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Influential Saudi Arabia Leader Tells Trump To Pound Sand On Relocation Of Palestinians

Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:26:41 +0000

In an opinion piece on February 3, 2025, influential Prince Turki Al Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to Washington and London and director-general of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency gives President Trump a history lesson about the Palestinian struggle and the probable Saudi official response to Trump’s off-the-wall declaration that the U.S. will “own Gaza and turn it into a resort.”

In a slap in the face of Israel and the United States, Prince Turki stated that if Palestinians in Gaza are moved, “they should be allowed to return to their homes and to their orange and olive groves in Haifa, Jaffa and other towns and villages from which they fled or were forcibly driven out by the Israelis.”

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US Officials Backtrack On Trump’s Illegal Gaza Gambit

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:09:54 +0000

A day after all hell broke loose in reaction to President Donald Trump’s plan to remove 1.8 million Palestinians from Gaza, which he said the U.S. would rebuild and make a U.S territory, administration officials began backtracking as it emerged that only Trump himself knew he would make the plan public.

Asked in Guatemala about Trump’s intention to relocate the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Palestinians would be allowed to “move back in,” which was not what Trump had said the day before.

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Protesters March On White House To Oppose Netanyahu’s Visit

Kristen Bonner, Fight Back! News. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:09:25 +0000

Washington, DC – On Tuesday night, February 4, hundreds of protesters gathered at Lafayette Square, near the White House, to raise their voices and stomp their feet in opposition of the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump.

Organized by Palestinian Youth Movement DMV, Md 2 Palestine, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Muslim American Society, the organizers united around the demands to arrest genocidal Zionist Netanyahu, the end of all U.S. aid to Israel, and no normalization of relations between occupied Palestine and Israel.

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Palestine Action Once Again Hit Allianz In Dramatic Overnight Raid

The Canary. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:05:07 +0000

Palestine Action has once again piled the pressure on genocidal insurer Allianz – as it continues to prop-up Israel’s weapons manufacturer Elbit amid Donald Trump’s calls for ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

During the early hours of 5 February, Palestine Action once again targeted Allianz, this time with a direct action protest at the company’s Milton Keynes office. The action has been taken as part of an escalating campaign to force Allianz to drop its financial ties and end its insurance policies for Elbit Systems – Israel’s largest weapons firm and a key player in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Erik Prince Smells Blood In Gaza And He’s Ready To Cash In

Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:00:09 +0000

On January 20, as Donald Trump took office for the second time, it seemed that the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had recently marked the 23rd anniversary of its opening, might become as marginalized and generally forgotten as it was in his first term in office, when he largely sealed it shut for four years.

Last Wednesday, however, and seemingly out of the blue, Trump suddenly announced that he had just issued a new executive order, “Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to Full Capacity”, to expand an existing migrant detention facility at the naval base

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How Does Trump Propose To Redefine Immigrants So They’re Beyond The Reach Of The Law?

Andy Worthington. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:55:22 +0000

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US Imperialism’s Latest Plot Against The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Toward The African Revolution, Black Agenda Report. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:48:04 +0000

Imperialist aggression against the DRC is rapidly expanding and hundreds of thousands of people continue to flee their homelands, while towns fall one by one into the hands of imperialist forces. The people are living in a situation of chaos and despair, deprived of security and essential resources such as housing, food and medicine. The Congolese people, who have long suffered the horrors of war, bloody conflict and the atrocities of colonization, are plunging into an even darker period.

To fully understand the current situation in the Congo, we need to take a closer look at history.

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Washington’s Fantasy Of A War Against China

Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:43:26 +0000

The fragility of US power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine learning program. The US stock market Nasdaq shuddered, with technology stocks collapsing. This collapse is not a minor matter for the US economy. During the post-COVID-19 inflation (2021), foreign investors began to slow down their purchase of US debt. Then, after the US seized USD 600 billion in Russia’s foreign exchange assets (2022), many central banks moved their own holdings away from the long-arm jurisdiction of the United States. US Treasury bills languished.

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King Musk’s Government Purge Hits A Snag

Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:17:00 +0000

It is now clear beyond any question that Elon Musk is de facto president of the United States—indeed, not just that, but a ruler who is exercising more power than any president in American history. Central to his effort to consolidate that power further is his ongoing plot to purge the federal bureaucracy and replace anyone not loyal to himself with toadies and cronies, much like how Stalin cemented his dictatorship over the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

The plan follows how Musk ruined Twitter: He is offering a so-called buyout to most government employees, attempting to convince them to leave with a big cash bribe—but with a tight deadline.

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Why Climate Defiance Is Doubling Down On Disruption

Davin Faris, Waging Nonviolence. — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:10:51 +0000

On a brutally cold morning last December, shortly before I was arrested for the first time, a hundred of us gathered beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I came from campus in the dark with a couple of friends. As others congregated on the grass, we made awkward introductions. It was an eclectic bunch: teachers, tech workers, lawyers, tradespeople, students and full-time activists, some of whom I recognized from past demonstrations.

When we reached a critical mass, Maxwell Downing, an organizer with Climate Defiance, split us up by risk level.

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