Mainly because anything they've experienced makes it about the person and the need to eulogize and hero-ize, and lion-ize them in ways that are often distorted and false.
This aside, this looks like an interesting book.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/31/martyrs-to-the-unspeakable-a-luminous-tapestry-of-truth/
Or Software Developers for Genocide!
https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/
Pretty fucked up
In the months following October 7, the IDF’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service surged more than 200-fold. The amount of data from surveillance cameras, drones, checkpoints, biometric scanners, phone calls, and intercepted Palestinian personal data stored by the IDF on Microsoft servers doubled in the next nine months, reaching 13.6 petabytes by July 2024 – equivalent to 23,000 years of audio, or seven trillion pages of text.
The point of all this was to create an enormous digital dragnet, where Palestinians’ every move, word, and keystroke was recorded in monitored in the greatest and most dystopian digital dragnet ever created. In the words of Yossi Sariel, the head of Unit 8200, the IDF’s surveillance division, the plan was to “track everyone, all of the time.”
Sariel argued that big data was the solution to Israel’s problems, envisaging a future where Israel intercepted and stored “a million calls an hour” from Palestine, and used A.I. to search for keywords and identify threats.
There was no way, however, that Israel could do this alone, as it did not possess the expertise or anything like the storage capacity needed for such a project. To this end, Sariel travelled to Seattle in 2021 to meet with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, to pitch him on the surveillance partnership whereby Microsoft would build Unit 8200 a customized and segregated area within its Azure platform.
The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to transcribe, translate, and otherwise process intelligence garnered via mass surveillance, which is then linked to Israel’s A.I.-based weapons systems.
Yes, he's a thug - but he's just the face of the broader, larger, uglier movement.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/29/unrest-in-the-himalayas/
""History revealed that human rights, the consent of the governed, rule of law, and rationalism were all ideological mystifications meant to disguise and obscure the class project of the bourgeoisie of Europe that had been erected on the pedestal of slavery and colonial accumulation on a global scale. Nowhere was that lurid mendacity more apparent than in the territories named the United States of America where a vicious, white supremacist ruling class murdered, raped, burnt, and mutilated in wars of annihilation protected by their white supremacist God who blessed them through “manifest destiny” with the right to murder and conquer from sea to shining sea, from the East coast of indigenous lands to the West coast and beyond.
To begin with, the idea that central planning runs counter to innovation is bullshit.
Innovation is a function of the human mind, or collective human minds, not corporations, government or any kind of structure.
And the US Empire is right on schedule!
As US warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/portlands-city-councilors-pledge-to-investigate-citys-ties-to-israel/
A group Portland lawmakers launched a pledge to investigate the city’s connections to Israeli weapons.
The commitment calls for probes into the manufacturing and transport of weapons intended for Israel, as well as other potential connections to the country.
“The United States has provided billions of dollars in military funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to facilitate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” reads a press release on the pledge. “The federal Government has utterly failed to uphold their duty to prevent genocide and uphold respect for international humanitarian law, so cities across the United States are mobilizing to ensure that local tax dollars and supply chains do not support criminal warfare and that local weapons manufacturers are held accountable for their role in genocide.”
I mean what other conflation of terms works better to describe this?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/22/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/
In so many ways, the world's lack of any real action to stop a bunch of bullies/psychopaths/criminals from destroying a nation, reflects what's to come; when those same bullies/psychopaths/criminals wreck the rest of the planet in the same way.
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... the byproducts of these data centers are environmental degradation, loss of land which could have productive uses, and a massive load added to the outdated electrical grid, for which the buck is passed on to electric bills rather than the companies operating the data center. This process describes what Syrian scholar Ali Kadri calls the ‘accumulation of waste’. Although Kadri’s main theoretical contributions focus on how ‘war is the basis of accumulation’, it can be useful to stretch his theory to this example to show that through favoring lumpen development of the tech oligarchy, the basis of accumulation is the waste of natural resources which are required in the form of land for the buildings, water for the cooling systems, and air for exhaust pumps and AC systems. The location of these data centers forms an almost circular Venn diagram with working-class and poor areas in the United States . Thus, they are composed of what Kadri calls ‘surplus populations’ or populations whose rights to life and development are sacrificed at the altar of accumulation.
More here -> https://blackagendareport.com/data-centers-and-ai-bubble
Hint - it's not all the countries the United States is trying to either attack, sanction, bomb, invade, overthrow, or loot.
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it.
To psychopaths and criminals, it's just a pause for them to re-arm and fire again.
The efforts by the US in the Caribbean are exactly that - to instill fear into the people of Venezuela.
Hostility from Washington towards progressive governments in Caracas is not new, but the current administration has initiated an unprecedented escalation against the government and people of Venezuela.
He just admits it out loud.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/17/trump-admits-complicity-in-genocide/
Trump failed to mention the 641,000 Gazans — about one-third of all Palestinians in Gaza — who have experienced catastrophic famine as Israel used mass starvation as a weapon of war and denied the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
And Trump omitted the fact that Israel has destroyed the civilian infrastructure across Gaza. It disabled most of the hospitals, damaged approximately 97 percent of the schools, and damaged or destroyed roughly 90 percent of all housing units.
Instead, Trump boasted about the weapons he furnished to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and praised Israel’s use of them to massacre Palestinian people:
“We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. I mean, Bibi would call me so many times, ‘Can you get me this weapon, that weapon, that weapon?’ Some of them I never heard of, Bibi, and I made them. But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we, huh? And they are the best. They are the best. But you used them well.”With those words, Trump admitted his complicity with Israel in its commission of genocide in Gaza.
And it's really admitting that the United States of America is complicit in genocide.
Great run by the Mariners - let's hope no tests positive for illegal substances.
They are pretty open about it.
Until that is, one figures it out.
Then they actively try to remove their existence from those same media. After all, they can't have anyone do any questioning or serious thinking about that sort of thing?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
After being exposed as former national security state agents by MintPress, large numbers of officials working in the highest levels of top social media platforms have deleted their profiles or wiped the incriminating evidence from the internet.
A series of MintPress News investigations uncovered a network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).
Think I'm kidding?
The potential existence of such a secret clause has reinforced already-existing Palestinian concerns that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would seek to find a way to sabotage the deal. Already in March, Israel broke the first ceasefire after the release of all civilian Israeli captives in the first phase of the deal. Last July, Hamas accepted a proposed deal following talks through Egyptian and Qatari mediators, while Netanyahu completely ignored it as mediators waited for Israel’s response.
It's probably one of the reasons why I'm still presently employed.
So that's what 'short selling' is!
https://electronicintifada.net/content/who-profited-7-october/50963
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/who-profited-7-october
The suspicious timing of the stock market activity was revealed in a 67-page study first reported in the US by CNN.
The authors of the study found that unidentified investors in Israel and the US had sold their stocks in key Israeli companies just days before the Hamas attack. In a practice known as “short selling,” the investors later repurchased their stocks at a much lower price, reaping millions of dollars in profit.
The study – titled “Trading on Terror?” – was written by former Securities and Exchange Commission head Robert Jackson Jr., now a professor at New York University, and Columbia law professor Joshua Mitts, an expert in monitoring short selling activity on stock markets.
“Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” the authors wrote, adding “days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come.” The study found that on 2 October, “nearly 100 percent of the off-exchange trading volume in the [Israeli equity market] … consisted of short selling.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/remember-to-forget-october-7/
We have also learned something, and this is perhaps the most important lesson: they are defeatable.
Not only in some imagined future, but yesterday, today, and tomorrow — always. You can see it if you look closely enough. I saw it this morning in their eyes, in the way they carried themselves as they made an arrest.
The movements of their bodies betrayed it: the stiffness, the over-gripping of their weapons, the rehearsed violence that covers over fear. Beneath the spectacle of power lies fragility, an unease that cannot be concealed. For all their weapons, their machines, their claims to permanence, they remain vulnerable, and it is this vulnerability that reveals the truth: they are defeatable.
While accepting the key point of Trump’s ceasefire proposal, the Palestinian resistance movement asked for further negotiations to be conducted regarding the details of the plan.
Palestinian diaspora organization the Palestinian Youth Movement denounced the plan, writing that it is an “ultimatum between two unacceptable choices,” which are “continued genocide with refound legitimacy,” or “privatization and control over Palestinians by a wealthy elite who deprive them of all substantive rights.”
The odds are low ... considering -
https://blackagendareport.com/paris-climate-agreement-global-climate-movements-two-state-solution
Let's face it, the Paris climate agreement was something agreed to because it was something that would never be adhered to by, well anyone.
Fact is, only a mass revolution of the majority of people to rise up against their oppressive systems that repress them - can save all of us.
And time is running out -
Twice as much fossil fuel as the 1.5ºC goal allows.
That’s the production level now planned by the governments of 20 major greenhouse gas emitters, according to the 2025 Production Gap Report, published this week by the Stockholm Environment Institute, Climate Analytics, and International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Maybe.
Then again, maybe not?
“While we remain outraged at how callously Starbucks handled these closures, we are proud that we have forced the company to make this process fairer for impacted union baristas,” said Starbucks Workers United spokesperson Michelle Eisen. “These measures to support baristas show the power and strength of our union. We remain focused on organizing stores and demanding Starbucks settle a fair union contract that improves hours and staffing, increases take-home pay, and resolves unfair labor practices.”
... they are still the bullies of the region thanks to the West.
What 'recognition' from the West really means.
This recognition does not restore our homeland—it erases it. It sustains and legalizes the theft of Palestine, declaring Jewish supremacy victorious atop the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and over a million who have been imprisoned for resisting the Zionist colonial regime since 1948. It offers unconditional self-determination to Zionists settlers but conditional self-determination to the Palestinians and our school books. This humiliation deprives us from our political agency without putting any condition on Israel.
A legend and a reminder - in this country, if you are not white or 'right', take nothing for granted.
For Seattle media, it's the best thing since the Seahawks won the Super Bowl.
Look no further than the UN Security Council -> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/un-security-council-reimposes-comprehensive-international-sanctions-on-iran/
Months after facing Israeli and US aggression, Iran presented a resolution in the IAEA general conference demanding the prohibition of attacks or threats of attacks on nuclear sites under its safeguard.
I'll believe it when it actually happens.
That being said, it's worth noting the signs.
I mean seriously, 'defense' always meant war and weapons.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/09/20/whats-in-a-name/
That's after all what the primary function of the American Empire - to plunder and suck up as much wealth to its enablers, namely the rich and powerful.
And no more a fixed game there is, than one involving oil.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/20/targeting-venezuela/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-venezuela-drug-war-claims/290475/
Today, Venezuela appears to have weathered the worst of the storm. Stores are full again, and the country now produces a large percentage of the food it eats. Maduro’s signature social housing policy, Misión Gran Vivienda Venezuela, has delivered more than 5.2 million homes to citizens, greatly improving the country’s problem with slum housing.
Another factor that kept Maduro in power is the military. The large majority of the Army has stayed loyal and rejected calls for a coup d’état. Venezuela counts hundreds of thousands of men in uniform, as well as millions more in armed left-wing militias.
Somehow I'm amazed this isn't bigger news.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00439339.2025.2542410
Who are a bunch of psychopaths and criminals?
The one that's attacked a half dozen countries in under two years.
Let's see -
If you think there's any justification to any of this, I'd conclude you to be a psychopath and criminal as well.
Anyone who not only advocates for violence, destruction, and mass murder is a psychopath. And those that carry it out are also criminals.
One of the central themes at the gathering of thousands in Detroit linked Black and Palestinian liberation through culture, struggle, and solidarity.
For the first time in Brazil’s history, high-ranking military officers are held accountable for attacking democracy
It's because of shit like this -> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/10/indian-left-condemns-bjp-government-for-hosting-israeli-minister-smotrich/
Smotrich is one of the architects of Israeli genocide in Gaza and has been banned by several countries for incitement of violence against Palestinians. There is a pending ICC warrant against him.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/09/caitlin-johnstone-hamas-surrender-wont-stop-the-genocide/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/hamas-leaders-survive-israeli-assassination-attempt-in-doha/
Seriously, can't make this shit up.
The West is infested with psychopaths and criminals.
Reality says otherwise.
But don't take my word for it.
Read it for your self - from the enablers themselves.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/the-new-israeli-map-proposing-to-annex-80-of-the-west-bank-explained/
More than 80 percent of the occupied West Bank would become part of Israel, according to a new annexation proposal drafted by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday.
The hardline Minister presented a map showing all of the West Bank as a part of Israel, including Bethlehem, the Jordan Valley, and the entire Palestinian countryside, while only six Palestinian cities — Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, and Hebron — were marked as isolated ghettoes. Smotrich said that if the Palestinian Authority (PA) opposes his plan, Israel would “uproot it like it did with Hamas.” Smotrich also called on Netanyahu to implement his proposal if he wished to “enter history as a great leader.”
A reminder: Those that enable this and those who benefit from genocide- are psychopaths and criminals.
Great job winning the Leagues Cup.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/champions-seattle-sounders-win-leagues-cup-2025-over-inter-miami
And it can be summed up by two right-wing groups of people in society.
Those that are truly crazy and are in positions of power with ability to do great violence, destruction of everyone and everything around them; including themselves (perhaps not coincidentally, unlike cancer).
And then there those who also serve in positions of power who pretend to do something about it, and do nothing.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/02/vijay-prashad-liberals-paved-way-to-the-far-right/
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/far-right-neoliberalism/
You have surrendered whatever limited ‘neutral’ function the state had in the class struggle between capitalists and workers. The oligarchy now runs the state, with regulations set to a minimum and worker rights set to near zero.
You have watched as the oligarchy has set fire to society, breaking up the old factories, sending the machines to countries where labour is cheaper, and making money off the factory land through speculation. There are no jobs left in the wasteland, only servile jobs to tend to the whims of the oligarchy and uberised jobs to provide mediocre quality services to each other.
You have urged the compromised state to cut taxes and reduce its social services at the same time as unemployment and poverty have increased. Old liberal ideas of helping the less fortunate have dissolved in the acid of individualism and personal ambition, the money that used to be spent on social welfare now vaporised into the financial markets for the oligarchs’ race to become the first trillionaire. What would have been recycled through the tax system is now mired in the casino-like money markets, the whoops and razzle of the monied concealing the howls of the poor.
For me, Summer ends when kids go back to school.
But that aside, got lots of outdoor time (hopefully more to still come), finished some songs, wrote music for a few more.
Back to work soon. But for now I'll enjoy the time I have until Tuesday.
That is, the Washington State Fair?
Of course, I always knew it as the Puyallup Fair; and still refer to it as such.
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/microsoft-sign-protest-2048x1367.jpg
Why?
The actions came as tensions over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza spread into the corporate world. At Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in May, an employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address, accusing the company of enabling Israeli war crimes through its Azure cloud services. The worker, Joe Lopez, was later dismissed, according to CNBC.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-the-un-could-act-today-to-stop-the-genocide-in-palestine/
A UNGA resolution adopted under Uniting for Peace could -
1. Call on all states to adopt comprehensive sanctions and a military embargo against the Israeli regime. While it lacks the power to enforce sanctions, it can call them, monitor them, and supplement them as required.
2. Decide to reject the UNGA credentials of Israel, as the UNGA did in the case of apartheid South Africa.
3. Mandate an accountability mechanism (like a criminal tribunal) to address Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid, and genocide.
4. Reactivate the UN’s long-dormant anti-apartheid mechanisms to address Israeli apartheid, and
5. Mandate an armed, multinational, UN protection force to deploy to Gaza (and, ultimately, to the West Bank), acting at the request of the State of Palestine, to protect civilians, open entry points via land and sea, facilitate humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in recovery and reconstruction.
That's right - take away their UN membership and kick out Israel, as was the case with Apartheid South Africa.
A disaster that could've been prevented.
https://blackagendareport.com/why-we-remember-katrina
Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025.
Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind. Those who were unable to evacuate were stranded and the levees which were constructed to protect New Orleans were either topped by the storm surge or gave way altogether. The Lower Ninth Ward, home to a majority Black population, was flooded. The official number of deaths caused by hurricane Katrina was 1,392 people, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi, but also in Alabama and Florida.
