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Today, the Phoenix Library was honored to collaborate with the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors to host a reading seminar for the novel 'A Spark of Fire' by the Palestinian author Mahmoud Al-Basyouni. We are striving to breathe life back into reading. Gaza.

The beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.

there are no children of light or children of darkness all of us, children, are made up of both the highest & the lowest & choose

Don't fool yourself into thinking this barbarity will remain confined to the killing fields of Donbass and Gaza. This can and will be western people who resist domestically, huddled in sheds hunted like ants by corporate AI-directed drones or worse. When it comes to this depeved technological or exterminationist violence our idendities must be subordinate to a baseline of collective human dignity. It cannot be seen as happening to "him" or "them". It is happening to us. It's happening to you. I'm not unrealistic on these matters and know how futile and moralistic it sounds, but if it doesn't sufficiently shock and offend our conscience and wake us up to the coming reality, then we really will be dispatched eventually like cockroaches by entities barely knowable.

Nearly 30 years ago, before the internet, before AI, before social media, I told a friend that I thought the Lewinsky affair was part of a blackmail scheme. The only evidence I had was an understanding of Israel's treachery and knowledge of their history of sexual blackmail and sexual coercion. Intellectually, I couldn't be sure, but instinctively, I was sure. My friend brushed me off. He's rational and believed the world is as we've been told it is. What I suggested was too far out in left field. There were a few other things I told him that he didn't believe but turned out to be true. But he wasn't prepared to accept this one. I had nothing to convince him. A few short years later, Gordon Thomas' book was published, and my friend apologized for not taking my theory seriously. In those 30 years, he read a huge number of books on Palestine and zionism that took him from an Israel-is-the-only-democracy kind of guy, to wipe-Israel-off-the-map American. Americans are taught that thought and analysis outside the purview of the ruling elite—whether political figures, media reports, or pronouncements of the wealthy—cannot be trusted. What I know is exactly the opposite. Nothing the US government tells Americans can be trusted, certainly not when it comes to imperial wars. It didn't take long to reject the official 9-11 as an implausible, unscientific narrative. I never believed Iraq had WMDs, because there was no evidence except Israel's word. I knew immediately that the beheaded babies and rape allegations were zionist hoaxes—that one was easy, because I know enough about the nature of the resistance fighters and the nature of Israelis. I never believed the "uprising" in Libya was real or organic. I don't believe the excuse du jour for decimating Iran. And I don't believe the sudden and extraordinary reversal of drought patterns throughout the region almost immediately after Iran destroyed the HAARP research equipment in UAE. apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA… People are fast to believe official narratives, no matter how unreal they might be; no matter how little there is of forensic evidence to support that narrative; no matter physics or history. But they will ridicule you and demand absolute proof for something that contradicts official narratives, even if it makes sense; even if there is scientific basis; even if it fits with historical patterns. No, the earth is not flat. But the entire infrastructure of our lives—from banking to education to politics to food and so on—is too often mapped out by a minority of human who are indeed conspiring to shape our world, our health, our minds, and our planet. It's not a theory if the conspiracy is real.

This is literally part of the rockhill project…

It is things like this that should make us scoff at any who flatly talk about a declining US empire

Cloud seeding is not a "conspiracy theory." It's widely attested to by scientists and there are a gazillion books on weather modification as a weapon of war at this point wanaen.com/suspicious-uae…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr9KVH… archive.org/details/isbn_9…

Fuck you *pays with the Hegel coin*

US control of Iran's weather for the past decade is now widely accepted. I wonder if they were also manipulating weather in other countries. Jordan had been suffering from drought for some time as well. But there was sudden massive rainfall just after the Iran bombed the technology centers that were conducting weather manipulation. Was the US also ensuring Jordanian dependence on Israel for water?

Red Cross and Military sources in Lebanon confirmed finding the remains of journalist Amal Khalil in the house she sought shelter in, after coming under Jewish attack in the village of Tayri. We send our condolences to our colleagues at @AlakhbarNews, for her martyrdom. Amal joins hundreds of journalists murdered by the Jewish Colony in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran; in what is considered the largest cohort of media workers killed in any war since records of such crimes were started.

Just the beginning. Jet fuel has supplies have completely collapsed

I’m seeing more Iranian taxi drivers telling me Iran is having more rainfall after Iranian attacks on the Persian Gulf Arab countries. I don’t know if it’s a conspiracy or if there’s some logic behind it, but it’s been raining (& thundering) a lot lately.

“And that in hate, he was yet full of love!”

Perfect example is the discourse it spawned. Tired

The rockhill shit is so tired bc obviously the project his book is nominally doing needs to be done (what is here objected to) but it’s also obvious that’s not what his book is doing. It’s more sophisticated Roy Singham speak a la PSL, BT News, i.e. it muddles more than clarifies

this is special. Palestinians and Lebanese are gathering pieces of their children in plastic bags, forced by Israel to live in bug and rat infested tents, amidst increasing open sewage and garbage piles, hungry, freezing, sweating, thirsty, despairing, crippled, amputated, out of school, out of work, out of bread, out of water, degraded and oppressed beyond measure, beyond reason, beyond any human comprehension, but these sons of bitches want to talk about "antisemitic tropes." they want to analyze Palestinian speech. Oh no! Did I hurt someone's feelings? Did I fail to condemn their thoroughly debunked rape hoax? Did I talk too much about the verified, thoroughly documented and supported systematic rape of Palestinians by Israelis? Was I not deferential enough to Karen the colonizer whose great grandma survived a Nazi camp? Am I too angry that Israelis are committing a genocide and no power is doing a fucking thing about it? Should I be a more polite victim? Did I scream too loud or cry too much when I saw, over and over, the insides of our children's skulls? Do I dwell too much on my own family shattered to all corners of the globe so every Jew can have an extra country? How dare I? All the masks are off, including these so-called "lefty" trash folks and outlets that publish them. #wipeisraeloffthemap wipe it all the way off. counterpunch.org/2026/04/17/the…