The state-owned Polish company, Nitro-Chem, produced 90% of the TNT that U.S. weapons manufacturers used to make "Mark Series" bombs, according to a new report.
Thank you for this enlightening reporting! It is so infuriating how many businesses and countries are complicit in allowing Israel to continue its murder campaign by supplying weapons and money through business dealings. Where are the businesses and countries honorable enough to say, “NO MORE BLOOD MONEY”? Even Egypt is guilty by paying Israel billions for natural gas. It's time to cut Israel off!
It’s staggering how clearly this report exposes the global machinery behind Gaza’s destruction. Poland’s TNT, U.S. manufacturing, and Israel’s deployment form a supply chain that has turned an already besieged population into the testing ground for some of the most powerful conventional explosives on earth. When a former Nazi weapons site is repurposed—80 years later—to supply the explosives used to level hospitals, schools, and entire neighborhoods in Gaza, the moral collapse is impossible to ignore.
No government involved can plead ignorance. These contracts, renewed even amid unprecedented civilian death, show intentional continuity. If the international system means anything at all, then supplying the key ingredient for weapons that have already obliterated most of Gaza should raise the loudest possible alarm about complicity. Ending this supply chain isn’t just a policy choice—it’s the bare minimum to prevent further atrocities.
again, i agree with you, george. moral collapse is blatantly exposed here and, imho, it dates back to the days of slavery, if not further. time and again, shakespeare comes to mind: "though this be madness yet there is method in 't". [today, there's method in TNT.]
the machinery at full throttle, yet - not 'never' - again! ... while i fail to grasp that humans can be cruel, indifferent, greedy to the point of being willing to give orders to mass kill others.
my government cares not about my opinion re. its constant arms deliveries to israel, "our eternal friend!" [while russia must be our "eternal foe!"], and is far from ready to interrupt that supply chain. in italy and other EU countries at least, people have the courage to interrupt shipments and to go on strike. that movement, in my country, slowly gains momentum. here's hoping that grassroots resistance can put spokes into all the machinery's wheels before it is all too late!
and while they're busy killing people overseas, not a month goes by at home w./o. unexploded bombs from WW II being dug up to be defused ... and re-used in new forms.
My one regret in life is not staying in Europe when I was younger. Now, with age, the chance feels gone—and if I had the means, I’d return in an instant. The United States is unraveling quickly, yet most people remain unaware. Even though global economies are struggling, many industrialized nations still manage to provide their citizens with healthcare and the basic foundations of a decent life.
I deeply value the depth of your reflection. It’s chilling how history’s patterns of cruelty and indifference keep resurfacing, only in new disguises. Your point about TNT as a “method in madness” struck me hard. I share your frustration with governments that prioritize strategic alliances over human lives, and I find hope in the grassroots movements across Europe that resist that machinery.
It makes me wonder: if more of us can find ways to slow or disrupt these cycles, perhaps there’s still a chance to steer them toward accountability before history’s darkest lessons repeat themselves. Your connection to the unexploded bombs of WWII is powerful—it reminds us that the past isn’t just behind us; it’s embedded in the present, waiting to resurface unless we confront it responsibly.
i'd be happy to see cycles steered towards accountability! and we should always hope they will, maybe not in our lifetime, but one day, sooner rather than later. there are so many people to be held accountable for so many things ... it will take ages to get to them all.
as to your decision to move back to the US when you were younger: isn't some history being made there now? i don't want to seem naive but hasn't z. mamdani made some people shake awake at the last second and come to what's LEFT of their senses?
[allow me to mention that i don't mean to 'abuse' the space under this article on TNT production for subjects that don't directly belong here - even though some say that everything is connected to everything else.]
I first began to understand the layered histories of Palestine—and the persecution Palestinians endured—even before the state of Israel was formally declared. In the early seventies, while living in Frankfurt, West Germany, I met a former Israeli soldier who had renounced his citizenship. He spoke openly about what he had witnessed: the killing of Palestinians carried out during his service.
That testimony marked me deeply. For the rest of my life, I’ve listened to Americans defend Israel without hesitation, often with little knowledge of the realities on the ground. Their certainty stood in stark contrast to the firsthand account I had heard.
I hear you—accountability cannot remain a distant hope. The list of those responsible is long, but the longer justice is delayed, the more urgent it becomes to demand real consequences now, not in some imagined future.
As for “history being made” in the U.S., yes—Mamdani and others have shaken people awake. But moments of clarity are not enough without structural change to follow them. Awareness is only the first step; what matters is whether it leads to action, protection of rights, and a genuine break from the cycles of impunity we’re confronting.
And no worries about going off-topic—when the machinery of violence and lack of accountability runs through so many issues, the threads inevitably connect. The common denominator is the demand for responsibility, and the refusal to let any of this slide back into silence.
frankfurt, west germany, of all places? SUCH a coincidence! and your encounter with the principled [is that the term?] israeli who renounced his citizenship - another one to have marked you for life, if i may say|write so. listening to zohran mamdani, i want to be convinced that he is serious - and finds enough 'comrades in arms' - to make the billionaire class "play by the same rules as the rest of us".
Yes, changes may be coming — I’m sure some will. What I’m less certain of is whether I’ll still be around to see them. That thought carries its own weight, but it also sharpens the urgency: if there’s a chance to push for accountability and fairness now, it shouldn’t be left to some distant future
I'm amazed that after the experience of World War II the Polish people are willing to facilitate another genocide in this way. I suppose it is yet another illustration of "profits uber alles."
This is part of the globalization-driven moral collapse, and one that has been going on for years. In Norway we have a significant partly state-owned "defense" industry, and rules that govern who "we" can sell to. That's good. But then we start playing with words. In the debate, it is argued that the equipment is not manufactured in Norway, but by a subsidiary in, for example, the USA, where American rules apply.
Constant exposure to Dropsite’s crisis-saturated style eventually pushes readers into emotional shutdown: the nervous system stays in continuous hyperarousal until it hits allostatic overload, and the brain protects itself by dampening affect. The result is a blend of affective blunting, cognitive saturation, and learned helplessness — everything feels urgent until nothing does. This is how nonstop catastrophe-frame content turns committed activists into numb doomscrollers who can no longer distinguish signal from noise.
The love of money (power?) is the root of all evil.
Thanks DropSite for your reporting!
Seeing elsewhere finally about Pakistani President (Prime Minister?) Imran Khan being jailed for not going along with the Israel propaganda - like you reported months ago.
Thank you for this enlightening reporting! It is so infuriating how many businesses and countries are complicit in allowing Israel to continue its murder campaign by supplying weapons and money through business dealings. Where are the businesses and countries honorable enough to say, “NO MORE BLOOD MONEY”? Even Egypt is guilty by paying Israel billions for natural gas. It's time to cut Israel off!
It’s staggering how clearly this report exposes the global machinery behind Gaza’s destruction. Poland’s TNT, U.S. manufacturing, and Israel’s deployment form a supply chain that has turned an already besieged population into the testing ground for some of the most powerful conventional explosives on earth. When a former Nazi weapons site is repurposed—80 years later—to supply the explosives used to level hospitals, schools, and entire neighborhoods in Gaza, the moral collapse is impossible to ignore.
No government involved can plead ignorance. These contracts, renewed even amid unprecedented civilian death, show intentional continuity. If the international system means anything at all, then supplying the key ingredient for weapons that have already obliterated most of Gaza should raise the loudest possible alarm about complicity. Ending this supply chain isn’t just a policy choice—it’s the bare minimum to prevent further atrocities.
again, i agree with you, george. moral collapse is blatantly exposed here and, imho, it dates back to the days of slavery, if not further. time and again, shakespeare comes to mind: "though this be madness yet there is method in 't". [today, there's method in TNT.]
the machinery at full throttle, yet - not 'never' - again! ... while i fail to grasp that humans can be cruel, indifferent, greedy to the point of being willing to give orders to mass kill others.
my government cares not about my opinion re. its constant arms deliveries to israel, "our eternal friend!" [while russia must be our "eternal foe!"], and is far from ready to interrupt that supply chain. in italy and other EU countries at least, people have the courage to interrupt shipments and to go on strike. that movement, in my country, slowly gains momentum. here's hoping that grassroots resistance can put spokes into all the machinery's wheels before it is all too late!
and while they're busy killing people overseas, not a month goes by at home w./o. unexploded bombs from WW II being dug up to be defused ... and re-used in new forms.
My one regret in life is not staying in Europe when I was younger. Now, with age, the chance feels gone—and if I had the means, I’d return in an instant. The United States is unraveling quickly, yet most people remain unaware. Even though global economies are struggling, many industrialized nations still manage to provide their citizens with healthcare and the basic foundations of a decent life.
I deeply value the depth of your reflection. It’s chilling how history’s patterns of cruelty and indifference keep resurfacing, only in new disguises. Your point about TNT as a “method in madness” struck me hard. I share your frustration with governments that prioritize strategic alliances over human lives, and I find hope in the grassroots movements across Europe that resist that machinery.
It makes me wonder: if more of us can find ways to slow or disrupt these cycles, perhaps there’s still a chance to steer them toward accountability before history’s darkest lessons repeat themselves. Your connection to the unexploded bombs of WWII is powerful—it reminds us that the past isn’t just behind us; it’s embedded in the present, waiting to resurface unless we confront it responsibly.
i'd be happy to see cycles steered towards accountability! and we should always hope they will, maybe not in our lifetime, but one day, sooner rather than later. there are so many people to be held accountable for so many things ... it will take ages to get to them all.
as to your decision to move back to the US when you were younger: isn't some history being made there now? i don't want to seem naive but hasn't z. mamdani made some people shake awake at the last second and come to what's LEFT of their senses?
[allow me to mention that i don't mean to 'abuse' the space under this article on TNT production for subjects that don't directly belong here - even though some say that everything is connected to everything else.]
I first began to understand the layered histories of Palestine—and the persecution Palestinians endured—even before the state of Israel was formally declared. In the early seventies, while living in Frankfurt, West Germany, I met a former Israeli soldier who had renounced his citizenship. He spoke openly about what he had witnessed: the killing of Palestinians carried out during his service.
That testimony marked me deeply. For the rest of my life, I’ve listened to Americans defend Israel without hesitation, often with little knowledge of the realities on the ground. Their certainty stood in stark contrast to the firsthand account I had heard.
I hear you—accountability cannot remain a distant hope. The list of those responsible is long, but the longer justice is delayed, the more urgent it becomes to demand real consequences now, not in some imagined future.
As for “history being made” in the U.S., yes—Mamdani and others have shaken people awake. But moments of clarity are not enough without structural change to follow them. Awareness is only the first step; what matters is whether it leads to action, protection of rights, and a genuine break from the cycles of impunity we’re confronting.
And no worries about going off-topic—when the machinery of violence and lack of accountability runs through so many issues, the threads inevitably connect. The common denominator is the demand for responsibility, and the refusal to let any of this slide back into silence.
frankfurt, west germany, of all places? SUCH a coincidence! and your encounter with the principled [is that the term?] israeli who renounced his citizenship - another one to have marked you for life, if i may say|write so. listening to zohran mamdani, i want to be convinced that he is serious - and finds enough 'comrades in arms' - to make the billionaire class "play by the same rules as the rest of us".
Yes, changes may be coming — I’m sure some will. What I’m less certain of is whether I’ll still be around to see them. That thought carries its own weight, but it also sharpens the urgency: if there’s a chance to push for accountability and fairness now, it shouldn’t be left to some distant future
I'm amazed that after the experience of World War II the Polish people are willing to facilitate another genocide in this way. I suppose it is yet another illustration of "profits uber alles."
Is it the Polish people or the “uninformed Polish people” letting their government run amuck like even here in the U.S.
I have to believe (or else I’ll go insane) that the pendulum is swinging back and the young will save us from our blindness.
thanks for this report.
This is part of the globalization-driven moral collapse, and one that has been going on for years. In Norway we have a significant partly state-owned "defense" industry, and rules that govern who "we" can sell to. That's good. But then we start playing with words. In the debate, it is argued that the equipment is not manufactured in Norway, but by a subsidiary in, for example, the USA, where American rules apply.
Great Work! Thanks.
We need to spend the money on climate change ,that we do on defense industry
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME
Constant exposure to Dropsite’s crisis-saturated style eventually pushes readers into emotional shutdown: the nervous system stays in continuous hyperarousal until it hits allostatic overload, and the brain protects itself by dampening affect. The result is a blend of affective blunting, cognitive saturation, and learned helplessness — everything feels urgent until nothing does. This is how nonstop catastrophe-frame content turns committed activists into numb doomscrollers who can no longer distinguish signal from noise.
The love of money (power?) is the root of all evil.
Thanks DropSite for your reporting!
Seeing elsewhere finally about Pakistani President (Prime Minister?) Imran Khan being jailed for not going along with the Israel propaganda - like you reported months ago.
Europe
Thank you for this reporting.