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[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

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[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

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[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Thiago Ávila says that the message the genocide in Gaza has sent to the Global South is that "nobody is safe." The Zionists and their imperialist allies in the West will cross all lines in order to secure their objectives and oppress the people who resist their hegemony.

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

🎬 Nina and I spoke to anti-imperialist journalist & filmmaker @AbbyMartin for 📷@cubanalysis podcast about the #Trump's claim that #Cuba is a threat to #US national security and foreign policy, about new documentary Cuba After Castro & much more. Watch 📷https://t.co/9KtG3Haiir

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED

Join @jeremycorbyn, @AbbyMartin, @nevegordon, @shahdhm and many more in London on 19-20 September 2026 for Peace & Justice Project's annual conference.

🎟️Tickets: https://t.co/MmObQmXJzo

[Green Left @GreenLeftOnline]

"Earth’s Greatest Enemy" reveals a hidden truth behind the climate crisis: the role of the US military as the world’s largest institutional polluter, tracing the link between war, empire and ecological destruction. https://t.co/59mJ9yzNjC

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Excited to be in London Sept 19-20 w/ @corbyn_project for urgent discussion and organizing against the war machine's global destruction. I’ll also be presenting Earth’s Greatest Enemy w/ @jeremycorbyn Sept 18 at Rio Cinema. Join us! https://t.co/pAUhCYmj7W

[Adbusters @Adbusters]

good way to celebrate.
if you want a killer 2-fer, fly one of our flags while you watch.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Every stitch is a life.

At the anti-war conference in London, we met the women who hand-stitched the names of Palestinians killed in Gaza. The green names are children. Lives stolen before they had the chance to grow.

These are not numbers. They are people. Families. Dreams. Futures.

We do this work for every life taken, every family shattered, and every survivor demanding justice.

End the genocide. End U.S. support for Israel’s crimes. Free Palestine.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

@_TereFelipe_ Absolutamente. Es criminal lo que están haciendo!

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

En mi cuadra, en Cuba, mis vecinos, mi familia, llevan más de 36 horas sin electricidad. Desde diciembre no ha entrado un solo buque de petróleo al país, excepto uno ruso. Lo que Estados Unidos está haciendo con Cuba es un genocidio. ¡Mi país necesita petróleo con urgencia!

[Watermelon Pictures @watermelon_pics]

EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY, directed by Abby Martin, reveals the hidden connection between militarism and climate collapse, exposing the institutions that profit while the planet pays the price.

Watch at home on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Watermelon+ starting July 3.

[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

Excited to be partnering with @watermelon_pics for this worldwide release! Dropping on Prime Video, Apple TV, Watermelon+ on July 3rd

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Celebrate America’s 250th by watching a film that will change how you see the US military and environmentalism itself.

🇺🇸 Earth’s Greatest Enemy on Apple TV & Amazon July 4 🇺🇸

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

At the Vancouver Web Summit, @aaronjmate and I discussed the role that technology and AI are playing in the modern context of warfare and imperial power games. Tech now sits at the confluence of corporate America and government intelligence agencies, making it a vital component of the national security state. This is made clear by the revolving door between these sectors, and the increased usage of AI in wartime decision making. Yet tech is ubiquitous in civilian life as well — making the modern age a surveillance state that not even the Stasi of East Germany could have dreamed of.

[Dr. Shiv_Kumar @Dr_Shiv_kumar_]

No. Mosquitoes do not transmit HIV.

Why?
A contaminated needle transmits HIV because it can directly inject infected human blood into another person’s bloodstream.

A mosquito is different:
🔻It digests the blood it sucks.
🔻HIV cannot survive or multiply inside a mosquito.
🔻When it bites again, it injects saliva, not the previous person’s blood.

Needles transfer blood. Mosquitoes inject saliva. HIV needs blood-to-blood transmission, so mosquitoes cannot spread HIV.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

The answer is a definitive NO. But the student's logic makes perfect sense on the surface. We view mosquitoes as tiny, flying syringes.
​But a biological insect is fundamentally different from a human-made tool.

• Firstly, a needle is a single hollow tube that can accidentally inject leftover blood. A mosquito’s proboscis is a two-way system. It sucks blood up one tube and injects its own saliva down a completely different tube. You are getting injected with mosquito spit, not the previous person's blood.

• A razor blade cannot digest blood. But when a mosquito drinks HIV-infected blood, its stomach enzymes literally digest the fragile virus, treating it as food. HIV has not evolved to survive and replicate inside an insect's gut like Malaria or Dengue (Hopefully never).

• A hollow needle holds a clinically significant volume of blood. Even if a microscopic fraction of infected blood remained on the outside of the mosquito's mouthparts, it wouldn't matter. To reach the minimum viral load necessary to transmit HIV, you would need to be bitten by roughly 10 million HIV-fed mosquitoes simultaneously.

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pointed to a post by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who declared “all of Lebanon must burn” after some Israeli soldiers were killed and injured while trying to seize more territory during a ceasefire.

Araghchi said it was “not a rant by a random genocidal lunatic” but a public post by a sitting senior Israeli minister. “The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity,” he wrote. “Its only interest is permanent war.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel’s PM says his forces struck 150 different sites in Lebanon.

The sites have included many family homes where entire families are erased, and attacks on civilians in vehicles far from the front line of combat.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 The Israeli army is continuing its push to seize and occupy additional areas of southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports.

At least four people have been killed Tuesday in two separate Israeli drone strikes targeting the nearby towns of Mayfadoun and Shoukin, both just east of the southern city of Nabatieh, about 10 miles from the Israeli border.