The "mighty U.S. dollar" is apparently so "mighty" that you need to threaten countries so they don't abandon it...
BRICS countries should totally take him to his word and go ahead with this: 100% tariffs on BRICS products would actually further undermine the dollar. It'd reduce demand for it due to reduced trade, and it'd cause significant inflation in the US, also negative for the dollar. This is akin to saying "if you try to undermine the dollar, I'll do it as well" 😅
Confirmed, according to reports, an Israeli tank opened fire on the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura, Lebanon, which resulted in two peacekeepers being wounded. This incident occurred as part of ongoing conflicts, particularly between Israel and Hezbollah, with the UN peacekeeping force positioned in the area to maintain peace and security along the Israel-Lebanon border.
See this report
They hate every peace advocate, remembering the assassination of Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948 after writing a report for the United Nations based on the destroyed Palestinian villages he saw.
https://t.co/0godzkiTUM
Extraordinary text by Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a former IDF soldier who's now the world's leading scholar on genocide and the Holocaust: https://t.co/BCjj3HNeUC
He directly compares the ideology in today's Israel to that of Nazi Germany, says Israel is committing genocide and that it might be headed towards "self-annihilation".
Some extracts:
"[Israel has adopted a] logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood. Look at what happened to us in 1918, German soldiers said in 1942, recalling the propagandistic “stab-in-the-back” myth, which attributed Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the first world war to Jewish and communist treason. Look at what happened to us in the Holocaust, when we trusted that others would come to our rescue, IDF troops say in 2024, thereby giving themselves licence for indiscriminate destruction based on a false analogy between Hamas and the Nazis...
I told [some Zionist students] the story of how, in 1930, the German student union was democratically taken over by the Nazis. The students of that time felt betrayed by the loss of the first world war, the loss of opportunity because of the economic crisis, and the loss of land and prestige in the wake of the humiliating peace treaty of Versailles. They wanted to make Germany great again, and Hitler seemed able to fulfil that promise. Germany’s internal enemies were put away, its economy flourished, other nations feared it again, and then it went to war, conquered Europe and murdered millions of people. Finally, the country was utterly destroyed. I wondered aloud whether perhaps the few German students who survived those 15 years regretted their decision in 1930 to support nazism. But I do not think the young men and women at BGU understood the implications of what I had told them...
By the time I travelled to Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. It was not just that this attack against the last concentration of Gazans – most of them displaced already several times by the IDF, which now once again pushed them to a so-called safe zone – demonstrated a total disregard of any humanitarian standards. It also clearly indicated that the ultimate goal of this entire undertaking from the very beginning had been to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory. In other words, the rhetoric spouted by Israeli leaders since 7 October was now being translated into reality – namely, as the 1948 UN Genocide Convention puts it, that Israel was acting “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part”, the Palestinian population in Gaza, “as such, by killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the group’s destruction”."
@Resist_05 Our new song, "My Name is Gaza", is dedicated to the children of Gaza experiencing the biggest genocide of the history!... Let's support it with our likes, reposts and comments to become the voice of Gaza, pls!...
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"The celebration is tempered by the fact that the United States government, our supposed ally, was willing to torture an Australian citizen and one of your colleagues for 14 years, and that it took a global movement to get him out." - @Scottludlam. Watch:
Political systems are in collapse in Western countries. There are no major policy differences between the main parties,
and Biden, Trump, Sunak and Starmer are all revealed as painfully inadequate human beings.
I'm sorry but I just don't see how anyone can care about this. The US is clearly being run by unelected empire managers who throw up half-brained presidential candidates to trick Americans into thinking they live in a democracy. Those empire managers are going to do whatever they want to you regardless of how you and your compatriots vote. Your electoral system is a fake plastic toy they give you to play with so you won't interfere with the gears of the imperial machine. There are no answers in electoral politics. Start looking for other answers.
The sheer existence of this cartoonishly race hustling pseudo-rabbi does more to ignite antisemitism than a thousand 8chan Nazis ever could. He behaves like a freakish stereotype conjured up by the brain of Julius Streicher, while cynically marketing himself as a representative of world Jewry. For anyone inclined to distrust, despise or collectively blame Jews, Shmuley Boteach provides a perfectly convenient horror house clown exhibition.
GALLOWAY: "I still call myself a socialist... but I really don't like being called 'of the left' anymore, because 'the left' has become synonymous with liberalism...the people 'on the left' support the FBI and the CIA and the surveillance state... I stand for the workers."