Liz Screen

Socialist who want a fair society for all

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The real scandal here is that the media along with the Democrats are more upset about the fact that Signal was used to make plans to bomb Yemen than they are about the fact that we bombed another country and killed 8 innocent children.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

As a Holocaust Survivor, Israel’s genocide in Gaza is not done in my name.

I see echoes of the Holocaust in Gaza today:

Dehumanisation, humiliation, large-scale killings, destruction of families and the determination in which they are destroying the whole of Gaza is very similar to the cruelty of the fascist regimes.

What happened to the Jewish people, the industrial scale of extermination and invisible emotional pain, is so horrendous that it should never be repeated anywhere in the world.

That is why we say not in our name and Never Again.

Fascism thrives on indifference and the general public being intimidated or looking the other way due to self-preservation.

Don’t look the other way.

Be brave, and on the right side of history.

Stephen Kapos

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

On this day in 1960, Congolese independence leader, anti-colonial and Pan-Africanist icon Patrice Lumumba is assassinated after a coup that was backed by the US and Belgium. US President Eisenhower ordered the CIA to ‘eliminate’ Patrice Lumumba.

For daring to oppose Belgian colonialism and US domination of Congo’s natural resources, Lumumba was executed by firing squad on the 17th of January 1961 after being tortured. Before being killed, the colonial conspirators tried to force Lumumba to eat the paper on which his Independence Day speech was written on. After being executed, his body was dissolved in acid.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

I do not believe this post has been retweeted so few times- I just don’t believe it ….

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

To stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, we need to see widespread sanctions and an end to all arms exports.

Given the Government has imposed widespread sanctions on Russia for its war crimes, in Parliament I asked the Minister why won't it do the same for Israel's war crimes?

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Mick Lynch Dismantles The Media & Keir Starmer @RMTunion

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Well that was quick.
After today's installation of the US puppet general as Lebanese President, the Israeli killer drones above our heads have immediately been replaced by American ones.
I feel no less threatened.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Billionaires should not own social media platforms.

Billionaires should not run our newspapers.

Billionaires should not control our politics.

A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

lsraeI admitted they put a child in solitary confinement for four years. 15 days is a war crime

They admitted he was innocent

They admitted they gave him depression and schizophrenia

Who does that?

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This gentleman is spot-fucking-on about Elon Musk. 🎯🎯🎯👇

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Another day in Israel's never-ending genocide: 59 Palestinians killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours. Not a happy new year, it turns out https://t.co/nDKSO5gHR9

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Did you vote for this?

Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Corporate profiteering
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Poor housing

But it happens. Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
https://t.co/sz2Ljw18WL

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Former Business Secretary Badenoch’s dept wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over tax breaks.

Rich demand tax cuts & changes in law, Ministers jump.

Poor get real wage/benefit cuts, NHS queues, crumbling schools ... Minister heap misery

Who governs?
https://t.co/OgjLlnOULq

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Possibilities of democracy have been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites.

Political donations are effectively bribes to shape public choices, with no accountability of the donors.

The only effective remedy is to ban all donations/bribes.
https://t.co/sz2Ljw18WL

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Curse of Private Equity.

PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools and hospitals through the PFI scheme.

Yet govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services and the NHS to it.

https://t.co/SzvO4IaNwH

[Liz Screen @LizScreen1942]

@PetreSolheim @NuryVittachi Why on earth would Russia hand over its oil to Exxon?

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THIS WEEK IS the 10th anniversary of one of the most astonishingly successful predictions of modern journalism.

On May 13, 2014, legendary investigative journalist John Pilger wrote an article in the UK Guardian titled: “In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia”.

The US had taken control of Ukraine and would use it to provoke Russia into getting involved, Pilger prophesied. The result would be a Nato war in Europe.

“Nato's military encirclement [of Russia] has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine,” Pilger wrote. “If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained ‘pariah’ role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.”

The resulting CIA-manufactured war would be portrayed by the media as a Russian attack. Vladimir Putin would be “subjected to a western media campaign of vilification”, he wrote.
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TURNING HISTORY UPSIDE DOWN
How was the US working to trigger a conflict? Ethnic Russians in Ukraine (one third of the population were Russian speakers) were being treated so badly that Putin would have no option but to come to their aid.

History was already being turned upside down, Pilger argued. “We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.”

Pilger had no doubt that the United States was running Ukraine, and America’s foreign policy was dictated by the CIA. Ukraine was run “as a CIA theme park”, he said.
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BLAMING THE VICTIMS
When the Ukrainian government bussed thugs to Odessa, where they burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 Russian speakers trapped inside (while the police watched without interfering), the victims were blamed.

The Wall Street Journal’s headline was "Deadly Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels, Government Says”.’

Pilger described the British as frequent “collaborators” with the US.

Perhaps the most shocking thing of all is that the article was printed in the UK Guardian – a paper that today has, like the rest of the western media, followed the CIA script to the letter, beatifying the US/ Nato/ Ukrainian side, exonerating Ukraine’s Nazi elements, and vilifying Putin.

John Pilger died at the age of 84 in December last year, and was himself vilified by the western media for saying that China showed the world that a nation can rise peacefully without wars.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

"Assange showed the media is an appendage of established power. He shone a light on that and that was unforgivable"

-John Pilger (1939-2023) on Going Underground

Watch our John Pilger tribute episode: https://t.co/oeqo0dUO6h

[John Pilger @johnpilger]

On the anniversary of John's death Joe Lauria from @Consortiumnews has paid tribute to his life and career
https://t.co/mA77TgLa8H

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

Sheltering in churches, Gaza’s Christians face another Christmas under fire

Read the report by @ruwaidaamer8 through the link.

https://t.co/BWZORjXH7H