Edward Marotis

Environmental lawyer, Vegan. #Freejulianassange

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the funniest things in US politics in the last few years was when Cory Booker -- out of nowhere and with no discernible point -- spoke for 24 hours in a Senate filibuster.

And Dems began cheering it as brave and historic even though he said nothing and it had no goal:

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

If you have the Ukraine and Palestine flags in your bio, Zelensky would like a word:

[Edward Marotis @EdwardMarotis]

Monsanto does not need to warn you that Roundup causes cancer.

The recent US #SupremeCourt decision effectively prevents people, who have developed cancer from #Roundup, from suing #Monsanto for failing to warn them about the risk of cancer.

https://t.co/8fIZROC3TN

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

No probable cause, no warrant, absolute violation of 4th and 5th amendment rights

The police state is here

Free Samuel Tunick https://t.co/2FCnaSYZp3

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

These trashy monarchists posted up at the entrance of my talk to protest and harass me. They are the same freaks who celebrated and danced in the streets of Georgetown literally the day after the US murdered 168 school kids and teachers in Minab. And you can hear them justify bombing that school - the crime of the century - as a legitimate target. I might have just ignored them under normal circumstances, but I had just spent the week in the rubble of homes of ordinary Iranians who they lobbied my government to bomb. In the ruins of one destroyed Tehran apartment where an entire family of 12 was slaughtered in a US strike, I found clothes belonging to young children about the same age as mine. So it was impossible to pass by these accessories to murder without venting my disgust at them. Actually, the whole experience was cathartic. God damn these deranged Persian gusanos and their Clown Prince too.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

New: As US and OPCW move on, Brazil puts Syria cover-up on the record

In a rare protest, Brazil has challenged the chemical watchdog's admitted suppression of findings that undercut Trump's pretext for bombing Syria in 2018.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

My debut book, "Their Blood, Our Bullets:
The Hidden Story of the US–Russia War for Ukraine", is now available for pre-order. @orbooks
https://t.co/9ITWyIeTuH

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Max Blumenthal visits a rally in Engelhab Square where masses of citizens chanted against Iran's assailants to the rhythm of Dammam music.

Rallies like these have been held in squares across Iran for over 120 days. Participants see them as an important component in their country's successful mobilization against the joint US-Israeli military assault.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport

Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin

The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s

The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds

It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo

UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone.

UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism”

The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed

The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda.

Who’s actually in charge in London?

[Edward Marotis @EdwardMarotis]

@RnaudBertrand Modern farming practices are inherently a problem. They pollute the environment, deplete the soil, and involve factory farming billions of animals. Farming can be changed for the better without starving people, the changes would simply collide with current structures.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

"No, on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

More cold, hard evidence of the Israeli government's stated intention to commit genocide in Gaza while killing hundreds of its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on Oct 7

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Elon Musk's pet demagogue, the serial fabricator Gad Saad, invents a definition of "Holocaust survivor" that is uniquely his own to defame Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté.

In other news, Musk's pet demagogue serves a rancid word salad avec vinaigrette to deflect from the reality that he is too much of a coward to debate Maté in front of an audience that can judge his demagoguery and defamation for what it is.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Some of the most dignified people on the planet had the misfortune of being born next door to a vicious apartheid colony

This is the story of how they tried to return home this past week, as Israel intensified its massacres

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Don’t forget which outlet broke the story on the Trump admin holding a secret indictment over Delcy’s head if she did not behave

https://t.co/8EtjjL2S2W

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.

It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.

It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The empire's war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets Hasan Piker and Medea Benjamin for the crime of bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba.

This is yet another act of aggression in the same onslaught that has seen inconvenient truth-telling and expressions of moral clarity attacked and undermined throughout the western world at every juncture in recent years.

It is not separate from the persecution of Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes.

It is not separate from the steadily increasing escalations of internet censorship we've seen in the wake of Gaza, Ukraine, Covid, January 6, the 2016 US presidential election, and any other excuse the imperial narrative managers could find.

It is not separate from the Trump administration's efforts to deport non-citizens for criticizing the state of Israel.

It is not separate from the efforts to stomp out pro-Palestine protests and university campus demonstrations.

It is not separate from the arrests of activists in the UK on terrorism charges for saying the words "I support Palestine Action".

It is not separate from activists facing criminal charges for saying "From the river to the sea" in parts of Australia and Germany.

It is not separate from imperial efforts to crack down on BDS activism and outlaw boycotts of Israeli products.

It is not separate from Israel's ban on foreign press from entering Gaza, nor is it separate from Israel's systematic extermination of Palestinian journalists within Gaza.

It is not separate from the artificially manufactured hysteria about "antisemitism" in western society and the efforts of western governments to silence criticism of Israel in the name of protecting Jews.

It is not separate from Israel's massive increase in its hasbara budget this year and the armies of paid trolls we've seen swarming online discourse.

It is not separate from the nonstop barrage of imperial propaganda we see every day from the plutocratic press justifying every war and slandering every dissident.

It is not separate from the way imperial oligarchs like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Larry Ellison buy up news outlets like The Washington Post and CBS and social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter in order to manipulate the way the public thinks, acts, and votes.

It is not separate from the way tech platforms have been manipulating algorithms to hide dissident sources of information from the public and using bogus "fact checking" firms to suppress unauthorized facts.

It is not separate from government secrecy measures which forbid the public from knowing what their rulers are doing, and which aggressively punish anyone who tries to reveal inconvenient facts.

The empire is waging a relentless war on intellectual clarity and on moral clarity, because truth and morality are its enemies.

They do not want us to have unobstructed vision, lucid minds, functioning empathy centers and well-formed consciences, because if we did, we would instantly dismantle the empire brick by brick.

This is why they go after anyone who tries to expand the consciousness of western society using activism and journalism. In an empire built on lies and fueled by human blood, telling the truth is seen as treason and doing the right thing is seen as insurrection.

The only sane response to such a dystopian situation is to join in the revolution. Help spread unauthorized ideas and information. Take action to spread awareness of the abusive nature of the empire. They're trying to keep it all in the dark, so we need to bring it all into the light.

They wouldn't be fighting so hard to suppress truth and compassion if it didn't present an immediate existential threat to their power structure.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

The OPCW has admitted concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the supposed Douma chemical attack of April 2018

@aaronjmate on the Douma deception's continued unraveling
https://t.co/QHwrVf3bwg

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

#WhenTheWorldSleeps
Palestine stands as the moral compass of our time.
Exposing Apartheid and its crimes, their root causes and implications, is necessary to ensure the world "wake up" and work together to overcome it.
Together we can and we will.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

I'm so disgusted by Germans. All of them. They have watched this escalate over the last 3 years and did NOTHING. Never believe the lie that they learned anything from history.
Nazi pigs.