By David Swanson, World BEYOND War

The United States just held a presidential election between two pro-war, militarist candidates, each of whom could have been expected to shift yet more funding into war preparations, to arm the genocide in Palestine, and to wage and threaten war with abandon. And yet peace was, as it often is, a deciding factor.

Many voters demanding peace were otherwise inclined to vote for Kamala Harris. Had she simply committed to ceasing to illegally arm just one war, she probably would have won.

Many voters demanding peace squinted their eyes hard enough to see peace in Donald Trump. Had he not mixed peace along with war into his word salad, he probably would have lost.

A poll published in May suggested that voters in swing states would be significantly more likely to vote for then-candidate Biden were he to embargo arms to Israel. A second poll from August showed the same (minus Biden). A third poll from September showed the same (for Harris).

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By Richard Turpin, World BEYOND War

Isolation has not prevented Kiribati from suffering the depradations of colonialism, militarism, and capitalism.

David Swanson asked me to write about Kiribati after I wrote to him to point out Costa Rica is not the only “full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized.” Kiribati, and other small countries I suspect, have no military. In Kiribati’s case this was a deliberate decision taken by the first President and Government of Kiribati as it was becoming Independent in 1979. Like Costa Rica it has almost certainly benefitted from that foundational decision. Many other newly independent ex British colonies suffered from coups and military rule as a result of the British policy of promoting nationhood on the British model: Westminster type parliament, independent judiciary, and a military force. It was interesting interviewing Sir Ieremia Tabai, the first President and a leading campaigner at the time when it was an issue, stating that the motivation was heavily economic – we are a small country with very little money so we can’t go wasting it on buying guns. If only more leaders would adhere to such basic commonsense!

But first of all a bit of an introduction to Kiribati, as most people have never heard of us and even fewer know much about us. Kiribati sits right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean but tending to the Western side. It is the only country in the world with a claim to be in all four hemispheres, north, south, east and west, spanning as it does the Equator and the 180 meridian, the International Date Line. There are 33 islands spread over 3000kms from west to east along the Equator. The population is currently 130,000 and rising fast, with more than half living in the capital Tarawa. The population is over 90% ethnically homogenous Micronesian, I-Kiribati, with its own language and unique culture. Kiribati dance is a unique cultural form and is central in the culture, an integral part of every occasion from the opening of Parliament to weddings, birthdays, and public holidays. It is one of the main ways in which the culture preserves itself, the Kiribati diaspora using it as an excuse to come together wherever they are and teach it to the children.

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by Tracy Turner

The preceding nuclear pollution article, "Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 2024 Aftermath, Risks, and Insights, " examined the millennial-spanning consequences of nuclear disasters like Chornobyl and Fukushima, atomic testing, and depleted uranium warfare. The article detailed the health risks of radioactive isotopes such as Plutonium, Cesium, and Polonium and their ongoing impact on the environment and human health.

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Environmental Injustice and Racial Exploitation

The previous nuclear pollution article discussed extraordinary contamination of soil, water, and food items and radioactive long-term health consequences for the affected populations—especially the "downwinders" who are exposed to nuclear fallout. The nuclear narrative previously discussed atomic power from its origin in the Manhattan Project to its modern applications , which have been thoroughly implicated in racial and environmental injustice. The article covered Chernobyl and Fukushima ongoing radioactive disasters, as Infinity Pollution.

Many consider nuclear power a technological marvel, the prospected clean energy of the future. Still, in reality, nuclear is far darker when we consider its historical and continuing impacts: uranium mining, nuclear testing, and waste disposal. The fallout from atomic development has disproportionately harmed marginalized communities, Indigenous peoples, and people of color. From the development of the atomic bomb in the United States to nuclear testing across the South Pacific and the Soviet Union, atomic energy has been part of a long history of exploitation, displacement, and environmental degradation. Nuclear power, in all of its forms, is steeped in systemic racism, ecological colonialism, and the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War

I do see a problem with justifying the U.S. Civil War while recognizing the damage done by of regrettable dreams of vengeance...

I wasn’t going to read The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates because I’m doing what I can to end the genocide and occupation, and because Coates seems like such a nice guy that it saddens me that he nonsensically defended the U.S. Civil War.

I’m very glad that I did read it. I did so because someone led me to believe that in it Coates changed his mind about the Civil War. This turned out to be a misunderstanding that grew out of the fact that in the book he does slightly change his mind about a different — much more popular — article that he had written in the same magazine, one about reparations.

I’m glad I read the book because it is full of useful information and perspectives on the life of the author, on racial injustice, on propaganda, and on rebellion. One insight in particular strikes me, and it is related to what Coates regrets about his article on reparations, namely his use of the example of German reparations to Israel.

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By Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War

The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him.

Numerous interpretations of the story exist, and more than one version has circulated through the ancient Near East. One version concludes with Job avowing repentance. “I know that my redeemer liveth, and so I repent in dust and in ashes.”

The Latin root for the word ‘repent’ is pensare – to think. ‘Repent” suggests an effort to rethink.

Job’s surprising repentance has been on my mind as calls increase, in 2024, for the United Nations to rethink its relation to Israel as a member state. Increasingly, civil society groups are pressuring Permanent Missions to the UN to eject Israel as a voting member of the General Assembly.

To paraphrase Pankraj Mishra, writing for the New York Review of Books, a stunned world has watched with disbelief as the United States provisions Israel with weapons enabling a mass murder spree across the Middle East.

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The Russian president is tired of holding himself back. Putin surprised the world on Thursday when he addressed the nation to announce that Russia had tested a new medium-range hypersonic missile in a strike on a famous Soviet industrial complex in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. He said it was a response to the recent US and UK authorization of Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory, a decision that has led to the NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine “taking on elements of a global character.” As I explained, the latest phase of the conflict has led to a “moment of truth,” with the Russian president faced with a choice between escalation and continuing his policy of strategic patience. The first option could prevent Trump from reaching a peace agreement, while the second could provoke even more aggression. Putin chose the former, and in a creative way that few saw coming. The Oreshnik missile system he announced Thursday has multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).Read also

"I am sure that neither of us is even aware right now of any new future developments.", Peskov said. MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. The research and development of current Russian weapons are not being particularly publicized, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalist Pavel Zarubin. Replying to a question about the newest Oreshnik missile, the Kremlin official said: "I am sure that neither of us is even aware right now of any new future developments." Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out on November 21 that US-and UK-made missiles had targeted military facilities in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk borderline regions following a move by the US and its NATO allies to authorize the use of their long-range weapons for strikes against Russia. According to Putin, in retaliation to the attacks, Russia for the first time used its newest Oreshnik non-nuclear intermediate-range ballistic missiles against Ukraine’s Yuzhmash defense industry facility in Dnepropetrovsk (called Dnepr in Ukraine). The Russian leader emphasized that the West could face dire consequences if its provocative policy escalated the conflict further.

THE FINAL WORLD WAR: Khazarians vs. the Rus’. The rapid and disastrous developments in the Ukraine this week all point to the meticulous unfolding of the Khazarian Cabal‘s push toward World War III. After all, it was the same Khazarian banksters who stealthily engineered the First and Second World Wars, so they know exactly how to push all the buttons and pull all the strings (as the entire world community of nations has been watching since the Khazarian Mafia pulled off the 9/11 terror attacks). As far as the star of the WW3 show, who doesn’t know by now that dementia-ridden, drug-addled and physically debilitated Joe Biden was criminally installed into the Oval Office specifically to start Word War III?! AN UTTERLY DESPICABLE & DEMENTED POTUS IMPOSTER IS USED TO START WW3 TO SABOTAGE TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY

From time immemorial, empires and kingdoms, nations and republics, countries and commonwealths, states and provinces have had their own versions of a Deep State. So, to be clear, the present American Deep State is by no means a recent phenomenon; in fact, these stealthily ensconced administrative power centers have been around for many millennia. However, what is new to this game is that — TODAY — virtually everyone and their brother knows about the all-powerful Deep State. And, they are aware that nothing ever changes because of this entrenched power structure, also known as the SES (Senior Executive Service), cunningly hidden within the U.S. Federal Government. DEEP STATE: SHADOW GOVERNMENT REVEALED – SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE The SES actually forms the governmental nucleus around which all of the other institutional and individual Deep Staters revolve. Of course, the entire covert Deep State power structure was meticulously put into place over decades by the well concealed controllers of the US Corporation, but that’s another story.

Why, pray tell, did Trump nominate a Soros accomplice, Secret Society flunky and flaming gay soyboy — who is married to a man — as Treasury Secretary?!?!?! …Because Trump was ordered to by his cultural marxist Khazarian masters—THAT’S WHY! And, because it’s well known throughout the global power structure that homosexuals are the most easily manipulated individuals who are put into positions of authority…because they are so vulnerable to sexual bribery and blackmail. Now we know for sure that Trump had no intentions whatsoever of reigning in the FED—an utterly treasonous foreign banking cartel owned by the most predatory and traitorous banksters on the planet.

He asserted this during an appearance on the “Health Ranger Report.” Wiles told the Health Ranger Mike Adams that in Bible prophecy, the “seas” or “oceans” represent humanity, and “the Beast rising out of the sea” of humanity is not a monster – but a system that comes up through mankind. The book of the Prophet Daniel and the Revelation to St. John of Patmos mentions the themes of the Beast’s emergence. The TruNews founder said: “This Beast is a system that seeks to control the world, and its intention is to compel people to be conformed to the image of the Beast – meaning that people become like the beast. They conform to the image of the Beast. They start taking on the attributes of the Beast.

The Oreshnik missile flies at a speed of Mach 10, or 3 km per second, retired Russian Army colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik, explaining why it can't be intercepted by modern air defenses. “The unique feature of the Oreshnik missile system is that, firstly, it is a medium-range missile – it flies to a distance of 1,000 km to 5,500 km – and secondly, it is hypersonic, flying at a speed of Mach 10," retired Russian Army colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik. Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound, equates to 3 km per second, the pundit noted. There is not a single air defense or missile defense system in the world capable of intercepting those hypersonic missiles, Litovkin stressed. "The West does not have missiles that fly at such a speed or hypersonic missiles at all," the pundit continued. "Although the US has repeatedly boasted that it has such missiles, it has never demonstrated a missile flight. They appeared to show missiles that flew at a supersonic speed of 5.5 times the speed of sound or Mach 5.5. However, hypersonic speed begins at Mach 6-7."

On November 21, Russia launched from its state central interspecific range Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Region an advanced medium-range ballistic missile on the territory of the Ukrainian State Factory Yuzhmash in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. That day, using available information, military experts assumed that the strike was delivered by the RS-26 Rubezh missile, not a new weapon, but an old ‘forgotten’ one. This missile has the hypersonic strike part, which is equipped with 6 multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles or MIRVs each consisting of 6 warheads with tactical nuclear charges. It was also reported that the missile was fitted with the Avangard-R hypersonic glider, and instead of nuclear charges, its MIRVs were loaded with metal blanks. The Ukrainian military claimed that Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles were also used in the attack. Another Patriot, the most advanced US air defense system, was reportedly destroyed on the outskirts of the city before the main blow.

A group of leading Korean medical research scientists is raising the alarm after proving that Covid mRNA “vaccines” trigger sudden cardiac deaths. Professor Jae-Hwan Nam of the Catholic University of Korea and Prof. Byung-Kwan Lim from Jungwon University led a team of researchers from several top Korean academic medical centers. The team sought to investigate the impact of mRNA Covid “vaccination” on cardiovascular health. The researchers raised concerns about the lack of official data regarding the cardiac toxicity of the Covid injections, despite the “vaccines” being pushed onto the public for almost four years.

During a discussion with president-elect Trump’s former Office of Management and Budget Director, Russ Vought, Tucker Carlson posited that the outgoing administration is attempting to saddle Trump with a global conflict. “If you doubt how serious the opposition is to the public, not just to Trump, but to the majority of the country that voted for him, They’re trying to leave him with World War III on the way out,” Carlson urged. Russia is furious about the Biden administration lifting restrictions on use of US developed long range missiles, and Putin has repeatedly stated that such a move would mean NATO countries are at war with Russia. Carlson continued, “I can’t imagine a more desperate or evil thing for Tony Blinken, who I think is desperate and evil, in my view, to do. Leave him with a war?”

Washington will continue to provide military aid to Kiev, spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre has said. The US will not alter its policy regarding the Ukraine conflict in light of what Moscow described as a “combat test” of its new state-of-the-art intermediate-range ballistic missile against a Ukrainian military target, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at a news briefing. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that the nation’s military have launched a new hypersonic ballistic missile – the Oreshnik – targeting a military industrial facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. The strike was in response to what Putin called the “aggressive actions of NATO member states against Russia.” “We were aware of Russia’s launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine,” Jean-Pierre said later on Thursday. She also claimed that the US had “briefed Ukraine and our close allies and partners in recent days” about the impending strike.

The ICC issued warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant earlier this week. Several Western states have pledged to execute an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Hague-based court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu along with former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas commander Ibrahim al-Masri. West Jerusalem claims that al-Masri is already dead. The warrants are for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the Gaza conflict. The decision has elicited mixed reactions in the West. Several nations emphasized their respect for the independence of the court, while others voiced support for Israel. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, and Norway all claimed they would meet their commitments and obligations under the Rome Statute and international law. However, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto stressed that the ICC was “wrong” to put Netanyahu and Gallant on the same level as Hamas. Austria also said that it would obey the decision, but its foreign minister, Alexander Schallenberg, added that the warrant was “utterly incomprehensible.”

He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting, such as destabilizing and then invading Belarus, with the intent of coercing him into freezing the existing LOC and then possibly accepting the deployment of Western/NATO peacekeepers there. Putin surprised the world on Thursday when he addressed the nation to inform them that Russia had tested a new hypersonic medium-range missile earlier that morning in an attack against a famous Soviet-era industrial complex in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. He explained that this was a response to the US and UK recently allowing Ukraine to use their long-range missiles inside of Russia. Their decision resulted in the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine “assuming elements of a global nature” in his words. As was explained here with regards to the “moment of truth” that this latest phase of the conflict led to, he was faced with the choice of either escalating or continuing his policy of strategic patience, the first of which could foil attempts by Trump to reach a peace deal while the second could invite more aggression. Putin chose the former and did so in a creative way that few foresaw. The Oreshnik missile system whose existence he disclosed on Thursday has Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs).

The only thing worse than being guided in your thoughts and actions by delusion is... shared delusion. When Crazy draws a crowd then you have a problem. The crowd that Crazy draws is called, Mob. Crazy and Mob are what you would call rap partners in The Joint... in prison. Two people brought together by... hmm? right! Brought together by shared delusion. Delusion falls into two main camps. Most delusions tend to create two main perspectives and then... there are little camps that come about through magnetic similarities. You've heard that birds of a feather flock together, and that is true with every species. People shouldn't try to mix in with those they have no magnetic associations with, cause... when you get found out... they jump you. This happens everywhere. What do I mean when I say 'jump you?' Well, I don't... necessarily... mean that they literally jump you, although in certain circles and environs that is exactly what happens. It means they turn on you at the level... where that sort of thing happens... at the level it happens at. It could be everything from whisper campaigns and shunning to blanket parties. It could be everything from a dirty look to death and dismemberment. A lot of it is cultural. You find a different kind of justice in The Hindu Kush than you do on Wall Street or the salon society of The Upper East Side.

God loves him, but his penis is not going to be in my bathroom. pic.twitter.com/YNCuiW0VLP

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 21, 2024

South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace responded to a protest by a transgender activist following an incident at a tech conference in Washington, D.C., as she is campaigning to ban transgenders from women’s bathrooms. Evan Greer, director of Fight for Freedom, interrupted Mace during her appearance at the “Summit on the Future of the Internet” held at Georgetown University. The protest was in opposition to Mace’s proposed legislation, which prevents transgender women from accessing women’s facilities on Capitol Hill. During the interruption, Greer accused Mace of spreading misinformation that contributes to violence against transgenders, citing the deaths of several transgenders this year. Greer was removed by security. https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/11/22/watch-nancy-mace-clashes-with-trans-activist/

No counter measure exists against this weapon. The missile attacks targets at a speed of Mach 10, which is 2,3 km to 3 km per second. - (1.86 miles. per second) Modern anti-aircraft defense systems in the world and the anti-aircraft defense systems created by the Americans in Europe cannot intercept such missiles. This is out of the question. I would like to stress once again that it was not Russia but the United States (Biden, the democrats and rhinos) that destroyed the international security system. And by continuing to fight clinging to their hegemony they are pushing the whole world into a global conflict. - President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Bookmark this. Keep this. Remember this. Watch it often. Memorize it. Learn it. Understand it. Grasp it. Believe it. And never forget it. Ever. pic.twitter.com/U25wYjTBTL

— Lionel (@LionelMedia) November 18, 2024

Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee, Pam Bondi, delivered a bombshell presentation in 2020 exposing the Biden family’s ties to the corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

During her revelations on Ukraine corruption, the big three networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—went dark,… pic.twitter.com/AmAKyXt4YC

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) November 22, 2024

Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee, Pam Bondi, delivered a bombshell presentation in 2020 exposing the Biden family’s ties to the corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma. During her revelations on Ukraine corruption, the big three networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—went dark, completely ignoring the story. Trump names former Florida AG Pam Bondi as attorney general after Gaetz withdraws https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-names-former-florida-ag-pam-bondi-as-attorney-general-after-gaetz-withdraws/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

Seth Meyers Goes Quiet as Ex-NBC Anchor Torches Democrats for ‘Insulting’ the Working Class

“It is tough love time for the Democratic Party. I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt.”

Here's how they alienated working-class voters, according to Brian Williams:

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— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 22, 2024

“It is tough love time for the Democratic Party. I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt.” Here's how they alienated working-class voters, according to Brian Williams:

1. Ignoring Rising Costs: "A 12-pack of Bounty [paper towels] is $40. Rich folks don't feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the COVID lockdown."

2. Touting Stock Market Success While Ignoring Economic Hardship for Regular People: "I think telling them that the Nasdaq is gangbusters is further insulting. It's insulting."

3. Downplaying Border Issues: "I think the biggest unforced error of the Biden administration by far was the border.... To tell people it's not a problem is insulting."

4. Providing Benefits to Migrants While Ignoring Citizens: "For the working class to see incoming migrants getting welcome bags, debit cards, and motel rooms is probably insulting as well."

5. Failing to Address Biden's Cognitive Decline: "I want to know who thought it was a good idea that Joe Biden stand for another four years at 80 years of age and 37% popularity."