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By DR MAZIN QUMSIYEH  Posted by Peter Barus (about the submitter)   No comments, In Series: Reports from Palestine
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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy"

The US dollar is weakening not just because of markets, but because of: persistent inflation, foreign selling of Treasuries, exploding public debt, declining trust in long-term US fiscal discipline, and gradual global diversification away from dollar dependence (especially by large economies like China, Japan, Brazil). This has geopolitical effects including 1) decline in ability of the US (under Israeli influence) to subjugate other countries via economic sanctions and financial blackmail (that is why there is more risk of US military actions), 2) growing of USD alternatives including self-reliance, trade in local currencies, barter-like arrangements, use of alternative currencies (yuan, rupees, Euros, bitcoins), and increased gold holdings and settlement (that is why gold and silver are rising in price). The only potential positive effect is making US Exports cheaper (but most countries do not want to buy US products now after the genocide on Gaza and Trump's war the world). These trends will only accelerate now that the US administration is accelerating instability locally and globally - basically on its way to become a failed state. A large part of this is directly due to policies pursued to please the Zionist lobby (e.g. the wars waged on behalf of Israel cost some $8 trillion of the $38 trillion national debt). Maybe that is why the US are moving away from economic sanction on resisting governments and from direct cash foreign aid to Israel (largest recipient) to direct military interventions (keep your eye on US movements towards WWIII and BRICS countries response) and to direct military "partnership" with the Zionist genocidal regime (basically the Zionists will run a larger part of the US military). Stay tuned & buy gold if you can afford it - life is an adventure.

Meanwhile, the Gaza genocide continues. Since 7 October 2023 over 2,700 families were completely wiped out, over 6,000 families were left with only one sole survivor, over 22,000 children were killed, 39,000 children lost one parent, 16,000 children lost both parents. These are not numbers, these are people like you and me like children around us. I can tell you of my own martyred and surviving suffering friends in Gaza (the genocide survivors live in tents with cold and hunger ravishing them). Please reread this and please act to stop this!!! All lives are precious. Yet, these Zionist atrocities are spreading hate elsewhere. Islamophobic and immigrant attacks in the US (including the attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar) are fomented by the billionaire class of elites blackmailed (Mossad/Epstein files) and/or driven by insatiable greed. Our whole planet is at risk from Venezuela to Minneapolis to Taiwan. The pivot and the achille's heel of the hypocricy and greed of empire remains the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine/the Fertile Crescent (the cradle of Civilization). Zionism and Imperialism must and will be defeated if our planet is to be saved. And we must build a new world order based on human rights centered on peace with justice, not "might makes right". Indeed: "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy

US/Israeli words and deeds.

Self-declared "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. Now he plans to raise the military budget to $1.5 trillion -- nearly the rest of the world combined.

'We Cannot Separate Imperialism From Domestic Militarization': Understanding the Links Between ICE, Gaza, and U.S. Foreign Policy.

Statement on the Normalization of Nazism in the U.S Government.

Exclusive: Leaked "Board of Peace" Resolution Outlines U.S.-Led Plan to Rule Over Gaza. The draft framework, obtained by Drop Site, would bestow sweeping authority on Trump to determine all aspects of Gaza's governance and future [this is the Genocidal Zionist plan].

Francesca Albanese commented: "The request to demilitariz and deradicalize Gaza...in the name of Israel's security. Where is the security of the Palestinians who have been relentlessly attacked for decades..? Where is the demilitarization and deradicalization of Israeli society?"

Prof. Sachs comments on our dangerous world. Rauch: Yes it's fascism.

Stay Humane, act, and keep hope and Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine
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