SNKirkby

The Edificial Artifice of Coercive Hierarchies |
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[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Former CIA Agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists... We didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans.

It was pure, raw, false propaganda"

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Shamefully, the Trump administration has been forcing countries to expel Cuban doctors, leaving the poorest without healthcare. The governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements. .https://t.co/5quqdv0uLV

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

I would add that the threat was also genocidal in character amounting to a serious risk of genocide and/or genocidal acts that triggers third states’ duty to prevent under the Genocide Convention.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇺 Cuba had a lower infant mortality rate than the United States until 2019. Life expectancy of 78 — comparable to OECD countries. The only nation in Latin America to develop its own Covid vaccines, at over 90% efficacy.

Even through the Soviet collapse in the 1990s, with barely any electricity, infant mortality kept dropping every single year. Drop Site contributor Ed Augustin, based in Havana, said those health indicators – which survived every prior shock – are falling for the first time.

@ManInHabana | @ryangrim | @MazMHussain

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

This is why we must get everyone to understand that sanctions are not an “alternative” to war; they are an act of war. Sanctions have killed over 38 million people since 1971. Half of those were children under the age of five.

End the Siege on Cuba!

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@KJW1248 @RMapleCan according to Mass Shooting Tracker, in the USA there were:
Year - # Mass Shootings
2026 - 45
2025 - 488
2024 - 576
2023 - 759

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

This ridiculous corporate media propaganda doesn’t mention WHY Cuba is suffering from blackouts and shortages:

It's because the US regime has imposed an illegal, barbaric, medieval blockade on Cuba, to starve it of fuel, food, and medicine.

The US is also threatening tariffs and sanctions on any countries that trade with Cuba.

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are intentionally trying to cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe, to collapse the economy and the health sector, to kill as Cuban civilians as possible and make their lives hell, in order to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary anti-imperialist government.

This is a monstrous crime against humanity.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

All people of good will must know the history of body cameras. Why did Democrats, consultant, and pundits push them as "police reform"? The truth is quite dark.

[Media Lens @medialens]

You'll have noticed that 'mainstream' media don't give the remotest damn about the 80 people killed. If US soldiers, had been killed, we'd know their names, back stories, wives, mothers, fathers and children thanks to tear-drenched interviews. Why don't journalists care? Because Maduro is Saddam, bin Laden, Gaddafi, Assad, Nasrallah, Sinwar, and Venezuelans are Iraqis, Iranians, Libyans, Syrians, Palestinians. It's the same 'Bad Guy', the 'new Hitler' and the same anonymous crowd of brown-skinned people 'we' are heroically killing all the time. It's the same story being replayed over and over again in their minds. They didn't care before, why should they care now?

'State funeral in Venezuela to bury the 80 people murdered by American troops who illegally entered the country, bombed it, and kidnapped the president and his wife. Why haven't the media talked about these victims or their families?'

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

Israel's description of Iran's nuclear weapon development.

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@TomeoBen To be fair, he didn't say "speed of 2", he said "over 2"😂😂

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@johnperry21 From the CRS "Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798-2023" R42738:

1854 Nicaragua. July 9 to 15. Naval forces bombarded and burned San Juan del Norte (Greytown) to avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua.

When "insult" brings bombardment...

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@doctorow https://t.co/vzrdGxd4VL

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@TCM_tweets Set $1=1 micrometre (μm). A $100 bill is ~100μm thick (USD or CAD) so the scale is the thickness of $100 bills.

From this:
$1k=1mm
$1M=1m
$1B=1km
$1T=1,000km

Median household net worth in USA ~$96k =96mm of $100 bills
Jeff Bezos net worth $114B=114km of $100 bills

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@NJHagens American empires inexorable decline briefly obfuscated by the post ~'91 "End of History" dead cat bounce.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

I keep forgetting to wear my helmet in the field. If I’m honest it’s because I hate it, it’s so heavy & when my peers remind me to wear it I snap back, “what? You think it’ll protect us? Didn’t Shireen (Abu Aqleh) get shot in the neck?” 

In our profession as war journalists we are required to wear bullet-proof vests with the PRESS insignia on them, and our cars are all also marked with “PRESS/TV.” 

It’s to be visible to armed groups, whether it’s the Israeli military or Palestinian resistance groups, that we are PRESS. With that, they’re all supposed to ensure our safety & not target us.

But in Palestine, being press means being a target. The gear which is meant to protect us has become a marker to attack us.

When the Israeli army is not around -even if I’m around Palestinian fighters- I actually don’t need my gear at all. 

In fact, fighters are eager to speak with us- often commending our “bravery” to dare go by them because the Israeli military does not want their stories out.

It is only when Israeli army jets, drones, & soldiers are in the skies/ground do I find us- local and internationals- wearing our gear.

The flack jacket can’t protect me from a drone strike, a bullet to the neck, to the thigh, to the shoulder. 

All of this is to explain to you- the ones we serve,- why we continue to wear our gear even though their weight causes problems for the spine and body, all while having with no real capacity to protect us (consider the journalists in GZ who have worn their gear for nearly a year, developing all sorts of health issues & still being executed- despite this they remain committed to their profession).

🪶We keep wearing this gear as an act of defiance to maintain right for press, & flow of information.

🪶When the only official body tasked with relaying information in real-time is targeted, documentation is blurred and the narrative becomes a debate of we said, they said. 

🪶Censorship is not just the removal of posts from social media platforms. It is a violent, bloody, and strategic act that’s less about the messengers & more about the message relayed.

🪶Here, is where our slaughter is the engineering of your ignorance.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Police in the U.S. have killed more people so far this year than they did up to this point in 2023, which set the previous nationwide record for deadly police violence. Police violence continues to increase, year after year. https://t.co/0VQVssR82S

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@I_Katchanovski This time around there is a pervasive disconcerting sensation due to a lack of diplomacy being undertaken between the belligerents.

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@blackintheempir It would surprise no one, save for a colonizer, that when those countries hear 'Ties', they think: "No, they're closer to 'ropes' or 'chains'."

[SNKirkby @SNKirkby]

@rainer_shea From "How We Advertised America" by George Creel, 1920 regarding the power of the propagandized artifice holding sway in Germany/Austro-Hungary in WW1:

"These lies had all the force of divisions and it was as necessary to destroy them as though each had been a machine-gun nest."