Ina Sembdner

Israeli soldiers filmed widespread destruction in Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, calling it a “tremendous success” Similar videos have recently increased, appearing to market this outcome as a decisive win to the Israeli public ahead of an expected ceasefire.

These people are not spoiled correspondents for big networks in the US & UK. They're not gullible visitors who say how pretty the buildings are in Addis. They're journalists & politicians in Ethiopia targeted by the gov't persecuting #Amhara. Focus on people, not skyscrapers.

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🎥CUBA AFTER CASTRO | New BT Documentary BreakThrough Media and @AbbyMartin announce the premiere of a landmark documentary featuring the first interview Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has ever conducted with a U.S. journalist. With new threats of invasion looming, the film reveals a portrait of an island, and its leader, who we are told to hate but know so little about. Premieres this Thursday April 16 in New York City and available on YouTube April 30. Buy tickets or book at screening at CubaAfterCastro.com.

#Russia | The Universal oil tanker, which has been subject to U.S.-European sanctions, is sailing through the North Atlantic with Cuba as its final destination. telesurenglish.net/another-russia…

We are rooted in this land — deeply, unshakably rooted. Enough of injustice. No empire of oppression can erase the civilization of Persia. 💥 New Iranian Lego-style Animation: "Stone Age"

The Most Craven & Pathetic Government on Earth

Our latest statement from the board on the recent use of AI by the @IDF @IDFSpokesperson @LTC_Shoshani.

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

“The United States underscored that these negotiations have the potential to unlock significant reconstruction assistance and economic recovery for Lebanon and expand investment opportunities for both countries.” Translation: after reducing much of the country- and its south in particular- to rubble, help rebuilding it is apparently a bargaining chip, not a baseline obligation. state.gov/releases/offic…

Was die @tazgezwitscher als “Hisbollah-Hochburg” bezeichnet, ist das südlibanesische Bint Jbeil. Eine Stadt so groß wie Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Einst Heimat von zehntausenden Menschen, die erst Ziel von Israels Bomben und dann der Entmenschlichung durch deutsche Medien wurden.

We didn't see this coming. Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has appointed Vladimir Padrino López as Minister of Agriculture. Padrino was replaced as Defense Minister in March after over a decade in the post. He replaces Julio León Heredia, who had served since Feb 2025

Wenn Soldaten der genozidalen israelischen Armee in Auschwitz auftreten, verhöhnt das die Opfer des Holocausts, der Nakba und des Völkermords in Gaza.

Iran's government estimates war damage at approximately $270 billion.

A Chinese tanker sanctioned by the United States passed through the Strait of Hormuz despite a US blockade on the chokepoint, shipping data showed reut.rs/4mpNxEC

France is on the eve of voting one of the most shameful laws in its history: it would effectively outlaw criticism of Israel and criminalize any speech seen as even remotely sympathetic to whoever the French government chooses to designate a "terrorist group." In effect this law would turn France's foreign policy into unchallengeable dogma backed by prison time. You could literally be sent for 5 years in prison if you, for instance, call what France says are "terrorists" a "resistance group." Think for instance Nelson Mandela during the apartheid (the ANC was on every Western terrorist list) or, heck, France's own Résistance against Nazi Germany - designated as "terrorists" by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation. It's frankly absolutely insane. The new law is called "loi Yadan" after its author Caroline Yadan, a MP who represents French expatriates living in Israel. The U.S. has congressmen paid by AIPAC: France has cut out the middleman entirely, we have MPs whose constituency is literally in Israel. The law has already passed committee and heads to a full parliamentary vote on April 16th - 3 days from now - under a very unusual fast-track procedure. Seven of eleven parliamentary groups have said they'll vote yes and the law is expected to pass. What does the law say? Let me quote from it directly (full text here: assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/textes/…): 1) Article 1 introduces the concept of "implicit" provocation to terrorism and punishes it with five years imprisonment and a fine of €75,000 That's the one I was speaking about. Under this provision, describing anyone France designates as terrorist as a "resistance movement" - the way France describes its own Résistance against Nazi occupation - could effectively become a crime. The key concept is what does "implicit provocation to terrorism" mean? Nobody knows. And that's the point. It means whatever a prosecutor wants it to mean: a perfectly good case could be made that, for instance, quoting international law on the right of occupied peoples to resist with respect to Hamas is, in fact, "implicit provocation to terrorism." France's most famous anti-terrorism judge, Marc Trévidic, says he has never seen anything like it in his entire career (x.com/CharliesIngall…): "Implicit provocation to terrorism: do you realize what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant." 2) The same article also expands the terrorism apology offense to include "minimizing or trivializing acts of terrorism in an outrageous manner." This is even crazier: until now, "apology of terrorism" meant actually expressing a favorable judgment of "terrorist acts" (which is already insane because, as we all know, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter). Well, under this new provision, a judge could decide that providing context, explaining root causes, or insufficiently condemning an act amounts to "trivializing" terrorism - and that would now be punishable with 5 years in prison. So, for instance, a history teacher explaining the origins of Hamas or Hezbollah is providing context - but a prosecutor could argue that contextualization is trivialization. The same reasoning could apply to a journalist, a researcher, or anyone on social media who says "yes, it was terrible, but here's why it happened." The "but" becomes a crime, as it is trivialization. 3) Article 4 expands Holocaust denial law Under current French law, denying the Holocaust is already a crime. This provision extends that crime by specifying that contestation of crimes against humanity now includes, "whatever its formulation, a negation, minimization, or outrageous trivialization" of those crimes. Again with "outrageous trivialization"! In this instance the very authors of the text - Caroline Yadan and her colleagues - explain their reasoning explicitly in the law's preamble (assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/textes/…): "Comparing the State of Israel to the Nazi regime would thereby be punishable as an outrageous trivialization of the Shoah." So while the provision is written in general terms, its architects are openly saying what it's for: making it a crime to draw any parallel between Israel's actions and those of the Nazis. 4) Article 2 creates a brand new crime: calling for the destruction of a state. The law adds to an existing 1881 press law a provision punishing anyone who "publicly, in disregard of the right of peoples to self-determination and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for the destruction of a state recognized by the French Republic." Five years imprisonment, €75,000 fine. The qualifiers about self-determination and the UN Charter are meant to sound reassuring. But what does "destruction" mean? In practice, if you advocate for a one-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live as equals, you are de-facto calling for the "destruction" of the state of Israel. Well, that would now be punishable by 5 years in prison 🤷 There you go. Absolutely insane: if this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France - the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance - will have made it illegal to use the word 'resistance' about anyone the government doesn't like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted. The only people who wouldn't be prosecuted are those who stay silent. Which, of course, is the whole point.

A continuous stream of C-17 military cargo aircraft is being deployed to US and Israeli bases across the region, carrying additional supplies of ammunition.

The terminators are preparing to participate in the second Beijing Robot Half Marathon. Compared to last year, they ran faster. It is said that 30 teams participated.😅😅

BREAKING Disenfranchised in Plain Sight. Lima’s Poor Were Shut Out of Peru’s Election! We arrived in San Juan de Miraflores in Lima, where at least 15 polling centers never opened in this working-class district, among others. People are furious. And suspicious.

Israel has never been a democracy. 1948: ethnic cleansing 1948-1966: Arab citizens live under military rule 1948-present: Arab citizens declared “absentee property owners” 1967-present: apartheid in oPt 2018-present: Arab citizens have no right to self determination in Israel