German General Reinhard Gehlen set up an anti-Soviet espionage ring in 1945 and used it to the grief of both sides during the Cold War. This article appears in: October 2004 By Peter Kross By 1944, many top generals in Adolf Hitler’s army understood the war was lost and that they had better make arrangements to… Read More The extraordinary career of German General Reinhard Gehlen
It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too Simon Jenkins Wars may not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the strait of Hormuz, a grim stalemate seems to have invaded the earth beneath. Aerial… Read More Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares – modern war is systematically erasing human history
NB: The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources. … They added that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025 has reached 1,255, while the number of injuries has… Read More Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes
Date: August 3, 2026 Author: aplutsoc “Write my name on my leg, Mama” On Friday, July 24, settlers carried out a violent raid on Palestinian homes in Tal, near Nablus. Four Palestinians were killed, and two Israeli settlers also died in retaliatory clashes. A week earlier, settlers had set fire to a house in Tal with residents inside.… Read More Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic
NB: August 9 is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Henry Giroux: Remembering Hiroshima Hiroshima: Why The Bomb Was Dropped – ABC News (1995) By Alex Wellerstein | August 10, 2025 – Author’s observations + Q & A on Reddit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic… Read More Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs — but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped
The journalistic value is clear: The boy revealed Feiglin’s true face. And more importantly, he revealed the despicable lie of “voluntary emigration.” No one is leaving voluntarily. It’s just putting them on trucks and shipping them out Gideon Levy There hasn’t been an interview like this in years, perhaps never, on Israeli television. A ray… Read More How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel’s Gaza ‘Voluntary Emigration’ Plan
Pravin Sawhney on the collapse of Indian diplomacy NB: Many of us still don’t understand that this is an RSS government (the Sangh has many faces); and that it has no politics except (1) the rectification of history (i.e. defeating the Mughal Empire three centuries after its demise); and (2) grabbing control of public funds… Read More Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)
In the words of the Swedish Academy, he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti,… Read More Harold Pinter: Nobel Prize lecture; 2005
Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days Full text of the letter “We Refuse!” Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military. According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died… Read More Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens
By Pranshu Verma In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S.… Read More A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
