"The Palestinian experience, & specifically 2018 Great March of Return, are as close to a controlled experiment as exists in human affairs, proving scientifically that nonviolence theory is false" justinpodur.substack.com/p/after-noam

⭕️ Israeli PM Netanyahu says Palestinian fighters in Gaza have “no heavy weapons.” “There’s no artillery, there are no tanks, there’s nothing.” “The heavy weapon… is called an AK-47. That’s it. That’s what they use—assault rifles.” He claimed there are “60,000” of these rifles who “have to go...

Israelis are still holding more than 10,000 captives in torture prisons. Fewer than 1,300 have been convicted of any charge. Palestinians are tried in Israeli military courts, which have a conviction rate of about 99.7%.

🇮🇩 BREAKING | Indonesia says it will send up to 8,000 troops to Gaza as part of a peacekeeping mission. ▪️ The focus will be strictly humanitarian — civilian protection, medical care, rebuilding. Indonesia’s foreign ministry says its troops will not take part in combat or actions that put them in...

Trump announced that member states to his “Board of Peace” have pledged over $5bn for Gaza reconstruction and committed personnel to an international stabilization force & local policing. In a Truth Social post, he also said Hamas must fully & immediately demilitarize. Trump said his “Board of...

🔴 In the past 24 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 10 killed & 9 injured arriving at hospitals. Since the “ceasefire” on Oct. 11, 2025: ➤ Total killed: 601 ➤ Total injured: 1,607 ➤ Bodies recovered from the rubble: 726 ▪️This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to...

⭕️ Munich Security Conference | “Statehood is a right. It’s not a reward. It’s not ‘for terror.’ It’s not a carrot to be handed out. It is a right,” said Sigrid Kaag, former Dutch foreign minister and senior UN Gaza humanitarian aid coordinator, now an Executive Board member on Trump’s Gaza “Board...

🔴 Sudan’s PM Kamil Idris at Munich: No Ceasefire Without RSF Defeat and Disarmament In a tense exchange w/ Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum, Sudan’s PM Kamil Idris defended his peace roadmap & rejected calls for a standalone humanitarian truce. ▪️ Competing peace tracks, no deal yet: Idris pointed to...

🇬🇧 “The world has to start listening,” declared UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper at the Munich Security Conference, as Sudan spirals deeper into humanitarian catastrophe. When asked whether the UK was using any of its leverage with close ally the UAE to halt widely reported support for the RSF...

Today's quick update [Feb 14]: - RSF drone strike reported in Geisan Locality, Blue Nile State. - RSF strategic drone strike on Dilling, South Kordofan. #KeepEyesOnSudan

🇱🇧 LEBANON | Feb. 14, 2026 Israeli warplanes carried out a broad wave of strikes across South Lebanon on Sat., hitting hilltop and rural areas in the Jezzine district and Nabatieh governorate, near the Israeli border. Targets included Basalya & Mlikh in the Jezzine highlands, al-Raihan & Jabbour...

AI companies using their fake money to buy real elections

Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani on the misinformation campaign by UN Watch and several European governments targeting U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Read 🧵⏬

🏥REPORT | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all non-critical activities at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, one of Gaza’s last major functioning hospitals, citing repeated reports of armed, masked men inside the compound. The org said it cannot confirm the identity or affiliation of the...

Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli drone strike west of the Fallujah area in Jabalia, northern Gaza, targeting a group of people in a tent housing displaced families, Shehab News reports.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia has revoked accreditation for three Reuters journalists days after the agency reported that RSF fighters were training at a secret camp inside the country, Bloomberg reports. The move comes as Addis Ababa hosts the African Union summit and seeks foreign investment. Reuters said it is...

A journalist in Cuba caught US embassy staff hoovering up insane amounts of gasoline while the island is blocked by the U.S. from importing oil. The U.S. responded by sanctioning the journalist. We are doing all this for freedom, of course.

US & Israeli claims ceasefire holds and war in Gaza is over, are belied by nearly daily reports of drone strikes, ordinances, shootings, bombings etc, leading to many more deaths. Without honest trustworthy authorities, peace isn't being taken seriously www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

"New documents reveal Terje Rod-Larsen facilitated visas for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and was listed for a $10m payout, prompting Palestinians to question whether the peace process was engineered by blackmailed diplomats... w/ corrupt allegations" www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Statement of solidarity with Francesca Albanese from the GAP (Lawyers and Advocates for Palestine) website. www.pressenza.com/2026/02/soli...

Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/star...

👉NEW -- How Britain helped cover up a US-sponsored coup in Guatemala by Aaron Coy Moulton Declassified documents reveal how the UK helped cover up America’s role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected government www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

What are the implications for British policy arising from Israel’s killing of over 400 Palestinians during a “ceasefire”? None. Foreign minister Hamish Falconer just “urges” “both sides” to respect it. #DCUKparliament

🚨The Ditch exclusive🚨 Jeffrey Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and told him – the month after Donald Trump was first elected US president – the “new administration people” were visiting. www.ontheditch.com/jeffrey-epst...

"Explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his AI bullshit machines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic." www.404media.co/this-spacex-...

In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them. www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

One of these things is not like the others. (But literally none of them will happen.)

These guys are so normal.

Have fun with that, Elon. A city on the Moon in ten years is somewhat less absurd than a city on Mars in twenty, but neither one is going to happen. The tone here is interesting, though. Almost as if he heard someone criticizing his Mars plans recently…I wonder how that might have happened? 😁

"Human Rights Watch suppressed a report describing Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return as a “crime against humanity”... Committee to Protect Journalists has done similar, "scrapped “Impunity Index” to shield Israel, whistleblowers say" electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...

"Over past 20 months, historian Assal Rad has been correcting misleading mainstream news headlines on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. She talks through unmistakable parallels she has noticed with coverage of Israel’s 12-day war with Iran" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDTQ...

The Nazi Origins of the South American Drug Trade: Klaus Barbie, Cocaine & CIA; likely amoral mileau to be formative for characters like Epstein, w/ "monstrosities of CIA conduct... always as the expression of US government policy" www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...

Russian Foreign Min. Sergey Lavrov told TV BRICS about their namesake organization & role in global systemic transition. While US’ renewed attempt to dominate global economy by coercion & force hinders advance of foreign policy goals, BRICS furthers multipolarity. www.pressenza.com/2026/02/lavr...

"Europe faced choice... repeatedly: to treat Russia as legitimate security actor whose interests had to be incorporated into European order, or as permanent outsider whose concerns could be ignored, deferred. Europe chose latter, costs proved enormous" savageminds.substack.com/p/a-two-cent...

"Wars rarely begin with explosions. They begin when leaders become certain. Certain the map is unfair. Certain history is on their side. Certain delay is weakness. Certain force will be brief, surgical, regrettable, necessary... certain there is no alternative" rboneza.substack.com/p/addis-abab...

"The transatlantic alliance with the US has fissured since Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency, leaving Europe fearful that it may eventually confront a hostile Russia without American security guarantees" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

On January 30, European Commission suffered cyber-attack targeting its central infrastructure responsible for managing staff mobile devices, none of which were found to be compromised after intrusion being caught early cyberinsider.com/european-com...

Environmentalist Fred Pearce, in New Scientist, offers five reasons why he’s still optimistic about future: "if communities can act collectively & share nature at local level, then it can also work for planet’s great global assets: atmosphere, climate systems & oceans" repo.enc.edu/2026/02/12/w...

UK take-up of new weight-loss drugs = about 1 in 20 adults "Pharmacovigilance depends on knowing how many adverse events occur& how many exposed. When uptake is opaque & rapidly expanding, signal detection becomes guesswork dressed up as surveillance" trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/glp-1-ther...

"Peer-reviewed systematic review examining evidence-based treatment options for acute measles infection... titled “Acute Management of Measles: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Strategies,” appears in the journal, Antiviral Research" imahealth.substack.com/p/major-new-...

Irish Chapter of World BEYOND War, global nonviolent movement to end war & establish a just & sustainable peace, is hosting online outreach event on 18 Feb at 7.30pm Irish time to introduce WBW Ireland, its goals, & Irish members, for those interested in joining actionnetwork.org/events/wbw-i...

Scrolling is our most common pastime — and least enjoyable, finds Sussex-led research. Prof Robin Banerjee says being more intentional with leisure choices could improve wellbeing. Read more: https://ow.ly/ZgCk50Y0KeE The Times & Sunday Times

There is a hybrid siege currently tightening across the Atlantic and the Gulf. My latest essay argues that the US administration is operationalizing a transition to structural warfare. Read the full analysis of the Bunker State’s Gamble here: themindness.substack.com/p/the-illusi...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Israeli drones are systematically targeting and destroying solar energy panels across northern Gaza, wiping out the area's last remaining source of power.

"New cohort of Israel-approved groups scaling up in Gaza can roughly be divided into two categories: those that appear well-intentioned but have chosen to barter silence for access, and others that seem more politically aligned with Israeli authorities" www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

"Even if court was not impressed by Palestine Action... To win any judicial review against govt. on terrorism-related matter is difficult.., as to win any challenge to any statutory instrument (e.g. which proscribed Palestine Action)... To do both is remarkable" davidallengreen.com/2026/02/what...

"United Nations stepped up its support today for world body’s special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, who is facing calls to resign" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/un-d...

"On very day documentary Disunited Nations was screened in 122 Italian cinemas, attracting 10,000 viewers, French Foreign Minister Barrot called for Francesca Albanese’s resignation, accusing her of anti-Semitism for [non-existent] statement" www.pressenza.com/2026/02/fran...