The officials urged caution and stressed the need for diplomacy. But the timing was right for such a military shift, they concluded.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2024/09/30/us-israel-military-hezbollah-00181797
US sending a few thousand more troops to the Middle East | AP News
The Pentagon says is sending a “few thousand” additional troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to be prepared to defend Israel if necessary.
— Read on apnews.com/article/us-troops-middle-east-israel-hezbollah-e37e2dbef573e33c0f8fb6a8103f27f1
PFLP announces assassination of leaders in Israeli airstrike on Beirut | Al Mayadeen English
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has confirmed the killing of three of its members, two of which are leaders, in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beirut.
— Read on english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pflp-announces-martyrdom-of-leaders-in-israeli-airstrike-in
Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita
There’s been too much blood. If you don’t share in our spirit, whether it cycles through pain or longing or fury or despair, then you’re a Zionist. It doesn’t matter how you self-identify. We suffer the oppression and so we get to name the oppressor. It’s the only real benefit to being oppressed.
— Read on stevesalaita.com/your-crisis-of-faith-is-not-my-concern-theres-a-genocide-going-on/
Barakat from Beirut: The resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
Speaking today from Beirut, Lebanon, after the Zionist entity’s massive terror bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, emphasized that “the resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated, despite their horrific crimes. They will fall before the unified power of the resistance, from Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and throughout the region.”
— Read on masarbadil.org/en/2024/09/5246/
Fundraiser by Jae Grumulaitis : Help Jae Heal: Funds for Surgery and Recovery
Hi, I’m Jae and I am a transgender woman living in New York, raising money for recovery funds following my upcoming FFS in October and my breast augmentation to be scheduled this winter. I work as a photographer and barista, which both require me to be physically active, causing me to take a large amount of time off work along with losing out on work contracts.
— Read on www.gofundme.com/f/help-jae-heal-funds-for-surgery-and-recovery
Peace From Our Point of View • Protean Magazine
Israel’s unsettled borders, writes Mary Turfah, are not “a bug… but a feature of the Zionist state,” allowing it to justify endless war in the name of an intentionally elusive “peace.” This essay appears in Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps.
— Read on proteanmag.com/2024/09/19/peace-from-our-point-of-view/
Cuba’s Contemporary Dance, Legacy and Innovation

A report from Radio Cadena Agramonte. September 25 will mark the 65th anniversary of the father of modern dance in Cuba, Ramiro Guerra, founding the …
Cuba’s Contemporary Dance, Legacy and Innovation
Martinique – Protests Continue

Militarised French police unit sent to Caribbean island. The Companies for Republican Security, had been banned in the c since an uprising in December 1959.
Martinique – Protests Continue
Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Champion of Latino Photography, Dies at 93

A New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, he helped start a collective that brought recognition to Hispanic photographers and illuminated life in the …
Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Champion of Latino Photography, Dies at 93