Mike

Global Citizen... Keep on Keeping on

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

I'm devastated for the family and friends of Jason Arday.

He faced an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse. I know many Londoners will be angry and upset this evening.

Jason Arday was the victim of a pernicious public shaming that other people in his position simply wouldn’t have faced.

His death was a tragedy, but once again it should be a wake up call for all of us.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.

Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.

We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.

All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?

[Iran Embassy in DR Congo @IranInDRCongo]

Sais-tu pourquoi toutes les guerres portent le nom du pays attaqué ?
– Guerre du Vietnam
– Guerre de Corée
– Guerre d’Irak
– Guerre d’Iran…
Parce que si elles portaient le nom du pays agresseur, elles s’appelleraient toutes la Guerre des États-Unis !

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions

The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system

We are reporting this because British media can not

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@ME_Observer_ Will the real Netanyahu please stand up

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This video of Israel soldiers casually throwing what appears to be a Palestinian youth off from the roof of a building has shocked the world.

Look how comfortable they walk away after throwing the youth to his death.

As if they have done it 100s of times before.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

They’re dragging her all over the internet because she isn’t afraid to speak about Zionist crimes..

She’s so unbothered by all their noise, I love it.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In the last 3 (!) negotiations with Iran, the U.S.-Israel have killed the negotiators, including Kamal Kharrazi, 81, who died from his injuries today. His wife was almost killed.

Israel also killed Hamas negotiators every chance they got. We are the least self aware people to ever live.

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@PaulRieckhoff Wow, not even a mention of the Minab girls, let alone other war crimes. Not sure why this came on my timeline, but can’t listen anymore after a few seconds, even though ostensibly looks like we should be aligned

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@AvidFan4u @Channel4News @krishgm Let’s not forget the deafening silence on the Venezuela blockade, invasion and kidnapping

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

International law needs to be justly enforceable without fear or favour nor falling prey to the Thucydidean might of any entity. It won’t be perfect. As a start we can model on effective national systems and even how laws are enforced upon corporate bodies and natural persons.

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

UN 2.0 the world needs a pact whereby if any country is targeted the others are legally obligated to commensurately assist it and if a country is in breach the others are legally obligated to counteract it. The pact needs a means of proportionate investment by all members such..

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

..that it can face the challenges of any potential rogue state with unipolar ambitions to undermine it i.e. a real global community not served by self interest and with protective measures against corrupt temptations, true collaboration, a UN with teeth

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Gaza:

▪️A peer-reviewed study in The Lancet Global Health estimated 75,200 violent deaths between October 7, 2023, and January 5, 2025.

▪️Over 65,000 additional deaths from starvation.

▪️Women and children comprise approximately 60% to 70% of total fatalities.

▪️An additional 10,000 people are estimated to be missing and presumed buried under rubble. 

▪️Over 80% of buildings in Gaza are reported to be damaged or destroyed, with an estimated 320,000+ housing units affected and over 60 million tonnes of rubble created.

Hell on earth. And there is absolutely no justification for this scale of atrocity whatsoever.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Just checking if it's still "blood libel" and "antisemitic" to raise concerns about this?

[Clash Report @clashreport]

American Journalist Abby Martin on her visit to Israel:

The whole world has to isolate this rogue… state. Shame anyone who goes there.

You cannot expect change in a society this far gone.

We’re seeing essentially the fourth Reich today marching forward.

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@jacksonhinkle Is it the effects of medication? Someone please save him ..and the world. He’s spiralling

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@JonGericke @88KOS @zilevandamme In any case, why should the US be the standard bearer in everything. Isn’t the world f’ed up enough already. Imperialist mindset. We need more free thinking not infantilisation. Trial and much error is baked into the places you look to. The dearth of ideas is the death of ideas.

[Mike @ISaidWhatEyeSee]

@mehdirhasan @megynkelly Even the lowest charlatans are coming out from the cracks now. The end must be closer than we thought.

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

Yvette Cooper was apoplectic over 4 burnt out ambulances in London, but is only “deeply troubled” over the loss of life in Lebanon.