Van Jones Thinks Genocide is Funny

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If there is one thing the last two years has shown us is that the American political class, which includes the likes of Van Jones and Bill Maher, is the perfect example of spineless grift and depravity.

Last night, Jones and the gin-soaked, D-list comedian Bill Maher, had their audience in stitches about dead children in Gaza. Jones was peddling a debunked, unhinged and idiotic far-right conspiracy theory that Iran and Qatar are behind the online “disinformation campaign” regarding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He claimed young people are being brainwashed when they open their phones and see “Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby…”

Aside from his outright disdain for the younger generation, one that exposes him for the coward he is, Jones has no curiosity about how those babies actually died. Of course not. And neither does Bill Maher. I doubt either of them has seen even one photo or video of a dead baby or child in Gaza. To them, it is all a plot designed to divide and subvert the West by “foreign adversaries.”

The two were joined by the perpetually wrong Thomas Friedman and all three offered banal and debased excuses for why IDF soldiers had no choice in committing atrocities. They had to murder those Palestinian children (and completely destroy Gaza) because of October 7th.

Yup. That’s it. The IDF had no choice but to annihilate hundreds of thousands of people. The three would never dare talk about decades of Israel’s apartheid and ethnic cleansing that led to its climax in genocide. And they would never have an actual Palestinian at one of their fireside chats.

Jones realized how disgusting his commentary was in the morning and he quickly posted his regrets online:

“I made a comment on Real Time with Bill Maher about the war in Gaza that was insensitive and hurtful. I apologize. The suffering of the people of Gaza — especially the children — is not a punch line. I’m deeply sorry it came across that way. I’m praying and working for an immediate end to this war — and for peace and safety for every family caught in its path. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign adversaries creating chaos online – which is undermining democracy everywhere. But what I said was easily misunderstood.”

But Jones wasn’t “misunderstood.” He was seen for the genocidal apologist he is. A ghoul who believes its all just “politics.” One who soaks up his notoriety on a mountain of corpses.

If you know anything about me, you know what I think he can do with his “apology.”

Kenn Orfanos, October 2024

There is no greater threat to democracy or human decency than fascism.

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Following an unprecedented mandatory meeting of US military commanders, the Trump regime’s attack on Chicago was another test. Sending 300 ICE agents to abduct immigrants, including children, by rappelling from Blackhawk helicopters onto an apartment building in the middle of the night was a clear message of state terror.

Borrowing from other fascist regimes throughout history, Trump and his minions are seeking absolute control over the republic through intimidation, threats and ruthless domination. And they continue to demonstrate that they can do this with virtually no opposition from any established political entity.

The Democratic Party has proven ineffective and unwilling to meet this moment with the resolve needed to thwart a complete takeover and dismantling of what is left of American democracy. And the judiciary, lacking any enforcement, appears unable to keep up with this rapid descent into fascist dystopia.

The American mainstream media, tasked with the role of watchdog, has been all but silent on the war the Trump regime is waging. Preferring to comply in advance and self-censor, instead of risking costly lawsuits by challenging the regime. This should not come as a surprise since these outlets have traded their journalistic integrity and credibility for ratings and profits long ago.

The regime now has its own army. ICE has a budget that dwarfs the US Marines. Its masked thugs seem to enjoy impunity, attacking civilians without provocation, firing rubber bullets into crowds, and shooting at the media. Its campaign of terror is only just beginning.

And speaking of terror, the regime is quickly acting on its threat of labeling anyone who disagrees or dissents from their policies or actions as domestic terrorists. This is the kind of thought policing that all fascist regimes resort to when challenged by a public that is not adequately complying with its dictates.

The regime will try to cast a wide net, ruthlessly persecuting and prosecuting all individuals, organizations and agencies they deem to be “radical leftists.” And that net will include anyone who is not Maga. Anyone who protests US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Anyone who supports gay and transgender youth. Anyone who teaches science, talks about climate change or opposes the destruction of the environment. Anyone who challenges racist or misogynistic policies. Anyone who advocates for the unhoused or the rights of the mentally ill. Anyone who is not a white, heteronormative, evangelical or fundamentalist Christian. And this will include going after the liberals who have long attacked the left and progressives themselves.

At a time when most Americans are struggling with crushing debt and rising costs, the regime will not address the needs of the people. Instead, it will attempt to silence critics, criminalize the poor and use marginalized communities as scapegoats for all the suffering that is yet to come. This is not a prophetic declaration. It is a prediction based on mountains of evidence from every other fascist regime in history.

There is no greater threat to democracy or human decency than fascism. It is a poison to any society. And once administered, it is breathtakingly difficult to extract. For years, this brew of nationalism, oligarchic tyranny, racism and social animus has been allowed to simmer. And with the fascists now in power, it is reaching a rapid boil.

None of this is to discourage complacency or defeatism. In fact, the stakes have never been higher. Americans still have some freedoms left to them. And challenging this nightmare is paramount to reducing its cruelty and harm. But for many, especially those who are not white, Christian or who do not conform to the regime’s accepted optics, escaping is the only viable option.

Americans have long ignored the warning signs. They have long swallowed the bromide that “it can’t happen here.” But it has happened there. Over and over and over again. To Black and Brown people. To women. To immigrants. To Indigenous people. To queer communities. To the poor. And to the Global South that American imperialism has ruthlessly targeted for nearly 250 years. The difference now is that maw of brutality is much, much wider.

But at every moment of fascism’s rise, there has been resistance. It is not invincible, although fascists would like us to think so. The most powerful tool we have is our shared humanity. And this is why they want to rob us of that. Never forget that behind the bravado of every fascist is a cowardly bully, trembling in fear at the power of solidarity.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

Regarding Rich People Who Rich Right

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One of the most grotesque features of late capitalism is the rise of wealthy influencers. This army of vapid no-talents, slathered in whatever overpriced bronzer is new, carrying a Hermes or Louis Vuitton’s sack of mediocrity, and usually wearing something Prada, Bulgari or Donna Karan vomited up, are the ones employed to simultaneously make the working class feel worthless while selling us something we do not need or even want.

From their vaunted McMansion in some lackluster suburb of Nowheresville or some overpriced condo in a concrete box where dreams go to die, they produce their “content” to the hapless, the defeated and the confused. These are the people that sad suck-ups praise as “rich people who rich right.” In other words, they take ostentatious obnoxiousness to the next level. They are not merely loud about their wealth, they have weaponized it.

As prices for groceries explode and rent becomes a penalty for living on this planet, the uberwealthy are living the high life. But their personalities are so bereft of actual substance that simply indulging in such materialism isn’t satisfying enough. They must flaunt it to any poor sap who scrolls by their glossy, screaming profiles between starving or dead children in Gaza and the daily Trumpian nightmare.

Wealthy influencers in this new Gilded Age are harbingers. Unable to grasp their Antoinettian place in history, they are both clueless and uninterested in the suffering of the masses. Their penchant for shiny things blinds them to increasing rage at the engineered inequities of our time. But neither their lack of curiosity or the chorus of sycophants defending them will spare them the coming wrath. It will also not spare them or any of us from the price for such avarice.

And how do we know this? We are living in a biosphere, incidentally the only one we have, that is under constant siege. Like all things, it is finite. It can only withstand so much extraction, infraction and excrement from the current arrangement of power and wealth. In short, its days are numbered so long as this machine of production and destruction for the material gain of a few parasitic worms in expensive Gucci sunglasses continues.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

We Are All Gaza Now

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Perhaps the greatest paradox of our times is the illusion of distance. We can now see and hear what is happening on the other side of the planet in mere seconds. But even though this has dispelled the myth of a small world, the screens we all carry around in pockets and purses give us the veneer of separation.

Gaza is the best example of this. The two year long genocide has been the first livestreamed one in history. We have witnessed both the horror and suffering of the Palestinians every single day, but also the depravity and sadism of the perpetrators. In addition to this, there is the staggering normalization and mendacity from Western media and political leaders.

What Gaza has showed us is that our leaders, almost all of them, are capable of committing or justifying the most unimaginable crimes. And if they are capable of that, they can also turn that toward us.

This is demonstrable in the actions and threats of the Trump regime in the United States. Like the Biden administration, it has supported, funded and defended Israel as it commits an obvious genocide. And now, the fascist regime is turning its sights unto its domestic population.

The recent meeting of generals and other military brass by Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, was a loyalty test. The goal was to get the military to align with the fascist policies of the regime. Whether or not it was successful is debatable. The duo, who looked more like used car salesmen than statesmen, managed to insult almost half of them with racist comments and body shaming. Certainly, many of the commanders looked visibly disgusted or, at the very least, disturbed by the spectacle.

But the regime is seeking to quell the rising tide of unrest rising within the US. With an economy that is strangling more and more people, a distaste for the repression of civil liberties, and increasing disgust of ICE thuggery, Trump and his cultish team see their only option as being the unmerciful hammer of state violence or in its threat. And it has several progressive or liberal cities in mind for carrying out its plans. In deed, Trump’s next war will be on the so-called “enemy from within.”

To many white Americans, the idea that they could suffer a similar fate as the Palestinians is absurd. They have been inured by the racist illusion of privilege for so long that they cannot fathom their own government trapping them and relentlessly attacking them until they either die or submit. But this toxic mythology may lead to complacency in the face of an increasingly belligerent fascist regime.

Even today, there are political operatives and media figures openly talking about locking up people with autism or who are transgender, gunning down unarmed protestors in the street, or euthanizing the unhoused. This type of language is insidious. It has the effect of normalizing future atrocities by making such ideas mainstream or socially acceptable. And when they are repeated over and over again, they numb our response.

To be sure, the prospect for becoming Gaza is likely many years down the line for most white Americans. But any cursory glance at American history should dispel the erroneous notion that “it can’t happen here.” In fact, the US has used far worse tactics of destruction on the Global South for well over a century. We know what it is capable of. And domestically, the US has ruthlessly crushed people of colour many times over. One glaring example was the bombing of a city block by police in Philadelphia in 1985.

As the Trump regime ramps up its attacks on dissent, labeling anyone who disagrees with its policies as terrorists, it would be unwise to underestimate how far it will go to hold on to power. Fascist regimes never give up power willingly. The idea of voting them out is ahistorical and dangerous. They are either brought down by coups, military actions or civil war, or they lumber on for decades, rotting a society until the last fascist in power dies.

Since the beginning, Trump and his minions have told us what they want to do. They may couch it in jokes that are in bad taste or in outright proclamations. But fascists aren’t very good at nuance or in hiding their true intentions. The regime seizes on any opportunity it can to advance its objectives. The death of a racist podcaster. A mass shooting. Its own ‘Reichstag fire’ is whatever incident it can weaponize.

The last two years have shown us how far Western leaders can go. It may seem like half a world away, but we live in a very different world now. That perceived distance from us is an illusion. And one of the most difficult things to come to grips with is that our leaders either do not care or worse, they have a taste for doing things we once thought unthinkable. Thus, it would be supremely unwise to ignore the glaring fact that we can all suffer a similar fate by a political and media class that see most of us as either expendable, a useful scapegoat, or as an impediment their mission. In essence, we are all Gaza now.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

Regardless of what Israel and its Supporters do now, the Jigs Up

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It is no secret that the Trump regime in the United States seeks to crush any and all dissent. One of the tactics is endless litigation of media behemoths. The other is through the mere threat of litigation. The recent firing and rehiring of comedian Jimmy Kimmel attests to the latter. In that case, the threat failed. But the regime isn’t finished in its ongoing quest to transform American media into either toothless infotainment or an arm of fascist state propaganda.

The American media landscape is already dominated by a small group of wealthy companies. And conservative tech billionaires own social media. Despite this, there has been some measure of freedom of speech and expression, at least in regard to the minimal requirement for journalistic integrity.

But the US is inextricably linked to Israel, its most important colonial asset. And defending the genocidal state at all costs, even if it fractures its Maga base, has become one of the current regime’s primary objectives. Threatening litigation isn’t the only thing they have in their bag of tricks. Buying up all the means of communication and filling it with sycophants seems to be their latest plan. It is manufactured consent on steroids.

Case in point: wealthy Zionist Larry Ellison and his son David, have been busy buying up as many media platforms as they can. The cringe-inducing duo have longstanding ties to Israel and have vociferously defended its murderous attacks against the Palestinians from day one. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has been the biggest private donor to the IDF. Oracle itself is little more than an Israeli colonial apparatus with cultish devotion to the genocidal project. Now the father and son seek to eradicate all dissent by curtailing journalism and muzzling content creators and independent media.

David Ellison bought Paramount. Now he aims to turn the mammoth media outlet CBS into a mouthpiece for Israel. And he is giving the keys to Bari Weiss.

Ever the suck up to the uber-wealthy, Weiss started her lackluster career by going after professors who dared speak out about Palestine without consulting her. She went on to a hackneyed stint at the New York Times where she trotted out stale, bromidic pabulum about the supposed perils of “woke culture.” Essentially, regurgitating the grievances of far-right intellectual poseurs and blowhards like Jordan Peterson.

Weiss, who has used her virtually unknown platform “The Free Press” to spread the most vicious and mendacious apologia for genocide, will likely use CBS as a tool of Zionist propaganda. She has made no secret of the marriage of her devotion to the racist state and her “journalism.” Her holocaust apologetics have been seemingly endless, from pieces that deny the Israeli policy of starvation to blaming Palestinians for their suffering and murder.

With Weiss in tow, the Ellison’s are now planning the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. According to the Wall Street Journal: the “bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio,” which includes “HBO Max” along with “CNN, TBS, and TNT.” It seems apparent that this whole genocide thing has made them all itchy, especially with public sentiment beginning to turn.

This is why wealthy Zionists have their sights set on social media. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, TikTok. They understand that the biggest threat to their hegemonic control of the narrative comes from ordinary people sounding the alarm. People who are not intimidated by legacy media and its complicity with fascism and genocide. If they succeed in taking over these platforms, they will rapidly censor or shadow ban any voice that challenges their approved storyline.

But regardless of these monied and high stakes plans and mergers, the jig is up for both Israel and the American Empire. No media putsch can alter their joint trajectories. Both entities are in a state of rot, chaos and marked decline. So, these attempts to seize the microphone appear more like acts of desperation than a hostile takeover. These media outlets are the vestiges of a dying era, with most of Gen Z ignoring them completely. And young people have found creative ways to utilize or subvert social media to their advantage.

No one can unsee the horror the Zionist state has and continues to mete out on a defenseless people imprisoned in the world’s largest, open-air concentration camp. No one can unhear the cries of little Hind as she sat in a car wounded and surrounded by her dead family as Israeli tanks closed in around her. No one can forget the nearly two year campaign of complete annihilation of Gaza.

And these media giants are powerless against the most damning aspect of this genocide: the egos of the genocidaires themselves. Most of the evidence has come from IDF soldiers who have proudly posted their crimes on social media. Or from the IDF commanders who have leveled nearly every hospital, school, mosque, bakery and farm in Gaza. Or Israeli media that has platformed openly genocidal voices. Or from Israeli politicians who talk openly about their hatred of every Palestinian, including children, labeling them all as “terrorists.” Or their intention to starve the captive population. Or their plans to “redevelop” Gaza for illegal settlement.

The Ellison family is one of the wealthiest on the planet. They may soon surpass Elon Musk in being the richest. But they haven’t been paying close attention to the reality that wealth does not beget popularity. Nor does it command people to listen to you. Musk is a prime example of this. The ketamine-addled Nazi has seen his status plummet in recent months. He has become a running joke and punchline. And none of his ill-gotten riches can alter the public perception of him being an unhinged buffoon.

Israel and the US are in a similar state. Both are seen as a pariah. Their image is tainted by genocidal mania, sadism and fascist nihilism. Their citizens are increasingly being shunned when they travel abroad and their allies are beginning to distance themselves from the embarrassment.

They may be able to shutdown dissent or stifle journalistic principles in major American media and even silence some content creators or independent platforms, but they cannot undo what has been done. They cannot sponge away the blood from their hands. The evidence is far too damning. The mountain of corpses is far too high. And we have all seen too much to ever let them forget any of it.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

The D-List Celebrities Still Shilling for Genocide

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Recently, more than 4,000 film industry workers — including Olivia Colman, Elliot Page, Javier Bardem, Aimee Lou Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Juliet Stevenson, Riz Ahmed, Ayo Edebiri, Tilda Swinton, Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Josh O’Connor, Brian Cox and Emma Stone — signed a pledge promising not to work with film institutions or governments that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, B’Tselem בצלם, Jewish Voice for Peace and most genocide scholars agree. It is now indisputable that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide.

But like a chorus of braying donkeys, Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing and a long list of holocaust deniers claimed this pledge was antisemitic. They also said it was a form of “collective punishment,” which is rich coming from a group that has ignored or applauded Israel’s decades-long collective punishment of the Palestinians.

Mayim Bialik is perhaps one of the most well known “celebrities” on the list. The former sitcom star and gameshow host infamously endorsed a children’s book entitled “Under Rockets Glow” where a young girl is indoctrinated to believe she is the victim and not the daughter of colonizers. A more apt name might have been “Baby’s First Genocide.”

Debra Messing is another. The former sitcom star embarrassed herself long before the genocide started by attacking progressive Democratic Black women for daring to challenge the conservative slant of the party. After Israel began its campaign of annihilation, she flew to the country on a “birthright” trip where she filmed herself blubbering over IDF soldiers as they prepared to carry out the Final Solution.

Some may find these criticisms too harsh. But there can be no forgiveness for celebrities who choose, even now, to support and defend genocide. None. As they shill for a regime that burns, bombs and starves hundreds of thousands of children, they deserve nothing less than our scorn and contempt.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Held Hostage by a Death Cult

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I was thinking about the latest “rapture” craze on social media. And I remembered learning about it growing up. I went to a conservative protestant church, and later to a conservative Christian college. So, I am quite familiar with the concept.

When I began deconstructing my faith I learned that the word “rapture” isn’t even in Biblical scripture, In fact, the idea first emerged in 1830s America. And while it is popular in fundamentalist or evangelical circles, most Christian denominations reject the doctrine completely.

Regardless of that, I have been reflecting on the despair that buttresses such a theology. How sad that there are so many who would rather be whisked away into the sky to some imagined paradise, rather than stay here and fight for this world to be livable, just, egalitarian and kind. And how very misanthropic. This doesn’t appear like spiritual practice, it strikes me as spiritual abuse.

Not only does this idea of “rapture” delight in leaving earth and billions of human beings to perish or suffer unimaginably. War? Genocide? Destruction of the biosphere? It sees it all as necessary to the story. There is only one ending to this tale. Only one conclusion. And that is for its apocalyptic “prophecies” to be fulfilled. Whether or not that will come about by the Divine or his followers is the sticky part.

If this was a religious belief that did not grievously affect virtually everything about our future as a species, it would not matter. But now that evangelical Christian fanatics are firmly in power in the United States, the wealthiest and most powerful military empire in human history, it matters to everyone.

So, while we may laugh at such ideas or pity those bamboozled by them, maybe it is time we acknowledge that we are all being held hostage by an unhinged death cult. And their sole intent is to rise into the heavens while reducing this world, our only home, to a pile of ash.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

From Goebbels to Miller, the Milestones of Fascist Ideology

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There are moments in history that serve as milestones. Points in the timeline of human experience that help to identify when events shifted so much so that the course of everything after was forever altered. These points cannot be predicted, but they can be anticipated when other factors come together in a manner that echo other times or are considered reliable indicators of the consequence of actions.

Such is the case of the murder of Charlie Kirk. It will undoubtedly serve as a milestone in the timeline of American fascism. A point in history that indicated the final demolition of societal norms and the ascendancy of fascism accelerated. This isn’t necessarily about that moment when Kirk was shot. But it is about every moment that has followed.

The recent memorial service for the fascist ideologue was one of those moments. For all intents and purposes, it was a rally. An unprecedented opportunity to see exactly what the Trump regime and its cultish fanbase Maga, think of the majority of Americans. And a chance to catch a glimpse of its roadmap for humanity.

Trump’s eulogy wasn’t a surprise in regard to its rambling, tangential nonsense and thinly veiled threats. In this speech, Kirk’s vile life was but a footnote to Trump’s epic narcissism. In fact, Trump’s only ideological principle is narcissistic self-aggrandizement. In many ways, it was humorous because it appears like the Vaudeville act of a cartoon villain, only lacking a mustache to be twirled.

But Stephen Miller’s tirade, although drenched in melodramatic buffoonery, was far more chilling. Echoing Joseph Goebbels from a speech the Nazi propagandist gave in 1932 for the murder of a Nazi militant, Miller lashed out at the so-called “enemies” of America: “Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello… Our ancestors built the cities… the art and architecture… the industry.”

“To the enemy, I say this: You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can create nothing.”

His use of lineage is telling. He ignored every other civilization, choosing to elevate European history alone. The Maya, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Indus, the Australian Aboriginals. None of them matter or even exist in Miller’s timeline.

This is the lynchpin of all supremacist ideologies. The invocation of mythic beginnings in some imagined grandeur that is above all others. The descendants of this lineage are not only the creators of civilization. They are civilization itself.

In addition to this, Miller dehumanizes his opponents and anyone who does not fit into his white nationalist narrative of revisionist history as “nothing.” To him, descendants of the enslaved, the indentured, the immigrant, especially if they are Black, Brown or Asian, have no birthright to the nation, despite being the ones who actually built the infrastructure of the American Empire.

“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts, and that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand,” Miller threatened. His use of spiritual imagery was no accident. Fascists view the world in black and white. There is no nuance, no grey areas, no room for questioning. It is a world full of angels and demons. One where an invisible war rages between the forces of darkness and light. Miller seized on this framing in order to tap into the ever-present angst present in the Maga base. An uneasiness that is pervasive within all fascist movements.

Miller told the crowd of nearly 100,000 cheering mourners that they are “on the side of God.” And this is something most of them fervently believe. It is what enables them to shut down rationality and reason when it comes to a failing economy and a reduction of their civil liberties. It is what allows them to ignore human suffering, even that of children, in their support and defense of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Being on “God’s side” gives Maga the unfettered right to attack, oppress or annihilate anyone who differs from them, because “they” are the “enemy” of God.

Without a doubt, Miller knows exactly what he is doing. He is a student of history. And he has meticulously curated this persona and image of himself. In truth, he appears to be relishing in the fact that so many are comparing him to the infamous Goebbels. But anyone who takes history seriously should not take any of this lightly. Miller is the architect of the Trump regime’s mass deportations and ICE thuggery.

Miller declared: “We are the storm.” In 1932, Goebbels proclaimed “Der Sturm bricht los” which means, “The storm breaks loose.” And we know what followed. A storm of fascist fear, brutality, terror, murder and destruction was unleashed in Germany that would end with the near total devastation of Europe and the annihilation of millions of people. That Miller chose to echo this man knowing the horrendous years that followed that speech is bone-chilling. And if this is not reason for alarm, I don’t know what is.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Statehood is Meaningless in a Genocide

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There are some who are pleased with the announcement that the UK, Canada, France and Australia are finally recognizing a Palestinan state. But this entire charade is merely a weak attempt for these nations to hide their complicity in genocide.

Right now, Gaza is in ruins. Over 90% of its buildings reduced to rubble, with countless souls entombed in their homes from Israeli airstrikes. Millions of people are being starved to death by the Zionist state, half of which are children. And an estimated 690,000+ have been killed in this campaign of annihilation that is almost at the two year mark.

All of this has been supported, funded and facilitated by the United States. Israel remains its most important colonial asset. But Britain, France, Canada and Australia have blood on their hands too. These nations continue to provide aid to Israel. They continue trade and that diplomatic relations with Israel.

Their recognition of Palestinian statehood is little more than political spectacle. A cruel kabuki theatre of the absurd. A pitiful attempt to whitewash their part in the most heinous crime against humanity in this century. And every single political leader in these nations know this.

History will remember the gall of the West. Its platitudes and lofty speeches about human rights and international law will forever be seen as threadbare cloaks, poorly obscuring its racism, hypocrisy and the lingering ghosts of its own murderous colonial past. This latest stunt will do nothing to change that fact.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Tremors in Magaland

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Since the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump regime has made it clear that it intends to crush all dissent from the left. US Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, made the ridiculous allegation that the Democratic Party was a “domestic, extremist organization” before the shooting. After, he practically spat out venom when talking about using the full power of the state to “dismantle the left.” Those thinking these are idle threats haven’t been paying close attention.

But there may be one glimmer of hope. Maga is in disarray since the shooting. Prominent voices, including Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Meghan Kelly have been raising questions about Kirk’s allegiance to Israel, with some alleging he was about to shift. Even before Kirk’s murder, Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Green were beginning to stray from the pack.

Just a day before his death, Kirk did an interview with the infamously smug and endlessly irritating genocide apologist, Ben Shapiro. He asked uncomfortable questions about genocide and ethnic cleansing to a visibly shaken Shapiro. This, and other instances, have created a conspiracy theory spiral in Magaland with some indicating they believed Israel was either responsible for or involved in the assassination of Kirk.

Make no mistake, Charlie Kirk was an odious man. His racism, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny and Islamophobia are on the record for anyone to see. But Israel has banked on unwavering allegiance from the American far right. Evangelical Christians, who make up a large portion of the Republican Party, have a cultlike devotion to the Zionist state, with many believing it is essential for the second coming of Christ. But for others in the far right sphere, particularly gen Z, this bond is beginning to fray.

“There’s rumors going around—maybe Mossad is a part of the Epstein files,” one young male student told Kirk at one of his university events. And he wasn’t the only one to raise these issues. Other students noted that the algorithms on their phones are different to that of their parents. Their feeds are an endless stream of horror and suffering in Gaza. And the fact that Netanyahu was the first political leader to post on social media asking for prayers for Kirk after the shooting has also raised eyebrows, with many of them asking why a foreign leader would be so invested in a far right, American podcaster. So much so, that he was aware of the shooting before even Trump knew.

Kirk knew that the “America first” crowd were tired of wars and foreign investments that cost too much. As its primary colonial asset, Israel gets the lion share of American foreign aid. And he felt the pressure from them, as well as the wealthy, pro-Israel donors who funded Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Even ultra-Zionist billionaire hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, has been embroiled in this, with accusations of pressure and even blackmail attempts. Something Ackman has denied.

To be sure, it is unlikely Kirk would have changed direction on supporting the genocidal state in light of his political ambitions. But the fractures aren’t something to take lightly. As the American Empire declines and unravels, it becomes a churning mess of conspiracies, suspicion and paranoia.

All of these issues shouldn’t convince anyone that the Trump regime will change course. The killing of Charlie Kirk has provided it with its very own Reichstag fire, undoubtedly thinking it is a perfect distraction from the damning Epstein files and the genocide in Gaza that it wholeheartedly supports. It is feeling emboldened with small victories, like the recent sacking of popular, nighttime comedian, Jimmy Kimmel. But the regime is clearly shaken and fearful. It knows its fragile alliances are unstable and unreliable.

Whatever the regime does now, opposition to its cruelty and sadism must be paramount. Protests against ICE, deportations, concentration camps, attacks on vulnerable communities and the genocide in Gaza must not be thwarted by its threats. Fascist regimes create or capitalize on chaos in order to benefit from the confusion. Giving in to that confusion would be a fatal mistake no one could afford.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Photo Credit: A billboard showing an image of US President Donald Trump (L) embracing Charlie Kirk on the side of a building in Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2025.© Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images