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THIS is the primary way most Canadians connect to the conflict--alongside occasional one-sided reporting from segments of the Iranian diaspora in Vancouver. (The whole idea of Canadian multiculturalism is fake AF.)

🇦🇲🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Armenian kids visited the Iranian Blue Mosque in Yerevan to offer condolences, honor, and lay flowers for the martyred children of the Minab School massacre perpetrated by the Americans. "Wherever America and Israel set foot, war follows."

BREAKING: Another pogrom in the West Bank tonight. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are right now burning down the village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank.

@serafcan That was not my question. Please do not move the goalpost.

@derinsular So you l’ve read “Erdogan is a junior partner in the Epstein Coalition.” and still asking me what is wrong this my criticism of this man? Don’t ask questions for the sake of asking.

Don’t be mistaken—this charlatan is no fringe voice. He is openly platformed in official programs in Iran and given every opportunity to spew his nonsense and attack regional leaders, including President Erdoğan. The real question is: who is pulling the strings?

@serafcan I did "go read" his posts as you suggested, and now I am back. So I ask again: "What exactly is wrong in what he's saying here?"

@derinsular Go read the nonsensical X posts he shared one after another today, and then come back to ask for elaboration.

@Pontifex "The death and pain caused by these wars" Name the perpetrators! "These wars" are not the perpetrators of these atrocities.

I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!

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

INSANE: CCTV footage shows hundreds of Israeli settlers storming the village of Jalud in the West Bank before launching their pogrom, attacking Palestinian homes and setting them on fire in an attempt to burn people alive.

Unbelievable, insane night in the West Bank. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are rampaging across more than 15 villages and towns right now, torching homes, cars, and fields, and attempting to burn people alive. The Israeli army is showing complete failure and total indifference.

I don't want to be one of those people who wastes their time criticizing "hypocrisy" in foreign policy, but holy fucking shit, dude. Jesus Christ. My God. I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran. I don't enjoy holding this position. It goes against every natural human impulse inside me. But Israel, by its nature, has made it the only responsible position to hold. History has clearly established that the world was wrong to give Israel sympathy for October 7. The correct and moral thing to have done would have been for everyone to say "That's what you get for being a murderous apartheid state," and then sanction Israel into the Stone Age until they dismantled their abusive ethnonationalist regime. That would have been the right position for the world to take. And that's how we need to be with Israel going forward. No sympathy. No support. We've got to treat them the same way you'd treat a malignant narcissist who solicits sympathy and then weaponizes it at every opportunity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible. It's just not safe.

Iran has made it clear that there is no going back to the way things were—crippling sanctions and constant threats from US military bases in the Gulf states. Given that political agreements are seen as meaningless and diplomacy as deceptive, Iran has decided that the US must be expelled from the region. The Gulf states cannot survive without access to the Strait of Hormuz; their access may therefore be conditioned on paying taxes as reparations and selling their oil in other currencies to end the petrodollar system that ties the US to the region. This war will prove to have been a historic mistake— as the effort to restore global primacy only intensified its demise. Yet in our local media, the propaganda is still organised around the saviour narrative of “liberating women” and “helping protesters”. This is similar to the absurd narrative of the Ukraine War, where the effort of using Ukrainians to impose a strategic defeat on Russia is sold to the public as NATO "helping" Ukraine defend its sovereignty. If the West wants to maximise its security and end these conflicts on favourable terms, it must break free from the narratives it has created.

Zamanında üşenmeden farklı endeks datalarından hareketle Türkiye'nin demokrasi trendlerini görselleştirirdim: derinsular.com/pdf/akpFH.pdf Bugün geldiğimiz noktada, bu endekslerin bir anlamı kalmadı. Aksine, yanıltıyorlar. (Yepyeni bir çerçeveye ve yeni indikatörlere ihtiyaç var.)

@caitoz Might as well be a left-winger

I used to think it's wrong to massacre civilians and carpet bomb large cities but then a clever and insightful right winger informed me that if I was Iranian I'd be wearing a hijab so now I think it's good.

Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City. #palestine

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@LynAldenContact "and so forth" 🤔

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@BretWeinstein Bret, please read: x.com/muhammadshehad…