David Brookbank

@RedRosa91940184 @dlLambo Unfortunately Audrey your “is” should have been a “was”! Robert was in my opinion the greatest British journalist of his generation. He would have put the madness in the Middle East which we are experiencing today into proper perspective and taken no prisoners!

This is British values - Robert Fisk is a real reporter and he’s spot on here …..

Cuban President Diaz-Canel to NBC: if Cuba is so incapable, so closed-off, so uninnovative -- why has the US spent 60+ years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to crush it? "Why don't they let us fall on our own, if that's what they believe?"

🇲🇽 LÁZARO CÁRDENAS, THE PRESIDENT WHO NATIONALIZED MEXICO'S OIL, ON IRAN'S NATIONALIZATION, SEPTEMBER 5, 1951: "The position of the people of Iran in having carried out the nationalization of oil is just and correct. They acted with the same right with which Mexico did in 1938. England's hostile attitude toward Iran, and the threat of an armed intervention, should be prevented by all countries that love justice and their sovereignty. England places itself outside the democratic cause by threatening a people that vindicates its rights over the subsoil."

@FedeMann @resisres El peligro más grande para México es la campaña incesante de desprecio y desinformación contra a la Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Es una guerra dañina y peligrosa para el pueblo y el país. Es una guerra con sus orígenes dentro y fuera del país. ¡Adelante Mexico lindo y querido!

🇲🇽 CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM: “Did they help the people who lost their homes or businesses? No. They helped the bankers. The big businessmen. And made those private debts of those at the very top, into public debt.”

Around 50,000 U.S. troops are deployed around the Middle East. If they file disability claims at the rate of the short 1990 Gulf War — 37% — this alone would add around $600 billion in costs over their lifetimes.

Pressed for a more accurate count of U.S. personnel killed or injured during Operation Epic Fury, the Office of the Secretary of War provided a new tally that still undercounts American dead or wounded. interc.pt/4tCgEHc

The order is for for post-trial discovery in the case of Roberto Muñoz Guatemala, who was convicted in Dec. of dragging Ross with his car during an attempted arrest in June. It compels prosecutors to fork over personnel records, body-cam footage, statements made by Ross, and numerous other records for potential use by the defense team. theintercept.com/2026/04/09/ren…

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent. interc.pt/4cAwmNf

With automatic Selective Service registration, it would be harder for Americans to dodge a potential military draft. interc.pt/4mmoBOl

Polls show that Democratic Party members are increasingly skeptical of Israel and supportive of Palestinians — a shift that hasn’t been reflected in the party’s official position. interc.pt/3NZastQ

What country can live and develop under the pressure that #Cuba is subjected to? What right does the world’s leading economic power have to commit such abuse against a small developing country?

@alivillegasAUX2 Yo te la doy Es un presidente "comunista" q no es lamebotas del imperio, es dictador es un presidente facho lamebotas de los gringos, es un paladin de la libertad y la democracia, ejemplo, milei

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRO-MURDER OP-EDS IRANIAN PEACE NEGOTIATORS must be told to agree with Trump or be killed, a Washington Post op-ed demanded this week. “Iran's leaders must be made to understand that their lives literally depend on reaching a negotiated settlement to Trump's liking,” the paper said. “If they refuse to do so, they will be killed.” Agree with Trump or die? This is not what normal humans think of as a peace negotiation, but no one can expect rationality from the western elite these days. . OTHER MEDIA'S THE SAME The New York Times is the same. Bret Stephens, whose writing is often found on the front page of that paper, has been slavering for murderous attacks on Iranians instead of diplomacy: "The Case for Bombing Iran" is a typical headline. In fact, it is clear that the argument that murder is fine because Iranians (or Chinese or Russians) are somehow uniquely bad has moved from far-right websites to the liberal mainstream media. “You can find pro-war op-eds in the New York Times and The Atlantic, and Van Jones told CNN that Iran is not a ‘normal country’…” said Nathan J Robinson in Current Affairs. . AL-JAZEERA TOO Even Al-Jazeera, which some people mistake for a news source giving the “other side of the story” (it is actually funded by Qatar, a US military partner) recently ran an op-ed praising the illegal US murders of the members of the Iranian government. That country’s administration "has been decapitated at multiple levels" and the killing of Ali Khamenei "eliminated the apex of the pyramid," it printed approvingly in a 16 March 2026 op-ed by Muhanad Seloom, a former employee of the US State Dept. . USUALLY A WAR “American journalists have a long, ignoble history of being willing conduits for pro-war propaganda,” said Ted Galen Carpenter in an article published by the CATO Institute in March 2022. “Usually, that behavior is in service to a military crusade that Washington has launched or wants to initiate.” All this echoes the truth that Julian Assange has said repeatedly: “Every war has been the result of media lies.” . AT ISSUE IS THE RULE OF LAW The problem is that the leaders of the western world, the US and Israel, have spent decades telling us that the rule of law legitimizes the west’s hegemony over the planet. But that has become nothing more than a bad joke. You either have the rule of law or you don’t – and the west clearly does not. . A PLAIN VIOLATION As Nathan J Robinson said: “Let’s be clear: Iran did not attack the United States. Iran was not planning an attack on the United States. Iran does not even possess missiles that can reach the United States. It was a plain violation of international law, then, for the U.S. to bomb Iran, a sovereign country.” But but but maybe the Iranians were hoping to emulate their trigger-happy neighbors Israel, and quietly build nuclear bombs, I hear critics say. In legal terms, that’s missing the point. “It makes no difference what level they had been enriching uranium at,” Robinson points out. “It doesn’t even make a difference if they were trying to build a nuclear bomb. You can’t attack a country that hasn’t attacked you.” That's actually important.

#EEUU fue derrotado en Vietnam por creer que los pueblos se doblegan por la fuerza. Mujeres que hicieron del río un puente para que los combatientes . Los pueblos no esperan salvarse: se salvan luchando. Irán, como otros pueblos defenderá su independencia.

A woman detained in Israel’s Sde Teiman prison “said she was bound naked to a metal table and repeatedly raped by two masked soldiers over the course of two days. She recalled that she was left shackled, naked and bleeding”