Another factor that is creating a tectonic geopolitical shift worldwide is the unstoppable grassroot factor of massive street protests that by now approximate the anti-Vietnam war resistance movement. Not even a budding backlash can equal the street tsunamis.

And as Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra reported on People’s Dispatch, the synch Oct. 27 timeline between the U.N. General Assembly adopting a toothless resolution for a sustainable humanitarian truce — with so many cowardly abstentions — and in real time just down the street the takeover of Grand Central Station by thousands from Jewish Voice for Peace is truly indicative of people’s power.

As Angela Davis said Oct. 27: “Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world.”

Throughout the world, there are daily marches, rallies, sit-ins, direct actions, walkouts, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) actions and the shutting down of arms factories: Globally the trade union movement is becoming a cornerstone of this grassroot upsurge. (https://onion.tube/watch?v=dv-Ks0vi9oE)

In some Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, U.S. brands like Starbucks, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are being boycotted. Calls to revive the BDS movement are resonating in Europe and the U.S.