Brian K. Murphy
@murphyslog.bsky.social
Looking at life slantwise Lifelong activist and internationalist, organiser, educator, and writer. And a dad, and a grandpa.
"The ruling elites have calculated that maintaining their grip on power — often with the tacit or explicit backing of Western powers — is worth the moral price of abandoning Palestine.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/03/r...
Rot from Within: The Palace-to-Street Silence Consuming the Arab World
The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted slogans,
counterpunch.org
Myanmar stuggle faces media misinformation miasma in Washington: asiatimes.com/2026/07/the-...
The Washington dissensus on Myanmar - Asia Times
US President Donald Trump has remade American foreign policy into a dangerous mix of belligerence, atrocity crimes and incoherent lunacy. The broad
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“The evidence we collected left us with no doubt that Russian occupation policies amount to grave violations of international law when it comes to the indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children living in the territories under Russian control.” asiatimes.com/2026/08/russ...
Russia making kids in occupied Ukraine frontline cannon fodder - Asia Times
When we were asked to investigate Russia’s indoctrination and militarization of children living in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow since
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On the cruel indifference that fuels the genocidal atrocities in Sudan: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Why genocide keeps repeating in Sudan
The lack of international action after the atrocities in el-Geneina and el-Fasher has doomed el-Obeid.
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Dismal Morroco, distressed migrants, and empire: how 60,000 people just surged into ‘Spain’ explains the state of the world. www.survivorsguidetoearth.com/feature-arti...
Feature Article — Survivors Guide to Earth
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Canada's Liberal government shows its progressive conservative colours: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Mark Carney, Red Tory | The Tyee
The prime minister is causing a major realignment in Canadian politics. More proof came Wednesday.
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Interrogating the 'migrant Invasion’ narrative: not quite an invasion, not quite Spain blackstarnews.com/the-fake-inv...
The Fake ‘Invasion’ Of Spain: What You Need To Know - Black Star News
By Team Zeteo
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A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 global conference in Rio de Janeiro; the errant map was displayed during a presentation about the State Department's new health agreements. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Canadian universities operated 2 parallel covert networks—one national, and one in Alberta—of educational institutions, provincial government officials, and police to suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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“What can I do to help you?”: President Donald Trump has personally directed a fundraising operation that has taken in more than $800 million since he returned to office, according to a Wall Street Journal report. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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“[Mr. Lütke] is among Canada’s richest people...He is also a first-class fool when it comes to matters other than making money.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: One person, one vote is basic democratic principle. We should try it some time
Tobi Lütke’s musings on democracy remind us of what’s at stake
theglobeandmail.com
I recently wrote a profile of a West African kid who tried to storm Cueta, right before the last big massacre of migrants there. As I observed, much of this could be prevented (and has been before) with a return to pre-2000s visa policies www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Along the trans-Saharan path, African migrants weigh the risks and rewards of heading to Europe
The Globe joins West Africans along the desert route that carries hundreds of thousands through deadly perils and ignites political crises in Europe
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“We shouldn’t be constrained by antiquated notions of ‘equality’ or ‘constitutional rights’. We need to move forward, into the future. And the best way to do that is to adopt the electoral system of Ancient Rome and pre-Revolutionary France.” thebeaverton.com/2026/07/shop...
Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
TORONTO – In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can pu...
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Salvadoran journalists and human rights and environmental activists are fleeing en masse from Bukele's dystopia: beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
A First-Hand Account of a Salvadoran Exodus
May and June marked the great exodus of Salvadoran journalists and human rights and environmental activists. A growing exile had been trickling since Bukele came to power, but had never been as massiv...
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UN reports Boeing linked to former U.S. Special Forces contractor, Steven Shaulis, transported mercenaries, weapons and drones for Sudan’s RSF. An estimated 1,500-2,000 Colombian mercenaries fought alongside the RSF during its siege of El-Fasher. www.internazionale.it/ultime-notiz...
Exclusive-Boeings identified in Reuters report carried weapons for Sudanese paramilitary, UN experts find
By David Lewis, Reade Levinson and Alexander DziadoszLONDON/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - United Nations experts have found that Boeing 727s linked by Reuters to a U.S. mili… Leggi
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As of 24 July, the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) reports that 76 Palestinians and one Israeli have died this year in Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. news.un.org/en/story/202...
UN warns West Bank settler violence hits ‘all-time high’ as calls grow to end occupation
Violence in the occupied West Bank is worsening as the Israeli Government continues to approve new settlements while settlers and Israeli security forces have “often” acted together to attack local Pa...
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“Killers are in charge in Israeli prisons and they are killing doctors.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/28/t...
The Heartbreaking Case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Now at Death’s Door
"They brought me here to kill me,” Gazan Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told his last known visitor to the Israeli underground Rakefet prison, where he is kept in
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Free Dr. Abu Safiya Now! Appeal issued for immediate international action on behalf of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician detained by Israeli Occupation Forces in December 2024 because he refused to abandon his patients under his care. www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/27/w...
We Must Act With the Same Moral Courage as Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiya: Free Dr. Abu Safiya Now!
Summary: National Single Payer, a national, grassroots organization joined by the principles that health care is a human right, must be free from profit,
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Myanmar’s rare earth mines financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar’s borderlands: restofworld.org/2026/myanmar...
The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines
As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands.
restofworld.org
Since agreeing to a ceasefire last October, Israel has killed 1,200 Palestinians and wounded over 3,888 people. The U.N.-backed Board of Peace and Pres. Trump have not condemned a single attack. 9 more Palestinians were killed and 36 injured in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · last wk.🔴 Ministry of Health in Gaza | July 26 ▪️Figures for the past 24 hrs received by hospitals in the Gaza Strip: 🔹Killed: 9. (7 killed in new attacks+ 2 who died as a result of injuries from recent strikes). 🔹Injured: 36 ▪️Since the ceasefire (Oct. 11, 2025): * Total killed: 1,200 * Total injured...
Over 80 Palestinians have been killed by soldiers and settlers in the West Bank in 2026: “[they] are pushing Palestinians towards an explosion because it serves their settlement plan.” farmland.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-tal-israeli-settlers-army-outposts-arrests-home-demolitions
Israeli Settlers Set Up At Least Six New Colonial Outposts After Friday Killings in the Occupied West Bank
Israeli soldiers and settlers have unleashed a campaign of terror on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank with home raids, shootings, assaults, mass detentions, and house demolitions.
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The war in Sudan has now killed somewhere between 150,000 to 400,000 people, with people dying from a combination of direct violence, hunger, and lack of access to healthcare. www.dropsitenews.com/p/el-obeid-s...
Drone Strikes Are Destroying the Infrastructure of Survival in the Heart of Sudan
In El-Obeid, RSF drone strikes are destroying fuel, electricity, and water that keeps the most fragile patients alive.
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ICE has made plans to ramp up operations to arrest and deport Haitian migrants, as hundreds of thousands of Haitians brace for the termination of their legal status, according to two agency sources and federal documents obtained by CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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The Israeli army and Israeli settlers “should not be seen as separate”, stressing that Israeli violence in the West Bank is not divorced from repression in Jerusalem and its genocide in Gaza: www.democracynow.org/2026/7/27/we...
Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday d...
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SUDAN: UN Women is gravely concerned by the emerging pattern of violence against women and girls in El Obeid, Sudan, where drone attacks during the day and sexual violence at night have left no safe window for women and girls. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
UN Women statement: Drone attacks by day and sexual violence by night leave no safe window for women and girls to collect water amidst rainy season in Sudan’s El Obeid | UN Women – Headquarters
UN Women is gravely concerned by the emerging pattern of violence against women and girls in El Obeid, Sudan.
unwomen.org
