H. Dumpty Biosphere

Because land is the source of all wealth, and wealth is the force multiplier that empowers a tiny minority to subjugate everyone else.

Today, we lost our cousin, Dina. She was martyred while returning from the educational center she led in western Gaza after a strike hit near her vehicle. She had spent her day teaching children, dedicated to bringing them knowledge and hope amid unimaginable circumstances. She left home to educate young minds and returned to her father as a martyr. When will this end?

In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away. Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent.

A stunned Jimmy Dore asks Prof. Marandi to explain why Lebanese leaders are seemingly colluding with Israel against their own people during wartime? US comedian & political commentator Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) recently asked Iranian Professor Muhammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) to explain why the current Lebanese government was seemingly colluding with Israel against its own people'? Transcript (below): - Jimmy Dore: Um, why would Lebanon be…why would the government of Lebanon...so it's almost like they're, they're in collusion with the people attacking them? Is that, is that what I'm...is that what I'm hearing you say? - Prof. Marandi: Yes. That's exactly what they’re doing… - Jimmy Dore: I don't understand ...I... can you explain that? Why would they, why would they be in collusion with people attacking their own country? I don't understand this. - Prof. Marandi: Well, there's a lot of that going on in our region because almost all of the countries in our region are in the US camp, and they are mostly proxies of the United States. Some may have a bit more independence, like in Türkiye, some less independence, but they're all in the American camp. And the Americans, and with the help of Saudi Arabia and others, installed the current president and the prime minister, and they've been carrying out peace negotiations with the Israeli regime, which is against the constitution of the country, and which is a huge concession to the regime as it's killing people in southern Lebanon. And, they're basically obedient to the United States. They were put in place, put in power by the Americans, and they will pursue American policies. And so Western NGOs in Lebanon, which have a lot of funding, they promote, and the Western embassies, they promote these positions... and the same is true with those who are funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the others in the Persian Gulf, these despots that are in the American camp. They're all against the people who support the resistance. So they're preventing aid from getting in, they're preventing (displace Lebanese citizens) from moving to different parts of Lebanon as refugees...and they're preventing us from sending aid. Why? Because they want to crush the resistance. They want to humiliate them. They want to bring them to their knees because that's what empire wants. That's what the empire demands. - Jimmy Dore: Wow. Um, so it's, it's… - Prof. Marandi: I mean, Jimmy, let's just go back to Yemen. Remember when the Saudis and the Emiratis waged that genocidal war in Yemen? - Jimmy Dore: Yes… - Prof. Marandi: What they were doing to Yemen is not all that different to what was going on in Gaza and in Lebanon. All these regimes in our region were supporting this. They all supported the Saudis and Emiratis. The West were giving—they sent advisors. They were giving weapons, ammunition, so that the Saudis could wipe them out. I remember a former US official—someone who became critical—he said that he was actually on the ship in the Red Sea, an American naval ship, and they stopped a boat that was taking medicine, (that was) smuggling medicine into Yemen, and they went and dumped all that medicine into the sea. That was during the genocidal war against Yemen. All these countries were supporting the Saudis and the Emiratis, including Qatar and Türkiye. But later on, Qatar and Türkiye split from the Saudis when the Saudis and Emiratis imposed that siege on Qatar. So this is not new. None of these countries helped the people of Gaza. None of them gave a single bullet to the people of Gaza to defend themselves. Türkiye…(and) the regime in Azerbaijan, (which) sells cheap oil Israel. Türkiye, under Erdogan, transports that oil to Israel. Even now, when there's global shortage, they are sending their oil (to Israel). Sisi (and) the Egyptian government, (they) buy gas from the Israeli regime. The Jordanian government does trade and collaborates with intelligence. Syria, a huge part of their country is now occupied. They won't lift a finger to end the occupation, and they're actually collaborating against the resistance in Lebanon. And in the Persian Gulf, we saw how they assisted the United States in invading Iran. They are part of the aggression against the country. So, you know, the empire is on the decline, but its power has always been very quite immense. - Jimmy Dore: so, I mean, I'm sure you've heard people from Naftali Bennett to, you know, everybody's saying that the next war for Israel and the Greater Israel project is going to be with Türkiye. And so isn't Türkiye aware of this? Why, why would they still be… - Prof. Marandi: You know, Jimmy, there are many questions in this world that I'd love to have the real answers to. I have my own views, but, you know—Tucker Carlson, you saw his interview with the US ambassador (to Israel)— - Jimmy Dore: Yes ... to Israel. - Prof. Marandi: And in that interview, the ambassador said if the Israelis take the entire region, that's fine. That includes parts of Türkiye, that includes all of Syria, that includes Lebanon, that includes Jordan, that includes part of Iraq, that includes major parts of Saudi Arabia, that includes parts of Egypt. What did these governments do? What did they say? Nothing. Nothing. They just wrote a, a joint communique saying this, you know, they condemn this. That's it?! That is the real policy of the United States. That is the policy of European governments, the unofficial policy, Greater Israel, and that's why they're allowing for the slaughter in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. I mean, European diplomats just today, they've been tweeting about—(I mean) European diplomats in Israel—they have been tweeting about participating, I think, in the, uh, pride, what's it called? - Jimmy Dore: Pride parade. The gay pride… - Prof. Marandi: Yeah, the gay pride parade. But they don't tweet about Gaza. They don't tweet about ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. You know? So this is the world that we live in…

@tom_bike An Israeli weapon storage warehouse was possibly the target of Iranian missiles, inside the Ramat David air base.

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Israeli media reveals that in late February Iran hit Israel's secret geospatial intelligence Unit 9900 building "hidden inside a residential area." In other words Israel deliberately uses human shields to protect military assets

These monsters are doing it ON PURPOSE. They don’t want injured Palestinians to heal,that’s why Kamal Adwan Hospital keeps getting bombed again and again since day one of genocide. These are war crimes. But international law doesn’t apply when lsraeI does it, huh?

Muhammad was just a child . A child, like any other in the world was just swimming. He’s gone Forever now, Israel shot him in the head. To them, Palestinian children simply existing is a “THREAT.” Israel and their Western arms suppliers call it “self-defense.”

They just can’t stop, can they? These warmongers need bloodshed like oxygen, all their evil is being rained down on Lebanon. Israel is threatening to bomb Beirut and ordered evacuations in Tyre. They’ll do ANYTHING to shatter the ceasefire and drag Iran back into war. Last night’s attack on Beirut? A test by Netanyahu and Trump to see if Iran would bite.

Many activists are strategically focusing on ending local support for Israel. @AliAbunimah talks about the successful campaign by the Michigan Divest coalition which ended the state retirement system's $10 million investment in Israel Bonds electronicintifada.net/content/how-ac…

Michigan activists win BDS campaign targeting Israel bonds

Trump can’t say the quiet part? He calls Barak Ravid, and Axios publishes instantly. Good cop/bad cop theater at its finest. He talks tough, then bows to Netanyahu because the Jewish lobbies pull his strings.

World Cup horror stories with US police and immigration are already piling up.

Eight-year-old Jad Suleiman never made it to school. An Israeli regime strike took his life as he walked through the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Meanwhile, Erdogan and Aliyev continue to provide Netanyahu the crude oil necessary to continue the genocide.

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A poisoned rat doesn't die fast. It goes slowly and painfully. It clumsily wanders out in the open for a day or two, which makes it the easiest meal around for the owl, the hawk, the fox, or the snake that was already hunting your rodents for free. They eat the dying rat and swallow the poison with it. Then it builds up in them. The numbers are grim. At one Massachusetts wildlife clinic, 100% of the red-tailed hawks tested carried anticoagulant rat poison in their bodies. In California, testing found it in 69% of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes. These second-generation poisons linger in tissue and pass from one animal to the next, killing by slow internal bleeding. So you poison the rats, and you poison the exact predators that keep rats in check. The yard ends up with more rodents, not fewer. Skip the bait. Seal the gaps where they get in, cut off their food, and use snap traps if you need them, indoors and away from kids and pets. Then let the hawks and foxes handle the rest.

Guy in a synagogue wearing a kippah, indignantly asserting the right to a Jewish majority and your ignorance of complexity: Why Are You Obsessed?!

This demonstrates, again, how much better IRI intelligence is vs what US/Israel expected, expectations based on how easily Iran had been penetrated up to 2026. Haven’t seen much written on the surprising success of IRI intelligence, just a lot of hysterical mass arrests in GCC.

Last night zionist media announced the closure of Gaza's border crossings and the halted entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip in the midst of escalating attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and worsening conditions.

Today's accelerating global warming is the fastest in Earth's history. The rate of change is too much for large mammals (60% already face extinction due to habitat & wildlife destruction and pollution). The cause? Capitalists' domination of nature (scientific consensus). Rethink.