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On the ground with Northern Gaza’s Trail of Tears

The Grayzone | October 1, 2025

The Grayzone takes a look at the forced exodus of refugees from northern Gaza as Israel’s military deliberately destroys their homes to force them south in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. We hear from those on the move with all they can carry, fleeing for their lives from the nightly bombardments and shelling.

Credits:

Edited and written by Oscar Leon

Camera by Mohamed Elsaife

Translated by Hekmat Aboukhater

Produced by Max Blumenthal

October 1, 2025 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes | , , , , | Leave a comment

Australia secretly ships F-35 jet parts to Israel amid Gaza genocide, leaks reveal

Press TV – October 1, 2025

Leaked documents reveal that Australia has exported multiple F-35 fighter jet components directly to Israel, bypassing global supply hubs, even as Israel’s military continues its genocidal campaign in Gaza.

Declassified Australia published a report on Wednesday saying detailed shipping records reveal a total of 68 shipments of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter components flown from Australia to Israel on commercial passenger planes between October 2023 and September 2025.

The most recent shipment departed Sydney two weeks ago, carried in the cargo hold of a scheduled passenger flight bound for Tel Aviv, the report said.

According to the documents, direct shipments from Australia spiked immediately after Israel unleashed its genocidal campaign on Gaza on October 7, 2023, with 10 separate shipments sent in November 2023 alone.

Of the 68 documented shipments, 51 were destined for Nevatim Airbase in Israel’s Negev desert, home to the Israeli military’s three F-35 squadrons, the report stated.

The actual number of shipments may be even higher, with at least another 24 parts matching previous export approvals being sent during the same period.

The latest shipment, sent in mid-September 2025, contained an “Inlet Lube Plate” for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Shipping records show the export was classified as “Military Goods – Aircraft parts,” highlighting the direct military support Australia is providing for the Israeli regime.

The shipment left Sydney for Tel Aviv just 24 hours after a United Nations investigation had concluded that “Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.”

Despite mounting evidence of direct F-35 parts shipments being supplied from Australian bases to Israel, the government has repeatedly claimed that it “has not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel since the conflict began and for at least the past five years.”

The revelation comes less than two weeks after Australia, along with Britain and Canada, formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

International human rights groups have constantly warned that sending weapons or military components to Israel makes states complicit in the regime’s genocide in Gaza.

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Activists report aggressive Israeli cyber, physical harassment as flotilla nears Gaza

Press TV – October 1, 2025

Activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla say they are facing aggressive harassment by Israeli warships as they approach Gaza to break the illegal naval blockade and deliver much-needed humanitarian aid.

The lead vessel, Alma, was deliberately encircled and subjected to communication blackouts early Wednesday, forcing its captain to take evasive maneuvers while Israeli forces continued their intimidation tactics against other ships in the flotilla.

“This was one of the biggest acts of harassment we have faced so far. They tried to scare us, but we weren’t afraid, and we told them we would not be afraid,” Metehan Sari, a Turkish activist aboard the Alma, was quoted as saying by Anadolu news agency.

Sari said that the Israeli navy ships came within 5 to 10 meters of the Alma.

Zeynel Abidin Ozkan, another activist aboard Adagio, said drones were flying “intensively” over their fleet overnight and that at around 5am, two ships which weren’t a part of the flotilla approached them and “launched a cyberattack on the GPS and internet database of the Alma, one of our fleet’s main vessels, cutting off our communication with the ship”.

Another flotilla vessel, the Sirius, also experienced interference. Lisi Proenca, aboard Sirius, said an Israeli naval ship circled her vessel for about 15 minutes, jamming communications and causing tension and fear among the crew. Members of the crew later demonstrated they were unarmed.

Despite these hostile actions, the flotilla comprised of over 40 boats and 500 activists, including prominent international figures such as Italian politicians and climate activist Greta Thunberg, remains undeterred in its mission to challenge the Zionist regime’s suffocating siege on Gaza.

The official page for the Global Sumud Flotilla said the fleet is now 118 nautical miles from Gaza, which it notes is 8 nautical miles from where Madleen, a flotilla which was launched in June this year, was intercepted.

Maritime traffic data is also showing that several vessels from the flotilla are approaching Egyptian territorial waters.

In a Telegram post it said: “We remain committed to non-violence and to creating a People’s Humanitarian Corridor – a lifeline for Gaza. The international community has entrusted us with this mission, and we will not fail.”

The harassment reflects Israel’s ongoing efforts to prevent any aid from reaching the Palestinian people, who have endured months of devastating blockade and violence.

Communications systems on multiple vessels were jammed, and cameras disabled during the Israeli naval maneuvers, cutting off crucial documentation and real-time updates from the flotilla.

The activists have already passed the 120-nautical mile mark, defying repeated Israeli warnings.

International condemnation of Israel’s blockade and military harassment continues to grow, with countries like Italy and Spain criticizing the recent attacks on the flotilla, which included drone strikes and explosions.

Israel’s baseless claims labeling the flotilla as a Hamas operation serve only to justify its ongoing repression.

October 1, 2025 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Solidarity and Activism, War Crimes | , , , | Leave a comment

Explainer: How is Trump’s 20-point Gaza ‘plan’ dangerously tilted in Israel’s favor

By Hamid Javadi | Press TV | October 1, 2025

US President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled a 20-point proposal for post-war Gaza that is dangerously skewed in favor of the Israeli regime and ignores Palestinian realities.

At its core, the plan demands Hamas disarm within 72 hours of a ceasefire, release all captives, and accept a phased Israeli troop withdrawal.

But here’s the catch: there’s no binding commitment to end the military occupation, no clear roadmap for Palestinian sovereignty or right to self-determination of Palestinians and no guarantee that Israel won’t resume its genocidal aggression once its captives are returned.

The much-hyped “plan” that has been welcomed by a group of Muslim countries demands Palestinian surrender without offering sovereignty, envisions the so-called economic development built on displacement, and leaves the door open for continued Israeli occupation.

Trump, who has long eyed Gaza as waterfront property on the Mediterranean, touted the proposal as “a peace plan,” but beneath its diplomatic gloss lies a blueprint that has been designed keeping in view long-term Israeli and American interests.

Under the deal, Israel would release over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 serving life sentences, in exchange for all 48 Israeli captives held by Hamas — both living and deceased — within 72 hours of a ceasefire taking effect.

How does Hamas or Palestinians appear in Trump’s plan?

The proposal, which has grabbed headlines in world media in the past two days, calls for the Hamas resistance movement to relinquish all governing roles in Gaza and lay down its weapons, a condition the group has previously ruled out unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established and the aspirations of Palestinians are taken into account.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed to the plan at a press conference with Trump at the White House on Monday, even as Israeli regime forces continued to rain down bombs on Palestinians across Gaza.

However, speaking to Israeli media later, Netanyahu ruled out the military withdrawal, saying that it “is not going to happen.” It came even before Hamas’ official reaction to the plan.

Hamas’s negotiating team said it was studying the plan. However, a Hamas official told Reuters that Trump’s proposal was “completely biased to Israel” and imposed “impossible conditions” that aimed to eliminate the resistance group, a longtime objective of Netanyahu.

“What Trump has proposed is the full adoption of all Israeli conditions, which do not grant the Palestinian people or the residents of the Gaza Strip any legitimate rights,” the Palestinian official said on condition of anonymity.

While Hamas has frequently said it would welcome any initiative that ends the genocidal war on Gaza — which has killed more than 66,000 since October 2023, mostly women and children — it has every reason to be skeptical.

Last time Hamas leaders were reviewing Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire, Israeli warplanes bombed their headquarters in Qatar, a key mediator in negotiations between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Tel Aviv regime.

So, while Netanyahu has endorsed Trump’s new proposal, he has rejected the only two terms in the plan that could give Hamas a reason to accept the deal: the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces (though conditional and gradual) and the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state.

What does the plan say about Israeli occupation?

A day after he gave his backing to Trump’s plan, Netanyahu said Israeli forces would remain in most of Gaza.

“We will recover all our hostages, alive and well, while the (Israeli military) will remain in most of the Gaza Strip,” he said in a video statement on Tuesday.

This isn’t the only point of friction. Netanyahu also said he would never allow the creation of a Palestinian state, yet the White House document includes language about a “credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” if the deal is fully implemented.

“It’s not written in the agreement,” Netanyahu claimed, saying that Israel would “strongly oppose” such a move. He insisted that Trump shared this view.

This is a nonstarter for Palestinians. As Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, put it, “Israel is trying to impose through the United States what it was unable to achieve through war.”

What does Netanyahu want in Gaza?

Netanyahu appears to be trying to have it both ways: Publicly embracing the deal to pressure Hamas, while privately rejecting its most fundamental terms.

It’s a familiar tactic. The Israeli prime minister, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, has a track record of endorsing negotiations and ceasefire proposals, and at the same time making contradictory statements to kill the momentum.

Captive families, humanitarian groups, and even some Israeli regime officials have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war for political gains. Hamas says the Israeli prime minister has used negotiations as a smokescreen for continued genocide in Gaza.

In February, Israel kept stalling the second phase of a ceasefire agreement that had already begun by violating terms related to troop withdrawal and humanitarian aid delivery.

Trump’s latest proposal does not address the root causes of the protracted issue — namely, the occupation and the apartheid oppression of the Palestinian people.

How does Trump’s plan address displacement?

The plan is largely driven by Trump’s desire to build a Dubai-style wonderland on the wasteland of Gaza. Though the plan claims “no one will be forced to leave Gaza,” Trump’s vision for Gaza — as publicly announced in the past — is premised on the forced displacement of the native populace.

The more Palestinians are forcibly removed from their land, the cheaper the project becomes to implement.

A reconstruction and economic blueprint for Gaza, published by The Washington Post, estimates that $23,000 will be saved for every Palestinian who leaves.

Trump had previously floated the idea that he would send the US military into Gaza to clear the territory of its residents by force if necessary. Those remarks sparked a fierce global backlash.

The White House text says, “a Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East.”

“A special economic zone will be established, with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries,” it specifies.

What is the role of Tony Blair in Trump’s plan?

That’s where former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also enters the frame. As part of Trump’s plan, Gaza will be governed by “a temporary technocratic committee,” made up of Palestinians and international experts, supervised by a new transitional body called the “Board of Peace.”

That board will be headed and chaired by Trump himself, with other members and heads of state, including Blair.

Blair is back in business once again, nearly two decades after he presented a 34-page document that outlined a “corridor for peace and prosperity,” which envisioned an agro-industrial park in the occupied West Bank.

Blair promised at the time that more such packages would be unveiled over time. He was forced to resign from office later largely as a result of the Iraq War. He has reportedly been advising the White House about Trump’s latest plan for Gaza.

Blair has reportedly been in contact with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to work out the details. His role in Trump’s plans for Gaza has been criticized by Palestinians and advocates for Palestinian rights across the world.

Earlier this year, the Tony Blair Institute supported a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone” as part of a post-war plan for Gaza.

The plan included paying half a million Palestinians to leave their homelands to create room for private investors to develop Gaza into a money-making tourist hub.

What did Trump tell Hamas?

Trump issued an ultimatum of “three to four days” to Hamas on Tuesday to respond to his proposal. The US president threatened that he would let Israel “go and do what they have to do” in Gaza if Hamas rejects the deal.

“They could do it pretty easily,” he claimed.

Hamas is still reviewing the proposal. But with Netanyahu signaling that Israel won’t accept the deal’s core conditions, the path to peace remains as murky as ever.

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Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Peace Proposal or a Political Cover for Occupation?

By Abbas Hashemite – New Eastern Outlook – October 1, 2025

President Trump has recently proposed a new peace plan for Gaza. However, the biased stipulations, although accepted by major Muslim powers, show that this proposal is anything but a peace plan.

The Reality of Israeli Occupation and Genocide

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been committing war crimes and genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. However, the occupation of the Palestinian territory by the Zionist state has been underway for decades. For years, some regional resistance forces, such as Hamas, have been fighting the occupation of the IDF. Since October 7, this resistance has increased manifold. The IDF has also unleashed unimaginable horrors in the Gaza Strip in the last two years. The Western nations, including the United States, had been supporting the Israeli government in its genocidal operations in Gaza. However, due to the growing public pressure, many Western nations have altered their approach towards the Israel-Hamas war. Most of the Israeli supporters have conditionally recognized the state of Palestine.

Trump’s Peace Proposal: A One-Sided Agreement

In a recent move, US President Donald Trump has also announced a new peace proposal for Gaza. This new proposal has been accepted by most of the Muslim and Arab nations. However, the citizens of these countries are against this agreement and equate this to accepting Israel’s occupation of Gaza and blaming Hamas for the years of Israeli aggression in the strip. President Trump’s proposal states, “Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors”—implying that the Palestinian resistance groups are terrorist organizations and pose a threat to Israel. However, reality is quite contrary. The history of Israeli war crimes and its occupation of Palestinian territories predates the October 7 attack by Hamas. For decades, the Israeli government has been illegally occupying the Palestinian lands and illegally detaining the native Palestinians to occupy the Palestinian territory and achieve its “Greater Israel” ambition.

Historical events, facts, and figures of international human rights organizations suggest that the only terrorist organization in the region is the IDF. In the past two years, the Zionist state has attacked several regional countries and has also conducted assassinations of Iranian military officials in Syria and Tehran, along with Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Hamas leader. Moreover, the Zionist state also disrupted all the previous ceasefire negotiations. Earlier this month, Israel conducted airstrikes on the Hamas negotiation team in Doha to disrupt the peace process, reflecting Israel’s ambition to perpetuate the war.

Moreover, this peace proposal favors Israel by asking Hamas to surrender unconditionally. It asks Hamas to give up all the Israeli hostages and its weapons, rendering it defenseless against the Zionist state. The lack of trust between the two sides makes this proposal ineffective, as the Hamas leadership has not been invited to negotiate the terms of the peace plan, making it a one-sided plan. This also suggests that the IDF has failed against the Hamas fighters. Therefore, it seeks for them to surrender unconditionally. However, in reality, the IDF, which shoots kids in the head and snipes doctors and medical workers, is the entity that should be demilitarized and de-radicalized.

Peace Without Justice Is No Peace

Another stipulation of the plan states, “Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommissioning their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.” This also indirectly accuses Hamas of igniting and prolonging the war in Gaza, ignoring the indiscriminate bombing of the IDF on Palestinian civilians, resulting in the deaths of thousands of children and women. Moreover, this statement portrays Hamas as an obstacle in the path of peaceful coexistence in the region. However, scores of evidence suggest that it is the Zionist government and ideology that make peaceful coexistence impossible.

President Trump’s proposed plan names Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the UK, known for his war crimes in Iraq during the US-led invasion and occupation of the country, as a member of the “Board of Peace”—a body that will “set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.” This further reveals the seriousness of the Trump administration to establish peace in the Middle East. In addition, it once again exposes the reality that the West stands with the aggressors and war criminals. Trump’s peace plan is also nothing more than a favor to Israeli occupation and an end to the idea of the creation of a Palestinian state.

Trump’s proposal and its acceptance by a large number of Arab and Muslim nations is a success for the Zionist state. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu states, “Instead of Hamas leading to our isolation, we turned the tables and isolated Hamas. Now the entire world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the conditions we set together with President Trump: to release all our abducted—both living and dead—while the IDF remains in most of the territory.” Indeed, the acceptance of this peace proposal by the Muslim states is a betrayal to the Palestinian cause. The proposal holds that if Hamas rejects this plan, Israel will be free to do whatever it wants in Gaza, implying that the Zionist state will be allowed to annex and occupy Gaza.

Overall, President Trump’s proposed peace plan has many loopholes and is entirely at odds with the ground realities. Any peace plan that does not involve actual stakeholders is bound to fail. Hamas is unlikely to accept the proposal, as it favors Israel and rejects all the UN resolutions by defying the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people. For a real and practical peace proposal, all the stakeholders, including Hamas, must be consulted. Moreover, the peace plan must not favor any side and should be in accordance with international law and UN resolutions. Otherwise, this enforcement will lead to more chaos and violence in the region.

Аbbas Hashemite is a political observer and research analyst for regional and global geopolitical issues. He is currently working as an independent researcher and journalist.

October 1, 2025 Posted by | Deception, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism | , , , | Leave a comment

Israel wins TikTok

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Responsible Statecraft | September 27, 2025

A year ago, powerful critics in Congress and the tech world were complaining that TikTok was promoting anti-Israel messaging and were suggesting it needed to be shut down.

Turns out it didn’t need to be eliminated. TikTok is a message force multiplier after all, and only requires, apparently, the right people to own it. Like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second richest man in the world and the single biggest private donor of the Israeli Defense Forces, who has referred to the state of Israel as his own. He has direct stakes in a head spinning galaxy of news, television and Hollywood media companies, mainly through the recent Paramount Skydance Corporation takeover, a mega conglomerate now run by his son David Ellison (who is reportedly on the cusp of making vigilantly pro-Israel journalist Bari Weiss a top exec at newly-acquired CBS). Ellison the elder also is a major stakeholder in X and Tesla.

Add Rupert Murdoch, head of media conglomerate NewsCorp (Fox News), a perennial critic of “anti-Israel bias” in the media who in 2024 said Israel is “alone on the front line of Western democratic civilization.” Also Ellison’s right-hand at Oracle, Israeli-American Safra Catz, great friend of President Trump, who has traveled to Israel several times since Oct. 7, 2023 in support of its war and continued Oracle partnerships there, and in a July appearance in Israel told an an audience that “we (Oracle) are on the side of freedom. We are on the side of democracy.” She followed that with “some of the best people in the world are here in Israel, and there’s no question about that. And everyone knows it. Some of the big winners will be here. Mark my words.”

Throw into this mix billionaire Jeff Yass, a top GOP donor and current TikTok investor whose philanthropy is connected to a carousel of pro-Israel outfits that have funding ties to the IDF and AIPAC, plus explicitly anti-Muslim campaigns that among their issues, advocate for U.S. confrontation with Iran.

All of these individuals and more are reportedly part of a mega deal to buy TikTok for $14 billion. The details are here. Trump says the full roster of private U.S. investors (China’s Bytedance can only own a 20% stake) will be announced in a “matter of days.” But Forbes says Ellison’s “Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake and MGX, an AI-focused investment firm established by the government of Abu Dhabi” will have a whopping 40% stake in the new TikTok. Oracle is reportedly to get 15% and be named the app’s “security provider.”

The $14 billion deal is being called a “fire sale” by some observers who point out that Elon Musk paid triple that for Twitter in 2022. This highly suggests that this transaction is more about geopolitics and ideology rather than a financial gain for investors. Aside from its more than 1.5 billion regular users world-wide, TikTok has now become where 30% of Americans get their news. Now, not only will American companies like Oracle, which has numerous government tech contracts spanning defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, have access to TikTok’s user data, it will also have control of the algorithms that manage the kind of news, the messaging and images, that all of those users see.

“This was not a fair-market transaction,” said Milton Mueller, a professor at Georgia Tech specializing in digital governance, in Newsweek. “It’s a politically determined restructuring.” Some might say, with the constellation of GOP and MAGA supporters in the reported investor mix, this has the makings of a new Trump-friendly megaphone. But it is so much more. In essence, like Safra Catz says, the big “winners” will be in Israel.

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‘Israel’ pays influencers $7K per post to whitewash Gaza genocide

Al Mayadeen | October 1, 2025

Responsible Statecraft on Wednesday published an investigative report uncovering how the Israeli government is secretly bankrolling a vast social media influence campaign, paying Western content creators thousands of dollars per post to launder pro-“Israel” propaganda online as Palestinian civilians continue to be massacred in Gaza.

The investigation, authored by Nick Cleveland-Stout, reveals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally endorsed the effort, urging Israeli officials and media allies to coordinate messaging through paid influencers.

“We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers. I think you should also talk to them if you have a chance, to that community, they are very important,” Netanyahu said at a closed-door meeting Friday, openly acknowledging the regime’s strategy to shape public opinion through paid social media figures.

According to US filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), “Israel’s” Ministry of Foreign Affairs contracted Bridge Partners, a Washington DC-based lobbying and public relations firm, to manage the covert operation, codenamed the “Esther Project.” The project, coordinated with Havas Media Group Germany, carries a budget of $900,000, spanning June to November 2025.

After subtracting legal and administrative costs, approximately $552,946 was allocated for direct influencer payments between June and September. With 75 to 90 paid posts projected in that timeframe, each influencer could be earning between $6,100 and $7,300 per post, effectively turning social media feeds into a battlefield of paid Israeli state messaging.

Neither Havas nor Bridge Partners responded to questions from reporters seeking clarity on which influencers were hired or what guidelines governed their content.

State-funded disinformation during genocide

The documents show the operation was deliberately routed through US intermediaries to conceal direct Israeli sponsorship, allowing Tel Aviv to flood Western platforms like TikTok and Instagram with state-crafted narratives while evading transparency laws.

Bridge Partners’ co-founders, Yair Levi and Uri Steinberg, each hold a 50 percent stake in the firm. Among their senior advisors is Nadav Shtrauchler, a former Israeli army Spokesperson Unit major, a division notorious for whitewashing Israeli war crimes and manipulating wartime coverage.

For legal counsel, the firm hired Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a US law firm previously linked to NSO Group, the spyware company behind Pegasus, which has been used to surveil journalists, activists, and Palestinian human rights defenders.

The “Esther Project” represents a new frontier in “Israel’s” propaganda machine, weaponizing Western influencer culture to sanitize a campaign that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children, under what UN investigators have deemed acts of genocide.

Digital warfare and Western complicity

The name “Esther Project” bears resemblance to the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther”, a US initiative that seeks to brand critics of “Israel” as antisemites or terrorist sympathizers. While no formal link has been proven, both efforts reflect a shared strategy: criminalize solidarity with Palestine while amplifying pro-“Israel” voices through digital media manipulation.

Analysts warn that such state-funded disinformation campaigns not only distort reality but also exploit Western audiences’ ignorance, turning popular culture and lifestyle platforms into tools of psychological warfare.

“We have to fight back,” Netanyahu told his aides, a statement critics say lays bare the government’s reliance on paid influence rather than truth to maintain Western support.

The investigation by the Responsible Statecraft offers a rare glimpse into how “Israel” is exporting its information war into Western social media ecosystems, spending public funds to drown out Palestinian voices and whitewash atrocities in Gaza.

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Samantha Power brags about funding ‘democratic brightspot’ in Moldova

RT | October 1, 2025

American taxpayer money played a crucial role in keeping Moldovan President Maia Sandu in power, former USAID chief Samantha Power has claimed in a prank call with Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus.

Power, who led the US Agency for International Development under President Joe Biden, was recorded speaking to the pranksters as they posed as former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko. In the video, released Wednesday, she reflected on her time overseeing an agency with 15,000 staff and a multibillion-dollar budget, and cited expanded aid to Moldova as one of her successes.

“This was not a country that USAID had really had much of a presence in, very small,” Power said. “We expanded it massively, both for the sake of Ukraine, but of course also for Moldova. And it was a democratic brightspot with President Sandu, a Kennedy School graduate and a real reformer.”

According to Power, Sandu “narrowly squeaked by the last time,” though she did not specify whether she was referring to last year’s presidential election or the recent parliamentary vote in Moldova. Sandu and her party secured both contests with strong support from Moldovan expatriates in Western nations, while failing to secure a majority in the popular vote at home. Opposition figures argue the process was skewed to limit turnout in anti-government areas.

Sandu, a Romanian citizen, has faced criticism for what opponents describe as authoritarian tactics, including shutting down opposition media and branding rivals as Moscow-backed criminals. She has maintained that Moldova’s path to the European Union depends on her leadership.

Power said the Biden administration folded tens of millions of dollars for Moldova into broader Ukraine aid appropriation requests. “That money went much, much further in Moldova than it did in Ukraine because it’s such a small country,” she noted.

She also suggested people tend to associate Washington’s support with “arms, and maybe with Tori Nuland and interference,” but they overlook “forms of more subtle support.” Former US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is widely described as a key architect of the 2014 coup in Kiev and the subsequent escalation of tensions with Russia.

Moscow reiterated criticisms of Sandu after her latest victory, which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov branded a blatant example of “electoral fraud.”

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From Stage 4 to Remission: The Power of Integrative Oncology

Independent Medical Alliance (Formerly FLCCC Alliance) – September 25, 2025

Learn more: https://imahealth.org/stage-4-to-remission

He was told he had less than a year to live. Now, he’s here to tell the story of his incredible recovery. In this inspiring webinar, stage IV cancer survivor Dale Atkinson joins Dr. Amanda King, IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Kristina Carman, and host Dr. Paul Marik, IMA Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, to share how integrative oncology helped him rewrite the ending.

From devastating diagnosis to hope, Dale walks us through the treatments that made a difference, the turning points that kept him going, and the partnership with Dr. King that brought hope where there once was none. This isn’t just a survivor story—it’s a blueprint for blending conventional care with personalized, holistic approaches to chronic disease.

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Russian oil keeps flowing despite US pressure – Bloomberg

RT | September 30, 2025

Russia’s seaborne crude exports have remained near a 16-month high over the past four weeks, showing little impact from US President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure global buyers into halting imports from Moscow, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

According to vessel-tracking data through Saturday compiled by the outlet, average daily shipments held steady at 3.62 million barrels, matching the highest level since May 2024. The continued flow comes despite targeted US efforts to persuade countries to curb imports.

Trump has pressured the EU, India, and China to stop purchasing Russian oil, describing the move as an effort to advance a potential Ukraine peace settlement. Moscow has criticized Washington’s strong-arm tactics, saying that sovereign nations have the right to choose their trade partners.

New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil have in particular drawn the ire of the US. In August, Washington imposed 25% punitive tariffs on India on top of the earlier 25% tariff imposed after the two countries failed to reach a trade deal. India has refused to scale back imports from Russia and described Washington’s policy as economic coercion.

China has taken an even firmer stance, with its Ministry of Commerce reaffirming intentions to deepen energy cooperation with Russia. The ministry says Beijing will defend its interests as the US pushes G7 nations to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports.

European buyers are also resisting. Hungary and Slovakia, which are both reliant on pipeline shipments, have cited economic and logistical obstacles to ending Russian oil imports. Turkish imports have remained steady as well, averaging around 300,000 barrels per day.

Meanwhile, the redirection of oil from Russian refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes may be contributing to the continued export volumes, according to Bloomberg. Export terminal capacity, however, could become a limiting factor if strikes intensify, the outlet adds.

In the most recent week, 36 tankers carried 26.75 million barrels of Russian crude, a rise from the previous week’s 23.69 million, Bloomberg data shows. The total value of exports in the week to September 28 rose by $240 million to $1.57 billion.

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