10 November 1944: The Nazis hanged 13 people in Cologne. Five were teenagers.
How the American Civil War transformed Egypt: Cotton, slavery and the road to British occupation
Gabor Maté on Israel and Gaza: “Israel right now is a psychopath functioning in an infrastructure of impunity” — 10 criticisms
Thaddeus Stevens wanted to seize Confederate plantations and give 40 acres to freed slaves. America refused.
Nguyễn Thị Kim Lai: At 17, she captured a U.S. airman in the Vietnam War. Thirty years later, they reunited.
Dr Thaer Ahmad in Gaza: A father carried in his three daughters. None had a heartbeat.
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in Gaza: His son was killed at the hospital gate. He stayed until Israeli soldiers took him.
Dr Khaled Dawas in Gaza: 11-year-old Fatima lost nearly all her blood. She died on his last day.
Dr Nizam Mamode on Gaza’s horror: A 3-year-old girl was shot in the neck. He used the hospital’s last shunt. She died.
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on Gaza’s horror: An 8-year-old girl lay dying alone behind a hospital curtain
Dr Zaher Sahloul on Gaza’s horror: A 12-year-old boy died with shrapnel in his head. Nobody could reach his family.
Dr Samer Attar on Gaza’s horror: Two little brothers died because the hospital ran out of blood
Dr Victoria Rose in Gaza: A 5-year-old’s arm blown off, a 7-year-old’s knee gone — six children in one day
Dr Feroze Sidhwa in Gaza: He saved a 16-year-old boy. Five days later, an Israeli airstrike killed him in his hospital bed.
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan on Gaza’s horror: A boy with half his face blown off asked for his sister. She was dying beside him.
Dr Mark Perlmutter in Gaza: He amputated a conscious 5-year-old girl’s leg without anesthesia
Dr Nick Maynard: Four teenage boys shot in the testicles within an hour in Gaza
Dr Mads Gilbert on Gaza’s al-Shifa horror: Dying children and surgery by phone light
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Gaza’s carnage: He amputated limbs from six children in one night
Dr Mimi Syed on the horror in Gaza: 18 children shot in the head or chest
Israel crushed its enemies in six days in 1967. Then squandered its chances to make peace.
Christian Fleetwood: “Got used up. Saved colors.” — The attack on New Market Heights
A little girl asks her cat not to eat her. Childhood under Israeli bombs.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, Parenting
A stained carpet or a stained soul? Sticky encounters with humans.
Media Confessions, Middle East Confessions
Frightening westerners about Muslims made them like Israel more. Marketing company Stagwell Global found that people saw Israel as a genocidal state and suggested an anti-dote… Islamophobia
Zura Karuhimbi saved 100 people by pretending to be a witch
Israel’s secret police told a man going blind to become a spy or lose his eyesight.
Understanding America starts with blowing up their founding myth. What if the American Revolution was about more freedom… for the rich only?
AI confessions, Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
ChatGPT’s top 20 beefs with humans in 2026 and how guilty I am of each beef
Love confessions, Middle East Confessions
A young couple turned a catacomb in Beit Hanoun into a love nest for three years. A Palestinian love story
A tale of hands and legs in Gaza
Patrick Stewart’s beginnings read like a real version of Great Expectations. A teacher or mentor or secret benefactor can change lives.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions, Psychology Confessions, Transformative Confessions
Protected: A Slavic Christina Applegate in software testing with sad eyes she masks and a big heart she hides.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, Middle East Confessions
This Post Is A Lot Of Me. On Fraternizing With The Enemy. Someone with radically different views is more dear to me than the ‘pay raise’ drones around me
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions
Protected: Why I think Europe and the US are spiritually dying
AI confessions, Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
Why do I experience life as not worth living?
AI confessions, Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
ChatGPT’s most extreme hypothesis about me
AI confessions, Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
I asked ChatGPT what my ideology is
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
One more playlist. And Bruno kills himself and Paola goes to work.
A Night of Passion: An Erotic Love Story About Desire and Intimacy.
Australia, 1938: Dockworkers refused to help Japan massacre the Chinese. Their own government turned against them.
A sick event you may never have heard of. On the 22nd of October 1956, France, Britain and Israel started negotiating a sinister deal at Sèvres.
An orphaned 12 year old made an altar in Gaza and now people come and pray in his tent
It’s not easy being a settler in Hebron
Culture, Restaurants, Exploration
First night: nobody came. Second night: two came. Third night: six came. Fourth night: nine came. Slovaks plus Expats boardgame nights Bratislava. Costume party Bratislava
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
What is in another unspectacular week’s existing on this planet?
Hey, in 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Barry Lyndon, Jaws, Nashville and Dog Day Afternoon hit theatres. A great year for cinema. Not so much for the US military. Two weeks after ignominiously letting its South-Vietnamese ally be overrun the US tried to save face with a spectacular rescue operation and Cambodian forces gave them another nosebleed. The Mayaguez debacle.
Where AI cannot beat me (yet).
Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions
