Lasst euch nicht von Top-Ökonomen verarschen. Jeder, der unser modernes Geldsystem verstehen will, kann das auch und braucht keinen Econ PhD dafür. #MMT John Kenneth Galbraith:
The decision by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, a political body dominated by Western states and their allies, to suspend ICC Prosecutor Khan, despite the exculpatory findings of both the judicial panel that reviewed the case and the OIOS oversight body, can only be seen as just the latest step in a long campaign by the Israeli regime and its US and other allies to obstruct, delay, and punish the prosecutor and the court for their attempts to hold Israeli regime perpetrators to account, and to send a message to judges and future prosecutors: ‘challenge the Israeli regime and we will crush you.’ The full Assembly must overturn this scandalous action, and take concrete steps to protect the court and prosecutors from Israeli, US, and Western persecution. If they fail to do so, the still nascent ICC will whither and die on the vine, and with it, any hope of international criminal accountability in our time.
STM Mette Frederiksen: “Vigtige diskussioner med @ZelenskyyUA om fortsat støtte til Ukraine i deres kamp for frihed og demokrati i Europa. Vi skal øge støtten til Ukraine og øge presset på Rusland.”
Zelenskyy: Russia is losing the initiative day by day because it is losing huge numbers of troops. Around 35,000 casualties a month, including 23-24,000 killed and another 10-12,000 severely wounded. They are not winning this war, and we do not see optimism on their side.
The Iranian football team, as we’ve seen in previous tournaments, is quite a decent side. They have qualified for the 2026 World Cup fairly and squarely. Yet for geopolitical reasons the US is doing everything it can to sabotage the team’s chances of doing well, which is totally at variance as to how host nations should behave.
Zelenskyy — perhaps the greatest hope dealer in human history.
For more than seven years in politics, this guy hasn’t sold the Ukrainian people or the world a single tangible thing except hope — and hope, when it’s completely detached from results, is one of the most cynical products ever peddled. It’s not leadership. It’s emotional fentanyl, designed to keep people compliant, quiet, and loyal while the ruling class stays in power.
First he sold us hope that the war would end. Then, hope that his rule will be different from all predecessors.
Then hope that a full-scale invasion would never happen.
Then hope that Ukraine would crush Russia.
Now the hope is on life support. He is down to the cheapest tricks: primitive emotional triggers and countdowns measured in months and weeks. Today Zelenskyy is selling the fantasy that Ukrainian forces are about to retake huge territories, slice Crimea off from Russian supplies, and bring Moscow to its knees.
And we already know what he’ll be selling in November: “Just survive this terrible winter… victory is right around the corner. Hang in there a little longer.”
Classic.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian men have started a grim new trend on social media: posting detailed tutorials on how to flee the country — the routes, the fake documents, the sheer amount of time and money they’re pouring into getting out.
They’re voting with their feet.
A nation is literally dying — our young men bleeding out or running for their lives — all to preserve one man’s power and to keep a war going for war’s own sake.
It’s a cult of hope sold by a comedian who turned his country into a tragedy. And the world keeps buying it.
I'd prefer Europe to stop its frantic arms race, frenzied militarism and dangerous delusion of becoming one of the brutal big boys of global power politics because they came to their senses, but if it fails because of the usual petty industrial competition, I'll take it.
Vor wenigen Jahren noch hätte sich sowas kein Kellner in Berlin getraut. Aber heute erntet man in Berlin für Judenhass Applaus statt Ächtung. Weil wir dem Palinazi-Mob nicht entschieden genug entgegengetreten sind. Eine unerträgliche Schande.
https://t.co/375fANd7Ys
The Ottoman Empire governed Palestine peacefully for 400 years, granting autonomy to religious communities to run their own courts with harmonious coexistence between Muslims, Christians & Jews. You’ve brought death & destruction to Palestinians & now Lebanon in 70 years.
@marklevinshow Can aggressive authoritarian regimes be trusted to honor agreements, or do they simply use negotiations to buy time and expand their influence? For @Israel the latter is definitely true.
JD Vance should literally never be allowed to talk about foreign policy. The guy is a laughing stock even when he says something correct. He has no clue what he’s taking about when it comes to the Islamic regime.
Iran's football federation says its ticket allocation for the FIFA World Cup has been withdrawn just days before football's global showpiece begins, leaving fans unable to attend their team's matches.
🔴 More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw
A few years ago, European courts started denying Russian men asylum, chipping at the right to conscientious objection. Now, EU members are pushing to deny Ukrainian men protection from being forced to fight. The groundwork is being laid to send EU citizens into the slaughter.
Brick by brick, we are collapsing the foundations of Russia's war economy.
Today, we are presenting our proposals for a 21st sanctions package against Russia.
This includes a temporary freeze of the Russian oil price cap and designations of institutions used by Moscow to generate revenues and circumvent EU sanctions.
It will target banks, weapons manufacturers, oil traders, refineries, and crypto operators in third countries.
Die Israelische Botschaft und die Bild Zeitung verbreiten hier absichtlich Fake News: denn die Aufnahmen zeigen deutlich, dass der Café Betreiber die drei Personen mit der Israelflagge erst nachdem sie aus der Terrasse aus mit der Flagge protestiert und andere provoziert haben, sie sehr höflich gebeten hatte, das Lokal zu verlassen.
Zudem waren das nicht irgendwelche Leute, die zufällig da eine Israelflagge dabei hatten und im Café saßen: die drei sind in Berlin bekannt, sie provozieren und protestieren gegen propalästinensische Demos gegen, ob eine von den beiden Frauen nun jüdisch ist - der Mann definitiv nicht - ist unbekannt und spielt gar keine Rolle, im Gegensatz auf propalästinensischen Seite, da war mindestens eine Person Jüdisch, viel mehr bleibt die Frage im Raum, weshalb sie bei gemütlichen Espresso Trinken so einen großen "Polizeischutz" bekommen?
#Staatsräson
Israeli minister calls for kidnapping of Lebanese women and children to break Hezbollah morale
——
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the political-security cabinet to abduct and imprison Lebanese women and children as a psychological warfare tactic against Hezbollah, according to a closed-door leak published by Hebrew news outlet Walla.
During a high-level ministerial meeting reviewing expanded military calculations, Ben-Gvir demanded that Tel Aviv abandon conventional strategy and explicitly target the social and familial core of the Lebanese resistance network.
"We must think outside the box regarding Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir asserted to his fellow cabinet members, according to the report. The Israeli minister added that alongside occupying southern territory and intensifying lethal strikes on personnel, Israeli forces should actively round up civilians.
"We should arrest their women and children and take them to prison; this is what hurts them the most," he stated.