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[Buddy Bates @MCCLALifeDraw]

@seekersomething @mhmd_s09 Price? Sure, gold is probably cheaper now too- what is price without money? And availability? Google Israelis blocking food aid for years, posted by blockaders themselves - the idf loves to show what a paradise they’ve made of Gaza so much Ellison had to buy &“clean up” TikTok

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Cuba’s🇨🇺 achievements in healthcare despite the illegal US embargo:

• Cuba has of the highest doctor-to-population ratios in the world, with roughly 8 doctors per 1,000 people, several times the global average.

• First country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis (WHO validated, 2015). Cuba reduced HIV transmission from mother to child below 2%, with only 2 babies born with HIV and 3 with congenital syphilis in 2013.

• Medical internationalism: More than 600,000 Cuban healthcare professionals have served in over 160 countries since the 1960s, responding to disasters, epidemics, and healthcare shortages.

• Developed the world’s first effective vaccine against meningococcal B meningitis. Cuba’s VA-MENGOC-BC vaccine was introduced in 1989, tackling a disease that had caused major outbreaks.

• Created Heberprot-P, a treatment for diabetic foot ulcers that has reportedly reduced the need for amputations in many patients and has been used in dozens of countries.

• Built a biotechnology sector from scratch despite decades of illegal unilateral sanctions. Cuba now produces the majority of its own vaccines and exports medical products internationally.

• Developed multiple COVID-19 vaccines, including Abdala and Soberana, becoming one of the few countries in the Global South to create and manufacture its own COVID vaccines.

• Infant mortality is comparable to many developed countries, despite Cuba’s much lower GDP per capita. Cuba’s infant mortality rate has often been lower than that of the USA.

• Near-universal vaccination coverage, with childhood vaccination rates consistently above 95% for many major diseases.

• Universal healthcare coverage, providing free access to primary care, specialist care, hospitalisation, and preventive medicine nationwide.

These are reasons Trump and Rubio want to destroy Cuba; because Cuba didn’t only dare to resist the suffocating US embargo, but also showed the world that it could triumph with an alternative model of development.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

“Dictatorship” is when Joseph Stalin suppresses enemies.
“Democracy” is when the West strangles an entire nation with sanctions for decades.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Males who may be children" is a new one.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

NEW: Democrats hold a supermajority in California yet they just blocked a single-payer healthcare bill because like the national party the state parties are corrupt & controlled by corporate interests.

Voting blue does not bring democracy. It solidifies the capitalist oligarchy.

[Buddy Bates @MCCLALifeDraw]

@DavidSuslenskiy @Glenn_Diesen 🤣credit card debt, medical debt, student debt, real estate inflation… manufacturing? Weapons at super inflated prices

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

66 years ago today, the U.S. gov issued a memo detailing the means to destroy the Cuban Revolution.

"The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction."

In 2026, the strategy hasn’t changed.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

While bombing universities and power plants in Iran, Israel found time to blow up the towns of Naqoura and Taybeh in Southern Lebanon

Terrorist multi tasking

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The Jews of Iran were safe…

until the US-Israeli terror coalition bombed them

Zionism seeks to destabilize the last major Jewish community in the region that’s outside its control, pushing its members to relocate to the hate-filled, hyper-militarized frontiers of “Israel”

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

A resurfaced clip of Hillary Clinton from 2008 is circulating online in which she says, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

It’s Iranian propaganda that a primary school was hit in Iran, killing 160+ people, most of them children aged between 7 and 12.

Ok, those kids did die. But it wasn’t from a US missile. It was an Iranian missile that hit the school.

Ok, the evidence shows it was a US Tomahawk. But it could have been one sold to the UK or the Netherlands.

Ok, neither of those countries was involved at the start of the war. But it must have been an unfortunate accident.

Ok, the US targeted the school twice. But c’mon, who locates a primary school near a military base?

Ok, the Israelis and Americans do that too. But …

Hey, why should I even care about brown kids getting killed.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The US and the Israeli regime have massive stockpiles of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. But the most lethal weapon in the hands of the US-Israel Axis and their media and corporate proxies is the engineered ignorance of the American people. In place of facts, history, geography, law, and ethics, Americans are raised on a diet of myths, lies, distortions, fear, and hatred of “the other.” The vacuum of their knowledge is then filled by corrupted US politicians and media corporations with the propaganda of the US empire and the hasbara of the Israeli regime, so that they can be manipulated into supporting any atrocity. The result is endless aggression, war, and genocide abroad and fomented bigotry, deprivation, and inequality at home. #FreeYourMind

[Buddy Bates @MCCLALifeDraw]

@Kanarymine4 @ricwe123 @Limare64 Sure, like when the Anglo Lutherans couldn’t beat the seminoles after decades they launched an ambush under a flag of truce in 1840 to capture Osceola

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The most deadly attack on a medical facility in world history might be Bill Clinton's 1998 attack on the Al-Shifa medicine factory near Khartoum.

Fourteen cruise missiles hit the plant, turning what had been one of the most important pharmaceutical buildings in Africa into rubble.

Although not a hospital, the destruction of Al-Shifa was vastly more lethal than any other attack listed, as crucial antibiotics, antimalarial, and diarrhea medications were now non-existent in the country.

The German Ambassador to Sudan estimated the death toll of the strike as "many tens of thousands".

Virtually nobody in the United States has heard of the incident.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No bro this US war in the middle east will be completely different, bro. See, this time the regime we're trying to get rid of is REALLY BAD!

No no, this is nothing like all those other times. This time military interventionism to topple an oil-rich government in west Asia will lead to peace and democracy. Our soldiers will be greeted as liberators!

You don't understand, bro. This time the government and the media are telling us the truth! This time the regime really IS committing mass atrocities and they really ARE trying to build weapons of mass destruction.

Why are you acting so skeptical? If it turns out our leaders were wrong and this war was a bad idea, I'm sure they'll admit their mistakes and course-correct immediately to set things right, and then implement major, sweeping policy changes to make sure they never repeat the same mistakes again. What could possibly go wrong?

I know you think this will be a disaster like all those other US military interventions in the region, but you see, unlike all those other times, this time there are many foreign policy analysts from highly respected think tanks and mass media outlets assuring us that it will go perfectly fine.

If bombing Iran was a bad idea they would have told us so in the news. The news isn't allowed to lie about important things like this.

This time is completely different because this time there are people from the targeted country who say they don’t like their government. If that country didn’t need American bombs dropped on it, every single person from that country would love the government.

No this isn’t like all those other times. This time it’s about bringing freedom and democracy to a poor oppressed population, and it’s about fighting terrorism, and it’s about women’s rights, and it’s about bringing peace and stability to the region. Don’t you agree that those are good and worthy goals? Why do you hate freedom?

I'm beginning to suspect that you just love tyrannical regimes. There is no other possible reason anyone could oppose US military interventionism to topple a government in the middle east. Also you hate Jews.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

“One man of popularity can let the world know the problem. He might lose a few dollars himself telling the truth, might lose his life, but he's helping millions. But if I kept my mouth shut because I can make millions–this ain't doing nothing. I just love freedom and flesh and blood of my people more than I do the money.”–Muhammad Ali (1971)