Jody Chastain

Operatic Tenor Longview, WA AGMA member Cowboys, Mariners fan.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Iran's football team must enter and leave the US on the same day of any matches. Political, disruptive for the players, and apparently what passes for "hospitality" from a World Cup host.

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Journalist Janine di Giovanni:

"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."

"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s Israel's right to defend itself."

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The British oil company that became BP discovered Iran's oil. When Iranians realized they were being robbed, they nationalized it — so MI6 & CIA toppled their democracy in 1953, installing a dictatorship. Iranians rose up in 1979 & the West has never forgiven them for it.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

BREAKING: An Iran deal is set to be signed in Geneva on Friday. Let’s hope it is. Let’s hope Israel doesn’t sabotage it by continuing to bomb Lebanon. But let’s also not let Trump claim victory. This war has been a disaster and there would be no need for a deal if Trump hadn’t bombed Iran in the first place

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

I will not vote for any Democrat that doesn't explicitly call for Israel to be sanctioned. This is non-negotiable.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.

His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

British Loyalists in Belfast - the same group that bombed Catholic school children in Northern Ireland in the 1970s - are now going house to house and burning black and brown families out of their homes. Because they're black and brown.

The colonizer mentality is a form of psychosis.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Trump is desperately trying to get this video removed from social media!

You know what to do! 🤣🤣🤣

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US government's illegal sanctions against Cuba are killing children, warned the UN human rights chief.

The UN human rights office said US sanctions have caused “widespread harm” in Cuba:
-infant mortality has doubled;
-childhood cancer survival rates have fallen significantly;
-only 30% of essential medicines are available;
-fuel shortages have caused food production to decline by 60%.

This is a barbaric, medieval-style blockade.

https://t.co/nbhBzURxfM

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

In order for humans to survive as a species, the colonial mentality must be sacked and an approach based on mutuality and common purpose must replace it. There is no other way.

[Jody Chastain @Pucciniusa]

@Zack_magaig Fucking joke!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that hosting US military bases while the US is using them to illegally attack your neighbours makes you less secure not more. Security and peace in West Asia requires permanently removing the bases.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Iran's military response to the US and Israel cannot be viewed in a vacuum — its decision to attack Tel Aviv and American military bases in the region was preceded by Israel's egregious war crime of killing negotiators working on behalf of Iran twice as well as the initial launching of hostilities by the Trump administration and Israel. Trump believed he could replicate the Venezuela outcome in Iran. The reality, however, is that Iran holds all the cards in these talks, and it will not give them up.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

House Democratic leadership just handed AIPAC darling Debbie Wasserman Schultz a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

At a moment when Democratic voters are increasingly rejecting endless war, unconditional support for Israel, and failed sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela, party leaders rewarded one of Congress’s most hawkish voices with a powerful role shaping U.S. foreign policy.

What does it say about Democratic leadership when this is who they choose to represent them on foreign affairs?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The US Starts Wars On The Other Side Of The Planet And Then Claims "Self-Defense"

These freaks really do operate from the premise that the entire planet is their property, and that any failure to respect their property rights shall therefore be viewed as an act of aggression.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Jody Chastain @Pucciniusa]

@ggreenwald TV news. The more you watch the less you know.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

After more than a year in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia is free but her fight is not over.

She still faces the threat of deportation to Israel, where even an immigration judge acknowledged she could face persecution, imprisonment, torture, or worse.

Today, Leqaa is using her voice to advocate for the thousands of people still trapped in ICE detention. Her message is simple: freedom is possible when people organize, speak out, and refuse to look away.

Free them all.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 crew members and wounding 171 more: