Peter Herbert

In the footsteps of Gandhi & MLKing, I have a vision that the 'world people' are finally waking to the exploitation they have endured. Social Media enables.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

International Criminal Court issue is troubling
ICC judges (not a prosecutor) issue arrest warrants against 73 people for war crimes since 2005
Virtually ALL Black & Brown accused
No outcry
Then add Putin & Hamas
No outcry
Then add Israel’s Netanyahu & Gallant
“Abolish the court”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Liz Cheney is standing by a warning she first made years ago.

In 2022: “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

Now: “Long after he’s dead and gone, those who propped him up will be held to account. For now, we wait.”

[أخبار إيران 🇮🇷 IRANNEWS @AAlsadq85680]

#عاجل الحرب الحقيقية تبدأ الان؛ لأول مرة ايران تكشف عن قاعدة عسكرية خاصة بالمقاتلات الايرانية تحت الارض بعمق يوصل الى 600متر.......
ويظهر في الفيديو لقطات تُظهر تجهيز مقاتلات إيرانية استعداداً لشن ضربات على ألقواعد الاميريكية😮🇮🇷🔥✊🏻

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

"They THREATENED my family if I pursued ISRAEL."

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC says he, ICC judges, and UN officials faced threats after pursuing cases involving Israel, warning such pressure undermines the rule of law.

@KarimKhanQC

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

Trump's second attempt to seize the Strait of Hormuz, get Iran's enriched uranium, and bring Iran to its knees failed again.

Only this time, Iran proved to be far more prepared, more powerful, more agile, and Pete Hegseth and the mainstream media are shifting the blame to Russia and China.

This means that not only is it not weakening, but with each new attack, Iran is becoming more and more powerful.

What will happen next?

Iran will increase its military and economic power with the help of China. Both Russia and China are currently sharing the same fate with heavy sanctions from the Western bloc, and will fully integrate into China's economic power.

Iran is already selling record amounts of oil to China.

New missiles will appear in their arsenal that will more easily bypass the air defense systems of the United States and Israel.

In addition, highly advanced radars and air defense systems will be popping up across Iran, making it increasingly difficult for the US and Israel to carry out air strikes.

In 5 years from now, Iran's military power, judging by previous years, will have grown dramatically.

If Trump even manages to get the enriched uranium, Iran's missiles still pose an even greater threat to Israel.

The Islamic countries in the Middle East have already been made aware of what will happen if they side with the US and Israel and try to hurt Iran, so for many of them the divorce with Israel will begin, especially in the Gulf countries.

The more Iran's military power grows, the faster Israel's days are dwindling.

Yes, this strategic defeat by Iran is that devastating for Israel…

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

Today marks 40 years since Thatcher sold off British Gas.

Remember the “Tell Sid” campaign? Turns out Sid took us all for a ride.

Thatcher called it creating a share-owning democracy. In reality, it was selling off the family silver – public assets built by generations of working people, handed over so private companies could make billions.

Forty years on, British Gas and Centrica have made obscene profits, while millions of people have struggled to keep the heating on.

That’s what happens when you run essential public utilities for private profit instead of the public good.

Energy isn’t a luxury. It should be run in the interests of the people who rely on it, not shareholders looking for bigger dividends.

Enough is enough. Time to bring our energy system back into public hands.

#TellSid #PublicOwnership #WorkersEconomy #FuelPoverty

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Alastair Crooke’s (@AWCrooke) assessment cuts to the continuous Anglo-American policy of partitioning Russia and seizing its resources—a project spanning two centuries and three major wars. The current NATO escalation with long-range strikes is the latest iteration of that same imperial design. Russia knows this history in full. Any durable resolution requires the acknowledgment of those realities that John F. Kennedy began to voice before his assassination, not the childish, decontextualized propaganda now dominating Western discourse.

“There will soon be an escalation by Russia against a close ally of the United States—against Europe. This is going to come sooner or later because the Europeans, encouraged and backed by the United States, insist on building, constructing, and designing longer- and longer-range cruise missiles and drones to attack deeper into Russia and to attack targets completely unrelated to the war effort. These attacks on the Wildberries warehouses—Wildberries is like Amazon. What would you say if Russia started attacking Amazon warehouses? You would say, “What the hell is all this about?” That is the question that needs to be asked.

What is the aim of this war for America that they say they are going to win? We know, because it is the same aim that has been there for nearly 200 years: to break up Russia, to partition it into its separate component parts, and to steal its resources. We have seen it happen three times now that war has been waged on Russia. The German war was one about empire too—expanding its empire. It was envious of Britain. Britain had India and all the resources of the East, which it plundered and made itself rich. Then Britain started preparing for war against Russia.

Even during the Second World War, when Russia was an ally fighting the Germans, at some point Britain was supposed to support Russia and provide assistance to Russia, who was stuck in Leningrad at that time. What happened? Churchill whispered to Roosevelt and said, “Look, maybe the reserves should be delayed in going there because isn’t it better that they just kill more of each other during this time? Isn’t that better?”

Then again, after the war, Churchill and Roosevelt signed this agreement to send everybody back to Stalin. There were Cossack units sent back whole to be lined up and executed. He sent back millions, refused to allow them to stay anywhere, and they came to this agreement to send them back so that they could be tried, hooded, and then executed for their betrayal of the Soviet Union. There were some desperate things. Do you think Russia does not know any of this history? Does it not know it? Does it really think that this whole war started suddenly on the date that Russia invaded Ukraine—after Kiev increased the attacks on Donbas by a factor of 17, the artillery shelling of the civilian areas of Donbas? It was obviously intended to provoke Russia into this attack in order to try to turn it into a NATO-wide conflict against Russia.

But the Russians know their history. Unlike us, they do study history. They know their history. This is a bitter conflict—long, many grudges, much ill feeling in it. But someone has to sit down. In my view, the first step was the step JFK actually took before he was assassinated, when he started to say we should acknowledge how much Russia lost fighting with us in the Second World War—how many men they lost, 27 million, how many people were lost. We should start from saying something like that. There has to be some sort of acknowledgment of the realities of what it is—not this crude, childish reducing of everything, without any context, to a decontextualized world: “Oh, Russia, it just came into Putin’s head that he wanted to be an emperor again, and so he took part of Ukraine.” This is the sort of stuff you would not even get from a seven-year-old child writing an essay at school.”

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Alastair Crooke’s (@AWCrooke) assessment registers the irreversible shift: America’s failure to reduce Iran to a vassal accelerates the BRICS realignment and seals China’s role as the principal development partner across Southwest Asia. The Gulf states themselves are already pivoting toward infrastructure and production-based cooperation with Beijing and Moscow. The Middle East is being absorbed into Greater Asia while the trans-Atlantic system is left isolated. This is the Eurasian development order asserting itself against a collapsing imperial order.

“First of all, it strengthens the BRICS because they can see a weakening America. If America has failed to subordinate Iran and reduce it to a vassal, then it will not succeed with either Russia or China. Those states will take strong encouragement from Iran winning the war, and it will increase China’s insistence on a close relationship with Iran to secure its oil supply.

China is moving fast. It sees a great threat from America—not the same threat that Iran is under, but a threat to undermine its economic growth and its economy in the interests of stimulating the American economy, but it is not going to capitulate, either. I can assure you they are not going to.

It is not much of a competition in the Middle East. Everyone will welcome China to the Middle East. Do not be under any illusions. Even the Gulf states will all be seeking a bigger, bolder relationship with China and Russia. That is quite clear. China will do it on terms that are reasonable, not colonialist or exploitative; they will provide infrastructure and money for development to states, and the relationship will be closer.

The region will be absorbed into Asia. The Middle East will become a part of Greater Asia. China does not want to lead it, but it will be one of the most important powers in this new structure and Europe and America will be isolated. China is going to win.”

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Alastair Crooke’s (@AWCrooke) assessment exposes the irreversible breakdown of the petrodollar system that has sustained the Anglo-American financial oligarchy since 1973. Control of Hormuz now rests with a sovereign Iran, forcing the Gulf states to abandon the speculative casino economy and return to real production. The war’s expansion into Iraq signals the final expulsion of imperial power from Southwest Asia and the absorption of the region into the Eurasian development order.

“Trump will at some point have to acknowledge that Hormuz is in the power and the possession of Iran and that they will charge fees for passage through what is not international waters but the territorial waters of Iran. The other water corridors will not be allowed.

This will be the resolution. Ultimately the Gulf states, who say they won’t accept this at the moment, will not have much alternative and will have to accept it. The prospects facing them are quite dark because this is also going to end the petrodollar economy that has brought us all these gleaming skyscraper buildings in the Gulf states. That whole architecture has to go. It will go. It was based on the petrodollar. It was entirely based on the period after 1973 and the huge increase in the price of oil—something we’re seeing a little bit of now.

At that point the United States encouraged the Gulf states to deal in oil providing that they traded in dollars and remitted all of their savings back to the United States. That was the fuel for the financialized economy that then broke out in the United States and became even more implanted after the 2008 great financial crisis. This is a completely different economy from a real economy. This is what I call a casino economy. It’s all about insider trading. It’s all about the margins. It’s arbitrage between the morning and afternoon rates, between what is happening in Japan today and what is happening in Japan tomorrow. It produces nothing except huge wealth for the oligarchy.

There is no support for that continuing. Overall, in the non-West they want—and Iran wants—the Gulf to go back to a real economy, something that provides for the people, that provides things and food and whatever their needs, and has to produce that.

Eventually Iran will be a prominent, if not a dominant, power in the Middle East, and the Gulf states will either come to terms with this and change or they will disappear. It will be a different Middle East, and that will have wide repercussions across the region.

What is missing from this instinctive analysis in the White House is the other point about what he has brought about and what the White House has brought about. It doesn’t really get through in the Western press much, but the war is spreading. It’s widening. It’s not just Yemen. It’s not just Lebanon. It is not just Syria. It is now Iraq.”

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

America banned chip exports to China thinking it would cripple them. It did the opposite.

Every Chinese schoolchild learns about the Opium Wars. They learn they cannot rely on the West.

So when America says "you cannot have this technology," it inspires the Chinese to replace it themselves.

The bans forced their engineers to find new ways to produce low-micron chips and pack enormous processing power into small bundles.

DeepSeek V4 now achieves 80 to 90 percent of top American model performance at 10 percent of the cost.

Where Americans used brute force, the Chinese used intelligence. They cut down the computational load, found the overkill, and got most of the answers with far less energy.

Then they made it open source. You can load it on your own hardware. No data centre needed.

China's Politburo is dominated by engineers. America is run by economists and lawyers.

The engineers built an 800-volt transmission system before AI arrived. The economists never thought about it.

That is why I believe the Chinese were set up to win this contest before it even began.

For a more comprehensive understanding, please refer to the video presentation with Andrew Neil in the comment section.

#SteveKeen #ChinaAI #DeepSeek #AICompetition #ChipWar #OpenSource #Economics #ArtificialIntelligence

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

#ULTIMAHORA La verdad que EEUU e Israel no quiere que se sepa

Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán, Abbas Arakçi:

«Egipto cobra entre 200.000 y 700.000 dólares por cada paso por el Canal de Suez; para grandes buques portacontenedores o petroleros, esta cifra puede superar el millón de dólares.

Turquía cobra una tarifa de paso por el Bósforo de Estambul.

Canadá cobra una tarifa por la Vía Marítima de San Lorenzo.

Panamá recauda entre 100.000 y 450.000 dólares por cada paso; el costo de paso por el Canal de Panamá de grandes buques Neopanamax alcanza los 500.000 dólares.

Estados Unidos cobra una tarifa por la Vía Marítima de San Lorenzo.

Irán, por su parte, ha rechazado cobrar tarifas por el Estrecho de Ormuz durante décadas. ¡Ha hecho los pasos gratuitos! A pesar de todas las calumnias, sanciones e aislamiento a las que ha estado sometido, lo ha hecho. ¿Y aún esperan que crea que el "malo" aquí es Irán?»

#UrgenteCOMPARTAN #RTMasivo #IranWar‌ 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

They took Charlie out cuz he was against their war

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🤩🚀🇷🇺IMPRESSIVE FOOTAGE OF RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM IN ACTION

🚀Clash Report has published a video showing, as claimed, a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system shooting down a Ukrainian FP-2 kamikaze drone just seconds before it was set to strike a Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg.

Whether it was indeed a Pantsir or another anti-drone system, the published footage suggests that air defense systems are already being installed near Wildberries warehouses.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

“Vulnerable” aircraft carriers are about Britain “counting for something in the world” and being an “effective ally” of the US, declassified files show

👉‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education
https://t.co/ma7d930Qu5

[الموجز الروسي | Russia news 🇷🇺 @mog_Russ]

ضربات أوديسا تجبر العمالقة على الفرار.. الدنماركية "Maersk" توقف سفنها المتجهة لأوكرانيا! 🇷🇺🇺🇦

أكبر شركات الشحن أعلنت إيقاف خطوطها البحرية نحو الموانئ الأوكرانية في اعتراف واضح بفاعلية الضربات الروسية.

الآن عليهم اللجوء للبحث عن ملاذات بديلة في رومانيا!

[China en Español @ChinaEnEsp]

🇨🇳🇺🇸Antony Blinken, ex Secretario de Estado de EE.UU., reconoció recientemente.

“China es más grande que nosotros. Su mercado es mucho más grande. Su manufactura es tres veces la nuestra. Tienen más barcos. Presentan más papers y más patentes.
Por fuerte que seamos, competir uno contra uno puede ser difícil.”

Esto no es propaganda china. Es una admisión directa desde Washington sobre la escala real de China en manufactura, capacidad industrial, innovación y poder naval.

China ha construido esta posición a través de inversión sostenida, planificación a largo plazo y desarrollo de fuerzas productivas, combinando dirección estatal con dinamismo de mercado.

¿Crees que esta admisión marca un cambio en cómo Occidente percibe el ascenso chino?

¿O sigue siendo solo retórica?

Comenta tu análisis abajo

[princess leonor @princesslenors]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️thanks you all for your support 🌹

[Gabriel C. @Gabriel_Cas_Cer]

Lo material no siempre te hace rico, date un minuto y acompáñame en esta historia:

El hombre de esta fotografía no es un pobre, ni un mendigo, ni un vagabundo. Este hombre es León Tolstoi: uno de los gigantes de la literatura rusa, todo el mundo conoce su nombre, pocos conocen la extraordinaria historia que se esconde tras esta fotografía:
A los cincuenta años, Tolstoi cayó en una depresión. Su tristeza aumentaba día a día, sin razón alguna. Tolstoi era conde, uno de los hombres más ricos de su país, famoso en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, era infeliz. «El dinero no era nada, el poder no era nada. Se veía a muchos que tenían lo uno y lo otro y eran infelices. Incluso la salud no importaba mucho; había gente enferma llena de ganas de vivir y gente sana que se marchitaba angustiada por el miedo a sufrir».
Un día, en la avenida Afanasevsky, vio a un huérfano y, conmovido por la compasión, se lo llevó a su casa. Y por primera vez en mucho tiempo, se sintió bien. Se olvidó de sí mismo, de sus problemas, de su tristeza. A partir de ese momento, Tolstoi renunció a sus ropas de caballero, a sus lujos y privilegios y comenzó a llevar una vida sencilla, regalando lo que poseía a los necesitados.
“No me hables de religión, de caridad, de amor”, solía decir, “sino muéstrame la religión en tus acciones”. Tolstoi fue también el primer teórico de la no violencia, predicó la fraternidad entre los pueblos y sus ideas inspiraron a otra gran figura del siglo XX, Mahatma Gandhi. Hasta el día de su muerte siguió ayudando a los demás, por eso muchos decían que estaba loco. En un mundo donde sólo cuenta el tener, poseer cosas e incluso personas, donde todos quieren tomar pero nadie sabe dar, Tolstoi parecía un loco.
Un día, un viejo amigo suyo, que, a diferencia de Tolstoi, vivía en la comodidad y el lujo, le dijo: «¿Qué sentido tiene hacer todo esto? ¿Qué te importan los demás? Deberías pensar en ti mismo». A lo que Tolstoi respondió: «Si sientes dolor, estás vivo, pero si sientes el dolor de los demás, eres humano»…

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The most interesting thing about Right to Buy is it should have meant Councils had loads of money to build new Council Houses

But actually they stopped

Because Thatcher blocked Councils from using this money to build houses and cut their budget from central Government.

Because of their increased incomes.

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

Tim 'Brexit' Martin announces that shares in Wetherspoons have plummeted and it is expected to post a debt of £720million at the end of the financial year.
He blames rising costs for workers, food, energy and property taxes all caused by Brexit.
https://t.co/Rx4boAd2a8