Bombing a school is a war crime. Bombing a hospital is a war crime. Bombing news outlets is a war crime. Firing rockets at civilians is *also* a war crime.
If we believe in human rights, we should hold anyone who commits war crimes fully accountable.
The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we're seeing is a battle between coloniser and colonised. https://t.co/EovPNbG90y
Oxford University planned to release its COVID-19 vaccine for free but was urged to reconsider by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Instead, they engineered an exclusive deal with AstraZeneca, with no price controls.
Hope your divorce sucks, assholes!
Bill Gates could pay the entire $25 billion needed to vaccinate low- and middle-income countries globally and he would still be $31.5 billion richer than he was before the pandemic. Greed is a terrible addiction that must be cured by taxing the rich and ending drug monopolies.
The EU, UK, US, and others have for months been blocking wider vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver at the World Trade Organization.
They are trying to fight a global pandemic while deliberately limiting vaccine supplies.
Madness.
Conversation with an Egyptian journalist yesterday. She said: "If neoliberalism doesn't even work in the United States, if the richest country on the planet can't even feed its own people, how the hell do you really expect us to believe that shit will work in Africa"
Today is the 18th anniversary of the death of Tom Hurndall, a young photographer shot by the Israeli Defence Force while assisting children he saw being shot at; this tragic occasion will never go unnoticed by the many who work for peace around the world.
Look, they're going to convict Derek Chauvin. He'll be sacrificed to restore faith in the system. But we need to understand that no matter what happens the entire system is guilty. Chicago cops killed a 13 year-old Monday. There is no justice in this system. Reform is not enough.