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Plantifa noun. A person who uses gardening, growing food, and restoring ecosystems as a quiet form of resistance against systems that prioritize profit over people and planet. Rise up, root down!
Cam Cavitt - State Representative's... Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515 July 15, 2026 The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario KIA 0A2 Dear Prime Minister Carney. We write today as members of Michigan's congressional delegation to raise our voices on an issuc that has already drawn letters from our colleagues in past years: wildfire smoke drifting across the border from Canada into our communities. Additionally, last year, Reps. James and Bergman cach wrote letters to your government to raise the alarm about wildfire smoke pouring across our border from Canada into our communities. We write jointly this time because a year has passed, the scason has come around again, and nothing has changed except that our patience Our constituents in Michigan are once again under air quality alerts. Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients, and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them. This is the third consocutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to. We were told last year that this would be treated with urgency. It was not. We were told the causes, chronic under-investment in forest thinning, fuel roduction, and prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement against arson, were being addressed. They were not, or not adequately enough to matter to the people we represent. Provincial leaders have offered excuses instead of results, and in some cases have openly dismissed the health of American citizens as an inconvenience to their own summer. That attitude is unacceptable from a neighbor and an ally. We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people. That means our own agencies exploring direct involv…
theguardian.com 14 The Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel's repressive playbook Omar Shakir 'By unilaterally declaring the power to seize Palestinian land, property and buildings for their own use without consent, compensation or redress, the Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel's repressive playbook," said Omar Shakir, executive director at Dawn, a nonprofit dedicated to investigating the impacts of US foreign policy in the Middle East. "Far from signaling an end to genocide, apartheid and occupation, this document suggests entrenching some of its ugliest signature characteristics. This risks not only complicity, but direct perpetration of grave abuses." Several attorneys raised questions about the Board of Peace's legal authority to assume control of public facilities and premises. "If they don't have a status of forces agreement with Israel, then it's not clear what the board's legal authority would be," said Brad Parker, associate director of policy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR attorneys have represented victims in US…
The state of Israel Iran says Israeli attacks in Lebanon prompted it to close Hormuz Security official says Israeli policy unchanged after U.S.-Iran deal as IDF strikes kill 23 in 🇱🇧 The day after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect, Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 23 people and wounded 20 others on
16:36 haaretz.com 1 Paul Joseph • 23:25 Not all genocide is as cruel as sentencing people to agonizing conditions that lead to unbearable suffering and eventually death by removing access to life-supporting infrastructure. Kol ha kavod to Amira Hass for exposing this fiendish plan which should move Israel one more notch up the scale of pariah infamy. Meanwhile, governments around the world, chanting "two-state solution" as if it were some magical incantation absolving them of responsibility to act, are by their inaction allowing a slow motion genocide to proceed. There can be no Palestinian state if there are no Palestinians--which is not just a tautology but a strategy.
timesofisrael.com = THETIMES OF ISRAEL Supporters of the bill, including its sponsor MK Amit Halevi (Likud) and Education Committee Chairman Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism), have been openly stating that the legislation's goal is to extend Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank and Gaza. "In this regard, claims may arise that even if the application of sovereignty as a general rule is a legitimate purpose, it is improper, in a democratic country that sees itsell as part of the international community, to act to achieve the aforementioned purpose through this bill; i.e., without an official political decision by the government, without a broad in-depth examination of the move, and of its impact on the residents of the area and on security and political aspects," Sela wrote, adding that the topic also does not fall under the Education Committee's scope.
“JVP said the event is "racist, exclusionary, and perpetuates the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Pales-tinians" "Yet again, these events are attempting to cynically shield themselves from protest by holding their sales at a synagogue," the group said. "No one should enable the sale of stolen land, let alone a religious institution.”
ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION "As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, [...] May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands" Rosa Luxemburg
"Israeli officials are effectively green-lighting the use of sexual violence, when they decide not to prosecute the most high-profile case, which is extremely well documented," Ansari said. "There is a culture of accepting sexualised assault against Palestinians. «There was a discussion in the Knesset about whether or not it is OK to rape a Palestinian. Even the prime minister didn't say that Israel opposes raping detainees." Israel's failure to prosecute settlers who attacked Palestinians in the West Bank led to the country's former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, calling for the international criminal court to intervene to save Palestinians from "Jewish terrorists",
"The failure by both the European Commission and the EU member states to act appropriately according to international law, human rights and its own values and beliefs is making Europe complicit in the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel," she said. Germany said the proposal to suspend the agreement was inappropriate. Johann Wadephul, the foreign minister, said: "We have to talk with Israel about the critical issues. That has to be done in a critical, constructive dialogue with Israel"
psyll.com Q = Impact on human development and infrastructure The report characterizes the situation as a catastrophic collapse of human development. Beyond the physical rubble, the institutional frameworks for education and healthcare have been dismantled. According to the document, the restoration of basic human services will require a coordinated international response that exceeds traditional humanitarian aid models. The electrical grid, which was already under significant strain prior to recent events, is currently non-functional in most sectors, necessitating a complete overhaul rather than simple repairs. Similarly, water desalination and sewage treatment facilities have sustained damages that pose immediate risks to public health through groundwater contamination.
The old farmer said. " Well, as I see it, Donald Trump is like a 'Post Tortoise'" Not being familiar with the term. the doctor asked him what a 'post tortoise' was. The old farmer said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's a post tortoise." The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."
If the Iranian regime indeed collapses — or undergoes "Venezuelization," meaning it remains formally intact while bending to American dictates — Israel will claim a prominent seat at the table shaping a new Middle Eastern order. Such an order, based on the unchecked use of force, could grant Israel wider latitude not only to "restrain" Iran but to accelerate annexation in the West Bank and crush the Gaza Strip. It is very possible, too, that Netanyahu's timing is tied to his desire to forestall any transition to a second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza.
facebook NDC - Foot Soldiers • Follow 2d • O U.S. Central Command denies Iranian claims of 50 American soldiers killed, a warship being targeted, or major damage to U.S. bases, confirming that no casualties were recorded and that any damage was minor and did not affect operations.
facebook < NDC - Foot Soldiers • Follow 2d • O U.S. Central Command denies Iranian claims of 50 American soldiers killed, a warship being targeted, or major damage to U.S. bases, confirming that no casualties were recorded and that any damage was minor and did not affect operations.
Updates Yaniv Kubovich 19 minutes ago IDF denies reports it struck southern Lebanon following Hezbollah fire to country's north The IDF said it is not currently striking in Lebanon, after several Israeli news outlets reported that Israeli forces had launched attacks in response to fire by Hezbollah.
Tarią Ali ... 7h・ Have heard from an Iranian friend that her partner in Teheran has sent her a message. He is a leftist and is telling her that the US/Israelis are targeting a number of known leftists homes in Teheran and elsewhere in an attempt to make sure there's no opposition to their favoured candidate once they destroy the regime. What this reveals is the degree of penetration by Mossad in Iran. What it also means is that this is not going to be an easy occupation for the US and its Israeli buddies.
Tariq Ali ... 2h•0 For those looking forward to a Pahlavi government run by Israel, worth looking at the previous Shah's achievment. His secret police, SAVAK, was one of the most innovative at the time. Backed fully by the CIA they tried out new forms of torture and boasted about their man-sized toaster. Political prisoners were stripped bare and put in this toaster, one at a time and it was switched on so that human fronts and backs could be "toasted' at one go. Many died. Others were maimed for life. I spoke with other prisoners who had been made to watch this torture so they would break. Some did. And many Iranians remember those days. They won't be easily persuaded to accept another Pahlavi. It was in any case a two-rulers dynasty created by Britain and sustained by the United States.
haaretz.com According to sources involved in the committee members' discussions in Cairo, the experts do not know when and how they will begin their work in the field, given Israel's refusal to let them in. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office and the Headquarters for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) did not respond to Haaretz's inquiry on the matter. Under U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point plan, the Gaza technocrat committee would be tasked with providing "daily public services and municipal services" in the Strip and would operate under the supervision of the Board of Peace.
haaretz.com Palestinian sources say tat israel is refusing to allow members of the Palestinian technocratic committee set to oversee Gaza into the Strip. According to the sources, committee members planned to enter the Strip this week through the Rafah Crossing and take over its civilian administration by the end of the week. In the meantime, committee members continue to meet in Cairo, and representatives of mediating countries, particularly Egypt, are working with the United States to approve entry of the technocrats into the Strip by the end of the month. According to sources involved in the committee members' discussions in
11:37 haaretz.com Jack Khoury Palestinian sources: Israel bars members of the Gaza technocratic committee from the Strip A handout photograph released by Egypt's State Information Service shows Ali Shaath (C), head of the new Palestinian technocratic committee for administering the Gaza Strip, posing with its members during the inaugural meeting of 'National Committee for the Administration of Gaza' (NAG), in Cairo on Sunday. Credit: AFP/-
10:42 haaretz.com NIr Hasson Jerusalem Deputy Mayor: With God's help, we will annihilate all UNRWA personnel Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King called to "annihilate all UNRWA personnel" at the site of an ongoing demolition of an URWA building in East Jerusalem. In a video uploaded to his Facebook page, King stood outside the site and said, "Today we defeated the enemy, he was thrown out of Jerusalem, and with God's help, we will throw him out of all parts of the Land of Israel. There is no choice - it's either them or us." "With God's help, we will destroy, we will eliminate and annihilate all UNRWA nersonnel." he added.
i Donald J. Trump Ot @reaDonald Trump It was my Great Honor to meet María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today. She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you María! 13 ReTruths 47 Likes 1/15/26, 4:4:
un.org A Welcome to the United Nations Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article I| In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 1. Killing members of the group; 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
6 European • 20:38 Let's be very clear: free fire zones in which civilians can be killed on sight is a flat violation of international law. There is absolutely no excuse for that, whether or not the "yellow line" is clear. Every soldier in the world should know that, and every soldier who shoots at civilians on such an unlawful basis should go to jail. Also if the soldier is an Israeli. It is a scandal that western governments pretend that this is somehow OK because it is Israel. It is a clear example of Israeli lawlessness.
Gaza's Yellow Line: Where Genocide is Internationally Acceptable Euro-Med Human Rients Moniton 3.2KM| The western part (around 42% of the Strip): where over two million people are allowed to live. Even here, Palestinians face death from near-daily Israeli attacks, starvation, and disease, stripped of all necessities for survival. two It's deliberately vague and ever-shifting: The Yellow Line changes daily; even Israel's maps do not match the concrete barriers on the ground. Yet it functions with deadly precision: Palestinians deemed to "cross" this invisible, moving line are killed, then blamed for breaking the ceasefire. The Gaza Strip its the c aza Strip 3KM| 1.5KM 1.5KM| The ICJ confirmed: "security" cannot justify acquiring territory by force or denying Palestinians their right to self-determination. Line Yellow Th° 2 KM| 2.2KM| Inside this area, responsibility for killing shifts to the victim,-punished for returning to their own neighbourhood 3.5KM The Yellow Line has already advanced 940 m beyond all published maps. The eastern part (around 58% of the Strip): a military blackout zone. To establish it, entire towns and neighbourhoods were destroyed and the population was forcibly displaced. Palestinians are prevented from returning, attempts to return are met with lethal force. The dangerous reality: Inside the Yellow Line, killings, demolitions, expulsions, and permanent dispossession are treated not as crimes, but as part of the "implementation of the peace plan". 2 KM 2.5 KM| 6.5 KM In 2024, the ICJ rejected Israel's "security" justification. It ruled that Israel's policies in the OPT are designed for indefinite control, creating irreversible facts on the ground that amount to annexation, and declared Israel's continued presence unlawful. Why is it misleading? Because Israel's "temporary" lines are never temporary. From the 1948 armistice Green Line, post-1967 "security border" plans, Camp David "autonomy" maps, Oslo "interim" accords, and the Clinton Parame…
haaretz.com < Jamespirc • 23:30 Israel kills Gazans daily in incidents in which the person(s) - 'crossed the Yellow Line and approached IDF soldiers posing a threat so the soldiers opened fire, no Israelis were injured.' Now if militants were wanting to attack IDF soldiers there are apparently a multitude of weapons still in militant hands and why would individuals need to approach the IDF soldiers? As is stated to have happened here if militants they would in all probability shoot at the soldiers from a distance. And if actual trained members of Hamas or other organized group would be using weaponry that would have had a reasonable chance of actually inflicting casualties as in the attack that killed Feldbaum.. As in Lebanon, one in inclined to see the report of being fired on as a mere excuse to 'retaliate...'
haaretz.com Yaniv Kubovich 05:21 PM IST IDF says it killed two Palestinians allegedly crossing Yellow Line in Gaza The Israeli military said it killed two Palestinians who it alleged crossed the Yellow Line, delineating Israeli-controlled territory, in two separate incidents in northern Gaza. Yellow Line: IDF control of Gaza in first phase of cease-fire
Curt Mills @CurtMills Senior administration official tells me: "Hamas did nothing. Israeli tank hit an unexploded IED that has probably been there for months" 10:55 AM • Oct 19, 2025 • 520.5K Views @ 173. t7 946 2.8K 贝 296 Read 173 replies
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Doctors at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, which received the Palestinian bodies from the ICRC, said on Wednesday there was substantial evidence of beatings and summary executions, and that none of the bodies were identifiable. "Almost all of them had been blindfolded, and had been bound up and they had gunshots between the eyes. Almost all of them had been executed, said Dr Ahmed al-Farra, the head of Nasser hospital's paediatric department. "There were also scars and discoloured patches of skin showing they had been beaten before being killed. There were also signs that their bodies had been abused after they were killed?
"Almost all of them had been blindfolded, and had been bound up and they had gunshots between the eyes. Almost all of them had been executed," said Dr Ahmed al-Farra, the head of Nasser hospital's paediatric department. "There were also scars and discoloured patches of skin showing they had been beaten before being killed. There were also signs that their bodies had been abused after they were killed."
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL "We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer."
haaretz.com 4 Terez • 21:05 Israel did a good job indeed when they started arming criminals and pitting the clans against each other. They left no stone unturned.So what did you espect? Now they're delighted : Look, the moment we pull back, these savages start tearing into each other..If now Sheikh Mohammed al Thani - a favorite of Trump and Witkoff and Kushners darling,, and the other big Islamic players like Turkey and Saudi Arabia - don't crack down hard, leaving no loopholes, Israel's lying, cheating, and killing how many did they kill today?!) will just continue. Without massive outside pressure and supervision, no chance.
.分⑥ haaretz.com Bouny James → Shabak • 23.09.2025 | 02:03 Dear Shabak, do you realize what you're actually saying? You're arguing that Israel deserves credit because it could have annihilated Gaza even faster, in an even more indiscriminate way, but instead chose a slower, drawn-out destruction. That's not a defense, it's an indictment. Invoking the sheer scale of Israel's military power doesn't excuse the staggering civilian death toll, the mass displacement, the targeting of infrastructure that sustains life, or the famine conditions on the ground. 'We could have killed more, but we didn't' is not a moral argument — it's an admission that overwhelming force is being wielded against a trapped population. If the only standard of justification is that total obliteration hasn't YET happened, then the humanity of Palestinians has already been erased in your reasoning.
haaretz.com ben Alors → Jim Hassan • 25.09.2025 | 13:12 Correct, Jim. The Hamas leadership has formally declared that it is prepared to accept two states if this is the wish of the majority of the Palestinians. It is in line with the 50 year "hudna". Compare this with Zionist extremism, which does not only come from Likud and the parties to its right, but also from the so-called "liberal Zionist" opposition. None of these Zionists accept the two state solution. The EU's refusal to acknowledge the major concession made by Hamas is blatantly hypocritical. Finally a minor correction. It was Yitzhak Rabin, who as Minister of Defense during the first Intifada ordered to break the bones of Palestinians. The former terrorist Shamir's specialty was assassinating political and human rights targets, like British diplomat lord Moyne in Cairo in November 1944 and UN mediator Count Folka Rarnadntta in Santamhar 1918
haaretz.com • AriK— • 25.09.2025 | 17:22 Is this what Israeli Jews and for that matter Jews the world over who are "pro-Israel" want "the Jewish state" to be famous for: the consummate yet transparent lie? The never ending lie? Following a leader world famous now for being a liar? Who cannot ever speak without mouthing a cynical lie? It also gets back this question of whether Israel is capable of shame. Can you embarrass an Israeli? They trot out the most cynical transparent lies then stand back and shrug and say "so what?" Deviousness being a national trait? Is that what they want? Or they simply do not care what others think of them, so wrapped in stiff-necked victimology are they? They are proud of this? Oblivious to how they appear to fair minded people with no doa in this...occupation.
haaretz.com Report 18 Jay • 26.09.2025 | 16:11 What type of turn of the century imperial sh*t is this? Tony Blair the Governor of Gaza? Classic colonialism. An unbelievable display of superiority, arrogance and Western exceptionalism and that continues to exist into the 21st century. Furthermore, of all the potential candidates, it's the notorious war criminal Tony Blair. A man no less deserving of the Hague than Netanyahu. Clown world
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