How does A #JustTransition work here? In Lough Boora Park a small, local, family run business, trading for 11 years, is being closed up in favour of the largest bike rental company in the country. So much for supporting local communities in the Midlands. All theory, no practice
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.
So when China launches a special
op to seize the president of Taiwan: or Russia tries to do the same for Zelensky - what exactly do we say? You can’t do that, it’s illegal?
Always clear that John Collison's article was a pack of lies, based on omissions and misrepresentations. But good to see it demonstrated so comprehensively
Every politician who fell over themselves to fawn over it has some serious questions to answer
https://t.co/r1FSObAzNc
On June 8, the Israeli military employed heavy airstrikes across a densely populated Gaza refugee camp during a midday hostage rescue operation, killing scores of Palestinians. Our new investigation reconstructs one of the deadliest days of the war: https://t.co/VpdYKsFUke
We wait. For the frost to come to tell us grazing is done. Wait on brooding sheep and their cycle. Wait for the straight backed ram, summers strength in his flanks, to lick the air. Tasting for scent. We wait out winter. The snows. For the ragged sound of newborn lambs...
The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.
1/5. “We knew what was happening. I saw it myself. I saw nuns coming to the gates of #Bessborough and parents collecting babies from them” - Eye witness, John Furlong aged 92. John was in his teens when together with a few others they devised a plan to help girls escape.
1/ After being imprisoned for 3 years for leading a nonviolent movement against Daniel Ortega’s regime, Nicaraguan democracy advocate @maradiaga continues his struggle against dictatorships.
➡️ #HRF’s new #DissidentsandDictators episode is now available: https://t.co/413hKIqiwc