#ShireenAbuAkleh | Abdulisms

Allow me to reintroduce myself

Be a propagandist

Streets of Havana right now. Full blackout across the entire island. Hospitals, nursing homes, people's lives....all in total darkness. For US imperialism.

This is the first time this page has used “Palestinians killed” in a tweet. The first time.

عجيب أننا نرى كل تلك الحدود بيننا، بينما يرانا العدو أرضا واحدة!

Tucker Carlson sucks. He’s not on “my side”. But he is getting a lot of centre left people to listen simply bc he can say basic stuff w/o retaliation. He wasn’t sanctioned like Albanese, suspended like Khan, dropped like Barrera, cancelled like Glazer or assaulted like Ballal

AI is an anti-immigrant scheme

The fact the Middle East has to pay an entire century of instability and intermittent war because the Europeans decided to genocide their Jewish population is insane.

Key here in this part of the interview is not just how Carlson pushes back against the propaganda of “Israel has the right to exist” but that we clearly get his worldview and thus political project: to continue to push the supremacy of “western civilization” — Israel is the aberration not the landing point, not even the symptom. He says here that “eastern civilization” believes in collective punishment — as though collective punishment of the global south and the global working class doesn’t underpin the history of western civilization of over the last few hundred years. Nevertheless, the dam is broken.

FYI - Israel has used depleted uranium in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria

Block the straight of Hormuz for a week and the world goes mad but block the Rafah crossing for years, preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and nobody bats an eye. It’s not hard to see that this world values markets, profit and capitalism over human lives.

Steve Sweeney is Irish.

Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality. He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.

Tomorrow we leave for Cuba, via Panama, bringing hundred of kilos of vital medicines to the island. An island being cruelly strangled by the USA for over 60 years, despite total international calls to stop. An embargo that's now killing Cubans. Support Cuba - the USA is evil.

So let me get this straight: Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is ,unfair’ but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country is what? Fair?

العالم كله واقف بيتفرج على لبنان وهي بتتحول لغزة لله الأمر والله لله الأمر

"لا تُجمِّلوا الألم، ولا تُجمِّلوا الاحتلال، ولا تُجمِّلوا المعاناة."

the app is not the territory

Fanon famously wrote, "Every spectator is a coward or a traitor," and few things are as cowardly as those who wield cultural capital and do nothing with it. Art, whether it be music, movies, poetry, or paintings, has a bidirectional relationship with reality. It both reflects and shapes the material world. It can maintain systems or attempt to transform them. The question in this critical hour is what do we make of art that has castrated itself and sold its teeth for comfort? Citing Nina Simone, I asked Mumia for his thoughts on the production and consumption of art that soley offers escapism as the solution. He agreed with Fanon: if your art is not a weapon, you have failed. We are flanked by failure, drowning in it, and we beg for more. Full conversation: youtube.com/hate5six

The worst of us are trying to destroy the best of us.

This is why Israel made the UK government get rid of jury trials