Citizen Kev Barretto

Socialist, #MentalHealthMatters, nature lover, #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #BDS. Former Sarf London boy, now RRFC fan. Power to the People!

[Citizen Kev Barretto @CitizenKev61]

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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Today the UN confirmed what we already know: Israel is committing genocide and deliberately targeting children.

DELIBERATELY KILLING CHILDREN

There should be wall-to-wall coverage, notifications, posts and outrage. But Israel is the perpetrator and the children are Palestinian.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

According to Western media, Lamine Yamal has lost the sparkle in his eyes despite being only 18 years old because he waved a Palestinian flag.

The mainstream sports media continues to serve zionism.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“We can’t tell the world what you’re doing here… everyone back at home is relying on you…”

Keir Starmer in 2024 at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, the base for UK surveillance flights that flew over Gaza and assisted Israel’s crimes.

His legacy is facilitating genocide.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Britain’s legal architecture of repression — squirreled away in recent counter-terrorism laws – has now created a dragnet that can ensnare as a terrorist anyone who challenges the legitimacy or legality of the government’s foreign policy.

My latest: https://t.co/xVCrhbdLxG

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

As former British ambassador Craig Murray notes, a raft of recent legislation has given the police and courts enormous, authoritarian powers, including the right to treat any form of civil disobedience as terrorism because it seeks to "influence the government".

The timing of Judge Johnson's sentencing of the Filton Four as terrorists on Friday, after a jury had found them guilty only of a relatively minor charge of criminal damage – as well as the renewed cacophony of fake news about a policewoman having her spine broken / smashed, rebutted by Murray in his latest article – is not accidental.

As Murray points out, the purpose is to smooth the path for the Court of Appeal to reverse the High Court's recent ruling that it was "unlawful" of the government to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The Appeal Court will issue its decision tomorrow (Monday).

The government is desperate to ensure the crushing of Palestine Action continues and thereby prevent the group from drawing attention to the UK's continuing complicity in Israel's atrocities, such as our hosting of Israeli factories that make killer drones for use in Gaza.

More from Murray here:
https://t.co/Mh8At5XE4C

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.

Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.

A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Those who served in Gaza and participated in a genocide walk free with impunity.

But those who opposed the horrors are branded terrorists and sentenced.

That’s the Britain we’re living in.

No words.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Remember what the Filton actionists did

They decommissioned the machinery of genocide

The moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz

A British judge is now sentencing them as 'terrorists' for it

[Socialist Voice @SocialistVoice]

The Great Israeli Real Estate event in London should never have been allowed to go ahead in the first place

This event is sponsored by Israeli ethnic cleansing of stolen Palestinian land and properties in the occupied West Bank

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.

Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.

Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.

I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

It is insane that Save the Children has to remind people that killing babies is not normal—because Israel keeps killing them.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

The south of Lebanon is not a “war zone.” Dahiye is not a “Hezbollah stronghold.”

These are the places people live. The cafés and restaurants where friends meet. The shops people rely on. Homes, schools, businesses, neighbourhoods full of life.

But as we see here, much of the media describes them in military terms, erasing the people who live there. Calling entire communities “Hezbollah strongholds dehumanises civilians and turns vibrant neighbourhoods into acceptable targets in the public mind.

This language is not neutral. It helps manufacture consent for the bombing of civilian areas by presenting them as little more than extensions of a “militant” group, rather than places where hundreds of thousands of ordinary people live their lives.

When the people are excluded from the story, the bombings become easier to justify.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

What has happened at the #2026WorldCup over the last 48 hours:

• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.

• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.

• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.

• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.

• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.

• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.

• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.

• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet and then claim it is "launching self-defense strikes" there.

These military forces are nowhere near the United States. The Iranian government says the Apache helicopter that was shot down "was not flying over international waters," but even if it was, it's absurd to claim "self-defense" against a country that has been defending itself in a war you started.

These freaks really do operate from the premise that the entire planet is their property, and that any failure to respect its property rights shall therefore be viewed as an act of aggression.

I mean, just look at who's making this statement. US "Central Command" is the unified combatant command responsible for military operations in the middle east. The US military has separate unified combatant commands for every part of the globe:

• Central Command (CENTCOM) for the middle east.
• Africa Command (AFRICOM) for Africa.
• Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) for Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia and Antarctica.
• European Command (EUCOM) for Europe.
• Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for South America.
• Northern Command (NORTHCOM) for North America.

No other country on earth does this. No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces are used to defend the actual, official country they belong to, whereas the US military is used to dominate the entire planet.

And in that sense it's actually entirely reasonable that the US "Department of Defense" changed its name to the Department of War. The US military is never used to defend the actual, official country of the United States of America; it is only ever used to prop up the globe-spanning imperial power structure it commands.

This is not normal. It is a freakish aberration without historical precedent. The world cannot know peace until the US empire is dismantled.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“The IDF, a U.S.-backed genocidal group that controls much of Palestine, declare a ban on humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip”

Why don’t you post that?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

This is the Israeli military justification for attacking a Lebanese army patrol inside Leb territory - ‘the area is an active combat zone, and movement in the area requires coordination with the IDF’ The Israeli military is demanding Leb troops asks its permission to move around its own country 🧵

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

One for @bbclaurak who asked on air "Why would Israel lie?"
A leak has revealed the IDF actually has a programme to train its people in the “fundamentals of psychological warfare, propaganda, deception, legitimacy and public diplomacy." https://t.co/yW2WeZakYA

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel Could Solve Its PR Problem By Simply Ceasing To Be Evil

Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world.

Reading by Tim Foley.