Peace within

@TrainingMindful . "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it - Mark Twain. ۔

@abierkhatib @popsknox . He needs a reminder . . . . ۔

New York is not the place to pull this shit..dude.. lol …NY is not Palestine A man tried to seize a New York home using fake ownership papers and told the residents to leave.

. You Zionist out here massacring and expelling indigenous Palestinians (the actual owners of the land of Palestine). Video shows you pulling the 'here's my fake papers' move, cute, at least you're not dropping bombs on 22,000 unarmed innocent Palestinian children today. Small mercies in your expulsion game, huh? NY locals ain't buying it either. From the river to the sea, get better documents. 🇵🇸, 🍉 ۔

@AFRICANDEMOC . • Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. Jean-Paul Sartre ۔

AMERICAN ICE TRAINED BY MOSSAD instantly killed an innocent man

907 days of Genocide. This is Gaza right now.

تهدید به بازگرداندن یک ملت به عصر حجر آیا معنایی جز جنایت گسترده جنگی دارد؟ این سوالی بود که از همتای فنلاندی خود که یک حقوقدان است پرسیدم. تاریخ سرشار از تجربه کسانی است که بابت سکوت در برابر جنایتکاران، تاوان‌های بزرگی پرداخته‌اند.

کارشناسان هوش مصنوعی در آمریکا، رئیس‌جمهور ترامپ را از واقعیت حضور مردم کشورش در تظاهرات «نه به پادشاه» آگاه کنند. مردم آمریکا از «اول اسراییل» عصبانی هستند. آنها خسته‌اند از اینکه پادشاهان اسرائیلی بر دموکراسی آمریکایی حکومت می‌کنند.

حمله و آسیب به بیمارستان‌ها، شرکت‌های دارویی و انستیتو پاستور به عنوان مرکز پژوهش پزشکی در ایران چه پیامی دارد؟ به عنوان یک پزشک متخصص از سازمان بهداشت جهانی، صلیب سرخ، سازمان پزشکان بدون مرز و تمام پزشکان دنیا می‌خواهم در برابر این جنایت آشکار علیه بشریت واکنش نشان دهند.

Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist. History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals.

An Iranian embassy trolling the Trump administration over Pete Hegseth’s purge of the US military mid-war

لیڈر ویژن رکھتا ہے۔ وقت کا آنے سے پہلے ادراک رکھتا ہے۔ دیوار کے پار دیکھنے کی صلاحیت رکھتا ہے۔ بحران میں اوسان بحال رکھتا ہے۔ پریشر میں فرنٹ سے لیڈ کرتا ہے۔ مسلط کردہ لوگ ہڑبونگ میں الٹے سیدھے فیصلے کرتےہیں۔

Absolute insanity. Lindsey Graham casually celebrates the deaths of US soldiers as a "noble cause" just to push for more bombing in Iran. Former CIA officer Joe Kent absolutely destroys him, calling it a cheap, insulting talking point from a man who loves endless war.

At just nine years old, Karim Al-Haj Hussein crawled from the rubble to survive an Israeli strike on his home that killed his parents and family in Baalbek, Lebanon.

The world respects & admires Imran Khan! The current dictators & rulers of Pakistan don’t even come close to the aura and charisma of Imran Khan. They are hurting Pakistan by keeping IK behind bars. The Nation will never forget this pain & their generations will be ridiculed! #خان_کا_قرض_مزاحمت_فرض @kumailn

Stop. We are not in Tel Aviv, lady. An Israeli woman lost her temper after seeing an American man raising the Palestinian flag and attempted to snatch it from him. A police officer intervened and stopped her, saying, "Stop. We are not in Tel Aviv, lady." Video: aljarmaq_news

Hannity and Lindsey Graham are straight up cheerleading war crimes against the civilian population of Iran

Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month, reporting the following: “Key Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, were surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched against U.S. and Israeli targets across the region, including in countries long assumed to be off-limits: Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, a state that had both harbored Iran’s terrorist proxies and served as a conduit for backchannel diplomacy between the U.S. and Hamas. The response shattered the assumption that Tehran would confine itself to performative retaliation. In internal deliberations before the war’s launch, Hegseth had pointed to Iran’s muted reaction to Trump’s past attacks as evidence that calibrated force could impose costs on Tehran without triggering a broader war. Hegseth ‘was caught off guard. There’s no question,’ says a person familiar with his thinking.” It’s so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran’s retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I’ve been paying attention to this issue I’ve been reading experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region. A few examples: A 2006 Oxford Research Group paper titled “Iran: Consequences of a War” warned that Iran has numerous options at its disposal in the event of a US attack, and that the “most significant of these would be any possible retaliatory Iranian action to affect the transport of oil and liquefied natural gas through the Straits of Hormuz,” adding that stopping Iran from doing this “would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, leading to a fear of attack which alone would have a formidable impact on oil markets.” A 2007 Cato Institute paper titled “The Iraq War and Iranian Power” warns that “Iran possesses the largest ballistic-missile inventory in the Persian Gulf — missiles which can reach Israel, Saudi Arabia and US military bases in Iraq,” and that “experts argue Iran could also use the ’oil weapon’: blocking the 34km-wide Strait of Hormuz and conducting submarine and anti-ship missile attacks against ports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf Cooperation Council states.” A 2012 NPR article titled “Can Iran Close The World’s Most Important Oil Route?” features then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledging that Iran absolutely can block the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tehran has “invested in capabilities” which specifically enable them to do so. A paper from the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy and the Center for a New American Security titled “IN DIRE STRAITS? IMPLICATIONS OF US-IRAN TENSIONS FOR THE GLOBAL OIL MARKET” warns of a potential scenario “that includes damage to Gulf oil infrastructure and a temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz.” These weren’t a bunch of keffiyeh-wearing peaceniks making these assessments, they were deeply entrenched swamp monsters entirely loyal to the US empire. They opposed war with Iran not because it would be an evil act of unforgivable mass murder, but because it would be bad for the imperial power structure. Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton recently tweeted that other administration officials had warned the president to dismiss Bolton’s urging to attack Iran because of the easily foreseeable consequences of that war, saying “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare.” I have zero military training or expertise — on military matters I’m just some schmuck with internet access — and yet nothing Iran has done has surprised me. It’s playing out exactly how the experts warned it would play out. There’s no way any literate, thinking person didn’t see this coming; when they say they didn’t, it’s because they’re either lying or amazingly stupid. Trump’s war machine is either made up of liars, morons, lying morons, or (most likely), an eclectic mixture of all three.

It's so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran's retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I've been paying attention to this issue I've been reading reports from experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region. I have zero military training or expertise — on military matters I'm just some schmuck with internet access — and yet nothing Iran has done has surprised me. It's playing out exactly how the experts warned it would play out. There's no way any literate, thinking person didn't see this coming. Trump's war machine is either made up of liars, morons, lying morons, or (most likely), an eclectic mixture of all three.

Imran Khan is easily the greatest of our times. Given the madness and total breakdown of international society and commonsense we have witnessed in the past few years, I'm convinced Imran Khan has a much bigger role to play as a moral authority. There is a reason why the Epstein's of the world hate him. He's worth fighting for because his fight is worth it.