The US: End of Academy & the Rise of Dogma

How quickly has Trump's WASP-KKK-MAGA-GOP revolution upended decades and centuries of building a liberal American academy, as it currently fosters a dogmatic authoritarian, mercantile, ideological conformism to one man's ignorant regressive view of the world. Two months already and the damage is for the most part very hard to repair if it's not altogether irreversible.

As is always the case with dictators, their top enemies are universities, the media and the "alien" immigrants, all of whom share the unique feature of presenting different, and perhaps contrarian, perspectives and viewpoints than the prevailing nativist narrative, something that dictators don't like. 

But neo-Nazis, white supremacists, KKK and other Fascists have periodically emerged to the forefront in the socially backward, ultra-religious, developing United States that is still evolving out of its primordial swamps of colonialism, violence, and arrogant adolescence: The John Birch Society, George Lincoln Rockwell, Virgil Effinger, William Luther Pierce, Barry Goldwater, David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Joe McCarthy, and others whose modern manifestations are like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and QAnon. Even the National Rifle Association (NRA), hiding under the dubious 2nd Amendment, has stood as a militia of armed white supremacist nativists.

The Fascist vein is not an external import into US life: it is in the DNA of the republic. It is in fact in the DNA of all political entities born out of a colonial womb: South Africa, Israel, the US... among others. The reason for this has to do with a mechanism similar to the biological process of "speciation" or the formation of new species. When a group is separated into two subgroups by obstacles - usually geographic like an ocean, a mountain, a river, etc., the two subgroups begin to differentiate themselves from one another. With time, the differentiation becomes so pervasive that the two groups no longer interbreed with one another, and hence they become two separate species where there used to be only one. This is in strictly biological terms.

But the mechanism applies also to groups of humans who get separated or move from one geography or ecosystem to another. Colonial settlers are the perfect example. The moment English settlers arrived to Charlestown or Plymouth on the east coast, they began diverging from their English folks back in England. 

One thing in particular takes place. The English who stayed in England do not experience an interruption or a divergence in the normal ongoing course of their evolution as a society. But the English who migrated out of England and settled in what were the "colonies" got separated from their native ecosystem back in England, which causes an interruption, a pause if you will, in that evolution while they make sense of their new ecosystem and begin to adapt to it. In so doing, they gradually become another "species".

On the geological scale of human social evolution, the United States (and other similar colonial experiments like Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa etc.) is STILL in the throes of defining its new identity. Just like a teenager, it doesn't know who it is, it doesn't know where it is going, it rejects "advice" from its parents and peridocally erupts in bursts of rage, sort of cultural acne eruptions. Trump is one such burst of acne on the American skin. So while England itself has evolved out of its colonial barbarity into a more civilized country, the US was stuck in the "moment of its founding". The interruption in the normal course of its evolution back in the English motherland leaves it adrift in trying to understand itself.

All of this explains the periodic irrationality that strikes the American "conservatives" who are unable to adapt to changing societal norms and scientific progress. They are the teenagers in the family who are unable to adjust to the family's evolution while they themselves are still struggling with their own acne.

The behavior of the Trump's government officials on the Signal Chat Group is that of teenagers.

Now that Zionism holds the US hostage, Trump's teenagers have been let loose to rampage and plunder the traditions of free inquiry at America's major universities. The target is to silence the Palestinian narrative into non-existence. Smart readers will understand and accept that colonial Zionism sees the Palestine question as a zero-sum game: The existence of Israel is founded on the predicate of the deletion of Palestine. There cannot be a Palestine next to Israel for a simple but rarely told reason: Israelis KNOW that they made their country on the ruins of Palestine. Just as it is accepted in the West that the victim of rape should not be made to marry her rapist (a custom in some backward countries), Palestine should not be made to live side by side with its rapist Israel because it will constantly remind the latter of its crime. Hence, the natural tendency is to go for a "Final Solution": Completely eliminate the existence, the narrative, the historical records, the people... everything that pertains to Palestine. Palestine must cease to exist if Israel is to move past its guilt of raping Palestine.

Trump is undoing the American academy for daring - not out of sympathy, but out of sacrosanct academic freedom - to maintain alive the Palestine narrative.
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‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump
Alice Speri
Sat, March 29, 2025


People rally in support of Palestinians at Columbia University in New York on 22 April 2024.Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Last week, Columbia University announced that it would cave to demands by the Trump administration and adopt sweeping measures against pro-Palestinian activity on campus, including new restrictions on protest and the takeover of an academic department from faculty control.

The news sent shock waves across higher education institutions nationwide for what appeared a stunning capitulation to attacks on academic freedom and the independence of the department of Middle Eastern, south Asian and African studies, or Mesaas, which became a scapegoat for what the administration viewed as a pro-Palestinian climate on campus. It was also a remarkable turn of events for a university that had for years been a home for cutting-edge academic discourse on Palestine, beginning with the scholarship of Edward Said, a leading Palestinian intellectual.

It was precisely that legacy that also made Columbia a target of campaigns to censor Palestinian narratives – long before the protests that kicked off after 7 October 2023 drew the attention of conservatives and others who believe American campuses have become too leftwing. In the latest twist in the drama engulfing the university, its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, announced Friday she was stepping down. She is the second president of the university to resign in eight months.

Columbia’s announcement followed the Trump administration’s cancellation of $400m in federal funding, mostly for scientific research, over what the White House said was the university’s failure to protect faculty and students “from antisemitic violence and harassment”. Notably, Columbia’s bending to the government’s demands did not immediately restore the funding, with Trump administration officials indicating they would continue to monitor adherence to the policies they forced on the university.

Columbia’s submission prompted the condemnation of academic freedom advocates nationwide, who warned of more government interference to come.

“Columbia is the canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism,” said Sheldon Pollock, a Columbia professor and former chair of the Mesaas department. “This is a very worrying development across the board for university faculty.”

Trump had demanded Columbia place the Mesaas department under “receivership” – meaning, outside control, and the university has, at least in part, agreed. The department played no formal role in last year’s protests, and Said and other prominent scholars of Palestine, like Rashid Khalidi, were more closely affiliated with other departments. But Mesaas became a symbol for what was viewed as a pro-Palestinian climate on campus that some faculty note is a function of the university’s longstanding commitment to the humanities, which has long attracted more progressive scholars.

“Columbia has been associated with the Palestinian cause for a long time because it was possible to say things on the Columbia campus that in many places it was not possible to say,” Bruce Robbins, a professor of English literature, who is Jewish, said. “People who were involved in Palestine – in the issue, and in the study of the subject – found a home at Columbia where they might not have found a home somewhere else.”

A history of backlash

Columbia scholars have been studying the Middle East since the 18th century, when the university appointed its first professor of “Oriental languages”, as the academy at the time referred to the study of non-western cultures. Two hundred years later, Said’s book Orientalism became a foundational work of postcolonial scholarship. But it was his writing about the Middle East, and Palestine in particular, that established him as an icon for Palestinian scholarship.

In one of his seminal works, The Question of Palestine, Said wrote that discussion of the Arab world, and Palestinians in particular, was “so confused and unfairly slanted in the west that a great effort has to be made to see things as, for better or worse, they actually are”. Elsewhere, he noted that there was no “permission to narrate” the Palestinian experience in western discourse, and that those who tried were punished. In dozens of articles and books, Said forcefully insisted on the need for Palestinians to reclaim dominant narratives of their history, fundamentally reframing what was then a discourse largely echoing the Israeli perspective.

But what made his work so groundbreaking also made him, and Columbia, where he spent his entire career, a target.

On multiple occasions, Said’s office at Columbia was raided and vandalized. The FBI kept tabs on him. And he was often the subject of smear campaigns, including an article in the conservative Jewish magazine Commentary, which memorably called him “Professor of Terror”.

Said’s career coincided with – and likely contributed to – the gradual shifting of American students’ views on Israel, particularly following the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the two intifadas, or Palestinian uprisings. When he died in 2003, the backlash shifted on to Columbia itself, and other critics of Zionism who had found a home there, like the Mesaas professors Hamid Dabashi and Joseph Massad. (Neither responded to an interview request.)

In 2004, four Columbia undergraduates were interviewed in a documentary, Columbia Unbecoming, in which they accused three university professors with what at the time was the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department, or Mealac – including Dabashi and Massad – of unfair treatment and intimidation over their pro-Israel views. The documentary was produced by the David Project, a Boston-based group created to counter negative narratives about Israel on US campuses. The documentary ignited a sweeping controversy and calls on Columbia to fire its faculty, including from the then congressman Anthony Weiner. Some of the students featured in the film, as well as the conservative journalist Bari Weiss, who was an undergraduate at Columbia at the time, launched an initiative called Columbians for Academic Freedom, which represented students who said they had been intimidated by their professors for their views.

Following the Columbia Unbecoming controversy, the university convened a panel to investigate the allegations and found no misconduct. But it also reorganized the Mealac department, tacking on south Asian and later African studies and cross-appointing faculty from other disciplines to expand its scope. Now called Mesaas, it remained a cosmopolitan home for critical theory, the academic critique of social structures and systems of power. But it is only one of several venues in which Columbia students are exposed to scholarship on Palestine, which is also hosted by the university’s Middle East Institute and Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies, established in 2010 as the first of its kind at a US university. (The center is also to be placed under receivership.)
Antisemitism accusations

Since Israel’s war in Gaza started after the 7 October Hamas attacks, Columbia has been at the forefront of the debate over alleged antisemitism on campuses. A conversation that had previously centered on “tolerance” of pro-Israel views had made way for mounting allegations of antisemitism, a strategy that has been increasingly pursued by pro-Israel groups. Such allegations have resulted in congressional hearings, several lawsuits, the former president Minouche Shafik’s resignation, faculty and student expulsions, and the targeting by immigration authorities of foreign students who expressed pro-Palestinian views.

There was internal pushback as well, including a letter last month signed by about 200 Columbia faculty calling on the university to implement “concrete action” to protect the Jewish community on campus. That letter included many of the same demands later presented by the Trump administration, including a mask ban and the adoption of a definition of antisemitism that critics argue wrongly conflates some criticisms of Israel with antisemitism. It also asked for an investigation of Massad, who faced backlash and calls on the university to remove him after an op-ed he published in the Electronic Intifada a day after the Hamas attacks, referring to scenes from the attacks as “awesome” and “stunning”.

People are beginning to wonder who is vetting their syllabus, who may be listening in class and reporting on them.
Sheldon Pollock

The letter also called for measures against faculty who participated in last year’s encampment, the expulsion of students who “disrupt teaching”, and the hiring of at least three tenured “pro-Israel” faculty at Mesaas “to allow ideological diversity and to combat indoctrination against the west and Israel under the guise of ‘academic independence’”. (It did not, however, call for the department to be put under receivership. The Guardian reached out to the four faculty who led the letter effort but got no response. The only Mesaas faculty member who signed it, the retired professor Nehama Bershon, declined to comment.)

Last year, Robbins, the English professor, taught a class on literary representations of atrocity. The syllabus included a week dedicated to the war in Gaza, which happened to coincide with the protest encampment. Robbins took his students to visit the encampment, offering those who didn’t want to go the possibility to opt out. The timing was a “historical coincidence”, he said. “It would almost be crazy not to take advantage of this.” In response, two students filed a formal complaint, accusing Robbins of interfering with their education by holding the class at the encampment. The university has launched an investigation, and Robbins is “awaiting judgment”, he says.

“I got into the profession thinking that making students uncomfortable is part of my job description.”
A canary in the mine

Many Columbia faculty and students were away for spring break last week and were stunned by the news that the university would bend to the Trump administration’s demands. On Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, two unions representing faculty, sued the Trump administration on behalf of their members at Columbia over the cancellation of federal funding. Faculty have also talked about a possible strike. Some scholars outside Columbia have called for a boycott of the university.

Pollock said that a chill was sweeping through faculty. “People are beginning to wonder who is vetting their syllabus, who may be listening in class and reporting on them; colleagues who are green card holders have looked at the Mahmoud Khalil attack as a test case,” he said. (The Guardian reached out to several scholars affiliated with Mesaas and other departments, but few agreed to talk on the record, with one senior professor citing a “dangerous” situation on campus.)

What is clear to all is that this is just the beginning, said Jeremy Young, a historian and higher-education advocate who until recently worked as the director of state and higher-education policy at PEN America.

“It’s a terrible precedent to set,” he said of the Trump administration’s demands and Columbia’s response; Young emphasized he was not speaking for PEN. “The government is acting like a bully, and if a bully gets what they want from using bullying tactics, they’re just going to keep going until someone stands up to them. And that wasn’t Columbia, but I hope it’ll be another institution.”

Greenland Before vs. After US annexation

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How President Musk is Stealthily Destroying Social Security

Opinion

Elon Musk has a dodgy plan to gut Social Security and please billionaires
EJ Montini, Arizona Republic

Thu, March 27, 2025

America's Co-President Elon Musk has referred to Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

He told a host on Fox Business that “Most of the federal spending is entitlements. That’s the big one to eliminate.”

Musk and his helper, Donald Trump, want to gut the system. After all, billionaires have no need for Social Security.

However, they know that if they tried a direct approach and simply slashed Social Security benefits, even their most ardent sycophants in Congress would balk, knowing they’d be booted from office in the next election.

DOGE cuts make it tough to access Social Security benefits

 

White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.

So, instead of drastically cutting benefits, the plan seemingly is to make it more and more difficult for people who have earned those benefits to get them.

That’s why Musk and his DOGE bros want to cut thousands of jobs from Social Security’s workforce, close regional offices, and limit phone service by requiring recipients to show up in person to verify certain changes to their accounts.

As a result, the Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month because the servers were overloaded, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren succinctly outlined the plot to gut Social Security at a hearing in Washington, D.C.

Not just retirees rely on Social Security

She said, “DOGE is considering slashing up to 50 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce. That means longer lines, more errors, and for everyone who gives up or who dies before they get their benefits sorted out, those delays and errors also turn into benefit cuts.”

Warren added, “The law is to deliver the benefits that people are legally entitled to. If you don’t have the staff. If you don’t answer the phones. If you don’t fix the mistakes. People don’t get what they’re legally entitled to.”

Exactly.

The list of people who will be most at risk includes retirees, of course. But also individuals with disabilities, patients in hospitals, people who live in remote areas, even children, many living in foster homes.

It goes on.

Long lines, confusion and delay hurt us all

Already, legitimate Social Security recipients are feeling it. Very long wait times for callers. Confusion. Uncertainty.

Delays in receiving Social Security benefits can be catastrophic for some recipients. Many people rely on the money to help take care of their most basic needs.

A survey done in January of this year found that, without their benefits, 42% of Americans 65 and older reported, “I would not be able to afford the basics, such as food, clothing, or housing.”

Former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley said recently at a briefing, “I can tell you that democracy is waking up to this very, very real threat that they are coming for Social Security.”

Coming?

I believe they’re already here.

Trump's Immigration Policy Shafting the Moronic Cuban-American GOP-MAGA Voters

No other group of immigrants to the US is more upset at Trump's revoking the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that Biden issued to Cuban-American asylum seekers. In Florida, and out of a stupid knee-jerk reflex against Fidel Castro, Cuban immigrants are ALL stupid GOP-MAGA voters. Now they are experience the sting of Trump's backstabbing. 

Enjoy, pedazos de mierda! You fled a strongman dictator (Castro) only to find yourselves kicked in the ass by the strongman dictator Trump. Those of you on TPS, start packing to be forcibly removed to Cuba... and you can leave your stupid MAGA hats behind, you won't be needing them.

And please, stop blaming Biden. He gave you TPS, you M-----f-----s. But you are cowards - no tienes huevos - as Trump is shafting you up to the hilt.

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Trump's move to end an immigration program hits a powerful Republican base of voters
Matt Dixon
Updated Wed, March 26, 2025


The Trump administration is ending a program that granted temporary legal status for thousands of Cuban immigrants.


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Trump administration’s decision last week to revoke temporary legal status for thousands of Cuban immigrants is putting Cuban American Republicans, most of whom vocally support the president, in the difficult political position of either backing an end to a popular program in their community — or disagreeing with Trump.

President Joe Biden started the so-called humanitarian parole process for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants. It created a framework used by more than 500,000 people from those countries to stay in the U.S. for up to two years if they had a financial sponsor. Of the four migrant population groups covered, the biggest by far are Cubans.

Miami-Dade County is home to the largest populations of each migrant group in the country, including more than 1 million Cuban Americans. That group over the past few decades has amassed significant political clout within the Republican Party.

Guillermo Grenier, a Florida International University professor who helps lead the school’s Cuba Poll, the longest-running research project tracking the opinions of Cuban Americans in South Florida, said that when migrants come from Cuba they are not always familiar with the politics in the United States, but enter a Cuban American community that is overwhelmingly Republican-leaning.

“They say ‘I just know the Republican Party is the party of the Cubans,’” he added of new arrivals to the country.

Miami-Dade, the largest county in Florida by population, has increasingly skewed Republican in recent years after long being a Democratic stronghold. The county first flipped from Democrat to Republican during Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2022 re-election campaign, and Trump won the county easily in 2024. In Florida, Trump received 70% of the overall vote from Cuban Americans, a vast majority of whom live in Miami-Dade County.

This has led to a significant number of Cuban American Republicans from the area being elected to Congress and the Florida Legislature, both of which are now in a thorny political position after the Trump administration moved to end the program. The changes are set to take effect April 24.

“You can ask me about any of my bills, which I’m very proud of,” said Florida state Sen. Alexis Calatayud, a Cuban American Miami Republican who tried to brush off several questions from NBC News about the policy. “The best way to reach out is through email.”

U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., the daughter of Cuban exiles, tried to thread the needle, both blaming Biden’s immigration policies and saying that the Trump administration should not automatically punish those affected by the ending of the program.


“Trump is cleaning up Biden’s political mess, and the legal limbo the Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans are facing is entirely Biden’s fault,” she posted on X. “He fooled them. They came here fleeing failed, communist countries believing in Biden’s empty promises.”

“The Trump administration should take this under consideration and not punish them for Biden’s mistakes,” she added. “Let’s give them the opportunity to apply for the protections they were promised.”

Her office directed NBC News to the social media post when asking about her position on the program. A spokesman did not know if she had spoken to the White House about the change.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., focused on Venezuelans when he was asked about the program’s ending. He said that the administration should “protect the good Venezuelans” as the program sunsets and that he thinks Trump “will do the right thing.” He said an issue is the type of people he says Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sent to the United States.

“But the problem we got is Maduro sent a whole bunch of gang members,” Scott said. “And so unfortunately, because of what Biden did, it’s going to take a while to fix this.”

U.S. Reps. Carlos Gimenez and Mario Díaz-Balart, Cuban American Republicans who represent seats that include Miami-Dade County, did not return requests seeking comment about the program or whether they expressed any reservations to the Trump administration.

Beyond half the Miami-Dade congressional delegation being Cuban American Republican, there are more than a dozen Cuban Americans serving in the Florida Legislature, including Republican state House Speaker Danny Perez, a first-generation Cuban American.

None of the state-level elected Republican Cuban Americans NBC News asked about the Trump administration’s decision returned requests seeking comment.

Secretary of State - el burro orejón - Marco Rubio was a longtime Republican politician from the Miami area, serving as speaker of the Florida House before he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010.

Grenier, the FIU professor, said that part of the reason is likely due to the difficult politics of the issue, and the fact that Republicans have traditionally supported policies backed by Cuban Americans.

“The Cubans have always been the golden children of the immigration community,” he said of the group’s political clout and position in past immigration debates relative to other groups.

He said that if the parole program were to be discontinued, he would expect that there'd be a backup program in place, especially for Cubans, and that the rug would not be pulled so abruptly.

“But that clearly is not what happened,” he said. “This is basically following the immigration model of the [Trump] administration, which is to cut off immigrants and send them back once they are here. … No one anticipated this was going to happen."

In her notice in the Federal Register, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote that the administration was ending the program because it had no “significant benefit.”

“These programs do not serve a significant public benefit, are not necessary to reduce levels of illegal immigration, did not sufficiently mitigate the domestic effects of illegal immigration, are not serving their intended purpose, and are inconsistent with the Administration’s foreign policy goals,” she wrote.

The Trump administration’s decision to end the parole program also comes as Marco Rubio has taken over as the first Cuban American secretary of state. Rubio was a longtime Republican politician from the Miami-area, serving as speaker of the Florida House before joining the U.S. Senate in 2010.

Much of his political career has been defined by a hawkishness toward Latin America, particularly Cuba, but he has not yet issued any public comments on the decision to end the parole program, and the State Department, which did not make the policy change, did not return a request seeking comment.

“He is in the Cabinet, so I would expect a little extra style points from him,” Grenier said of Rubio. “Republicans are reading the tea leaves on the program and saying stuff like, 'It’s Biden’s fault and Trump is trying to clean it up.' They are throwing blame around, but no one wants to buck Trump.”

Grenier said it’s hard to assess if there will be political fallout for Republicans from the Trump administration decision, in part because many Cuban Americans view themselves as staunch Republicans who support the party no matter what.

“Now Trump is pulling policies that helped Cuban Americans, will that have an impact? I don’t know at this point,” he said. “Many view themselves as Republicans first, Cuban Americans second. They follow the Republican Party and don’t vote on Cuba.”

“In the past, our polls have found that Cuba can be like the 4th, 5th, 6th, at one point 8th, most important thing out of 10,” he added.

While the ending of the program affects four different migrant populations, Grenier says any realistic pushback on the changes would have to come from one place: Cuban Americans.

“Cubans are the only ones who have the political power to step up and oppose this,” he said. “And so far they are not.”

Like Hitler Before Him, Putin's Trove of Pretexts to March into Europe

 Airbus chairman sees ‘strong indications’ an emboldened Putin is mobilizing forces to attack NATO’s eastern flank
Christiaan Hetzner
Updated Wed, March 26, 2025


Russian President Vladimir Putin may be eyeing a strategic strip of land, and risk confrontation with a weakened NATO to get at it. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev—AFP/Getty Images)

Airbus chair René Obermann says Putin may seize a moment of weakness in the U.S.-Europe alliance to build a strategic land bridge via the Suwałki Gap, which connects the Russian ethnic enclave of Kaliningrad to its client state of Belarus.

Emboldened by the Trump administration’s split with Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin may be preparing to directly test the resolve of the postwar Western military alliance.

In an interview with German business daily Handelsblatt, the chairman of European aerospace and defense group Airbus warned the continent needs to arm itself now that it’s likely the United States will not honor its obligations under NATO’s Article 5 common defense clause.

“There are strong indications that Russia is preparing an attack on NATO’s eastern flank,” René Obermann told the newspaper on Monday, adding that Putin will not likely wait until Europe has enough time to build up its own sovereign capabilities for deterrence before striking.

“Putin sees NATO as increasingly weakened, because Trump’s solidarity with Europe is shaky, to put it politely,” he said.

Obermann argues the Russian dictator has placed his country’s economy on a wartime footing with a fiscally unsustainable 10% of gross domestic product diverted to its military, according to Obermann. That’s five times the NATO minimum target, and Putin also plans to mobilize 1.5 million soldiers—the world’s second largest standing army after China.

With so much already invested, ending his expansionist campaign and returning to peace risks the one thing Putin appears to fear most—political upheaval. That may be one reason why a joint military exercise is planned for this year in Russia’s neighboring client state of Belarus.

“That is reminiscent of the events leading up to the Ukraine invasion. Furthermore, the internal pressure [in Russia] to deliver new victories through military conquest likely will grow,” he said.

The Airbus chairman suspects that, much like Putin’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, plans would involve another ethnic enclave—this time Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, which forms Russia’s westernmost territory.

Putin may aspire to build a strategic land bridge to the historic Hanseatic port city via its client state of Belarus after the former was cut off from Russia proper following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This would occur by seizing what’s known as the Suwałki Gap, a corridor along the Polish border with Lithuania that separates the Kaliningrad oblast (region) from Belarus.

A spokesperson for NATO did not respond by press time to Fortune’s request for comment.
‘Grossly negligent’ if Europe does not prepare for U.S. withdrawal

Obermann argued in favor of a pragmatic approach to security, including sticking to Germany’s contractual plans to acquire Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter jet despite other allies now considering canceling their purchase.

He wants Europe to cooperate with Americans where necessary, for example in the stationing of Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of striking distant targets in Russia, while prioritizing a deterrence strategy of its own complete with tactical nuclear weapons provided by the French.

But the Trump administration has fostered a split in the transatlantic alliance and has openly displayed scorn for its allies on several occasions. Just this week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote to Vice President JD Vance in texts accidentally leaked: “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading. It’s pathetic.”

Trump’s open courtship of Russia prompted one billionaire heiress to the Walmart fortune, Christy Walton, to take to the New York Times in defense of long-standing American principles like the rule of law and loyalty to its allies.

“It would be grossly negligent if we did not prepare for the scenario that the U.S.A. either partially or fully withdraws its forces,” said Obermann.

Airbus generated a combined €13.4 billion in 2024 across its defense and military helicopter operations, making it a midsize European player, smaller than a Thales or Leonardo, but larger than Rheinmetall and Saab. By comparison, Obermann’s company generates €50.6 billion from its civilian aerospace division through the sale of models like the Airbus A320, the airline industry’s narrow-body workhorse.

Trump's Plan to Gut Social Security

The criminal felon in the White House said he won't touch Social Security. Now he's raping it.

Those idiots who voted for Trump should know by now that he lied to them just to get elected. Everything he is doing today was NOT in his campaign. He is completely ignoring everything he said and promised in his campaign. He never talked about annexing Canada or Greenland or the Panama Canal. He said he will not be gutting social administration. He did not say he wants to undermine Europe and NATO to the benefit of Vladimir Putin. He did not say he wants to ethnically cleanse Palestine. 

On Social Security, he is starting by dismissing tens of thousands of its employees. He wants to eliminate applications by phone, as if the Internet is any safer. Pretty soon, he will invoke some ambiguous unknown law to declare Social Security insolvent and must therefore be privatized. Instead of dealing with a reliable not-for-profit federal agency, you'll have to deal with profiteers and financial hoodlums like the health insurance mafia. A privatized social security entity will deny benefits, reduce benefits, and act according to a "Deny, Defend, Depose" strategy aiming at increasing profits and shareholders dividends.

Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme. It is a contract between the government and the citizens who pay a social security tax all their working life, with every paycheck, and the government gives them back that money when they retire. 

The fact that the contract entails the younger working force funding the Social Security lockbox so that elderly retirees can benefit does not diminish the fundamental right of US citizens to retire in dignity with money they invested with the government. And Social Security must remain a government-run program and not be doled out to Trump's billionaire corporate friends who will gamble it and bankrupt it. Imagine if Social Security was in the hands of private finance companies during the 2007-2008 financial collapse: It would have been a catastrophe for retirees. =====================================================

Opinion

If you're not scared about Social Security, you should be | Opinion
John Hale and Terri Hale
Tue, March 25, 2025

The Social Security program is 90 years old come August. About 70 million Americans currently receive a monthly benefit. An estimated 185 million Americans pay into the system and plan to receive benefits someday.

They depend on it to be there for them. Recent events raise serious questions whether it will be.

Here’s a recap:

Elon Musk's efforts to discredit Social Security

Elon Musk claimed that millions of Americans over the age of 100, 200 or even 300 are getting monthly Social Security benefits. Those claims have been debunked by the news media and by the Social Security Administration.

The president amplified those false claims in a speech to a joint session of Congress, saying they indicated “incompetence” in the Social Security program.

Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time."

Leadership of the Social Security Administration in turmoil

Social Security Administration branch in Burbank, Calif.

The Social Security Administration is on its third acting commissioner since November. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday to consider Frank Bisignano to lead the SSA.

The acting commissioner who left in November is raising alarms about a potential “systems collapse” and “eventual interruption of benefits.”

Another commissioner, who left in February, did so because she refused to allow Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) team to access top-security data bases that contain personal information on almost every American.

The current acting commissioner, a mid-level Social Security employee elevated by the president, had been placed on administrative leave by prior agency leaders due to allegations of “multiple inappropriate actions” dealing with the Musk team.
The goal? Privatize Social Security.

The Social Security Administration is in a death spiral. Its workforce has dwindled from a high of 80,000 in the 1980s to a projected 50,000 this year. While resources have shrunk dramatically, workloads have ballooned largely due to the retirement of baby boomers and increasing life spans.

The result is poorer service to the public: less access to humans for personal assistance, longer telephone wait times, delays getting appointments at local offices, more difficulty in getting clear answers to non-routine questions, unacceptable holdups in getting decisions on applications for disability benefits, etc.

What the heck is happening here?

We believe there’s a plan at work: All the disruption at Social Security is designed to cause the program to eventually collapse.

Protesters rally for Social Security on March 22, 2025, in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Here’s the scenario: Continued declines in service lead to public frustration and anger. Citizens come to believe what they’re being told: The government can’t do anything well. People lose faith in the system and become ready to accept radical change.

In other words, break it to fix it.

And the fix? Privatize the system. Let banks and financial firms run it. Turn Social Security contributions into investments in stocks, bonds, crypto or whatever. End guaranteed benefits and instead have every American responsible for their investment return, with some people succeeding and some failing.

President George W. Bush wanted to do this back in 2005. His plan failed because Americans liked Social Security and they had confidence in it. It also failed because enough members of Congress were independent-minded and wouldn’t go along.

Times are certainly different now. But this train can and should be stopped.

Iowa’s members of Congress must stand up and speak out.

They should call for hearings, get answers and insist on greater transparency and accountability from DOGE and leaders of the Social Security Administration.

Our elected representatives will only take those actions if constituents tell them to.

Advocacy organizations for workers, older Iowans and people with disabilities should raise their voices. Iowans of all ages should call, email and visit their representative’s offices. Express concerns. Ask if they support the existing Social Security system and what they will do to improve it. Insist on clear answers.

Remind them while millionaires and billionaires may not depend on Social Security, ordinary people leading real lives do.

Frustrated? Scared? Then make some noise. It’s time to end the chaos and make Social Security secure again.

John and Terri Hale own The Hale Group, advocating for older Iowans and people with disabilities. John worked for the Social Security Administration for 25 years in its Baltimore headquarters, Kansas City regional office, and in multiple Iowa field offices. Reach them at terriandjohnhale@gmail.com. This column originally appeared in the Des Moines Register.

US Govt to Lose $500 billion in Tax Revenue due to IRS cuts

With fewer IRS tax auditors due to DOGE cuts, fewer taxpayers will be filing their returns while many will cheat on theirs.
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IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts at agency
Rhian Lubin
Sat, March 22, 2025

The IRS is bracing for a $500 billion drop in revenue as an increasing number of taxpayers could skip submitting their filings in the wake of Department of Government Efficiency layoffs, according to a report.

Taxpayer behavior has changed since President Donald Trump took office and implemented sweeping federal cuts through Elon Musk’s DOGE. As a result, the IRS has “noticed an uptick of online chatter from individuals declaring their intention to not pay taxes this year,” the Washington Post reports, citing three people with knowledge of tax projections.

It added that individuals were “wagering that auditors will not examine their accounts” amid DOGE’s plans to downsize the IRS by nearly 20 percent by May 15.

New hires in taxpayer services and enforcement divisions have been targeted and the agency has dropped investigations of high-value corporations and taxpayers, according to the newspaper. The agency employs roughly 90,000 workers total across the U.S., according to the IRS data.

Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline in comparison to 2024 filings, which would amount to more than $500 billion in lost revenue, according to the Post. The newspaper said it spoke with officials who shared nonpublic IRS data.

To put the $500 billion in context, the U.S. military budget was about $820 billion last year.

The Independent has contacted the Treasury Department for comment.

IRS officials reportedly tried to warn the incoming Trump administration about DOGE’s planned staffing cuts in January. “Aggressive reductions to budget and personnel capacity risk backlogs, delays, reduced receipts, and diminished capacity to build next generation digital capabilities,” a presentation seen by the Post given by tax officials to Trump’s incoming Treasury Department team said.
Individuals are reportedly “wagering online that auditors will not examine their accounts” amid DOGE’s plans to downsize the IRS by nearly 20 percent by May 15. Experts tried to warn the administration about cutting IRS jobs so close to tax filing season (REUTERS)

Experts warned against reducing the IRS workforce earlier this month. Former IRS commissioners said it would render the IRS “dysfunctional” in an op-ed for the New York Times.

“Aggressive reductions in the I.R.S.’s resources will only render our government less effective and less efficient in collecting the taxes Congress has imposed,” the former IRS commissioners said.

There could be other factors at play contributing to the possible drop in revenue, including the Los Angeles wildfires. Taxpayers in wealthy areas affected by the fires could postpone filing until October, Timur Taluy, CEO of tax-prep service FileYourTaxes.com, told the Post. Some taxpayers may also opt for a penalty-free six-month filing extension during times of economic uncertainty.

Neither of these account for the $500 billion drop in revenue, however, experts told the newspaper.

Declaration: The "Christian People" to Seek Ownership of Palestine

The Christian People from around the world watches with pain as the Holy Land of Palestine is being torn apart by the fanatic Jewish People and the fanatic Muslim People, both of whom claim the land is theirs. Yet the land belongs solely to the Christian People.

The Christian People is organizing its First Christian Holy Land Congress in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel this coming August 29–31, 2025. The agenda of the Congress is to establish a Grand Plan and marshall resources from across all denominations of the Christian World with the objective of returning the Christian People to its Holy Land in Palestine, the land in which Jesus - the Son of God - was born and proclaimed his divine mission.

From Greco-Roman times, the Holy Land has been a Christian land. Although it was occupied by the Muslim People between 638 AD and 1099 AD, then again from 1289 to 1914, the land was always Christian in its soul. Christians never left their Holy Land, even during difficult times. It was then taken by the Jewish People between 1914 and the present, and both Muslims and Jews have been savagely fighting one another over a land that belongs to neither of them.

The Jewish People's claim to the land is the weakest, since the ancient Hebrews conquered the land from the Canaanites (ancestors of the Palestinians) in one of the most brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in history, as detailed in the torah-bible. The Jewish People established two Jewish enemy kingdoms in Palestine, namely Judah and Israel, that lasted a mere 200 years (920-720 BC), after which the Holy Land was ruled successively by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans (who became Christians) until the Muslim conquest in the mid-600s AD. 

Therefore, and regardless of the tall tales of the torah-bible, the Holy Land was really "Jewish" for a very brief period of history. The only reason why people associate the Holy Land with the Jewish People is because the latter wrote a sordid series of self-promoting fictional tales called the torah-bible that most people take literally. Had the other peoples who conquered the Holy Land written their own self-promoting "religious" text during their presence there, they could easily claim ownership of the land, just as the Jewish People does today.

In fact, the only other people to have written such a text during their presence in the Holy Land are the Christian People, namely the gospels in which Christians establish a covenant with God and his beloved Son Jesus who was born there, died there, and rose from the dead there. These texts establish the unchallended historic ownership of the Holy Land by the Christian People.

Given the atrocities that are being committed by the Jewish People and the Muslim People in their savage wars over the Holy Land, the time has come for the Christian People to reconquer the Holy Land, establish their permanent rule over it, and usher peace there, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Christian communities in Palestine. 

All Christian lay and religious organziations will be invited to join the Congress in Basel to discuss the Grand Plan and ways of achieving its objectives.

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US To Naturalize Tens of Thousands of White South African Nazis as US Citizens

As his administration is expelling dark-skinned immigrants and other non-Whites from the US and banning them from entering, Donald Dumb is welcoming upwards of 67,000 white South African settlers who stole land from the Black African indigenous owners and are residual apartheid racist segregationists.

After Donald Dumb announced his intention of relocating white south african neo-Nazis to the US, claiming they are victims of racial discrimination by the Black-led government, the US embassy in Pretoria said it received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. Donald Dumb is so dumb he couldn't even locate South Africa on a map, so his apparent interest in these residual colonial racists must obviously come from his rasputin counselor, one Demon Musk who himself is a white neo-Nazi South African-born racist who left South Africa when apartheid was defeated. He couldn't tolerate being ruled by a Black Africa government.

Donald Dumb and Demon Musk must be vary happy to welcome these white colonial settlers who stand to swell the ranks of all the white supremacists that hide beneath the MAGA-GOP government now brutally ruling the US.

I wish Donald Dumb would do the same with the criminal white European Zionist settlers of Palestine by inviting them to leave Palestine, return the land to the native indigenous Palestinians and move en masse to the US as citizens. The story of South Africa is the exact same story of Palestine. 

Which explains why, after decades of collusion by the racist white Apartheid colonial regime with its sibling, the Zionist colony in Palestine - trading weapons and technology with which to brutalize their respective colonized victims the Palestinians and the Black Africans - the South African government today is one of the staunchest defender of Palestinian rights, having filed on behalf of Palestine a complaint to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the genocide being perpetrated by the Donald Dumb-backed Jewish supremacist government of Benjamin Netanyahu against the indigenous people of Palestine.

In solidarity with his fellow racist white supremacists, Donald Dumb issued an executive order this past February 7 cutting U.S. funding to South Africa in retaliation for its advocacy for Palestinian rights. He further accused South Africa of supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran and taking an anti-American stance. The U.S. has also expelled the South African ambassador, accusing him of being anti-America and anti-Trump.

The South African government expressed its satisfaction with Donald Dumb's plan as it will finally rid the country of its white racist colonial settlers whose lands can then be returned to their rightful indigenous African owners.

The history of South Africa's shedding its white colonialism past is a precedent for how Israel's history seems to be shaping up: As apartheid was being dismantled in the 1990s, the white racist government in Pretoria became extremely violent against the indigenous population, just as Israel is doing right now. Zionists are desperate at witnessing how their fabricated mid-20th century narrative behind the colonial creation of the artificial Jewish colony in Palestine is being dismantled in the eyes of international public opinion. Their last resort: extreme violence and genocide.

 

US Turning into Dear Leader's Police State

If you're a judge who blocks Trump's violations of the constitution...

If you say that the ongoing genocide in Palestine upsets you...

If you do scientific research that contradicts Trump's primitive MAGA beliefs....

If you criticize Elon Musk and Tesla...

If you say that "All men are created equal"...

If you say you are against the Trump administration' gutting of the federal government...

If you stand against Trump's betrayal of the Atlantic Alliance...

If... if.... if....

You stand to be arrested, stripped naked, chained, handcuffed, starved, humiliated, and (if non-US-born) deported...

The US can no longer claim to be the leader of the Free World. It's no longer even part of the Free world. The US has joined the club of such sinister dictatorships like Russia, China, Belarus, Iran...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

Robert Mackey

Wed, March 19, 2025

France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values ​​that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.

A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them.”

The next day, Baptiste posted a photograph of himself in a virtual meeting with a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who had decided to take up an invitation from Aix-Marseille University to welcome researchers who wish to leave the United States.

On 12 March, Baptiste shared video on X, of a television appearance in which he deplored the way that research on health, climate, energy and AI “is being chainsawed in the United States”.

In the same interview, Baptiste said that he had “heard Elon Musk say that the International Space Station should be shut down in 2027. Who are we talking about? The boss of SpaceX? The head of the American public administration? None of this makes any sense.”

It was not immediately clear what conference the researcher who was denied entry to the US was planning to attend, but the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference was held outside Houston from 10 to 14 March.

How Can Trump's Antisemitic Christian Nazis be Fighting Antisemitism?

I have written repeatedly about the built-in contradiction between the Trump world's pretense to be fighting antisemitism (by deporting Americans of Lebanese and Palestinian descent, as well as other Arabs for simply speaking out against Israel's savagery and barbarism in occupied Palestine), while it itself consists of neo-Nazis, KKK-types, white Christian supremacists and moribund eschatological Evangelicals who first and foremost have Jews on top of their list of enemies?

A simple explanation is that, RIGHT NOW, FOR THE TIME BEING, both Zionists and Trump imperialists (and also Russia's Putin) share one objective: Steal other people's lands and territories and brutalize non-white populations across the globe. Beyond those objectives, these radical colonialist movements have very little in common. Think about it: American Evangelicals support Israel ONLY because Israel's "re-manufacturing" is the sine qua non requirement for their primitive Bronze Age hallucinations, namely for their fucking Messiah to return to earth, unleash Armageddon and the end of times, and convert the Jews to Christianity. If the Jews refuse, say the Evangelicals, they will have to be put to the sword.

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Conservatives claim to be fighting antisemitism. Don’t believe them.
Ben Lorber, opinion contributor
Mon, March 17, 2025



“Shalom, Mahmoud,” the Trump White House declared last week on social media, celebrating the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Khalil at his doorstep as he returned home with his wife, eight months pregnant with their first child.

It took Khalil’s lawyers more than 24 hours to learn that he had been moved to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana operated by the private prison company GEO Group.

The motive for the arrest, however, wasn’t a mystery. Khalil was a lead spokesperson for Columbia’s student protests against Israel’s horrific war in Gaza. In recent weeks, pro-Israel advocates have been clamoring for the deportation of noncitizen student activists in the name of fighting antisemitism.

Last October, the Heritage Foundation included this recommendation in Project Esther, a set of strongarm policies to stifle the movement for Palestinian rights. Much like its better-known cousin Project 2025, Esther is an unabashedly authoritarian document. It calls on the Trump administration to “disrupt” and “degrade” pro-Palestinian advocacy using a variety of tactics lifted from the sordid history of McCarthyism in America. These range from the deportation of noncitizens to the levying of criminal and civil prosecution against activists, attacks on the nonprofit status of NGOs and liberal foundations, and public vilification campaigns against social justice leaders.

Khalil’s arrest, and the administration’s parallel efforts to defund and intimidate higher education institutions like Columbia in the name of fighting antisemitism, are lifted straight from the Project Esther playbook. And while student organizers such as Khalil and institutions like Columbia are the first target, they won’t be the last.

Upon Project Esther’s release, reporters noticed that there were few actual Jewish groups involved in Heritage’s antisemitism task force, which published the report. Rather, the task force launched in November 2023 as a coalition of mostly conservative Christian groups. Project Esther lamented that the American Jewish community “may be blind and deaf” or “in such disbelief that they cannot even acknowledge the threat.” Such accusations have been lobbed by Christians at Jews for centuries — only this time, instead of burning us at the stake for being “in disbelief,” they are claiming to fight on our behalf.

Project Esther is named after the heroine of the biblical Book of Esther, celebrated on the Jewish holiday of Purim, who uses her influence over an ancient Persian king to save the Jewish people from genocidal persecution. Indeed, one of the stranger unsettling facts of our time is that conservative Christians are pushing themselves to the front of the fight against antisemitism and claiming, in essence, to be better Jews than the Jews themselves.

“This is our moment, it is for this time that Christians, like Esther, have to stand up against these anti-Israel decrees,” Pastor Mario Bramnick, a leading figure behind Heritage’s initiative, stated last March while visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders on a delegation.

Their motives, however, are often less than altruistic. Most Christian Zionist leaders believe that support for Israel can help bring about the biblical end times, when Jesus will return and establish a global Christian dominion that leaves little room for Jewish, Muslim or any other faiths. “Israel is God’s end time clock,” proclaimed Pastor Bramnick in a sermon, “but it is also God’s end time glory.”

The right-wing Christian lobby group Family Research Council, one of the initial members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force, featured a speaker at last year’s annual conference who outlined a grim end times prediction in which two-thirds of world Jewry would die.

“God’s not done yet with Israel,” the speaker proclaimed, “and so we look forward to a massive number of Jewish people coming to faith in Yeshua, in Jesus.” Bramnick, too, once gave a speech calling on Christian Zionists to “embrace our Jewish brethren and tell them about the love of Messiah and the day that we are living in.”

Even while claiming to strenuously oppose antisemitism, many Christian Zionists seem perversely excited that its rise may be a harbinger of the Second Coming. Last summer, Luke Moon, another Heritage task force leader, helped organize a rally against antisemitism outside Columbia. The day before the rally, Sean Feucht, Moon’s co-organizer and a popular Christian musician, could barely contain his excitement. “We’re seeing this rise and this flood of antisemitism across the world — yes, these are the end days,” he told his followers in an Instagram livestream. “We’re one day closer to the return of Jesus, and as that ramps up, we’re going to see a rise … of hatred for the Jewish people.”

While Project Esther sets its sights on undergraduates, antisemitism continues to flourish on the right. Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are trying to turn the Nazi salute into an acceptable “ironic” public gesture for conservative leaders. In recent weeks, some of the country’s most popular podcasters — whose endorsements and platforms helped Trump win reelection — have hosted guests who promote antisemitic conspiracy theories, raising alarm even among conservative media leaders.

There certainly has been some genuine antisemitism at campus protests, even if more commonly the charge has been indiscriminately conflated with legitimate criticism of Israel or with brands of ultra-radicalism that sooner suggest political immaturity than anti-Jewish animus. But the richest person on the planet who is actively dismantling the federal government, or a podcaster with an audience in the tens of millions, hold much more power than any undergraduate or professor on a college campus. It is clear where the greater threat to Jewish safety lies.

When Trump declares “Shalom, Mahmoud” as he launches an attack on civil liberties, he may well fan the flames of the antisemitism he claims to combat. Recent polling shows support for Israel at historic lows across the American public, but powerful Christian Zionists — such as U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — stand ready to deepen American backing.

By putting a “kosher” label on their anti-democratic project, the Christian conservatives behind Project Esther can conveniently keep their own influence hidden from view. If this deflection ends up feeding the falsehood that a conspiracy of Jewish power lurks behind the scenes, then this rise in antisemitism is just further proof to their followers that the end times are near. Maybe that is precisely the point.

Ben Lorber is a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, focusing on white nationalism and antisemitism. He is the co-author of “Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.”

A Bouquet of US-Born White American Male Rapists and Murderers

Don’t believe Trump when he says that only migrants and immigrants commit crimes. His US-born white nativist MAGA morons by far commit more crimes than any other group of Americans.

The Delphi Girls were found murdered near an Indiana bridge in 2017. As Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, are walking on a railroad bridge in Delphi, Indiana, a white man by the name of Richard Allen follows them and orders them down a hill.
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Spring breaker Brittanee Drexel was kidnapped and murdered by US-born white American man by the name of Raymond Moody on a 2009 spring break trip to Myrtle Beach.



Raymond Moody raped and murdered 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

On April 25, 2009, Drexel left the beach and the Bar Harbor Hotel, where she was staying, to meet a friend at the nearby Blue Water Resort. It was the last time anyone saw the teenager. At 9 p.m., Drexel was walking alone in Myrtle Beach when Moody approached her while driving a Ford Explorer and kidnapped the teenager, transported her to a remote campsite near his home in Georgetown, raped and murdered her. He buried her body in a "shallow grave." Moody was no migrant or immigrant. He in fact was assisted in his crime by his US-born American girlfriend who lured the teenager into Moody’s vehicle.
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Serial Child Killer Lewis Lent is a US-born white Christian American man

Oct. 22, 1990: James "Jimmy" Bernardo, 12, goes missing. He was last seen outside the Pittsfield Plaza Cinema Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, around 5 p.m. Nov. 21, 1990: Jimmy Bernardo's body is discovered off a dirt road in rural Newfield, New York, about 200 miles away from Pittsfield. Evidence at the scene showed he was murdered.

Nov. 6, 1992: Jamie Lusher, a 16-year-old with disabilities was last seen in Westfield, Massachusetts, while biking to his grandmother's house. Jamie's bicycle was discovered six days later in a field off a dead-end road in Westfield.

August 18, 1993: Sara Anne Wood, 12, disappears. She was last seen walking from Vacation Bible School in the rural area of Sauquoit, New York. Her family began looking for her after she failed to return home. Later in the day, Sara's bike was discovered by a neighbor hidden in the brush off the side of road about a half mile down the road from the Wood family's home. Police were called and by early evening a massive search effort began.

Jan. 7, 1994: Five months after Sara's disappearance, a man attempted to abduct 12-year-old Becky Savarese as she was walking to school through downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Becky escaped the attack and later that day a 43-year-old suspect named Lewis Lent was questioned by police. After years of endless court appearances, Lent ultimately confessed to the murders of Sara Wood, Jimmy Bernardo, Becky Savarese, and Jamie Lusher.



Lewis Lent / Credit: New York State Police
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Triple Murder by US-born White American Man Nathan Gingles



Nathan Gingles is a US-born white American from South Florida who fatally shot his wife, her father David Ponzer and an unsuspecting neighbor, Andrew Ferrin, after hunting her down through her Tamarac neighborhood this past February. During his “white man’s mission”, he also had kidnapped his daughter, 4-year-old Seraphine.

Mary Gingles had documented her husband’s intent to kill her in court petitions and law enforcement incident reports dating back to when they lived together. In the months leading up to her death, her situation grew more dire, and she wrote in her most recent petition for a domestic violence injunction that she thought he would kill her by the end of February. But he is a white American and is therefore given the benefit of the doubt. Had he been an African-American, he would have been behind bars long before he committed his crime.