Steven Buchanan

[Satoshi Onodera🇺🇸 @satoshi_gfa18]

ノルウェーのハーランド、とんでもない怪物だなww

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

THIS IS SATANIC ✡️🇮🇱

An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside to absorb the blast.

Reports confirm one of the children inside is now permanently blinded for life.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!

Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.

@ICRCPresident
@DrTedros

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the surprising things that I learned from the Iran War is that if you start a war against another country and, on the first day, you bomb one of their schools filled with 170 young girls, the people in that country will get angry about it and hate you for a long while:

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Amazing how America destroys the rules-based international order everywhere it goes, even in football.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

"Yes, I regularly discuss matters related to the FIFA World Cup with the President of the United States" - And when you were asked to suspend the Genocidal Israeli Regime from football, you said we shouldn't mix football + politics. You Infantino are a corrupt Hypocrite...

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

This is the moment when the Supreme Leader and his family’s remains passed by the central point of Azadi Street en route to Azadi Square, as millions of Irans continue to pour on to the streets of Iran’s capital city today - under the scorching summer heat. Nothing is deterring this crowd, as the pay their respects and offer prayers for Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei - who is undeniably an extremely popular, and geopolitically consequential head of the Islamic Republic.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral Ceremony is Officially the Largest in recorded History - Al Jazeera

About 12 million people have attended the funeral since Friday

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The drummers at Tehran's Tajrish Square asked me to join them for a few minutes

They're playing a distinctively Shia style from southern Iran and Iraq called Dammam, named for the drum, which evokes the sounds of the battle of Karbala. The deep bass drums recreate the beating of horse hooves and the cymbals ring out like clashing swords.

The drummers came out for the popular rally that has filled Tajrish Square every night since the US and Israel imposed war on Iran last February

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

This is an absolute embarrassment to the United States. Once again our President embarrasses our nation on the world stage and now takes to social media, boosting that his phone call to FIFA changed the outcome 🤦🏻‍♂️

Absolutely horrible precedent being set here. As a US citizen I will be routing for Belgium to win this game. Not because I don’t love my country, but as a lifelong professional sportsman that has dedicated his career to growing sport around the world. I’ve always taught the importance of integrity and sadly the US has proven to the world we have absolutely none. Shameful

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This will be the biggest story, and potential scandal, of the World Cup…

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I've just visited the largest funeral in history, where millions mourned Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader who was assassinated by the US-Israeli coalition along with members of his family

It is practically impossible to understand what this scene is like, or what it means, unless you're here. I've met people from around the world who've come to pay respects, including many from across the West. The crowds pouring in are endless, and grow larger and more intense into the night.

From Tehran's Mosala, there are indignant calls for vengeance, displays of sorrow and defiance, protest, songs and marathons of poetry. These days of mourning will amount to one of the most resonant moments in the history of anti-imperialist movements.

Everyone I've spoken to believes war will return to Iran before long, and none trust the MOU with the US. But they are confident their country can deter another assault. They see their own citizens' mobilization as an integral component of Iran's survival.

If the assassination of Khamenei was designed to spur regime change, his funeral demonstrates how badly it has backfired. And the crime may blow back in ways its historically illiterate authors could have never imagined.

What we're witnessing in the Mosala consolidates the Islamic Republic and its revolutionary society as a political reality that can not be erased through regime change war or sanctions. This is a turning point in the region that will echo for a generation.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Japan is the textbook example of a vassal state.

The US nuked Japan twice, and still has 76 military bases there hosting 54,000 US soldiers.

Japan is so shameless that it celebrates its imperial master's independence day. And it did a drone show depicting Trump.

Humiliating.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Americans were told this is what Iranians would do to express gratitude to American and Israeli invaders for bombing them: pour out on the streets to welcome us as liberators.

It usually doesn't turn out that way. Turns out most people don't like being bombed by foreigners.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Yeah, I mean it couldn’t be that Iran says those things because Israel and the United States have gone to war twice with Iran in the span of less than a year, and assassinated their leader, and assassinated their scientist before that, and destroyed one of their Embassy compounds before that.

I mean, surely that has nothing to do with it, and it’s for no reason that they say death to Israel, right? 🤨

[Leshka.eth ⛩ @leshka_eth]

🚨🇺🇸 BILL GATES JUST FULLY EXITED HIS $MSFT POSITION

HIS FOUNDATION SOLD OVER 7,700,000 MICROSOFT SHARES IN JUST A FEW HOURS

THE STOCK THAT MADE HIM ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN ON EARTH IS NOW GONE FROM THE PORTFOLIO

MONDAY WILL BE A BLOODBATH

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Respect. So many with a voice refuse to stand up against Israeli Genocide. Free Palestine...

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

BREAKING: Several reports indicate Israel may have been and is actively plotting to kill Iran's chief negotiators, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Immediate emergency landing took place in Mashhad, per U.S. officials speaking to the New York Times.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It became obligatory in left-Dem politics to call what Israel did a "genocide." Many who clearly don't really believe that complied.

AOC is an example. The point of "genocide" is that it's the worst crime against humanity. Yet she endorses Hakeem Jeffries: one of the House's most stalwart Israel loyalists who financed, armed and defended genocide. Nobody who actually believes it's a "genocide" would work to empower those who perpetrated it:

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

It is important to understand that the US maintains a neocolonial relationship with most countries in West Asia.

The US military never truly left Iraq. It continues to militarily occupy the country, where it still has military bases.

The US also controls Iraq's oil revenue, which makes up 90% of the country's government budget. Iraq can only access its own money with US permission, because, ever since the US invasion and occupation, Iraq's oil revenue has been routed through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (The Trump administration has imposed this same scheme on Venezuela, after invading the country, killing more than 100 people, and kidnapping its president.)

In fact, after the US launched its war of aggression against Iran, it blocked Iraq from getting access to the money that it earned from its own oil sales. Washington demanded that Baghdad cut all ties with Tehran and assist in the war effort.

This is neocolonialism. Most of the countries in the region are not fully sovereign. Iran is the rare exception -- which is a big reason why the US empire is so obsessed with regime change there.