Countries/places Israel has bombed just in the last year, all with US financing, arms, and diplomatic and military protection:
1) Gaza
2) West Bank
3) Syria
4) Iran
5) Lebanon
6) Yemen
7) Qatar
Equals the number of countries Obama bombed in 2016. Congrats to both.🇮🇱🇺🇸
While the Trump administration’s recent escalations against Venezuela may seem new, they’re not: the United States took similar steps against Panama’s Noriega in 1989.
@ggreenwald explains:
ICYMI: Watch my full appearance on @majorityfm earlier this week.
Great conversation with @SamSeder and @EmmaVigeland about Trump's takeover of the Junta that rules Puerto Rico and why progressives should support the island's independence. https://t.co/8Uq14prob2
Para que Puerto Rico avance hacia una verdadera representación igualitaria e inclusiva es indispensable la descolonización de nuestra nación.
Mensaje en el Foro Parlamentario de América Latina y el Caribe, durante la #XVIConferenciaMujerALC de @cepal_onu y @ONUMujeres.
Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says she could not stay silent on the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. "My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," she says.
Full interview: https://t.co/WLsWrddfzg
An outstanding model of adversarial journalism here by @krystalball and @esaagar, interviewing former CIA official and life-long Israel supporter @SenatorSlotkin (D-MI).
No matter your views on this issue, this is exactly how DC politicians ought to be pressed and questioned.
Bernie Sanders today yet again refused to apply "genocide" to Gaza, even as Israeli genocide scholars, human rights groups, and courts use that term.
Meanwhile, listen to John Mearsheimer with Tucker today, explaining why it's classic genocide and the US should stop funding it:
AOC's social media tantrum after the left rejected her support for Iron Dome funding is just her yelling at people for not loving her when she does gross swamp monster things. But it doesn't work that way. You don't get to be the beloved leftist people's champion and also be the person who votes against an amendment to withhold $500 million of military funding for a genocidal state and then justifies it with obnoxious lies. You don't get to do the darling of the left thing and also do the weird Zionist swamp creature thing. You have to pick one, because you can't be both. No amount of yelling at ordinary people is going to change that.
AOC and her supporters wouldn't have to spend days frantically justifying her refusal to support Palestine and oppose genocide at every opportunity if she would simply support Palestine and oppose genocide at every opportunity. That's normal. Just be normal. Do the normal thing.
In classic AOC fashion, she justified her vote to fund Israel's Iron Dome by saying she wasn't going to side with "neo-Nazis" and then claimed she was being unfairly attacked for her pathetic vote.
@ggreenwald on AOC's self-victimization: