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"What’s happening in Gaza is the shame of the century.”

Why does much of the British left continue to accept the neoliberal myth that so-called "taxpayers' money" pays for govt spending. It's a trap that sustains the inequitable economic status-quo. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-nee…

Six days ago, there was screaming at the clinic door. In places where suffering is constant, the human ear learns to distinguish between ordinary fear and the sound of life slipping away. This was the second kind. A young man was carried inside. He was twenty-two years old. His body was bleeding, but what struck me most was not the wound itself, but the fragile fact that he was still alive when he arrived. In war, survival is rarely a matter of strength. It is often a matter of timing. We gave him oxygen. We started fluids. We tried to reduce his pain. These actions were medically small, yet morally immense, because in that moment they represented a refusal to accept death as inevitable. A bullet had crossed his abdomen while he sat at the entrance of his tent. He had not been fighting. He had not been running. He had simply been existing. I was reminded again that human life can be reduced, in an instant, to something painfully simple: the distance between a wound and a helping hand. He was transferred to the hospital. Surgeons repaired the damage. He survived. But survival here is not the opposite of danger. It is only a pause within it. Today he returned with his father to say thank you. Gratitude, in places of destruction, carries a different weight. It is not politeness. It is recognition that life continued when it might not have. After they left, I found myself thinking not about the one who survived, but about the invisible number of those who never reached a door that could open. In the camps, the difference between life and death is measured not in the severity of wounds, but in minutes, roads, and chance. And yet, even here, meaning insists on existing. This clinic is small. It cannot stop the war. It cannot prevent bullets from being fired. But it allows something essential to survive: the human decision to care for another person. Here, I learned that everything can be taken from a person except one thing, the freedom to choose one’s response to suffering. Here, that freedom takes the form of a bandage, a needle, a door that opens when someone is carried in. #WoundedGaza

Iranian football fan ang nurse in Doha with an important message about western crimes against humanity.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

EU leaders say they are "watching the situation". They cannot even bring themselves to condemn strikes on a sovereign nation in flagrant violation of international law.  Absolutely craven and pathetic.

These ghouls are going to try to destroy Cuba next. Pure gangsterism.

The Quiet Wealth Transfer. From Wages to Debt. For decades, the story you were sold was simple: "Work hard, get educated, and you’ll be fine." But behind the scenes, the engine of the economy was swapped out. We stopped powering growth with wages and started powering it with private debt. The real macro bomb was never public debt - it was private debt. Before the 2008 crisis, U.S. government debt was about 60% of GDP. But private debt had surged up to 170% of GDP. And that trend didn't stop. Today, private debt remains elevated at around 145% of GDP. Higher than any pre-2000 level. Every major modern crisis - the Great Depression, 2008 - was preceded not by government deficits, but by a collapse in private credit. When that credit engine stalls, the economy crashes. Mainstream economists ignored this. They told you banks were just "intermediaries." They lied. Banks create money, and they pumped that money into existing assets - houses - rather than factories or innovation.

Trump will soon be blamed for the tough demands put on Ukraine. We should not blame Trump, but the people who supported the 2014 coup, contiuous escalations, and sabotage ofpeace agreements. It was predictable that this would end in tragedy and that the terms would only get worse

The ideological dam built around Hitler — which has blinkered our understanding of fascism and dehistoricized the Holocaust while exonerating imperialism from comparable crimes that both preceded and followed it — is breaking. In fact, there is a clear thread that runs through the colonization of the Americas, the enslavement of the African people, the US's vision of "manifest destiny" and its racial caste system, the Nuremberg Laws and Germany's project of "lebensraum", and the Zionist vision of "Greater Israel" today. They are all part of the same blood-soaked Euro-Atlantic colonial tradition. The better we understand this, the more powerful their assault on our memory will become.

@100glitterstars Can you tell me how much they pay you for this disgraceful propaganda?

Great to see our Prime Minister come out fighting. 'Cometh the hour, cometh the man.' 💪🇬🇧

What Ukraine’s Western “friends” have done to the country is nothing short of unconscionable. Step by step, they pushed it ever closer to the abyss. First, by forcing the country to make a fateful civilisational choice between the West and Russia — a geopolitical ultimatum that culminated in the 2014 coup, splitting the nation in two and igniting a bloody civil war. Then, by pressuring the Western-installed proxy government to reject any diplomatic settlement, however reasonable. Next, by arming and de facto integrating Ukraine into NATO’s military structures, thereby setting the country on the inevitable path of war with Russia — suggesting that this was the desired outcome in some Western circles. Then, after Russia’s invasion, by sabotaging every opportunity for peace — including the promising talks of early 2022 — and continuing to do so in the years that followed, despite the glaring reality that Ukraine could never recover its lost territories. And all this in the cynical hope of using Ukraine as a pawn to weaken and “bleed” Russia — at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives. Though we can only hope a political settlement is reached as soon as possible, what the West — and primarily the US — has done to Ukraine will remain a tragedy of historic proportions...

@antonioguterres Have you “strongly condemned” a single Israeli action in your entire history as secretary general? You are a disgrace to the UN and will be remembered for bringing about its collapse under the weight of its moral decay

"The UK's wider waters" = the UK's Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf, where there is freedom of navigation. "Edge of UK waters" = outside UK territorial waters. The Russian ship is behaving perfectly legally. The British planes are illegally harassing her.

Israel annexing more Palestinian land is not a path forward. There has been no war. There has been a one sided annihilation of a people and an ancient civilisation, genocide. What path forward will restore Gaza, give justice to the targeted and murdered civilians, make torturers and prison camp abusers accountable, put the criminals of the Netanyahu government on trial in accordance with international law and restore the rights of the displaced to their homeland?

🇺🇦🇫🇷 CLOWN SHOW EUROPE: 1) Macron sold a weapon that had not yet been manufactured 2) France has not asked for the payment 3) Zelensky bought a not existing weapon yet 4) Ukraine can’t pay and will need to ask Europe for the payment -> Everyone declared victory

You think this is about "who’s winning" and "who’s losing." That tells me everything about how you see the world. Some people measure morality by justice. You measure it by scoreboard. Genocide becomes "winning." Resistance becomes "losing." And then you congratulate yourself for being "logical." No. My "narrative" is not oppressor versus oppressed. It is murderer versus murdered. Colonizer versus colonized. People dropping bombs versus people digging children out of rubble. If you cannot tell the difference, the illogic is not in my worldview. It is in whatever part of you decided that power equals innocence, and that the dead must have deserved it.