Hello All – While Israel’s war on Palestine rages on, three theaters of diplomatic activity deserve our attention. The first is the meeting, now going on, between Trump and Netanyahu over Trump’s proposed “21-Point Plan” to end the war. The second theater of struggle reflects Friday’s session of the UN General Assembly, where diplomats from more than 50 countries walked out as Netanyahu began speaking. And the third theater of conflict is that of the Gaza Sumud Flotilla, wherein more than 50 boats from more than 40 countries are attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian supplies. Any one of these theaters of struggle – in Washington, DC, at the UN, or on the high seas – are capable of introducing dramatic changes in the Palestinian struggle to stay alive.
The events at the UN should not be minimized. They reflect the near-total isolation of Israel within the international arena, and thus the near-total rejection of the Trump-EU support for Israel’s war. It has been observed that at no time since World War II has the chasm between the political elites of major countries been further away from the needs and desires of ordinary citizens, whether it is around the war on Gaza or the cost of living. After the US 6th veto at the UN Security Council of a Resolution affecting the war on Gaza, the US now stands alone, the only Security Council member to give Israel unconditional support. Anti-Israel and anti-US demonstrations are taking place around the world: 100,000 are marching today in Berlin. In the last few days, large marches have happened in NYC, Italy, Johannesburg, Paris, Liverpool, and elsewhere. It is public pressure, not a breeze of humanitarianism, that forced a dozen governments, including those of France and the UK, to “recognize” the Palestinian state. People simply hate the war, and hate the governments (and the political elites) that support the war.
If the UN commands the Really Big Picture, the humanitarian Flotilla to Gaza is a theater of a smaller scale. It is one in which people can relate to easily, as more-or-less ordinary (though outstanding) people are risking their lives to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. Demonstrations in support of the Flotilla are taking place throughout Europe, with a general strike in Italy on behalf of Palestinians threatening to spread. Both Spain and Italy have provided warships to “escort” and protect the Flotilla in international waters, and a Greek ship served the same function while the Flotilla was in Greek waters. While a peaceful and successful end to the project is to be hoped for, Israel has vowed to stop the ships; and any conflict between Israeli and Spanish or Italian navy ships would likely raise issues for other NATO countries. This may have consequences.
Finally, today’s White House meeting between Trump and Netanyahu has not concluded as of this writing. If Trump fails to persuade Netanyahu to promise a ceasefire, or to align with Trump’s (insane) plans for a postwar Gaza, will there be consequences? And if Netanyahu returns to Israel without having committed to a ceasefire/release the hostages plan, the domestic opposition to Netanyahu may become a tsunami, perhaps destabilizing the regime. All these theaters of conflict deserve close watching.
SOME ILLUMINATION ON THIS HORRIBLE WAR
(Video) “Arrest the War Criminal”: Thousands Protest Netanyahu in NYC as He Addresses U.N.
From Democracy Now! [September 26, 2025]
---- Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians and to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Crowds marched from Times Square toward the U.N., chanting slogans demanding Netanyahu’s arrest for war crimes and an end to U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, inside the U.N., the Israeli leader addressed a largely empty room as many countries’ delegations walked out in protest. [See the Program]
Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment [September 27, 2025]
---- Even the tiniest detail is litigated in newspaper headlines when it comes to the Israeli government. Many news outlets reported that “some” or “dozens” of delegates walked out of the UN hall where the General Assembly had gathered as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to address them. The truth is, almost everyone left, so that Netanyahu addressed mostly empty chairs. I don’t know why the editors who write these silly headlines think they can pull the wool over peoples’ eyes. We have video: [Read More]
The Meaning of Western Recognition of Palestine
By Mouin Rabbani, Jacobin Magazine [September 29, 2025]
----The news that many Western nations have recognized Palestine has driven Israel and its allies into a fit of hysteria. Israel’s leaders knows that it is too weak to dominate its region alone. The recognition of Palestine, most recently by France, Britain, Canada, Australia, and several others, has been hailed as a game changer and dismissed as meaningless political theater. It is neither, though very much depends on what comes next. These acts of recognition need to be understood first and foremost as a response by governments aligned with Israel to growing public pressure to change course as a result of the Gaza genocide and the unprecedented shift toward support for Palestinian rights. Concluding that business as usual was no longer a viable option, these governments opted for symbolic measures like sanctioning particularly vile Israeli officials, suspending negotiations on trade agreements yet to be concluded, and most recently diplomatic recognition of Palestinian statehood. From the perspective of these governments, the actions they chose to take were the least consequential available. They do not entail any concrete policy changes toward Israel or require them to implement significant measures such as an arms embargo, economic sanctions, judicial prosecutions, or travel restrictions. Most important, they do absolutely nothing to bring an end to the Gaza genocide. [Read More]
THE GAZA FLOTILLA
(Video) Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza, approaching ‘high-risk zone’
From Aljazeera [September 29, 2025] [Link]. And more video.
ALSO OF INTEREST - “We are all Sumud:” Italy Rises for Gaza, by Michael Leonardi, Counterpunch [September 26, 2025] [Link]; “What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones,” interviews with flotilla volunteers Tommy Marcus and Diana Butto,
The Intercept [Link]; and “A group of U.S. veterans has joined the global flotilla sailing to Gaza,” Mondoweiss [Link].
THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN
(Video) Zohran Mamdani on Historic NYC Mayoral Run & Trump’s Meddling in Election as Eric Adams Drops Out
---- In an exclusive interview just hours after incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s decision to end his reelection bid, we sat down with Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to lay out his campaign and his vision for an affordable city. We discuss his platform, his support for Palestinian rights and why he identifies as democratic socialist. Mamdani also responds to Adams’s decision to drop out, which is expected to help consolidate votes for Mamdani’s main opponent, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “The reason that Donald Trump is seeking to clear the lane for Andrew Cuomo is because he knows that Andrew Cuomo will clear the lane for Donald Trump’s agenda,” he says. [See the Program]
CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER – WHAT NEXT?
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
By Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times [September 28, 2025]
---- While Trump has surrounded himself with people who have said racist things and maintained ties to white and Christian nationalists, the number of Democrats and esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of Charlie Kirk demonstrates that espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era. … As the Trump administration wages the broadest attack on civil rights in a century, and the shared societal values of multiculturalism and tolerance recede, using Kirk’s knack for vigorous argument to excuse the re-emergence of unabashed bigotry in mainstream politics feels both frightening and perilous. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair [September 25, 2025] [Link]
NEWS NOTES
Is Donald Trump crazy? He seems increasingly unhinged, not just with bad ideas, but incoherent and more-than-usual unfocused. Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of the Counterpunch site, asks “What’s the Frequency, Donald?”
According to Joe Worthy, writing on Waging Nonviolence, “Jimmy Kimmel’s Reinstatement shows the Power of Noncooperation,” He says: “This important victory over the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress free speech provides insight into the workings of nonviolent noncooperation and how it can effectively defend democracy on its most critical fronts.” Read more here.
“AI” and the Internet “Cloud” are still mysterious to me. But there is growing opposition from workers in these industries to the use of their work product for war and surveillance. A good, user-friendly intro to the issues is “Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians,” by Binoy Kampmark. Check it out here.
I suspect that I am not alone among older people in not paying attention to the huge, gazillion-dollar conflict over TikTok. Wrong again; it turns out it is a big deal. For an update on how this conflict is now a power-grab by the Trumpian, pro-Israel right wing, read “Israel wins TikTok,” by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft [September 27, 2025] [Link].
CFOW NUTS & BOLTS
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REWARDS!
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For CFOW
FEATURED ARTICLES & ESSAYS
My Family Managed to Stay in Our Home in Gaza City. Until Now.
By Sara Awad, Drop Site News [September 17, 2025]
---- I did my best to be ready for this moment, but no one can be ready to leave home with no return. … The leaflet that fell on my neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan said, “Evacuate to the south.” Fateful words on a small, almost weightless paper. How could a scrap of paper make us feel so powerless? “Wake up, Sara, we need to flee,” said my little brother Ahmed as he shook my shoulders. He is only seven but aged by the past two years of this relentless war. I was stunned. Even though I knew this day would eventually come, when it arrived, it still felt like a slap to the face. We quickly started to form a strategy to flee. It wasn’t a trip, it was an escape. … My heart broke into a million pieces realizing that our family home in northwest Gaza City, the home we had managed to stay in throughout the war, had been transformed: from a place we all found comfort in, to a place full of people afraid of an uncertain future. The sense of peace, the joy, the laughter amidst the pain, had been replaced with feelings of enclosure and fear. [Read More]
(Video) “This Is What Fascists Do”: Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent
From Democracy Now! [September 24, 2025]
---- President Trump says he is designating the decentralized anti-fascist movement known as “antifa” as a terrorist organization, as conservatives blame left-wing groups and ideas for creating the conditions that led to conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The Trump administration is “using this as a catch-all to go against the broader left and anyone who speaks out against fascism right now, while at the same time giving continued unchecked authority to the FBI to ignore the rise of right-wing violence,” says writer Will Potter. “The intention is to capitalize on this to crack down on their opponents and to consolidate authoritarian power.” Potter is the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of those who attempt to expose the harms of the factory farming industry, with mechanisms to criminalize journalism and label civil disobedience as terrorism through its crackdown on citizen journalists, environmentalists and animal welfare activists, says Potter. [See the Program]
A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA
By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability [September 26, 2025]
---- As President Donald Trump launches illegal armed attacks against American cities, peaceful civilians, and people in foreign countries that have not attacked the US, it may look like a sign of strength and a harbinger of a future of total domination. But Trump’s turn to such extreme forms of violence is less an expression of growing power than an attempt to distract from the growth of opposition, the loss of public support, and the splits within his own ranks. It is a sign not of strength but of weakness. This report lays out a strategy to take advantage of that weakness to defend society against Trump’s MAGA assaults. [Read More]; and Read or download the full report PDF here.
(Video) A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
By Kate Crawford, New York Times [September 26, 2025]
---- If it’s true, as a Times headline read this year, that “Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything,” you’re probably familiar by now with the hype (it will solve everything, from climate change to death itself), the doom (it will take all our jobs and bring about our extinction) and the nuance (the effects of A.I. will be somewhere between totally good and totally bad). Whatever the scale and scope of artificial intelligence’s impact, it’s sure to exact a high price from the earth and its inhabitants. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST- Is this book review of a new book on conflicts within and between AI corporate giants for domination of the marketplace: “The True Threat of OpenAI,” by Andrew Deck, The Nation [September 17, 2025] [Link]
(Video) “I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home
From Democracy Now! [September 29, 2025]
---- Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. [See the Program]
THE WAR ON PALESTINE
(Video) “On Our Way to Annihilation”: Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud Reports Live from Outside Gaza City
From Democracy Now! [September 26, 2025]
[FB – For nearly two years we have watched Aljazeera news reporter Hani Mahmoud stand in the midst of Gaza’s rubble and hospitals and market places, reporting about the day’s slaughter of Palestinians by Israel. This is his story; what it’s like to live a genocide.]
---- Israel’s military has issued new evacuation orders for neighborhoods of Gaza City as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest urban area. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have already fled Gaza City for overcrowded areas further south, as Israeli forces systematically flatten much of the city. Meanwhile, Israeli bombardment continues to kill dozens of Palestinians every day amid widespread famine. “People feel now it’s a permanent state of displacement,” says leading Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud, who has just left Gaza City. “People have been herded from one area to another.” Mahmoud also discusses the toll of reporting on the genocide despite Israel’s repeated targeted assassinations of journalists in Gaza, including many with Al Jazeera. “We believe the world deserves to learn the truth,” he says of his choice to keep working despite the risks. [See the Program”
As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank
By Alaa Said, Middle East Monitor [September 22, 2025]
---- We are witnessing a historic shift as Western nations long supportive of Israel begin to take a different stance, recognising the State of Palestine one after another. These strong Western voices are also warning Israel, in real time, against any unilateral annexation of the West Bank in response to this global wave of recognition. … For many Israelis, this is seen as the moment to change realities on the ground — taking advantage of Western recognition of Palestine as a pretext to move deeper into the West Bank. While everything they have done in Gaza so far has been approved by the Trump administration, they foresee that this golden era in Washington will not return anytime soon. With the unprecedented support President Trump is granting Israel, taking full sovereignty of the land is exactly what the Israeli far right needs now. … Both the measures Israel is taking in Gaza — pushing the population outward and crushing resistance — and its actions in the West Bank, from the destruction of refugee camps like Nour Shams and Jenin to expanding illegal settlements and cutting the region’s geographical integrity, follow a single prescription. They make a Palestinian state on the land occupied in 1967 impossible. They kill all chances of a two-state solution and pave the way for uprooting the Palestinian people entirely, leaving the land to the Jewish state. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST – (With useful charts and maps) - “Sweeping Israeli actions transform West Bank in shadow of Gaza war,” by Claire Parker, Washington Post [September 28, 2025]
[Link].
WAR ON VENEZUELA?
FB – This just in from NBC: “Report: US Could Start Bombing Venezuela Within a Few Weeks,” by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com [September 28, 2025] [Link].
US Officials Say Regime Change in Venezuela Is the Real Goal of Military Action in the Caribbean
By Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com [September 22, 2025]
---- US officials have told The New York Times that the real goal of the US military buildup in the Caribbean, and the bombing of boats in the region, is regime change in Venezuela. The policy is being largely driven by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has long wanted to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. … The Times report, which was published over the weekend, reads: “Several current and former military officials, diplomats, and intelligence officers say that while fighting drugs is the pretext for the recent US attacks, the real goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power, one way or another.” [Read More]
Getting Away with Murder [Venezuela]
By David Cole, New York Review of Books [September 21, 2025[
---- Between September 2 and September 19 the US military, acting on President Trump’s orders, bombed at least three boats traveling in international waters, killing a total of at least seventeen civilians in cold blood. Ordinarily when US armed forces kill civilians, the president does not brag about it, yet Trump is apparently so proud of the executions that he posted video footage of them on TruthSocial. And while ordinarily the killing of any civilian prompts investigations and apologies, in this instance the administration has promised only that there are more to come. … Never before has a US president asserted the authority to order the cold-blooded execution of civilians outside any even arguable military conflict. And never before has a US president then turned around and boasted about his own crimes to the public at large. If the president can order the summary killing of drug dealers on the high seas, why not elsewhere—say, Mexico, or Chicago? [Read More]
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
The Stupidest Speech in UN History [Trump and climate-crisis denial]
By Bill McKibben [September 24, 2025]
---- But it was definitely the dumbest speech that delegates have ever had to listen to—as the shots of them looking on in stony disbelief as Trump vented about broken escalators, MAGA hats, and his general greatness for nearly an hour (ignoring the 15 minute time limit respected by the mere mortals that rule other nations). … There’s no point refuting his climate denialism; evidence, data, and expert analysis bounce off his bronzed hide like tennis balls off a rhino. Everyone sitting in that room has spent decades working the giant problem of climate change—it’s been the defining issue for the UN because it’s the one thing (alongside nuclear weapons) that could actually take down our civilizations. But of course that work has always been incredibly hard, because the thing that drove global warming—fossil fuel—was also the thing that drove our economy. Now that’s changed—and everyone in the room was also aware of the subtext. The five-year-old fact that solar and wind and battery power are now cheaper than coal and oil and gas opens up the sudden possibility for change. And with it the sudden possibility that the power balance that has defined the world since the UN was formed—the U.S. as the dominant nation, first among unequals, is now very much in question. Trump began, in fact, with an attack on the clean energy sources that are at the heart of this transition. … But this will in the end be a very significant speech—precisely because of its stupidity. When American historians tell the story of 2025, it will be about the rise of our off-brand fascism. When world historians tell the story of 2025, it will be about the passing of technological, and hence economic, and hence political leadership from the U.S. to China, in the span of eight months. The tape of this address will be the easiest way to explain to people how such a mammoth shift happened so fast.
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Trump’s War on Wind: Tens of Thousands of Jobs Destroyed, Unions Say,” by Kari Thompson, Labor Notes [September 22, 2025] [Link].
CIVIL LIBERTIES
(Video) The Author of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Explains Why It’s a Threat to American Freedom
From Peter Beinart [September 26, 2025] – 51 minutes
[FB – This interview discusses the definition of “antisemitism” adopted by the Westchester County Council and many towns in Westchester. Its distinctive feature is the claim that criticism of Israel is probably antisemitic. Rep. Latimer, for example, holds this view. – NB Ken Stern spoke at a Greenburgh town forum on antisemitism several years ago.]
---- Our guest is author and attorney Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Ken was an important figure in drafting the IHRA definition of antisemitism now taken up by the IHRA, but now denounces its current uses. Topics include: Origin of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and how it spread; The dangers and damage of the IHRA definition; Why universities ignored these dangers; The influence of the donor class; and The failure of mainstream Jewish organizations to stand up for liberal democracy.[See the Program]
The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump
By Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch [September 26, 2025]
---- On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder what’s left of civil rights in this country. As Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported, in an unsigned 6-3 ruling, it overturned a lower court’s order forbidding ICE and the Border Patrol in Los Angeles from stopping, interrogating, and detaining people based on any of four factors: “apparent race or ethnicity; the fact that they speak English with an accent or speak Spanish; their presence at particular locations like farms or pickup sites for day laborers; and the type of work they do.” … No one gave us those rights. Successive generations of Americans fought for them, starting in the late 1780s and in the 1791 passage of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to our Constitution. [Read More]
THE STATE OF THE UNION
Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
By Adam Johnson, The Real News [September 24, 2025]
---- It’s clear that the Democratic Party, and the Liberal-Left more broadly, is in total disarray. As the Trump administration continues to erode liberal norms, worker protections, due process, free speech, and civil liberties, there’s a broad consensus that the most impactful way to push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab is at the ballot box in 2026 and 2028. The stakes for these elections couldn’t be higher, and thus the approach Democrats take to do so couldn’t be any more salient. Attempting to get ahead of this narrative, and steer the party away from anything with even the vaguest whiff stench of Left populism, are a recent constellation of think tanks, PACs, and “movements” designed to keep the fundamentally neoliberal, billionaire-approved Democratic Party fundamentally neoliberal and billionaire-approved. [Read More]
The US Abandoned Affordable Housing. We Can Create It Again.
By Fran Quigley, Jacobin Magazine [September 21 2025]
---- America’s packed eviction courts and overflowing homeless shelters are the result of decades of deliberate policy choices. We once made better choices rooted in a commitment to providing decent, affordable housing for all. It’s not too late to reverse course. The people we see lined up in front of a judge waiting to see what day they will be forced from their homes are among the estimated 3.6 million households that face eviction each year. Prior to this moment, they were among the more than seven million people who are behind on their rent or mortgages at any given time. By the time we see them, they are at risk of joining the record number of unhoused people in the United States. … Public housing is a necessary, proven response to the needs of millions of Americans who cannot afford market-rate housing. Since the late 1990s, there has been a freeze on the creation of new public housing, and existing projects’ repair needs have gone unmet due to drastic underfunding. [Read More]
OUR HISTORY
(Video) Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
From Democracy Now! [September 26, 2025]
---- The Cuban government has announced that Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. Shakur was convicted in the May 2, 1973, killing of a New Jersey state trooper during a shootout that left one of her fellow activists dead. She was shot twice by police during the incident. In 1979, she managed to escape from jail and later fled to Cuba, where she received political asylum. She long proclaimed her innocence. In her autobiography, Shakur wrote: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” In 1998, Democracy Now! aired her reading an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba. She wrote the message after New Jersey state troopers sent the pope a letter asking him to call for her extradition. [See the Program]
How Should We Remember the Art of Ben Shahn?
By Pujan Karambeigi, The Nation [September 29, 2025]
---- “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity,” a retrospective curated by Laura Katzman with Dr. Stephen Brown at the Jewish Museum, attempts to put the artist back on the map by recasting him as a pioneer of social justice. The exhibition brings together his paintings, mural studies, posters, drawings, photographs, and numerous illustrations for books and magazines. It is loosely chronological, narrating Shahn’s work alongside major political events: the politicization of the arts during the Popular Front in the 1930s, his Resettlement Administration work (1935–38), his mural commissions, his employment as senior liaison officer in the Graphics Division of the Office of War Information, his tenure as chief artist of the CIO’s Political Action Committee, his CBS blacklisting in the 1950s, and his involvement in the civil rights movement. Ben Shahn was, without question, an artist with political convictions. [Read More]
