WW3 Days

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

[WW3 Days @WW3Days]

@OilandEnergy @tleilax___

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Max Blumenthal tells Tucker about crimes exposed in the new film NAZA:

“Israeli intelligence hacked into the phones of young girls in Gaza to determine when their fathers would come home.

Then they would order an airstrike on their homes and listen to the girls burn alive”

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

The Israel lobby is getting less shy about its grip on U.S. policy toward Iran. In Miriam Adelson’s publication, the Lobby's loudspeaker says U.S. policy must ensure America pays a price for any slight against Israel.

High time for Washington to break free from these shackles.

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

Abdul Malik al-Houthi: The Saudi aggressor has opened its airports to Israeli reconnaissance planes, allowing them to take off from its airports towards Yemen. American experts and Zionists are working hand-in-hand with the Saudi enemy.

The Americans are conducting interception operations in Saudi airspace and are considering options for escalating with the Saudi enemy.

We are proponents of fairness and do not put forward impossible conditions; we say: stop the aggression and end the blockade, for our demands are the legitimate rights of our people.

Regardless of the challenges and suffering, our people remain committed to their legitimate rights and steadfast in upholding the causes of the (Islamic) Nation—foremost among them the Palestinian cause.. At whatever stage of escalation the Palestinian people face, we will stand with them—and with even greater force than we did during the Al-Aqsa Flood.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

This morning saw the largest drone attack on Moscow since the start of the war. Russia had anticipated a major attack aimed at disrupting its elections, yet several drones penetrated its air-defence systems. No serious analysts believe that such large scale attacks that aim to circumvent Russia's air defences are done without NATO participation. After surviving the Cold War, today’s political class seems determined to risk triggering a nuclear war.

[WW3 Days @WW3Days]

America consistently fails at holding the powerful accountable.
https://t.co/We6AOSfgPR

[Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie]

Please spend six minutes.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This was in Amsterdam. All she said was "Free Palestine" at a pro-Israel rally. She was arrested within a second.

I have seen hundreds of videos of Palestinian protests being disrupted by pro-Israeli activists. Not once have I seen them be arrested for simply shouting a slogan.

What is it about these two words, "Free Palestine," that terrify so many in the West? The echo of complicity?

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

"Poland's Tusk warns of possible Russian strikes on Ukraine's allies. Tusk said Russian attacks were causing heavy Ukrainian casualties, citing information from Ukrainian partners that he said indicated monthly losses of about 27,000 killed and wounded. He said the figures represented the highest levels of casualties in the war.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Thursday that Russia could carry out what he called "accidental" drone or missile strikes on NATO countries supporting Ukraine, including Poland, as he predicted an intensification of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the weeks ahead."

[Peace Be 🕊️⚖️🍉 @PeaceBelgium]

Canadian PM Carney is reportedly seeking a deal that would allow Canadians to freely work in the EU, as well as the export of Canadian goods and services in the defense, energy, AI, and critical minerals sectors to the economies of the EU states.
https://t.co/JzCu9hMFrl

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat was arrested in Florida after speaking against a billion-dollar investment in Israel Bonds during a public budget hearing. At least 100 residents protesting the investment were also forced to leave the hearing.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Due to Israeli restrictions and severe shortages of tents and shelter space, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are left with no option but to live in damaged buildings, the Civil Defense spokesperson told Drop Site: “Either these buildings protect them and they remain alive, or the buildings collapse on top of them and they die.”

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

And there it is. Just as I predicted. They’re canceling Congress tomorrow to avoid the vote on IMPEACHING @SecWar. It will also make it harder for us to reach 218 signatures on the Epstein Discharge Petition before the election. We were at 190+ signatures last night.

[Verax Media @verax_media]

@RabbiJeffx Woman that lives next door to a synagogue is being prosecuted for putting garbage out, they thought it was a bomb 😂

https://t.co/vWay97w0AQ

[Rabbi Jeff @RabbiJeffx]

A disabled Australian woman accidentally pocket-dialed a JEWISH nutritionist. Nobody spoke, just noise from her bag.

The nutritionist interpreted it as gunfire targeting her for being Jewish.

Her complaint landed the woman in court on a charge carrying up to five years in jail

[Aron Lund @aronlund]

Chief of Staff Ali al-Naasan and other top Syrian officers visit what is simply described as “Hmeymim Airport” to meet with “the leadership of the Russian military at the airport.” https://t.co/KcWI4kTHuB

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: Rutgers Professor Noura Erakat was arrested (released on bail) in Florida at an event on investment in Israel Bonds?? Surreal.

Another reminder of what Palestine has exposed: how quickly the language of democracy becomes conditional when dissent challenges power.

[Yet another commodity guy @tleilax___]

US government officially distilling Chinese open source AI models ;)

[WW3 Days @WW3Days]

https://t.co/j0kBkSvRPI

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.