Benne Dose Talks 🇵🇸

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.

His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single child in this photo in South Lebanon within less than 30 days.

They were not combatants.

They were children.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

🚨 Ahmed Eldin has been jailed in Kuwait for his journalism in a blatant attack on press freedom. Ahmed is not only one of the loudest advocates for Palestine, he’s one of the kindest, best people on the planet. Demand his immediate release! #FreeAhmedEldin

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

The “girl student” had a name. Ritaj Rihan. 9 years old. Shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in her tent classroom.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Greta Thunberg:

“The President of the United States just said an entire civilization will die tonight, and never be brought back again, and no one is reacting.

This speaks for itself.

We have normalized genocide.
We have normalized the annihilation of entire peoples.
We have normalized the systematic destruction of the biosphere we all depend on.
We have normalized corrupt, racist war criminals acting with total impunity.

But it is not too late to say: STOP. If we don’t, we have no right to call ourselves human.”

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

every word. the gravest crime.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

The only way to illustrate the absurdity of asking us to condemn those fighting our oppressor is to use a historical reference that westerners can understand.

It’s the only way for some to see us as human, even for a moment.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

this is one of the best clips of Rania.
she's always sharp, but here it's personal, and I know the extraordinary patience and restraint required to explain something so fundamental, especially when the only way they might begin to comprehend is to compare with the only instance of horror people like Piers actually understand.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Streets of Havana right now.

Full blackout across the entire island.

Hospitals, nursing homes, people's lives....all in total darkness.

For US imperialism.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Orders have been issued to evacuate this area in Beirut, home to nearly one million people. Israeli officials say it will become like Khan Younis—completely destroyed

We warned you that Gaza is the testing ground for a lawless new world order.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.” I'm telling you, these people are genocidal fanatics. And no, this did not begin with Trump. They want to do to Iran what previous US administrations did to Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Libya... the evil is 100% bipartisan.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The inability of Liberal Zionist Jews to think outside of themselves is astounding. This constant return to “antisemitism” is nothing more than narcissism disguised as ringing alarm bells. It is a constant pathologizing of their community as perpetual lone victims.

Iranians are being slaughtered, Palestinians continue to face extermination and the Lebanese continue to be slaughtered while the most racist tropes are used to justify the killing of their children at the hands of a Jewish state bent on exterminating Arabs and Muslims. Yet Ezra Klein’s concern is not the victims of war and structural oppression—it’s the optics for his community, whose every major institution is complicit.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

There is no reasoning with imperial power. We must understand that their worldview is built on supremacy, the opposite of humanity. It is naked violence. We cannot accept to live in such a world, and every sane and moral person must resist it with all their might.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

New drone footage out of Gaza City. Animalistic destruction. There has to be reparations for this.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no moral difference between putting people in gas chambers and burning people in school in Gaza.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Today in Gaza Israel targeted Dr. Alaa & Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar’s home and murdered 9 of their children. While Dr. Alaa was working to save lives, she received the remains of nearly her entire family. Unimaginable daily horrors in Israel's war of annihilation https://t.co/KRNKT03pOc