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A political diary: For a democratic secular masterless and borderless world; for individual and social autonomy*; for lifelong democratic civic education with democratic aim, the creation of participatory democratic citizenry. (Castoriadis*) #glykoreads
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Defending Israel: Against Hamas and its radical Left enablers. By Alan Dershowitz #glykoreads
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The EU is finally blacklisting Russia for money laundering: The move will oblige financial institutions to strengthen due diligence on all transactions. www.politico.eu/article/the-... #RussiaUkraineWar
The global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) suspended Russia as a member after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but failed to blacklist it, despite evidence presented by the Ukrainian government, because of opposition from countries in the BRICS group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. EU lawmakers called on the Commission many times to do what FATF was not able to. The Commission committed to complete a review by the end of 2025 to get their support to remove the United Arab Emirates and Gibraltar from the list earlier this year.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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#Sudan war has killed 25,000 children, medics say; 45 girls raped fleeing El Fasher…All 45 rape cases were reported in October and November as families trekked the 60 km (37 miles) from El Fasher to the town of Tawila after the RSF seized the city on October 26… sudantribune.com/article/307724
The doctors' group also documented 800 unaccompanied children who reached Tawila, some showing acute malnutrition and trauma after witnessing killings en route. "Communication blackouts and roadblocks make verification almost impossible, but the pattern matches earlier UN findings," al-Sayed said. The United Nations estimates 106,000 people have fled El Fasher; the fate of the remaining 154,000 residents is unknown. The RSF, which has previously denied targeting civilians, did not respond to a request for comment.
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The world after Israel’s longest war: It turns out that personal and professional relationships built on paranoid #antisemitism and dependent on permanent war aren’t so solid. Let that be a lesson for all politicians in the U.S. and Europe. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #YourParty
Israelis are looking forward, but that doesn't mean the recent past is forgotten. Quite the opposite: Here former hostages speak to reporters regularly to make clear the whole truth of the war and its toll. Nova festival survivors have banded together to heal as a community and to educate the rest of the country on what they have discovered about themselves in the process. Faces of Hamas's victims are still visible on walls and windows. The political and military echelons are daily facing calls for accountability, and steps in that direction have begun. But this is all in the service of looking forward. Israelis are deciding what shape their national future will take, who they will be as they emerge from their longest war. This country is always building, always clearing its own path ahead. You know who isn't moving on? Israel's enemies, specifically those who have made Gaza their personality. And I don't mean the people of Gaza, who are prevented from rebuilding by Hamas. I mean the Western politicians, activists, donors. and others who have nothing to motivate them to get out of bed in the morning without the hope of a Hamas resurgence and permanent war in Gaza. The best current example of this is the crackup of the British left. The Labour Party governs the country (for the moment) and yet is in a zombie-like state. Other parties to its left are gaining, and new parties are forming, none more perfectly Gaza-obsessed than former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's party, named Your Party. (The name was a placeholder but is now official. The jokes tell themselves.)
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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By Netanyahu’s own admission, at a time when Israel faced war on four fronts, its leader was preoccupied by his legal predicament. No country, let alone one facing existential threats during wartime, could be competently governed by someone so compromised... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
"My personal interest was—and remains—to continue the process until its end, until full acquittal," Netanyahu declared in his video calling for a pardon. "But the security and political reality-the national interest—dictate otherwise." The truth is the reverse: Netanyahu's disastrous misrule since his return to office has demonstrated why he should have stepped aside long ago if he truly cares about the national interest. That he refuses to do so, and instead demands that the system bend to his whims, suggests that his patriotic appeals are a pretense. Netanyahu presents himself as paying a price for Israel, but in actuality, Israel's people are paying the price for his unwillingness to cede power.
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The European Commission is proposing a reparations loan of €165 billion for Ukraine using the cash value of frozen Russia assets held in Belgium…The reparations loan is part of a wider financial package, worth up to €210 billion, to keep Kyiv’s finances afloat for the coming years.
Commission unveils €165B loan to Ukraine using Russian frozen assets
Belgium’s foreign minister has already expressed concerns over the plan.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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#Ireland is a case study in the futility of trying to distinguish anti-Zionism from #antisemitism… It’s unhinged fixation, righteous fury, and an invincible credulity towards even the most dubious accusations, provided the finger is being pointed Zionwards… www.spectator.co.uk/article/irel...
Ireland is a case study in the futility of trying to distinguish anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism. Discussions about Israel aren't marked by criticism of the contemptible Netanyahu government nor philosophical dispute with the moral claims of Zionism. It's unhinged fixation, righteous fury, and an invincible credulity towards even the most dubious accusations, provided the finger is being pointed Zionwards. Some of the discourse wouldn't be out of place at Friday prayers in Tehran. It's wild. They've thrown off every yoke of state Catholicism except the keen interest in perfidis Judaeis. Israel is the ultimate malefactor of the Irish imagination, the bogeyman of Dublin politics and Dublin media, and a national myth posits the republic as a modern-day David taking on Goliath, when most Israelis would struggle to locate Ireland on a map and the rest think it's still part of Britain. Mind you, the tendency of its activists and ideologues to declare themselves 'Paddystinians' makes sense. Palestine is the only occupation the Irish left shows an interest in anymore.
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Let anti-Semites dig themselves out of trouble www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... By @sethamandel.bsky.social #antisemitism #conspiracism #RahmehAladwan
#DublinCityCouncil #KevinRoberts
Anti-Semitism is a matryoshka doll of conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories are famously resistant to facts that would otherwise undermine their animating assumptions. Jews should stand up for themselves because it's the right thing to do. Conspiracy theorists deserve no veto power. It is not the Jewish community's obligation to save anti-Semites from the consequences of their own actions.
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Spanish police had broken up the country’s first known cell linked to The Base, a neo-Nazi group designated as a terrorist organization by the EU; 3 arrested north of Valencia; firearms, knives, tactical gear and extremist material seized by law enforcement
www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-poli...
The Base, a neo-Nazi group founded by Rinaldo Nazzaro in 2018 in the United States, promotes "accelerationism," an ideology that seeks to hasten the collapse of democratic institutions through violent attacks. Nazzaro, a US citizen, started the group in July 2018 as a network for radical right-wing nationalists readying for armed conflict and then moved to Saint Petersburg and took up Russian citizenship, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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How it all began: The personal account of a West German urban guerrilla. By Bommi Baumann #glykoreads
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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This is the sort of demand that sounds reasonable—“time-bound” evokes calendars and deadlines and commitments. But in fact there is no such thing as a time-bound path to a Palestinian state… www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #Israel #Palestine
This is the sort of demand that sonnds ressonahle—"time-honnd" evokes calendars and deadlines and commitments. But in fact there is no such thing as a time-bound path to a Palestinian state. The reason there is a peace process is because there are actions that must be taken, building blocks put in position and in the right order. Ifa construction crew agrees to a time-bound path to a new apartment building but doesn't get all the walls finished by the deadline, does the building receive its certificate of occupancy anyway? This new State of Palestine sounds uninsurable. At the same time, the fact that we're even having this conversation is the fruit of a genuine diplomatic success: the Trump administration's triumph in getting the United Nations Security Council to vote to endorse his plan for the end of the war and the reconstruction of Gaza. Some of Netanyahu's coalition partners didn't like that the resolution on the plan mentioned a path toward a Palestinian state. But they should take the win: France and the United Kingdom voted to essentially annul their own previous recognition of a Palestinian state by signing on to a document that made clear no such state exists. There's something else that Trump's plan requires the parties to do: work. The president is not an especially patient man. Yet even he is not (so far, anyway) willing to put a sell-by date on his plan. The only way to complete it is to actually physically complete the rebuilding of Gaza, the disarming of Hamas and empowering of a non-Hamas governing entity, and the provision of security for the Gazan people until everything else is checked off the list. That is why other Mideast states are balking. "The proposed deployment of an international force in Gaza, seen as a crucial feature of President Donald Trump's plan to bring peace to the enclave, is struggling to get off the ground as countries considered likely to contribute soldiers have grown wary, reports the Washington Post, naming Indonesia an…
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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How Venezuelan gangs and African Jihadists are flooding Europe with cocaine: Surging trans-Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America archive.ph/3SoGb
#Drugtrafficking #Jihadism #AuthoritarianLeft #OrganisedCrime
Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities. Corrupt military officers and drug gangs smuggle shipments by light aircraft, fishing boats, semisubmersible vessels and freighters heading east, international law-enforcement officials have said publicly. The cocaine flows to West Africa, where an informal network of jihadist-linked smugglers and their allies then move the drug north to feed high and rising demand in Europe. "Cocaine in the 198os is not the same as the one we see today," said Jesus Romero, a retired U.S. military intelligence officer. "There are direct linkages to terrorist organizations to support their cause." Unprecedented levels of cocaine production in Colombia in recent years have overwhelmed traditional smuggling routes, leading traffickers to exploit Venezuela's strategic location, ineffectual security institutions and long coastline, the law-enforcement officials have said. That has led cocaine consumption to rise worldwide in regions that hadn't been major consumers, from Australia to Eastern Europe, United Nations drug researchers say. The confluence of drug smugglers, jihadists and corrupt officials is part of a growing global alignment among criminal gangs, militant groups and rogue governments that threatens democratic norms and social stability, with profound potential ramifications.
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city: Anti-Israel fervour has become the new communion wafer of parts of the Irish left. This is not an isolated spasm. It is the latest symptom of a very old disease. archive.ph/RVGIk By Rory Hanrahan #antisemitism #Ireland
Dublin already boycotts Israeli academics and leads Europe in anti-Israel UN resolutions. The Israeli embassy in Dublin has been closed by Israel over the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government. Israeli officials now call it, without fear of contradiction, the antisemitic capital of Europe. This is not about a park. It is about whether Ireland still believes its Jewish citizens belong. If Herzog's name does eventually fall, something larger falls with it; the claim that the Republic is an inclusive nation, rather than a monocultural tribe in progressive clothing. A country that erases the memory of the man who liberated Belsen while polishing the statue of the man who courted Hitler has chosen which side of history it wishes to stand on.
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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US Envoy Tom Barrack warned Baghdad not to involve itself in Israel’s war against Hezbollah, telling officials the country may face Israeli strikes if they or Iran-backed militias there intervened, the Saudi state-run al Hadath news outlet reported on Monday. www.jpost.com/israel-news/... #Islamism
US envoy: Israel will strike Iraqi groups aiding Hezbollah | The Jerusalem Post
The warning came a month after sources in the Northern Command told Walla that Israel was seeing an increased threat from the country.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Walk around Israel and instantly understand that is the opposite of the case for Christians governed by the Jewish state. Ideological and theological debates over Zionism (of any flavor) are beside the point here, because it is where theory ends and reality reigns. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...
The Christian population of Israel is still growing, some years even as a percentage of the total population, and that is not the norm in the rest of the region. But this time of year, the issue tends to focus on one place more than others: Bethlehem. The answer to why the Christian population is struggling in this historical Christian city is the same, however, regarding the question of Christian struggles in the Palestinian territories. The Christian population of Gaza has plummeted since Hamas's 2007 takeover. The community's population in Bethlehem has deteriorated since the Palestinian Authority took control of the city in 1994. Hamas's activities both in Gaza and in places like Bethlehem (Hamas exists in the West Bank, as well) have made the Christian population unsafe and also forced into a second-class citizenship status. As Eness Elias notes, it has become increasingly difficult for Christians to buy land in places under Palestinian control. Elias also recounts a story in which "Sanaa Razi Nashash from Beit Jala described how she went to the police to file a complaint against a Muslim man who assaulted her-only to find the assailant wearing a police uniform." Chasing Christians out while preventing them from buying property is a pretty airtight strategy to ensure the population only goes one way: down. And it's the prevailing policy in places under Palestinian governance. Others report that the Palestinian Authority "is erasing" Christians from education curricula as Muslim students become the majority in previously Christian schools.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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In the days to come there will be much chatter about how this – as the Taoiseach says – might be “seen” as antisemitic.

That’s not the problem. The problem is that #Ireland is, increasingly, an antisemitic country...

gript.ie/mcguirk-perc... By John McGuirk #antisemitism #HerzogPark
It is said that a fish does not know that it is wet. When you swim in water all day, that is simply your natural state of being. The alternative to being wet, for a fish, is being dead. A similar observation might be made about very many Irish people when it comes to antisemitism. Our Taoiseach can never tell us that a thing is antisemitic. This would be the equivalent of explaining to a salmon that it is immersed in water. He can only tell us that the rest of the world might see it that way. This allows us, as a people, the comfort of imagining that the rest of the world is simply incapable of understanding the subtleties and compassions of the Irish mind.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Documents revealing how infamous Nazi doctor #JosefMengele, known as the "Angel of Death," led an open post-war life in #Argentina were found among a massive trove of evidence released and declassified earlier this year by President Javier Milei. www.foxnews.com/world/how-na... #nazism
The declassified archives show Argentina clearly understood by the mid- to late 1950s who Mengele was and that he was actually present in the country. Authorities knew he had entered the country in 1949 using an Italian passport issued under the name Helmut Gregor, which he used as the basis for obtaining an official immigrant ID card in 1950... The files corroborate Argentina's ambiguous postwar position of cooperating with Western democracies, extremely disjointed bureaucracy, lack of will or understanding regarding the serious nature of crimes committed by former Nazis in its territory, and a reluctance by higher-hierarchy authorities to confront how deeply Nazi fugitives were embedded within the country's social and political landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Wang Dinghua, the owner of a major Chinese drone parts supplier company has taken a 5% stake in one of Russia’s leading drone companies, that builds drones widely used in attacks on Ukraine, highlighting a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing’s military-industrial complexes.
A company filing, made in September and seen by the Financial Times, listed Wang Dinghua as the new owner of 5 per cent of the shares in Rustakt, a manufacturer of the VT-40 first-person-view drone widely used by Russia in attacks on Ukrainian forces. Shenzhen Minghuaxin and other companies owned by Wang, a businessman based in the southern Chinese city, have been big suppliers of drone parts to Rustakt and its allied companies. While China has given Moscow greater access to its vast capacity to produce electronics than Kyiv, this new tie-up marks a previously unknown level of cooperation between a Chinese company and a Russian military supplier. The FT first found the filing in Russian public records. Within a day of accessing it, however, all of Rustakt's ownership records had been suppressed and removed from official corporate registries in Russia. Data about the share transfer has also now been expunged from private corporate intelligence sites in the country. At the time of the data suppression, Rustakt was listed as 95-per-cent-owned by Pavel Nikitin, a businessman. The company, which is subject to sanctions imposed by Ukraine and the EU, is listed by Ukrainian authorities as a participant in Russia's "Judgment Day" project to supply uncrewed aerial vehicles and train pilots for its war effort.
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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War without end: Russia’s shadow warfare. 
To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation. cepa.org/comprehensiv... By @samagreene.bsky.social @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan #glykoreads
Severed cables. Disrupted aviation. Arson. Sabotage. Assassination. Infiltration. Attacks designed to distract, to confuse, and to dismay an adversary - but not to provoke a response. Such is shadow warfare, causing damage and costing lives but operating below the traditional threshold of war.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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From Herzog Park to the classroom, Irish Jews face a rising tide of hatred:
Jews like my daughter are targets of hatred from left and right, and a new report will show how pervasive it has become in Ireland archive.ph/STFRX #antisemitism #nationalism #Ireland
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The faith of our fathers: About a massacre, about Ireland and Israel, about the IRA and the Nazis, and why my family ended up in Canada.
“Not a few of Ireland's gallant heroes were vulgar antisemites and Nazi collaborators.” therealstory.substack.com/p/the-faith-... By Terry Glavin #antisemitism
Even on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Irish military neutrality means Ireland only "almost stands with Ukraine," says the besieged Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy. But when it comes to Israel, there's something deeply dysfunctional going on. The main thing to notice here is the self-flattery of the boilerplate Irish pretext for histrionic Anti-Zionism, put so elegantly by the creepy former Irish diplomat quoted in my column, Niall Holohan: "We feel we have been victimized over the centuries. It's part of our psyche — underneath it all we side with the underdog." This sanctimonious paddywhackery has allowed Ireland's "Pro-Palestine" windbags to get away with all manner of antisemitic slander and blood libel against the State of Israel going back decades. The Irish can claim no rightful entitlement to any sort of a victim coupon or free pass here. The historian Raymond Douglas, distinguished professor of history at New York's Colgate University, has examined this special pleading in exhausting detail in a chapter titled Not So Different after All: Irish and Continental European Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, in Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture (Irish Studies).
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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While consolidating an ideological and strategic bloc with Russia, Iran and North Korea, China is seeking nuclear parity with the U.S., technological and economic autonomy, and greater control over global supply chains and international payments. The implications for Western security are profound.
The New Cold War will not be the same as the old one. This time, China will wrap the serpent of its supply chains around a myriad of countries alienated from the US. China's geopolitical objective will be to create economic and military autonomy for itself, and ensure that the countries participating in its supply chains will be economically dependent on China. China will seek global dominance of sectors (e.g. EVs, Renewable Energy, Shipping, Aerospace), irrespective of the economic logic of doing so. This matches the goal of increasing trading partners' dependence on Chinese supply chains while satisfying Beijing's global dominance and strategic autonomy goals.
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Inside Trump’s latest push for peace in Ukraine: The most consistent thing about Trump’s 10-month search for an end to the war in Ukraine has been his inconsistency.
archive.ph/ciTbQ #RussiaUkraineWar
Over the coming days, as Zelensky pushes for another meeting with Trump, he will again need to balance two priorities that look ever harder to reconcile. He will need to respect the wishes of his people not to trade away land they have already made incalculable sacrifices to defend. At the same time, he will need to show Trump that Russia, not Ukraine, remains the obstacle to peace.
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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The Dublin city council is set to vote to rename a park named after Israel’s Irish-born sixth president, Chaim Herzog, following a campaign by anti-Israel groups amid a swell in anti-Israel sentiment in #Ireland since the October 7… www.timesofisrael.com/dublin-city-... #nationalism #antisemitism
Sharing a copy of the report on X, Irish Jewish pro-Israel activist Rachel Moiselle said the city council "has made an antisemitic decision to change the name of Herzog park, a blatant attempt to erase Irish-Jewish history." "Ireland is an institutionally antisemitic country," she said. "To deny it in the face of such overwhelming evidence is pure folly." Israel says Ireland's anti-Israel stance has frequently veered into blatant antisemitism. Recent research has also found disturbing levels of antisemitic beliefs among large swathes of the population. Last month, Ireland elected as president far-left lawmaker Catherine Connolly, who has referred to Israel as a "terrorist state."
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s real plan for peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board. www.wsj.com/world/russia... #RusdiaUkraineWar #trumpism
For many in the Trump White House, that blurring of business and geopolitics is a feature, not a bug. Key presidential advisers see an opportunity for American investors to snap up lucrative deals in a new postwar Russia and become the commercial guarantors of peace. In conversations with Witkoff and Kushner, Russia has been clear it would prefer U.S. businesses to step in, not rivals from European states whose leaders have "talked a lot of trash" about the peace effforts, one of these people said: "It's Trump's 'Art of the Deal' to say, 'Look, I'm settling this thing and there's huge economic benefits for doing that for America, right?'"
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM