Supervisors want more time to consider rules that would limit county investments in fossil fuels, guns, tobacco, and human rights violators.| Berkeleyside
Peyrin Kao, a Cal lecturer, says he’s lost 15 pounds since he started his hunger strike in solidarity with residents of Gaza enduring famine.| Berkeleyside
A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of Prime Minister Aldo Moro. For years, Israel’s Mossad monitored and secretly influenced a violent communist faction that carried out the March 16, 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, veteran investigative journalist Eric Salerno has documented. Ha...| The Grayzone
New Jersey area Jewish leadership described a factual Grayzone report about Charlie Kirk’s falling out with Netanyahu as “hateful, divisive, and antisemitic,” and weaponized it to cancel the book event of a Palestinian children’s writer who reposted the article on social media. The New York Times uncritically published the bogus allegation. Palestinian children’s author Jenan Matari says she believes The New York Times “was trying to put a target on [her] back” when it publicize...| The Grayzone
Ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman was one of Charlie Kirk's most committed donors. But as Kirk fell under attack for his increasingly critical Israel views during his final weeks, sources say Shillman ended funding for TPUSA. As his campus tour approached, Kirk was subjected to an "almost daily" lobbying campaign from Netanyahu's allies. The Turning Point| The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire
At 6PM last night, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla. Spontaneous protests erupted across Italy with a general strike planned tomorrow. A national student strike has been called in Spain today. We say block everything! Shut it down for Palestine! The post Israel has intercepted the flotilla: Block everything! – For a workers’ boycott and general strike! appeared first on The Communist.| The Communist
Casey R. Goonan, 35, admitted to lighting fires at Cal’s campus, torching the cruiser and trying to firebomb an Oakland federal building.| Berkeleyside
Critics warn that the move hands Hamas and Jew-haters a victory. The post Canada recognizes Palestinian statehood, in an abrupt reversal of foreign policy appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News.| The Canadian Jewish News
State of the Union: Prime Minister Starmer said ‘Hamas can have no future’ in Gaza.| The American Conservative
A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others “hammered” Kirk for the conservative leader’s growing criticism of Israeli influence in Washington. Kirk came away fretting about Israeli “blackmail,” sources say, as he contemplated a Catholic conversion. On September 11, one day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman took t...| The Grayzone
A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies that left him angry and afraid. The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered. Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionis...| The Grayzone
A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. The still unproven claim has since been used to poison relations between Tehran and Canberra. Israeli spies provided Australia’s top intelligence agency with a “tip off” regarding at least one of the recent explosions at Jewish community buildings which Canberra has publicly blamed on Iran, according to Australia’s Sky News. “Confid...| The Grayzone
A mysterious online campaign linked to Israel’s intelligence services attempted to recruit Iranians to overthrow their government. Some appear to have been placed by an Atlanta-based comedian and influencer. This article was originally published by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang at All-Source Intelligence. Desi Banks, an Atlanta comedian and content creator, is known for his light-hearted comic sketches and currently has more than nine million followers on the social media platform Instagram....| The Grayzone
AP’s Israel-Palestine news director, Josef Federman, has spun data to minimize the Gaza death count. Leaked documents show he appeared on a panel aimed at assisting “Israel’s ability to effectively portray its narrative” during a gov’t-sponsored propaganda conference chaired by an ex-IDF official who legitimized killing journalists. The Israeli massacre of five journalists in broad daylight on August 24, 2025 at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis city prompted a sternly worded ...| The Grayzone
The Anglican Church of Canada has through successive Primates since October 7, 2023, written or endorsed many letters to you and the previous Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, urging the Government of Canada to lead boldly toward ending the egregious devastation of Palestinian and Israeli lives and lands through disproportionate armed violence, the imprisonment and killing of civilians, and the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gazans.| The Anglican Church of Canada
The Canadian Council of Imams, together with national faith leaders representing over 7,000 clergy from across Canada, has written to the Prime Minister to express our deep and urgent collective concern over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.| CCI
The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide. Some of the founders of these tech start-ups have served as reservists in Gaza, and in at least one instance the technology has been deployed to aid the genocide.| The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire
Trump’s transactional ethics are making the U.S. a refuge for criminals. This mirrors something Israel has done for years.| The American Prospect
The Pegasus hacking tool was just the beginning. A new survey of spyware firms reveals Israeli companies are being used by agencies in Western nations to build perfect dictatorships under democratic guise. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Last week another batch of peaceful pro-Palestine protestors were arrested by British police on suspicion| The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire
On 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened in London for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). This new transnational initiative seeks to transform rising global solidarity for Palestine into coordinated political action. As a member of the steering committee, I was asked to explain why we need this […]| Yanis Varoufakis
My hopes these days spring not from Europe nor from the United States. Let me be frank on this. I take my hat off to the young people particularly, but not only young people, to Jewish comrades who went out on the street to demonstrate for Palestine, who were beaten up by police, who were […] The post On the sad disconnection between our (Western) campaign to free Palestine from our campaigns to liberate the… West – video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.| Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson, Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter below supporting Francesca Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and […] The post Amid Trump’s calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another...| Yanis Varoufakis
Though it failed to achieve deterrence, Iran scored a significant political and psychological victory against Israel in June. Iran's greatest achievement in its 12 day war with Israel was in reviving the Spider Web theory Hasan Nasrallah introduced after Israel's 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon. During his speech proclaiming victory over the Israeli occupiers, the| The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire
On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte. My talk can be watched and read here. [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament […] The post The Economics of Europe’s Descent into Warmongering – and our duty now! appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.| Yanis Varoufakis
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement), on Yemen's direct confrontation with a US military machine which is hellbent on destroying its ability to resist Israel. https://youtu.be/TIRwEVHSjWs?si=_KQ4-tnwF14hhkMc In this third conversation between The Grayzone and Bukhaiti, the Ansar Allah spokesman explains why he believes| The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire
Students reported multiple hate crimes to the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) over the past weeks, amid rising tensions over the Israel-Gaza war. While the University reported that there was no significant increase in hate crimes, students said they witnessed many instances of hate crimes and hateful speech.| The Stanford Daily
Friends, Germans, citizens from all over, sisters and brothers. We once had a dream. It was the dream of what Europe could have been: Not a single market, a single currency or a common budget. No, we dreamt of Europe as a Peace with Justice Project. That dream has gone, it evaporated in the cold […]| Yanis Varoufakis
Michael and I chatted about Trump’s tariffs, emphasising the need to see them as political tools that standard neoliberal economics can never fathom. On the ongoing genocide in Gaza, we discussed Trump’s ‘final real estate solution’ envisaging a Palestine without Palestinians – the Zionist’s wet dream. Finally, I explained why DeepSeek was a major blow […]| Yanis Varoufakis
Εννέα κυβερνήσεις υπέγραψαν πριν λίγο, στη διπλανή αίθουσα, την Διακήρυξη της Ομάδας της Χάγης με την οποία δεσμεύονται για κυρώσεις κατά του Ισραήλ έως ότου πάψει τη γενοκτονία, καταργήσει το Απαρτχάιντ και τηρήσει το Διεθνές Δίκαιο. Εκπροσωπώντας χώρες της Αφρικής, της...| Yanis Varoufakis
Blessed are the peace makers, for they will be called children of God. Matthew 5:9 Dear Friends in Christ, This past weekend, the world received the long-awaited news of a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas, to begin January 19. We welcome this ceasefire with gratitude and a renewed commitment to the work […]| In Full Communion
“In war, truth is the first casualty”, wrote Aeschylus over 2,500 years ago. The Gaza war, a military event that will go down as one of the most despicable in history, has not belied this merciless dictum. Three gross lies, three enormous “casualties of truth” mark its course. The first, the Hamas attack, was presented as a “surprise”. The second lie concerns nothing less than the objective proclaimed by the most powerful combatant: the extermination of Hamas. The third, but by no...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Damn, I thought I was being SO original… I recently read this in the concluding chapter of James Hunter’s 1995 book, ‘On the Other Side of Sorrow; Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands’: Conservation organisations nowadays take for granted that the Highlands are degraded ecologically. They are consequently committed, as this chapter has stressed, […]| Frequently Found Growing On Disturbed Ground
Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou va prononcer ce mercredi un discours au Congrès américain, devant des élus divisés sur sa conduite de la guerre à Gaza.| Le Nouvel Obs
Au moins cinq personnes ont été tuées dans la frappe sur l’école Al-Razi au centre de la bande de Gaza, qui abritait « des milliers de personnes déplacées » par la guerre, selon le Croissant-Rouge palestinien. L’armée a assuré avoir pris de « nombreuses mesures » pour réduire le risque de toucher des civils dans la frappe contre l’école.| Le Nouvel Obs
Rania Khalek was joined by Yanis Varoufakis, economist, political leader, former Finance Minister of Greece and the author of many books including his latest “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza.| Yanis Varoufakis
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a […]| Yanis Varoufakis