Around four years ago, I was discussing the war in Ukraine with an Irish journalist on a balcony in Berlin. I told him that the West miscalculated and that NATO countries could not, in the long run, resolve the contradictions that this confrontation would unleash. Cracks would soon begin to emerge, and that, surely, was part of the calculus. He seemed aghast. He repeated that mantra — apparently mandatory for Western journalists — that Putin hoped for his “full-scale invasion” to succeed in three days, that NATO had now dramatically expanded its border with Russia, and that the West was more united than ever. I told him that we should speak again in a few years. We never did, but I wonder what he would say now. It is breathtaking how deeply Europe has transformed since then. The loss of affordable energy, now exacerbated by the NATO-backed US-Zionist war in Iran, is decimating its industrial base. In Palestine, Europe supported a colonial genocide to the hilt, destroying its political standing on the world stage. With two pillars of its hegemony in tatters, Europe’s final recourse is militarization. It has launched a rearmament drive comparable in scale to that which preceded the First World War, it is actively toying with the apocalyptic danger of nuclear war, it is decimating the social democratic compact to pay for the transition to a war economy, and it is deploying extreme violence against its citizens to secure these policies. European capital is on the back foot, and the objective conditions for fascism’s return to the political center are in place. It is clearer than ever that this crisis is only going to deepen, producing irreparable fractures in the edifice of Western power.

The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future. As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely. After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become unsustainable, both financially and operationally. After 11 years, we take this action with deep sadness and regret. The extent of the lies, defamation, and harassment by ex-staff - coupled with the constant attacks by the state and those who’d see us destroyed - has become too much. However, it is not over. This week, we will publish what really happened at the Canary and push back against the vicious campaign against our team and us. We may be down, but we’re not out yet.

The French riots indicate that neoliberalism is a total failure for the majority wherever it reigns. The creditor/business class is unfit for purpose and must be ejected from the political sphere. But what is neoliberalism? @RichardJMurphy explains. youtu.be/_8yCsQCtPHg?si=H1Rw…

"I will not go 10,000 miles to help murder and kill another poor people simply to continue the domination of white slave masters...The real enemies of my people are right here, not in Vietnam." - Muhammad Ali on refusing to join the US military.

RT @liamcunningham1: Just been to see NAZA. For those of you who are of the opinion that ‘it’s complicated’ you’ll find out that it isn’t.…

Superb letter by Green councillor Charli Anne Thompson. The excellent letters from numerous Greens illustrate that when a position is held with commitment & intellectual rigour it is very easy to argue for it. Unlike the pathetic offerings from Labour of antiZionism=antisemitism, a view that is intellectually disingenuous & in itself racist, as it ascribes an ideology, Zionism, to all Jews.

Plein de monde partout, calme et joyeux partout quand les policiers ne sont pas là. Des images que vous ne verrez pas dans l'officialité médiatique.

If this were Iran, or another "enemy" country, it would be the top story in every news outlet on the planet.

Endless war, endless death, endless profits....

The Statue of Marianne in Paris, France draped with a banner that says: “The police mutilate high school students.” State violence against the people is never reported by the corporate media, making public protest essential to set the record straight!

"NO EXTENSION OF NATO'S JURISDICTION FOR FORCES OF NATO ONE INCH TO THE EAST of a unified Germany" - US Secretary of State Baker to Gorbachev, 1990.

🔴 New investigation: Westminster Synagogue boasts of sending thousands of medical kits “directly to soldiers” and of being “in direct contact with the IDF” — and, on the same list, asks for money to feed, wash and lodge “200 elite unit soldiers.” The Charity Commission has already called that class of activity unlawful for a registered charity. Read the full investigation by David Miller (@Tracking_Power) exclusively via the following link: mintpressnews.com/revealed-t…

"The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least 70 billion euros more from you..." –Zelensky today at the European Commission

Latest on Heidi Levine: broken rib, four broken vertebrae, her finger was nearly cut off, multiple potential stabbing wounds. Surgery first thing in the morning.

Why the silence? Israel’s disinformation budget is almost a billion pounds a year. Paid for by the US taxpayer Netanyahu's “Save the West" campaign, is a racially charged fear campaign spread across Europe. This initiative aims to portray Israel as the "Saviour of the West," thereby ensuring the continued flow of weapons and financial aid to Israel to support its violent rampages across the Middle East. Another Islamaphobic summer riot is coming to a town near you soon courtesy of Israel. All part of Israel’s terrifying plan to destabilise our communities fragment relationships that might pose a challenge to the states crimes.

I was a combat soldier in an elite IDF unit. I served in the West Bank and witnessed firsthand how settlers could do whatever they wanted with impunity. Today I’m the Executive Director of ״Breaking the Silence״ an organization that has collected thousands of testimonies from Israeli soldiers over the past two decades. And I can say with certainty that this statement by IDF spokesperson is a lie. The IDF is not trying to stop Jewish terrorism in the occupied territories. In fact, it protects Jewish terrorists and arms them with US-made M16 rifles. If the IDF genuinely wanted to stop Jewish terrorism, the Chief of Staff could simply order the 30,000 soldiers stationed in the West Bank to carry out arrests. It’s that simple.

Finally, clear, unequivocal, irrefutable, and credible proof that Israel shoots children in Gaza. Impossible to deny. Pure evil.

This isn't fake. Dasha Kochurina is actually married to Dmytro Khandusenko, the deputy head of the Southern Office of Ukraine's State Audit Service.

Two years ago today, Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in combat in Gaza –– personally fighting on the frontlines against invading Israeli soldiers. Inexplicably, Israel chose to release its drone video of his last moments. Sitting in an armchair, hooded in a Palestinian kuffiyeh, his right arm blown off, covered in dust from artillery shelling, he resisted until his very last moment –– defiantly throwing a stick at the Israeli drone. In releasing this video, Israel inadvertently helped solidify Sinwar's already formidable military legacy amongst his people. Viewed by Israelis as an arch villain and terrorist embodiment of evil, the Palestinians rather see him as the modern day successor of their long line of resistance heroes, going way back to Izz al-Din al-Qassam himself, and further, in the past 150 years of resistance to Zionist colonialism in Palestine. The images of Sinwar's final moments eerily echoed his most iconic photo, below, in which he defiantly sat in a surviving armchair amidst the rubble of his home, destroyed by Israel in their 2021 aggression against the people of Gaza. The video also blew years of Israeli propaganda out of the water: Sinwar had not been "hiding behind Israeli hostages" or cowering in a hole somewhere, or using his people as human shields. He had been on the frontlines, personally commanding his troops and attempting to defend the southern city of Rafah. Read more in @maureenclarem's contemporary report on Sinwar's death for @intifada. Link in reply.

Ellie Cohanim is advising Israel to criminalize the journalists who filmed terrorist Jewish settlers beating and stabbing Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine today @EllieCohanim currently serves as a top advisor to US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz