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The alibi being prepared is that nobody could have known. Dec 2024: what the wall hid. Jan 2025: the plans to build over the dead. May: starvation as policy. June: protesters as terrorists. Everything we’ve written, in the order we wrote it. #Gaza #Palestine www.plagueisland.com/p/palestine-...

Dr Ahmad Mhanna asked a prison guard to treat a dying man. “You are not a doctor here; you are a terrorist.” Twenty-two months, no charge, home 28kg lighter. What he said on release: he was a doctor when they took him, and he is a doctor now. www.plagueisland.com/p/the-doctor...

Ukrainian drones had cut Russian refinery output by a third. Trump’s answer: open an American market for Russian diesel, then waive the sanctions act he signed a month earlier. Putin was asked for nothing. www.plagueisland.com/p/a-market-f...

Gaza was not destroyed by accident. Starvation, blocked aid, medical collapse, forced displacement, and the razing of homes and land formed a single machinery of genocide—designed to make Palestinian life impossible. www.plagueisland.com/p/gaza-was-m...

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Sadly not only in America but I take the point.

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Israel hates when they are compared to Nazi Germany.

Anyone writing about Gaza is asked to be measured. Take the measurement: 73,914 dead on a count everyone agrees is a floor, 21,289 of them children. Measured is a set of rules for what you may say, and Israel wrote every one. www.plagueisland.com/p/73000-are-... #Gaza #Palestine #Netanyahu #UNGA

Macklemore sang for Hind Rajab, six, killed in a car with 335 bullet holes. Ten days later he was off Ed Sheeran's tour. Sheeran keeps his views private. 20,000 children are dead. There is no neutral. www.plagueisland.com/p/there-is-n... #Gaza #Macklemore #palestine #genocide

An Israeli drone operator asked an intelligence officer which targets to load. The answer, he told Haaretz: "You have two million targets in Gaza." Gaza has about two million people. Nobody, he says, was ever held accountable. 73,651 are dead. There is a word for two million targets.

Trump's year with democracies: Zelensky harangued on camera. Starmer's Chagos deal "GREAT STUPIDITY". Tariffs on Denmark over Greenland. Canada on a map under his flag. His year with autocrats: Putin, a red carpet. Orbán, "a great leader… a friend of mine". Two lists. He chose his club.

Moscow made threats when Finland joined NATO. Trump says he'll take Greenland by force on Russia's Arctic flank, and the Kremlin applauds. Ukraine is the price. The trail runs from Anchorage to Mar-a-Lago and ends where it began, in a KGB cable from 1987. www.plagueisland.com/p/greenland-...

The night before Trump's call with Putin, Russia fired 32 cruise missiles and 166 drones at Kyiv. Seven dead. Then Putin, per the Kremlin, assured Trump Russia has "no aggressive plans regarding Europe". In February 2022 Moscow said it had no plans to invade Ukraine.

"I should get something out of this," Trump said, asking for Hormuz to be renamed the Trump Strait. At least 18 American service members are dead. Iran says a US strike on a wedding killed two children. The soldiers are his to send, the oil his to take, the strait his to name. The world is his.

Hundreds of masked men in black shut Britain's busiest port on Saturday. On Sunday, over 500 blocked Portsmouth's roads to trap coaches of 140 people just pulled from the sea, livestreaming that they'd never leave. The word being used is protest. This was a protest. It was a practice for a lynching

On camera before the talks, Witkoff told Putin that when they retire the memories will be incredible, and Putin's will be "right at the top of it all". To the author of a war that killed a record 437 civilians in July alone. That isn't negotiating technique. It's the relationship, said out loud.

Putin will not contest Greenland. Trump will not back Ukraine. Nothing signed, because nothing needs to be. The unwritten bargain, the wreckage to NATO, and the 1987 cable where it begins. www.plagueisland.com/p/greenland-... #Greenland #Ukraine #Trump #Putin #NATO

A fiction made real by being repeated until people act on it has a name: hyperstition. "Stolen election" was never a claim to check. It was an incantation. That is why fact-checking it fails. You cannot fact-check a spell. www.plagueisland.com/p/part-7-the...

Alberta votes on leaving Canada on 19 October. Its separatist leaders have met the US State Department three times. Putin ran this play against Ukraine for fourteen years. New from Plague Island: www.plagueisland.com/p/alberta-is... #Alberta #Canada #Ukraine

Putin on Ukraine: 1 people, an artificial state, borders as mistake. Trump on Canada: an "artificially drawn line", a nation that should be the 51st state, force not ruled out. This is what groundwork looks like: teaching a country the border was never real, so whatever comes next is common sense.

The beaches are full in Gaza. It's not respite, it's refusal. 2 million people in tents, neighbourhoods flattened, lifeguards with no buoys, no towers, one shared whistle, and still the families come to the water in thousands. Sumud. The sea can't be bulldozed, and like the sea, they keep returning.

Notes From Plague Island: a forensic publication about power. The genocide in Gaza and Britain's hand in it. The far right laundered into the mainstream. Russia's long game. America's slide toward strongman rule. Sourced, free to read, answerable to nobody but readers. www.plagueisland.com

Israel launched its first airstrike on the West Bank in 18 months, killing 3. Those months were anything but calm: record settler violence, lethal raids, thousands held without charge. Now airstrikes on top of it, publicly praised by Netanyahu and his defence minister. An escalation by choice.

The Monroe Doctrine is taught as US warning empires off the hemisphere. In practice it was a licence: marines in Nicaragua & Haiti, the Guatemala coup, Pinochet, the Contras. In December the White House announced a Trump Corollary & declared the doctrine alive & well. Believe the press release.

In Gaza a ten-year-old who makes kites told Al Jazeera he's afraid to fly them: Israel says it will treat kites as acts of war, & has threatened forced evacuations over them. A military with F-35s has informed a child his paper and string are weapons. The war, in one boy's decision not to fly a kite

The Monroe Doctrine is taught as US warning empires off the hemisphere. In practice it was a licence: marines in Nicaragua and Haiti, the Guatemala coup, Pinochet, the Contras. Trump wants Venezuela & Greenland isn't a new policy. It's the oldest one, out of storage.

At Yalta it took a ww2 to bring the powers to the carve-up. Now it's attempted by press conference. Trump has never objected to Putin on Ukraine because it's his own principle, applied to someone else's neighbourhood. Him demanding Greenland has no vocabulary for condemning a man taking Donbas.

Trump: Canada the 51st state, Greenland with force not ruled out, the Panama Canal, Gaza as property. Putin: Ukraine isn't real, the border is wherever a Russian soldier stands. Xi: Taiwan ringed with rehearsals. 1 thing is happening. The sphere of interest is back & they announced it from podiums

the politics of eternity: the nation an innocent victim under permanent attack, time a circle, the leader defending an past, forever. He meant Putin's Russia. Now: eternal enemies, a golden age behind us, hats for an election the constitution forbids, Eternity politics has no future tense.

Israel has opened construction bids for new illegal housing in the occupied West Bank. Tender documents, contractors, the furniture of public procurement, for homes illegal under international law, as the UN rapporteur warns settlers are advancing ethnic cleansing.