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[l] at 8/25/26 9:43pm
I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fracture in the lie.” Yeah. It does tend to happen like that. You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it’s Palestine. You keep pulling on that thread, uncovering more and more uncomfortable truths, until eventually you discover that pretty much everything you’ve been taught about your world was a lie. Every war. Everything about how your government really operates. Everything you’ve been told about nations and how they work. Everything about capitalism and communism and how your society is structured. It was all lies, fed to you by parents, teachers, preachers, pundits, politicians and news men from the moment you were old enough to process complex thought. It can feel scary. It can feel like the end of your world, because in a sense that’s exactly what it is. Your sincere pursuit of the truth leads to the unraveling of everything you thought you knew, and you find yourself plunging into a great abyss of uncertainty about what’s real. And a lot of people do get lost at this juncture. They plunge down too many rabbit holes with too much paranoia and not enough critical thinking, and they wind up replacing all their old indoctrinated belief systems with new beliefs that are just as crazy and power-serving as the first ones. There’s often a gap between letting go of your old worldview and assembling a new one where it’s easy to get confused and misled. But if you remain sincere, careful, relentlessly self-honest and dedicated to the truth while ensuring your critical thinking faculties remain operating at full power, you eventually emerge from this chrysalis phase with the wings of a truth-based worldview. You can now not only see through the old lies, but can understand what’s really going on in the world. And what’s really going on in the world is a lot less pleasant than the fictions you were fed as a schoolchild. You can see that we are ruled by a transnational alliance of plutocrats and government agencies who manipulate world affairs to maximize their power and profits at the expense of ordinary working people around the globe, and you can see that those same powerful abusers are responsible for constructing the fictional power-serving worldview you just freed yourself from. And when you see how unpleasant the truth is and how hard you had to work to realize it, you understand why relatively few people have awakened to it. From the perspective of the ego, it’s a whole lot of effort and discomfort without much in the way of payoff. Forming a truth-based worldview is something you do for its own sake, and if you’re not the sort of person who views truth as its own reward, then you’re not the sort of person who’s likely to pursue it. But more and more people are choosing truth. More and more people are spotting a loose thread labeled “Gaza” or “Epstein” or what have you, and giving it a curious tug. Despite the discomfort, despite the required effort, and despite the great cost of having to sacrifice the world they thought they knew, they’re pulling that thread, and they keep on pulling. We’re seeing it more and more every year. And that gives me hope. I don’t know where this is headed or whether we win in the end, but I’m seeing enough movement in human consciousness at mass scale to continue holding out hope for a better world. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/all-it-takes-is-one-crack-in-the The post All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie Weve Been Sold appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: SOCIAL/CULTURAL, lie]

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[l] at 8/25/26 1:33pm
Le Proche-Orient traverse une zone de turbulences inédite. L’Axe de la Résistance, cette alliance regroupant l’Iran, le Hezbollah, le Hamas et les Houthis, semble se fissurer. Alors que la presse traite ces groupes comme un bloc monolithique, l’unité idéologique autour du projet de l’imam Khomeini s’évapore. La souveraineté de chaque acteur reprend le dessus sur la stratégie commune. Le cas des Houthis au Yémen illustre cette rupture majeure. Bien que présentés comme des subordonnés de Téhéran, ils agissent désormais selon leurs propres intérêts. Tout porte à croire qu’ils refusent d’intervenir en mer Rouge pour secourir l’Iran. Ce divorce stratégique, entamé après le 7 octobre, marque la fin des proxys au profit de groupes totalement indépendants. Sur le plan militaire, une guerre d’usure asymétrique épuise les États-Unis. Un drone iranien coûte environ 30 000 dollars. Son interception par un missile Patriot en coûte deux millions. Ce déséquilibre financier nest pas un accident. Il sagit dun sabotage méthodique visant à vider les stocks américains et à briser léconomie de guerre de Washington. Le véritable enjeu reste la survie du dollar. Si le prix du pétrole senvole à cause du conflit, le marché pétrolier pourrait se détacher de la monnaie américaine. Donald Trump, conscient de ce danger, pourrait choisir le retrait militaire pour éviter un effondrement monétaire total. La survie de lempire dépend désormais de sa capacité à abandonner ses alliés. Pendant ce temps, la Chine observe et ajuste ses plans. L’armée populaire de libération réécrit sa stratégie concernant Taïwan en sinspirant des tactiques iraniennes. Selon toute vraisemblance, Pékin cible déjà les 24 bases américaines du Pacifique. La bascule géopolitique mondiale saccélère et plus rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter la décomposition de lordre ancien. Sommes-nous à la veille dun retrait américain massif comparable à celui de lAfghanistan ? Le système financier peut-il survivre à une déconnexion brutale du marché de lénergie ? Thierry Meyssan livre une analyse sans concession sur les forces qui redessinent notre monde. Comprendre ces mécanismes est urgent pour saisir la réalité de la dépossession en cours. Thierry Meyssan et Lara Stam vont discuter de la fin de lhégémonie occidentale et de la recomposition du Proche-Orient sur GPTV. The post THIERRY MEYSSAN contredit lOccident et prouve que lAMÉRIQUE cède | GPTV appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/25/26 7:53am
The Plan Is Not Just In The USA, Its Happening Worldwide The post The Plan Is Not Just In The USA, Its Happening Worldwide appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: Multimedia, WORLD, USA]

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[l] at 8/24/26 7:41pm
Anna on Twitter asks, “Is anyone else really stressed about their future and where they are in life and what they’ve accomplished and their worth as a person?” I understand what you’re saying, but that’s mostly just head noise that gets indoctrinated into us by the unhealthy society we live in. Life isn’t about racking up a bunch of accomplishments or hitting certain milestones, it’s about living. Literally physically being alive, and making sure you fully live it. When I say “fully live” your life, I don’t mean having a bunch of exciting experiences like going skydiving or running with the bulls, and I don’t mean ticking a bunch of boxes like getting married and having kids. I mean actually being present for it. Having your attention in what’s really going on instead of in a bunch of made-up thought fluff in your head. And that actually gets a lot easier to do once you let go of the notion that you’re doing life wrong and that your story isn’t unfolding correctly. According to the rules of our dysfunctional society, you are inadequate unless you’ve become a productive gear-turner for capitalism and obtained enough wealth to consume products at large volume. Ideally you’ll have also produced some children who can grow up to become good consumers and gear-turners themselves. Your life is nothing but a story of academic goals to career goals to relationship goals to family goals, purchasing larger and larger chunks of real estate along the way until you catch some disease and die. Your enjoyment of life? Worthless. Your relishing of your own sensory experiences from moment to moment upon this unfathomably beautiful planet? Entirely without value. Marveling about the miraculous nature of this strange and wonderful terrestrial experience? Irrelevant. All that matters in this civilization is what boxes you have ticked and what products you have purchased. This is an insane way to live. Only the human brain could come up with such spectacular hallucinations. Only humans are crazy enough to believe life is going wrong even when they’ve got a beating heart, a full belly, and no physical threats in the immediate vicinity. No frog is sitting there worrying about its worth as a frog. No eagle is flooding its body with stress hormones because it hasn’t accomplished enough in life. They get their food and they relax. That’s their whole day. How to live? The cells in your body already know how to live. Your mind has no idea, but your cells know. All your mind can do is make stuff up about what a life well-lived looks like, and meanwhile your living cells are already doing life without your mind’s supervision or understanding. They’re doing it in your sleep, that’s how irrelevant your mind is to the process of living. Your mind thinks it’s driving this life, but it’s actually just a loud and bratty passenger. When you stop listening to the mind barking instructions from the back seat and learn to simply sit in the wonder of sensory experience like the animals do, that’s when you really start living. When you stop listening to the babbling mental monologue and the labeling, dividing mind which thinks it knows what everything is, you start seeing everything for the first time. Each moment of this incarnation is fascinating and awe-inspiring when you learn to see it with fresh eyes, whether you’re climbing Mount Everest or sitting at home drinking coffee. That’s what living is really about. It’s about truly showing up for your one precious life. Not the story of your life. Not other people’s ideas about your life. Not your arguments with life or your assumptions about what it should look like. Your actual life, as it’s actually appearing, in the here and now, from moment to moment. Don’t let the madness of our dystopian society trick you into missing out on this. Don’t take your guidance on how to live your life from a profoundly sick civilization. Take your guidance instead from your own living cells. From your senses. From the felt experience of the living body. From the air in your lungs. From the colors and shades in your visual field. From the vibrations in your eardrums. From the wind on your skin and in your hair. That’s the only place life is actually happening. Start there. Start there over and over again. Every instant is a brand new beginning. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dont-let-the-values-of-this-dystopian The post Dont Let The Values Of This Dystopian Society Shape How You Live Your Life appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/24/26 4:26pm
Russias Ukraine Endgame The post Russias Ukraine Endgame appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Russia, Ukraine, war]

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[l] at 8/24/26 9:47am
Live coverage of the war on Iran. Updates, analysis, and the latest developments as the conflict escalates across the region. The post Has the Mecca Agreement KILLED the Abraham Accords? | Ep. 258 appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/24/26 8:12am
The US Decline Is Accelerating: Trump Just Trapped America In A New Quagmire The post The US Decline Is Accelerating: Trump Just Trapped America In A New Quagmire appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Iran, Middle East, USA, World Order]

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[l] at 8/24/26 6:33am
How Iran Bypasses US Sanctions Using China & Petro-Yuan The post How Iran Bypasses US Sanctions Using China Petro-Yuan appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: Economy, Editor pick, interview, Multimedia, Iran, sanction, USA, Yuan]

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[l] at 8/24/26 12:20am
Despite the US literally bombing Iran and fighting Russia within its own borders by proxy through Ukraine neither Russia nor Iran (nor China) have ever attacked the United States within its borders. Within these same US borders, neglect of education, healthcare, and infrastructure has visibly, tangibly reduced the quality of life for the average American. Corporations like Anduril siphoning off tax dollars for threats abroad that do not exist, making these resources unavailable to solve threats to Americans at home that do exist are responsible for this. In the end, Palmer Luckey and Anduril as well as other arms manufacturers and profiteering industries driving US foreign policy abroad pose a much greater threat in reality to the average American and their way of life, than any threat Russia or China are claimed to pose in fiction. Related Article: Anduril: “Hyperscaling” the Worst of America’s Military Industrial Complex References: WSJ We Do Fail … a Lot’: Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech (Nov. 2025)  https://archive.ph/nqlr6 Washington Post Pentagon presses defense firms to build weapons as Iran war depletes stocks (Aug. 8, 2026): https://archive.vn/JTkre Bloomberg Anduril CEO Talks Ohio Plant, an IPO, Working With Trump (Jan. 2025):  • Anduril CEO Talks Ohio Plant, an IPO, Work   TechCrunch From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock (2024): https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/and The post Anduril: “Hyperscaling” the Worst of America’s Military Industrial Complex appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/23/26 8:58pm
I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing western individuals addressed “to Iran’s political prisoners” framing Iran as a “source of oppression” equal to the US and its allies. It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea. If you live in the US or one of its allied nations, then you live under the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs. You do not have any legitimacy in squandering any of your energy and attention criticizing human rights abuses in empire-targeted nations while living under a globe-spanning empire that is fueled by a nonstop river of human blood. It is not okay for you to use your western privilege to attack the nations your own government is working to absorb into the power structure you live under. Whenever I say this online I’ll get some Trotskyist or anarchist babbling about the need to express “solidarity” with Iranian political prisoners or whatever, but whenever I press them on what actual, material benefit those expressions of “solidarity” bring to the people they’re meant to help, they can’t point to anything solid. Whereas I can point to some very obvious ways in which contributing to an imperial war propaganda campaign can help grease the wheels for real material actions which hurt actual Iranians. Theyre doing the meme pic.twitter.com/09TojGfox2 — Perfectly Omicronulent (@analass666) August 22, 2026 If you’re a westerner, you have an obligation to use your voice responsibly. If you are feeding into the latest “the people in the empire-targeted nation need liberation from their evil tyrannical government” war propaganda narrative with your expressions of “solidarity” and your blind insistence on treating all bad things as equally bad, then you are using your western voice irresponsibly, and you are morally culpable for the mass slaughter you help facilitate with your recklessness. It’s not okay to be a citizen of the western empire and act like human rights abuses in an empire-targeted nation are of equal or comparable concern to the far more egregious abuses of your own leaders and their allies. It’s also not okay to be a fully grown adult and believe the use of force in empire-targeted governments is happening separately from their targeting by the empire, as though Iran would look the way it looks today if the US and Israel had not been working to collapse and control it for generations. Iran has only survived the latest imperial onslaught because Tehran tightly controls what happens in that country. The only reason we didn’t see Xinjiang absorbed into the western power umbrella with the help of CIA-backed separatists is because Beijing waged a sweeping crackdown on the extremist factions who’d been launching attacks in the territory. The only reason North Korea has gone relatively unmolested by the western empire in recent years is because its government obtained nuclear weapons. It’s baby-brained analysis to pretend such things happen independently of the US and its allies working to take control of unabsorbed nations and force them into compliance with Washington’s capitalist world order. The western empire therefore makes the world a crueler and more abusive place not only by its direct acts of cruelty and abuse, but by the way it forces its targets to choose between (A) annihilation and (B) using extreme amounts of force to retain their sovereignty. The empire we live under is responsible for the vast majority of the dysfunction and misery in our world, and yet you as a westerner want to spend your time yelling at Iran? Fuck off, man. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-obnoxious-for-westerners-to-criticize The post Its Obnoxious For Westerners To Criticize The Targets Of The Western Empire appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/23/26 5:24pm
Why the Persian Gulf States No Longer Trust the US Military The post Why the Persian Gulf States No Longer Trust the US Military appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/23/26 4:41pm
Le Moyen-Orient traverse une mutation sismique que les médias dominants ignorent. Un accord du Conseil de paix, organisation liée à Donald Trump, propose la démilitarisation du Hamas en échange de la reconstruction de Gaza. Si Benjamin Netanyahou sy oppose publiquement pour satisfaire sa coalition radicale, il refuse en coulisses le retrait de certaines troupes. Ce double jeu masque une réalité plus profonde : une réforme interne du Hamas, désormais dirigé par une branche issue des Frères musulmans et prête à une reconnaissance nationale. Pendant ce temps, lUkraine senfonce dans un chaos structurel irréversible. Le régime de Kiev est secoué par de vastes scandales financiers, notamment lopération anticorruption baptisée Forrest Gump, qui frappe le sommet de ladministration présidentielle. Sur le terrain, le mythe seffondre. Le numéro deux du renseignement militaire ukrainien admet désormais que la Russie ne vise aucun objectif civil. Ce constat brise trois ans de propagande occidentale et souligne léchec total dune stratégie qui sacrifie la jeunesse ukrainienne pour des intérêts étrangers. À lautre bout du monde, le Japon opère un retour inquiétant vers son passé militariste. Sous limpulsion de sa nouvelle direction, Tokyo réforme ses services secrets pour permettre des opérations offensives à lextérieur, une première depuis 1945. Cette remilitarisation, coordonnée avec des réformes similaires en Allemagne, suggère une continuité historique des forces qui ont jadis conduit au désastre mondial. Le système semble réactiver ses anciens réseaux pour préparer une confrontation globale. Sommes-nous les témoins passifs dun remake tragique de lhistoire ? Pourquoi les dirigeants européens sobstinent-ils à soutenir une caste corrompue à Kiev alors que les militaires ukrainiens eux-mêmes préparent laprès-guerre ? Thierry Meyssan analyse ces forces de lombre qui cherchent à précipiter lhumanité dans un nouveau conflit total. Lurgence est de décoder la matrice de communication qui formate nos esprits avant que le point de non-retour ne soit franchi. Thierry Meyssan et Lara Stam vont discuter de la recomposition géopolitique mondiale et des mécanismes de la propagande de guerre sur GPTV. The post Opération Forrest Gump : ce que THIERRY MEYSSAN dit de plus MACABRE sur ZELENSKY | GPTV appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/23/26 4:33pm
What simultaneous military surprises is the Revolutionary Guard planning that could be shocking? When US President Donald Trump uses the weapon of siege and economic sanctions against Iran, regardless of whether they are the largest or smallest in history, it indicates that the military option he has used over the last six months has failed to achieve the desired goals of this war, namely Iran’s surrender to all American conditions and demands. So far, the situation has been completely reversed. Trump was blinded by arrogance, stupidity, and misleading and toxic Israeli information, preventing him from seeing the Iranian adversary’s political and military capabilities, the strength of its regime, the massive popular support it enjoys, and, most importantly, the exceptional management of the war, as well as the unprecedented use of military, political, and diplomatic power with skill and intelligence. Trump is nearing the end, fighting for survival and seeking any “victory” that will offer him a lifeline. However, his chances of escaping the deep upheaval that his Israeli supporters have thrown him into appear poor, if not impossible Just as the American military option failed to achieve any of its goals, despite its magnitude, the economic blockade will also fail, perhaps even more so, because Iran is a continent with nearly two million square kilometres of fertile land and a population of over 95 million people who will never go hungry. After all, they eat what they grow. Its self-sufficient industrial production meets all wants and needs, and friendly Islamic countries and peoples surround it. The military option involves ending the war, whereas the economic embargo prolongs it and makes reaping its rewards extremely difficult. Is there enough time for Trump and his administration to gain these unknown rewards, especially since the midterm elections are three months away and their allies in the West and East have shown no intention of participating in this blockade due to fear of the consequences? China’s president has reaffirmed that the country will not agree with Trump’s desire to impose a blockade on Iran, an ally. The same is true for Russia, and most of the Gulf states allied with America will not jeopardise their security, stability, and existence by succumbing to the American president’s pressures after he let them down militarily and failed to protect them or their costly military and political bases from Iranian missiles and drone attacks. Perhaps the formed Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani tripartite coalition in Mecca is one of the pieces of evidence for our claims. If Trump has not ruled out resorting to the failed military option that shattered America’s prestige as a superpower and the superiority of its weapons and military capabilities, Iran is well prepared for it, even if it is the first to use it. Its leaders’ words confirm this fact. Major General Ahmad Vahidi, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, announced today that “his country and its striking arms will continue to enhance the production of defensive and offensive industries at all levels to raise military readiness.” Meanwhile, Major General Ali Abdollahi, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, warned America and its president “that any miscalculation by the enemies will be met with crushing, deterrent, and destructive revolutionary responses. The Revolutionary Guard’s spokesperson, General Hossein Salami, “promised” the enemies “that there are major surprises on the way that will be revealed in the upcoming military confrontations, whether in the size and effectiveness of missile warheads, their range, or their accuracy.” Iranian perseverance and confrontation with ongoing American and Israeli aggressions over several years, not just the recent six months, have taught us that if the Iranians say something, they do it, inflicting pain, humiliation, and discipline. The following days will confirm and strengthen this truth through new triumphs. https://www.raialyoum.com/trump-acknowledges-the-military-options-failure/ The post Trump acknowledges the military options failure appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/23/26 9:09am
GAZA’S RECONSTRUCTION was never high on Israel’s agenda. But now it has been moved to oblivion with the announcements of two scaled-down projects that are a far cry from the reconstruction plans previously announced and changed multiple times since the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. As Israel leveraged ambiguity by first agreeing and later disagreeing with plans laid out by U.S. President Donald Trump and the Board of Peace, reconstruction has become a waiting game during which Israel hopes to ultimately forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza. In August, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the Green Rafah project, which is said to be a United Arab Emirates-funded pilot project. According to reports, the project envisages a temporary residential area in Eastern Rafah on territory occupied by Israel within the Yellow Line. Only Palestinians with no affiliation to Hamas would be allowed entry to Green Rafah, while Palestinians working in construction on the project would be subject to screenings by Shin Bet. Meanwhile, under the auspices of the Board of Peace, the first construction contract has been awarded to the Louisiana-based firm Arkel International to build a military outpost to host 150 Moroccan troops that will form part of the International Stabilization Taskforce (ISF). The base, measuring 100 by 120 meters (2.97 acres) is in the area within the Yellow Line under Israeli control. The plan was considerably downsized from the original 350-acre compound that was to serve as the base for the ISF. The two scaled-down projects do not affect Israel’s military occupation of Gaza. On the contrary, the approved construction projects are linked to surveillance and military presence which, given Israel’s widespread killing of Palestinians under the pretext of eliminating Hamas, make it unlikely to establish a permanent Palestinian presence. In a recent meeting between Netanyahu and the Board of Peace officials, it was agreed that two working groups would be established—one dealing with the demilitarization of Gaza and the other with humanitarian issues. Netanyahu has again insisted that reconstruction would only take place after complete demilitarization of Gaza. Yet he also maintained that Israel would not withdraw from the Yellow Line, which places almost 70 percent of Gaza under military occupation. The Board of Peace has become a willing accomplice in the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from Gaza. The working groups are merely rehashing earlier arguments and purported solutions that penalize Palestinians until demilitarization is achieved. The Board of Peace and Netanyahu have been quiet about what happens during the process of demilitarization if it occurs, and what happens if it does not. The formula is that Palestinians wait while Israel expands control over Gaza, which normalizes forced displacement in the same way the international community normalized genocide. The approved pilot projects support Netanyahu’s pronouncements that the Israeli military would not retreat from Gaza and that no Palestinian state would be established. Temporary housing in Green Rafah does not provide security or contiguity for Palestinians, nor does it prevent Israel from  forcibly displacing them. Likewise, if Israel does not withdraw from Gaza and reconstruction does not happen, the ISF’s role is nullified and the base would be unnecessary. It is likely that Israel does not envisage the need for the ISF, which makes the base easy to dismantle or repurpose. Forced displacement from Gaza, promoted by Israel since the early days of the genocide, is looming under the guise of reconstruction. While the international community voiced itself against forced displacement, it mangled humanitarian aid and reconstruction from the start. The U.N.’s reconstruction plans did not consider that forced displacement was part of Israel’s genocidal strategy. In December 2023, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 2720, which requested that the Secretary General appoint a senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator. The resolution focused on the entry of humanitarian aid and, more importantly, exposed the U.N.’s expectations that previous mechanisms would be once again implemented as a purported solution. The Early Recovery Approach and Action Plan for Gaza, published in September 2024, still ignored the reality of genocide and forced displacement. Feasible recovery, the document states, requires “rebuilding Gaza as an integral part of a fully independent, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian state.” The report envisages Israel’s collaboration in Gaza’s reconstruction and refers to the defunct two-state politics as the framework upon which reconstruction is based. Yet Netanyahu repeatedly stated his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian “state.” The U.N. reports also neglect important facts in Israel’s narrative. In the immediate aftermath of October 7, Israeli officials had openly called for a second Nakba. A leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry dated Oct. 13, 2023, just six days into the genocide, gives three options for the future of Palestinians in Gaza, and lists forced transfer of Palestinians as the most viable option for Israel. The document notes that Israel would require “a broad diplomatic initiative aimed at countries that will support assisting the displaced population and agree to absorb them as refugees.” No country has so far been forthcoming to receive Palestinians that are forcibly displaced from Gaza, but the ongoing ethnic cleansing through genocide has rendered reconstruction null. The longer it took for the U.N. to acknowledge the genocide, the more time Israel maintained forced displacement among a cacophony of plans ranging from real estate beachfront property as initially envisaged by Trump and Jared Kushner, to the scaled-down reconstruction projects under the auspices of the Board of Peace. More recently, the Board of Peace’s High Representative Nickolay Mladenov gave Israel the green light for further destruction and military occupation in Gaza. Far from ensuring that Palestinians can eventually return to Gaza, Mladenov was reported to have stated that destroying Gaza’s tunnel network “may extend for more than ten years of continuous work.” According to Mladenov, the task would be carried out by external contractors. The bottom line, again, is forced displacement. Netanyahu’s outright rejection of Trump’s 15-point plan has been linked to the upcoming Israeli election on Oct. 27.  Israelis have expressed scepticism over the plan, which brings Netanyahu on a par with a considerable segment of the electorate. However, the Board of Peace is opting for a long-term strategy that prevents Palestinians from returning to Gaza, and Netanyahu is partial to a waiting game that normalizes international law violations, because the waiting game imposed upon Palestinians works to Israel’s advantage. Laying additional groundwork for a long-term, normalized, forced displacement of the Palestinian people, Israel replaced the term “voluntary migration” with the euphemism “free movement plan.” The wording does little to disguise the war crime of forced transfer, but Israel is reportedly anticipating that rebranding would eventually entice other countries to collaborate. In between a stalemate of forced transfer, the futility of temporary projects that can be easily dismantled, and the heightened possibility of additional warfare in Gaza—this time to destroy the tunnel network—Netanyahu has been handed the perfect opportunity to refuse Palestinians in Gaza their right of return. By playing the reconstruction card at intervals while keeping Palestinians out of the Yellow Line, Netanyahu has ensured worldwide diplomatic silence. https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/reconstruction-is-the-euphemism-for-the-palestinian-peoples-forced-transfer-from-gaza.html   The post Reconstruction Is the Euphemism for the Palestinian People’s Forced Transfer From Gaza appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/22/26 1:38pm
Book Author(s):Sabri Jiryis Publisher:Ebb Books, 2025 Paperback:614 pages ISBN-13:9781738468744 A witness to the 1948 Nakba in the village of Fassouta in the Galilee at the age of 10, and one of 160,000 Palestinians who remained, Palestinian author and researcher Sabri Jiryis later became involved al-Ard which sought the return of Palestinians and their land. Expelled to Safad after attempting to run for the 1965 Knesset elections, Jiryis started reading about the Zionist movement. It was while working in Lebanon at the Palestinian Research Centre that Jiryis turned his attention to researching the Zionist movement; this time with the realisation that Palestinians with no knowledge of Hebrew had no way of learning about the colonial ideology that dispossessed them. The Foundations of Zionism (Ebb Books, 2025), translated to English by the author’s daughter Fida Jiryis, constructs the history of Zionism from within the Zionist ideology itself, drawing upon Hebrew sources, some which are quoted in detail throughout the book, to illustrate how a European colonial movement gained traction and ultimately British support for the concept, later implemented, of the Jewish National Home. The book discusses the history of Zionism from the mid-19th century up to 1923, stopping well before the events that led up to the 1947 Partition Plan and the 1948 Nakba. However, to contextualise, the book also gives brief detail on what led to Zionism in earlier centuries, notably the political persecution of Jews prior to the discussed period, and a conclusion which analyses what came after the Nakba up to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, showing that throughout its trajectory, Zionism was always in need of colonial powers and imperialism to sustain itself. In seven chapters, Jiryis gives incredibly detailed descriptions of how Jews were treated in several European countries and in Russia and notes that Zionist political motives were a secondary factor during the first stages of Jewish immigration to Palestine, “although these immigrants laid the foundations of the Zionist project in Palestine.” Zionism, Jiryis notes, exploited the conditions of Jews in Europe at a time when some countries were gaining independence while others were colonised by Europe. Through comparative thinking, Jiryis notes, Zionists believed they could emulate European colonialism by also creating their own state, which in 1897, was decided should be in Palestine. Antisemitism in Europe also contributed to the rise of Zionism, as support for Jewish immigration to Palestine rose out of opposition to integrate Jews in the countries where they resided. Contrary to what some Jewish historians claimed, Jiryis writes, “there was no clear objective relationship between the Zionist idea – with its concept of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine – and attempts made by some Jewish groups or individuals to return to Palestine and to live near its Jewish holy sites.” In theory, Jiryis notes, Zionism as a political and social concept started in the late 1830s. BOOK REVIEW: The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s Notably, Jiryis details how European countries were involved in facilitating the buying of Palestinian land for Jewish settlements in the late 1880s when the weakening Ottoman Empire made it easier to purchase territory. The British intervened to purchase land in Jaffa to transfer for Jewish settlement, while Romanian authorities said they would facilitate emigration of Jewish people and help to establish a “kingdom in Palestine”. The German consulate in Jaffa, meanwhile, was helping Zionists to establish settlements in Yehud village. In addition to early European intervention on behalf of Zionism, land registration in the second half of the 19th century did not favour Palestinian peasants. High levies forced onto peasants forced land sale in return, much of which was later sold to wealthy families who in turn eventually sold to Jewish people, thus facilitating early settlement expansion. Jiryis also details the establishment of the Zionist Organisation and the influence of Theodor Herzl on Zionism, noting that the First Zionist Congress was influential for the Zionist movement. The author quotes Herzl, writing after the conference: “At Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today I would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in 50 years, everyone will perceive it.” It was 50 years later that the UN endorsed the Partition Plan in 1947. To strengthen Zionist colonial plans, several organisations were established which would later play a major role in establishing colonial settlement expansion in Palestine. After World War I, Zionism’s careful alliance with the British government eventually resulted in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which, although supporting the Zionist call for a Jewish National Home, failed to take into consideration of all Zionism’s demands, notably to establish a Jewish National home in the entirety of Palestine. Jiryis writes, “it just also be noted that the Balfour Declaration was issued at a time when Britain had no authority, practically or legally, over Palestine, and thus did not have the right to speak on behalf of its Arab population nor to take any decision regarding their fate.” Jiryis also quotes Hungarian Jewish writer Arthur Koestler writing about the Balfour Declaration: “one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third.” Jiryis constructs the historical narrative from within Zionist and imperialist sources, making the book speak for itself about colonialism and its violence in Palestine. It is not an easy book to delve into and the detail is at times overwhelming. However, the detail itself is what makes this book stand out. History is replete with details, many of which are overlooked for various reasons. Jiryis’s book, however, cannot afford to omit detail. At 614 pages, this meticulous research serves as a perpetual reference, especially at a time when, after the genocide in Gaza, Zionism is becoming overtly vocal about completely erasing Palestinians from their land. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260822-the-foundations-of-zionism/ The post The Foundations of Zionism appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/21/26 12:43am
It’s notable that Latvia’s political discourse about the anti-Russian sanctions is shifting from blind approval to demanding something tangible from the EU in return considering the country’s reputation for its hard line towards Russia. Latvia, just like its Estonian and Lithuanian neighbors, is known for its anti-Russian policies. The Baltic States have a complex history with Russia, to put it mildly, which shapes their present views. That’s why they’ve been some of Ukraine’s most gung-ho supporters anywhere in the world. It also contextualizes their decision to spend more on defense in parallel with approving all prior rounds of EU sanctions. The second part might no longer be taken for granted, however, given the latest trend in Latvia. Politico drew attention to Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ demand for Brussels “to hand over €7 billion to help cover the military and economic costs of confronting Russia”. They calculated that “The cash, which Riga wants to come on top of other funds earmarked for the country, would amount to almost half of Latvia’s projected €15.1 billion defense bill over the seven-year budget period.” Kulbergs added that the money would flow back to Western Europe anyhow since that’s where Latvia buys much of its arms. The leader of a populist party that’s polling third ahead of the next parliamentary elections on 3 October left open the possibility elsewhere in Politico’s article that he’d support vetoing another round of sanctions on Russia unless Latvia receives something tangible in return for its approval. The outlet also mentioned that a supposedly Russian-friendly party is polling second but, like Germany’s AfD, “is considered off-limits by mainstream parties” and might therefore not form part of the next coalition. In any case, what’s most important about Politico’s piece is that it highlights the newly pragmatic approach towards the anti-Russian sanctions among Latvian politicians as the costs of increased military spending and ever-more trade restrictions on Russia are mounting with no end in sight. Instead of blindly continuing to inflict growing economic damage to their own country, leading politicians from Kulbergs to the other two representing the populist and supposedly Russian-friendly parties want to change course. This is almost certainly in response to the population’s grumblings about shouldering an ever-greater burden for containing Russia wherein Latvia serves as a tripwire for escalating NATO-Russian tensions via Article 5 and for facilitating Ukrainian drone strikes via the reported air corridor to St. Petersburg. If the Prime Minister didn’t demand something in return for approving more EU sanctions, which directly harm his own country’s economy, then the supposedly pro-Russian party might gain even more support. Kulbergs has therefore adopted his newly pragmatic approach towards the anti-Russian sanctions in response to domestic political pressure ahead of the next elections. Nevertheless, he might not drop this rhetoric after the elections considering how much it resonates with the population and out of fear of ceding ground to his rivals, so he might support the populists’ potential veto if they form a coalition with him and then the EU refuses his demands for something tangible in return for approving more sanctions. In conclusion, it’s notable that Latvia’s political discourse about the anti-Russian sanctions is shifting from blind approval to deal-making considering the country’s reputation for its hard line towards Russia, which was inevitable in hindsight due to the growing costs of this policy and Latvia’s military one. This doesn’t mean that Latvia will threaten to veto the next EU sanctions if it doesn’t get what it wants, but that also can’t be ruled out since the next round is expected to coincide with the next parliamentary elections. https://korybko.substack.com/p/a-newly-pragmatic-approach-to-the The post A Newly Pragmatic Approach To The Anti-Russian Sanctions Is Spreading Through Latvia appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/20/26 7:21pm
“What radicalized you?” I dunno man maybe it was all the wars based on lies or the corporate ecocide or the live-streamed genocide or the people sleeping on sidewalks while billionaires become trillionaires or the plundering of the global south or the mass surveillance or the police drones or the Israeli torture prisons or the IDF rape dogs or the starvation sanctions or the proxy wars or the acts of nuclear brinkmanship or the encircling of our planet with hundreds of US military bases or the CIA black sites or the Epstein files or the government secrecy or the increasing persecution of journalists and whistleblowers or the fact that the US just openly assassinates and kidnaps the leaders of sovereign nations or the internet censorship or the way all western media and all Silicon Valley tech platforms operate as propaganda services for the US empire or the aggressive push to outlaw pro-Palestine demonstrations or the legalized corruption of western governments or the way AI is being shoved down our throats while data centers choke our ecosystem or the thinly disguised rush to develop militarized robots for domestic use or the glaring plot holes in the official 9/11 story or the glaring plot holes in the official October 7 story or the complete impotence of electoral politics in an oligarchy where the rich get everything they want or the vanishing ice caps or the vanishing rainforests or the vanishing wildlife or the plummeting insect population or the ocean desertification or the giant continent of plastic in the North Atlantic or the microplastics in our brains and in our blood or the fact that we live under a globe-spanning empire that cannot exist without mass-scale violence and exploitation or the fact that younger generations are economically far worse off than their parents and grandparents or the fact that ordinary people are having to work harder and harder as everything gets more and more expensive while the capitalist class reaps record profits? At this point “What radicalized you?” is a much less interesting question to ask people than “Why aren’t you radicalized yet? Seriously, how is that possible? How have you successfully managed to avoid conversion to a radical political worldview despite everything you are seeing right in front of your eyes?” Because to the rest of us, that shit looks like a goddamn magic trick. It looks like a superhuman feat of willpower to continue believing everything’s basically okay and our leaders will sort this all out for us if we just vote for the correct plutocratic meat puppet in the next election. You’re just chilling out while everything burns, like that Buddhist monk sitting calmly in meditation after setting himself on fire. How are you even doing that? Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/what-radicalized-you The post What Radicalized You? appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 8/20/26 11:42am
Is rampant militarism accelerating US decline rather than reversing it? Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, argues Trumps war on Iran has exposed the hard limits of American military and diplomatic power, as Washington faces strategic defeat by Tehran it refuses to admit. Prashad breaks down why Gulf states, most recently Oman, are coming to understand why hosting US bases is more liability than protection, given the new Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey — a security pact built entirely apart from US interests, with Egypt reportedly circling to join. He explains why Iraqs next moves could determine whether the region stabilizes or escalates further. After US strikes on Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestine via Israel, why would any country still trust the United States? And Prashad points to East Asia, where the Pacific is left without a single carrier given the USS Abraham Lincolns record 260-day deployment to the Gulf, and where Tokyo and Seoul may be taking notes on the lesson Gulf states just learned. Iran has demonstrated that the strategy of going after the 900 US bases around the world is, in fact, the most powerful @vijayprashad on lessons learned in imperialist warfare The post US Empire Is Overextended — Iran War Opens Door for China | w/ Vijay Prashad appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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