Famously, Donald Trump is trapped in a mess of his own making with Iran and Israel. And just as famously, there is no way for him to declare victory and withdraw. But what leaks out of The White House into the more public urinals testifies strongly that our president is desperate, yes desperate for an off-ramp. This is to propose an off-ramp, which just may be Trump's best hope.
The trick is to conjure up an excuse for quitting the war with Iran that doesn't claim a U.S. victory but gives Trump someone to blame for quitting other than himself. That someone is Congress.
Should Congress adopt a binding War Powers Resolution commanding an end to the war with Iran, Trump would be equipped to blame Congress for ending the war, to claim that Congress has snatched defeat from the jaws of a U.S. victory. That would still be a loss of face, but not as much face lost as admitting defeat on the battlefield, that His War has failed.
That doesn't get Iran the unconditional U.S. surrender it wants but leaves it in military command of the Strait of Hormuz and via the Houthis, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. And one might expect Trump to decide to abandon the U.S. bases in the Mideast that Iran objects to so Iran has no remaining targets.
That would, however, leave Israel exposed to Iranian missile strikes. But it is already in that position. Considering its lack of defensive interceptor missiles, we might expect Israel to abruptly acquire a more peaceful role.
If we suddenly see more Republican support for a war powers resolution ending the war, we might suspect that Mr. Trump is choosing this off-ramp.
02 August 2026
05 July 2026
Are Warhawks Immoral?
I’m a dedicated combat veteran peacenik.
In 1984, the U.N. General Assembly solemnly proclaimed that “the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace” and "the preservation of the right of peoples to peace and the promotion of its implementation constitute a fundamental obligation of each State.” Declaration on the Right to Peace, UNGA 39/11 (12 November 1984).
Likewise, the U.N. Charter, which under our constitution’s supremacy clause is the law of this land, commands that "[a]ll Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations." The only exceptions are self-defense or with the approval of the U.N. Security Council.
Isn’t it about time that we begin branding the war hawks among us as immoral?
We need only look at the case of Juluis Streicher at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 to understand that advocates for the violence of war are evil. Streicher neither gave orders for the extermination of Jews nor was involved in any military operations. But that did not prevent him from being convicted of crimes against humanity for producing the anti-semitic journal Der Sturmer that put out a constant barrage of hate propaganda against Jews.
Streicher's role in preparing the ground for the dehumanization of Jews in Germany was determined to be critical in creating the conditions for their extermination by the Nazis. The Nuremberg prosecutors argued that his articles and speeches were incendiary and that he was an accessory to murder and therefore as culpable as those who actually carried out the killings. The Allied judges agreed and he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in October 1946. The judgment stated in part that he infected the German mind with the virus of antisemitism and incited the German people to active persecution and murder. (Ironically, this is the state of affairs today in the Mideast where Zionist Jews now incite persecution and murder against Palestinians.)
And of course, we hanged a total of eight elite Germans for instituting and waging a war of aggression, the crime against peace, which the U.S. and Israel just launched against Iran. Can we at least ostracize those who incite a war of aggression through advocating for it?
The Nuremberg principle that propaganda inciting violence is a crime was codified in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966. Article 20 states: “1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law. 2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.”
The U.S. in ratifying that Covenant entered a reservation as to Article 20, citing the First Amendment freedom of speech. But 173 nations have ratified, acceded, or succeeded to the treaty. We stand alone in condoning war propaganda and advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence. Yet we participated in the successful prosecution and execution of Juluis Streicher at Nuremburg. So war propaganda is forbidden for thee but not for me.
I don’t care if it takes a constitutional amendment creating an exception to the First Amendment. It should be law. But in the meantime, we can at least begin pointing to the immorality of the war hawks who argue against our fundamental right to peace.
These monsters need to be shamed and ostracized.
26 May 2026
The End Times?
This is a set of links in no particular order that I've collected which cumulatively give a glimpse of the sad state of our planet.
Notice the near absence of articles about ocean pollution. Such studies are rarely done. And when they are they are usually mis-aimed. As an example, the very few studies done on ocean pollution from the Fukushim nuclear meltdown disaster were aimed at quantifying the non-persistent Cesium-137 and ignored the more persistent discharges such as plutonium isotopes, some of which have a half-life in the many thousands of years. So far as I'm aware only one study was published showing that the pollution was nearing the Oregon/California Pacific coast (that ended the publication of such studies.) Fortunately, Greenpeace has taken up the issue of ocean pollution with plastics. But so far as I'm aware no one has taken up the issue of other toxic pollutants. And we've had centuries of using our rivers and oceans to dispose of toxic substances.
(Review hint: you can work around many instances of disappeared web sites using the Web Archives Wayback Machine.) * * *
Climate change and 2026: https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html
https://www.ipcc.ch/ (report on 1.5° increased temperature vs. 2°); see also https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050: https://people.com/human-interest/climate-change-report-may/
https://popularresistance.org/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
Noah Chomsky on climate change and nuclear war threat: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50370.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/earth-wild-animal-population-plummets-60-percent-44-years-181030030643035.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html ("I would estimate the chances are about 49 percent that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.")
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-ipcc-environment-paris-agreement-global-warming-a8573811.html
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
http://www.thenation.com/article/181621/climate-change-peoples-shock
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-07/stephen-hawking-earth-will-become-flaming-ball-fire-2600
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/4605229
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5077749/Doomsday-warning-humanity-signed-15-000-scientists.html
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? https://web.archive.org/web/20250106210342/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48944.htm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/planetary-collapse-looms-new-study-shows-more-1200-species-will-almost-certainly
Sperm viability and 5G networking: https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-cell-phone-technology-dramatic-population-reduction-men-become-sterile/5670565
Mass extinction event: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176506/tomgram%3A_subhankar_banerjee%2C_the_vanishing/.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-methane-time-bomb-and-the-future-of-the-biosphere/5638298
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-what-now-threat-to-life-on-planet-earth-ozone-dying-and-the-deadly-ultraviolet-cosmic-radiation/5637864
Plastics: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/
World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years', https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622; see also https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife-nature-decline-extinct-paris-climate-agreement-wwf-elephants-rhinos-polar-bears-a8607341.html
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming, https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/27/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming/. See also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems and https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/insect-apocalypse-global-food-chain-faces-major-extinction-event-and-scientists. But see https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-04/cockroach-wars-are-upon-us-ancient-pests-starting-power-through-common-insecticides.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hothouse-earth-demise-of-the-planetary-life-support-system/5649902
https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-on-earth-is-dying-thousands-of-species-cease-to-exist/5561829
Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival, https://web.archive.org/web/20241215002228/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50050.htm
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-changes-looming-mental-health-crisis/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1002422/Apocalypse-2040-MIT-computer-model-civilisation-world-end-Club-of-Rome
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/speedy-flip-in-earths-magnetic-field-could-cause-trillions-in-damage-scientists-warn/news-story/256a3985599eb9d0adbe7c698102bfba
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-31/earths-big-freeze-looms-sun-remains-devoid-sunspots-most-2018
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/01/earths-oceans-have-absorbed-60-percent-more-heat-year-previously-thought
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 ( risk of an uninhabitable planet is not simply a far off possibility that might be triggered at several degrees of temperature rise in a more distant future — it could be triggered imminently; and it is possible that it may already have been triggered at the current level of an approximate 1C temperature rise above the pre-industrial average).
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/a-million-threatened-species--thirteen-questions-and-answers.html
Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040, https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/uk-government-backed-scientific-model-flags-risk-of-civilisation-s-collapse-by-2040-4d121e455997.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/end-human-civlisation-war-empire-racism-anthropocene/260057/
https://popularresistance.org/us-bird-numbers-drop-by-nearly-three-billion-in-48-years/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/24/mechanical-pollinator-helps-israeli-farmers-cope-with-declining-bee-population/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/24/silent-spring-already-here-global-study-shows-nearly-25-drop-insect-population-over
Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought: <https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52399373>
Starving grasshoppers? How rising carbon dioxide levels may promote an ‘insect apocalypse': https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/starving-grasshoppers-how-rising-carbon-dioxide-levels-may-promote-insect-apocalypse
The Race of Our Lives Revisited: https://web.archive.org/web/20181019170246/https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-race-of-our-lives-revisited.pdf
A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/life-heat-near-unlivable-more-3-billion-people-just-decades-climate-report-warns
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/the-relative-abundance-of-bumblebees-in-north-america-is-estimated-to-have-crashed-by-97-percent/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/nature-unraveling-new-wwf-report-reveals-alarming-68-plummet-wildlife-populations
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-report-links-mass-extinction-of-animals-to-human-activity/271437/
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/30/new-global-report-warns-nearly-40-plants-risk-extinction
Virtually all emperor penguins doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/04/emperor-penguins-climate-antarctica/
02 December 2025
Testing My Crystal Ball: What Trump Will Do about Venezuela
Gee! I wonder why the best coverage I've run across on the danger of U.S. war with Venezuela comes in an oil industry publication? Take a look at this Reuters article[1], from BOE Reports. In summary, they report that Trump offered Maduro safe passage if he wants to leave with a time limit, and the time limit has expired.
What will Trump do? Venezuela reportedly has what it takes to fight a long-term guerrilla war against an occupying U.S. force. So watch for a repeat of the treatment given to Manuel Noriega of Panama; helicopter-borne assault troops backed by fighter jets swoop out of the night sky in an attempt to snatch Maduro. The U.S. takes temporary control of Caracas.
In my opinion, that's the least violent thing Trump can do if Maduro doesn't go. And Venezuela has what it takes to fight a long-term guerrilla war against an invading force. So a fast in-and-out is the best alternative to a Viet Nam War-like quagmire, a clean shot at ending this quickly. Even if it is unsuccessful, such a mission delivers a big message.
But the Venezuelan people can kiss the world's largest proven reserves of oil goodbye. With only token payments by U.S. oil companies for the theft. So a fast in-and-out is the best shot at ending this quickly, whilst least endangering Trump's coveted Nobel Peace Prize. Even if it is unsuccessful, such a mission delivers a big message.
Caveat, my crystal ball is a 1946 model and is showing its age. And I haven't found it particularly reliable over the years. This is only a test. You've been warned.
[1]. Reuters. Trump Rejected Maduro Requests on Call, Options Narrow for Venezuela Leader, Sources Say. BOE Report. December 1, 2025. Accessed December 2, 2025. https://boereport.com/2025/12/
30 November 2025
The End Times
This is just a set of links in no particular order that I've collected which cumulatively give a glimpse of the sad state of our planet.
Notice the near absence of articles about ocean pollution. Such studies are rarely done. And when they are they are mis-aimed. As an example, the very few studies done on ocean pollution from the Fukushim nuclear meltdown disaster were aimed at quantifying the non-persistent Cesium-137 and ignored the more persistent discharges such as plutonium isotopes, some of which have a half-life in the many thousands of years. So far as I'm aware only one study was published showing that the pollution was nearing the Oregon/California Pacific coast. (that ended the publication of such studies.) Fortunately, Greenpeace has taken up the issue of ocean pollution with plastics. But so far as I'm aware no one has taken up the issue of other toxic pollutants. And we've had centuries of using our rivers and oceans to dispose of toxic substances.
(Review hint: you can fix many instances of disappeared web sites using the Web Archives Wayback Machine.)
https://www.ipcc.ch/ (report on 1.5° increased temperature vs. 2°); see also https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050: https://people.com/human-interest/climate-change-report-may/
https://popularresistance.org/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
Noah Chomsky on climate change and nuclear war threat: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50370.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/earth-wild-animal-population-plummets-60-percent-44-years-181030030643035.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html ("I would estimate the chances are about 49 percent that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.")
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-ipcc-environment-paris-agreement-global-warming-a8573811.html
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
http://www.thenation.com/article/181621/climate-change-peoples-shock<BR>
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-07/stephen-hawking-earth-will-become-flaming-ball-fire-2600
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/4605229
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5077749/Doomsday-warning-humanity-signed-15-000-scientists.html
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? https://web.archive.org/web/20250106210342/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48944.htm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/planetary-collapse-looms-new-study-shows-more-1200-species-will-almost-certainly
Sperm viability and 5G networking: https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-cell-phone-technology-dramatic-population-reduction-men-become-sterile/5670565
Mass extinction event: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176506/tomgram%3A_subhankar_banerjee%2C_the_vanishing/.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-methane-time-bomb-and-the-future-of-the-biosphere/5638298
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-what-now-threat-to-life-on-planet-earth-ozone-dying-and-the-deadly-ultraviolet-cosmic-radiation/5637864
Plastics: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/
World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years', https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622; see also https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife-nature-decline-extinct-paris-climate-agreement-wwf-elephants-rhinos-polar-bears-a8607341.html
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming, https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/27/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming/. See also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems and https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/insect-apocalypse-global-food-chain-faces-major-extinction-event-and-scientists. But see https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-04/cockroach-wars-are-upon-us-ancient-pests-starting-power-through-common-insecticides.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hothouse-earth-demise-of-the-planetary-life-support-system/5649902
https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-on-earth-is-dying-thousands-of-species-cease-to-exist/5561829
Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50050.htm.
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-changes-looming-mental-health-crisis/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1002422/Apocalypse-2040-MIT-computer-model-civilisation-world-end-Club-of-Rome
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/speedy-flip-in-earths-magnetic-field-could-cause-trillions-in-damage-scientists-warn/news-story/256a3985599eb9d0adbe7c698102bfba
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-31/earths-big-freeze-looms-sun-remains-devoid-sunspots-most-2018
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/01/earths-oceans-have-absorbed-60-percent-more-heat-year-previously-thought
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 (risk of an uninhabitable planet is not simply a far off possibility that might be triggered at several degrees of temperature rise in a more distant future — it could be triggered imminently; and it is possible that it may already have been triggered at the current level of an approximate 1C temperature rise above the pre-industrial average).
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/a-million-threatened-species--thirteen-questions-and-answers.html
Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040, https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/uk-government-backed-scientific-model-flags-risk-of-civilisation-s-collapse-by-2040-4d121e455997.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/end-human-civlisation-war-empire-racism-anthropocene/260057/
https://popularresistance.org/us-bird-numbers-drop-by-nearly-three-billion-in-48-years/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/24/mechanical-pollinator-helps-israeli-farmers-cope-with-declining-bee-population/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/24/silent-spring-already-here-global-study-shows-nearly-25-drop-insect-population-over
Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought: <https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52399373>
Starving grasshoppers? How rising carbon dioxide levels may promote an ‘insect apocalypse': https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/starving-grasshoppers-how-rising-carbon-dioxide-levels-may-promote-insect-apocalypse
The Race of Our Lives Revisited: https://web.archive.org/web/20181019170246/https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-race-of-our-lives-revisited.pdf
A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/life-heat-near-unlivable-more-3-billion-people-just-decades-climate-report-warns
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/the-relative-abundance-of-bumblebees-in-north-america-is-estimated-to-have-crashed-by-97-percent/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/nature-unraveling-new-wwf-report-reveals-alarming-68-plummet-wildlife-populations
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-report-links-mass-extinction-of-animals-to-human-activity/271437/
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/30/new-global-report-warns-nearly-40-plants-risk-extinction
Virtually all emperor penguins doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/04/emperor-penguins-climate-antarctica/
Notice the near absence of articles about ocean pollution. Such studies are rarely done. And when they are they are mis-aimed. As an example, the very few studies done on ocean pollution from the Fukushim nuclear meltdown disaster were aimed at quantifying the non-persistent Cesium-137 and ignored the more persistent discharges such as plutonium isotopes, some of which have a half-life in the many thousands of years. So far as I'm aware only one study was published showing that the pollution was nearing the Oregon/California Pacific coast. (that ended the publication of such studies.) Fortunately, Greenpeace has taken up the issue of ocean pollution with plastics. But so far as I'm aware no one has taken up the issue of other toxic pollutants. And we've had centuries of using our rivers and oceans to dispose of toxic substances.
(Review hint: you can fix many instances of disappeared web sites using the Web Archives Wayback Machine.)
* * *
Climate change and 2026: https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.htmlhttps://www.ipcc.ch/ (report on 1.5° increased temperature vs. 2°); see also https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050: https://people.com/human-interest/climate-change-report-may/
https://popularresistance.org/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
Noah Chomsky on climate change and nuclear war threat: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50370.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/earth-wild-animal-population-plummets-60-percent-44-years-181030030643035.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html ("I would estimate the chances are about 49 percent that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.")
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-ipcc-environment-paris-agreement-global-warming-a8573811.html
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
http://www.thenation.com/article/181621/climate-change-peoples-shock<BR>
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-07/stephen-hawking-earth-will-become-flaming-ball-fire-2600
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/4605229
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5077749/Doomsday-warning-humanity-signed-15-000-scientists.html
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? https://web.archive.org/web/20250106210342/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48944.htm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/planetary-collapse-looms-new-study-shows-more-1200-species-will-almost-certainly
Sperm viability and 5G networking: https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-cell-phone-technology-dramatic-population-reduction-men-become-sterile/5670565
Mass extinction event: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176506/tomgram%3A_subhankar_banerjee%2C_the_vanishing/.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-methane-time-bomb-and-the-future-of-the-biosphere/5638298
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-what-now-threat-to-life-on-planet-earth-ozone-dying-and-the-deadly-ultraviolet-cosmic-radiation/5637864
Plastics: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/
World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years', https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622; see also https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife-nature-decline-extinct-paris-climate-agreement-wwf-elephants-rhinos-polar-bears-a8607341.html
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming, https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/27/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming/. See also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems and https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/insect-apocalypse-global-food-chain-faces-major-extinction-event-and-scientists. But see https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-04/cockroach-wars-are-upon-us-ancient-pests-starting-power-through-common-insecticides.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hothouse-earth-demise-of-the-planetary-life-support-system/5649902
https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-on-earth-is-dying-thousands-of-species-cease-to-exist/5561829
Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50050.htm.
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-changes-looming-mental-health-crisis/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1002422/Apocalypse-2040-MIT-computer-model-civilisation-world-end-Club-of-Rome
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/speedy-flip-in-earths-magnetic-field-could-cause-trillions-in-damage-scientists-warn/news-story/256a3985599eb9d0adbe7c698102bfba
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-31/earths-big-freeze-looms-sun-remains-devoid-sunspots-most-2018
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/01/earths-oceans-have-absorbed-60-percent-more-heat-year-previously-thought
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 (risk of an uninhabitable planet is not simply a far off possibility that might be triggered at several degrees of temperature rise in a more distant future — it could be triggered imminently; and it is possible that it may already have been triggered at the current level of an approximate 1C temperature rise above the pre-industrial average).
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/a-million-threatened-species--thirteen-questions-and-answers.html
Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040, https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/uk-government-backed-scientific-model-flags-risk-of-civilisation-s-collapse-by-2040-4d121e455997.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/end-human-civlisation-war-empire-racism-anthropocene/260057/
https://popularresistance.org/us-bird-numbers-drop-by-nearly-three-billion-in-48-years/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/24/mechanical-pollinator-helps-israeli-farmers-cope-with-declining-bee-population/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/24/silent-spring-already-here-global-study-shows-nearly-25-drop-insect-population-over
Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought: <https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52399373>
Starving grasshoppers? How rising carbon dioxide levels may promote an ‘insect apocalypse': https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/starving-grasshoppers-how-rising-carbon-dioxide-levels-may-promote-insect-apocalypse
The Race of Our Lives Revisited: https://web.archive.org/web/20181019170246/https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-race-of-our-lives-revisited.pdf
A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/life-heat-near-unlivable-more-3-billion-people-just-decades-climate-report-warns
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/the-relative-abundance-of-bumblebees-in-north-america-is-estimated-to-have-crashed-by-97-percent/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/nature-unraveling-new-wwf-report-reveals-alarming-68-plummet-wildlife-populations
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-report-links-mass-extinction-of-animals-to-human-activity/271437/
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/30/new-global-report-warns-nearly-40-plants-risk-extinction
Virtually all emperor penguins doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/04/emperor-penguins-climate-antarctica/
06 October 2025
A nice bit of research on Israel's atrocity lies
Historically, Israel has not proven itself trustworthy. Among Israel’s lies are numerous atrocity stories about the October 7th attack that have since been proven untrue (more examples here). The Israeli military has also disseminated false stories about its own actions throughout the war. Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for example, this and this and this.
Many of Israel’s lies have been debunked even by traditionally pro-Israel mainstream media.
Anon. Despite Trump’s Claimed ‘Pause’, Israel Continues Bombing Civilians – War on Gaza Day 729. Israel Palestine News. October 5, 2025. Accessed October 6, 2025. https://israelpalestinenews.org/despite-trumps-claimed-pause-israel-continues-bombing-civilians-war-on-gaza-day-729/
Or if you want a plain text version:
[H]istorically, Israel has not proven itself trustworthy. Among Israel’s lies are numerous[1] atrocity stories about the October 7th attack[2] that have since been proven untrue[3] (more examples here[4]). The[5] Israeli military[6] has also disseminated false stories[7] about its own[8] actions throughout[9] the war[10]. Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for example, this[11] and this[12] and this[13].[1] https://israelpalestinenews.org/two-reports-debunk-new-york-times-investigative-report-of-mass-rape-on-october-7th/
Many of Israel’s lies[14] have been debunked[15] even by traditionally[16] pro-Israel mainstream[17] media.
[2] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-amepa-palestine-genocide-iron-dome
[3] https://theintercept.com/2023/12/14/israel-biden-beheaded-babies-false/
[4] https://hebhjamal.substack.com/p/a-list-of-israeli-lies-propaganda
[5] https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/25/israels-october-7-propaganda-tank-eyewitnesses/
[6] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/6/live-israeli-forces-bomb-gaza-city-home-killing-12-amid-push-for-truce
[7] https://israelpalestinenews.org/rumors-of-war-did-hundreds-of-hamas-fighters-surrender-to-israeli-forces/
[8] https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-beginning-to-choke-on-its
[9] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/
[10] https://zeteo.com/p/seven-lies-about-israels-attack-on
[11] https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-israels-history-of-spreading-disinformation/125
[12] https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-culture-of-deceit
[13] https://israelpalestinenews.org/almost-unbelievable-story-israeli-killer-lies-protecting-ali-harb/
[14] https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/
[15] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-gaza-starvation-food-aid-israel-netanyahu-b2797782.html
[16] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israels-leader-claims-no-one-in-gaza-is-starving-data-and-witnesses-disagree
[17] https://web.archive.org/web/20251001111643/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html
02 July 2025
What's Driving Trump's Anger on Iran
There is a very powerful factor beneath the near-rabid assertions by President
Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu that Iran's three
nuclear enrichment facilities were completely obliterated by American bunker
buster bombs.
By all signs, this is not true. But it is the very foundation of the cover story for Israel's absolute defeat in its recent 12-Day War of Aggression that it inflicted on Iran. If the nuclear sites were not destroyed, then the U.S. and Israel would be bound to resume the war because of that supposedly horrifying danger of Iran creating and weaponizing a nuclear bomb, its prevention being the ostensible purpose of the sneak U.S. attack while Iran was still negotiating a resolution with the U.S.
By all signs, this is not true. But it is the very foundation of the cover story for Israel's absolute defeat in its recent 12-Day War of Aggression that it inflicted on Iran. If the nuclear sites were not destroyed, then the U.S. and Israel would be bound to resume the war because of that supposedly horrifying danger of Iran creating and weaponizing a nuclear bomb, its prevention being the ostensible purpose of the sneak U.S. attack while Iran was still negotiating a resolution with the U.S.
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