David Stirrup @davidstirrup

Capitalism is a project to make a few people rich
Socialism is a project to treat everyone fairly
I never voted for barbarism & greed but that is what we have

[David Stirrup @davidstirrup @David4rds]

@EuropeanPowell The millionaires and Billionaires do not live in our world
#EpsteinFiles

[Roshan M Salih @RmSalih]

The great Israel Parliamentary debate stitch up

I've just totaled up the amount of time each side had to speak during the parliamentary debate yesterday on Israeli influence over UK politics.

The pro-Israel side had 1 hour and 9 minutes to put forward their pro-Israel views.

The anti-Israel side had 15 minutes only to put forward their anti-Israel views.

So in effect, the pro-Israel side had 82% of the speaking time during the debate, and the anti-Israel side had 18% speaking time.

This wasn't a debate, it was a forum for Israeli hasbara and propaganda.

And it proves exactly why 117,000 people signed a petition questioning Israel's influence over UK politicians.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

If international law actually worked both of these genocidal monsters would be answering questions under oath at The Hague

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

🇨🇴 Petro Says ISRAEL Hacked Colombia's Election

President Gustavo Petro says the national registry's servers had their IP addresses changed mid-count, with results written in for polling stations by an outside hand.

He names one culprit: the only state on earth he says is capable of it. ISRAEL

The runoff:
1. Abelardo de la Espriella, far-right, Trump-endorsed lawyer

2. Iván Cepeda, leftist senator and President Gustavo Petro's chosen heir

Petro, who backs Cepeda, says the pre-count sits at 49.3 for de la Espriella and 49 for Cepeda. A dead heat, no winner declared.

He is handing the altered servers to the judges and demanding a full recount.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Imagine being Palestinian or Lebanese looking at this pure dystopian shit 😳

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Do UK journalists & politicians have any idea of the strength of feeling & revulsion of ordinary people - being made to be complicit in the IDF's ongoing slaughter of thousands of innocent children in Palestine & Lebanon?

[Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu]

This is very... stark

[Greens4Palestine @Greens4P]

It’s a BIG CLUB….and you ain’t in it.

[Labi Siffre @labisiffre]

In this, The Age of Stupid, multibillionaires through the media they own, tell those struggling to make ends meet to vote for politicians and political parties who will give those multibillionaires even more power and immunity from any regulatory constraints to do whatever they want, plus permanent tax cuts (tax cuts for "the people" are temporary). Disinformation from the the far right is the new fast food and it seems at least half the world's population think it's delicious. It's poison.
[Fact check: Under the US 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), sweeping corporate tax reductions were made permanent, while the majority of individual, family, and middle-class tax provisions were written to expire.]
#billionaires #Trump #Musk #RupertMurdoch #USA #America #disinformation #TaxCuts #Corruption #FarRight #MAGA #GOP

[Iran In Hyderabad @IraninHyderabad]

Sheikh Naim Qassem: A ceasefire means Hezbollah does not fire and Israel is free to occupy anywhere! We do not want such a ceasefire.
#Lebanon

[Richard @ricwe123]

Let's be honest,the Iranian delegation's performance in Switzerland was a masterclass in psychological and diplomatic leverage.
They arrived on their own terms, made the Americans wait, refused even the symbolic gesture of a handshake, held firm to their demands, and walked away the moment they usual threats from Donald Trump entered the conversation.
In doing so, they projected confidence while exposing the American desperation and weakness.

What stands out is the Persians' sophisticated understanding of symbolism and strategy.
Every move is calculated, every gesture deliberate, as though they are several moves ahead in a chess match while their counterparts is struggling to keep up.

The result is a striking contrast: Iran is composed, disciplined, and in control, while the United States is reactive and outmaneuvered.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the fact that Iran has now emerged as one of the most influential and formidable powers in the Middle East......

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

In the 1970s and 1980s, over 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C via contaminated blood products.

When Andy Burnham became Health Secretary on 5 June 2009, terminal patients and activists targeted him immediately. They staged a protest outside his constituency office on 19 June.

Instead of acting, Burnham's department blocked statutory public inquiries, signed off letters denying government liability, and left the archives un-declassified under the standard 30-year rule.

Yet in 2017, conveniently on his very last day as an MP before becoming Manchester Mayor, he went on TV calling the scandal a 'criminal cover-up'.

His speech went viral. The media and victims' groups praised his passion, completely forgetting he himself had sat at the top of that 'covering-up' department. He chose to stay silent until there was zero political risk.

And this is not the only instance.

The Mid-Staffs Scandal (2005–2009), one of the worst care failures in NHS history, saw up to 1200 NHS patients die from systemic neglect. Patients were left in filth and drank from dirty flower vases.

Who was the Health Secretary tasked with handling the aftermath?
Andy Burnham.

His administration ignored 81 separate requests from grieving families, MPs, and health organisations for a full public inquiry, opting instead for a highly restricted, private independent review.

Why?
To protect Labour from an NHS crisis right before the 2010 election. The full statutory public inquiry was only granted after Labour lost— by the incoming Conservative Health Secretary.

Burnham didn't cause the scandals, but he did choose how to handle them. He suppressed the truth when he held power, then played the hero once he left office.

The ultimate political opportunist.

[David Stirrup @davidstirrup @David4rds]

A man who lied to get power lies when he loses it
#StarmersGone

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Will Elon Musk and other MAGA types be tweeting about this former top rightwing politician in the UK who was just found guilty of being a pedophile and whose wife aided and abetted him in those sick sex crimes against children? If not, why not?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En la India, un pais con más de 200 millones de personas pasando hambre, cerca del 24 % de la población hambrienta mundial, un terrateniente tira toneladas de fruta para que no bajen los precios en el mercado.

Bajo el capitalismo, la escasez es intencional y superficial, los capitalistas especulan con el hambre, desechando miles de toneladas de alimentos para que la oferta nunca supere a la demanda y así nunca bajar los precios de los productos.

Hay suficientes recursos para que nadie en el planeta pase hambre, se produce de sobra para que ningún niño pase hambre... pero esos recursos bajo el capitalismo son acaparados por el egoismo y la avaricia de los capitalistas, nunca será "natural" que el dinero se anteponga a las vidas.

Si en un estudio científico, un mono acaparara todas las bananas mientras los demás se mueren de hambre, sería investigada su mala conducta y sería aislado de los demás monos... en el capitalismo a esos monos les dan el Premio Forbes cada año.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 "We never want to be in the same frame as the Americans."

Ghalibaf on why Iran walked out of negotiations:

Discussions were going well, near the end of the first section. Then Trump made severe threats — against the negotiating team, against Iran's president, threats to attack Iranian territory.

"We signed that Clause 1 states: there be no threats and force. But your president made threats and force.
Know that we never negotiate under threats and force."

Iran ended negotiations and walked out of the session.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

If anything summed up all that is wrong with Starmer and his leadership it wasn’t just his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador but bringing back Jacqui Smith, making her a baroness and giving her a prominent role in the Department for Education. Education ffs! A notorious cheat who was found to have been breaking the rules on Parliamentary expenses for four consecutive years. The kind of scam that would have got her a prison sentence had she been cheating the @DWP but which, in the tone-deaf Westminster goldfish bowl, brought her a lucrative lifetime seat in the Lords. An appointment that was every bit as misjudged as Mandelson’s and proof that two-tier justice is a reality in Starmer’s Britain.

@UKLabour @Jacqui_Smith1 @SkyNews @Channel4News @itvnews @GBNEWS @BBCNews @bbclaurak @Keir_Starmer @educationgovuk @GMB #LabourCronyism @HoLords

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: Keir Starmer Resigns

Media sold Starmer as 'forensic, decent & capable' PM. He was NEVER that as we made clear yrs ago:

"Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine but you wouldn't know about that if you read or watched UK media"

[La Catrina Norteña @catrina_nortena]

🚨 SALEN VIDEOS DEL FRAUDE DE LA ULTRA DERECHA EN COLOMBIA

Así fue como el Pueblo en Cartagena descubrió una camioneta cargada con votos marcados por el candidato nacido en Estados Unidos @ABDELAESPRIELLA.

Por favor compartan antes de que la Casa Blanca mande bajar el video de las redes...

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK has ensured Keir Starmer and other ministers won’t be investigated by the International Criminal Court.

Because Britain under Blair only agreed to the ICC Treaty because it can’t prosecute Britons. https://t.co/UXpNiTQp64

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

This is what natives refusing to abandon their homeland looks like.

The 'jewish state' bombed their homes. Hospitals. Schools. Dropped the equivalent of 6–14 nuclear bombs on them.

Yet here they remain. Steadfast. Defiant. Rooted in their land. This is Gaza. This is Palestine.