Despite a ceasefire on paper, Israel continues to pound Palestine. On November 20 alone, Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people, including a baby girl in the town of Bani Suhalia. Gazan officials are warning that toxic materials from the continued Israeli bombardment may be seeping into the groundwater, further undermining one of the world’s most water-scarce areas. Israel has killed 280 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire was enacted.

“Israel is bombing Gaza left, right, and center,” Narwani said, concluding that, “What we have learned from all this is that a negotiated ceasefire with Israel is not worth the paper it is printed on.”

Nevertheless, Narwani predicted economic difficulties in Israel’s future, due to its greatly increased debts. Describing the country as possessing a “zombie economy,” she noted that it was issuing increased amounts of government bonds to pay the U.S. back for the weapons it was supplying. But there might come a time when it will not be able to pay back its debts, she warned.

Israel is also striking targets in Lebanon, and extracting a heavy civilian toll. On Monday, a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people, according to a statement from the Lebanese Health Ministry. The IDF even used widely-banned cluster munitions in its attacks on Lebanon, a new study has revealed. This has met with minimal resistance from the region’s major powers, including Saudi Arabia, who, Narwani explained, “want the resistance in Lebanon to be disarmed, dismantled, dead.”

The primary source of serious resistance to Israeli aggression has come from a somewhat unlikely source: Yemen. The region’s poorest nation, and one that has been under attack for over a decade, the Ansar Allah-led movement has offered serious pushback to Israeli actions, with Yemen imposing a blockade of Israeli ships in the Red Sea, forcing the Israeli port of Eilat into bankruptcy.

“One of the reasons that the Yemeni resistance has been so successful is because, by and large, they don’t speak English, and they don’t read the Western press,” Narwani told Adley, explaining that:

They are untouched by the propaganda narrative that has made, in my view, many of the other members of the resistance axis too well-behaved, and too well-mannered… They don’t have colonized minds.”

Western and Israeli intelligence attempts to infiltrate the country have also proven to be less fruitful than hoped, and the great majority of Yemenis support the continuation of resistance to Israeli expansionism.

Don’t miss this episode, where we take a bird’s eye view of the political and economic situation across the subcontinent.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-rejects-us-israel-pressure-sharmine-narwani/290566/

Mystical Toponomy

When crimes are exposed but no one takes action against those responsible, it functions like a peculiar advertisement for the secret rulers (the “cryptocrats”). It portrays them as criminal masterminds who are so clever that they never face consequences.

This whole situation resembles a classic occult trick, where the real point — like the idea that exposing wrongdoing leads to justice — is mocked by turning it upside-down. The name “Truth or Consequences” was given to a city in New Mexico through a process involving Masonic rituals, word games (“onomatological” — the study of the origin and meaning of names), and “mystical toponomy” (the mystical or magical study of place-names and their deeper significance). This term, mystical toponomy, was first identified by researcher James Shelby Downard. The use of these special names and places acts as a kind of spiritual or karmic challenge, especially when the secret rulers are trying to reveal things they’ve kept hidden.

“Mystical toponomy” and “alchemical cant language” (secret coded speech used in occult traditions) are part of a system that connects historical events (“action in time”) with certain physical locations seen as “places of power.” The cryptocracy views the world as a giant chessboard, with significant locations serving as squares, mirroring the checkered (tessellated) floor found in Solomon’s Temple and Masonic lodges, as well as the chessboard landscape in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.

https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/rituals-in-plain-sight

Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, says that the thinking surrounding these rituals is, “If you endure together this kind of mortifying, humiliating and embarrassing homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but it will also build and strengthen that bond around you.”

https://hornet.com/stories/homoerotic-military-rituals/

Starting next month, US border authorities will be allowed to photograph travelers at airports and use facial recognition to compare their information with existing records.

The records can be held for up to 75 years.

They could also force noncitizens to provide other personal information, such as fingerprints or DNA, the document states.
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It comes after the CBP began imposing a $30 fee on anyone entering the US for more than 29 days.

https://www.the-sun.com/travel/15522117/

Exclusive: The Scandal of the British Army’s Child Soldiers

Almost a year ago, I turned my attention to the abuse of child recruits at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. I teamed up with Children’s Rights International (CRIN) to pool resources and data. We were shocked by what we learnt.

My exclusive investigation reveals how 16-17.5-year-old children recruited into the British Army face disproportionate levels of bullying, physical and sexual violence, compared to their peers in mainstream education. Many of these children, as my story reveals, come from working-class backgrounds or have specific vulnerabilities, such as having spent time in care.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/newsletter-scandal-british-army-child-soldiers/

So, does On Terrorism and the State contain State secrets?

Indeed it does: this book contains State secrets. The fact that it is the State’s own secret services that organize and pull the strings of terrorism — is this not, then, the main secret of the Italian State? And it is precisely this fact that is broadly substantiated in On Terrorism and the State.

What really is not convincing is not my arguments, but the contradictory behavior of the State and its faithful servants, in respect to my book: on the one hand, they speak about it in order to say nothing about it, if only to have Italians think that what I have to say “is not convincing”; on the other hand, a few days after the televised “account,” the political police and a judge known for the unfortunate zeal with which he tries to make believable all the official lies on terrorism, initiated a complex and obscure judicial-police prosecution of me. So am I to think that I have committed the crime of not having been “convincing”? If our Legal Code were to make provisions for such an offense, there wouldn’t be enough prisons in Europe to contain our politicians, journalists, judges, policemen, trade-union leaders, industrialists and priests. No: it is not about being unconvincing, nor I am accused of being so, but rather it is about the fact that I have been too convincing in accusing the State of these crimes, and that this same State has now attempted to take revenge — but, as one will see, with the embarrassed awkwardness befitting those who are guilty and wish to pose as innocent. The men who govern this State are, as one knows, the same as at the time of the massacre at the Piazza Fontana [in 1969], and, in order not to be placed in the position of being accused, they are, as it were, continually obliged to accuse other men of their own and other crimes as well — as if these men wished to give a supplementary practical confirmation to Madame de Staël’s theory, according to which “the life of any [political] party that has committed a political crime is always linked to this crime, either in ing it or in making it forgotten by dint of power.”
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So Italian terrorism is the last riddle of the society of the spectacle, and only he who reasons dialectically can solve it. It is because of this lack of dialectic that the riddle of terrorism continues to deceive and mow down all the victims liberally sacrificed on the altar by the State, because it is on this unsolved riddle that the State provisionally maintains itself. It is thus necessary and sufficient to solve the riddle, not only in order to put an end to terrorism, but also to provoke the collapse of the Italian State. Only he who has an interest in this collapse will be able to solve the riddle of terrorism practically. But who has an interest in deciphering the riddle of terrorism? Clearly nobody, except the proletariat, for only the proletariat has the necessary urgency, motives, force and capacity required to destroy the State that deceives and exploits it. The aims of the provocations of the last few years and the pedagogic campaign of indoctrination of the masses that followed it were to teleguide people’s thinking, to oblige them to think certain things. With terrorism, the State has hurled a mortal challenge to the proletariat and to its intelligence: the Italian workers can only take it up, and, in doing this, prove that they are dialecticians, or they can passively accept “inevitable” defeat. All those who today talk about social revolution without denouncing and combating the terrorist counter-revolution have a corpse in their mouths.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1637973/

While the recent spree of wind turbine construction across Catalunya does not come with the paramilitary violence needed to carry out the same construction in Oaxaca—in Oaxaca there are still Indigenous communities defending the commons, whereas in most of Europe the countryside has already been depopulated—these wind farms are nonetheless a continuation of the legacy of Franco’s hydroelectric dams. And those in turn were a continuation of the massive deforestation of the Pyrenees in the 19th century, to build the railroads, launch the steel industry, and at the same time impoverish the commons that gave sustenance to the rural peasantry who made up the backbone of so many social rebellions in those years.

Under capitalism, there is startlingly little difference between such vastly different sources of energy. And today’s wind farms and other energy infrastructures, though they seem to lack the explicit violence of their forebears, have already been linked to expropriations and other conflicts that affect the growing wave of people resurrecting the commons. And more than that, they constitute a chess piece played with perspicacity, holding down a position so the enemy—that’s us—cannot take it.

Green energy remonetizes many rural spaces that a cumbersome industrial agriculture had had to abandon, and it architecturally occupies those spaces in a way that prevents us from resuscitating the commons, accessing land, and cultivating food autonomy, a healthy relationship in which we heal the planet and ourselves without any need for State or Capital.

https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2024/09/10/these-mountains-fight-back-between-an-anarchist-commons-and-fascist-environmentalism-part-ii-of-dams-forest-fires-and-the-hidden-commons/

Parasocial — revealed by the global dictionary on Tuesday as its word of the year — refers to the connection a person feels to an online personality ranging from celebrities to podcasters, and even artificial intelligence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/22/ai-chatbot-relationships-influences-2025s-word-of-the-year-.html