18.09.2025 - Hundreds of Orthodox Jews staged a protest Wednesday in New York City against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned participation in next week’s UN General Assembly meetings. www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/... #Netanyahu #UNGA #Demonstration

Primer by Richard Falk on Gaza and other civil society tribunals www.eurasiareview.com/22092025-the... & Gaza Tribunal participated in a significant side event during the 80th UN General Assembly session, co-hosted by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4p...

Major biennial Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show hosting over 50 Israeli companies at London’s ExCel Centre, has been criticised by press freedom groups for refusing to let Declassified enter the event www.declassifieduk.org/declassified...

Haaretz exposes widespread PTSD, a sharp rise in suicides, and testimonies from Israeli soldiers openly admitting to massacres, including the deliberate shooting of Palestinian civilians and children www.palestinechronicle.com/i-killed-a-l...

👉NEW -- Parliament blocks Declassified, citing our Gaza ‘standpoint’ by Martin Williams MPs condemn ‘sinister move’ to deny access to Declassified reporters. www.declassifieduk.org/parliament-b...

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Global Sumud Flotilla Update | September 23 Barcelona and Tunisian ships plan to meet Greek ships tomorrow; Israel again threatens humanitarian convoy A boat left Sicily this morning to join roughly 50 ships sailing under the banner of the Global Sumud Flotilla...

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

"Recognizing" The Rubble Of Palestine www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/recognizin...

Morgan McSweeney – now Starmer's chief aide – waged a secret war to destroy the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, and to mislead Labour members about what kind of leader Starmer would be. All of this was done illegally, using undeclared money. More here: youtu.be/bAOk1fZFHN8?...

Amazing how quickly, after leaving the corridors of power, the humanity of western officials returns. Open letter from more than 300 former ambassadors: "We urge the EU to sanction Israel now." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Charlie Kirk and his killer were spawned by the same dark soul of US politics. My latest article here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/char...

Chris Hedges' rare germane insights from experience into the problems with Antifa and how its recent designation as terrorist group affects everyone chrishedges.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

UC Berkeley handed over names of 160 students and faculty to the Trump Admin zeteo.com/p/the-new-mc...

In Cry of Independence speech 15 Sept., Mexican president Sheinbaum's, "explicit commitment opens doors for reconstructing more plural & just national narrative... sovereignty... through gender equality & respect for country’s cultural & historical diversity" - www.pressenza.com/2025/09/the-...

Ann Garrison, Covert Action webinar, on Neocolonialism in Africa: "financial neocolonialism imposed by International Monetary Fund & World Bank keeps African nations trapped in perpetual debt peonage that resembles West's mortgage crisis of 2008-2009" www.blackagendareport.com/neocoloniali...

Cory Doctorow on censorship, monopolies etc "Obama served as Enshittifier-in-Chief, presiding over orgy of illegal, anti-competitive mergers that transformed internet, as handful of.. terrible men seized near-total authority over who could speak & what we could hear" pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/o...

For The Telegraph UK, Oxford Professors Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson write, "Trump’s autism declaration shows the dangers of playing politics with medicine. The timing & selective use of weak evidence supporting US president’s announcement is highly suspicious" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

In podcast, "19th- early 20th century nation builders in US & globe who fought for right of all nations to cooperate to end war, hunger, & colonialism [are contrasted with] imperial racist networks of JP Morgan, Rockefeller & financier oligarchy of London" matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-champi...

"Size does matter in the Canna UK National Giant Vegetables Championship. A firm favourite each year, you won’t believe your eyes at the size of the fruit and vegetables on display" 26-2S September 2025, The Showground, Malvern UK showingscene.com/events/malve...

"Size does matter in the Canna UK National Giant Vegetables Championship. A firm favourite each year, you won’t believe your eyes at the size of the fruit and vegetables on display" 26-2S September 2025, The Showground, Malvern UK showingscene.com/events/malve...

"Size does matter in the Canna UK National Giant Vegetables Championship. A firm favourite each year, you won’t believe your eyes at the size of the fruit and vegetables on display" 26-2S September 2025, The Showground, Malvern UK showingscene.com/events/malve...

Furious at lack of consent, "Trump threatens Taliban after they declare Afghanistan will not allow US military base at Bagram" peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/t...

Robert Reich gives the rundown on 'Trump’s calamitous crypto corruption www.transcend.org/tms/2025/09/...

"Most dangerous among us are those whose violence is permissible... as they are never forced to come face to face with those on whose backs they built their kingdoms. Inequality has created societies where minority are freed from consequences of their actions" www.planetcritical.com/p/free-speec...

"Internet creates the illusion that all culture is taking place right now. Actual history disappears in the eternal present of the web... legacy from the past is an inherited treasure—and both offers us riches and imposes responsibilities" www.honest-broker.com/p/is-mid-20t...

Aaron Maté reveals that the first US visit by a Syrian president in six decades is also the first by a former leader of Al Qaeda and ISIS -- all in a month marking 9/11 www.aaronmate.net/p/us-hosts-s...

ASEAN regional bloc of 11 member states founded at anti-imperialist Bandung Conference in 1950s – "has neither humanistic vision nor intellectual leadership.... completely absent are any ideals or principles or humanistic enlightenment" e.g. genocide silence www.transcend.org/tms/2025/09/...

"Only through sustained, coordinated action can Europe begin dismantling profound disparities now shaping its trajectory. alternative—accepting permanent division between wealthy & those excluded from benefits—is like future no democratic society should tolerate" www.socialeurope.eu/europes-weal...

"Undersea internet cables are critical in today’s hyper-connected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network," off South African coast. restofworld.org/2025/africa-...

"Undersea internet cables are critical in today’s hyper-connected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network," off South African coast. restofworld.org/2025/africa-...

"In 1st interview since becoming leader of Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV fielded question about polarization tearing societies apart... significant factor, he said, is “continuously wider gap between the income levels of working class & money that wealthiest receive” inequality.org/article/pope...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to extend the quantitative nuclear arsenal limits of New START for one year, which would allow time to negotiate a further extension of the treaty if the U.S. and Russia agree. lasg.org/press/2025/p...

Join people all over the world on September 26 in an event or action to support the global elimination of nuclear weapons www.nuclearabolitionday.org

Discussion on how AI is bad for the climate & future energy prospects. AI’s computing power relies on massive data centers that use enormous amounts of electricity and water insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

Historically, big country in debt like France’s today... printed money; generated inflation, which reduces cost of debt; & debtor (government) climbs out of cul-de-sac by robbing creditors (holders of debt) via inflation. In euro zone, it can’t print currency" www.davidmcwilliams.ie/post/could-f...

Thousands of individuals, organisations and municipalities, & increasing group of 16 countries are now looking for a mandate to negotiate a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ca...

Solar is technology, not fuel. Every generation is cheaper & better. There's so *much* low-hanging fruit for solar conversion....[but] Trump explicitly promised fossil fuel industry legislation to kill renewables if they donated $1b to his campaign... they did." pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

"There's no support for story of money [supplanting barter] from archeology or anthropology or history. In fact, as late anthropologist David Graeber laid out in his book, Debt: The First 5000 Years, most cultures have existed without barter or money" thewaywepractice.substack.com/p/from-mammo...

Seth Harp's new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, explores culture and factors resulting in increasing US soldier deaths responsiblestatecraft.org/fort-bragg-s...

Insightful note on how raft of UK terrorism laws, previously specific and temporary, introduced cumulatively since 2000, have since created "a security state within a state" & left question marks over criminal & presumably, human rights law davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

"Voices of fish tell hidden story. With... monitoring, advanced technology, & collaboration... scientists are building clearer picture of reef health. For species like red hind, that knowledge could decide [survival] of grouper calls beneath Caribbean waves" www.ethicalmarkets.com/scientists-d...

2025 conference theme chosen by Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR: Polluter and cyber elites - a lethal alignment? Conference will look at problems & controversies fueled by polluter & cyber elites, what interests are becoming entwined, & how to challenge www.sgr.org.uk/events/pollu...

2 Oxford professors in Trust the Evidence sum up what they learned so far from UK Hallett Covid Inquiry, £200 million later:... (nothing) trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/what-we-ha...

"Say no to stalker ads: Urge your MP to stand up to Meta and support your right to object to your personal data being used for targeted advertising" action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-meta-no...

Just launched is Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership "to build affordable housing at scale and at speed" in order to address the country's housing crisis; to focus on mass timber www.dezeen.com/2025/09/17/b...

Olivia Maurel, author of Where Are You, Mom? , international spokesperson of the Casablanca Declaration, visits Slovakia for the launch of her book and a series of high-level events calling for the universal abolition of surrogacy. www.pressenza.com/2025/09/oliv...

For UK Greens, Rupert Reed recommends actions for when "climate damage escalates, risking vicious cycle where dwindling pool of resources is sucked into ever-growing reactive adaptation & disaster-recovery costs, & decarbonisation increasingly deprioritised" bright-green.org/2025/09/22/h...