Humanity is finding its feet again. And its sea legs. Tadhg Hickey live from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla en route with humitarian aid to break the blockade. 'We will never, ever abandon the Palestinians'.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Infiltration as a Zionist strategy
In today’s show, we’ll be revealing the way in which the Zionist regime has subverted public and private institutions to promote the interests of the Zionist colony.
In our first report, Latifa Abouchakra, offers up some examples of their nefarious activities.
Our next report looks at the ramifications in the modern era, of a decision that was taken at the World Zionist Congress over 70 years ago.
The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel.
There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals and politicians for interviews. They take risks to report from combat zones. They send back to their viewers or readers what they see, which is almost always diametrically opposed to official narratives. This first type, in every war, is a tiny minority.
Then there is the second type, the inchoate blob of self-identified war correspondents who play at war. Despite what they tell editors and the public, they have no intention of putting themselves in danger. They are pleased with the Israeli ban on foreign reporters into Gaza. They plead with officials for background briefings and press conferences. They collaborate with their government minders who impose restrictions and rules that keep them out of combat. They slavishly disseminate whatever they are fed by officials, much of which is a lie, and pretend it is news. They join little jaunts arranged by the military — dog and pony shows — where they get to dress up and play soldier and visit outposts where everything is controlled and choreographed.
The mortal enemy of these poseurs are the real war reporters, in this case, Palestinian journalists in Gaza. These reporters expose them as toadies and sycophants, discrediting nearly everything they disseminate. For this reason, the poseurs never pass up a chance to question the veracity and motives of those in the field. I watched these snakes do this repeatedly to my colleague Robert Fisk.
When war reporter Ben Anderson arrived at the hotel where journalists covering the war in Liberia were encamped — in his words getting “drunk” at bars “on expenses,” having affairs and exchanging “information rather than actually going out and getting information” — his image of war reporters took a huge hit.
“I thought, finally, I’m amongst my heroes,” Anderson recalls. “This is where I’ve wanted to be for years. And then me and the cameraman I was with — who knew the rebels very well — he took us out for about three weeks with the rebels. We came back to Monrovia. The guys in the hotel bar said, ‘Where have you been? We thought you’d gone home.’ We said, ‘We went out to cover the war. Isn’t that our job? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?’”
“The romantic view I had of foreign correspondents was suddenly destroyed in Liberia,” he went on. “I thought, actually, a lot of these guys are full of shit. They’re not even willing to leave the hotel, let alone leave the safety of the capital and actually do some reporting.” (more...)
The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
A Class Action Against MKUltra Was Just Certified
The Canadian medical establishment is not what you think it is.
Not just symbolic, flotilla to Gaza aims to break Israel’s illegal siege
A flotilla of dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists and humanitarian aid is setting sail from Barcelona to Gaza.
Organisers say they're trying to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”.
Israel has already blocked two attempts by activists to deliver aid to the Strip by sea this year.
Tadhg Hickey is an Irish comedian and activist with the Global Sumud Flotilla.
He says the push to reach Gaza's shores is not symbolic.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
How Israeli spy veterans are shaping US big tech
Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence division, has long been compared to the US National Security Agency. Its veterans are now embedded in US tech companies, shaping how the world’s data is managed, and making deals worth billions. What does it mean for privacy and security?
In this episode: Murtaza Hussain, Journalist, Drop Site News
Zencity: Israel’s Spy Agency is Exporting Occupation Tech to America
Five years on from George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis residents are pushing back against the city’s contract with Zencity, a tech company founded and headed by veterans of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200.
ZenCity has signed a three-year contract with the city of Minneapolis, enabling it to gather information about residents’ attitudes towards the police.
But this contract is only one of many. In fact, Zencity’s services are employed by dozens of municipalities across the United States to surveil ordinary Americans and target protestors.
ZenCity uses AI to collect millions of data points from your emails and posts on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Nextdoor. From these, it gauges security threats and advises local governments on how to act accordingly.
In Kent County, MI, ZenCity analyzed residents’ online footprints and used them to determine what level of security the local government needed to meet the protest movement.
In other words, they were there to insulate the government from the voice of the people and limit our ability to effect change. (more...)
Zencity: Israel’s Spy Agency is Exporting Occupation Tech to America
Calls grow to shut down Halifax tennis match between Israel and Canada
Tennis Canada has shamelessly announced that the Canada–Israel Davis Cup match, scheduled for September 12 and 13 in Halifax, will bring an estimated $2.2 million into the local economy — effectively calculating the economic gains of supporting genocide and putting a dollar value on each Palestinian life lost in Gaza: macabrely ironic as in 2023 before the onset of the genocide Gaza’s population was estimated at 2.2 million. This obscene calculus reduces the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians — children, women and men — to a business opportunity.
Even more disturbing, measures are now being taken to police and silence those in Halifax who dare to raise their voices against genocide. Rather than uphold the principles of free expression and moral conscience, city officials are aligning themselves with an event that normalizes and legitimizes war crimes. Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini has grotesquely attempted to tie his support for this “tennis for genocide” event to Victoria Mboko’s victory at the National Bank Open and the empowerment of young women — a cynical attempt to mask complicity in mass atrocity under the language of inspiration and equality.
Let us be clear: Gaza remains under relentless bombardment. Hundreds of thousands are dead or injured. Homes, schools, hospitals, and refugee camps lie in ruins – with Gaza having the largest number of child amputees in history. The overwhelming evidence points to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide unfolding before our very eyes. To host the Israeli tennis team under these circumstances is to stand on the wrong side of history.
This is not just a tennis match. It is a political act — a shameful endorsement of the idea that the mass killing of civilians, the destruction of entire communities, and the violation of international law can be ignored, excused, or even rewarded with a stage for celebration. It is an exercise in sportswashing — laundering the image of genocide and an apartheid state through the spectacle of sport. (more...)
Calls grow to shut down Halifax tennis match between Israel and Canada
Norway's wealth fund divests from Caterpillar over human rights violations in Gaza
The world's largest sovereign wealth fund also divested from five Israeli banks
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, said on Monday it had divested from American construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc and five Israeli banks over human rights violations in Gaza.
The $1.9 trillion fund's executive board said in a public statement it had decided to divest from all six entities following advice by its ethics council, which said they all “contribute to serious violations of the rights of individuals in situations of war and conflict".
The ethics council went on to say that “bulldozers manufactured by Caterpillar are being used by Israeli authorities in the widespread unlawful destruction of Palestinian property".
“There is no doubt that Caterpillar’s products are being used to commit extensive and systematic violations of international humanitarian law," the statement said, adding that the company had not implemented any measures to prevent its use for these purposes and that the council considers "an unacceptable risk that Caterpillar is contributing to serious violations of individuals’ rights in war or conflict situations”.
In its assessment, the ethics council said the Israeli military had utilised bulldozers manufactured by Caterpillar for decades, with only a brief pause between 2024 and 2025. These machines were supplied to Israel through the United States foreign military sales programme and then modified by other parties for “military purposes”. (more...)
Norway's wealth fund divests from Caterpillar over human rights violations in Gaza
Friday, August 29, 2025
Gaza’s journalists get massacred, Western press mollycoddles Israel
Expressions of horror sometimes ring hollow.
Jack Parrock is among the Western journalists who have protested against Israel’s killings of reporters and photographers in Gaza. His credibility as a protester is compromised by how he shills for the makers of weapons that have more than likely been used in the killings to which he objects.
Parrock – a contributor to the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and various other outlets – is much in demand as a moderator at corporate events in Brussels. These include conferences hosted by the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD).
That umbrella group represents such giants of the weapons trade as BAE Systems and Leonardo.
Both of those firms have played a significant role in developing or equipping the F-35 warplane. The “economy of genocide” report published recently by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied West Bank and Gaza, stated that the F-35 and its precursor the F-16 had been “integral to equipping Israel with the unprecedented aerial power” used in obliterating Gaza.
Parrock’s behavior is unethical. Rules drawn up by the International Federation of Journalists stipulate that a reporter “will avoid any confusion between his activity and that of advertising or propaganda.”
The conferences at which Parrock moderates are pure propaganda. They depict higher military spending as something desirable, without spelling out that the prime beneficiaries will be the management and shareholders of weapons companies.
Parrock – who did not respond to a request for comment – gets away with his unethical conduct because it goes unchallenged. (more...)
Gaza’s journalists get massacred, Western press mollycoddles Israel
They killed one of your journalists and you’re still covering for them.
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) August 27, 2025
You should be ashamed @Reuters. pic.twitter.com/pr0VheU1EP
Media does its best to shape leadership race — don’t let it
Heather vs Avi. That’s how the liberal media and NDP brass would like to frame the leadership race but, unfortunately for them there’s an anti-genocide, anti-military and anti-US insurgent left campaign promoting economic democracy, degrowth and land back policies, which is already shaping the debate.
In “Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis prepare NDP leadership bids” the Toronto Star reported that those two individuals were seeking to lead the party. The front-page article devoted a dozen paragraphs to two candidates who have yet to formally announce they are running to lead the party. Conversely, it wasn’t until the fifteenth paragraph that the article noted, “Montreal activist Yves Engler has announced his plan to run for the leadership on an anti-military and anti-capitalist platform.”
Unlike the two individuals the Star focused on, my campaign has a website, graphics and leaflets. We’ve also published multiple press releases and I will be at the Toronto Labour Day parade on Monday and am speaking in Toronto, Hamilton, St Catherines, Kingston and London this week.
On Tuesday the Star reporter called one of the campaign co-managers to inquire how things were proceeding. He was told that more than 700 volunteers have signed up to help and that there’s multiple committees working on different aspects of the campaign. As part of the mobilization efforts, coordinators have handed out nearly 10,000 leaflets at Palestine events. (more...)
Media does its best to shape leadership race — don’t let it
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— Yves Engler (@EnglerYves) August 30, 2025
Journalist: Israel Killed My Colleagues and Reuters Justified It — So I Quit.
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink publicly resigned from Reuters in a now-viral tweet, in protest of the outlet's coverage of her colleagues assassinated by Israel. Reuters ran a story claiming Anas Al-Sharif, whose work for Reuters won the outlet a Pulitzer Prize, was a Gaza militant with zero evidence, and that was the breaking point for Valerie Zink. “Even if that were true—which it wasn’t—you bomb a hospital and kill 20 people to target a camera? It’s a travesty. It’s unforgivable.” She tells BT’s Rania Khalek this is because the Reuter’s “has never cared about Palestinian lives, Black lives, or Indigenous lives. Their priority is profit.”
Israel Bombs Nasser Hospital in Gaza Three Times
We need a new word for Israel's depravity. Move over "Double Tap," Triple Strike is here.
Our latest From The Desk as all about wins and lies. Big Israel lies and why the media continues to help Israel tell them. The Columbia Journalism Review recently suggested a few things the media could do to pushback on Israel's lies and support journalists in Gaza. One of them was not to publish or broadcast Israel's lies. We need a new word for Israel's depravity. Move over "Double Tap," Triple Strike is here.
Our latest From The Desk as all about wins and lies. Big Israel lies and why the media continues to help Israel tell them. The Columbia Journalism Review recently suggested a few things the media could do to pushback on Israel's lies and support journalists in Gaza. One of them was not to publish or broadcast Israel's lies.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Globe and Mail Saga: Fake News in Lebanon
The Globe and Mail sent reporter Mark MacKinnon to Lebanon, under the guise that they were there to participate in a panel dealing with improving the infrastructure of a small village.
They weren't. Instead, they pretended they were there on good faith so they could find dirt on a Canadian citizen, and found nothing.
How the UN could act today to stop the genocide in Palestine
As a key deadline approaches in the United Nations General Assembly, a little-used UN mechanism, immune from the US veto, could bring military protection to the Palestinian people - if we demand it.
After twenty-two months of unprecedented carnage, three things are clear: (1) the Israeli regime will not end the genocide in Palestine of its own will, (2) the U.S. government, Israel’s principal collaborator, as well as the majority of Israelis, and the regime’s proxies and lobbies in the West, are fully committed to this genocide, and to the destruction and erasure of every remnant of Palestine from the river to the sea, and (3) other Western governments like the UK and Germany as well as far too many complicit Arab states in the region are fully dedicated to the cause of Israeli impunity.
That means that genocide (and apartheid) will only end through resistance against the Israeli regime, the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, the solidarity of the rest of the world, and the isolation, weakening, defeat, and dismantling of the Israeli regime.
As was the case in apartheid South Africa, this is a long-term struggle. But even in the face of Western government obstruction, there are things that can be done right now. Things like boycott, divestment, sanctions, demonstrations, disruption, civil disobedience, education, prosecutions under universal jurisdiction, and civil cases against Israeli perpetrators and complicit actors in our own societies. And yes, we can also demand intervention and protection for the Palestinian people.
Established by a Cold War-era resolution adopted in 1950, the Uniting for Peace mechanism authorizes the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to act when the Security Council is blocked by the veto of one of its permanent members. Under this mechanism, the UNGA could mandate a UN protection force to deploy to Palestine, protect civilians, ensure humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in recovery and reconstruction.
And the upcoming deadline set by the UNGA last year for Israeli compliance with the orders and findings of the International Court of Justice, with a promise of “further measures” in the wake of non-compliance, provides a critical moment for action. Indeed, the time for intervention is long past due. (more...)
How the UN could act today to stop the genocide in Palestine
The Liberal playbook of deceit about arming Israel
We break down their 4-step playbook for deceiving the public about how Canada continues to send Israel weapons.
Demilitarize the AirShow
The F35 is back at the Canadian National Exhibition and its airshow - so are the peace activists.
For years peace activists, environmentalists, refugee advocates and even pet lovers have been protesting the annual four-day airshow that includes war planes over an urban centre, Toronto. However, there is a new sense of urgency this year, as well as new tools. A recent report revealed the extent of Canada's role in manufacturing components for the F35, the very plane delivering genocide from the skies over Gaza.
Three organizers, who are also part of the larger anti-war movement, talk about the shifts the campaign has taken over the years, the challenges they're overcomming and the coalition building that makes it all possible.
Journalists denounce Israel’s attempts to silence the truth
On 10 August, the Israeli military carried out a targeted strike — using a suicide drone — on journalists inside the Al Jazeera tent next to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
The attack came after the Israeli military made repeated threats against Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammad Qreiqeh, who were killed alongside two colleagues, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammad Noufal, both camera operators.
Three other people who were present were also killed, freelance journalists Mohammad al-Khaldi, Mo’men Aliawa and Saad Jundiya, a civilian who happened to be present.
Saeed Hasballah, 27, a freelance cameraman with Al Jazeera, said he had been inside the Al Jazeera tent just twenty minutes before the strike, discussing the ongoing genocide.
“It was the first time Anas and Mohammad Qreiqeh were present together at the same time. They usually alternated shifts and shared work hours to ensure the truth reached the world,” Hasballah told The Electronic Intifada.
Wadi Abu al-Soud, 32, a reporter with Yemen TV, was in his own tent, just 30 meters away from the Al Jazeera tent, when it was bombed. All day, he said, Israeli warplanes had been flying extremely low and eastern Gaza had suffered relentless bombardment.
“The aircraft were so close that journalists began telling each other the night would be hard, and they started praying for one another,” al-Soud said.
Both al-Soud and Hasballah said they were startled by the deafening blast at around 11:30 pm.
“The strike directly hit Anas — he died instantly,” al-Soud said. “Mohammad Qreiqeh was critically wounded. I went to save him, but he passed away within moments.”
“This was a direct targeting of the journalists inside the Al Jazeera tent,” Hasballah said. (more...)
Journalists denounce Israel’s attempts to silence the truth
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Canadian Doctor at Nasser Hospital in Gaza
In 2018, during the Great March of Return in Gaza, Dr. Tarek Loubani was shot twice by the Israeli army. Once in the leg and once in his knee. That same day, 19 other medical professionals were shot. All of them clearly marked as doctors and nurses. Nothing is new in Gaza. It is an abhorrent hamster wheel of Israeli perpetrated carnage and cruel international indifference.
Dr. Loubani is in Khan Younis, Gaza. He is working at Nasser Hospital. The same hospital bombed twice by Israel on August 25, 2025, which killed 20 people. All of them journalists and rescue workers and medical personnel.
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Israel's intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC
Israel’s justification for the mass slaughter of Gaza’s people and their starvation - now officially confirmed as a famine engineered by Israel - was built on a parade of easily discredited lies from the start: of beheaded infants, of babies in ovens, of mass rape.
It should surprise no one that Israel continued advancing similarly outrageous lies as it set about - as all genocidal regimes must do - dismantling the most basic infrastructure of survival for Gaza’s population.
It cut off humanitarian aid delivered by the United Nations agency Unrwa, and destroyed the enclave’s hospitals, while killing, jailing and torturing its medical personnel.
Israel claimed it had documents proving the UN was a front for Hamas - documents it never produced. Meanwhile, all 36 of Gaza’s hospitals have been attacked - attacks whose implicit rationale was that they were built atop Hamas “command and control centres”, though those centres have never been found.
Expanding this narrative, Israel rounded up and jailed the enclave’s leading doctors, who had been working round the clock to treat the endless tide of maimed men, women and children, as supposed “Hamas operatives” in disguise.
Also as any genocidal regime must do - especially one that wishes to uphold the pretence that it is a democracy with the world’s “most moral army” - Israel laboured tirelessly to cast a pall of darkness over its atrocities.
It blocked western journalists from accessing Gaza, and then picked off Palestinian journalists in the enclave one by one, until more than 200 had been assassinated, 11 in the past couple of weeks alone, including contributors to Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera. Others have been forced to flee to safety abroad.
The western press corps, which barely raised a peep about its exclusion for most of the past 22 months of genocide, collectively shrugged its shoulders as its colleagues in Gaza were slowly exterminated. Nothing to see here. (more...)
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Western media manufactured consent for Israel’s killing of Gaza journalists, watchdog finds
US media watchdog Fair found evidence of UK and US media delegitimising Palestinian voices
A report on Friday by the national media watch group Fair found that establishment media have manufactured consent for the killing of Palestinian journalists in Israel's war on Gaza.
It also concluded that establishment media overall “centered Israel’s narrative”, tried to “delegitimize pro-Palestinian sources”, and did not “contextualize the killings within the larger context of the genocide”.
In its report, Fair evaluated coverage of Israel’s targeted murder on 10 August of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Mohammed Noufal and Ibrahim Zaher; along with freelance journalists Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed al-Khalidi, in 15 well-known media outlets based primarily in the US.
They found that coverage in all 15 news outlets repeated “the same Zionist talking points that contributed to manufacturing consent for their killings”, specifically smears that the popular and respected journalist Sharif was a member of Hamas.
The outlets include The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Washington Post; The Wall Street Journal; The Financial Times; ABC; CBS; NBC; CNN; Fox News; BBC; Politico; Newsweek; The Associated Press; and Reuters.
Fair found they all repeated Israel’s false allegations that Sharif was a member of Hamas masquerading as a journalist, even though this claim was found to be baseless by notable organisations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Foreign Press Association and the United Nations. (more...)
Western media manufactured consent for Israel’s killing of Gaza journalists, watchdog finds
Current, ex-Microsoft employees arrested in sit-in protest against Israel ties
At least two current and three former Microsoft employees, along with other tech workers, have been arrested at the company’s headquarters following a sit-in protest at the president’s office calling for Microsoft to end its ties with the Israeli regime.
Current and former Microsoft workers re-established the “Liberated Zone” by holding a sit-in inside Microsoft executives’ Building 34, renaming it to “Mai Ubeid Building” in honor of Mai Ubeid, a Palestinian software engineer who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli air strike.
The sit-in was part of a continuing campaign of protests against Microsoft’s role in the Gaza genocide, a role activists attribute to the company’s cloud service agreements with the Israeli regime.
During the sit-in, the workers and former workers occupied the office of Brad Smith, the current Microsoft president, delivering notices that read: “The People’s Court Summons Bradford Lee Smith on Charges of Crimes Against Humanity.”
In addition, the protesters hung two banners in the space: one that renamed the location the “Mai Ubeid Building,” and a second that listed their demands for Microsoft, which included cutting ties with Israel, calling for an end to the genocide and forced starvation, paying reparations to Palestinians, and ending discrimination against workers. (more...)
Current, ex-Microsoft employees arrested in sit-in protest against Israel ties
Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained
A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear.
The Maple has spent the past 22 months paying close attention to Canadian military exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s misleading and sometimes outright false comments on this issue.
Unlike the United States, Canada does not donate military aid to Israel. However, private companies can sell military goods to Israel by applying for an export permit from the federal government.
Canada is a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which is enshrined in the Export and Import Permits Act. Under this law, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs must not approve export permits for military goods if there is a substantial risk the goods could be used to facilitate serious human rights abuses or violations of international law.
Most exports to the United States, however, do not require a permit. Some Canadian goods sold to the U.S. may be transferred or redirected to other countries — including Israel — through military aid or Foreign Military Sales.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, and despite some restrictions, Canadian companies have continued to sell military goods directly to Israel. Some companies have also been named in U.S. military contracts that identify Israel as an end user of the goods.
Below is a condensed timeline of those exports and the Liberal government’s deceptive attempts to make this scandal disappear. (more...)
Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Reuters culpable in Israel's assassination of 246 Gaza journalists, says Canadian reporter
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has announced that she is stepping down from her position as a stringer at Reuters news agency after eight years, saying that she can no longer be associated with an agency that is “justifying and enabling” the systematic killing of journalists in Gaza.
Zink, whose work has appeared in the American daily newspaper New York Times, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television news network, and various outlets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, said on her personal Facebook page that Reuters' reporting has played a role in the circumstances leading to the deaths of 246 journalists since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in early October 2023.
She referenced the case of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed alongside several other colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City on August 10.
“Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” Zink wrote.
She also took a swipe at Reuters' reaction to the murder of its own employees. (more...)
Reuters culpable in Israel's assassination of 246 Gaza journalists, says Canadian reporter
Poland could ban naturalization of Ukrainian Nazi sympathizers
The country’s citizenship law should reject the ideology of Stepan Bandera, President Karol Nawrocki has said
Polish President Karol Nawrocki wants to amend the country’s citizenship law to say that the naturalization of Ukrainian nationalists is undesirable.
Warsaw and Kiev have long been involved in a dispute over crimes committed by nationalists during World War II and their lionization in modern Ukraine.
During a press conference on Monday, Nawrocki weighed in on recently-adopted changes to the citizenship law, and said his office was working on additional amendments. He said the law should include the slogan “stop Banderism,” referring to the ideology of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.
The Ukrainian nationalist movement committed mass atrocities during the war, including mass killings of ethnic Poles. Modern Ukraine treats Bandera and his followers as national heroes, which has poisoned Kiev’s relationship with Warsaw for decades.
The president said Poland and Ukraine can only have normal relations “on the foundation of truth” and suggested that Warsaw should outlaw Banderite symbols, equating them with banned Nazi and Communist iconography. (more...)
Poland could ban naturalization of Ukrainian Nazi sympathizers
Human Rights Crisis in Palestine with Roger Waters
In this interview with John Kiriakou, the legendary musician of the rock group Pink Floyd, Roger Waters talks about the Balfour Declaration, the genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian embrace of sumud - the Arabic word for steadfast perseverance and the title of his new song, the attempt to erase Western principles of human rights, apartheid, the importance of resistance, and the power of the people to effect change.
Singer-song writer, and legendary music of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters was born during the carnage of World War II, and remembers VJ day. He is a prominent supporter of human rights and the rights of Palestinians.
"Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing
Israel's war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the hospital attack was a "tragic mishap," but just hours later, Israeli forces killed a sixth journalist. "There is a pattern of targeting and killing journalists that lets us think that there is an intention," says Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.
As countries prepare for the U.N. General Assembly, Albanese notes the complicity of Western states in the genocide in Gaza, particularly the United States. "There has been a tolerance of Israel's impunity for decades," says Albanese. "However, the United States is the single most important factor of crisis in the United Nations."
Israel Kills More Journalists in Gaza
20 Palestinians killed in a heinous massacre by Israel's attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. It all happened live and on-the-air. Five of the murdered civilians were journalists. Israel is on a bender and no one cares enough about it, or its victims, to stop it.
Al Jazeera English interview on Israel's obsessive killing of Palestinian reporters
Interview with investigative journalist, author and film-maker Antony Loewenstein on Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinian journalists and the Western silence around it.
The interview was recorded live on 26 August 2025 with Al Jazeera English.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Sullivan Update, Amy Hamm Fine, Homeowner Charged, Guest Claude Chapados
Paul and Adam welcome retired undercover operator and supervisor Claude Chapados to discuss how undercover operations unfold, how officers from different police forces are trained, and many other topics. He gives his view on what involvement Gabriel Wortman may have had with the police.
Also discussed are the updates on the Jack and Lilly Sullivan disappearance in Nova Scotia, the $94K fine levied against BC nurse Amy Hamm for comments on transgender people, the Kawartha Lakes homeowner who is charged with assaulting someone breaking into their home, and the limited impact of Hurricane Erin on the dry weather in Nova Scotia.
Gaza is the Compass: Second annual People’s Conference for Palestine
From August 29-31, thousands of Palestine supporters will gather in Detroit, Michigan, for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, guided by the principle: Gaza is the Compass.
For two years, Gaza has been a moral and political compass that has guided so many towards true liberation.
Israel, with full US backing and support, is starving 2 million Palestinians, carrying out a plan for mass displacement and ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank, and continuously bombing and shooting Palestinians with the number of martyrs rising daily.
Israel’s brutality, though gruesome and with the ultimate price being paid by Palestinians in Gaza, resembles more the last thrashes of a dying beast, than it does a mighty force. Zionism itself is facing an existential crisis. Around the world, Israel’s murderous rampage has given it a spotlight for international scrutiny and has turned Zionism into a pariah among the world’s masses.
Israel has been exposed on the world stage, for its colonial, apartheid, and genocidal project that continues to dispossess and oppress the Palestinian people. This political turning point provides us with an opportunity to utilize every tactic and strategy to ensure this genocide not only comes to an end, but also that Zionism fails to survive this indelible mark in history.
This is not the time to despair, but a pivotal time to come together with greater strength and fight even harder to end the genocide and occupation of Palestine once and for all. Gaza calls us to bear witness. Gaza demands that we look closer even when they try to force us to look away—and we refuse to look away.
At the end of this month, thousands of Palestine’s supporters will be convening in Detroit, Michigan for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, guided by the principle: Gaza is the Compass. This conference is a place for all, whether it’s activists, students, workers who have been on the streets and organizing at their institutions for Palestine, or families with young children hoping to build consciousness in the minds of the next generation. We will all convene to recommit to Gaza and to collectively determine the next phase of our movement for liberation. (more...)
Gaza is the Compass: Second annual People’s Conference for Palestine
People's Conference for Palestine
70 Palestinian students admitted to Canadian universities are trapped in Gaza. We need Canada to defend our right to education.
Reem Hamadaqa is among 70 Palestinian students accepted into Canadian graduate programs who are unable to leave Gaza due to the Israeli siege and genocide. The students are calling on the Canadian government to defend their right to education.
I had always believed that education was my lifeline. Pursuing higher education is a means to resist, to survive, and to preserve the stories of my people. I have always seen myself in classrooms and libraries, surrounded by professors and peers, working toward a future fruitful of research and education after years of study and dedication. Then, in a single night, everything collapsed.
The sudden shift between February and October 2023 still puzzles me. How can one go from a university desk full of potential and academic ambition to an inhumane hospital bed, deprived of medical care, prevented from undergoing urgent surgery, and panicking over the loss of her family? Thoughts wandered in my head.
An Israeli airstrike killed my parents, my sisters, among fourteen beloved people of my family, dearest than my soul. I survived. I got injured. And I was forced to stay in a hospital bed with no certainty of safety, yet unable even to walk steadily. My mother died believing I was safe. She did not know that I had been denied urgent surgery, and that my dreams were suspended in a war I could not control. She died believing I was on my way to finishing the academic path she once proudly encouraged.
Yet even in that chaos, I refused to stop. I wrote, studied, and applied myself to every course I could complete from my tent in Al-Masawi. Electricity was no longer a term we could brag about, and the internet was unreliable, yet I went on. My grades remained high. My master’s coursework continued, with a 90.2% GPA. I did not allow the ruins around me to erase my purpose. My two sisters were denied their right to life, to education, to simple dreams. I had to go on, for them, and for me. (more...)
Genocidal 'Influencer' Dahlia Kurtz Sues Roger Waters And Yves Engler For Defamation
Genocidal 'influencer' Dahlia Kurtz has filed a defamation lawsuit against Roger Waters and Yves Engler in the Quebec Superior Court.
In Kurtz's legal action, Kurtz is represented by unhinged Zionist lawyer Neil Oberman.
Dimitri Lascaris examines the relevant evidence and argues that Kurtz's lawsuit is devoid of merit.
Lascaris also explains why he believes that Kurtz should be charged criminally for the willful promotion of hate, and why Oberman is unfit to practice law.
UNIFOR's Hot Cargo: Labour Internationalism
The work behind the Arms Embargo Now Report revealed that there are unionized workplaces in Canada that are making weapons destined for Israel. World Beyond War organizer called this information, along with a recent letter from Unifor's President "an opportunity" for positive action.
Activists from Labour for Palestine are going into this week's UNIFOR convention in Vancouver with this top of mind. They are working on a campaign to have any goods or services coming from, or going to Israel, declared 'hot cargo'.
They know the majority of Canadians, and thus UNIFOR members, are against the genocide, but that doesn't mean there aren't going to be obstacles in their way. In a political climate defined by fear and heightened nationalism, it has been a challenge getting workers to prioritize Palestine. Hear what work is being done to pave the way for more Internationalism not just inside UNIFOR, but within all Labour institutions.
Canada's complicity in a live streamed holocaust
At General Dynamics protest Friday Yves Engler got emotional denouncing the various ways Canada has been enabling Israel's live streamed holocaust in Gaza.
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