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radical LCSW. Abolitionist. Anti-Imperialist. General Strike. Empath. songwriter? Up Down, not Left Right. Views Own, RTs and likes not always endorsement.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

You have infinitely more in common with the average person in Cuba, Iran, Lebanon or Palestine than you have with the world’s first trillionaire.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Protesters breached police barricades in Manila, advancing toward the US Embassy.

The demonstrators are demanding the US troops to be kicked out and opposing the expansion of US military bases in the country.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Kenya, Bolivia, Uruguay, Alabania, Philippines, Ecuador, the world is rejecting US Western imperalism. It may not look like it from here within the colonial frame, but the empire is crumbling, and it's why they're clawing and grasping to exhert more control of us through AI tech.

[WorkerSocialRadical @RadSocialWorker]

RT @cmkshama: Solidarity with Embassy Suites workers unionized with UNITE HERE Local 8!

I'm out here proudly picketing alongside the worke…

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

There is nothing stopping Apple, Huawei, Samsung and others from making a phone that has a truly, fully isolated chip, to protect encryption keys and stop bruteforcing. (This is what the Pixel has).

They can absolutely do this + many other security improvements like MTE

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

New video reacting to Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

A society that is producing trillionaires while people are sleeping out on the streets and struggling to afford basic needs is a society that is in desperate need of a revolution.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The US, a World Cup host, denied 15 visas to officials on Iran's football team.

If this were Russia, they'd have been stripped of hosting it after what they've done in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fidel was correct when he said;

“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty”

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine

https://t.co/hnhzKBxWYG

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ The State Department has launched an investigation of Trita Parsi, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), and could seek to deport him, according to U.S. officials and documents reviewed by The Free Press.

Parsi, who holds a green card, is one of the most prominent U.S.-based critics of the war with Iran. He was born in Iran, grew up in Sweden, has lived in the United States for over 25 years.

A Trump administration official said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was taking “a hard look” at anyone whose work “furthers” the agenda of U.S. adversaries, invoking a provision of federal immigration law allowing the secretary of state to personally determine that a noncitizen’s presence compromises a “compelling U.S. foreign policy interest”—the same authority Rubio used in the ongoing effort to deport Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil.

Quincy’s CEO told staff and donors in April that the think tank was retaining an immigration lawyer and preparing a writ of habeas corpus “to have at the ready” if Parsi were suddenly detained.

The outlet that broke this story, The Free Press, has repeatedly published articles that amplify official pressure on critics of Israel, U.S. wars, and aggressive foreign policy, contributing to a chilling effect intended to deter others from speaking out.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Hi Nikki Haley,

If the Israelis are “targeting Hezbollah,” why do they keep murdering medics, over 133 since March 2?

Why have they displaced over 1 million people? Do you think a fifth of the population of Lebanon, including all the children that are included in that number, are Hezbollah?

Why did they kill a Christian family over the weekend? Were they Hezbollah?

Is desecrating Virgin Mary statues “targeting Hezbollah”? Because they’ve done that.

They’ve also bombed churches and mosques and blown up entire villages. Is that targeting Hezbollah”?

The Israelis have destroyed 50,000 homes. Is that “targeting Hezbollah”?

The Israelis say Lebanese Shias can never return to their homes south of the Litani. They are carpet bombing Tyre and Nabatieh and their leaders openly declare they want to settle Lebanese land with Israeli Jews.

I know you support all of these criminal acts, Just correcting the record that none of this constitutes “targeting Hezbollah.”

[Chase Miller🕊️ @Winfield_24]

Buy Now Pay Later for groceries, Doordash, and rent, 50 year mortgages and now offering loans for medical care. You see where this is going right?

[Dave DeCamp @DecampDave]

Antiwar News: Trump 'Cancels' Plans To Bomb Iran for 3rd Night, House Rejects FISA Section 702 Extension, and More

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel will allocate $340M USD to establish new Jewish-only colonies on stolen Palestinian land.

Since taking office in Dec. 2022, the Israeli government has approved the establishment of 103 new Jewish-only colonies. https://t.co/Jx8YC4nveb

[Ana Escobar @AnaEscobarShow]

At what point does it become treason

[Goddess Graveyard Punany✨ @xm_muva]

So a government known for trafficking children to an island to sexually exploit .. are kidnapping immigrant children. Ok.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Gaza is simpler than Iraq. Iraq was simpler than Yemen. Yemen was simpler than Libya. Libya was simpler than Ukraine. Ukraine is simpler than Syria. Gaza is the simplest and most straightforward of all the evil interventions of the US murder machine in recent memory — which is why I’ve got no patience for anyone who gets it wrong.

I’m a lot more forgiving of people who bought into the imperial narrative about Syria and believed that country erupted in violence because Assad just went ape shit and started killing innocent people for no reason, because it takes a lot of work to sort out fact from fiction about what actually happened there. There were really good journalists who got Syria wrong at first in the early years of the conflict, just because there was so much information to comb through and so much aggressive imperial narrative management about it. There was so much less visibility into the facts on the ground in Syria than there is in Gaza, and there were so many complex narrative control ops muddying the waters.

Gaza isn’t like that. What’s happening really could not be more obvious. A nuclear-armed high tech military has been raining bombs and inflicting siege warfare upon a densely packed, walled-in civilian population, half of whom are children, with the full backing of the most powerful empire that has ever existed. We’ve been seeing a constant stream of footage showing children ripped apart by military explosives and starved to skeletons, Israeli soldiers posting videos of themselves gleefully doing some of the most sadistic and depraved things you can imagine, destroyed hospitals, carpet-bombed neighborhoods, and Israelis blocking aid trucks from feeding starving people.

This is not the slightest bit complicated. It’s as subtle as a kick in the teeth. There is no excuse for getting this one wrong now. There’s not even any excuse for getting it wrong on day one. It’s been obvious this entire time. Any politician, pundit or journalist who’s gotten it wrong can be dismissed as completely worthless, even if they’re beginning to come around now after they sensed the wind blowing against Israel in recent weeks.

Gaza is a test of the absolute bare minimum requirements for someone to be worth listening to about anything at all, because if you got this one wrong then there’s just something wrong with you as a human being. You’re too fucked up and twisted inside to have a clear vision into anything that’s happening in the world. You’re not in touch with your own humanity enough to have any useful insight into humanity as a collective. You have wasted your time on this planet. You’ve managed to spend your entire life without learning any of the more meaningful lessons that can be learned here.

And there are plenty of people getting Gaza right who are buying into all kinds of other imperial propaganda spin about other international affairs and conflicts, which is to be expected — being able to understand the simplest possible foreign policy issue doesn’t mean you’ll be able to grasp the more complicated ones. But every one of them stands head and shoulders above everyone who couldn’t see the destruction of Gaza for what it is. They might fail other tests, but at least they passed the first one.

Everything I’m saying here will all be completely obvious to everyone one day. People will look back on what was done to Gaza and struggle to comprehend how the world could have allowed such a thing when it was all happening right out in the open for everybody to see. And if I’m still around I will struggle to explain it myself, because it baffles me here and now in the present moment. It probably always will.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

This post is addressed to future generations for historical record:

Every pundit, politician and reporter of our time who claims they didn't know what was happening in Gaza is lying.

They knew what was happening. They knew Israel was telling lies. They knew about everything.

They had access to the same information as all the rest of us. We watched them make excuses and ignore indisputable facts every step of the way. There was absolutely no confusion about what they were looking at. It was all right out in the open.

Don't let them get away with saying they didn't know. They knew. They knew the entire time. Brand them permanently with this shame, and force them to carry it with them for the rest of their lives.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Hands down one of the most corrupt and revealing things a politician has ever said:

“If this Capitol crumbled to the ground the one thing that would remain is our aid to Israel.”

If you haven’t figured out that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are just as corrupt as Republicans you aren’t paying attention.