Shir Hever

 

On April 7, 2025, as indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington to ask Donald Trump to remove tariffs on Israel, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Shir Hever.

Shir is an independent economic researcher, Manager for the Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians, and Coordinator for the Military Embargo campaign of the Boycott National Committee.

As Shir explains, Israel's murderous drone manufacturer Elbit Systems Ltd. has deepened its business ties to southern European governments. 

Those governments - despite their expressions of sympathy for Palestinians - are clearly committed to enriching Israel's military industrial complex.

Lascaris and Hever also discussed the impact of Trump's tariffs on Israel. Those tariffs are likely to exacerbate the profound economic challenges Israel now confronts. 

In addition, the fact that Trump imposed hefty tariffs on Israel raises important questions about the true nature of the relationship between Israel and the United States.

Christian Democratic Union of Germany Leader Friedrich Merz Enriched Through Illegal Drug Trafficking in Germany

 

Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU and the most likely future chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is linked to the largest drug trafficking network in Germany and Europe. The Foundation to Battle Injustice revealed how his contacts with Latin American cartels brought drugs into Germany in exchange for German weapons, generating for Merz and his close associates hundreds of millions of euros.

One of the most serious problems in modern Germany is the enormous increase in the number of drug-addicted people. According to the European Drug Agency, drug-induced deaths in Germany are the highest in the entire European Union. Expert analysis shows that about 1.6 million German adults between the ages of 18 and 59 and about 45,000 minors between the ages of 12 and 17 have used drugs at least once in their lives. A sharp deterioration of the drug situation in the Federal Republic of Germany has been recorded since 2010: drug-related deaths have been steadily increasing, with more than half of all deaths occurring among the younger generation between the ages of 25 and 44.

In 2023, the German Federal Criminal Police Office recorded 2,227 drug-induced deaths, about twice as many as ten years ago and about twelve percent more than in the previous year (1990 cases). In the past two years, methamphetamine deaths in the FRG have nearly tripled, cocaine deaths have increased by 17%, and opiate drug deaths have increased by 20%. The federal government’s commissioner for drug abuse and addiction, Burkhard Blienert, assesses the situation as «very serious»:

«We have the highest rate of drug-induced deaths in the history of observation. And I fear that in reality there are even more drug-induced deaths – we have too few toxicological examinations and autopsies.»

Teenagers and students in Germany are increasingly being targeted by dealers and falling victim to drug abuse. Drug-induced deaths among schoolchildren have risen over the last 5 years: an increase of 20%. Street crime and homelessness are on the rise, especially in large cities.

Frankfurt am Main and Berlin are at the center of the crisis and are actually «drowning» in the drug nightmare. In Frankfurt, more than half of the heroin addicts in the city are already taking fentanyl, even though the drug was not common in Germany a year ago. Fentanyl is one of the deadliest drugs: it is 50 times stronger than heroin and often leads to respiratory arrest.

Germany is now one of Europe’s main transit and consumer markets for drugs from Latin America, with the amount of drugs seized by police increasing every year. Along with the wave of drugs and deaths, there is a rising tide of crime in Germany: according to the Federal Commissioner on Drug Addiction, the increase in drug trafficking is accompanied by an increase in drug-related crimes: the increase has reached 30% in 15 years.

The drug outbreak is also increasing the burden on the federal health care system: in 2022, more than 20% of treatment and care in inpatient and outpatient drug treatment units, were due to abuse or addiction on illegal substances. The number of clinic visits related to overdoses is also on the rise. Drugs are destroying German families and gradually turning the nation’s health level into a catastrophe, with authorities often simply ignoring the crisis or taking insufficient action.

Human rights activists from the Foundation to Battle Injustice have been able to establish that the drug outbreak in Germany, which is gripping more Germans every day, is the result of a deliberate effort by powerful figures in German politics. The Foundation to Battle Injustice has established the role of the most likely new Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, in the creation and operation of the largest drug empire in the history of modern Europe.  (more...)

Christian Democratic Union of Germany Leader Friedrich Merz Enriched Through Illegal Drug Trafficking in Germany

US Lawyers Cowed, Paul Chiang, NB Mountie Cleared, Ontario Cocaine

 

Paul Palango and Adam Rodgers discuss stories from Ottawa, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, as well as a school shooting report from Nashville. 

Some US lawyers are reacting to being targeted by the Trump administration by refusing to take on cases against the government. The implications for the justice system are discussed. 

PM Carney delayed dropping candidate Paul Chiang despite his advocating for his opponent to be turned in to Chinese officials. Paul explains how politicians are enamored with police officers, even as candidates.

In NS, the government is trying to regulate on-reserve cannabis sales.

An RCMP officer in New Brunswick has been cleared of wrongdoing in a shooting on a First Nations reserve. 

A school shooting report out of Nashville has cleared the shooters parents and care providers of responsibility. There are lessons for parents in the case.

Finally, a case out of Ontario has been tossed due to delay. The accused had been found with over 8kg of cocaine.

And we all fall down

 

Political alchemy. How to misplay your cards.

Justice Department ordered to release Nazi files

 

The Department of Justice has been ordered to release thousands of memos detailing the continued concealment of postwar files on Nazi fugitives who entered Canada.

Blacklock's Reporter says Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard issued the directive, setting a deadline of June 30, but the department has indicated compliance will come only after the election campaign.

“I order the Minister of Justice to provide a complete response to the access request as soon as possible and no later than June 30,” Maynard wrote in a March 28 Final Report.

The department identified 20,933 pages of previously undisclosed records related to cabinet’s refusal to release Nazi blacklists.

Despite a year’s delay, less than half of the records have been examined.

“The Department confirmed the file has been transferred to a senior analyst and that 6,600 pages have been reviewed to date,” Maynard wrote. “The remaining 14,300 pages need to be reviewed.”

The records were sought following the government’s failure to fulfill a pledge to declassify and release the files.

“I don’t think there’s any excuse,” then-Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters in 2023. “There’s no excuse for delay other than the fact that we do have to have a process where the declassification of these documents is done in a thoughtful way.”  (more...)

Justice Department ordered to release Nazi files

Furthering the 'far-right international': Likud joins the Patriots for Europe

 

Calls from far-right figures to 'cleanse' Europe of Muslims and commit a 'Srebrenica 2.0' are now symbolically reinforced by the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza

In the 1990s, Europe's post-fascist and post-Nazi political parties were clear in rejecting Israel on the grounds of their antisemitism. 

Seen largely as an extension of the United States' neocolonialism, these parties mobilised against the US as a leader of the liberal world order. 

Similarly, Israel rejected the leaders of the far right. Consider Jorg Haider, one of Europe's first successful far-right leaders, who was barred from entering Israel.

Much has changed since then. 

While an untypical far-right leader like Geert Wilders openly embraced Israel from the start, positioning himself as a defender of Jewish life in the Netherlands, it took the traditional far right much longer to become accepted by Israeli policy circles.

In December 2010, a historic trip took place when the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), Belgium's Vlaams Belang, the German Freedom Party, and the Sweden Democrats travelled to Israel and signed the so-called "Jerusalem Declaration". 

This declaration affirmed Israel's "right to defend itself" against terror, stating: "We stand at the vanguard in the fight for the western, democratic community" against the "totalitarian threat" of "fundamentalist Islam". 

Islam, they alleged, was the common enemy of both Europe and Israel.  (more...)

Furthering the 'far-right international': Likud joins the Patriots for Europe

A Deadly Nazi Cult in Chile

 

For nearly 40 years, a secretive colony in the Chilean countryside hid unspeakable horrors: child abuse, torture, and a twisted legacy of Nazism. Colonia Dignidad, led by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer, thrived not just as a cult but as a brutal tool of oppression during Chile’s Pinochet regime. How did this enclave evade justice for so long—and why did the Chilean government turn a blind eye, or worse, offer its support?

In a story that goes right to the heart of the German and Chilean governments, what justice can the victims themselves hope for?

In this episode: 

• -Winfried Hempel, Lawyer and Colonia Dignidad Survivor
• -Evelyn Hevia, Colonia Dignidad Researcher

Germany’s devotion to Israel becomes more and more sinister

 

Germany’s political leaders come and eventually go. The decisions they take can have consequences long after they leave office.

In 2008, Angela Merkel issued a solemn proclamation in her then capacity as chancellor. Israel’s security was a Staatsräson – a “reason of state” – for Germany, she affirmed.

The effects of that declaration are more pronounced in 2025 than they were 17 years ago.

The German authorities have ordered that four foreign residents be deported over their participation in protests against the Gaza genocide. The Staatsräson policy is cited in three of the four orders.

Merkel’s formal commitment to defend Israel’s “security” has now become a tool of repression.

Three of the four people the German authorities wish to expel – the orders are being contested – come from countries inside the European Union (Ireland and Poland). Although the EU nominally regards the free movement of people as sacrosanct, the deportation threats have mainly met with indifference – or perhaps tacit approval – by the Brussels hierarchy.

Sadly, that is not surprising. Germans occupy key positions in the EU’s institutions.  (more...)

Germany’s devotion to Israel becomes more and more sinister

Germany's support for Israel's far-right alliance shatters its 'denazified' facade

 

The 'liberal democratic' state's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes

Germany prides itself on being a denazified liberal democracy. 

Yet its unconditional support for Israel is not merely a political position but the core principle of its Staatsrason - a national doctrine holding that support for Israel is central to post-Holocaust Germany, and thus the very foundation of the German state's legitimacy.

This position is inherently contradictory, as liberal democracy, by definition, cannot be reconciled with support for genocide carried out by a fascist apartheid state - let alone one openly aligned with far-right regimes. It demands a serious reality check.

The reality became glaringly evident when the German Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, Felix Klein, withdrew from an upcoming conference set to be held in Jerusalem on combating antisemitism, upon discovering that fascist figures were among the guests.

"Mr Klein accepted the invitation months ago, unaware of who else would be attending," his office explained.

Klein's withdrawal serves as an implicit admission by the German state that Israel maintains alliances with white supremacists, fascists, Nazis and Holocaust deniers.

This, in fact, reveals the core contradiction of Germany's posture: far-right politics are not only tolerated but directly supported - so long as the facade of a liberal, democratic, and denazified Germany is upheld.  (more...)

Germany's support for Israel's far-right alliance shatters its 'denazified' facade

Infiltrating neo-Nazi ranks reveals local links

 

There’s nothing like cracking open a book about an FBI agent’s infiltration of an American neo-Nazi group only to discover it stars a homegrown white supremacist.

It would be no great stretch to alter this book’s subtitle to How I Went Undercover To Expose America’s and Manitoba’s Nazis, because there’s a local angle, big time, to this memoir.

Scott Payne’s account of his undercover investigation of American Nazis really only gets going near mid-book. Prior to that, he recounts his earlier undercover-agent stints with America’s second-largest (after the Hell’s Angels) criminal motorcycle gang, the Outlaws, and adventures busting “dirty” (drug dealing) cops in rural Tennessee.

The book’s written “with” former Toronto Star reporter Michelle Shephard — publishing industry code for her major input in the writing and polishing of Payne’s text.

While working undercover in October 2019 in Silver Creek, Ga., Payne encountered a neo-Nazi first exposed by the Free Press.

The guy was no mere foot soldier in a U.S. domestic-terrorist movement, but a major player.

Payne became palsy with a dangerous loogan initially known only by his movement handle, “Dave Arctorum” — but latterly better known as Manitoba-born-and-bred, and former Beausejour resident Patrik Mathews, a Canadian army reservist.  (more...)

Infiltrating neo-Nazi ranks reveals local links

What is Na'amod?

 

This episode of Palestine Declassified investigates the Na'amod movement that was founded around seven years ago by the British Jews who claim to seek the end of Jewish community support for the apartheid and Israel's occupation of Palestine.

State Department May Deport Naturalized CITIZENS Next

 

Trump's deportations disciplining Pro-Palestinian immigrants continue and the State Department refuses to rule out deporting naturalized U.S. citizens. Katie Halper discusses this development with Eric Lee, an immigration lawyer, and Momodou Taal, a Cornell student whose visa was revoked, forcing him to self-deport.

• Video: State Dept. Spokesperson Tammy Bruce won't rule out exiling US citizens
• Momodou Taal on Pro-Palestine protest crackdowns & Zionism's losing ideological battle
• Eric Lee on illegal deportations - "free speech in the U.S. threatens foreign policy abroad"
• Yale Law fires Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, accused of terrorism by AI tools
• Ukrainian socialist jailed for criticizing government

Momodou Taal is a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, specializing in conceptualizations of sovereignty with a particular focus on West Africa. Momodou is the host of the Malcolm Effect podcast, a show dedicated to political education.

Eric Lee is an immigration lawyer & federal litigator who served as lead counsel in Dep't of State v. Muñoz & argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2024. He's represented numerous students & visa holders facing discipline for pro-Palestinian & socialist speech.

Poland is doing the UNTHINKABLE to Ukraine and the EU is FURIOUS

 

The polish people seem to be done with Ukraine. They're fed up. They've been inundated with millions of Ukrainian refuges and Polish soldiers are fighting and dying on the front lines against Russia.

Yet Again, Zionist Lawyers Embarrass Canada's Legal Profession - And Themselves

 

In Canada, controversy erupted last week when the Advocate's Society, a national organization of 6,000 judges and lawyers from across Canada, revoked a speaking invitation to Syrian refugee Tareq Hadhad. 

Hadhad, who is now a well-known entrepreneur in Canada, had been invited to deliver the keynote speech at the Advocate's Society's annual black-tie gala in June.

The Advocate's Society promotes itself as an organization that is committed to 'strong, independent and courageous' advocacy.

So why did the Society revoke its speaking invitation to Tareq Hadhad? Because, on one single occasion, Hadhad referred to Israel's war on Palestinians as a "genocide". 

In so doing, Hadhad simply echoed the assessment of major, Western human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

One prominent lawyer who led the charge to de-platform Hadhad is Jonathan Lisus, a well-heeled corporate litigator whose clients include the State of Israel. Lisus is a partner in the Bay Street law firm of Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP.

In this report, Dimitri Lascaris breaks down Lisus's spurious arguments against Tareq Hadhad. He also comments upon the Advocate's Society's shameless capitulation to Zionist pressure. 

At the conclusion of his commentary, Lascaris challenges Lisus and the President of the Advocate's Society, Daryl Cruz, to a debate over the question of whether Israel is committing genocide.

Clare Daly & Mick Wallace Go To Yemen: ‘It’s Heroism, Not Terrorism’

 

KH: Much like the situation in Gaza ‘starts on October 7’ for lots of people, what's happening in Yemen just ‘starts with the Houthis blocking ships’ and being ‘bad men’ and ‘terrorists.’ But why does Saudi Arabia, with U.S. support, want to destroy Yemen? And why did the U.N. give them permission to do so?

Mick: The Yemenis had done nothing to anybody other than the fact that [in 2011 the president] had been pushed aside and the assistant Hadi had been put in power with a program of introducing neoliberalism and facilitating Western investment and plunder. They wanted to raze the place blind and get control of Yemeni assets and resources.

Yemen was one of the most self-sufficient food countries on the planet. And Hadi manufactured loans from the likes of the IMF and the World Bank with a view to changing how they did agriculture so that they would produce food for export instead of for themselves. And it was a disaster. Before long, people actually found themselves short of food. And they said no to this.

KH: What do you think of the way that the Houthis [Ansar Allah] are portrayed as terrorists, given that, as you pointed out, they're actually the ones following the law when it comes to genocide?

Clare: Isn't it amazing? It's deliberately portrayed as marginal and as terrorist. But in actual fact, this government is one of very few internationally which is fulfilling its responsibility under the Geneva Convention, which says that the obligation on all signatories is not just to not commit genocide yourself, but to actively prevent and punish those who do. And the Houthi-led government in Yemen is one of the few doing that. Their actions are directly targeted at interfering with international shipping, which is on its way to enable genocide.

Meanwhile, the Israelis are targeting civilians and deliberately killing ordinary people and they're the ones enabled by the West but the Houthis are the ones who are demonized as terrorists. They've been incredibly restrained, they did not attack the ships when the ceasefire was in place and they only resumed the action when the ceasefire was broken with the implementation of the mass starvation again and targeted killing of civilians by the Israelis.

The Houthis clearly have the support of their people. We were on a march of over a million people. It happens every Friday. People come out, and bear in mind that these are now the victims of American bombings. every night, to say ‘we stand with Palestine.’

We had a meeting with the former prime minister. And he said, ‘look, it's very simple for us. We are not going to stand by. When children are being murdered and starved, we have an obligation to do something and we are going to do it.’ For us, that's heroism. That's not terrorism.

• Clare Daly and Mick Wallace interview
• A Trip to Yemen
• They saw the US bombs drop
• Why destroy Yemen?
• Are the Houthis terrorists?
• Why is Israel allowed to kill?
• Yemenis are too cool for US bombs
• Mick's speech to a million people