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Protests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech

© The Guardian
September 25, 2026

More than 100 people were arrested at large protests against the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN general assembly. Susan Sarandon, Chelsea Manning and Caleb Hearon were among the famous faces arrested. Inside the assembly hall, Netanyahu faced a mass walkout as he took to the stage. Then, in an inflammatory address, he claimed Israel’s war in Gaza was the ‘opposite of a genocide’ and labelled the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, antisemitic. Lucy Hough speaks to UK global editor Devika Bhat – Watch Thursday’s episode of Stateside with Kai and Carter on whether Netanyahu has lost America

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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses

-Adolf Hitler

“New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly

© Democracy Now

The State of Israel can be proud of what we’re doing.

-Benjamin Netanyahu

‘La bola negra’: estética e hipersensible

Carlos Boyero © El País
September 24, 2026

Pocas veces he constatado un grado tan alto de expectación no ya entre la cinefilia, sino también en gente de la calle que quiere saber mi opinión sobre una película titulada La bola negra. Viene avalada por premios lujosos en festivales, en la tantas veces falsa suposición de que esos galardones han sido bendecidos por la infalible gracia de Dios, y por una espectacula…

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We do not believe in government through the voting booth.

-Francisco Franco

Trump Impersonated Hitler at the United Nations

Sasha Abramsky © The Nation
September 25, 2026

What does Trump’s Hitler impersonation at the United Nations on Tuesday have to do with Trump’s banning select news organizations from the White House? And what do either have to do with his increased efforts to round up thousands of unaccompanied children with pending asylum claims and prep them for deportation?

The answer: All of these indignities are symptoms of a US political system that has been captured by fanatics, its priorities now a near-mirroring of those of the fascist leaderships against whose foul vision hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives fighting during the Second World War.

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