Global

I got dozens of positive feedback on my "redirection" to focus only or 95%
on positive news for a time (few weeks may) to balance....

"The Old World is dying and the new world is struggling to be born: now is
the time for monsters" wrote Antonio Gramsci  But Arundhati Roy adds
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I
can hear her breathing.” I indeed can....We Palesinians have experience in
resurrection and remember the story of the Phoenix rising from the ashes,
that comes from our region. Both the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible have
many statements on hope]

ITEM 1: Resilience/Sumud of Gaza in a holy season
Gaza Muslims sharing when they have food and when they don't
https://youtu.be/zARlC6HQqoo

I call it “naked insanity,” as in: the emperor has no clothes.

He has no sane and transcendent values, no wisdom — not when it comes to survival. Global governance is consumed by power. Those who have it insist on keeping it, no matter the cost. Hence: nuclear weapons . . . and the threat to use them! Hence: climate change, a.k.a., ecocide.

I stroke the unknown,

the dark silence, the

soul of a mother. I

pray, if that’s what

prayer is: to stir the certainties of

pride and flag and brittle

God, to stir

the hollow lost.

I pray open

the big craters

and trenches of

obedience and manhood.

This is the beginning of a poem I wrote a few years ago. I called it “The Gods Get in Touch with Their Feminine Side,” by which I meant “Mom! The world’s all messed up. Can you fix it?”

Now is the time

to cherish the apple,

to touch the wound and love even

the turned cheeks and bullet tips,

to swaddle anew

the helpless future

and know

and not know

what happens next.

Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

It’s a huge victory for democracy that needs to be celebrated, with tangible progressive impacts for years to come…and outcome that could only have happened with grassroots election organizing..

The legendary JOHN BRAKEY then fills us in on the battles for democracy in Arizona, where the outcome for 2024 could decide the Presidency.

JAN PERELMAN, running for Congress in Florida, reports on killer developments in that uniquely tortured state.

MYLA RESON inserts her concerns about the Sunshine State’s horrendous nuclear power plants.

We then hear from DOROTHY REIK and DR. RUTH STRAUSS about the latest assault on birth control and abortion pills as approved by the FDA, now in front of the US Supreme Court.

We open our section on political prisoners with STEVE DONZIGER, who continues to be prosecuted by Chevron for his powerful work for social and ecological justice.

VINNIE DeSTEFANO updates us on the attempts to bring JULIAN ASSANGE to the United States for further torture and persecution.

TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the horrific forever attack against LEONARD PELTIER.

Here is a scary piece of information. In Gaza, there are 37 mothers a day who are murdered by the occupation Israeli Death Forces (IDF).  I contemplate this number on the heals of Mother’s Day, which the world celebrated few days ago.

As of Monday, at least 32,333 people have been killed, including more than 13,000 children and 8,400 women. The injured are more than 74,694 people, including at least 8,663 children and 6,327 women. The missing are more than 8,000

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Washington has expanded into Bangkok's satellite and cyber security, with the U.S. training Thailand's military in "Space Situational Awareness" for the first time during the recently completed Cobra Gold wargames.

China's Huawei meanwhile has partnered with Thailand's National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA), which is responsible for combatting "cyber threats" to this Southeast Asian nation's critical infrastructure and other vulnerable targets.

Cobra Gold is Asia's biggest annual U.S. multinational military exercise and includes training in warfighting skills, weaponry, survival, and other exercises on Thai territory, in the air, and in the Gulf of Thailand.

Almost 10,000 troops, mostly from the U.S. and Thailand, joined forces from about 30 countries on February 27-March 10 to participate.

This year's core war teams included the U.S., Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Indonesia.

China was allowed to perform Cobra Gold's humanitarian aid missions alongside Australia and India.