Netanyahu Is Reportedly Planning to Annex Gaza Strip, With Trump Admin’s Backing
Israeli sources say the plan has already been presented to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and has the approval of the White House.
Israeli sources say the plan has already been presented to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and has the approval of the White House.
If Netanyahu’s plan goes forward, Israel will be in the process of annexing the entirety of Palestine.
By Sharon Zhang , Truthout, July 29, 2025, https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-is-reportedly-planning-to-annex-gaza-strip-with-trump-admins-backing/
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly prepared to propose a plan to annex the entire Gaza Strip that has the backing of the Trump administration, signalling the next horrific phase in Israel’s genocide as it also moves forward with annexing the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday, Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that Netanyahu is expected to propose the plan to his cabinet soon. The plan would entail giving Hamas a few days to accept a ceasefire deal — likely one designed for Hamas to reject, given Netanyahu’s history — and beginning annexation if Hamas rejects the deal.
The Israeli military would first annex parts of the “buffer zone,” an area spanning all of Gaza’s border created by the military amid its genocide. The zone encompasses over half of Gaza’s land area, and Israeli forces have bulldozed everything inside it, including homes, schools, farming sites, and more.
The military would then move to annex parts of northern Gaza, which Israel has worked diligently to isolate from the rest of Gaza, and move gradually until Israel has annexed the entirety of the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reports.
Netanyahu is reportedly presenting the plan in order to keep Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in his government, following the prime minister’s longtime pattern of taking drastic military actions in order to maintain his coalition and stay in power. Citing sources familiar, Haaretz says that Smotrich has said that he will stay in his position if the annexation plan goes forward.
Israeli sources say the plan has already been presented to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and has the approval of the White House.
Numerous military officials in Netanyahu’s government have said in recent months that annexation has long been the goal of Israel’s genocide, forcible removal of Palestinians, and near-complete destruction of Gaza. Israel has previously distanced itself from an Israeli general’s comments about Israel’s intentions for total occupation in the Strip, but has recently become even more emboldened.
The genocide has accelerated in the past weeks, with Israel’s near-total blockade on all basic resources reaching a breaking point last week, causing at least dozens of starvation deaths.
If Netanyahu’s plan goes forward, Israel will formally begin the process of annexing the entirety of Palestine. In many ways, however, Israel has already been carrying out an annexation plan in all but name.
Israeli officials have vastly accelerated settlement-building and violence in the occupied West Bank throughout their genocide, and last week, the Israeli Knesset passed a nonbinding measure calling for the annexation of the West Bank. Smotrich is a key architect of this plan, and has been pushing for annexation alongside many of the most extremist Israeli politicians for years.
In light of Israel accelerating its genocide and moving to annex Palestine, human rights advocates and experts have issued urgent calls for the world to act.
“The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce international law when it comes to Israel is EPIC,” said UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese on Tuesday. “Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic: Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the [international] law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.”
As Gaza starves, journalists sell their cameras for food.
At night, we sit together to see who among us journalists is still able to write, and who might collapse tomorrow from sheer exhaustion.
Shaimaa Eid in Gaza, 26 July 2025, https://www.declassifieduk.org/in-gaza-famine-journalists-sell-their-cameras-for-food/
I write these lines as my strength is fading – not just from the demands of journalism, but from the emptiness in my stomach that now clings to my fragile body.
At times, I sleep having shared a single piece of bread with what remains of my family, surviving hunger together.
Every night feels like the one before: the same bedding, the same groans, the same worry: will we find something to eat tomorrow? Will any of us survive this famine?
In Gaza, hunger is no longer just a humanitarian plea – it has become a harsh reality lived by journalists in every detail.
We, who once reported on the suffering of others, have become part of that suffering ourselves.
We write while suppressing our own pain and hunger, struggling to keep the words from collapsing before they reach the world – to show just how deep our oppression runs.
Before the war, I used to move easily between locations and press offices. Now, I walk for kilometres on foot due to the fuel shortage and lack of transportation.
At times, I sit on the curb, exhausted – lowering my head to catch my breath – then push myself to keep walking, because I know I must finish the report to earn the payment that will buy us food for the next day.
The journalistic work that once provided me with a stable income has come to a halt – institutions were destroyed, offices were evacuated, and infrastructure was targeted.
All that remains is freelance work: chasing a story, a photo, a quote, a report, and sending it to the few outlets that still pay us just enough to stay alive.
The cameras and equipment we once saw as extensions of our very souls have now become burdens we sell to secure food for our parents and children.
One of my fellow journalists offered his entire archive – twenty years’ worth of photos documenting life in Gaza – in exchange for a single bag of flour.
It wasn’t a passing decision, but a moment of heartbreak and survival. How could he hold on to images of the past while his children went to sleep without food?
Another sold his camera. Yet another parted with his microphone, the one he used to move between shelters and bombed-out homes.
Carrying our own fragility
A few days ago, a group of us journalists were working in one of Gaza’s hospitals, trying to secure an internet connection for our coverage.
Suddenly, my colleague – who reports on the famine for an international TV channel – collapsed to the ground. It wasn’t due to shelling or an explosion, but from hunger.
Her frail body couldn’t endure two days without food; her empty stomach could no longer withstand the heat and fear.
We carried her in silence and took her to join the dozens of Gaza residents crowding the hospital, all suffering from severe exhaustion and malnutrition.
As we lifted her, it felt as though we were carrying our own fragility – those of us who report on hunger while living through it ourselves.
In the field, the camera is no longer just a tool for documentation; it has become a means of survival.
Those who carry it are considered fortunate, as they can “trade” it for a sack of flour or a can of milk for their children – if available.
We no longer ask for payment in exchange for a photo, but for food. We no longer negotiate contracts, but for the dignity that remains within us – until further notice.
The black markets have become our only destination. Prices are astronomical. A kilo of flour costs what we used to earn in a full day’s work.
A loaf of bread is nine dollars, and if you want to feed five family members at home, you have to think with an economic mindset rather than a humanitarian one.
We meticulously plan the number of loaves, weigh the meals, ration the bites, and try to convince our children that “this is all that is available.”
Every photo trembles
Every day in Gaza feels like a round in an open death arena.
We are not only facing the Israeli killing machine but also battling hunger – a silent enemy that makes no distinction between child, journalist, or elderly.
We have lost control over our lives, our food, and the details of our daily existence. Some of us have even lost the words.
We no longer write with the same spirit, nor do we capture images with the same eye. Every photo trembles, and every word emerges tired, hungry, and afraid.
At night, we sit together as journalists, reviewing and sharing our stories – not as we used to, to improve our work, but to see who among us is still able to write, and who might collapse tomorrow from sheer exhaustion.
One colleague told me, “We are not just covering the massacres; we are living them.” Another said, “What we send to the world is the echo of our weary bodies.”
Before, producing an article like this would take me just one day. Now, with my focus fading and hunger draining my mind, I struggle to gather my thoughts and words, doing my utmost to write in a way that honors what I want to say.
There is no longer a difference between the journalist documenting the event and the civilian being bombed. Both are hungry, fearful, and hunted, without a home.
What is even more painful is that the world does not see this. It sees the images we send, but not the person who took them. It does not see how they were captured.
Despite all this, we continue. Not because we are strong, but because we have no choice but to carry on.
We are the children of this land, the voice of its people, and the mirrors reflecting both its death and its life.
We carry not only the camera, the microphone, and the pen, but also the weight of the cause, the cries of mothers, the hunger of children, and the dream of survival.
Shaimaa Eid is a Palestinian journalist in Gaza. She specialises in human-interest and news reporting, with a focus on amplifying local voices and documenting life under occupation. Shaimaa is a contributor to The Electronic Intifada and Palestine Chronicle.
Trump puts Putin on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for not ending Ukraine war.
31 July 2025 AIMN Editorial By Walt Zlotow, https://theaimn.net/trump-puts-putin-on-double-secret-probation-for-not-ending-ukraine-war/
President Trump channeled Animal House’s Dean Vernon Wormer in trying to reign in the out of control John ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky, a.k.a. Vladimir Putin.
Trump is livid over Putin’s refusal to cave into his demand he end the Ukraine war. And what will Trump do if Putin doesn’t enact ceasefire in “10 to 12” days?
Send in American troops to replace the rapidly disappearing Ukraine soldiers filling up numerous freshly dug Ukraine cemeteries? Nope.
Pour another $170 billion in US weapons that have done nothing but cause loss of one fifth of Ukraine territory to Russia? Nope.
Threaten Russia with nuclear annihilation? Nope.
Trump is planning something so horrific Putin will cave the moment Trump drops it on him… the Mother of all Sanctions. Only Trump knows what horrifying sanctions he has in store for Putin. Hence, Double Secret Probation (DSP).
Putin’s Bluto simply thumbed his nose at Trump’s Dean Wormer, hurling hundreds of drone bombs into Ukraine every day since Trump imposed DSP.
Trump’s Ukraine war policy is as chaotic as the administration of Faber College in Animal House. Big difference? Trump’s presiding over a catastrophe, destroying Ukraine in the lost cause to weaken Russia. All things considered, I prefer John Landis’ ‘Animal House’ to the Donald Trump version.
“We can do that:” Australian Energy Market Operator says the country’s power system can be run on 100 pct renewable energy.
The head of the Australian Energy Market Operator says he confident that
the country’s main grid – and its smaller ones for that matter – can
be run on 100 per cent renewable energy. “At AEMO, I set an ambition in
2021 for us to understand what it takes to run a power system on 100%
renewable energy,” Westerman said in an address to the Clean Energy
Summit in Sydney on Tuesday. “And today, we’re confident that with
targeted investments in system security assets, we can do just that. I’m
incredibly proud of this, but the future is coming at us fast and those
system security investments are needed urgently run a power system on 100%
renewable energy.”
Renew Economy 29th July 2025,
https://reneweconomy.com.au/we-can-do-that-aemo-says-power-system-can-be-run-on-100-pct-renewable-energy/
Radioactive wasps discovered at South Carolina nuclear facility
By Julian Agnew and Christopher J. Teuton. Jul. 29, 2025 , https://www.wtoc.com/2025/07/28/radioactive-wasps-discovered-south-carolina-nuclear-facility/
AIKEN, SC (WTOC) – A radioactive wasp nest was discovered earlier this month in South Carolina by workers at a nuclear facility, according to a report from the US Department of Energy.
The report states that on July 3, 2025, workers found a wasp nest on a stanchion near a tank at the F-Area tank farm at the Savannah River Site.
When the nest was probed it was discovered to be highly radioactive, according to the DOE’s report. While it does sound like something out of a comic book or horror movie, the report says this is not related to a loss of contamination control at the nuclear facility.
Instead, the wasp nest is considered a victim of “legacy radioactive contamination.”
The nest was sprayed (in order to kill the wasps) and was then bagged as radiological waste.
The report states the ground and surrounding area did not have any contamination.
The Savannah River Site was built in the 1950s near Aiken, South Carolina and covers more than 300 square miles.
During the Cold War, the Savannah River Site produced nuclear material and nuclear weapons components.
It became an EPA Superfund site in 1989, with cleanup and environmental remediation going on ever since.
In recent years, the National Nuclear Security Administration has begun work on a facility there to produce new plutonium cores for American nuclear weapons.
The NNSA plans to build at least 50 new plutonium cores per year in the new facility.
AtkinsRéalis eyeing U.S. market for nuclear technology push.
COMMENT -For nuclear industry trackers…
Re the last two paragraphs, you have to wonder, do they really believe this stuff or are they shameless grifters?
Nicolas Van Praet, July 28, 2025, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-atkinsrealis-eyeing-us-market-for-nuclear-technology-push/
AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. is moving to deploy its nuclear-reactor technology into the United States, a surprise push one analyst said could bolster the company’s revenue and exposure to American investors if it manages to clinch deals against growing competition.
The Canadian engineering company has “begun to explore opportunities for alternative large nuclear reactor technologies, notably Candu reactors, in the U.S.,” Joe St. Julian, president of the nuclear operations at AtkinsRéalis, said in an e-mailed statement Monday. Talks have started with U.S. regulatory agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Nuclear Security Administration, to assess licensing and other potential concerns, the company said.
The Financial Times was first to report on the corporation’s plans.
AtkinsRéalis chief executive Ian Edwards has reshaped the engineering company, previously known as SNC-Lavalin, by selling oil and gas assets and pivoting toward a simplified business model centred on engineering services and consulting work. Pushing its nuclear business hard is a big part of the new strategy.
AtkinsRéalis joins several nuclear energy multinationals weighing moves into the U.S., attracted by President Donald Trump’s aim to quadruple America’s atomic energy capacity over the next 25 years to meet rising demand for electricity. The President signed executive orders in May directing the Department of Energy to expedite construction of 10 large reactors by 2030, heralding what the White House science policy director called an “American nuclear renaissance.”
AtkinsRéalis holds an exclusive licence for Canada’s Candu reactor, which uses a heavy water technology to process natural uranium as fuel. It is marketing the 740-megawatt Enhanced Candu 6 along with a proposed 1,000-megawatt model called the Monark.
Executives with the Montreal-based company acknowledge that countries typically favour their own sovereign nuclear technology, which would give Pennsylvania-based reactor builder Westinghouse home-field advantage in any new contracts (Westinghouse is Canadian-owned). But they’re betting Westinghouse won’t be able to build 10 reactors at the same time, leaving room for Candu.
“We are positively surprised by this development,” Desjardins Securities analyst Benoît Poirier said in a note. He had believed a U.S. contract was not possible for AtkinsRéalis given past failed attempts to bring Candu reactors stateside as well as “the current protectionist geopolitical climate” in Canada and the U.S.
On top of that, the competitive landscape is more intense in the U.S., the analyst said, with international players such as Kepco (Korea Electric Power Corp.), legacy firms such as Westinghouse, and small modular reactor disruptors such as GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc., NuScale Power Corp., Oklo Inc., TerraPower, X-Energy Inc. and newcleo all vying for a piece of the pie.
“If AtkinsRéalis does secure a new-build reactor south of the border, it would not only represent incremental growth but also boost visibility with U.S. investors,” Mr. Poirier said. Despite the company’s share price run-up over the past two years, the stock remains significantly “under-owned” outside Canada, with U.S. ownership at just 8 per cent of the total, he said.
By comparison, Canadian companies such as Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.
CP-T -1.07%decrease
and TFI International Inc.
TFII-T -3.15%decrease
have U.S. ownership levels above 30 per cent. Plane maker Bombardier Inc.
BBD-B-T -0.02%decrease
has grown its U.S. investor base to nearly 20 per cent in recent years from about 5 per cent as it recentred the business to focus on luxury jet sales, defence, and service and maintenance.
AtkinsRéalis said the U.S. is one of its core markets for engineering services and that it has taken the current trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. into account in its strategic evaluations for ramping up its nuclear offering there. It said it intends to use its new technology centre in Richland, Wash., to further develop and apply “innovative nuclear and environmental cleanup technologies.”
Nuclear accounted for 12 per cent of revenues at AtkinsRéalis last year. The business is growing rapidly, however, and now employs about 4,000 people, up from 3,000 in 2022. Much of its recent hiring is in preparation for anticipated new reactor sales in Canada and abroad.
Last fall, the company won a joint contract to build two nuclear reactors in Romania, the first Candu reactors to be built in the world since 2007. The Canadian government will loan $3-billion to Romania’s nuclear power operator to finance the deal – funds that will be directed exclusively to Canadian providers of goods and services working on the project.
Executives with the engineering firm estimate that countries will need 1,000 new nuclear reactors by 2050. Assuming the company’s Candu solution nabs 5 per cent of that business (there are six large-scale reactor technologies globally, including Candu), they peg the market potential at $750-billion.
Abuse of Ubuntu in nuclear money grabbing
Just be aware of what kind of types are behind nuclear propaganda on
the beautiful continent nowadays…
Jan Haverkamp, 29 July 25
This is really extremely tasteless. Not only the abuse of Ubuntu, but
also the fact that DeepGEO envisions “Creating intergenerational
equity by solving the challenge of spent nuclear fuel and building
prosperity for our partners.” = grabbing money to dump radioactive
waste in Ghana, Somaliland, and break the law in Finland (which bans
import of radioactive waste)…
Just be aware of what kind of types are behind nuclear propaganda on
the beautiful continent nowadays…
WORLD NUCLEAR NEWS
https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/deepgeo-and-allweld-partner-for-nuclear-energy-in-africa
DeepGeo and Allweld partner for nuclear energy in AfricaFriday, 25
July 2025US-based Deep Geo Inc and South Africa-based Allweld Nuclear
and Industrial have signed a memorandum of understanding to support
the development of new nuclear power capacity in Africa.
DeepGeo is best known for its proposals to develop multinational
repositories in Ghana, Somaliland and potentially Finland and Canada.
Allweld is an Engineering Solutions company which has been serving the
nuclear and other sectors in South Africa and beyond since the early
1960s.
The two will work together to promote DeepGeo’s Ubuntu Nuclear Energy,
a nuclear project company aiming “to lead the development of
standardised fleets of nuclear power plants across Africa and beyond”,
pursuing a “commercial, regional approach” working with one or two
technology partners so it can realise standardisation across projects
and “progressively localise the supply chain so that more benefits can
be realised by the building countries”.
Link Murray, President of DeepGEO, said: “Allweld has a stellar
international reputation for quality workmanship, reliability, and
employee development. It is a natural partner for supporting our
regional and cooperative approach to nuclear energy development in
Africa – Ubuntu Nuclear Energy. Allweld’s inspired and innovative
leadership is helping us to break open Africa’s nuclear
gridlock.”Mervyn Fischer, Allweld CEO, said: “DeepGEO is a vibrant and
active nuclear company that is clearly deeply committed to the
expansion and sustainability of nuclear energy. If the nuclear
industry expects to make rapid progress, it can’t continue to do
things the same way they have been done before. We need to embrace
innovative solutions. African countries, especially, have the clear
potential to leapfrog their European and American peers by adopting
regional and harmonised approaches.”Ubuntu Nuclear Energy says it is
currently working towards establishing its initial projects and is
seeking early-stage investment and looking to finalise its technology
and supply chain partners.
The MoU says “DeepGEO intends to preferentially partner with Allweld
to support the construction, operation and maintenance of its nuclear
project opportunities in Africa, and potentially globally … Allweld
agrees to lend its support to DeepGEO/Ubuntu Nuclear Energy as a
technical expert and business partner to support its sales and
investment”.And it says the two companies “seek to advance the goal of
Africa reaching full independence in the peaceful uses of nuclear
sciences and technologies”.
Plastification of our Brains: Cannot be good…
Our Plastic Brains I chat about the recent peer reviewed study that looks at liver, kidney and brain tissues in people that died in 2024 versus 2016. This paper is the first of its kind, and needs to be examined and replicated by experts in brain science, human health, and many other scientists due to the enormous significance of its findings.
Peer reviewed open-source paper: Title: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains Abstract Rising global concentrations of environmental microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) drive concerns for human exposure and health outcomes. Complementary methods for the robust detection of tissue MNPs, including pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and electron microscopy with energy-dispersive spectroscopy, confirm the presence of MNPs in human kidney, liver and brain. MNPs in these organs primarily consist of polyethylene, with lesser but significant concentrations of other polymers. Brain tissues harbor higher proportions of polyethylene compared to the composition of the plastics in liver or kidney, and electron microscopy verified the nature of the isolated brain MNPs, which present largely as nanoscale shard-like fragments. Plastic concentrations in these decedent tissues were not influenced by age, sex, race/ethnicity or cause of death; the time of death (2016 versus 2024) was a significant factor, with increasing MNP concentrations over time in both liver and brain samples (P = 0.01). Finally, even greater accumulation of MNPs was observed in a cohort of decedent brains with documented dementia diagnosis, with notable deposition in cerebrovascular walls and immune cells. These results highlight a critical need to better understand the routes of exposure, uptake and clearance pathways and potential health consequences of plastics in human tissues, particularly in the brain. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159… Wikipedia page on Polyethylene plastic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyeth…
Image on size scales: mm, micrometer, nanometer: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/S…
Trump ‘shocked, shocked’ that Palestinians are starving in Gaza.
While Biden kept a low profile about the extermination he greenlighted, Trump is positively ecstatic about completing it for his ultimate real estate project.
While most of the civilized world is repulsed by the Israeli/US genocide tag team, everyone in the Trump administration and nearly the entire 535 member Congress is on board the Genocide Express.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL , 29 July 25
For 188 days President Trump has been voraciously supporting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He’s given Israel billions in weapons, Intel, logistics, vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions, public support
On day 188 Trump encouraged Israel to “finish the job in Gaza. I think they want to die. It’s very, very bad.” They don’t want to die more than you do, Mr. President. Netanyahu, with Trump’s support is bombing, shooting and starving them to death. It’s more than very, very bad. It is genocide and Trump is all in, following his predecessor Biden who originally enabled the genocide’s start 21 months ago.
Twenty-four hours later Trump appeared to have an epiphany during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London. Or maybe he just forgot his cue cards of genocide support “There is real starvation’ in Gaza. That’s real starvation stuff, I see you. You can’t fake that.”
Trump actually contradicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who claimed there was no starvation. Trump’s evidence? “Based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry. They don’t look very hungry Mr. President. They’re dying every day from your encouragement for Israel to starve those Palestinians not killed by your bombs and bullets.
The grotesque reality is the US and Israel abandoned the Gaza ceasefire talks so both can continue the genocidal ethnic cleansing there unabated.
While Biden kept a low profile about the extermination he greenlighted, Trump is positively ecstatic about completing it for his ultimate real estate project.
We can hope Trump is feeling the pressure of living out his remaining days damned to eternity for enabling the Gaza genocide. Maybe it will force him to buck Netanyahu who is starving Palestinians right before our eyes. Or maybe on Trump presidency day 190 he will go back on script and ignore the monstrous death toll he’s enabled.
While most of the civilized world is repulsed by the Israeli/US genocide tag team, everyone in the Trump administration and nearly the entire 535 member Congress is on board the Genocide Express. It’s all ‘self defense’ they mutter.’ Mainstream media has blocked discussion of the genocide, the word and subject that dare not speak their name.
We need a 21st century Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. First up in the dock? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, closely followed by Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump.
We cannot say we didn’t know. Unless we hold them to account…we are complicit in their guilt.
Meet Charles Emond, the Canadian backing Sizewell C with £1.7bn
The chief executive of La Caisse, the second biggest infrastructure investor in
the world, is a fan of the UK and wants to put another £6bn into British
assets. “There’s always risk in a transaction,” says Charles Emond.
The chief executive of La Caisse is keen to stress that he and the other
equity investors named last week in the financing of the Sizewell C nuclear
power station project are not getting a completely free ride from British
taxpayers and electricity billpayers.
Billpayers will have £1 a month
added to their electricity bills from this autumn to help finance the
gigantic project. UK taxpayers will stand ready to foot the bill if the
construction costs rise above a certain point. But the equity investors
putting in £8.5 billion aren’t entirely free of exposure if things go
wrong, he says.
Times 27th July 2025, https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/energy/article/meet-charles-emond-the-canadian-backing-sizewell-c-with-17bn-t9hdhkspn
This week’s NON-CORPORATE nuclear news
Some bits of good news – Giant bird once hunted to extinction returns to Scotland after 500 years.
New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India . What Happens When You Give Teens No-Strings Cash?
TOP STORIES.
Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future. Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI
We’re having a heatwave -and nuclear power can’t cope.
Trillion dollar AUKUS subs plus nuclear waste in perpetuity?
Sizewell C loans could see project cost rise above Hinkley to £47.7bn
Climate. Welcome to Disaster World. Greenpeace hails Italian court ruling allowing climate case against energy company Eni to continue.
AUSTRALIA. AUKUS Submarine Regulations: FoE Adelaide submission. Australia won’t receive Aukus nuclear submarines unless US doubles shipbuilding, admiral warns.
Out of Step with the World: Australia’s Refusal to Recognise Palestine is a Moral Failure . . Sanction Israel Now – APH Convergence. Jillian Segal and the Israel Lobby’s TERRIFYING Plan for Australia –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1b7J7pzgNo An Israel voice to Parliament? | Scam of the Week.
NUCLEAR ITEMS.
ATROCITIES.
“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find.
“One Meal Every Three Days”: Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground. Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields and Starvation in Gaza.
CULTURE and ART. Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI
ECONOMICS. Investment decision to be made on Sizewell C nuclear- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-investment-decision-to-be-made-on-sizewell-c-nuclear/
Ed Miliband admits Sizewell C cost has almost doubled to £38bn. Sizewell C’s Final Investment Decision has only crawled over the line (- with the public purse).
EDF not repeating its costly Hinkley nuclear blunder – for Sizewell C, the UK tax-payers will cop the costs.
Centrica really can’t lose at Sizewell – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-centrica-really-cant-lose-at-sizewell/
EDF shifts nuclear strategy to focus on domestic projects.
| ETHICS and RELIGION. It’s A Genocide, But It’s Also So Much More Than That – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JnyN3lo3cGaza Isn’t Starving, It Is Being Starved. |
| HEALTH. Nuclear waste exposure in childhood associated with higher cancer incidence. Why Starmer’s nuclear power push raises cancer fears – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/25/1-b1-why-starmers-nuclear-power-push-raises-cancer-fears/ |
| HISTORY. Origins of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity lie in a secret deal forged between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir – podcast.The Kyshtym disaster: Russia’s hidden nuclear crisis. |
| LEGAL. Belgian court bans military shipments to Israel in activist victory.Israel is changing the legal system governing the West Bank to accelerate annexation: report. |
| MEDIA. Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans.Ukrainian bots want the BBC to endorse war crimes.Four Major News Agencies Warn Gaza Staff Face Starvation Due to Israeli Blockade. |
| SAFETY. Incidents. French submarine-maker targeted by hackers. Chinese hackers gain access to US oversight of nuclear weapons in widespread Microsoft hack: report. 5 worst nuclear disasters from around the world. The real story of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history. Trump axes nuclear waste oversight panel. US Nuclear Industry Revival on the Horizon. The next Chernobyl? Soviet-era nuclear power plant is branded a ‘ticking time bomb’ that could go off at ‘any moment’ Time to Step Up – Campaigner calls on MP to challenge decision to give fusion indemnity over accident liabilities. The Flamanville EPR is still shut down: we know more after the visit of the nuclear regulator. |
| SECRETS and LIES. From hero to zero- When western leaders realised that Zelensky isn’t a corruption-fighting democrat. Dell’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. They Intend To Keep Lying About Gaza Until They’ve Emptied It Out. They’re Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They’re Lying About It. Tory peer apologises for helping set up ministerial meeting for a nuclear firm he advises. Ed Miliband put up your energy bills (for Sizewell nuclear)– and hoped you wouldn’t notice. |
| SPINBUSTER. MAGA Going to Israel for Propaganda Training. |
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When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide in Gaza
29 July 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark, https://theaimn.net/when-israelis-call-it-out-finding-genocide-in-gaza/
It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the noblest, necessary motivations of self-defence against satanic enemies who wish genocide upon Jews. Over time, as Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov writes, “Ethical concerns and moral qualms were brushed aside as either marginal or distracting in the face of the ultimate cataclysm that is the genocide of the Jews.”
This form of reasoning, known otherwise as “Holocaust-ism” or “Shoah-tiyut”, is a moral conceit left bare in the war of annihilation being waged in Gaza against the Palestinian populace. Israeli human rights groups have taken note of this, despite the drained reserves of empathy evident in the Israel proper. (A Pew Research Center poll conducted last month found that a mere 16% of Jewish Israelis thought peaceful coexistence with Palestinians was possible.)
In its latest report pointedly titled Our Genocide, the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem offers a blunt assessment: “Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads us to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
The infliction of genocide, the organisation acknowledges, is a matter of “multiple and parallel practices” applied over a period of time, with killing being merely one component. Living conditions can be destroyed, concentration camps and zones created, populations expelled and policies to systematically prevent reproduction enacted. “Accordingly, genocidal acts are various actions intended to bring about the destruction of a distinct group, as part of a deliberate, coordinated effort by a ruling authority.”
Our Genocide suggests that certain conditions often precede the sparking of a genocide. Israel’s relations with Palestinians had been characterised by “broader patterns of settler-colonialism”, with the intention of ensuring “Jewish supremacy over Palestinians – economically, politically, socially, and culturally.”
B’Tselem draws upon three crucial elements centred on ensuring “Jewish supremacy over Palestinians”: “life under an apartheid regime that imposes separation, demographic engineering, and ethnic cleansing; systemic and institutionalized use of violence against Palestinians, while the perpetrators enjoy impunity; and institutionalized mechanisms of dehumanization and framing Palestinians as an existential threat.” The attacks on Israel by Hamas and other militant groups on October 7, 2023 was a violent event that created a “sense of existential threat among the perpetrating group” enabling the “ruling system to carry out genocide.” As B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak notes, this sense of threat was promoted by an “extremist, far-right messianic government” to pursue “an agenda of destruction and expulsion.”
Israeli policy in the Strip since October 2023 could not be rationalised as a focused, targeted attempt to destroy the rule of Hamas or its military efficacy. “Statements by senior Israeli decision-makers about the nature and assault in Gaza have expressed genocidal intent throughout.” Ditto Israeli military officers of all ranks. Gaza’s residents had been dehumanised, with many Jewish-Israelis believing “that their lives are of negligible value compared to Israel’s national goals, if not worthless altogether.”
The report also notes the use of certain terminology that haunts the literature of genocidal euphemism: the creation of “humanitarian zones” that would still be bombed despite supposedly providing protection for displaced civilians; the use of “kill zones” by the Israeli military and the absence of any standardised rules of engagement through the Strip, often “determined at the discretion of commanders on the ground or based on arbitrary criteria.”
Wishing to be comprehensive, the authors of the report do not ignore Israel’s actions in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. Airstrikes regularly take place against refugee camps in the northern part of the territory since October 2023. Even more lethal open-fire policies have been used in the West Bank, with the use of kill zones suggesting “the broader ‘Gazafication’ of Israel’s methods of warfare.”
Another group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI), has also published a legal-medical appraisal on the intentional destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, finding that the Israeli campaign in Gaza “constitutes genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.” The evidence examined by the group “shows a deliberate and systematic dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system and other vital systems necessary for the population’s survival.” The evolving nature of the campaign suggested a “deliberate progression” from the initial bombing and forced evacuation of hospitals in the northern part of the Strip to calculated collapse of the healthcare system across the entire enclave. The dismantling of the health system involved rendering hospitals “non-functional”, the blocking of medical evaluations and the elimination of such vital services as trauma care, surgery, dialysis and maternal health.
Added to this has been the direct targeting of health care workers, involving the death and detention of over 1,800 members “including many senior specialists” and the deliberate restriction of humanitarian relief through militarised distribution points that pose lethal risks to aid recipients. “This coordinated assault has produced a cascading failure of health and humanitarian infrastructure, compounded by policies leading to starvation, disease and the breakdown of sanitation, housing, and education systems.”
PHRI contends that, at the very least, three core elements of Article II of the Genocide Convention are met: the killing of members of a group (identified by nationality, ethnicity, race or religion); causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of that group and deliberately inflicting on the group those conditions of life to bring about its destruction in whole or in part.
In accepting that genocide is being perpetrated against the Palestinians, Our Genocide makes that most pertinent of points: the dry legal analysis of genocide tends to be distanced from a historical perspective. “The legal definition is narrow, having been shaped in large part by the political interests of the states whose representatives drafted it.” The high threshold of identifying genocide, and the international jurisprudence on the subject, had produced a disturbing paradox: genocide tends to be recognised “only after a significant portion of the targeted group has already been destroyed and the group as such has suffered irreparable harm.” The thrust of these clarion calls from B’Tselem and PHRI is urgently clear: end this state of affairs before the Palestinians become yet another historical victim of such harm.
Trump Shows Strong Support for Israel as Palestinians in Gaza Starve to Death
Trump has been claiming that a ceasefire deal was close, but now he is appearing to suggest that Israel should escalate its genocidal war.
After the US and Israel quit ceasefire talks, Trump suggested it was time for Israel to ‘finish the job’
by Dave DeCamp | July 27, 2025, https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/27/trump-shows-strong-support-for-israel-as-palestinians-in-gaza-starve-to-death/
President Trump has shown strong support for Israel in recent days, while much of the world has been outraged over the images of Palestinians who are starving to death due to the US-backed Israeli siege on Gaza.
After the US and Israel quit ceasefire talks, Trump blamed the lack of progress on Hamas and suggested it was time for Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza. “I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad,” Trump said on Friday, referring to Hamas.
For its part, Hamas has said that it was surprised by the US and Israel quitting the truce talks and that it was committed to continuing the process until a deal was reached.
In recent weeks, Trump has been claiming that a ceasefire deal was close, but now he is appearing to suggest that Israel should escalate its genocidal war. “They’re gonna have to fight, and they’re gonna have to clean it up. You’re gonna have to get rid of [Hamas],” he said.
Israeli officials told Axios that they weren’t sure if Trump’s comments were a negotiating tactic or a “green light” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use even more extreme military measures. The report said the Trump administration was rethinking its Gaza strategy, but there’s no sign it’s considering putting pressure on Israel to reach a ceasefire.
Israeli officials also told Axios that Trump has applied virtually no pressure on Netanyahu to end the slaughter in Gaza in recent months. “In most calls and meetings, Trump told Bibi, ‘Do what you have to do in Gaza.’ In some cases, he even encouraged Netanyahu to go harder on Hamas,” one official said.
While meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland on Sunday, Trump was asked about the images of starving children in Gaza. The president said people were “stealing the food,” a reference to Israel’s unfounded claims that Hamas has been stealing massive amounts of aid, then quickly pivoted to different topics.
In other comments, Trump said the issue of food shortages in Gaza was an “international problem,” not a “US problem.” But Israel is reliant on US military aid to sustain its military operations in Gaza, and Trump has the power to end the genocidal war by leveraging that support.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Israel’s denial of starvation in Gaza ‘beyond comprehension’
ABC News, By national affairs correspondent Jane Norman, 29 July 25
In short:
Anthony Albanese has expressed his astonishment at claims made by Israel’s prime minister that “there is no starvation in Gaza”, telling Labor MPs that statement is “beyond comprehension”.
The prime minister made the comments in response to a question from a Labor backbencher about when Australia would move to recognise Palestinian statehood.
What’s next?
Overnight, US President Donald Trump also appeared to dispute Mr Netanyahu’s statement, but Opposition Leader Sussan Ley later declined to say whether she believed starvation was occurring.
Anthony Albanese has expressed his astonishment at claims made by Israel’s prime minister that “there is no starvation in Gaza”, telling Labor MPs that statement is “beyond comprehension”.
The prime minister made the comments in response to a question from a Labor backbencher about when Australia would move to recognise Palestinian statehood.
Mr Albanese — who has been sharpening his criticism of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip — appeared to directly criticise Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who posted a clip to X saying “there is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation in Gaza”.
That assertion was repeated in Canberra yesterday by Israeli’s deputy ambassador to Australia, Amir Meron.
“Those claims that there’s no starvation in Gaza are beyond comprehension,” Mr Albanese told the Labor caucus, according to a spokesperson.
The prime minister outlined Australia’s pre-conditions for recognition, including “democratic reforms” in the Palestinian territory, but indicated these obstacles were not insurmountable, referencing a famous quote from Nelson Mandela that “it always seems impossible until it’s done”.
……………………………………………………….. The prime minister’s intervention came amid growing international concern about both the number of deaths at aid centres managed by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the level of hunger in the enclave………………………………………………………………… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/pm-criticises-israels-denial-of-starvation-in-gaza/105585494
All energy costs rise but small nuclear most reactive.
Small modular nuclear reactors proved the most expensive technology of the eight options by a large margin, with the report basing its costs on Canada’s Darlington nuclear project, announced in May.
Small modular nuclear reactors proved the most expensive technology of the eight options by a large margin, with the report basing its costs on Canada’s Darlington nuclear project, announced in May.
By Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, July 29 2025 , https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9027259/all-energy-costs-rise-but-small-nuclear-most-reactive/
Next-generation nuclear reactors are the most expensive of all energy-producing technologies, a report has found, and would significantly increase electricity prices in Australia.
Establishing a large-scale nuclear power plant for the first time would also require more than double the typical costs, and estimates for wind projects had inflated by four per cent due to unforeseen requirements.
The CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, released its GenCost report on Tuesday, revealing rising construction and finance costs would push up prices for energy projects of all kinds in the coming years.
The findings come after a heated debate about introducing nuclear power to Australia and after members of the federal coalition questioned the nation’s reliance on renewable energy projects to achieve net zero by 2050.
The final GenCost report for 2024-2025 analysed the cost of several energy-generating technologies, including variations of coal, gas, nuclear, solar and wind projects.
Renewable technology continued to provide the cheapest energy generation, the report’s lead author and CSIRO chief energy economist Paul Graham said.
“We’re still finding that solar PV and wind with firming is the lowest-cost, new build low-emission technology,” he told AAP.
“In second place is gas with (carbon capture storage) … then large-scale nuclear, black coal with CCS, then the small modular reactors.”
Small modular nuclear reactors proved the most expensive technology of the eight options by a large margin, with the report basing its costs on Canada’s Darlington nuclear project, announced in May.
The 1200-megawatt development is estimated to cost $23.2 billion and will be the first commercial small modular reactor built in a Western country.
The new reactors produce one-third the power of typical nuclear reactors and can be built on sites not suitable for larger plants, but have only been built in China and Russia.
“This is a big deal for Canada – it’s their first nuclear build in 30 years,” Mr Graham said.
“It’s not just about meeting electricity demand … they’ve said a few things that indicate they’re trying to build a nuclear SMR industry and export the technology.”
In addition to the cost of different technologies, the report estimated “premiums” for establishing first-of-a-kind energy projects, with the first large-scale nuclear project expected to command 120 per cent more and the first offshore wind development expected to cost an extra 63 per cent.
The cost of wind projects also grew by four per cent as researchers factored in building work camps to accommodate remote employees, and capital financing costs rose by one per cent.
Developing energy projects was also expected to cost between six and 20 per cent more by 2050, the report found, due to the rising price of materials such as cement and wages, as detailed in a report by Oxford Economics Australia.
Findings from the CSIRO report would help inform the design of future energy infrastructure, Australian Energy Market Operator system design executive general manager Merryn York said.
“We’ll use the capital costs for generation and storage from GenCost in the upcoming Draft Integrated System Plan in December,” she said.
Nuclear technology is banned as an energy source in Australia, which has a target of achieving 82 per cent renewable energy in the national grid by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050.
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