We were stuck by a post on X by Visegrád 24 stating, “The Gays for Gaza activist Cameron Capara has been shot dead in a random attack in front a gay bar in Tucson by an Islamist migrant from Gambia. The gay pro-Palestine activist was killed on August 31st along with a gay friend he had just left the bar with.”
Here’s the picture of the “Gays for Gaza” activist Cameron Capara and the Islamist migrant from Gambia Ousman Ceesay:
As we are just six days away from the attack on 9/11/2001 here’s the history of Islamists attacks.
We decided to remind our readers about the history of Muslim attacks in the USA.
Major terrorist attacks in the United States motivated by Islamist/jihadist ideology between 1990 and 2026 include:
1990s
1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Feb 26, 1993): A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people were killed and over 1,000 were injured.
1997 Empire State Building Shooting (Feb 23, 1997): Palestinian gunman Ali Hassan Abu Kamal opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck, killing one person and injuring six others before dying by suicide.
2000s
September 11 Attacks (Sep 11, 2001):Nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers commandeered four commercial airliners, crashing them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.The attacks killed 2,977 people and injured thousands.
2002 Seattle Jewish Federation Shooting (Jul 28, 2006): Naveed Afzal Haq opened fire at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, killing one person and injuring five others.
2009 Little Rock Recruiting Office Shooting (Jun 1, 2009):Abdulhakim Muhammad opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, killing one soldier and wounding another.
2009 Fort Hood Shooting (Nov 5, 2009): U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan opened fire at the Fort Hood processing center in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring more than 30.
2010s
2013 Boston Marathon Bombing (Apr 15, 2013):Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 people and injuring over 260.
2014 New York City Hatchet Attack (Oct 23, 2014): Zale H. Thompson attacked four NYPD officers with a hatchet in Queens, injuring two before being shot dead.
2015 Garland Attack (May 3, 2015): Two gunmen inspired by ISIS opened fire outside a Curtis Culwell Center event in Garland, Texas, injuring a security guard before being killed by police.
2015 Chattanooga Shootings (Jul 16, 2015): Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor.
2015 San Bernardino Attack (Dec 2, 2015): Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in California, killing 14 people and injuring 22.
2016 Pulse Nightclub Shooting (Jun 12, 2016): Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS before opening fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and wounding 53.
2016 St. Cloud Mall Stabbing (Sep 17, 2016): Dahir Adan carried out a mass stabbing at a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, injuring 10 people before being killed by an off-duty officer.
2016 Ohio State University Attack (Nov 28, 2016): Abdul Razak Ali Artan rammed pedestrians with a car and used a butcher knife to attack people on campus, injuring 11 before being killed.
2017 New York City Truck Attack (Oct 31, 2017): Sayfullo Saipov drove a rental truck down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing 8 people and injuring 12 in the name of ISIS.
2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting (Dec 6, 2019): Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi aviation trainee inspired by al-Qaeda, opened fire at the naval station, killing 3 people and injuring 8.
The Bottom Line
Concerns regarding antisemitic incidents, rhetoric, and political friction in New York City related to Zohran Mamdani focus on several key developments:
Key Incidents and Criticisms
Central Synagogue Incident (August 2026):Following an attack where a suspect disrupted services, struck a congregant, and spat on a guard at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, critics and local community members held rallies accusing the administration’s rhetoric of fostering hostility toward Jewish institutions.
Park East Synagogue Protest (Late 2025):Protesters gathered outside the Manhattan synagogue chanting hostile slogans.The administration faced criticism for a statement that addressed both the protest language and the use of sacred spaces for political events, which opponents argued drew a false equivalence.
Neighborhood Demonstrations:Tensions arose during demonstrations outside various Jewish institutions and land-sale events in Brooklyn, leading to localized clashes and an increased police presence to separate rival demonstration groups.
Pro-Israel activists, community organizations, and political opponents argue that Mamdani’s vocal anti-Zionist positions, refusal to explicitly condemn phrases like “globalize the intifada,” and public calls to protest visiting Israeli leaders create a permissive environment for antisemitism and intimidation against Jewish residents.
Muslims like Mamdami follow shriah law that requires the the absolute domination of infidels, non-Muslims.
As we approach the 2026 mid-term elections many Muslim candidates are on the Democrat Socialist Party’s nominees.
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Socialism is on the rise, and capitalism is on its back foot. The implications span all parts of our society but certainly include corporate governance. As is often the case, the corporate governance issue boils down to who makes decisions and to what end those decisions are — and should be — aimed.
Should corporations strive solely to maximize shareholder value? If the answer is “yes” — whether for reasons of law, economics, or philosophy — is it even possible to maximize shareholder value based solely on expected value and return-on-investment calculations? Or must other considerations inform the relevant decision-making?
And if one concludes that other factors are necessarily relevant, does that mean only a hypocrite could oppose “stakeholder capitalism,” or the use of “environmental, social, and governance” factors, or the pursuit of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agendas?
To attempt to thread this needle, such that one might advocate for a combination of free market capitalism, shareholder wealth maximization, and principles like The Heritage Foundation’s “Four Cornerstones” as an effective basis for corporate governance, while at the same time rejecting ESG, DEI, and “stakeholder” capitalism, is sure to generate much debate.
However, for purposes of this op-ed, I am going to posit precisely that under the banner of “free enterprise.” Obviously, space limitations will necessitate merely flagging some relevant issues. But these debates are critical right now, and just marking the outlines of parts of the relevant landscape matters.
Focusing on free market capitalism generally (and shareholder wealth maximization specifically), a complaint one often hears is that it supposedly prioritizes shareholder wealth maximization at the expense of the environment, workers, consumers, and other stakeholders. However, several points should be considered before accepting that characterization.
First, the reason that free market capitalism has been so successful, including bringing us to the cusp of eliminating poverty, is that it incentivizes business owners to provide potential consumers with products and services that improve the purchaser’s life sufficiently to warrant the cost of obtaining that product or service.
In other words, rather than incentivizing exploitative behavior, free market capitalism promotes precisely the opposite, which is to say it promotes improving the lives of consumers, employees, and other stakeholders in order to be the most attractive seller possible.
Second, the minute that one imposes other goals on entrepreneurs beside profit maximization, one runs into the “many masters” problem. If your North Star is constantly found in a new place, you are essentially rudderless. One day you are maximizing shareholder value; the next you are setting that value on fire in pursuit of net-zero goals.
And this assumes the decision-maker is acting in good faith. Allowing the well-being of myriad stakeholders to serve as rotating justifications for corporate decision-making provides great cover for self-dealing insiders who are then able to brush off underperformance by claiming it was all to “save the trees.”
On top of that, the argument that one can’t avoid the “many masters” problem — because shareholders themselves have varying time horizons and interests — is foolish. Shareholders who want something other than profit can deploy their money accordingly via charities or public benefit corporations, and expected value calculations account for time differences.
Third, while adding ESG screens and pursuing DEI sounds admirable, what has been repeatedly demonstrated is that these initiatives seemingly can’t avoid being captured and weaponized by leftists who proceed to promote neo-Marxist and neo-racist ends.
Corporate managers using other people’s money for pet projects has long been a problem, but the problem becomes particularly acute when those projects include things like divisive racial quotas and utopian climate agendas that undermine national security and increase energy prices.
To see the truth about ESG, DEI, and stakeholder capitalism, one must look past the pleasant-sounding words and examine the substance of those regimes. Behind the newspeak lurks neo-racist and neo-Marxist leftism in myriad forms, whether promoted by radical true believers, opportunists, useful idiots, or cowards.
Fourth, while limited government is the best government, we still need some government. Accordingly, in assessing this debate, we should keep in mind that external regulation is available to protect society against exploitative externalities created by the pursuit of profit maximization.
If truly needed, this is far better than killing the goose that lays the golden eggs by distorting the signaling function of profit-seeking with myriad commitments to stakeholders. However, we must remain vigilant against the fabrication of externalities to support the market-distorting and value-destroying promotion of ESG via inefficient subsidies and otherwise.
Finally, it is important to note that defending free market capitalism against socialism does not undermine the importance of purpose and virtue. In fact, the “value” in “expected value” is arguably impossible to calculate optimally if one ignores the purpose of the product or service and whether the seller will be trusted as a virtuous actor or not.
At least two points are critical to differentiating the work we do from leftist ESG, DEI, and stakeholder capitalism.
First, lumping all arguments based on virtue or related concepts together constitutes a false equivalency. Merely because both left and right may point to implications and consequences that are difficult to distill into expected value calculations does not make conservatives guilty of hypocrisy for merely promoting “right-wing ESG.” Part of promoting free market capitalism includes defending the marketplace of ideas as capable of distinguishing truth from falsity and good ideas from bad ideas.
There may be a superficial equivalence between pushing corporations to adopt transgenderism or pushing them to defend biological reality. However, people can properly discern that if you are making corporate decisions based on the belief that a child can be born in the wrong body, then you are making a delusional rather than fully informed decision. This becomes particularly obvious when you are incapable of defining “woman” by anything other than a circular, non-falsifiable “self-identification” definition. A similar analysis applies to making corporate decisions based on the neo-racism of DEI or the utopianism of net-zero commitments.
Second, and arguably more importantly, we leverage the duties of care and candor within the shareholder wealth maximization regime rather than advocating for an overthrow of that regime. As just one example, we have asked whether the decision to adopt commitments to be a net-zero company by 2030 are fully informed on the basis of expected value and ROI calculations as opposed to demanding that net zero be accomplished regardless of the impact on firm value. A similar analysis applies to the use of related arguments rooted in federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws.
This debate has a long history, but like many such debates, the need to go once more into the breach reappears with every new generation — if not every other administration.
And to the extent some conservatives might be tempted to argue that those of us defending free market capitalism against that assault of stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and DEI have won, I submit that we have achieved the equivalent of landing on Normandy Beach. We’ve achieved victories worth celebrating, but if the Allies had packed up and gone home after taking that beach all would have been lost.
What we have ahead is our own long march — not to Berlin but back to neutral for corporations that have been ideologically captured by the enemies of valuable and virtuous free markets.
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A coordinated campaign against Israel, the United States and the West.
Executive Summary
This report examines Unity of Fields, a rebranding of the U.S. militant organization Palestine Action. It documents its ideological foundations, organizational relationships, tactics and role within the broader anti-Israel, anti-American revolutionary network in the United States.
By viewing Unity of Fields within this ecosystem, this report demonstrates how ostensibly distinct political, activist and militant actors function as interconnected components of a coordinated campaign against Israel, the United States and the Western order they represent.
The destruction of America is viewed as the linchpin for the group’s nihilistic agenda. Israel is also a primary target of the group, but America is viewed as bearing the “primary responsibility for all of Israel’s crimes.”
Ultimately, the group’s objective is not limited to Israel or confined to a single foreign policy grievance. Rather, it is the systematic erosion and eventual destruction of American power and legitimacy in the foreign arena and the dissolution of the country’s internal social cohesion.
Who is Unity of Fields?
Unity of Fields is the rebranded American branch of Palestine Action, a UK-based group founded in 2020 to promote and carry out direct and violent protests worldwide through targeted campaigns against defense and security companies that do business with Israel.
Using “disruptive tactics,” Palestine Action says it “challenges the corporate enablers of the Israeli state’s military-industrial complex and seeks to make it impossible for these companies to profit …”
Palestine Action
Palestine Action operates in a decentralized manner through “activist cells” that carry out acts of domestic terrorism. In the UK, the group has waged an escalating campaign of disruptive protests, vandalism and sabotage, primarily targeting Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense, security and aviation company, and the UK’s military and security infrastructure.
Members have also assaulted numerous police officers. At one protest alone, 17 officers were assaulted by Palestine Action protesters.
During an August 2024 break-in into an Elbit facility in Filton, Palestine Action activists struck UK police officer Kate Evans in the back with a sledgehammer, causing her devastating injuries.
Cells have repeatedly broken into or occupied arms factories, company offices and related facilities, damaging buildings, machinery and vehicles with paint, hammers and other weapons.
In June 2025, Palestine Action UK activists break through the roof of Permoid Industries in Durham to destroy a shipment of ammunition containers being built for Israel. The attack caused significant damage to the structure and internal areas.
After the group infiltrated a Royal Air Force base in June 2025 and defaced two Airbus Voyager refuelling aircraft (part of UK’s national security infrastructure), the government moved against them.
In July 2025, the group was designated a terrorist organization by the UK.
Palestine Action Rebranded
Palestine Action US was co-founded by communist and radical activist Calla Walsh. The group’s earliest activity was its participation in a Nakba event on Capitol Hill organized by House Representative Rashida Tlaib in May 2023. Nakba, translated as “catastrophe,” is how Palestinians refer to the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
The group went into high gear after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas. Its primary actions were vandalizing, obstructing and sabotaging Elbit facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Merrimack, New Hampshire.
By February of 2024, Walsh was facing multiple felony charges, including rioting, property damage, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, burglary and conspiracy to commit falsifying physical evidence following her arrests in two states after participating in violent protests at Elbit Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Calla Walsh was arrested in two states in late 2023 after Walsh participated in violent anti-Israel incidents where Walsh’s group damaged and vandalized Elbit Systems facilities. Walsh faces multiple charges, including riot, sabotage and vandalizing property. Walsh’s arrests occurred during an Israeli war against Hamas terrorists after the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israeli Jews on October 7, 2023.
See Profile
Calla Walsh, who founded Palestine Action and spearheaded its foray into direct and militant activism in the U.S., grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The daughter of Chris Walsh, a Boston University English professor, she attended the Winsor School, a top private school for girls in Boston requiring an annual tuition payment of more than $60,000.
Walsh’s activism began at the age of 15 due to her concerns about the “climate crisis.” In 2020, at age 17, she gained prominence for her organizing on behalf of Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). She later appeared frequently in the media as a voice for young activists supporting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
However, Markey’s support of Israel during Operation Guardian of the Walls left Walsh feeling betrayed. She claimed that Markey had “framed Israel’s violence as a ‘both-sides’ issue rather than calling it what it is: settler colonialism and apartheid.”
She briefly segued into activism with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but that, too, proved not radical enough for her. By December of 2021, she had left the DSA.
Later, she would call DSA member and mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, a virulently anti-Israel activist, “Ziohran”:
In December 2023, shortly after founding Palestine Action US, Walsh wrote about her foray into electoral politics, stating, “The experience permanently disenchanted me … and made me question whether ‘accountability’ even exists for representatives of a capitalist, settler-colonial empire like the United States.”
She added. “I don’t work on campaigns anymore. History shows us that direct action, protest, and internationalist solidarity are far more effective strategies than appealing to the morality of elected officials who are in the pocket of the military-industrial complex.”
The same year, she dropped out of McGill University in Montreal.
Militant Activism
Calla Walsh committing vandalism at one of her protests against Elbit Systems in early October 2023
In February of 2024, Walsh, now 20 years old, faced multiple felony charges, including rioting, property damage, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, burglary and conspiracy to commit falsifying physical evidence following her arrests in two states after participating in violent protests at Elbit Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Merrimack, New Hampshire.
In a November 2023 interview with the Real News Network, Walsh spoke about the criminal charges against her. “…when I was in jail,” she said, “what I was thinking was that I would be ready to do it again and again and again and again until we shut these factories down.”
Unfortunately, the criminal justice system will most likely encourage that. In Massachusetts, three felony vandalism charges and one disorderly conduct charge were dismissed in July 2025, ending the prosecution against her.
In Merrimack, the original felony indictments (including riot, conspiracy, burglary and related counts) did not go to trial and were reduced via a plea agreement.
The beginning of the attack on Elbit Systems in Merrimack, New Hampshire where Calla Walsh accessed and damage the roof of the facility
Walsh pleaded guilty to misdemeanours in New Hampshire and received 60‑day jail sentences with additional time suspended, plus conditions such as good behavior, community service, restitution and stay‑away orders from Elbit facilities.
Awaiting the determination of her charges, Walsh continued to post her extremism.
By late 2024, she had completed the 60‑day jail term and was posting her radical ideas.
In the summer of 2025, Walsh traveled to Tehran.
Calla Walsh on Iranian state TV
Walsh appeared on Iranian state television, stating, “We all have a duty, when we go back to the countries we came from, to share the truth we saw here and to struggle against Zionism and imperialism,” Walsh said. “Glory to all the martyrs! Glory to the Axis of Resistance! … Death to America! Death to Israel.”
She also weighed in on Charlie Kirk’s murder, posting that the murder was “great and all,” but lamenting that Elias Rodriguez, who shot two Israeli Embassy staffers to death on the streets of Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025, didn’t get as much “celebration.”
In early 2026, while reports flooded in of Iranian anti-government protesters being shot in the streets by the Iranian regime, Walsh was still publicly defending the regime.
After the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro by America, she used her outrage over the event to call for death against American soldiers.
Funding
In November 2023, James “Fergie” Chambers told Los Angeles Magazine that he had been paying the legal fees of Palestine Action members arrested in various demonstrations. Chambers also stated, “I chant death to America every day…Imperialism is the death of humanity.” Chambers is an heir to the family fortune of Cox Enterprises, and is reported to have inherited hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to the NH Journal, Chambers was the founder of a Marxist commune in the Berkshires. He was once a Catholic convert and outspoken abortion opponent who defended free markets, but now praises Russia’s Vladimir Putin and supports Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
He later moved to New Hampshire due to the state’s tax and firearms laws. Following the Elbit incident, Chambers has been living in Tunisia (which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States).
The NHJournal reported that “before leaving the country, Chambers was under FBI investigation. Walsh, described by critics as his acolyte, now travels internationally with no apparent restrictions.”
James Chambers
Professional
James Chambers [Fergie Chambers] is an armed communist agitator who has promoted incitement and was arrested at a violent anti-Israel protest as an organizer with Palestine Action US.
New Mission
Following Walsh’s release from prison in August 2024, Palestine Action US rebranded as “Unity of Fields.” The group defined its new mission as establishing an “Anti-imperialist propaganda front for the international popular cradle of resistance.”
The rebranded group announced it was moving away from “passive solidarity” with Palestinians and moving to active participation in what it terms the “new front of insurgency” within the United States. This strategy involves the dissemination of “militant propaganda” designed to normalize illegal actions and encourage protestors to clash with law enforcement.
The group aims to encourage and mobilize “affinity networks” of radical, far-left anti-Israel organizations to carry out militant direct actions, i.e., vandalism, particularly targeting Jewish and Zionist institutions, universities and law enforcement.
On social media, the group shares and glorifies “anonymous submissions” that document and glorify these acts of violence, urging its followers to carry out similar acts. It posts manifestos of activists and manuals featuring instructions on how to take “direct action.”
The group’s name invokes the Houthi terrorist group Ansar Allah, as they explained, “The meaning of the unity of the fields is that we are all one hand, one leadership, one direction, one goal, and one approach, and any attack on any of the components of the Axis is considered a direct attack on us.”
“We don’t mean unity for unity’s sake, but the protracted struggle it will take to reach a principled, higher unity against the forces of imperialism, Zionism, and fascism,” they continued.
Following the name change, Unity of Fields was removed from Instagram, most likely for encouraging violence.
Objective: Civil War
As the 2024 election approached, Unity of Fields revealed its goal: to be an anarchist disrupter in society. On its website, the group wrote:
“The illusion of ‘choice’ in US elections is just that — an illusion. The choice is not between a greater and lesser evil, ‘Democrat’ and ‘Republican’ … the liberal and fascist wings of the empire … are all proudly united in their goal to preserve the global hegemony of the US-zionist death machine, the greatest evil this world has ever seen.
“Our real choice is between rejecting this political theater or falling for it … We choose revolutionary defeatism, which means turning the imperialist war into a civil war, or, in fewer words: BRING THE WAR HOME.”
In October 2024, then-Senator Marco Rubio called on the Department of Justice to investigate the group for acts of domestic terrorism. The group, clearly spooked, subsequently posted, “Unity of Fields is not Palestine Action US or any sort of direct action group – we don’t do direct actions, we only report on them and receive anonymous submissions.”
The post clearly contradicted an August 28, 2024 post saying, “Palestine Action US is not over, but our platforms are transforming into Unity of Fields …” as well as the following post:
In July 2025, Walsh announced that she was no longer affiliated with the group after the organization “purged” her. “I complied with the decision and transferred them ownership of the accounts,” Walsh added.
The rest of the group remains anonymous.
Extremist Ecosystem
Unity of Field operates within a deliberately tiered structure composed of inside groups, outside groups,and militant groups. Each tier serves a distinct function while reinforcing the others, allowing the movement to exert pressure across political, cultural and physical domains simultaneously.
Inside groups pursue power from within existing democratic institutions. Organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) focus on electoral politics, candidate endorsement, policy influence, and institutional capture.
When not in positions of power, these groups operate as part of the activist front. They mobilize protests, leverage public outrage and expand their ranks through grievance-driven campaigns.
Electoral engagement and street-level activism are not competing strategies. They are mutually reinforcing components of a long-term project to reshape the state from within.
These inside actors work in close coordination with outside groups, which operate without the constraints of electoral legitimacy. Organizations such as Within Our Lifetime, Al-Awda, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and The People’s Forum reject canvassing and conventional political participation.
Instead, they function as radicalizing forces, identifying sympathetic politicians and pushing them further toward ideological extremism. Even when nominally aligned with those in power, these groups maintain an oppositional posture. They apply constant pressure through disruptive protests and public confrontation.
Arrests, when they occur, are overwhelmingly limited to low-level protest violations and today carry minimal long-term consequences. This reinforces a culture of impunity.
At the furthest end of this spectrum are militant organizations. These are groups that have concluded that institutional engagement and mass protest are insufficient. While their ideology, messaging and protest aesthetics closely mirror those of inside and outside groups, their tactics often escalate toward criminality and domestic extremism.
These organizations engage in coordinated vandalism, sabotage and property destruction, often resulting in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. They openly incite criminal behavior, glorify violence and celebrate acts of terrorism and murder as legitimate forms of resistance.
Unity of Fields belongs squarely within this final category.
Appendix 1: Framework for Domestic Terrorism
Appendix 2: Timeline of Palestine Action UK
Founding and Early Actions
2020 – Palestine Action founded in the UK to shut down facilities connected with the Israeli military, particularly Elbit Systems
July 2020 – Activists break into and vandalize the UK headquarters of Elbit Systems in London
May 2021 – Activists occupy the roof of Elbit’s UAV Tactical Systems drone factory at Meridian Business Park in Leicester for six days
Similar occupations follow at Elbit-linked sites in Bristol and Tamworth later in 2021
2022–early 2024 – Continued factory and site actions
Between 2020 and early 2024, 45 documented actions across the UK—primarily targeting Elbit factories and associated logistics and technology sites
January 2024 – Police arrest six people after an alleged plan to damage the London Stock Exchange and prevent trading
January 2024 – Activists vandalize a Kuehne + Nagel office in Milton Keynes, smashing windows and spraying paint over what they said was the company’s role in arms shipments to Israel
Escalation: Arms and Military Targets
August 2024 – Attack on an Elbit facility in Filton, Bristol, causing estimated £1 million in damage. During the attack, an activist smashes the back of a female police officer with a sledgehammer, causing serious injuries. Several activists arrested and face trial over this incident
June 2025 – Activists enter Royal Air Force Brize Norton, the UK’s largest air force base, spraying red paint into the engines of two refueling aircraft. Damage estimated at £7 million. Four members arrested on terror-related offenses
Proscription and Post‑Ban Arrests
July 2025, UK government formally proscribes Palestine Action as a terrorist organization under the Terrorism Act 2000, citing its campaign of direct actions including the RAF Brize Norton incident
After the ban, large protest waves supporting the group leading to mass arrests. By late 2025, at least 2,489 people arrested for activities such as holding “I support Palestine Action” signs at protests in Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square and other UK locations, with several hundred arrests on individual demonstration days
Eight detainees for direct Palestine Action attacks engage in a hunger strike in prison for various amounts of time. All strikers end after 73 days, with some in life-threatening conditions
Founding
Late 2023 – Palestine Action US forms amid Gaza protests, modeling its tactics on the UK group to target Elbit’s US offices
Cambridge, Massachusetts Attacks
October 12, 2023 – Activists lock themselves to the entrance of Elbit in Cambridge, Massachusetts and splatter red paint, shutting down the office. No arrests
Shortly afterward, over 200 protesters rally at the same Cambridge site; nine arrests made after protesters attempt to breach barricades. Arrestees face charges including assault on police and possession of a smoke bomb
Merrimack, New Hampshire Attack
November 20, 2023 – Direct attack on an Elbit Systems facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Activists block entrances, smash glass doors, spray red paint on the building, damage the HVAC system and graffiti messages including “Free Gaza, Fuck Elbit.” Three members—Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis and Calla Walsh—climb onto the roof holding smoke flares for a photo-op before being arrested; a fourth, Paige Belanger, is arrested later
The “Merrimack 3” (later 4) face felony charges including riot, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, burglary and falsifying evidence, each carrying 3.5–7 years in prison. Arrestees indicted in February 2024 and serve time (40–60 days) in jail. Some receive probation
March 2024 – In a follow-up protest, activists chain themselves to concrete-filled tires to block the driveway, leading to trespass convictions
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Bridget Shergalis
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“The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!)” – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
CENTCOM UPDATE: “Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.”
Bessent vows to ‘asphyxiate’ Iran with sanctions, taking away IRGC’s offshore accounts, luxury homes.
“The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
The US unleashed a fresh wave of strikes on Iran, its second in two days, in response to the regime’s attacks across the region, President Trump said.
“The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!” he warned.
The strikes began at 12 p.m. EST, with US Central Command noting that the attacks are focused against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which oversees the Strait of Hormuz.
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“The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
The US renewed its airstrike campaign on Iran on Sunday as it targeted IRGC facilities attempting to place mines in the Strait.
The Islamic Republic followed up with attacks on two supertankers carrying 4 million barrels of Saudi oil on Tuesday, with the ships reporting strikes from multiple projectiles near Oman’s coast.
There have been at least nine attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz this month, with more than 72 recorded since March, according to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization.
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James Zumwalt sees the 4.45 million Muslims now in the U.S., or most of them, as collectively a Trojan Horse working to ensure that in our country, in Muhammad’s words, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” More on his cassandra cry can be found here: “A Greek Mythical Trojan Horse May Portend An Islamic Reality For America,” by James Zumwalt, American Thinker, August 29, 2026:
A product of Greek mythology, the Trojan War tale includes a great deception that ended it. After a ten-year siege of Troy, residents awoke to find a massive statue of a horse outside their city gates with the Greek army nowhere in sight. Assuming the horse was a gift offering to end the fighting, the Trojans brought it within their city walls, and later that night, Greek soldiers exited the statue via a trap door and opened the city gates to the rest of the waiting army.
In warfare, deception is the mother of invention—and the greatest opportunity for deception occurs when its target fails to even realize a war is in progress….
Muhammad declared in a famous hadith that “war is deception.”
Yet another harbinger of America’s Islamic future comes from Yasir Qadhi—a strong supporter of the CAIR gameplan.
Qadhi is an American Muslim scholar and theologian. But, more importantly, he is a radical Muslim who brazenly defended Iran while verbally attacking the U.S. and Israel. Calling for Islamic unity against non-Muslims, he has used a taxpayer-funded mosque in Texas—now linked to federal and state investigations—as a bloody pulpit for promoting sectarian incitement and foreign-aligned subversion. He recognizes that the Islamization of America is a long-term strategy mandating the use of demographics, mosques, and institutional infiltration (including into the FBI and CIA) to drive a national transition.
Yet, despite this, the results of a special election in California for the seat vacated by Democrat Eric Swalwell brought into Congress the first Afghan-American ever elected to the House—Muslim State Senator Aisha Wahab. While born in the U.S., her election again demonstrates tolerance for ethnic differences. But it also shows us the sword’s weak edge as Wahab is a political radical.
The victory in a special election, designed to fill the seat vacated by Eric Stallwell, of Aisha Wahab, a devout Muslim who celebrated her voters “seeing through the lies spread by AIPAC,” detests the Infidel West, and wants talks with the Taliban, is a result of ignorance on the part of the electorate, that simply fails to comprehend the full malignity of Islam.
Up and down the land, Muslims are making inroads, convincing many that any criticism of them, no matter how warranted, is merely that impermissible thing, “Islamophobia.” They have been fielding more than 600 candidates for political office at every level — local, state, and federal. The number of Muslims in the House is likely to triple after November’s election. Abdul el-Sayed may become the first Muslim Senator.
Muslims are also suddenly much more visible in the media, especially as journalists working for National Public Radio, who include reporters covering the Middle East, Hadeel Al-Shalchi, and Aya Batrawy, while Leila Fadel hosts Morning Edition. A single Jewish reporter, Daniel Estrin, reports from Israel for NPR; his view is distinctly left-wing and critical of Israel (and especially of “the settlers in the Occupied West Bank”). In addition, NPR has as a correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, and as a digital presenter Dena Takruri.
Among other Muslim television and print journalists are Fareed Zakaria, who has his own show on CNN, Fareed Zakaria GPS, political commentator and defender of Islam Mehdi Hasan who, after being fired by NBC, in 2024 founded and launched Zeteo, an independent digital media company and Substack publication, where he serves as CEO and editor-in-chief. He also currently writes as a regular political columnist for the Guardian US. And there are dozens more of these Muslim journalists spreading their poison. Qatar-owned Al Jazeera has become a major media presence in America, as it has everywhere in the world. It is specially powerful on the internet, where its stories about the Middle East always come up first in internet searches.
The Muslim Trojan Horse in America turns out, on close inspection, to be “many steeds of war” — as called for in Qur’an 8:60. A whole stable-full, in fact.
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President Donald Trump jumped into the ongoing furor over Sharia on Thursday, telling Glenn Beck: “Number one on Sharia law, I would absolutely say that not — this country, there’s no Sharia law.” This comes amid ongoing leftist efforts to portray Sharia as completely benign religious law that patriots only oppose because they’re racists, bigots, and “Islamophobes.” Once again, however, the leftists are wrong and Trump is right.
On Monday night, Michigan’s Marxist Muslim Democrat candidate for Senate, Abdulraham Mohammed El-Sayed, likened Sharia to Roman Catholic canon law when Fox News anchor Jesse Watters asked him about comments El-Sayed had made previously about the allegedly evil people who were daring to oppose Sharia. Watters repeated El-Sayed’s earlier claim as a question: “Getting rid of Sharia law is white supremacy? Can you explain that one?”
El-Sayed responded by saying: “Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else, because we live in an America where you should have the freedom of your religion.”
This is the consistent far-left line on Sharia: Catholic canon law is a body of religious laws with which non-Catholics need not concern themselves, and that has no political content. When I testified last February before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Steven Van Zandt), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Clueless), and Steve Cohen (D-Even More Clueless) doggedly insisted, in the teeth of mountains of evidence, that Sharia was essentially the same thing, although they didn’t mention canon law.
Raskin, Cohen, and Scanlon did then exactly what El-Sayed wants us all to do now: ignore Sharia’s political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent aspects, and pretend that all opposition to it stems solely from an irrational and morally objectionable hatred. Trump, however, on Monday demonstrated that he knew more about Sharia than virtually every leftist spokesman, or at very least that he was willing to confront it in a way in which they were not.
“And you do have pockets of it” in the United States, Trump said, “as you know. I would say no. And you go to London, you go to Paris. It’s almost like a second way of life. It’s ridiculous.”
Indeed. The Daily Mail reported in 2025 that “a 2017 Home Office review found 85 Sharia councils – which interpret this law to pass judgments, known as hadiths, were operating in the UK, prompting the country to be described as ‘the Sharia court capital of the West.’”
If Sharia were simply benign religious law, these Sharia courts would be no problem. But to take just one of the many ways in which Sharia and Western law contradict one another, the Qur’an directs men to “beat” women “from whom you fear disobedience.” (4:34)
In 2016, the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (Mat) in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was discovered to be stating openly on its website that it urged prosecutors to “reconsider” bringing criminal charges against Muslim men who are being prosecuted for beating their wives. A women’s rights group, the Southall Black Sisters, called this an “attempt to sabotage criminal proceedings,” and of course it was all done in accord with Sharia.
Trump continued, telling Beck: “And I would absolutely be on your side on that, on a lot of other people’s side, too. Because, you know, you and I have people that I think we’re more based on common sense than we are in ideology. It’s all about good politics. It’s all about common sense, anyway. But I would absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing. And it is happening in this country a little bit. And when we see it, we take it out. And you have to take it out. You have one system. We have a great system. Sometimes it’s very frustrating. But it’s the best there is that I can see.”
The assertion that we have “one system” is the key to this whole controversy. Centuries ago, Britain blazed the trail toward a free society when King John signed the Magna Carta, stipulating that nobles would be subject to the same law as commoners. Centuries later, Britain is discarding that all-important principle of one law for all in its haste to appease and accommodate the Muslim migrants who wield increasingly greater political clout.
Trump says he won’t allow that to happen here. All free people should hope he succeeds.
Bessent: “Let me be clear: any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. Dollar system. The clock just started ticking.”
Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working. President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged Iran’s economic shortages, saying, “The war must come to an end at some point.” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, was even more direct: “No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we don’t have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure.” Under President Trump, Treasury will continue to sever every economic lifeline sustaining this regime until Tehran stands alone.
Daugherty: More from Bessent, once again reminding the Iranian how the Berlin Wall came down: To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime, as more and more of your paychecks stop or supposedly just delayed, ask whether your commanders are leading your country to triumph or to ruin, and recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people.
Iran International: Reports of gasoline shortages spread across Tehran on Monday, with filling stations closing after running out of fuel and motorists describing long searches and queues for increasingly scarce supplies. Images, videos and accounts posted widely on Persian-language social media showed closed stations and lines of cars at others still operating, with shortages reported in several parts of the capital, including central and northern Tehran. The disruption was also acknowledged by state-affiliated media. “Some gas stations have closed without a clear explanation, creating considerable concern and questions for people,” SSN wrote, calling on the government to explain whether the closures were part of an attempt to curb fuel consumption and how long they would last. The shortages bring into the open a problem Iranian officials have been warning about for months: the country is consuming more gasoline than it can produce.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared Tuesday that Iran’s leadership is already “panicking” under President Donald Trump’s mounting economic offensive — pointing to stark warnings from Tehran’s own president and parliament speaker about the country’s deteriorating economy while vowing to continue severing the regime’s financial lifelines until it “stands alone.”
“Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working,” Bessent wrote on X, one day after the administration launched Operation Economic Outcast.
Bessent highlighted recent remarks made before Monday’s rollout from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who acknowledged the country’s mounting economic shortages while declaring that “the war must come to an end at some point.”
He also highlighted an even starker warning from Iranian Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf about whether Iran could sustain its military strength while its economy and living conditions continued to deteriorate.
“No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we don’t have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure,” Ghalibaf said.
Bessent pointed to the statements as evidence that Trump’s pressure campaign was already biting before Washington dramatically widened its economic offensive Monday with what officials have called an “Economic D-Day” designed to isolate Tehran and choke off the revenue streams sustaining the regime.
Operation Economic Outcast initially targeted more than 60 individuals, entities, and vessels tied to Iranian oil revenue, weapons and missile procurement, and cyber operations, while widening secondary-sanctions exposure across five sectors Tehran exploits abroad: digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping.
The administration has also put foreign governments, financial institutions, and businesses on notice that continued dealings with Tehran could see them cut off from the U.S. dollar-based financial system.
Bessent described the strategy Monday as the “economic asphyxiation” of the regime and said Washington would enforce a “zero-leakage approach” intended to leave Tehran with virtually no financial breathing room.
Trump reinforced that assessment Tuesday morning, asserting that the Islamic Republic is increasingly unable even to meet obligations to portions of its own armed forces.
“The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Calling the situation a “humanitarian crisis of epic proportions,” Trump demanded that it “must be stopped, NOW.”
The comments came amid mounting signs of strain inside Iran. The rial is trading at roughly 2 million to the U.S. dollar on the open market, while Iran’s prominent Donya-e-Eghtesad economic newspaper reported Monday that the currency had lost roughly 41 percent of its value since December. Long lines have also formed at gasoline stations in Tehran amid growing fuel constraints.
At the same time, Washington is moving to strip Tehran of another major source of leverage: its ability to disrupt commercial shipping and energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump announced later Tuesday that the Navy had completed clearing mines from international waters in the strategic waterway — and warned that any Iranian vessel attempting to restore the threat would be destroyed.
“Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed,” Trump warned.
Trump said Space Force was watching “every square inch of the Strait,” along with Pickaxe Mountain — the fortified underground nuclear complex near Natanz — and three other Iranian nuclear sites he says have already been destroyed.
“There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect,” he declared.
Two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the operation confirmed to Axios that the Navy had cleared the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the central shipping lane between Iran and Oman that had remained heavily mined during the war.
U.S. Navy underwater drones spent months systematically scanning the area and located more than 100 objects suspected of being mines, after which private contractors were brought in to remove or detonate them, according to the report.
The development was separately confirmed by U.S. officials to Israeli media, with the Jerusalem Post reporting that CENTCOM had cleared both inbound and outbound shipping routes, opening an additional passage expected to increase maritime traffic through the chokepoint.
Washington had already been moving substantial maritime traffic through a southern channel closer to Oman, with more than 500 vessels passing through that route over the previous 30 days, according to U.S. officials. Clearing the central lane now allows protected vessels to move simultaneously in both directions, potentially expanding the volume of oil and commercial traffic moving through Hormuz.
That directly cuts into a pressure point Tehran has repeatedly sought to wield against Washington and the Gulf states.
In the run-up to Monday’s unveiling of Operation Economic Outcast, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei threatened any country that joined Washington’s economic offensive, warning that Tehran would regard such participation as an “act of war.”
“If the economic war continues, not a single drop of oil will be exported, neither through the Strait of Hormuz nor from anywhere in the Persian Gulf,” Rezaei declared Sunday.
The U.S. breakthrough comes as Iran and Oman pursue their own framework for restoring maritime traffic through the strait.
The two countries announced Tuesday that they had discussed a phased framework establishing a temporary joint navigation corridor and mine-clearing project, with technical negotiations continuing toward a permanent route and future arrangements for managing the strait.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi called his talks in Tehran with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “constructive” and said he was hopeful that a temporary corridor and practical arrangements to restore safe navigation would soon be announced. Araghchi, meanwhile, pointed to the proposed corridor, joint mine-clearing and future management of Hormuz as a “case in point” of Iran’s “steadfast diplomacy with our neighbors.
The American mine-clearing operation, however, has already expanded the shipping routes available without a final agreement with Tehran, with U.S. officials reportedly viewing the combination of cleared mines and steadily increasing traffic through American-protected routes as a significant blow to Iran’s leverage over global energy markets and future negotiations over the strait.
The developments come as Pakistan continues trying to revive an indirect diplomatic track between Washington and Tehran. Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir met senior Iranian officials during a day-long visit to Tehran on Monday, with Islamabad subsequently saying the discussions produced “significant progress” toward preventing further escalation, reopening Hormuz, and ending the conflict.
Iranian officials said Munir carried a U.S. message aimed at reviving the stalled political process and that Tehran, in turn, provided its own conditions for returning to the June memorandum of understanding for Pakistan to relay to Washington.
A White House official stressed Tuesday, however, that there are currently “no talks or discussions” underway or scheduled directly with Iran and that the U.S. naval blockade remains firmly in force.
Tehran, meanwhile, has sought to project defiance in the face of Washington’s expanding economic offensive. Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh insisted Tuesday that the government had anticipated additional sanctions for years, developed a two-year plan to withstand them, and possessed tools of its own to fight back.
“The enemies intend to launch an economic terrorist attack on us, but we also have our own tools and know how to play the game,” Madanizadeh said.
Ghalibaf predicted Tuesday that Washington would suffer another economic defeat, while Pezeshkian rejected any suggestion that worsening conditions would force Tehran to capitulate.
“Should we give in to problems and surrender? Of course not,” Pezeshkian said.
Bessent countered that those declarations of defiance do not erase the Iranian leaders’ own increasingly stark warnings about hunger, shortages, economic stagnation, and the need to end the war. Under Trump, he vowed, Treasury will continue severing the regime’s economic lifelines until Tehran stands alone.
This country’s three most powerful Republicans have called the ascendant Democratic Socialists of America and its triumphant primary-election nominees “communists” who peddle “communism.”
“These are not social Democrats,” President Donald Trump said on June 26. “These are hardcore, godless Communists.”
“I, unfortunately, fear that’s the direction the Democrats are headed. And it is communism,” Vice President JD Vance told my Fox News colleague Laura Ingraham.
Responding to the DSA’s platform on July 26, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned: “Communism is no longer a far-fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES!”
Is this McCarthyite bluster, or are Trump, Vance, and Johnson right?
“Our goal is Communism,” David Jenkins, a member of DSA’s National Political Committee, said in 2023.
DSA member Cea Weaver is New York City’s tenant tsarina. She posted via X in December 2017, “Elect more communists.” The next year, she demanded: “Seize private property.”
Weaver’s boss is Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In his Jan. 1 inaugural address, he stated: “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist.” He told a DSA Zoom call in 2021: The “end goal” should be “seizing the means of production.” Mamdani also said, “The abolition of private property … is preferable to what is going on right now.” These comments loudly echo Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ cornerstone collectivist text “The Communist Manifesto.”
The magnificently named Darializa Avila Chevalier rode Mamdani’s endorsement all the way to the Democrat nomination for New York’s 13th Congressional District.
When they are not trying in vain to cover their tracks, DSA types lionize former communist nations and dictators.
DSA booster Hasan Piker misses the Soviet Union: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th Century.”
After visiting China in November 2025, Piker said: “Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.” Never mind Mao’s killing 60 million of his subjects (three times Adolf Hitler’s body count), Piker announced, “I never would and never will” mock Chairman Mao. Indeed, Piker donned a full Mao jacket when he addressed the College Democrats Convention in Washington, D.C., last July 18.
DSA recently celebrated Cuban communist tyrant Fidel Castro. “DSA Commemorates 100 Years of Fidel,” it cheered on Aug. 13. “Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle … ” The DSA ignored the struggle of the 1,314,100 emigres who escaped this workers’ paradise, the Migration Policy Institute estimates, many on rafts and innertubes.
“Workers Deserve More” is the DSA’s new platform, unveiled fittingly on July 14—Bastille Day. Adorned with raised fists, it brims with communist ideas.
“Imagine,” DSA urges, “a future without capitalism.”
“You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right,” DSA daydreams. “Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
“When we labor for our common good instead of private profit, we can all have a secure and dignified life,” DSA envisions. “Our enemies are not just individual bosses, but the entire global system of capital.”
DSA hopes to “draft a new constitution…create a democratic socialist republic” and build “a new society from the ground up.”
How?
“FREEDOM TO FLOURISH”—Create “a 32-hour work week with full pay and benefits, and a living minimum wage” and “cancel all student debt.”
“HEALTHCARE FOR ALL”—“Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.”
“HOUSING FOR ALL”—“Housing is a human right. Build new, publicly owned social housing” and “establish universal rent control.”
“END MASS INCARCERATION”—“Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system … ”
“END THE U.S. WAR MACHINE”—“Defund the Department of War. End all foreign wars and close overseas military bases.”
“FREE PALESTINE”—DSA wants “a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. End all military and economic aid to Israel.”
“ABOLISH ICE”—End deportations and “grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status … ”
“DEMOCRACY FOR ALL”—D.C. statehood + give Green Card holders the vote.
“Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.” Also, “Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.”
“ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY”—“Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries” and “Enact aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations … ”
DSA honchos preach much more than communist theory. They want to torpedo America. Canary Mission unearthed, and M.A. Rothman posted, on-camera comments by several members of DSA’s National Political Committee. DSA’s website explains: The NPC “leads the implementation of DSA’s major political and organizational goals.”
DSA-NPC member Amy Wilhelm stated: “Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire’s failure.”
“We have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast,” NPC member Frances Gill pleaded. “The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within.”
“U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away. It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle,” according to NPC’s Hazel Williams.
DSA’s candidates, manifesto, and top leaders confirm that it is a communist organization. They’re here. They’re clear. They’re coming for our country.
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The 60-day negotiating period established by the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran expired this week without a final agreement. What does that mean from a national security standpoint, and what are the domestic political implications?
From a national security perspective, the Iranian regime has been significantly degraded, but, as evidenced by the continuing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, it has not been neutralized. And until proven otherwise, its nuclear ambitions remain a threat.
Public polling consistently shows that while Americans care about foreign policy, they rarely vote primarily on foreign-policy issues. Instead, they tend to evaluate events abroad by their impact on America’s security and prosperity at home. The economy, inflation, immigration, and other domestic concerns remain the dominant drivers of voting behavior.
In other words, foreign policy becomes domestic policy when Americans begin paying the price for it.
That may help explain President Trump’s job approval, now at the lowest level of his presidency. Rising inflation and energy costs certainly matter, but I suggest there is something else in the equation: Americans are losing confidence that the conflict with Iran is moving toward a successful conclusion.
In their influential book, “Paying the Human Costs of War,” Christopher Gelpi, Peter Feaver, and Jason Reifler argue that one of the most important factors shaping public support for military conflict is the expectation of success. If Americans believe a conflict will achieve its objectives, they can tolerate substantial costs. When they conclude the mission is unlikely to succeed, support erodes, even when the costs are comparatively low.
That is the danger facing the administration.
Americans can accept sacrifice when they understand the objective and see measurable progress toward it. What is much harder to sustain is sacrifice without a clear sense of when, or how, the conflict will end. Prolonged uncertainty begins to look less like strategy and more like stalemate.
Repeated promises to cripple the “Death to America, Death to Israel” regime, only to follow those threats with renewed invitations to the negotiating table, appear neither to have deterred Tehran nor convinced Americans that success is approaching.
President Trump now faces a choice. He can allow this cycle of confrontation, negotiation, and escalation to continue, or bring the conflict to a decisive conclusion.
The Iranian regime and its malignant ideology have repeatedly demonstrated their resistance to diplomacy as well as political and economic pressure. If the objectives, as initially stated, are to permanently end Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capability and remove the threat the regime poses to its own people, the region, and ultimately the United States, then the administration must pursue a policy capable of achieving those objectives while recognizing the political limits of a protracted conflict.
An unresolved conflict carries consequences far beyond the Middle East. Every disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, every increase at the gas pump, and every new round of fighting brings a distant conflict closer to the American kitchen table.
And that is where foreign policy becomes domestic politics.
American elections are usually decided by what happens at home. But history often pivots on events beyond our borders, and sometimes those events determine what happens at home.
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Conservatives may be tempted to laugh at the absurdity of a breastfeeding organization featuring a man attached to breast pumps, but we shouldn’t simply move on—it reveals something important about the effect of transgenderism on America’s institutions.
First, what happened? The Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition, an organization dedicated to advocacy and training on lactation, in a social media post for National Breastfeeding Month featured the image of man attempting to breastfeed. After the conservative X account Libs of TikTok highlighted the image, the coalition apparently deleted it on Facebook but kept it up on Instagram.
The image reads, “Celebrating trans lactation, two-spirit & chestfeeding.” The Instagram post declares, “We’re proud to celebrate and uplift trans lactation, chestfeeding, and Two-Spirit families during National Breastfeeding Month.”
The post emphasizes “inclusive spaces” and declares that “every family deserves affirming, respectful, and evidence-based care.”
The Daily Signal reached out to the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition, asking for any scientific studies demonstrating that male lactation can feed babies. The coalition did not provide a response.
Before delving into the incentives behind the post, I’d like to briefly address what happened here.
A state organization that claims to be dedicated to supporting human lactation—the process by which mothers provide infants with life-giving sustenance—promoted the notion of forcing babies to rely on males, who cannot provide enough calories to keep infants alive.
Activists have touted a few instances where men have secreted milk-like substances through their nipples. Yet, as Talia Nava at The Paradox Institute explained, it requires unsafe levels of drugs—which are passed through milk to babies—just to get men to produce a small amount of liquid, far less than babies need.
Most of us intuitively grasp that there is no point in trying to force men’s bodies to do something that women’s bodies are programmed for.
So, if the coalition does not readily have evidence for the effectiveness of male breastfeeding—the phenomenon Orwellianly named “chestfeeding” or “trans lactation”—why, on God’s green earth, did they promote it?
The coalition did not choose this image because male lactation is common or because most breastfeeding families face this issue. The image serves another purpose: signaling allegiance to a broader ideological project.
While the social stigma of opposing transgender ideology has increasingly diminished in recent years, many elite institutions still treat support for it as a marker of social responsibility.
According to transgender ideology, human beings have a gender identity that—on some undefined mystical plane—is somehow more real than our biological sex.
Transgender activists frame their demands to recognize one’s gender identity as a matter of politeness. In reality, these demands represent an attempt to force society to adopt the highly controversial view that our biological sex is interchangeable.
It’s not just that this is false. The ideology’s downstream effects—such as men being allowed to enter women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and prisons just by claiming to “identify” as women—are obvious and dangerous.
Furthermore, the claims are also patently absurd, and few images quite capture the absurdity as well as the man “chestfeeding” in Maine, with a smile on his face and a coffee mug in hand reading, “Milk Makes Families.” To think about that slogan is to realize how inane it is.
This image isn’t going to entice men into attempting lactation. Rather, it reveals how institutional leaders feel compelled to subordinate their core missions to ideological signaling that arguably undermines them.
A breastfeeding coalition should exist to help mothers feed babies. When it starts promoting the daft idea of “trans lactation,” it makes itself a laughing stock. Hopefully, this example will convince more leaders that the costs of kowtowing to this ideology far outweigh the rapidly diminishing benefits.
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ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis clammed up and pleaded the Fifth during a congressional grilling over allegations that the Democrats’ fundraising behemoth opened the door to fraudulent and illegal foreign donations.
ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis
Illegal foreign donations were rampant in the Obama campaign — a story I broke back in 2008 — but nothing was ever done so of course it proliferated and became an illegal million dollar fundraisng scam for Democrats.
ActBlue has been the cash cow for Democrats.
In the 2024 cycle alone, the super PAC processed nearly $4 billion for Dems. The sources of those funds have long been sus.
His closed-door testimony lasted barely 25 minutes before he walked out without answers. ActBlue only began requiring basic credit-card security codes after investigators exposed the glaring loophole. Pleading the Fifth is not proof of guilt—but when the man who helped build the Democrats’ money machine refuses to answer questions about who funded it, the stench only grows.
Fox News: ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his closed-door deposition before three key House committees, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. The Committee on House Administration, House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee are conducting a joint investigation into ActBlue, a massive fundraising platform for Democrats, over allegations that lax fraud prevention standards may have allowed foreign donations to seep into U.S. campaigns. DeBergalis’ deposition, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, lasted less than half an hour. Fox News saw DeBergalis entering and exiting the committee room within roughly 25 minutes.
Rep Jim Jordan: If I worked for ActBlue, I’d plead the Fifth too
FIRST ON FOX: ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his closed-door deposition before three key House committees, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
The Committee on House Administration, House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee are conducting a joint investigation into ActBlue, a massive fundraising platform for Democrats, over allegations that lax fraud prevention standards may have allowed foreign donations to seep into U.S. campaigns.
DeBergalis’ deposition, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, lasted less than half an hour. Fox News saw DeBergalis entering and exiting the committee room within roughly 25 minutes.
Fox News Digital reached out to ActBlue for comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to the majority and minority of each of the three committees.
ActBlue is prolific across Democratic campaigns, being used by the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, among others.
Pleading the Fifth Amendment is not evidence of wrongdoing. ActBlue has repeatedly denied running afoul of the law during the course of Republicans’ probe.
The Committee on House Administration, which has jurisdiction over U.S. election laws, first opened a probe into ActBlue in 2023. Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., accused the group of potentially accepting foreign or fraudulent donations for not requiring a credit card CVV number for contributions.
ActBlue has since updated its donation requirements with a CVV mandate.
It’s often very difficult to see current situations from an accurate perspective, as it is something that we are presently immersed in. That said, I’ll take a crack at it…
Over the history of mankind, there have been several significant revolutions (or evolutions).
I’m interested in what is going on now, as it seems that there are three major revolutions that are converging — and this is not good.
That said, before that we need to first do a quick review of something we know, but rarely reflect on…
What Makes Us Human?
Unlike any other animal, we are actually three (3) different beings.
a Physical Being. Although our physical abilities are very good, some other animals have physical abilities we do not have — e.g., birds can fly.
an Intellectual Being. Our thinking abilities far exceed those of other animals. For example, no other animal can do Critical Thinking.
a Spiritual Being. This is where we have a value system, e.g., Judeo-Christian (right and wrong). No other animal has anything comparable.
Every day we experience ALL of these aspects of being human. But the question is: are we really no more than a leaf going along in a stream? Let’s briefly consider some societal developments affecting each of these…
OK, here is my very brief, 30,000-foot view of the recent societal revolutions.
Industrial Revolution (250± years)
This was a transition from hard manual labor to automation.
The idea was to free up time for more enjoyable things than work.
(There was a multitude of these changes, ranging from a home washing machine to a fossil fuel vehicle.)
Spiritual Revolution (50± years)
This is a transition from adherence to hard religious orthodoxy to relativism.
The idea was to loosen moral restrictions to be able to indulge in more enjoyable things.
(This has had numerous consequences ranging from reduced Church attendance to widespread pornography.)
Intellectual Revolution (25± years)
This is a transition from the hard work of thinking, to having a machine do it for you (AI).
The idea was to loosen time constraints to be able to savor more enjoyable things.
(The consequences of this are just starting to be appreciated, but they frequently fall under the category of doing things that are idiotic.)
A Common Theme
One theme should stand out: humans are inclined to want to make things easier and more enjoyable for themselves. But what are the predictable end results for each of these changes?
Less hard work —> results in many more people physically out of shape.
Less hard virtue —> results in many more people spiritually out of shape.
Less hard thought —> results in many more people intellectually out of shape.
The Bottom Line
So what are we left with? Lots of unhealthy, amoral, dumb people.
Note that these are the antithesis of the founders of America! Reference…
My view is that each of these three negative consequences is being purposefully encouraged by anti-Americans and other self-serving parties.
What are the societal implications of having the majority of citizens lazy, amoral, and ignorant? One disturbing answer is now self-evident: many citizens are voluntarily voting for a Socialist/Communist representative!!!
So, the convergence of these three changes makes the job of taking over America easy — no shots need to be fired!
WE need to do a LOT more than shake our heads and tsk!
It starts with Critical Thinking about what is transpiring, and then taking meaningful action to do what WE can do to counter it.
PS — I shared this commentary with AlterAI, and here was its assessment. I strongly recommend that you read it.
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https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/antithesis-of-the-founders-of-America.jpg360640John Droz, Jr.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJohn Droz, Jr.2026-08-21 15:26:042026-08-21 15:29:34Some Recent Major Societal Revolutions: What’s happening is a Catastrophic Convergence…
Zohran Mamdani campaigning with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Over next month’s Labor Day weekend, Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is to speak at a conference that will platform a rogue’s gallery of Islamic extremists.
The conference in Detroit is the 63rd annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate that was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-28 Holy Land terrorism-funding trial.
Other speakers among a plethora of Islamists include Siraj Wahhaj, a former ISNA vice-president who was himself an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Wahhaj, who has called for the full application of sharia law including amputation, stoning and the execution of gay people, makes no secret of his aim to Islamize America.
He has said: “You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
Another scheduled convention participant, Zaid Shakir, has said: “If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time.”
Apart from El-Sayed’s participation, the question has to be asked how this conference has been able to platform such dangerous extremists year after year. Why are such individuals allowed to run jihadi mosques and other institutions that pose such a threat to the state? How come America has permitted such dangerous extremists to be able freely to promote such jihadi subversion?
Happened in the UK
Two decades ago, in 2006, I published my best-selling and pioneering book “Londonistan,” which described how the British establishment — politicians, government officials, even security and counter-intelligence officers — were submitting to the steady Islamization of Britain.
Aware of the threat of Islamic terrorism after 9/11 and the London Tube and bus bombings of 2005, they nevertheless denied that the problem was rooted in Islamic religion and culture. They blamed it instead on a plethora of other things — grievances over foreign conflicts such as “Israel-Palestine,” Islamophobia and unspecified extremist tendencies among angry young men.
In particular, they refused to acknowledge the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of mass immigration and of using the democratic process to infiltrate extremists into political positions.
They failed to take seriously the jihadi strategy of demonstrating power to gain power. So they shrugged aside the mass Muslim prayer events in the streets; they didn’t understand why minarets on the mosques were being constructed higher than church steeples; and they called the takeover of public space by jihadi hate-marches against Israel “freedom of speech.”
The result has been the Muslim rape and grooming gangs, the arrival of “Gaza First” MPs and a sectarian Islamic political bloc and a teacher in hiding for the past five years after showing pictures of Mohammed to a class on free speech — all either sanitized, downplayed or ignored.
My book was the first to sound the warning that Britain was sleepwalking into this civilizational disaster. At the time, I was dismissed in Britain with scorn, while Americans shook their heads in astonishment at what was happening to the British and Europeans, wondering when they would wake up. Now, however, exactly the same process is at work in America.
The Holy Land trial, where Muslim Brotherhood networks and their subversive agenda for America were laid bare, didn’t prevent the exponential growth of Islamist extremism.
New York City has elected an Islamist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who was pictured grinning alongside Wahhaj in his Al-Taqwa mosque which has long been viewed as jihad central.
Dearborn, Mich., and even Texas now have significant Muslim communities, even though they are still a small minority in America as a whole.
But the conquest agenda doesn’t need many Muslims. What matters is their disproportionate rate of both extremism and public engagement — their very high voting turnout at elections, the fact that imams instruct the faithful how to vote, and the sophisticated selection of fanatical candidates for public office who will seduce the gullible and unwary.
Eyes on White House
With Mamdani in New York and El-Sayed in Michigan, the possibility of an Islamist in the White House suddenly doesn’t seem so fanciful.
Nevertheless, America is far better placed than Britain to resist this. In the UK, there’s no fightback; the country is united in decline and demoralization. The US may lament its deep political divisions, but at least parts of it are fighting back.
https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/Americastan.jpg356640The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2026-08-21 06:45:562026-08-21 07:05:42Islamic Extremists Threaten to Turn Us Into ‘Americastan’
I write a lot about the horrific state of affairs in our K-12 education system, because the consequences of not quickly fixing this are literally unimaginable. Yet most people yawn, and almost no one steps up to say: “This is also a top priority of mine, so what can I do to make a real difference?”
Here is a relatively short recent talk (< 15 minutes) by Katherine Birbalsingh, who is a teacher/principal coming from a New Zealand, Canadian, and English background. I’m posting it here as every word applies to US K-12.
Unless the more mature/senior people in our society actually GET THIS and then DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL ABOUT IT, we are in for some extremely bad times — that will make WWII look like a cakewalk!
Here is other information from this scientist that you might find interesting:
I urge all readers to subscribe to AlterAI — IMO the absolute best AI option for subjective questions.
I will consider posting reader submissions on Critical Thinking about my topics of interest.
My commentaries are my opinion about the material discussed therein, based on the information I have. If any readers have different information, please share it. If it is credible, I will be glad to reconsider my position.
Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.
C19Science.info is my one-page website that covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.
Election-Integrity.info is my one-page website that lists multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.
WiseEnergy.org is my multi-page website that discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.
Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from climate to COVID, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2026 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time!)
https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/Katharine-Birbalsingh.jpg374640John Droz, Jr.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJohn Droz, Jr.2026-08-19 06:40:322026-08-19 07:11:04Critically Thinking about an English Woman’s Speech…It is 100% also an American message
