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Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis·
Α message from @ofercass: The Al-Bustan neighborhood is being erased… and where is the world? In a severe and unprecedented escalation, the Jerusalem municipality demolished 47 homes in the Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, representing approximately 50% of the neighborhood’s houses. This move reflects a clear acceleration in the implementation of a policy of forced displacement and demographic reshaping of the city. It is worth noting that the majority of the demolitions were carried out after October 7th, exploiting the state of war and emergency, and the diversion of the international community’s attention toward the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. This situation created an environment of reduced accountability and limited oversight, alongside the neutralization of many humanitarian institutions operating on the ground. This is not merely a municipal action, but part of a systematic strategy aimed at pushing out the indigenous residents, using formal legal cover, while hundreds of families are left without shelter and without any real solutions. A final call: To whatever remains of international organizations, European bodies, and diplomatic missions — silence is not neutrality, but active complicity. What is required now is a move beyond statements of concern toward concrete action: political pressure, legal accountability, and the imposition of costs on this policy. The Al-Bustan neighborhood is being demolished before the eyes of the world… Is there anyone left who can stop it?
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Steve Hall@ProfHall1955

Returning public investment to the foreground would be a restoration of our origins in economic history. The first loans returning tightly regulated interest were made by the palaces and temples around 3000 BC, funding merchants on risky expeditions and farmers between harvests. This precipitated the first minting of 'money' with standardised weights and values for trade and credit. Bad debts placed debtors in 'debt slavery', but this was relieved regularly by universal debt cancellations, which became known as the 'jubilee', when individuals were freed and all seized property returned, which prevented elite monopolisation of labour and land. The practice was perverted by the rise of private lenders around 2400 BC, when corrupt officials teamed up with wealthy merchants to indulge in deliberate irresponsible 'back door' lending with higher interest rates, threats of violence and seizure of property. With corruption and political lobbying, from around 1600 BC these early private usurers, finding ways of bypassing laws prohibiting excessive interest, established themselves as powerful landowning oligarchs and elite politicians. Eventually, around the turn of the millennium, beginning with Rabbi Hillel of Judea and the oligarchs of Greece and Rome, the debt jubilee was abandoned altogether. The oligarchs accumulated ever more property and indebted ever more productive people until the Ancient world collapsed under the weight of unpayable debt, consumer decadence and the growing pointlessness of producing anything. There's nothing natural, ethical, efficient or timeless about private lenders - loan sharks, banks, corporations, private equity, bondholders etc. - accumulating spare capital and demanding interest on loans. It was the product of centuries of violent acquisition and politico-legal machinations. Public investment would be a return to our more ethical origins enhanced by democratic political systems. Corruption? Of course - we would need to deal with it quite harshly.

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@DumaGqubule
@DumaGqubule@DumaGqubule·
The government says we are turning the corner but the IMF has forecast GDP growth of 1% for 2026. The annual average for the past 17 years is 1.1%. At what point will the ANC-DA coalition realise that the neoliberal structural reforms can never deliver a higher GDP growth rate?
IMF@IMFNews

IMF Growth Forecast 2026: 🇺🇸 US: 2.3% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.8% 🇫🇷 France: 0.9% 🇮🇹 Italy: 0.5% 🇪🇸 Spain: 2.1% 🇬🇧 UK: 0.8% 🇯🇵 Japan:0.7% 🇨🇦 Canada: 1.5% 🇨🇳 China: 4.4% 🇮🇳 India: 6.5% 🇷🇺 Russia: 1.1% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1.9% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.6% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 3.1% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.1% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 1.0% imf.org/en/publication…

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Anti-zionist Movement
Anti-zionist Movement@azm_org_uk·
AZM condemns the recent arrest of Dr Ranjeet Brar @Rango1917 by the Metropolitan Police. A vascular surgeon. An anti-war activist. A campaigner against NHS privatisation and the genocide in Gaza. His alleged crime? — Stating that ‘Israel’ must be replaced with Palestine — Stating that ‘Israel’ has no right to exist Arrested under Section 18 of the Public Order Act for ‘inciting racial hatred’. The police attempted to remove him from his home while he cared for his children. His youngest is 6 years old. The Zionist lobby and British state are working together to exterminate free speech in Britain. Solidarity with Dr Brar. youtu.be/GSg60Pfl09o?si…
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Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal·
Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system We are reporting this because British media can not
The Grayzone@TheGrayzoneNews

A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun. The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this. The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil. Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide. Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever's left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.

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بن مرمريلي בן מרמרלי Ben Marmarelli
April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer. What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him.  These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk. He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know. But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other. For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something. This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored. And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.
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Accountable
Accountable@Accountable2019·
Evolución de impuestos en USA. A la derecha, los millonarios. Es una guerra de clases y los ricos están arrasando toda vida.
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Buddy Wells
Buddy Wells@BuddyWells1·
For decades, SAn finance ministers and reserve bank governors have enforced policies that benefit US producers and consumers at the expense of SAn producers and consumers. Perhaps it’s time they stopped doing that? SA monetary and fiscal policy thus far has been to keep costs for producers unnecessarily high so that they can’t compete with foreign producers, and to reduce the number of SAn consumers who can compete with foreign consumers when bidding for products available on the market.
eNCA@eNCA

South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been shut out from attending the G20 finance summit in Washington. The United States reportedly refused to accredit him and other top officials, including Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago. enca.com/business-top-s…

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Amber
Amber@Maddi0578PG·
The tragic tales of the "6,000,000 jews" were making headlines long before WW2!! Over and over again!!
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Dédáyọ̀ Roots
Dédáyọ̀ Roots@DedayoRoots·
In 1879, a British/Scottish medical student named Robert Felkin watched an African healer in Uganda perform a caesarean section. Clean incision. Banana wine as anaesthetic and antiseptic. Bleeding cauterised with hot iron. Wound closed with iron pins and herbal root paste. Mother recovered fully. Baby survived. Felkin noted in his journal that the technique was SO REFINED, it was clearly standard practice, performed routinely long before any European arrived. At that same moment, hospitals in London and Edinburgh were still debating whether caesarean sections could ever be justified on a living woman. European surgeons were operating in street clothes, rarely washing their hands, and losing most patients to post-operative infection. The Africans had already solved anaesthesia, anti sepsis, haemostasis, and wound care. Felkin went home and presented his findings to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1884. The knife used in that surgery still exists. It is now housed in the Science Museum in London. A silent artifact of a surgical tradition they called primitive. They didn't discover our medicine. They witnessed it, wrote it down and forgot to mention where it came from.
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Dédáyọ̀ Roots@DedayoRoots

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Sizwe SikaMusi
Sizwe SikaMusi@SizweLo·
While South Africa is posturing at the International Court of Justice, it is simultaneously enabling genocide in Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan. SA has Africa’s largest and most advanced weapons industry and is among the world’s top 20 arms exporters and exported $590 million in weapons in 2025, almost three times $210 million from the previous year. The biggest orders came from Germany, which uses South African weapons to refill its stockpiles after supplying Israel and Ukraine, meaning SA exports are effectively contributing to enabling Israel’s suppliers to continue arming Israel. Another big buyer is the UAE, which forwards munitions to the RSF in Sudan. This is even though the RSF has been accused of crimes against humanity, including genocide of non-Arabs in Sudan, by the ICC, Human Rights Watch, Genocide Watch, and the US government.
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Afshin Rattansi
Afshin Rattansi@afshinrattansi·
Noam Chomsky explains why the US🇺🇸 government, Israel, and the media never acknowledge Israel’s nukes: If the US were to recognise Israel as a state with nuclear weapons, US aid to Israel would be ILLEGAL since they were developed outside of international legal frameworks. The absurd assumption behind the US’ negotiating position is that Iran would somehow just willingly give up its nuclear program and missile program… Meaning it would have no deterrent against an Israel that is armed with nuclear weapons, that launched two wars against it in a single year. While the US demands Iran has no deterrent, according to Washington, Israel is allowed to keep its nuclear Sword of Damocles hanging over Iran and the entire region.
Going Underground@GUnderground_TV

☢️Former Israeli Acting President: ‘Israel should STOP DENYING it has nuclear weapons. It’s SO STUPID… The only way to calm down this threat in the region is to have a Middle East where no country has nuclear weapons. NEITHER ISRAEL, NOR IRAN.’ -Former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and former Acting President of Israel @Avrumburg on the latest episode of Going Underground Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

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sarah
sarah@sahouraxo·
Israel’s bulldozers are wiping out civilian homes, tourist sites, and hotels in Naqoura, South Lebanon. Not military targets. South Lebanon is being erased — like Gaza before it. This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.
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David Hundeyin
David Hundeyin@DavidHundeyin·
The World Bank has spent 60 years telling Africa to stay away from formulating industrial policy, and to export crude oil and bananas instead. Now it has done an about-face and admitted that it was full of shit all along. @barrahart for @Spearhead_Af
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