Gerd Brodowski

Ordinary average guy. If I can‘t dance, it‘s not my revolution.

[CovertAction Magazine @CovertActionMag]

Famed Writer Featured in New Documentary Provided a Literary Equivalent to the FBI’s COINTELPRO https://t.co/T8QmKDjd7v via @CovertActionMag

[Hanan Ashrawi @DrHananAshrawi]

Forced thirst is a form of torture. Water deprivation is the destruction of all forms of life. Stop #IsraeliCrimes

[National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee @WarTaxResister]

Why #divest from #war? $1.3 trillion in military spending PER YEAR. https://t.co/o6cbC8d0vr

[Gerd Brodowski @LaughingGerd]

Ey, Leute - was 'ne Fäule. Bin dann mal wech, nech: Tröööööt!

[Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty_de]

X/Twitter ändert die Datenschutzrichtinien:

@X will künftig biometrische User-Daten sammeln und sich Zugriff auf verschlüsselte Nachrichten verschaffen.

Diese neue "privacy policy" ist eine massive Bedrohung für die Privatsphäre von Millionen Usern!

https://t.co/PQgI64Gvv5

[Reaching Critical Will @RCW_]

At the #UNGA high-level debate, governments critiqued rising military spending, nuclear violence, use of explosive weapons, and other global inequalities and harms. As @achesonray writes in their report, solidarity at the UN requires justice, not war. 📰: https://t.co/lnqH7Y8sC3

[Wiesengrund @saw7913]

Flüchtlinge sind NICHT das Problem!

[Menno Baumann @prof_m_baumann]

Schon irgendwie lustig, wie sich Leute ohne den geringsten Hauch von Ahnung über Straßenkriminalität (v.a. International) an Schweden auf[zensiert] & die Situation vergleichen können… die Kommentare sind pures Gold - oder wie hieß das Zeug, das Möwen beim Fliegen fallenlassen 🤪

[Sea-Watch @seawatchcrew]

Zweifellos besteht die sogenannte libysche Küstenwache, die von Italien und Europa finanziert und bewaffnet wird, aus skrupellosen Verbrecher:innen. Europas Unterstützung für Menschenrechtsverletzungen muss jetzt enden! [3/3]

[Franziska Grillmeier @f_grillmeier]

https://t.co/YTRXPOjF94

[Gerd Brodowski @LaughingGerd]

@DrJillStein https://t.co/hisI0foQda

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People Are Dying For Inches In Ukraine, The “World’s Largest Arms Fair”

There’s a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.

The graphic comes from a New York Times article titled “Who’s Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One.”, which eventually gets around to acknowledging that Russia has actually gained more ground than Ukraine in 2023 despite Kyiv’s much-hyped counteroffensive which began in June.

“When both sides’ gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory in Ukraine compared with the start of the year,” the Times reports.

As Left I on the News noted on Twitter, this contradicts the titular claim in another New York Times article published last week under the headline “Ukraine Has Gained Ground. But It Has Much Further To Go.”

The reason the map of gains and losses is so heartbreaking is because so much has been given up for so very, very little. At least tens of thousands have died in this war with hundreds of thousands wounded, all for those teeny, tiny little blips on the map. Ukraine is now freckled with more landmines than anywhere else on earth, which experts say will take decades to clear. This giant deathtrap is exacerbated by the cluster munitions that are covering the land with greater and greater frequency, which will go on to detonate and kill civilians (mostly children) for years to come. The mines and artillery fire on the frontline of this war are reportedly creating tens of thousands of amputees, numbers comparable to what was seen in World War I.

And all for what? Essentially nothing. A few inches gained here, a few inches lost there. The meaninglessness of it all is probably one of the reasons why military-aged Ukrainian men have been fleeing and attempting to flee the nation in droves to avoid conscription.

War is the worst thing in the world. The suffering, trauma and loss of mass military violence is too much to comprehend, even for people who are right there experiencing it. And the only thing worse than a war where one side gets completely steamrolled by the other is one in which people keep killing each other and killing each other over tiny gains and losses on the battlefield without an end to the nightmare anywhere on the horizon.

And now we see western officials and media outlets telling us all to prepare for this war to drag on for years, potentially into the 2030s. This nonsensical violence, which even the head of NATO now admits could have been avoided by simply ceasing to amass a western military threat on Russia’s doorstep, is scheduled to drag on as long as possible for no grander reason than the advancement of US strategic interests.

This news from The New York Times comes out at the same time as a Wall Street Journal article titled “The War in Ukraine Is Also a Giant Arms Fair,” subtitled “Arms makers are getting orders for weapons being put to the test on the battlefield.”

“The Panzerhaubitze howitzer is part of an arsenal of weapons being put to the test in Ukraine in what has become the world’s largest arms fair,” writes WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald. “Companies that make the weapons being used in Ukraine have won orders and resurrected production lines. The deployment of billions of dollars worth of equipment in a major land war has also given manufacturers and militaries a unique opportunity to analyze the battlefield performance of weapons, and learn how best to use them.”

This is one of those things that just sounds a bit uncomfortable at first, but if you really sit with the words and deeply contemplate what’s being said here it will show up as so deeply evil it will give you nightmares. The fact that weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and deliberately provoked war is one of the most depraved things you can possibly imagine, and is a clear sign that we are living in a profoundly sick society.

This is so, so ugly, and it’s slated to get even uglier — these freaks haven’t even gotten started on China yet. The sooner this monstrous power structure can be brought to its knees, the better it will be for everyone.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People Are Dying For Inches In Ukraine, The “World’s Largest Arms Fair”

There’s a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.

The graphic comes from a New York Times article titled “Who’s Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One.”, which eventually gets around to acknowledging that Russia has actually gained more ground than Ukraine in 2023 despite Kyiv’s much-hyped counteroffensive which began in June.

“When both sides’ gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory in Ukraine compared with the start of the year,” the Times reports.

As Left I on the News noted on Twitter, this contradicts the titular claim in another New York Times article published last week under the headline “Ukraine Has Gained Ground. But It Has Much Further To Go.”

The reason the map of gains and losses is so heartbreaking is because so much has been given up for so very, very little. At least tens of thousands have died in this war with hundreds of thousands wounded, all for those teeny, tiny little blips on the map. Ukraine is now freckled with more landmines than anywhere else on earth, which experts say will take decades to clear. This giant deathtrap is exacerbated by the cluster munitions that are covering the land with greater and greater frequency, which will go on to detonate and kill civilians (mostly children) for years to come. The mines and artillery fire on the frontline of this war are reportedly creating tens of thousands of amputees, numbers comparable to what was seen in World War I.

And all for what? Essentially nothing. A few inches gained here, a few inches lost there. The meaninglessness of it all is probably one of the reasons why military-aged Ukrainian men have been fleeing and attempting to flee the nation in droves to avoid conscription.

War is the worst thing in the world. The suffering, trauma and loss of mass military violence is too much to comprehend, even for people who are right there experiencing it. And the only thing worse than a war where one side gets completely steamrolled by the other is one in which people keep killing each other and killing each other over tiny gains and losses on the battlefield without an end to the nightmare anywhere on the horizon.

And now we see western officials and media outlets telling us all to prepare for this war to drag on for years, potentially into the 2030s. This nonsensical violence, which even the head of NATO now admits could have been avoided by simply ceasing to amass a western military threat on Russia’s doorstep, is scheduled to drag on as long as possible for no grander reason than the advancement of US strategic interests.

This news from The New York Times comes out at the same time as a Wall Street Journal article titled “The War in Ukraine Is Also a Giant Arms Fair,” subtitled “Arms makers are getting orders for weapons being put to the test on the battlefield.”

“The Panzerhaubitze howitzer is part of an arsenal of weapons being put to the test in Ukraine in what has become the world’s largest arms fair,” writes WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald. “Companies that make the weapons being used in Ukraine have won orders and resurrected production lines. The deployment of billions of dollars worth of equipment in a major land war has also given manufacturers and militaries a unique opportunity to analyze the battlefield performance of weapons, and learn how best to use them.”

This is one of those things that just sounds a bit uncomfortable at first, but if you really sit with the words and deeply contemplate what’s being said here it will show up as so deeply evil it will give you nightmares. The fact that weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and deliberately provoked war is one of the most depraved things you can possibly imagine, and is a clear sign that we are living in a profoundly sick society.

This is so, so ugly, and it’s slated to get even uglier — these freaks haven’t even gotten started on China yet. The sooner this monstrous power structure can be brought to its knees, the better it will be for everyone.

[Gerd Brodowski @LaughingGerd]

THIS! 👇👇👇

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Both parties just condemned generations of children to death and misery, endorsing warmonger Biden's use of cluster bombs in Ukraine. There is no lesser evil party. https://t.co/eHhG74dpEv

[KZ-Gedenk- und Dokumentationsstätte Porta Westf. @kzgedenkporta]

Die Kolleginnen und Kollegen der Gedenkstätte #Stalag326 sehen sich unter den aktuellen Umständen dazu gezwungen die #Gedenkstätte bis auf weiteres zu schließen. Ein schwarzer Tag für die Erinnerungskultur und die demokratische Bildungsarbeit in #NRW und speziell bei uns in #OWL.

[Sea-Watch International @seawatch_intl]

⚠️Attempted murder today in the Mediterranean by the so-called Libyan coastguard! We cannot know if and how many people lost their lives. However, the survivors, who made it aboard the libyan patrol vessel are now illegally forced back to #Libya. [1/2]

[Gerd Brodowski @LaughingGerd]

@davidsvine Thank you for your information - unfortunately, I had not heard anything about it until now.

[David Vine @davidsvine]

Exiled #Chagossians have struggled to return home for > 50 years. They were deported by US & UK governments during construction of a US military base on Diego Garcia. 

Learn about Chagossians' struggle for justice @ an urgent moment w/ negotiations about their future underway!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Julian Assange is in prison for exposing the truth about war crimes.

It was an honour to visit him in Belmarsh prison with @LenMcCluskey.

[Martin Glasenapp @MartinGlasenapp]

Mehmana (Μεχμανά) war das einzige griechische Dorf in #Bergkarabach. Seit Beginn des 19. Jh. lebten hier Pontosgriechen aus der heutigen Türkei. Jetzt kontrolliert Aserbaidschan den Ort. Alle Einwohner flohen. Damit endet auch die griechische Siedlungsgeschichte in der Region.

[Euronews Earth @euronewsgreen]

"I have never seen anything like this" 👇
https://t.co/2UuhBmdmR9