Archive for September, 2026
In Liberia, the Horrors of Trump’s Third Country Migrant Deportation Program Are Shockingly Exposed
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Two days ago, on Channel 4 News in the UK, reporter Jamal Osman traveled to Liberia, in west Africa, to meet some of the 14 US migrants who were recently deported there from the US, as part of the Trump administration’s grotesque mass deportation program.
The program is overseen and tightly controlled by Stephen Miller, Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor, who, it is fair to say, is nothing less than a modern-day Nazi, obsessed with, and driving with fanatical enthusiasm his plans for the mass ethnic cleansing of the United States. I wrote about Miller’s profoundly baleful, racist influence on the US in an article in February, entitled, An Ever-Expanding Gulag of Concentration Camps for Immigrants: The US Under Stephen Miller.
More than half a million migrants have been deported to their home countries since Trump’s second term began, but those sent to Liberia are amongst another group — the estimated 25,000 migrants to date who have been sent to third countries, 28 in total, with which they have no connection whatsoever.
Photos and Report: 9,000 Days of Guantánamo, and the 44th Monthly Global Vigils for the Prison’s Closure
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Last Wednesday, the 44th monthly global vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay took place across the US and around the world — in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit, outside the Houses of Parliament in London, and outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Friends in San Francisco joined us, as did two former Guantánamo prisoners, Mansoor Adayfi in Belgrade, and Mohamedou Ould Slahi in the Netherlands.
Campaigners in Washington, D.C., outside the heart of the beast, the White House, were unable to make the “First Wednesday” date, and, instead, held a vigil on Friday September 11, the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that led to the Bush administration’s sickening, brutal and counter-productive global “war on terror”, and the establishment of Guantánamo, the last physical manifestation of that failed war, whose polluting influence has contaminated US law to this day.
Last Wednesday’s vigils coincided with a grim milestone in Guantánamo’s history — 9,000 days of the prison’s existence, and at all the vigils supporters held up the Close Guantánamo campaign’s 9,000 days poster, the latest in an initiative that has been running since January 2018, marking every 100 days of the prison’s existence with photos of supporters standing with the posters to show support for our unsilenceable demand for the hellhole of Guantánamo to finally be closed.
We received over 50 photos in total, all of which can be found here on the Close Guantánamo website. Some of these photos are also posted below, along with photos from the vigils, and I hope you’ll also read on for my reflections on how and why Guantánamo has always been, and always will be a grotesque and irredeemable legal, moral and ethnical abomination that pollutes the soul of the US every day that it is open, and for profiles of the 15 men still held in varying states of fundamental lawlessness.
Just Stop Oil Return and Block Parliament Square; Can You Blame Them?
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On Wednesday, as I cycled to Parliament Square for the 44th successive monthly vigil for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay (part of monthly vigils that take place across the US and around the world), I suddenly felt that I had stepped back in time.
Like a phoenix reborn from the ashes of political repression, 60 Just Stop Oil activists, in hi-vis jackets bearing the climate action group’s distinctive logo, were sitting in the road outside the Houses of Parliament, having brought traffic to a halt.
The occasion for Just Stop Oil’s revival was the first PMQs (Prime Minister’s Questions) of Andy Burnham, Britain’s new and unelected Prime Minister, anointed by the Labour Party’s Zionist elite to try to undo the electoral armageddon augured by his failed predecessor, Keir Starmer, less animated and less convincing than a packet of lard, but a Zionist of such formidable enthusiasm that, despite having been a human rights lawyer, he told LBC in October 2023 that Israel had the right to cut off water and fuel to an entire civilian population.
Israel Faces Toxic Blowback From Its Genocide in Gaza
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Many thanks to Dr. Dianne Woodward, a former lecturer in Biological Sciences, and a manager at the Galilee Foundation, a UK charity empowering Palestinian youth since 2007, for writing a compelling article for Al Jazeera, “Toxic waste of war on Gaza reached Israel”, highlighting how the ecocidal impact of Gaza’s genocidal and ongoing 34-month assault on the Gaza Strip is creating a monstrous public health crisis, not just for the Palestinians, but also for the Israelis themselves.
Typically, Israel’s leadership was blinded by its own genocidal fury and its appalling supremacism to such an extent that it never dawned on them that, by bombarding Gaza, its immediate neighbour, with more deadly weapons than have ever been dropped anywhere on earth on an area of comparable size, and by deliberately destroying its entire infrastructure, including the whole of its sewage system, it was paving the way for the impact of this frenzy of unforgivable depravity to, literally, wash up on its own shores.
As Dr. Woodward explained:
Gaza shares the Mediterranean, coastal ecosystems and coastal aquifers with Israel. The destruction of its electric power and sanitation infrastructure forces over 100,000 cubic metres of raw, untreated sewage into the Mediterranean Sea or on land every day. Because in this part of the Mediterranean currents move primarily from south to north, this waste is carried straight up the coast into Israeli waters.
Who's still at Guantánamo?
