israel's genOcide in Gaza has created the largest group of child amputees in modern history. Now prosthetic limbs are in scarce supply because of Israeli restrictions on materials like plaster of Paris. Medics say they are resorting to making makeshift artificial limbs with plastic piping or wooden planks. Israel represents the absolute worst of humanity. The cruelty is ALWAYS the point.
That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
A reminder of how horrific things have been and for how long. In 2014, the Israeli military dropped a missile on Palestinians watching the World Cup on the beach in Gaza killing 8 Palestinians while they watched Argentina play the Netherlands. Here's how the @nytimes framed the headline:
I’m still waiting for journalists to question American players about Trump’s actions and foreign policy. You know, bombing schools and stuff like that.
Seems like political questions are only reserved for Asian, African and Arab players.
Apparently, Lamine was a bright-eyed boy until he held up a Palestine flag. Then, he became controversial.
The journalists who make a living romanticising athletes like Muhammad Ali are the first to punish those who try to use their voice for something meaningful today.
🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Albanians tore down barriers at Kakome Beach in southern Albania, declaring that the country's beaches belong to the people, not oligarchs
✊️🇦🇱As opposition to the controversial Kushner-Trump resort project intensifies, public anger is spreading over the privatization of public land and protected coastal areas
🇦🇱 Albania Is Not For Sale
#SaveAlbania #Albania #FlamingoRevolution
Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.
They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere
Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.
⚡️Egyptian football legend Mohamed Aboutrika:
Whoever wants to whitewash their image hosts the World Cup.
A country that is participating in a genocide in Gaza right now wants to whitewash its image through the World Cup.
A country that waged a war against another country is now whitewashing its image through the World Cup.
A country that kidnapped a president of another country is now hosting a World Cup.
Then they tell us, “We are democracy” and bla bla bla
Donald Trump said Omar Artan had links to terrorists so the USA couldn't let him in.
UEFA has put him in charge of their biggest match.
Donald Trump is a racist liar.
In the last 24 hours I have repeatedly started, then deleted, a post responding to the nasty anti-Muslim, racist attacks against @HamawyForNJ. I keep trying to find the words for the forceful, eloquent defense Dr. Hamawy deserves, but I can't. I'm too angry.
So let me be crystal fucking clear to the scum at that dishrag of a "newspaper", @nypost, the shameless editors of the @nytimes, the vapid hucksters of @FoxNews, and gutless cowards like @RepMikeLawler and @RepMoskowitz:
Adam Hamawy is a hero and a patriot with more courage and integrity than any of you could dream of.
Unlike Jared Moskowitz or Mike Lawler, he actually served this country in uniform, deploying to wars *we* started so he could stitch up our wounded troops. There are people who are alive today ONLY because Adam Hamawy was their doctor when it counted. One of them is your colleague, Senator Tammy Duckworth.
In Gaza, he pieced together children blown up by AMERICAN bombs you ghouls shipped over there. Bombs dropped by our supposed allies. They offered to evacuate him on account of his American passport. But he refused to leave his patients or his crew until the criminal apartheid state allowed a new rotation of doctors in.
That's a level of courage and moral conviction that neither Lawler or Moskowitz nor any other lawmaker participating in this nasty campaign could hope to achieve.
For you to question his patriotism or his Americanness in service to a foreign dictator is pathetic.
You trot out our troops like stage props when you want a photo op, but you wouldn't know real service if it was handed to you on a platter at an AIPAC dinner.
Your despicable smear against this war hero doctor spits in the face of everyone who has ever served. Including my father.
But the jig is up on your crybully routine. There's no amount of Islamophobic hysteria you can spin up that will make millions of Americans forget the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians you gleefully pushed into death, disease, and displacement with OUR money and weapons.
Whatever you're selling, only AIPAC is buying. Adam Hamawy is going to Congress, and you can go to hell.
This is extremely shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this.
🇦🇺 filmmaker Juliet said: I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.
They also used water torture and beatings.
Just so we’re clear, the Israeli Consulate of NYC 100% knew that Smotrich and his band of Jewish supremacist buddies were coming to the parade yesterday. They purposely hid that from all the politicians who attended bc they knew it would cause an uproar.
Then the entire NY Zionist lobby went on a hysterical week-long lobbying campaign trying to pressure Mamdani into attending… just so they could humiliate him by having him present alongside an ICC indicted war criminal.
They knew exactly what they were doing. Good on Mamdani for digging in his heels. Eternal shame on every other NY politician who attended. You all deserve to be fully associated with war criminals considering your undying support for them.
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.
These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.