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Spanish journalist Marta Maroto shares an update from As-Saksakiyah, in Lebanon’s Sidon district in the south, where an Israeli strike killed 9 members of the same family yesterday. Four different generations of family members erased. Intense attacks continued across southern Lebanon over the weekend. 51 people were killed on Saturday, the Health Ministry said, and Israel “directly targeted two points of the Health Authority in Qalawiya and Tibnin, Bint Jbeil district, in two raids,” killing two paramedics on Sunday. PM Nawaf Salam said Bint Jbeil, the town in southern Lebanon which Israeli forces have laid siege to, “has become a version of Gaza,” according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

Israel is systematically wiping out bridge after bridge in South Lebanon. Not military sites. Lifelines. No escape for civilians. No access for ambulances. No food. No medicine. No way out. What you’re witnessing is deliberate isolation of civilian populations. Terrorism.

Effin’ Zionists!

🔹NBC: We saw people living in severe poverty in Havana. Is it time to take responsibility and change the Cuban system? Why not follow China or Vietnam which have embraced one-party rule while also embracing market economies? 🇨🇺 President Díaz-Canel: We study their models closely. But they were under sanctions for about a decade. Cuba has faced more than 60 years of blockade. That is the difference. They were able to develop once restrictions eased. Cuba has not had that opportunity. We are an island 90 miles from the United States, under constant pressure. When China and Vietnam began their development, they started from less favorable conditions than Cuba has today. So the real question is: lift the blockade and see what Cuba can do. If we have achieved this much under pressure, what could we achieve without it? If Cuba is truly weak, as some claim, then why has the United States spent decades trying to isolate and undermine it? Why not let it fail on its own? The answer is clear.

BREAKING: Israel just killed two of the most prominent Lebanese journalists in Jezzin, South Lebanon. Fatima Ftouni Ali Shoeib They stayed on the front lines since day one, despite the danger, so the world could see the truth.

Israelis are leveling entire apartment buildings with all their inhabitants inside in Lebanon, just like they did in Gaza, just like they did throughout Palestine and throughout Beirut in the 80s. They do this in the name of Jewishness and in the name of an entire society, 93% of whom support this barbarism. That's the reality, but so many of you think Palestinians and Lebanese (or Iraqis or Iranians or Libyans) should make sure we don't say anything that could hurt the feelings of the demons doing this. Israel (and before that abomination, zionism) singularly has brought unimaginable darkness into the world on the whole, but especially into our lives, for my entire life. They must be stopped and the only way that can happen is for people to name who and what they are—a deeply pathological, unimaginably cruel, Jewish supremacist, demonic, expansionist colonial project. enough!

Cannot believe this!

I haven’t seen a single critique say they didn’t like the movie because the characters were “bad people.” But I have read lengthy criticisms, many by Black women, that offer substantive political, racial, and narrative analysis. Interesting what people are choosing to read and engage with.

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

BREAKING: Israel just bombed the Lebanese National Public University in Beirut. They murdered the Director of the Faculty of Science, Dr. Hussein Bazzi, and Dr. Murtada Srour. They are not just killing people — they are erasing knowledge and attacking the future of Lebanon.

You voted to give Trump $900B for the war on Iran, @RepAdamSmith. You essentially gave Trump a blank check for this war. Targets for bombing in Iran are being identified by Palantir. You are the FOURTH-HIGHEST recipient of money from Palantir, having already taken over $100K.

The Seattle Times is reporting that the city's new mayor, Democrat Katie Wilson, a self-described democratic socialist, drew "sustained applause" from business executives when she said that Seattle’s Amazon Tax puts them at a "disadvantage." Wilson also assured the business executives that she "will be doing some significant reprioritization, otherwise known as cuts.” This is blatant neoliberalism from a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist." This is yet another reminder that electing more "progressive" Democrats is simply not the way forward for working people. Seattle's Amazon Tax was won by my revolutionary socialist City Council office in 2020. We won it not by me making backroom deals with business, but by us building a fighting movement against both big business and the Democratic Party. The Amazon Tax raises hundreds of millions of dollars annually by taxing the city's wealthiest corporations to fund affordable housing. We need a new party for the working class, led by those who have a track record of fighting against the wealthy and the Democratic and Republican parties that represent them. Voting for more "progressive" Democrats is simply not the way to end imperialist wars and genocide or to win taxes on the rich to fund the needs of working and poor people. We need independent fighters who are willing to go to war against the elite, as I did for ten years with my Seattle City Council office. This is why I'm running for Congress.

Iranian monarchists say girl's school bombing was "worth it," call for American ground invasion of Iran @KeiPritsker attended the regime change rally in LA where protestors lavished praise on Trump and Netanyahu and demanded boots on the ground

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My opponent, @RepAdamSmith, sent out an email titled "I do not support this war." But Smith was one of the 115 House Dems (with 27 Senate Dems) who voted for $900.6 B war spending in Dec & gave Trump $8 B more for wars than even Trump asked for. The war on Iran is bipartisan.

"So democracy, to the extent that it starts to threaten the oligarchy, they have all these tools [to stop it]: They could just straight up murder people or they can take them out like they did with Nixon. Or hamstring them like Reagan & Bush experienced. They get Monica Lewinsky, which is connected to this Epstein type phenomenon -- whether she literally was or not, it seems pretty suspicious--and so democracy is a farce, and so is the rule of law." @Aaron_Good_ VIDEO PREMIERE‼️youtube.com/watch?v=Cfj05U…

@_iamblakeley @zei_squirrel It is SAD but she has a gun pointed to her face.

@zei_squirrel I thought she was and the whole government in Venezuela was basically still the same just minus Maduro and that she was an Maduro loyalist. Wow, what a sellout hack.

the CIA-puppet regime in Venezuela led by grotesque corrupt scumbag Delcy Rodríguez and her brother played a key role in preparing the murderous genocidal war on Iran by ensuring her puppet regime ups oil supplies to the Epstein empire to absorb the shock of Hormuz being closed

Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran. This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil. Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel. Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is. The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close. Not Iran. Not anybody. Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States. Whenever I say this I get US empire apologists going “We’re only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so!” But that’s false. The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil. Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming. Another objection I’ll encounter when I make these observations is “Well, I’d rather live in the US than Iran!” And it says so much about the western worldview that people think this is an argument. Sure it’s probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the US has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government. But it’s so revealing that westerners see someone saying Iran is better than the United States and think it’s a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible US warmongering is in their worldview. Washington’s acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive behavior in their eyes, because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas. So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual. The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn’t make it any less murderous and tyrannical, it just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places. Their lives don’t matter any less than American lives, and only a warped, American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise. The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government. It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal. It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians ought to conduct their affairs. It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.

@stephenasmith What a STUPID way to frame the question.

Are global tensions involving Iran driven more by ideology, power, or perception?