WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the recent bridging proposal on reaching a ceasefire in Gaza.

"In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he confirmed to me that Israel accepts the bridging proposal," Blinken told reporters following a meeting with Netanyahu as part of his trip to Israel.

Author Stephen King has a new viral tweet featuring a picture of himself wearing a Kamala Harris t-shirt modeled after an Obama campaign sticker captioned with the words “I’M SPEAKING” — a phrase with which she drew headlines and severe public outcry last week by using it to shut down anti-genocide protesters at a campaign rally in Detroit.

That’s right: they’re using her condescending shutdown of pro-Palestine demonstrators as a fun girlboss campaign slogan now.

The revelation that the US and UK have imposed additional conditions for their being part of the tripartite AUKUS deal with Australia has not gone down well in some quarters.

While both major Australian political parties have kept mum, the Greens have spoken up, pointing out that these conditions lower Australia below the level of a vassal state.

Under the new conditions, Australia will have to bear the cost for any losses or injuries caused by the transfer of technology from the UK and the US to fulfil the terms of the AUKUS arrangement.

U.S. Banks Break Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
To uphold commitments to reducing climate emissions, U.S. banks should stop providing financial support to companies focused on industrial livestock production.

As concerns over the climate crisis grow, banks in the United States have faced increased pressure from shareholders, policymakers, and civil society to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to their loans and financial services. Many big banks have pledged to reduce their investment in high-emitting sectors to help reach net-zero goals. 

MONIQUE MIKHAIL AND WARD WARMERDAM

A corner somewhere in a universe without limits

A bright sun forms like a little star

Surrounded by balls of fire and funny gas orbits

Some congeal cold and some like tar

Jehovah thundering out of Sion, throned

Mars, some moons and planets soon solids

While others are full of gases and methanes

One lucky ball collects water and carbon rains

Amino-acids random link and form protein chains

And with their darkness durst affront his lights

Starting to fight for sunshine and other supplies

Duplicating to breed more of the kinder prizes

With the more aggressive winning the fights

Now allied with others of same to become complex

Their children's cries unheard that pass through fire

Into variegated species demanding to consume sex

With proteins of life moving towards a differentiation

IN THE MURKY LIGHT OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN UKRAINE, WE REVISIT THE "PROPHETIC VIEWS" OF COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR IN NEWSWEEK, 2022 — AND COMPARE THEM TO HIS OPINIONS TODAY... LITTLE HAS CHANGED, EXCEPT THE SPEED OF THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION WHICH HAS BEEN DRAGGED ON BY THE AMERICAN EMPIRE [WHICH HAS VOWED TO DESTROY RUSSIA SINCE 1917].

By Natalie Colarossi

THERE WAS A TIME — SAY MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, ACCORDING TO THE MAGAZINE COVER ABOVE — (myBUSiNESS, The magazine for ambitious Australian business owners, JULY 2011) WHEN MAKING BUSINESS WITH CHINA WAS WELCOME. THEN, THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, MIFFED THAT CHINA WAS GETTING TOO MUCH TRADE FOR MAKING GOODS TOO GOOD CHEAPER, INTERFERED WITH THE PLAYING FIELD WITH SANCTIONS AND TARIFFS, WITH LAME EXPLANATIONS...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher bitterly opposed Germany's reunification. 'We beat the Germans twice, and now they're back,' she allegedly remarked after the fall of the Berlin Wall. But a new raft of documents reveals just how isolated in her opinion the Iron Lady really was.

BY Carsten Volkery

Vladimir Putin’s regime must be toppled for Ukraine to win the war, the tyrant’s former chief adviser warned.

Andrei Illarionov said the Russian leader, 71, has had his sights set on Ukraine since the early days of his presidency - and he will never give up, The Sun reports.

Putin was made prime minister of Russia 25 years ago - and months later, he became president.

In the two decades of Putin’s reign, the tyrant has cemented his iron-fist rule, built allies in the Middle East and China, annexed Crimea and launched all-out war on Ukraine.

And in 2020, crafty Vlad changed Russia’s law to let him to remain in the number one job for two more terms.

Even the Washington Post isn’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries.

The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only “populist gimmicks.”

The Global Majority is fully aware that the genocidals in Tel Aviv are trying as hard as they can to provoke an apocalyptic war – with full US military support, of course.  

Contrast that combative mindset with 2,500 years of Persian diplomacy. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has recently remarked how Tehran is trying hard to prevent “the Israeli regime’s ‘dream’ of triggering an all-out regional war.”

BY Pepe Escobar

Do you remember the infamous “Summers Memo” from 12 December 1991? Larry Summers, Chief Economist for the World Bank, wrote that, “a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a wad of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. … I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.”

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A STUDY IN WESTERN MEDIA DESIGNED TO INFLUENCE THE POPULATIONS WITHIN OTHER COUNTRIES, WHICH ARE NOT "WESTERNISED" YET BY CHOICE OR DUE TO CULTURAL TRADITIONS. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS A STUDY OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA. OTHER COUNTRIES INDULGE IN PROPAGANDA AGAINST WESTERN CULTURE, BUT THIS IS NOT AS STRUCTURED NOR AS POWERFUL BY ANY MEASURES TO WHAT THE AMERICANS, THE ENGLISH AND THE GERMANS ARE DOING. CHINA IS DOING IT SOMEWHAT IN ITS OWN STYLE, NOT BY ENFORCING ITS CULTURE, BUT BY FOSTERING THE LOCAL DESIRES FOR ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS. HERE ARE A FEW CASES:

VOICE OF AMERICA

The execution of a search warrant on my residence by the F.B.I. on Aug. 7 was not my first run-in with America’s premier law enforcement agency. 

In the 1990s, when I was working as chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) — set up by the U.N. Security Council to disarm Iraq as part of the ceasefire that ended the 1991 Gulf War — the F.B.I.’s National Security Division undertook an investigation premised on the working theory that I was committing espionage on behalf of the State of Israel.