John Allan

lets be honest .... are you really that interested ...nahhh

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

A week of Israeli settler violence in occupied West Bank - BBC News https://t.co/dYreI4JIVS

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

Israeli settlers attack fourth Qusra home today as residents try to fit protective netting | Middle East Eye https://t.co/xoL9uoHHFb

[67 Hail Hail 🍀 @67HailHail]

🚨 A Split-based pundit says Niko Sigur is joining Celtic—but Genk have submitted a rival €4m offer. Here’s what the conflicting reports actually say. 🍀👇 https://t.co/31t3lt6ibm

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

@ThomasKerrMSP Read from history Thomas . Its a carbon copy of 1930s . Ignore at all our peril

[Anachronistic Antipodean @MarcusDelrious]

@RaggedTP

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: https://t.co/9wgvro7wEA

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

It never ends. Israel is determined to kill, kill, kill. Meanwhile, Israel lies, lies, lies. And the West? The West looks elsewhere, anywhere, everywhere but at the scene of the war crime of the century https://t.co/0lM5tiTMGW

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

In a moment that should’ve stopped time, Jimmy Carter—quiet as a monk, sharp as a scalpel—offered a truth so unassuming, most missed the incision. He was speaking to Trump, but really, he was speaking to all of us.

Carter’s point was this: While China has spent decades laying tracks for the future, we’ve been digging graves in the past. They’ve built cities, schools, trains that move faster than thought. We’ve built military bases, debt, and an empire of rust.

It wasn’t a boast. It was an autopsy.

China chose infrastructure. We chose interference. They built railways across continents. We bombed bridges across borders. They invested in AI, medicine, and education. We invested in overthrowing oil-rich governments, branding it freedom.

We spent $300 billion trying to bend the world to our will. They spent it making their own nation unshakable.

We don’t have high-speed trains. We don’t have roads that last. We don’t have universal healthcare, or education systems that top the charts. But we do have the most advanced weapons on Earth, pointed at every direction but inward.

If we’d used even a fraction of that money on ourselves, our cities would hum like circuits. Our schools would shine. Our hospitals would heal. Our people might feel something we haven’t felt in a long time—progress.

That was Carter’s quiet bombshell: the war we’re losing isn’t to China. It’s to our own addiction to dominance. And our refusal to invest in anything we can’t control.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/4HO13OgTun

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I write so much about the fake "antisemitism crisis" not only because it's being used to destroy civil rights throughout the western world, but because it's one of the most dark and disturbing things I've ever witnessed.

It's been so intensely creepy watching all of western society mobilize around a complete and utter fiction in order to stomp out all criticism of a foreign state. It's about as dystopian a thing as you can possibly imagine, all these pundits and politicians pretending to believe that Jewish safety is seriously being threatened by an epidemic of antisemitism which must be aggressively silenced by any means necessary. All to silence opposition to the worst inclinations of a genocidal apartheid state and the complicity of our own western governments with its crimes.

And we're all expected to treat this scam seriously. Anyone who says the emperor has no clothes and calls this mass deception what it is gets tarred with the "antisemite" label and treated as further evidence that we're all a hair's breadth from seeing Jews rounded up onto trains again if we don't all hurry up and shut down anti-genocide protests on university campuses. They're not just acting out a fraudulent melodrama staged to rob us of our rights, they're demanding that we participate in it by pretending it's not what it plainly is.

It's not just tyranny, it's tyranny that orders people to clap along with it. It's such a disgusting, evil thing to do to people. Such psychologically dominating abusive behavior. The more you look at it, the creepier it gets.

[Jack McLaren @MrJackMcLaren]

This analysis by @ITVNews @ITVJoel shows just how troubling the UK’s economic situation has become. It’s shocking that our poorest households are worse off than those in Slovenia, Malta, and Ireland. With wage growth stalled since 2008, average workers are missing out on £12,000 a year.

This isn’t just numbers, it reveals serious inequality and highlights the need for change. We really need to pay attention to the struggles of low earners, it’s a shame we’ve let it get this bad.

#Economy | #Wages | #Politics | #ITVNews

[John Allan @AlzaJohn]

Keir Starmer is bringing back powers that would let the Government spy on our bank accounts. Yep, you read that right. I just joined the campaign to stop this - add your name and join the fight here: https://t.co/PL5NgFUsYP via @38degrees

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

On this day in 1945, Joseph Stalin’s Red Army liberates the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in which millions of Jews were killed.

Soviet troops found 370,000 men's suits, 837,000 articles of women's clothing, and 7 tonnes of human hair.

Soviet troops gave their lives to liberate the concentration camps that served as industrial-scale human slaughterhouses…and yet Russia has not been invited to the 80th Auschwitz liberation anniversary memorial event in Poland, while the country that perpetrated the atrocities, Germany, will be there.

No matter how much the US, UK, and EU try to rewrite history, the statistics reveal the truth. 27 million Soviets died to defeat fascism in World War 2, the greatest sacrifice of any country during the war. Roughly 3 in 4 German soldiers killed in World War 2 died fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front.

Without the Red Army, Auschwitz would not have been liberated, and Europe would be under the fascist tyranny of Germany.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/TQB0zDWg4o

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's just a fact that major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes. Maybe it bothers you when people point out the involvement of the US power alliance in Syria, and maybe you would prefer to believe that a plucky band of heroic freedom fighters bravely overthrew an evil supervillain dictator all on their own like some Hollywood movie. But real life doesn't move in accordance with your preferences. In real life, the globe-spanning empire that is centralized around the United States will reliably be deeply involved in such events.

When I say this you may want to believe I am "denying the agency of Syrians" and that "denying agency" is the worst sin a person can possibly commit, but nothing I'm saying actually contradicts the idea that Syrians have their own agency. Obviously there were many Syrians who wanted Assad gone, and obviously there were many people who had their own reasons for fighting him which had nothing to do with the US empire. There is no contradiction between this obvious fact and the well-documented reality that the US-centralized power structure has been balls deep in Syria from the very beginning of the violence in 2011, and that its involvement led to the events we are seeing today.

The claim isn't that the US empire controlled the minds of Syrians and forced them to turn against their government with no agency of their own, the claim is that the empire put a big fat thumb on the scale to ensure that one group of Syrians got their way instead of a different group.

You can argue that western regime change interventionism will lead to positive results this time (so long as you're prepared to ignore mountains of historical evidence consistently demonstrating the opposite), but what you cannot do on any rational basis is deny that western regime change interventionism occurred here.

Western liberalism is funny in that its adherents lean heavily on their ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the actions of the western empire, and indeed away from the very existence of that empire. The western liberal lives in an imaginary alternate universe where western powers pretty much mind their own business and western leaders passively watch violence and destruction unfold around the world whilst pleading for peace and diplomacy from their podiums. They pretend the empire does not exist, and that it is only by pure coincidence that conflicts, coups and uprisings keep occurring in ways which favor the strategic interests of Washington.

In reality it is impossible to understand what's going on in the world unless you understand that the US is the hub of an undeclared empire which has been working tirelessly to bring the global population under a single power umbrella over which it presides. The few countries who have successfully resisted being absorbed into this imperial blob are the Official Bad Guys we westerners are all trained to hate: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and a few socialist states in Latin America. I used to include Syria in this list, but that's over now. Syria has been absorbed into the blob of the empire.

And tomorrow the imperial blob will move its crosshairs on to the next unabsorbed nation. That's the underlying dynamic behind all the major conflicts on earth. This dynamic gets redacted from the mainstream western worldview with the assistance of the western propaganda services known as the mass media, as well as the western indoctrination system known as schooling. This dynamic is redacted from our worldview and hidden from our attention by the plutocrats and empire managers who work to manipulate our information systems, because otherwise we would realize that the US empire is the most tyrannical and abusive power structure on this planet today.

And it unquestionably is. No other power structure has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression while circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to crush any group which opposes its dictates anywhere on earth. Not China. Not Russia. Not Iran. Not Cuba. Not Bashar al-Assad. Only the US empire has been tyrannizing and abusing the world to this extent in modern times.

And now the imperial blob rolls on to absorb its next target, having grown one Syria-sized increment larger after spending years digesting that nation via proxy warfare, starvation sanctions, and a military occupation designed to steal its oil and its wheat.

Our world cannot know peace as long as we are ruled by an empire that is fueled by endless rivers of human blood.

[☪︎ 𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 👑 @HUNTER1994BC]

@FranceskAlbs @IsraeliPM why they are like this??

i ask why??

[usaama @yoUsaama]

Pogroms in Amsterdam! 😱

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

OK, let me solve American "economic anxiety" very quickly. I'm gonna sort it out for you in less than ten tweets and then you won't have that excuse anymore. You ready? Here goes.

The cause is capitalism and greed. That's it. Nothing else. Just that.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

If only they were fascist Israeli football hooligans, maybe the media and world leaders would care