‘Operation Epic Fury’ – Anatomy Of A War Of Aggression


After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel


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The Guardian

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned. (...)

After decades of documenting state terror, I know how it starts. Governments begin to use words like security, order, deterrence. (...)

What happens when democratic states adopt the methods of the regimes they once condemned? Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive. As the historian Timothy Snyder warned in his 2017 book, On Tyranny, this is how societies slide into danger: people obey in advance. (...)

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Officers arrest an anti-ICE protester in Minneapolis Minnesota, 30 January 2026. Photograph: Craig Lassig/UPI/Shutterstock.

Tags: #english #us #united states #ice #trump #israel #netanhayu #autocracy #arbitrary detention #secret policing #sureveillance #militarised policing #state terror

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology


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Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about


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We are witnessing the silencing of American media


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The Guardian

From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy dies. (...)

The silencing is happening across America because Trump cannot stand criticism, because he’s vindictive as hell, and because he’s willing and able to use every department and agency of the federal government to punish any media corporations or universities that allow criticism of him.

Shame on any media outlet or university that allows Trump to silence it.

Trump is a dangerous despot. America needs its Eduardo Porters, Stephen Colberts, and all others in the media and in academia who have helped the nation understand just how truly dangerous Trump is.

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Photo of name of Washington Post on wall seen between walking people

Tags: #english #media #news #journalism #journalist #censorship #washington post #bezos #jeff bezos #cbs #paramount #Skydance #university #us #united states #trump

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Waarschuwing vanuit Helsinki: Europa ‘finlandiseert’


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Carte blanche geven aan Israël is een blunder van formaat


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Kenneth Roth van Human Rights Watch: ‘Trump geeft een enorm geschenk aan alle autocraten ter wereld’


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The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024


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‘Trump is abandoning Ukraine and wants a weaker EU’: Dominique de Villepin on Europe’s moment of truth


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The Guardian

(...) “We now have three illiberal superpowers: Russia, China and the US,” De Villepin says. “America can no longer be considered an ally of Europe.” But he warns that the US will not prosper in this disordered, survival-of-the-fittest world it is creating, “because they will be completely isolated”.

He sees Trump’s authoritarian turn as both a crisis and an opportunity for Europe to unite behind a new common purpose. “The consequence of this will be a European awakening of democracy. We’re going to fight for liberal democracy more than ever. Because the question now is really: sovereignty or submission.” (...)

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Emmanuel Macron with Donald Trump at the White House this week. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AP.

Tags: #english #ukraine #us #united states #trump #europe #eu #european union #illiberal democracy #democracy #macron #villepin #zelensky

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Van Trump valt weinig druk op Israël te verwachten, maar ook Europa schiet schromelijk tekort


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Witte Huis opent aanval op Europese privacywetgeving en ‘oneerlijke’ regulering Amerikaanse techbedrijven


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Trumps plannen voor Gaza zijn etnische zuivering – noem dat ook zo


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Jacobin

Hoe moeilijk is het voor Nederlandse journalisten om de dingen te benoemen zoals ze zijn? Erg moeilijk, zo blijkt deze week eens te meer. Zeker als het om Gaza gaat. (...)

Er lijkt een nieuwe vorm van politieke correctheid in het Nederlandse medialandschap waarin journalisten alles wat Palestijnen wordt aangedaan niet durven te benoemen met de daarvoor zorgvuldig ontwikkelde termen of eufemismen. (...)

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Premier Netanyahu op bezoek bij President Trump die zijn plannen voor Gaza toelicht (Wikimedia Commons).

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‘Techgiganten zullen er samen met het Witte Huis alles aan doen om hun doel te bereiken’


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