Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko #61 Political censorship: Many websites are unavailable to Australians unless they submit to facial recognition. Occasionally, I just refer to source name & date.
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Last Notes npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Surprise... Report: "Unknown traders bet $760m on oil prices dropping minutes before Hormuz reopened". "Repeated, strategically timed trades in oil & prediction markets suggest a rising trend of insider profiteering connected to the war". "Crude prices dropped by as much as 11 percent within minutes." https://thecradle.co/articles/unknown-traders-bet-760m-on-oil-prices-dropping-minutes-before-hormuz-reopened #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #press #oilprices #InsiderTrading . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/431/946/591/377/779/original/4ac40d76892a2619.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: A photo taken of an Israeli settler verbally abusing a Palestinian woman is called "antisemitic" by an Israeli ambassador. The magazine-cover photo was taken of the settler mimicking to the woman the sound of a shepherd calling his flock. The group of settlers & masked soldiers was preventing Palestinians from harvesting their olives. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-envoy-italy-calls-magazine-antisemitic-over-settler-violence-coverage #IsraeliCrimes #USPol #EUPol #SettlerAttacks #Palestine #news #Racism . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES 2 More on the UK's retrial of six already-acquitted activists from Palestine Action They were acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted on retrial, they & 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms. The jury is not allowed to know this. The UK is prohibiting crucial trial information from both the jury & the media. https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/ #UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #CorruptTrial #ElbitFactory #IsraeliArms . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: 500+ arrested defying Palestine Action ban in London. "The protesters - many grey-haired & frail - were seen being hauled away, while some were led leaning on crutches. A number of the demonstrators were dressed as Suffragettes". Former Palestine Action hunger strikers were also present. "Look how many police are here, just for elderly people holding placards. It's a joke. The state is a joke”, said Heba Muraisi. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-arrested-hundreds-gather-defy-palestine-action-ban-london #USPol #UKPol #EUPol #Palestine #news . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/406/140/467/694/473/original/408cad2793ef5709.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Interview: The damage to Iranian missile capabilities "has been grossly overstated by the old tactic of just counting." However, "before the war, Iran bought a huge number of decoy planes, missiles". Not only deceptive in appearance, they also exude heat. So US & Israeli strikes have been taking out a lot of decoys. "Iran is not incentivized to end the war. It wants to break the paradigm & restore its global status." ~Alastair Crooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKEjfIDEys #USPol #EUPol #News #IranWar . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/397/309/550/532/248/original/79f384479e1d445e.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: Fmr US secretary of state, John Kerry, says Netanyahu repeatedly pressed US presidents to strike Iran. Only Trump agreed. Netanyahu pressed GW Bush, Obama, & Biden. All refused. "The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is President Trump.” Netanyahu's claims to various US presidents included that a strike could “kill the leadership… incite a change of regime... & destroy the military”. https://aje.news/ndjgyz?update=4482528 #USPol #EUPol #iranWar #netanyahuLies #news . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/386/506/356/289/586/original/35c5531ef72a0560.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES How three decades of US neoconservative war policy paved the way for Trump’s war crimes "Trump’s naked threats to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure are the culmination of a strand of neoconservative thought"... ... "defining US war-making from the Iraq war to Obama’s drone campaigns to the Gaza genocide." https://israelpalestinenews.org/trump-war-crimes-iran/ #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #GazaGenocide #Neocons #IraqWar #USDroneCampaigns . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES "Today we are all Iranians" witnessing the failure of a US-Israeli thuggish logic, a single, crude premise: "that enough pain can bend any nation to their imperial designs." "By refusing to surrender, Iranians have turned a lonely struggle for survival into a universal symbol of resistance". "Iran is winning strategically since it refuses to fight the war its enemies prepared for." https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/4/9/iran-has-been-bloodied-but-it-is-winning-against-the-us-israel-axis #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #IranCeasefire #News #USImperialism #IsraeliLies . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: Activists from the group "Peacefully Against Genocide" staged a protest over defense exports at the Berlin premises of Rheinmetall on Wednesday. Rheinmetall is among Germany’s largest defense technology companies. "Several protesters climbed onto the roof to unfurl a Palestinian flag. Others poured red paint down the facade of the headquarters." https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260325-protesters-target-rheinmetall-headquarters-in-berlin-over-defense-exports/ #USPol #EUPol #Rheinmetall #Germany #IranWar #Palestine #GazaGenocide #News . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Yes, exactly. They have been for decades. What happens when the same oligarchs own both parties. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/274/901/801/596/465/original/b97cab54b5d40361.png npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Interview: "Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote". Trump's SAVE Act targets women, poor, rural & trans voters. "Millions of citizens who lack easy access to required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement." Groups most at risk include people who've changed their names; older voters who never received birth certificates; & rural voters who may face difficulties with registering to vote. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/20/save_america_act_voting_rights #USPol #EUPol #SAVEact #racism . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: Tucker Carlson says he may be "facing criminal charges for acting as an agent of a foreign power by communicating with people in Iran." Pro-Israel figures are calling for his arrest. Carlson has questioned US support of Israel, which "has moved him from the center to the fringe of US conservatism." Carlson also publicly disputed Mike Huckabee's claim "that Israel had a biblical right to take over most of the Middle East." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/tucker-carlson-iran-comments-doj #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #Israel . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Do you imagine Trump is the thinker behind it all? Remember: 1. He can't actually think for himself. It's his oligarch owners & his chief fascists, such as Stephen Miller, who tell him what to try next. 2. The blueprint is Project 2025... with updates as opportunities arise. 3. Important also is that he highly likely has narcissistic psychopathy - no empathy, so no conscience. He'll do anything for power & money. #HeritageFoundation #Fascism #psychopathy #USPol #Europol #Project2025 . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/938/719/502/588/397/original/e5fbda0fc86f170f.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: "Jewish groups condemn ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' as blatant Islamophobia" A coalition of Jewish groups have criticised the Anti-Defamation League & vowed to work with Mamdani: "NYC Jewish communities repudiate the ADL's blatant Islamophobia: You won't divide us from our neighbors. We congratulate mayor-elect Zohran K. Mamdani on his election & applaud his vision for a New York City that is free from hate violence". https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jewish-groups-condemn-adls-mamdani-monitor-blatant-islamophobia #Mamdani #USPol #Europol #news #ADL . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: "Francesca Albanese says Starmer helped manufacture consensus for Israeli genocide". Britain helped create the conditions that "enabled ethnic cleansing & mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza." The UK was key to "military collaboration with Israel, despite internal opposition". Britain flew 600+ surveillance missions over Gaza, sharing intelligence with Israel. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-uk-starmer-enabled-genocide-and-helped-manufacture-domestic-consensus #UKPol #europol #USPol #news #starmerComplicity #gazaGenocide #palestine @npub1kpt…uw4u . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: "Jewish groups condemn ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' as blatant Islamophobia" A coalition of Jewish groups have criticised the Anti-Defamation League & vowed to work with Mamdani: "NYC Jewish communities repudiate the ADL's blatant Islamophobia: You won't divide us from our neighbors. We congratulate mayor-elect Zohran K. Mamdani on his election & applaud his vision for a New York City that is free from hate violence". https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jewish-groups-condemn-adls-mamdani-monitor-blatant-islamophobia #Mamdani #USPol #Europol #news #ADL . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: YouTube [Google] removes 700+ videos documenting Israel's violation of international law ... ... along with accounts of Al-Haq, Al Mezan Centre, & Palestinian Centre. All three "reportedly had hours of footage documenting Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza & the occupied West Bank... including the killing of Palestinian civilians." https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/youtube-removes-videos-documenting-israels-violation-international-law #USPol #Europol #GazaGenocide #Palestine #GooglesCrimes #youTubeCensorship @npub1kpt…uw4u . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: NYC election breakdown: Mamdani won Black, Hispanic & young voters Mamdani won a whopping 78% of voters aged 18-29 (vs Cuomo's 18%) & 84% of women in that group. Mamdani took the 18-44 age group 70% to Cuomo's 25%. Cuomo took 51% of older voters to Mamdani's 40%. Mamdani 61% (vs 35%) among the Black community; 57% (vs 37%) Hispanic; 47% (vs 43%) Asian. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-york-city-election-breakdown-mamdani-won-over-blacks-hispanics-and-young #NYCMayoralRace #USPol #Europol #racism #oligarchy #islamophobia #Socialism #News #palestine @npub1kpt…uw4u . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: "Western media manufactured consent for Israel’s killing of Gaza journalists" "The US media watchdog, Fair, found evidence of UK & US media delegitimising Palestinian voices." "The establishment media overall centered Israel’s narrative, tried to delegitimize pro-Palestinian sources, & did not contextualize the killings within the larger context of the genocide”. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/western-media-manufactured-consent-israels-killing-palestinian-journalists-watchdog #press #news #GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #UKPol #USPol #Europol #BDS #Racism @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Analysis: "Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?" Recognising a Palestinian state is one thing. But the actual "formation of a future Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank, Gaza Strip & East Jerusalem is far more difficult to achieve." https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/recognition-palestinian-possible.html #TwoStateSolution #Palestine #US #USPol #EuroPol #DisplacementReplacement #IsraeliCrimes @npub1zxn…0kqm . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/050/058/344/514/528/original/c58204c8ee6b885a.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Interview: "A Game of Target Practice" Doctors Back From Gaza Share Harrowing Stories of Israel’s Brutality One day, boys "would be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head or the neck." The next day, gunshot wounds to the chest. Then four boys, 13, 14, "all of whom had been shot in the testicles." This clustering was so striking, "it was inconceivable it could have been coincidence.” https://zeteo.com/p/doctors-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-target-practice #GHF #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USPol #EuroPol #USCrimesInGaza @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Video testimony "Tony Aguilar is a retired Special Forces Green Beret who won a Purple Heart for his service to this country." " He took a contract helping to distribute aid in Gaza. There, he witnessed atrocities committed using American... dollars. "Please watch this important video." ~Bernie Sanders https://aje.io/ab22eq?update=3868026 #GazaGenocide #GazaStarvation #USPol #EuroPol #BDS #GHF #UGSolutions #Racism #IDF @npub1zxn…0kqm . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/959/720/544/905/402/original/598d3acdac524fd2.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Poll: "60% of Americans said they disapprove of Israel's military action". 32% approve. "52% said they see Netanyahu in a negative light - a significant shift from a year & a half ago" & the lowest stretching back to the 1990s. Most who approve of Netanyahu & his actions are older white Republican men. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/most-americans-do-not-support-israels-war-gaza-polling-shows #Netanyahu #GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #GallupPoll @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Analysis: "Israel’s genocide is big business & the face of the future" Business & military planners welcome the new ‘legal maneuver space’ to slaughter & starve civilians. Pro-genocide nations are normalising Israel's genocide so that they, too, can "commit crimes against humanity in full view." This is why they are so intent on presenting genocide as business as usual & demonising its opponents. https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-genocide-is-big-business #GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #BDS #Racism @npub1zxn…0kqm . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/914/237/890/468/478/original/45ed51d92c23cffa.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/914/238/361/553/364/original/5133e02d8eddffb6.png npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Analysis: Israel is systematically pushing Palestinians into a concentration zone in Gaza Interview with Gideon Levy: On Israel & US plans to have third countries take Gazans: "Money can buy everything, and American money can buy even more." https://aje.io/zs9y5d?update=3848691 #GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #BDS #DisplacementReplacement #USEnablement @npub1zxn…0kqm . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/895/877/920/672/629/original/c7b89bb000b602a4.jpg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Analysis: "In conditions like the conditions the Palestinian people in Gaza face today, the concept of free choice is a lie." “Israel has no right even to be in Gaza or in the West Bank.. everything Israel does there.. is also illegal, including in implementing any of these plans for forced displacement whether within or outside of Gaza." ~International law expert Ralph Wilde https://aje.io/73m6s6?update=3825334 #GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol IsraeliLies @npub1zxn…0kqm . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/843/455/445/629/817/original/14487412ef8de09c.png npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: New party for the UK: Zarah Sultana quits Labour over Gaza & starts new party with Jeremy Corbyn. More than ten current MPs might join. "Jeremy Corbyn & I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners & activists across the country." The Starmer government "is an active participant in genocide. And the British people oppose it." https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-zarah-sultana-quits-labour-start-new-party-jeremy-corbyn #CorbynSultanaNewParty #UKPol #USPol #GazaGenocide #Palestine @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Interview: "Matthew Miller has blood on his hands” Former State Dept diplomat, Hala Rharrit Rharrit accused Matthew Miller of “careerism” after he recently admitted that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, which he regularly denied while serving as a spokesperson. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/12/global_march_to_gaza #GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS @npub1zxn…0kqm #GlobalMarchToGaza . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Report: "Israel plans to prevent Madleen aid ship from approaching Gaza coast" The ship, part of Freedom Flotilla Coalition, is carrying urgently needed supplies for Gaza Israel is considering: 1. preventing the ship from approaching Gaza & leaving it adrift at sea, or 2. having it escorted to Ashdod port & arresting the activists there. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-plans-to-prevent-madleen-aid-ship-from-approaching-gaza-coast/3589221 #FreedomFlotilla #GazaGenocide #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES "Netanyahu admits to supporting ISIS-linked Gaza gangs", claiming that "any harm to the Hamas regime serves us." However, "a gang of 300 fighters, including untrained drug dealers, thieves, murderers, & radicals, cannot overpower Hamas’s 30,000 militants." In fact the ISIS-linked gangs are "a proxy used to advance Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, & starvation policies." https://zeteo.com/p/who-is-abu-shabab-meet-the-gaza-gangster #GazaGenocide #ISIS #Netanyahu #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @npub1zxn…0kqm . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Surprise: The so-called Gaza "aid" centres set up by the CIA & US & Israeli govts & run by mercenaries are actually killing points. The IDF has targeted, killed or wounded hundreds of starving Gazans lured to these "mass death traps." This "systematic & malicious use of aid" to gather starving people in exposed killing points is managed by the IDF & funded & politically covered by the US. https://aje.io/jzclz9?update=3744939 #GazaGenocideNotWar #USEnablement @npub1zxn…0kqm #USPol #GazaStarvation . npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Analysis: "Musk gave a Nazi salute during Trump’s inauguration" “What would it mean to truly admit that we have a Nazi sympathizer as president? That our precious democracy might just be this close to loving fascists & loving cruelty & genocide.” By pardoning the Jan6 rioters, incl fmr Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio (serving 22 yrs), Trump is saying, "If you're my violent mob, I got your back. There's no penalty for violence against my enemies." https://zeteo.com/p/free-reign-for-violence-mehdi-and #Trump #Musk #USPol . https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/866/342/784/353/749/original/54ef86113c72e9a7.jpeg npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Russell was well aware that imperial Britain was openly assisting Zionist militias to massacre & ethnically cleanse Paestinians. That's what I meant by "understating". npub1hq37dgc6ur7jg8ejp8g02v29njgfzd09wv9ld3e95zsvc38ycyjsxufktp DrALJONES Yes. I think Russell was understating things even back then.